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FEBRUARY 2010 VOLUME 11 NUMBER 2
EMILY
MORTIMER
GOES MAD
FOR SHUTTER
ISLAND
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SNAPS: ROBERT DOWNEY JR., PENÉLOPE CRUZ, JAVIER BARDEM, MILEY CYRUS, KIEFER SUTHERLAND
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SNAPS
CAUGHT ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
PENÉLOPE CRUZ
JAVIER BARDEM
1 Usually “hot couple”
Javier Bardem and
Penélope Cruz instead opt
for “adorable couple” in this
ON FILM
shot taken while they were
MILEY CYRUS scuba diving off Brazil’s
KIEFER SUTHERLAND Fernando de Noronha Island.
Bardem’s also a bit scary, we
HUGH JACKMAN think, but just because his wet
helmet hair reminds us of
No Country for Old Men.
PHOTO BY MJL/BROADIMAGE/KEYSTONE
Nothing in that outfit is
2 remotely Victorian, and yet
when Robert Downey Jr. puts it
all together he looks like he’s still
channelling Sherlock Holmes.
Maybe it’s the backdrop. Downey
and his wife Susan Levi depart
their London, England, hotel
hand in hand.
PHOTO BY KEYSTONE
We had this crazy dream.
3 Hugh Jackman was there.
And he was running with his
kids on Copacabana Beach in
Rio. The lighting was wild, and
his eyes were glowing, and his
son was doing this really freaky
dance. Weird.
PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS
2 3 4 We love how Parisian
teens care more about
their croque-monsieurs than
about watching Miley Cyrus and
her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth
smooch on the Champs-Élysées
during a recent trip to the
City of Lights.
PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS
Would it be rude for
5 us to examine what
Kiefer Sutherland has in his
cart during a trip to L.A.’s
Gelson’s supermarket?
Rice Dream rice-based beverage,
olive oil, spaghetti sauce... Oh, it
would? Sorry.
PHOTO BY AHMAD ELATAB/SPLASH NEWS
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DE FILM “FILMING
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Brazilian mixed-media
artist Hely Lima has been
living and working in
New York since 1972 where
Getting under the Wolfman’s skin...and hair...and teeth. he’s become famous for
Plus, the Sex and the City gals are flat capturing the city in three-
dimensional dioramas of
constructions sites,
subways, storefronts —
BIG all the things you’d see
on a typical day. Before
that, he worked in the
HAIRY film industry, creating
movie posters, short films
and trailers.
DEAL
When you’re
So it was only a matter
of time until one of Lima’s
works captured an NYC film
shoot. This piece, titled
six-time Oscar- “Filming in New York,” has
winning makeup the Sex and the City gals —
RICK BAKER INSET IMAGE © A.M.P.A.S., “FILMING IN NEW YORK” IMAGE BY LAWRENCE SCHWARTZWALD/SPLASH NEWS
artist Rick Baker, you from left, Samantha,
don’t make cold calls to Miranda, Carrie and
find work. Unless you Charlotte — shooting
find out Universal is Rick Baker works in front of a grocery store
remaking The Wolfman on Benicio Del Toro that, quite honestly, we
with Benicio Del Toro. wouldn’t have associated
It was while watching with the uptown girls.
monster movies like the transformation. Perhaps Lima knows
original Wolf Man (1941) The big difference RICK BAKER something about the
and Frankenstein (1931) between the two artists’ second film we don’t?
