Another weekend with no nudity at the multiplex—though that’s sure to change the last two weekends of this month—but the stars of this weekend’s films have done some great nudity in their careers! Hit the jump for more pics and info…
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Movie Nudity Report: This Weekend’s Actresses & Their Best Nude Roles
In theaters this week you can see Kristen Stewart ‘s nude debut on the silver screen thanks to a limited release of On the Road (2012). Also opening is Judd Apatow ’s skintroversial sequel to Knocked Up , This is 40 (2012), featuring Leslie Mann ’s naked knockers with the possibility of CGI nipples. Finally, Naomi Watts endures a natural disaster in The Impossible (2012), but seeing her nips is anything but impossible since they flash onscreen in three scenes. More after the jump!
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Movie Nudity Report: On the Road, This is 40, The Impossible
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Charismatic, easy on the eyes and exuding charm, actor Garrett Hedlund magnifies many of the hypnotic traits of the the person he plays in Walter Salles ‘ On the Road . Magnetic, intelligent and a wild side that became the inspiration and fascination of Beat author Jack Kerouac, the adventures and misadventures Neal Cassady inspired became a pivotal nucleus for the novel On the Road , considered one of the most important works of literature in post-war era America. [ Related: Kristen Stewart Goes ‘On The Road’ & Chats Up Her Racy Role ] Neal Cassady also had a dark side in the form of booze, drugs, many women and even dabbling in other sexual dalliances unspoken about in the conservative mores of the period. Talking about On the Road and the real-life characters behind it involves the necessity of a roadmap itself since Kerouac changed their names. In the film, directed by Walter Salles, Hedlund plays the book’s Dean Moriarty, aka Neal Cassady, while Kerouac assigned himself the name Sal Paradise. Kristen Stewart stars as Marylou (LuAnne Henderson), the former wife and frequent lover of Dean, while Kirsten Dunst plays Camille (Carolyn Cassady), the second wife and mother of Dean’s children. Shot over 100,000 kilometers and with years of research heading into the project, the film based on the Beat Generation bible finally made good on numerous failed adaptation attempts in the past. The pic features Sam Riley ( Control ) as Sal, who falls under the spell of the intoxicating Dean Moriarty, who himself chases around America for freedom and the elusive ” It .” Sal, Dean and sometimes Marylou and others travel around the country indulging in drink, drugs, sex, fast driving and the whims of a youthfulness hellbent on not conforming to post-WWII America. While their behavior may still shock some now, it would have been next to impossible to produce decades ago. Indeed Francis Ford Coppola picked up the rights to the book way back in 1979 and it took another few decades for him to hand it to Walter Salles to direct. Many reasons ultimately delayed the movie version of On the Road , but sex and booze on the big screen were most certainly no-gos in the ’50s and Hedlund’s character Dean embraced vice as a simple by-product of life. Garrett Hedlund spoke with ML about Neal Cassady/Dean Moriarty and On the Road taking pains to care for a character he clearly admires. He talks about his own experience getting to know On the Road , Dean’s complicated, unconventional relationship with Marylou and what he hopes newcomers to the novel will discover after seeing the movie. On the Road novel is often characterized as a cultural watershed moment though the real people and lives depicted in the book, of course, didn’t realize that at the time. How do you look at it as someone who grew up a few generations later? I think it’s built up bigger and bigger over the years. The Beat Generation – that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the ’70s. Hype is built and established and people link it back to a certain generation, in this case the ’40s and ’50s. Now everyone knows that that group was the Beat Generation. At the time though, that was something Kerouac described [in passing] and it was then that a fellow put the [label] on it and said, ‘this is what we’re going through now’. But Kerouac was just drunk in a bar when he first said [Beat Generation]. It’s everything from the jazz and the music to the beat and he’d even write to a beat. His method of typing on a typewriter almost simulated someone playing the keys on a saxophone. These guys were all great minds and thinking alike and writing in the style of their communication. So with these guys, Ginsberg and Kerouac and others, their thoughts were conveyed onto paper and it was just about getting it out at the pace of their thoughts and forget about format. In the present time you don’t really establish what you’re going through, but after time it’s declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we’re not aware of. This could be the “in-between the notes generation…” But the Beats were just a new era coming out of swing that was identified in a post war, conservative era. They went the opposite way on what was a one-way street. How familiar were you with On the Road and how did you come to play Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady)? I read the book at a young age and then looked up more about it and saw that Francis Ford Coppola was