‘I like how she loved him, saw the potential in him,’ Destiny’s Child singer tells MTV News about her character, Sandra Isadore. By Nadeska Alexis Michelle Williams Photo: MTV News
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Shia LaBeouf appears to be going full-tilt method acting of late. First, the actor said last summer that he was going “all the way” in Danish director Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac , and at the Sundance Film Festival , currently underway, he said he dropped acid while working on The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman . [ Related: Shia LaBeouf Ready To Perform Sex ‘For Real’ In Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac? ] LaBeouf said at the festival that he took the hallucinogen, not because he “wanted to be on drugs,” but to relate to his character. The Sundance debut revolves around a young man (LaBeouf) who travels to Romania after the death of his mother (Melissa Leo) and falls for a dangerous young woman, played by Evan Rachel Wood. During one sequence in the film, LaBeouf’s character takes L.S.D. “I’d never done acid before. I remember sending Evan tapes. I remember trying to conjure this and sending tapes. And Evan being like, ‘That’s good, but that’s not but, that is,” he told MTV News. “You reach out to friends and gauge where you’re at. I was sending tapes around and I’d get 50 percents from people and that just starts creeping me out. I was getting really nervous toward the end. Not ’cause I wanted to be on drugs — I’m not trying to mess with the set or anything like that. It’s really just fear that propels people.” The trip apparently took place last August. He told USA Today at the time he dropped acid for The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman in order to “immerse himself in the character.” “What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that [electric] chair in Dead Man Walking ,” he told the paper. “These are the guys I look up to.” [Source: Huffington Post ]
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Game of Thrones star Wilko Johnson, 65, is preparing for his final battle. The British actor and musician has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. His manager confirmed to BBC News this week.”I am very sad to announce that Wilko has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas.” “He has chosen not to receive any chemotherapy.” “He is currently in good spirits, is not yet suffering any physical effects and can expect to enjoy at least another few months of reasonable health and activity.” Wilko Johnson portrayed the character of Ilyn Payne, a mute executioner, on seasons one and two of the wildly popular HBO fantasy series. He also a member of British blues band Dr. Feelgood. ” Wilko wishes to offer his sincere thanks for all the support he has had over his long career, from those who have worked with him to, above all, his devoted fans and admirers.” “To those who have attended his live gigs, bought his recordings and generally made his life such an extraordinarily full and eventful experience, thank you,” his manager adds. Game of Thrones Season 3 premieres on March 31.
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A Tim Tebow trade will almost certainly go down this offseason, if the team doesn’t cut its backup quarterback outright. But while he’s still a member of this terrible organization, the maligned quarterback wants to set the record straight: No, he never refused to play for the squad during last week’s game against San Diego. Because Mark Sanchez sucks , he was benched in favor of Greg McElroy, with reports then surfacing that Tebow – offended over being passed over for the gig – told Rex Ryan not to use him at all in the game. Not even in the Wildcat formation for which his skill set is supposedly made. But Tebow spoke to The New York Daily News yesterday and clarified his stance. “That wasn’t the talk at all,” Tebow said of the rumored complaint. “[Coach Ryan] knows that. And everybody on this team knows that I would never not to do something if I was asked. … “For people to not know the situation and then start to bash your character and then say you’re a phony or you’re a fake or you’re a hypocrite, I think that’s what’s disappointing and that’s what’s frustrating. Your character is who you are as a man and that’s a lot more important… I take that way more serious than I’ll ever take a football game.” Tebow was clearly brought in by New York as some kind of PR gimmick, seeing as the team hasn’t bothered to play him for any extended time. But he didn’t sound bitter in the newspaper interview. He just wanted to clear his good name and not come across as a prima donna. “You work your whole life to build a reputation,” Tebow said. “Then people try to bring you down when they don’t understand even what happened. It’s disappointing. You just want to express your side of the story… You want people to look at what really happened, not what one person said.” We believe, you, Tim Tebow. And we also believe the Jets are an awful football team.