as a kid that Baker techniques is that LON CHANEY JR. This is just a detail from
decided he wanted to materials have improved the 23” high and 31” wide
become a makeup artist. in the last 70 years, so it Del Toro’s transformation would be going into the piece, which depicts three
(And werewolves remain only took three hours to from man-to-werewolf CG end of it, and I think buildings and has a lighting
special to Baker — he apply Del Toro’s makeup with CGI instead of they should. I just hope crew plying its trade on the
won his first Oscar in instead of the six used makeup. But even the [makeup] doesn’t die.” roof. Interested? “Filming
1981 for An American to transform Chaney. maverick makeup artist —IR in New York” is priced
Werewolf in London.) But Baker told (he’s never had an agent, at $7,950 U.S. —MW
Baker wanted to pay Entertainment Weekly it works only when he feels
homage to the original was still difficult to work inspired and just
film’s makeup artist, the on Del Toro since he recently learned to use
legendary Jack P. Pierce, was so hairy to begin email) realizes that
by mirroring the look with: “Here we have high-tech computer-
Pierce created for star Benicio Del Toro, who’s generated effects may
Lon Chaney Jr. He used practically the Wolfman put old-school makeup
dentures, a wig and a already.... Where do you artists like himself out
latex foam mask to cover go from there? He’s of business. At last
the upper part of Del Toro’s practically there as it is!” year’s Comic-Con
face, and then glued yak Baker admits to being Baker said, “I think
hair on the lower part of disappointed that the the kids who have the
his face to complete the studio decided to show interest in this stuff
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and Dubai, often sequestered in foreign hotel With a budget of $405,000 and more than 300 extras, the movie was
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Quebec film that revolves around a medieval-themed live action The Wild Hunt opens in Quebec this month, and across Canada at name
role-playing game. At the root of the story, Erik (Ricky Mabe), who a date still to be determined. “I’m an anxious person,” says Franchi.
is not a gamer, invades the insular world of faux swords and shields “But, for now, the reaction of everyone who’s seen the film is address city
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Las Vegas to expose a stripper
(Emmanuelle Chriqui) who
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A brutal action flick about a
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paired with a veteran U.S. agent
(John Travolta) to stop a
terrorist attack on Paris.
Travolta, who played a goateed
bad boy in The Taking of
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Valentine’s Day
If attracting viewers
from every conceivable
demographic was the
producers’ plan for this
ensemble rom-com
about friends and lovers
surviving Valentine’s Day,
well then, they’ve
succeeded. The cast
includes Taylor Lautner,
Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift,
Bradley Cooper, Shirley
MacLaine, Jamie Foxx,
Jessica Biel, Ashton
Kutcher, Queen Latifah,
Jessica Alba and
Jennifer Garner. That’s
three Oscar winners, two
Taylors, two Jessicas and
Dear John’s Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried get romantic in the rain potentially one big
payoff at the box office.
Dear John novel by lovey-dovey author when the power stops, and the focuses on the tortured Percy Jackson
John (Channing Tatum), a Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, lights are turned off, the trio relationship between gay & the Olympians:
Special Forces soldier, meets Nights in Rodanthe and A Walk finds itself stranded in mid-air in teenager Hubert (Dolan) The Lightning Thief
college student Savannah to Remember). the chairlift. Oh, and there’s a big and his abrasive mother Teenager Percy Jackson
Lynn (Amanda Seyfried) while snowstorm moving in. (Anne Dorval). Dolan wrote (Logan Lerman) discovers
on leave. They fall in love, and Frozen the screenplay when he that not only do the
even though John is deployed to In this atypical horror/thriller, J’ai Tue Ma Mere was in his teens, and ancient Greek gods exist,
the Middle East they keep up three skiers — Shawn Ashmore, This critically acclaimed debut although he says it’s not he’s the son of the god
their relationship through Emma Bell and Kevin Zegers — by 20-year-old Quebec completely autobiographical, Poseidon (Kevin McKidd).
letters. But how long can love sneak onto a chairlift to take a actor/director Xavier Dolan it is based on his experience Percy is shipped off to a
prevail when it’s a pen-on- run down the mountain before (it picked up three awards at of coming out while living camp with other
paper romance? Based on the the resort closes for a week. But last year’s Cannes Film Festival) at home. Up in the Air: Bradley Cooper and Julia Roberts co-star in Valentine’s Day “half-blood” continued
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Shutter Island
Martin Scorsese helms this
twisty thriller set in 1954 on
the desolate Shutter Island.
