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Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 10:01AM Rain Perry interesting and fun article comparing Crazy, Stupid, Love. with... Biutiful. (via AD)
Tom Shone on the elitism of magic and power in modern entertainment. It's a curious question really.
THR Nobody can quite let go of Sex and the City Movie 3. It still might happen.
Corduroy (via JJ) talks to Josh Hartnett about his career (post acting hiatus). I thought I'd share this since we were just talking in that Taylor Lautner post -- I realize they're not exactly interchangeable ;) -- about the limited shelf life of young male actors who get hired for a lot of big roles and big projects before they've truly proven themselves. Isn't that essentially what happened to Hartnett?
Hartnett photographed by Peter Ash Lee for Corduroy
When you first start really young and you have some success, they want to take away your edges and make you into this proto-typical movie star... people don’t like to be boxed in and actors are no different.”
He also says:
I started when I was 17 and when you’re that age, you’re a bag full of nerves. I was a little bit freaked out by the whole industry. But now I’m actively looking for things that scare me; things that push me outside my comfort zone. As an actor, that’s the only way you grow and the only way you create something truly interesting for yourself and the audience as well.”
...which is code for rebuilding his once bright career through the indie film circuit, isn't it?
"Would you like one of my flowers" (Illustration by Scott C)The Great Showdowns simple concept movie illustration tumblr that yields very cute results. I love that the references are from several decades, not just the overplayed 80s ...though there's quite a lot of that as there always is online. Check it out.
ioncinema talks about the next project from I Am Love's brilliant director Luca Guadagnino which looks like it may star the ubiquitous duo of Mia Wasikowska and Jeremy Renner who plan to be in every movie of the next 5 years (along with Fassbender & Mulligan)
The Awl asks "what makes a great critic?"
IndieWire Michael Fassbender offered the lead role in Prisoners. But his docket is so full now, who knows.
"Avengers Assemble" at D23
God, I hope people didn't wait in line hours and hours for this. So short. It's cute how Jeremy Renner bounces out at 1:05ish though.
I guess they only really showed a teensy tiny clip between Samuel L Jackson's Nick Fury and Tom Hiddleston's Loki which i09 loved. I'd hoped to post a counter opinion from someone who was not at all impressed (it's important to maintain some balance in our fanboy ruled world) but have misplaced the link. Drat.
P.S. Totally eager to see how Tom Hiddleston's career develops. He was great to look at as F Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris and I suspect he did about as fine a job as anyone could have done making sense of his confusingly written character in Thor. Eager to see what's next for him?
Reader Comments (6)
Good lord!
Josh Hartnett, as someone who paid a movie ticket to see The Black Dahlia (you were 28 there btw, not 17). I didn't know you had been on an acting hiatus, that was before or after stop making movies? It's nice to know you're actively looking for something challenging. Only god knows what's challenging for you, doing an accent in a Weinstein production? Bleaching your hair? A period drama?
I have a suggestion for you and your bag full of shit. Join a theatre company, preferably a repertory company. Simple, right? Theatre. Go on a stage every night, you probably don't even need to audition for prestige Broadway productions, you probably don't even need to audition for PSH's revival of Death of a Salesman. Just join any local theatre company. I'm sure they'll welcome you because your name will draw more audience. That will scare you and get you out of your comfort area.
/end of rant
On a completely different tone, a quote from an interview with Almodóvar in elpais.com
¿En EE UU? ¿Han vuelto a tirarle los tejos?
- No, es un proyecto que yo mismo genero.
Usted ya había recibido muchas propuestas de Hollywood...
- Sí, pero en esta ocasión, y por primera vez, tengo un proyecto propio, que me gusta mucho y que ya está bastante avanzado, cuya lengua es el inglés. Podría ser el próximo, pero con producción nuestra, quiero decir, europea.
In short, he says he's got a project to work in English, but with European production.
So very eager to see what's next for Tom Hiddleston. He actually is the reason why I unexpectedly loved Thor. What you see as confusingly written, I saw as 3-dimensional, which is rare for a "villain" especially in superhero films. So happy he's in Avengers.
Absolutely loved Tom Hiddleston in my favourite movie of the year so far here in the UK - Joanna Hogg's 'Archipelago'. He really gets across his character's moral weaknesses and mis-aimed attentions without making him seem craven or hypocritical or stupid. Maybe these high-profile roles might help get 'Archipelago' distribution in the US and elsewhere? Or is this just a crazy hope?
Have you seen Crazy, Stupid, Love?
Hiddleston is in War Horse. Not sure if the part is significant.