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The Guilt Trip is a film as familiar as a mother’s voice, in more ways than one. Playing a frustrated son and his overbearing mother, Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand elevate a formulaic script with their easygoing chemistry in this road-trip mom com. They produce as many laughs as they do cringes, but the film’s feel-good message is undermined by its ultimate purpose: As a vindication of the rights of Jewish mothers to annoy their children as much as they please. Rogen plays Andy, a schlubby organic chemist who’s having trouble selling his invention, a nontoxic cleaning spray. The product, clumsily named Scieoclean, is a would-be bestseller, but Andy makes a worse salesman than Tiger Woods shilling monogamy. With the last of his savings he plans a last-ditch effort to drive across the country pitching Scieoclean to several big box stores. Andy spends the day before his Jersey-to-Vegas trip with his well meaning but tirelessly chatty mother. Joyce (Streisand) is the kind of older widow who’s found a routine that’s nice and busy enough for her post-retirement years, but one that doesn’t include the emotional risks of dating. Over dinner, Joyce confesses to Andy that the love of her life was the boyfriend she had before meeting his father. A quick Google search shows that this long-lost beau also happens to be an advertising exec in San Francisco, a discovery that leads Andy to suggest Joyce join him on the eight-day trip. Of course, he casually leaves out the detail that their final destination has been moved to California, and that he hopes her ex-boyfriend will help him market his floundering product. Joyce and Andy’s travels lead them through some very familiar road-trip movie situations. Their car breaks down during a freak snowstorm, one of them takes up the challenge to eat a big chunk of cow in a Texas steakhouse, and they wonder aloud about how long they’re supposed to respectfully marvel at the Grand Canyon. These are pleasant diversions, made enjoyable by Rogen’s gregariousness and Streisand’s twinkling, gamine eyes, but amount to very little. Their journey finally gets into gear when Joyce stops her mindless nattering about sock sales at the Gap and confronts her son about his semi-hidden scorn for her. Again, the emotional beats are entirely predictable, but the rapport between the actors make them convincing. Rogen has more to work with: Andy’s a focused and ambitious adult who hasn’t yet realized that he has more growing up to do. He has a lot of hurt in his life, and it doesn’t help that Joyce’s idea of keeping in touch mostly consists of her (unknowingly) reminding him of his professional and romantic failures. Rogen also does the comedic heavy lifting here. His sarcastic one-liners are so spontaneously and perfectly delivered they have to have been improvised on the spot. (Streisand reportedly improvised some of her lines too, but she lacks her co-star’s effortless droll wit.) Streisand has much less to do, but manages to add spark to her limited material. She sells Joyce’s phobia of dating with just a few gestures and skillfully mines the character’s contradictions. There’s a lovely moment halfway through the trip when a handsome stranger approaches to court her. Andy watches the scene unfold from some distance and gently teases her about it afterward. Flustered by the unexpected male attention, Joyce squeaks out an admonishing but embarrassed, “Don’t be disgusting,” even though she’d shown nothing but eagerness to discuss his girl troubles. The script needs more of those intimate, role-confusing moments to pull the character out of her shell and make her more than just “Andy’s mom.” That we have no idea what Joyce has done in the three decades since meeting Andy’s father and taking this trip is a particularly glaring omission. Though Andy undergoes the bigger transformation, it’s safe to say it’s the Jewish mother — the archetype, not Joyce — who gets her revenge in the film. She fights dirty too, by appearing in the guise of a nice, attractive sexagenarian without a sadistic bone in her body. As the latest iteration of the Oedipal nightmare that is mothers who try to stuff their sons back into their wombs, Joyce is only an honorary member in that pantheon of disapproving control freaks. She isn’t a Talmudic scholar on the art of maternal passive aggression like Debbie Reynolds in Albert Brooks’ Mother or the sharp-eyed crones in Woody Allen films — she’s much too harmless and boring. But if Joyce isn’t much of a scold, the film sure is. In fact, The Guilt Trip can feel like one long, occasionally funny, occasionally haranguing reminder to love your mother. It dings Andy pretty hard for being exasperated by his mother’s penny-pinching and cluelessness, and the basic lesson he learns from their week together is that his mother has all the right answers to everything. The film even lays the source of Joyce’s most wounding behavior, her inadvertent twists of the knife already lodged deep in Andy by life and failure, at his feet. If you’d only call , the film says, I’d know not to hurt you . Oy vey. Inkoo Kang is a film critic and investigative journalist in Boston. She has been published in Indiewire, Boxoffice Magazine, Yahoo! Movies, Pop Matters, Screen Junkies, and MuckRock. Her great dream in life is to direct a remake of All About Eve with an all-dog cast. Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Kristen Stewart fans have undoubtedly waved a tearful good bye to the character that introduced her to most of her legions of admirers with the final Twilight installment, which opened to massive fanfare last month. While the saga may have been her longest running (and certainly highest paying) gig to date, few know that she vested a lot of time and heart into playing free-spirit Marylou in director Walter Salles’ On The Road , which opens Friday in limited release. Stewart committed to the role before she could legally drive and stuck with the project even as she rose to super-stardom courtesy of Bella and that band of Northwest vampires that captured the hearts and minds of many a tween, teen and beyond. In the film version of one of the most celebrated works of 20th Century American literature written by Jack Kerouac, Stewart plays the unconventional and racy Marylou, the former wife and still frequent lover of Dean Moriarty, a fast-talking charismatic with an insatiable libido. Dean and best friend Sal (Sam Riley), a young writer whose life is shaken after Dean’s arrival, take to the road. Marylou frequently accompanies Sal and Dean’s travels across the country in adventures fueled by sex, drugs and the pursuit of the ” It ” — a quest for understanding and personal fulfillment. [ Editor’s Note : Movieline spoke with Stewart who shared her thoughts on her character’s “hard love,” how she grew into Marylou and how this was the “biggest experience” she’s had on a set. This interview was first published in full during AFI Fest in early November where On The Road had its U.S. premiere. It is being re-published today ahead of its theatrical roll out starting this weekend via IFC Films. M.L. will publish interviews with On The Road co-star Garrett Hedlund and director Walter Salles later this week .] So what was your road to On the Road? I was 14 or 15 when I first met Walter Salles. I spoke to him when I was 17, I think I may have shot the first Twilight, I’m not sure — possibly I was about to go do it. At first I was talking about playing another part, so it’s been a long time coming. I don’t know how I was able to get around that kind of energy, but to convey that I loved this thing in the way [Walter Salles] does and as soon as you get around that energy it passes between you, nothing really needs to be said. I got the job on the spot, and I drove away just vibrating. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ Plus I was very young, I wasn’t quite old enough for the part yet. When I read the book many years ago, I found it sprawling and didn’t seem to have elements that would make it translatable to the screen — at least I remember thinking that at the time. What did you think of the book when you first read it? I was reading it for school, so I had to read it. I did independent study when I was in high school. I remember, I took so long to read the book. All I had to do was read it and write a report, it wasn’t like I had to do an intensive study of the book, and it took me months and months — I was late. But, I think my teacher was OK with it because I think ultimately the paper was good. But, people say it’s different when you read it at different ages — but for me at the time, it was fun! At that age you start realizing you have a choice in who you surround yourself with. Up until that point, you’re just around circumstantially who you’re with — your family or whatever — but at that point you can start choose your family, and I’ve got a great family by the way. But I mean just the people you decide to surround yourself with. I don’t want to sound cliché, but people should pull something out of you that would otherwise remain unseen. And when I read the book I thought, ‘Gosh, I need to find people like that.’ I’m definitely not [my character, Marylou’s] type. As I continued reading it and got older, the weight of it started to mean more. I was totally enamored by the colors and the way he wrote it and jumped over words and how it read like a song. Then when I did the movie, to play a part like Marylou — she’s very vivid. She’s very colorful and interesting and on the periphery so you don’t know how and why she can do the things that she does. By the time it came to bringing it to life, I didn’t want to play just a crazy, wild sexy girl. I wanted to apply all the whys and get to know the people behind the characters. There’s a weight to it. It’s not easy to live a life like that. That’s what makes these people kind of remarkable. It’s a give and take. There’s no way to have this without pain, but they’re not frivolous, they can feel it… Marylou’s a forward thinking progressive soul, but she’s also surrounded by this situation with her ongoing yet ever-changing situation with her ex-husband, Dean, who is still an emotional roller coaster, both for himself and her. Did you ever judge her in respect to why she’d tolerate him for so long? No, I never had done so. I always wondered how she could take it. How deep is that well? How much can you give and how much can you let be taken from you? What I found about her is that she’s very unique to her time, but nowadays she’d be something else. Her capacity to see everyone’s flaws and appreciate them is really unbelievable. Any interview we did with anyone who was involved with them [before doing the movie] always said the same thing — that she was such a wonderful woman. She’s infectiously amazing. So, no I didn’t judge her. So then, how would you describe the relationship between your character, Marylou and Dean? They really are simpatico. It’s tumultuous. It’s hard to love like that. But they’re so in love with each