The island is home to the
30 Rock star Tracy Morgan along
for the ride — for this buddy pic
about two detectives (Morgan,
Willis) who get mixed up
with a stolen baseball card,
Director George Romero’s 1973
horror about a virus that turns
the people of a small town into
zombie-like killers gets updated
with Timothy Olyphant playing
Ashecliffe Hospital for the gangsters and, of course, the sheriff coping with the
Criminally Insane, where a beautiful woman. violent townsfolk.
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22 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 232010 OSCARS
GETTING
READY FOR
OSCAR
Academy
Awards
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Inside:
Best Picture: More to Love
Test Your Oscar Fashion Smarts
Who Did the Critics Pick?
Shorts Circuit
For the first time, all of the nominated short films will be shown on
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the big screen at Cineplex theatres prior to the Academy Awards.
First, on Wednesday, March 3rd, there will be a screening of the
Live Action Short Films, on Thursday, March 4th the Animated Short
Films will screen, and on Oscar day, Sunday, March 7th, there’s a
double feature of all nominated Live and Animated Short Films.
Go to Cineplex.com for times, locations
and to buy tickets.
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Duelling
Hosts
More change — actors
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
share the hosting duties
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Oscar had more than one
host was in 1987 when
TOP
10
Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase
and Australian shrimp-
barbecuer Paul Hogan
shared the duties.
Like Hawn and Chase
(Foul Play, Seems Like Old
Times), Martin and Baldwin
have proven they work well
together. This year,
they co-starred in the
Golden Globe-nominated
rom-com It’s Complicated,
and in 2008 Martin
guest-starred as sham
STEVE MARTIN
business magnate
Gavin Volure on
Baldwin’s 30 Rock. ALEC BALDWIN
Plus, the pair is one-
The Academy of Motion Picture two atop the list of
Arts and Sciences has doubled the frequent Saturday
Night Live hosts,
number of Best Picture nominees from with Martin’s 15
five to 10. Yes, it’s a big deal, but as appearances nudging
out Baldwin’s 14.
stuffy as the organization can appear,
it’s never really been opposed to
change. Here we examine other 10 ways the Academy Awards’ structure
ways the ceremony has evolved has changed since 1929’s inaugural ceremony:
BY MARNI WEISZ
1930} 1937} 1942} Previously, eight foreign- Best Animated Film. Pixar
In only its second More glam! Realizing that Best Documentary is language films had been has won four of the seven
year, Academy Awards’ actors are the ones we added to the ballot, and given “special awards” years since.
organizers are already really want to see giving the show’s attendees outside of the officially
Dev Patel reacts as his small-budget indie film Slumdog Millionaire wins at last year’s Academy Awards trying to trim the show weepy acceptance finally have a good time to mandated prizes. And the
and reduce the number speeches, Oscar adds take a bathroom break. Oscar Used
of categories from 12 to Best Supporting Actor 1982} to Go To...}
The announcement last
June that the 82nd Academy
years when the nominees are
erudite indie dramas rather
So what does it mean to have
10, instead of five, Best Picture
out, allowing a lesser title (yes
you, Crash) to zip in between
seven. They are left with and Best Supporting 1949} Rick Baker wins the As new awards were
added, old ones were
Outstanding Picture, Actress to the big night. Awards for Best Costume inaugural award for
Awards would feature not five, than box-office hits, the nominees? The shine that and capture the big prize. Directing, Writing, Design are given out for Best Makeup for his work made defunct. Your grand-
but 10, Best Picture nominees show’s ratings plummet. comes with being able to Truth is, the Academy Awards Cinematography, 1940} the first time — two, in on An American Werewolf parents may remember
may have been a blip in the lives The Academy itself poked fun splash “Nominated for a has never been static. Over Art Direction, Actor The award for Best fact. One for a black-and- in London. Baker goes on these early categories:
of casual movie fans, but for at this disconnection during Best Picture Oscar” across DVD the past eight decades it has and Actress. Special Effects is white movie (Hamlet) to win five more times, Best Engineering
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Oscar aficionados it was huge. the 77th Awards when host ads will certainly dull. And from evolved, devolved, shifted and introduced. Without the and the other for a colour for films ranging Effects (1927 to 1928)
Growing criticism that the Chris Rock went to an urban this point on there will be an stretched more than you might 1935} benefit of 3D or CGI, the flick (Joan of Arc). from Harry and the Best Title Writing
Academy’s artsy picks don’t L.A. movie theatre and asked asterisk — if not real, implied think. In fact, in the 1930s and New categories Film winner is The Rains Came, Hendersons to Ed Wood. (1927 to 1928)
mirror the movies favoured patrons whether they’d seen — next to every mention of a early ’40s having between eight Editing, Music Scoring a Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power 1956} Best Short Film:
by the general public was any of that year’s Best Picture Best Picture nominee: “Yes, it and 12 Best Picture nominees 2002}
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and Best Song are drama featuring torrential The world gets a little Novelty (1932 to 1935)
becoming an embarrassment nominees — Million Dollar was nominated, but only after was the norm. To the right we introduced. Unfortunately downpours, flooding smaller as the award for DreamWorks pulls out to Best Assistant Director
for organizers. Although the Baby, Finding Neverland, they went to 10.” On the upside, take a look at how the Oscars for the latter, Randy and an earthquake. Best Foreign Language an early lead when Shrek (1934 to 1937)
ceremony was never designed Sideways, The Aviator, Ray. it’s less likely that two favoured gradually became the show Newman won’t be born Somewhere, Roland Film becomes a regular wins in the first new Best Dance Direction
to be a popularity contest, in They hadn’t. films will cancel each other we know today . for another eight years. Emmerich just yelled “Ha!” category. La Strada wins. category since 1982, (1935 to 1937)
26 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 27Can you name the
mystery actor (dolled up
9
OSCARS QUIZ in a diamond-studded
Marchesa gown) arriving
OSCAR
at the 2007 Oscar
ceremonies? Hint: Her Erin Brockovich star
husband is among the Julia Roberts lets out a
photographers taking joyous scream during
her photo. her Best Actress Oscar
acceptance speech in
2001. She also had
fashionistas singing her
FASHION
praises for her choice
of gown, an elegant
vintage dress. Who
8
designed her frock?
QUIZ a. Valentino b. Chanel
c. Armani
One of the Oscars’
most famous fashion
statements was made by
Sure, we care about who wins Oscars, but what everyone really talks about the morning The Adventures of
after the big show is the fashions. Suddenly, we all have opinions about spaghetti straps, Priscilla, Queen of the
Desert’s Oscar-winning
big bows and ruching. So here’s a chance to test your knowledge of Oscar fashions...and costume designer Lizzy
the stars who get all dressed up for our entertainment BY INGRID RANDOJA Gardiner (seen here with
fellow designer Tim
Chappel) in 1995 when
she wore a dress made
7
entirely of American Hilary Swank shows off
Express Gold cards. How her athletic body in an
many cards did it take to eye-popping Guy Laroche
In 1999, Gwyneth Paltrow complete the dress? gown in 2005. She’d go
is pretty in pink after a. 116 b. 254 c. 300 on to win the
1
walking away with a Best Actress Oscar later
Best Actress Oscar for that evening for
Shakespeare in Love. Million Dollar Baby.
ANSWERS: 1) VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, 2) B, 3) A, 4) BOLT, 5) C, 6) BOXER, 7) B, 8) A, 9) JENNIFER LOPEZ
Who designed her girly — What was her
6
but very simple — gown? character’s sport?
Penélope Cruz glows in a. Ralph Lauren b. Tom Ford
4
this vintage Balmain c. Gianni Versace
chiffon dress at last
3
year’s Oscars where she
took home a
Best Supporting Actress
5
statue. For which film did Not all red-carpet
she win her prize? outfits are winners.