other. You don’t know this from reading the book, but they stayed lovers until the end of his life. He kind of raised her and she always had a place in his heart, though I think the capacity was so enormous that there were also others in that heart, but she was at the center. And the same goes the other way around. I think they helped each other grow up and they raised each other. Undoubtedly some of your Twilight fans will be curious to see you doing something outside of Bella and this may be for many their first chance. How do you hope they’ll approach seeing this film? Well, I mean you just walk into a theater [laughs]… I think if I can have anything to do with just one person that would not have otherwise read On The Road, then that would be incredible and I’m very happy to be a part of that. I think that if you have any inclination of seeing this being a Twilight fan, I have to say I don’t have much control over the things that I choose because I do need to feel compelled to do the roles that I do. I very rarely tactfully think about my career and how people are going to perceive it and I think that’s what people appreciate and if that’s not the case, then it’s kind of like — um, that’s not going to go away. It’s a false thing. I think people will really like it and if you didn’t like the book, then don’t watch the movie. You know what I mean? However anyone wants to interpret it is all good with me. People describe On the Road as a “watershed moment” in American culture in that it upended the strict conservative culture that prevailed in the 1950s in the U.S. So from your perspective as a 20-something, how do you see it as relevant culturally today? I think this is a good time to see this story visually because most people can watch it and not be shocked by it as they might have before. Back then, it would have been so shocking to see people doing drugs and having sex that they wouldn’t have seen the spirit behind it — the message behind it would have been [diluted]. Though, maybe it would have been good because it would have forced people to look. But maybe they weren’t able to yet. There’s always going to be conflicting intuitions that might not even go together, but these are people who have the strength to be OK with people disagreeing. At that stage of your life, there’s so much ahead of you — at least it feels that way. The reach is so important even if something is unbeknownst to you, but you feel compelled to find out what it is… Don’t ignore it! At that age, it’s important to have a faith in feelings you can’t articulate because at some point you need to hold onto them. And these guys found a word for that, it’s the “It” and I don’t think that’s ever going to go away. So what is that ” It “? How would you describe the It? [Laughs] Trust me, we’ve talked about that so much… It’s the pearl. It’s that thing that makes your life bounce. I think if we knew it… I honestly think it’s an individual thing, but if something is funny to you and you’re alone you can smirk at it or whatever, but suddenly if you’re with a lot of people that also find it funny, you can be hysterically laughing. There’s something about life that you can’t completely describe. It also goes along with not ignoring that burn and going, ‘OK, I’m content right now to be smart and conservative and hold onto what I’ve got.’ I just think it’s important to keep going for it. How has your experience playing Marylou or in On the Road generally influenced your life professionally or personally? You said you’ve been a part of this project for a long time, so you’ve had quite a turn at experiencing this culture even as you took on other roles including, of course, Twilight . It was the most time I’ve ever spent feeling. Twilight was a good five years and was a very indulgent creative experience. [Most projects] are usually only about five weeks, three months or six months tops. But because I was attached to On the Road so long, the build up and pressure inside by the time we go there was just bigger than anything I’ve ever felt on a set. We had four weeks of proving that we were so thankful and happy to be there because we’re all fans of the book, but we had put in the work and we knew the purpose and the weight of it and how so important it is to so many people. It’s all to Walter [Salles’] credit, but if anything, what this has taught me is that if you stop thinking and just breathe through it, you’re such a better actor. You just have to put in the initial work and then not become too analytical because you have to trust that you’ve already done it all. So it’s opened me up in a way that’s appropriate to my age. I’m just a bit less inhibited. Just being able to not think so much before you speak is good. It has helped me in that way. It’s not being less shameful, it’s just being so much more unabashedly myself. I think that all started when I was 15. I can be around people and say what I think and have a conversation with a stranger and it’s all good. Follow Brian Brooks on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Even though his character died, the actor figures he’s due for a ghostly cameo. By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Samuel L. Jackson Photo: MTV News