Miley Cyrus looks as if
she pulled her great-
grandmother’s turn-of-
2
Entertainment Weekly
ranked Best Actress
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the-century frock out of
mothballs for her Oscar
appearance last year.
Cyrus was on hand to
sing a tune from which
2008 animated flick?
Hint: She also voiced a
At last year’s Oscars,
Best Actor nominee
Mickey Rourke rocked a
white Jean-Paul Gaultier
tuxedo. His many
accessories included a
lapel pin and a choker
Oscar winner Halle Berry’s character in the film. that carried photos of....
striking Elie Saab dress a. his mother Ann
as one of the best ever. b. his ex-wife Carré Otis
In which year did the c. his deceased dog Loki
Monster’s Ball star wear
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a.2000 b.2002 c.2004AWARDS GLOBES
THE GOLDEN
WRAP
Beginning this year, there are now 10 Best Picture nominees,
which makes picking a Best Picture winner in your office Oscar pool
even harder. To give you a hand figuring out the Oscar puzzle, we’ve
Whether or not
you agree with
their choices,
the Golden Globes
carry clout with
compiled a list of the year’s best actors, directors and movies as Academy members,
chosen by film critics from across North America
so it’s prudent to
pay attention to the
TORONTO FILM CRITICS NATIONAL BOARD
Hollywood Foreign
ASSOCIATION: OF REVIEW Press Association’s
Best Picture (tie): Hunger and Best Picture: Up in the Air Top: The Hurt Locker’s
Inglourious Basterds Best Director: Clint Eastwood (Invictus)
annual list of Jeremy Renner
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow
(The Hurt Locker)
Best Actor (tie): George Clooney (Up in
the Air) and Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
winners This picture:
Mo’Nique in Precious
Best Actor: Nicolas Cage (The Bad Best Actress: Carey Mulligan Best Picture (Drama)
Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans) (An Education) Avatar
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan (An Education) Best Supporting Actor: Woody Harrelson Best Picture (Comedy or Musical)
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (The Messenger) The Hangover
(Inglourious Basterds) Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick Best Director:
Best Supporting Actress: (Up in the Air) James Cameron (Avatar)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) Best Actor (Drama)
BOSTON SOCIETY OF Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS FILM CRITICS: Best Actor (Comedy or Musical)
CIRCLE Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes)
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow Best Actress (Drama)
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
(The Hurt Locker) Best Actor: Jeremy Renner Best Actress (Comedy or Musical)
Best Actor: George Clooney (The Hurt Locker) Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
(Up in the Air and Fantastic Mr. Fox) Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) Best Supporting Actor:
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) Best Supporting Actress:
(Inglourious Basterds) Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique Mo’Nique (Precious)
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious) (Precious)
LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS SAN FRANCISCO FILM CHICAGO FILM CRITICS VANCOUVER FILM CRITICS NATIONAL SOCIETY
ASSOCIATION CRITICS CIRCLE: ASSOCIATION: CIRCLE: OF FILM CRITICS:
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Picture: Up in the Air Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
(The Hurt Locker) (The Hurt Locker) (The Hurt Locker) Best Actor: Colin Firth (A Single Man) Best Actor: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
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Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) Best Actor: Colin Firth (A Single Man) Best Actor: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) Best Actress: Carey Mulligan (An Education) Best Actress: Yolande Moreau (Séraphine)
Best Actress: Yolande Moreau (Séraphine) Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) Best Actress: Carey Mulligan (An Education) Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actor (tie): Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actor: Christian McKay Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) (Inglourious Basterds) and
(Inglourious Basterds) (Me & Orson Welles) (Inglourious Basterds) Best Supporting Actress: Vera Farmiga Paul Schneider (Bright Star)
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious) Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious) Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious) (Up in the Air) Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious)
16 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 31INTERVIEW EMILY MORTIMER
Shutter Island’s Emily Mortimer
in her on-set cell with director
Martin Scorsese
BREAKOUT
PERFORMANCE In Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, Emily Mortimer
is the lucky lady being chased by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Unfortunately, it’s because she’s escaped from a
mental institution and he’s the investigator
trying to track her down BY BOB STRAUSS
W hen is the rest of the world going to fall in love
with Emily Mortimer like those in the know
did long ago?
Probably not after seeing Martin Scorsese’s
psycho-thriller Shutter Island, in which the 38-
year-old plays escaped, homicidal and otherwise
frightening mental patient Rachel Solando — the character whose
disappearance draws a couple of U.S. Marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio,
Mark Ruffalo) to a remote psychiatric hospital.
But please don’t let that distort your impression of the actor, who
is, in reality, sweet, smart and ingratiatingly funny. The daughter of
Lars and the Real Girl) to morally ambiguous (Transsiberian). And
like it needs to be said, she’s as adorable as she is talented.
We recently spoke with the woefully underappreciated Mortimer
by phone.
Q: You make some pretty intense movies when you’re not
doing Pink Panther flicks.
A: “I’m at my best, almost, when I put myself in extreme situa-
tions. I become very calm and I know how to handle it. It’s sort of
everyday life that makes me start to panic.”
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know what I’m going to do! I should have watched more documen-
taries on mad people! I watched a DVD and I talked to a brilliant
“I think that era was
psychiatrist who was working on the movie. But in the end, you just conducive to mental
have to make your own choice about what you’re going to do. I instability,” says Mortimer.
probably got it wrong, but I felt like I vaguely understood what was
required of me in this movie, which is brilliant and terrifying and, on
“The book, script and movie
some level, almost like those strange, perverse 1950s B movies. I all had this feeling of, is it
think it’s full of references to Sam Fuller and Michael Powell films,
which Marty’s obsessed with.”
me that’s mad or is it the
rest of the world? Especially
Q: Well, it’s set in the era of Shock Corridor and Black Narcissus. for women at the time, who
A: “Yes, I was playing a perfect ’50s housewife who happens to be a
complete psychotic. I think that era was conducive to mental insta-
were left at home all day,
bility. The book, script and movie all had this feeling of, is it me that’s looking after the kids”
mad or is it the rest of the world? Especially for women at that time,
who were left at home all day, looking after the kids or living in this
kind of lonely, Stepford Wife existence. They probably felt like they
wanted to scream or stab someone. The claustrophobia of being the
perfect woman, that’s what I had in my head.”
Q: Please tell us Leo was nice and helpful.
A: “All of my scenes are with Leo. I liked him very much. I mean,
everyone’s so nice about everyone when they talk about working
with people, but I really, genuinely felt that he was such a down-to-
earth person. He didn’t play the role of the big film star at all. He was Men in Hats: From left, Mark Ruffalo,
easygoing and chatty and funny, but at the same time not showing Leonardo DiCaprio and a burly police
off at all. He was really easy to be around, and made it much less officer on Shutter Island
embarrassing and mortifying for me than it could have been.” Below: Emily Mortimer as Rachel Solando
Q: And Mr. Scorsese?
A: “He is the least intimidating genius that I’ve ever met. Most genius-
es are pretty terrifying, and you feel like you’ve got to sort of plan
what you say around them before it comes out. But he’s so affable and
he loves talking. And he loves to chat about movies, which is the best THE
part. It was like a sort of master class in film history, being with him.”