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Save the Date , the new film from director Michael Mohan ( One Too Many Mornings ), is a neat, lightweight little hipster romance about commitment issues between people barely ready to confront what they want, much less tell others about it. (I hate to use the h-word, but there’s really no avoiding it when talking about a film in which an artist/bookstore employee breaks up with a guy in a band and starts dating a marine biologist who’s been mooning over her at work.) Written by Mohan alongside Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich, the film follows two sisters and the men they’re involved with. Sarah ( Lizzy Caplan ) and Beth ( Alison Brie ) are dating a pair of guys in an indie group called Wolfbird. The most sensible Beth and drummer Andrew ( Martin Starr) are getting married, while responsibility-averse Sarah and lead singer Kevin (Geoffrey Arend) have just moved in together. It’s a tidy arrangement that’s blown to bits when, in a fit of euphoria during a successful hometown show, Kevin decides to propose to Sarah in front of the crowd despite Andrew’s warning that the timing’s not right. She’s horrified, doesn’t accept, and soon Wolfbird’s off on tour with a broken-hearted frontman while she moves into a new place and tumbles too quickly into a relationship with the sweet Jonathan (Mark Webber), who’s been ordering books for his master’s degree at Sarah’s store just because she works there. Beth expects this to be a rebound relationship that will catapult her flaky sister back into Kevin’s arms, but as time goes on it starts to seem like that has everything to do with what she wants and not what Sarah does. Save the Date , which belongs to a recent rash of films, from (500) Days of Summer to The Freebie and Celeste & Jesse Forever , that have showcased Los Angeles as an actual warm, distinctive city, manages its modest pleasures because of its likable cast. Arend, who may be best known as the spouse of Mad Men ‘s Christina Hendricks , makes a convincingly charismatic/smothering musician, and Freaks and Geeks alum Martin Starr is a pleasure to see in anything, particularly a role in which he’s a disheveled rocker. And actor and filmmaker Webber brings vulnerability to a character who’s initially a little too good to be true, until he finally calls Sarah on her skittishness. All three are playing painfully nice guys (“I want to make sure I’m not stepping over any boundaries!” Jonathan protests as Sarah drags him to bed) who are at the mercy of the women in their lives — Beth is deep into planning a wedding Andrew has little interest in, and Sarah threatens to smash both Kevin and Jonathan’s hearts in her quest for happiness. Brie’s a talented comedienne, but she plays things straight here, bringing nuance to a potentially shrill character so caught up in her own nuptials that she starts to see her sister’s issues as interference. And Caplan carries the bulk of the film, her Sarah a girl for whom some things, like guys and her comic-style artwork, come easy, while longer-range decisions and plans remain intimidating and to be avoided. “It makes me think that aspirations are just totally overrated,” she tells Jonathan on a date as she describes her friends’ career and complaints about their busy lives, but her arty slackerdom reveals itself to be a kind of cowardice. In Gone Girl , former Entertainment Weekly writer turned novelist Gillian Flynn’s hit thriller, the character Amy describes an archetype she calls the “Cool Girl,” an aspirational creature who’s just one of the guys, “who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex,” but who is, of course, also “hot and understanding.” It’s a type that Caplan’s become a queen at playing (I’d put Olivia Munn in second place), beautiful and hip and slovenly and all over the place, an attractive mess — see Bachelorette , 3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom , Party Down and Hot Tub Time Machine . In the history of female roles on screen, there have been far worse types to play, despite Amy’s condemnation, but Caplan, who’s always a winning presence, is most interesting when she provides peeks behind the Cool Girl mask — as in how her character in Bachelorette was on the verge of being repulsive, her carousel of partying and hookups starting to wear on her, to look less like fun she’s having and more like self-destruction. Sarah’s most intriguing when she’s an accidental monster, part of her power a certain inherent narcissism that allows her to act on impulse but also to be blithely unrecognizing of the reactions of others when she’s caught up in her own feelings. She and Jonathan have a cute and sometimes cutesy courtship (one Mohan likes to mark with periodic shots of their feet), but it’s when he stands up to her and demands to know what it is about intimacy she’s so afraid of, and when Andrew has his own showdown with Beth, that the film really coheres. That’s when it delineates how the very qualities that can be appealing in someone can also be problematic. Mohan’s film may not manage anything out of the ordinary, but it does present a convincingly contemporary depiction of relationships and dating when the goalposts have been moved, or when we’re at least trying to pretend they have. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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‘She just sounded like she was from a different world,’ Stewart tells MTV News about her character’s speech. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Kristen Stewart Photo: MTV News
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‘Never say never,’ Andy Serkis tells MTV News of his character’s future with the Peter Jackson films. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Gollum in “The Hobbit” Photo: MGM
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