Q: For someone with such an impressive resumé, you seem a
little less confident than you ought to be. Is that just a natural
REAL DEAL
If you’re going to set a movie sustaining community that
personality trait? inside a psychiatric hospital, raised its own livestock and
A: “I was very shy as a kid. I used to dread social interaction or having Q: You’re as English as a red rose is, well, red. Yet you’ve you might as well film inside a crops, with patients tending to
to talk in class or anything like that. I found it just excruciating. But been living with your husband (American actor psychiatric hospital. the chickens and growing
there was something about overcoming that terror; I guess it’s sort Alessandro Nivola) and your son in New York for a number Some scenes set at their own vegetables. The
of like aversion therapy, where they make people who are terrified of of years now. Ever get homesick? Shutter Island’s fictitious hospital even generated its
pigeons hold a pigeon. I realized quite early on that if I did the thing A: “I miss England terribly. But I’ve missed England so much for so Asheville Hospital for the own heat, light and power.
that I was almost most scared of, it wasn’t so bad; in fact, it was quite long, I’ve now kind of got bored of missing England because it’s just Criminally Insane were shot at By 2001, Medfield’s
good. Somehow I wasn’t shy when I was acting. I really don’t under- too exhausting. I spent the first six years of being with my husband the former Medfield State population was down to 150
stand it, there must be some subconscious thing going on begging to go back there, but now I’ve just given up. Actually, in Hospital, located in Medfield, patients and the institute was
behind it — or not.” some ways, it probably has something to do with that thing we’ve Massachusetts. shuttered in April 2003.
been talking about this whole time, which is forcing yourself into The psychiatric rehabilitation However, filmmakers have
Q: Is that why you still seek the most challenging
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different situations. And so I now have decided it’s a privileged posi- centre, which is now closed, found the late 19th-century
or disturbing roles you can find?
A: “I’ve worked out over the years that I have to be interested in the
SHUTTER tion to be in — much to my husband’s relief — to have a perspective
on the world that isn’t myopic like it can be if you stay in the same
was built in 1892 on a 900-
acre property. At the height of
property to their liking — not
only did Martin Scorsese
job that I’m doing. It seems so simple, but you forget these simple ISLAND place. But if I could get my mom and my sister and her family and my its use (1952) 1,500 patients choose Medfield for
things sometimes. You have to be really interested in what you’re
doing to have any chance of being any good in it or contributing HITS THEATRESth three best friends and all their children to all move to Brooklyn, then
I’d be perfectly happy.” F
were housed among the
hospital’s 58 buildings. At that
Shutter Island, but director
Richard Kelly filmed a portion
anything to yourself. I guess, for that reason, I keep getting taken
further and further into weirder and weirder set-ups.” FEBRUARY 19 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies.
time, Medfield was a self- of The Box at the site. —IR
34 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 35INTERVIEW JAMES McAVOY
THE LAST
STATION
IS NOW
IN THEATRES
FROM
,
Opposite page: Kerry Condon
tries to seduce James McAvoy
This Picture: McAvoy with
Christopher Plummer
WITH LOVE Below: Helen Mirren gives
McAvoy the once-over
There’s plenty of love
for James McAvoy’s Russian
secretary in The Last Station
— love of country, love of fun,” he added. “But then to have the very thing that defines him
Tolstoy, love of that sexy change into the complete opposite is really something. I really like
minx Masha. Problem is character progressions like that. I don’t like to play a guy who comes
trying to sort them out in with an opinion and by the time the movie ends, he’s still of the
same opinion.”
BY BOB STRAUSS
The naive Valentin faces extra confusion at the nearby Tolstoyan
S
commune, where the sect’s tenet of idealized, celibate love is quickly
undermined for him by lusty, independent-thinking Masha (Rome’s
OME WOULD SAY that James McAvoy mercurial wife, Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), who wants to keep the Kerry Condon). The Great Man proves no assistance when Valentin
is back where he belongs. James McAvoy rewards of his legacy in the family. Upon reaching the Tolstoy estate, seeks guidance to help him keep his pants on. Tolstoy proves far
would be one of them. Valentin finds himself torn between his populist cause and the wishes earthier than his dogmatic devotees, and enjoys an active physical
“After Wanted, I knew I didn’t want to do of Sofya, who is as charismatic as she is intense and, often, outlandish. relationship with the countess.
another big-budget thing — for a while, any- Based on a novel by Jay Parini, The Last Station is rich in history, The aristocrats’ daughter, Sasha, is played by McAvoy’s wife, The Conspirator in the can. And while he’s signed up for a Wanted
way,” the congenial Scotsman says during a philosophy and, unlike most period pieces, humour. After the py- Anne-Marie Duff. Did that make McAvoy’s love scenes with Condon sequel, he says he hasn’t heard anything about a production date,
recent interview in Beverly Hills. Wearing a rotechnics of his hit action film, the stage-trained McAvoy found extra awkward? “It was totally fine, everybody was an actor,” he says nor even seen a script.
striped, long-sleeved T-shirt, jeans and scuffed everything about the production irresistible. unselfconsciously. “It’s just another part of the job, isn’t it? I mean, He doesn’t sound at all anxious about that. McAvoy will undoubt-
cowboy boots, he looks utterly unpretentious “One of the real reasons I was attracted to the film was because I my wife and I have worked together before, and done sex scenes with edly be happy to keep making character-focused indie films for as
and a good half-decade younger than his 30 thought it was funny,” says McAvoy, whose dramatic films such as each other and with other people in that TV show we did [Shameless].” long as they let him.
years. “I wanted to do something that was less about the technical The Last King of Scotland and Atonement have leaned toward the heavy The couple lives a comparatively simple life in a North London flat, If they keep letting him.
and more about the just artistic. Perhaps not about the artistic in end of the spectrum. “I liked who it was about and what it was about, which McAvoy has the annoying habit of cleaning obsessively. He “I went to a studio in Britain with an idea for a $40-million movie,”
terms of the art and the image, but acting. Basically, a talking heads but I was really drawn by the fact that it was humorous at times. I says it’s not frugality that keeps him from hiring domestic help, but he recounts. “They said that they liked the idea, but they weren’t
movie, lots of people talking. That’s really all this movie’s got; we found that really refreshing.” rather an outgrowth of the skyrocketing career that takes him to going to do it unless I could figure out a way to make it a three-picture
didn’t have enough money to make it look, like, huge.” He was also attracted to the project’s overall tone. Director far-flung locations for long periods of time. franchise or if I could come back to them with a $100-million idea, so
The film is The Last Station, a nonetheless handsome-looking piece Michael Hoffman had been developing the piece for the better part of “It’s my little kingdom,” he says of the apartment. “When I come they could stand to make bigger money back.
about the final year of the great Russian writer, and count, Leo Tolstoy’s a decade. And its early 20th-century setting, before the old Russian home after I’ve been away for a while, my wife gets mad at me some- “I really don’t think I understand the film industry well enough to
life. McAvoy plays Valentin Bulgakov, Tolstoy’s new secretary who is society was swept away by the communist revolution, inspired times because I’ll immediately start tidying things. But I spend a lot give my opinion as a member of the community,” McAvoy shrugs. “But
sent to spy on the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina by the Hoffman to write much of the screenplay in the style of the great of time away from home and I want to make that territory mine they can’t all be blockbusters. They can’t all share the market; it seems
leader of the Tolstoyans, a group devoted to the aristocrat’s spiritual chronicler of that bygone world, Anton Chekhov. again. Maybe if I was at home 365 days a year…but I’m not. So I really to me that you’re going to lose out if you only do that. We have to
teachings. The Tolstoyans want nothing more than to have the copy- “When I was very young, I played a small part in The Cherry Orchard want to get involved in the daily things.” keep getting these mid-level and smaller movies made, somehow.” F
rights to the writer’s works bequeathed to the Russian people. and loved it so much,” says McAvoy. “When I read Valentin in this, I McAvoy will spend this month in Vancouver trying to shoot the ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Tolstoy, played by Canada’s master thespian Christopher Plummer, felt there was a really shared soul there. Valentin was so full of belief, comic drama I’m With Cancer around the Winter Olympics hoopla. Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about
is torn between that noble sentiment and the wishes of his loving, and to play somebody so defined and so definite is always quite He’s already got Robert Redford’s Civil War era courtroom drama movies and filmmakers.
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