to direct it and I thought, ‘awe man, the director of The God Father , Apocalypse Now ,’ but I was 17 and living in Arizona at the time, then I moved to L.A. and got some success in films and then a few years later I met Walter [Salles]. When you read the book as an aspiring writer and going through the desire to engage in creative writing, world literature and journalism, I was grabbing every book I could to study different styles between F. Scott Fitzgerald and how he was brought up and wrote and J.D. Salinger and how he was brought up and wrote and becoming a recluse. Then I was introduced to Kerouac and became familiar with this whole spontaneous prose. [Kerouac’s] The Town in the City which, was really inspired by Neal Cassady, was so inspired by this style of writing in which you just capture your thought and that inspired his style for On the Road . The way he captured Neal/Dean shows how magnetic he is. He’s infectious and the ladies just love him and guys just want to be around him. His intellect and memory was astounding. People [who knew them] would recall that Kerouac was the one with the great memory but then some would say he was the one with the note pad. Neal could rap off all kinds of statistics and observations and ideas about the world he was in. Neal also aspired to be a writer but was also the guy with all the mischievousness, stealing all kinds of cars before he was even 15. Neal/Dean was such a charismatic personality as you say. Sal/Jack wanted to be around him. Marylou, his ex-wife and sometimes lover, stayed with him throughout his life and he had a knack for charming a crowd. How did he manage to carry that and how did you capture that for the film? The guy had a wonderful wild side. That wild side had less boundaries than most people have within themselves and an openness that is more accepting than most people would allow themselves. In the book, he monologues on about knowing America and its people and it comes from all the experiences of all those rambunctious years. How would you describe the relationship between Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, a.k.a. Dean and Sal? Dean and Sal were brothers who didn’t know which of them was responsible for the love in their relationship. Neal’s wife, Carolyn [Cassady], was quoted saying that neither of them knew how much the other one loved the other. Each thought they were the one giving that love and they never knew how the other felt. In a way they were so complimentary as well. They both lost their fathers and needed somebody. Having someone like Sal who takes the time to record everything being said and Dean who is someone who speaks and is so quotable and wild and educated – they were the dream pair. Someone who is as intelligent as Dean could have someone follow him and take them on adventures and even if none of that gets published, it would make for a great diary. And then, how would you describe the relationship between Dean and Marylou? That is a relationship that people watching this movie so many decades later may still find unsettling. I like to think in a way that Marylou is almost like the female Dean in a way. She knew what she was in for and that’s why she stuck around with these guys – and also why she left them. She left Dean in New York to go back to her sailor. Dean leaves her in Denver to go back to Camille in San Francisco and there was a similar acceptance of freedom and lack of [rules]. But there was so much love in that relationship. They continued to communicate all the way up until he passed away. And unfortunately, she passed away just months before we started filming. But we got to meet a bunch of her family members including her daughter who loved her mom so much and her niece. When I met her niece in San Francisco toward the end of shooting it was awkward, but almost in a good way. Her hair was a similar color to how you imagined Marylou’s to be and I was playing Dean who is a person she’s been surrounded by all her life. On the Road is a big part of these people’s lives and to see her looking how we imagine her aunt to almost look like was surreal. Carolyn Cassady (the character Camille in the film) came out and we had dinner the second to last day of filming. We had to get up at 5am, but she could always go for another drink, so Sam [Riley] and I went with her arm and arm up to [frequent Beat Generation haunt] Vesuvio’s in San Francisco right by City Lights Bookstore and she hadn’t been there since going there with them many years ago. Just sitting there with her – I wish I had the camera [working] on my iPhone. The sole of her shoe had come off while we were walking, and this might sound disgusting, but I took off my boot and had my wardrobe socks still on and I took the sock off and put it on her shoes so she could continue walking. She’s in her late 80s now. It was a wonderful moment… Dean is a set of contradictions. He’s a forward thinking enlightened soul but also there’s these misogynistic elements to him, would you agree? Yeah, I mean. Hmmm. Marylou did know what was going on. Just as much as she wanted to be with Dean, she also wanted to be with Sal. Going to New York, she knew he would be fooling around with women at the bars and she said that it’s only fair that she gets to be with other men too. Neal said ‘it’s fine with me as long as you don’t mess with Al Hinkle.’ [Hinkle is the only male character from On the Road alive today]. He actually told me that story and said he didn’t know why he happened to be the one he mentioned, but he had heard it while pretending to be asleep in the back of the car. So with the Camille (Carolyn Cassady) side of it, he wanted to be with her because of respectability. Camille was also incredibly intellectual and when he had his first daughter with her, he had the family he was longing for. And now he had the ability and the desire to provide for them and got a job on the rail and at a tire shop and he worked long hours to provide. John Cassady expressed to me big time how wonderful of a father he was and when he came home from work, all three of them would grab on to his bicep and he would lift them all up. There were lots of stories from them. Stories of sadness or of adventure that were not as careless as On the Road sometimes makes him seem. They were very touching. How do you think audiences should approach seeing On the Road today? I hope they’ll want to pick up On the Road afterward. A lot of these family members don’t get credit for the lives they’ve lived. Carolyn Cassady took the famous photograph of Neal and Kerouac and she doesn’t see a dime from any of this stuff. She has a wonderful book Off the Road that is the female perspective of what she went through and it’s beautiful. If women think they’re in a tough relationship – then, well, read Off the Road [laughs]. Carolyn said when asked, ‘What would you tell girls these days?’ She said, ‘Well for one, jealousy is stupid.’ I just hope they will read On the Road and other Beat material and discover people beyond Kerouac like Ginsberg, Burroughs and others and explore. [ IFC Films opens On The Road beginning Friday, December 21st]
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Garrett Hedlund Really, Really Loves The Character He Plays In ‘On The Road’
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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Kristen Stewart Goes ‘On The Road’ & Chats Up Her Racy Role
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If you’ve ever fantasized that Kristen Stewart invited you to bed by saying, “Hop in, water’s fine,” well, this is a trailer for your permanent collection. The actress and her Bohemian behavior in On The Road get prime placement — there’s even a quick glimpse of her talked-about double hand-job scene — along with co-stars Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley , in this just-released trailer for Walter Salles adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel. Although the trio appears to get the most screen time, the fast-paced clip does a good job of introducing most of the name cast members, including Kirsten Dunst , Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams , Elisabeth Moss and Alice Braga. The film gets a limited released on Dec. 21 if the world doesn’t end along with the Mayan calendar. You can also head over to iTunes to download the trailer — for your permanent collection. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
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WATCH: Kristen Stewart’s Come-Hither Invitation Sexes Up Fast-Moving ‘On The Road’ Trailer
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To cast Sergeant Calhoun, the no-nonsense video game heroine with a heart in Wreck-It Ralph , director Rich Moore looked no further than Hollywood’s favorite ball-busting dynamite gal: Jane Lynch . Alongside John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and a cast of fellow character actors and comic veterans, Lynch brings Calhoun to life with pathos and dimension, not to mention a burning passion for blasting evil space bugs into pixelated oblivion. Movieline sat down with Lynch to talk Wreck-It Ralph , the fun of bringing Calhoun to life, and how the film’s deeper themes of self-determination and destiny resonated with the once-aspiring actress who left home to pursue her dreams. But first, the whip-smart Glee fave spitballed an impromptu back story for her space warrior alter ego, known in the film only as Sergeant Calhoun… Only after watching the movie did I learn that your character’s full name is Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun. How much of a life before the game within the movie did you imagine for her? Tamora Jean. Tammy Jean! Get out of town. I’m going to write a whole story about her right now: She grew up as Tammy Jean in Alabama, and when she joined the military right after high school she said, “I’m no longer Tammy Jean – I’m not even Tamora Jean. I’m just Calhoun !” You know, there was a back story for my character that is revealed in the film; she was in love, and her husband-to-be was killed by the Cy-Bugs. Cy-Bugs! Her mortal enemy ! I wasn’t sure if anyone involved had seen MacGruber , but MacGruber shared a similar fate. With Will Forte? I love him. I wonder if we ripped it off from him… Did it mean a lot to you to be a part of a Disney film like this? How did you get the call to voice Calhoun? It was huge working with Disney – I mean, to be in a Disney animated film was so preposterous it wasn’t even on my bucket list. So that was a huge thing. Then John Lasseter, who heads up Disney Animation these days, invited me and Jack [McBrayer] and Sarah [Silverman] and a bunch of other great character actors to fly up to San Francisco about two and a half years ago to do a table read. It was like a field trip, we all met at the airport and jumped on a plane, then jumped on a bus… We spent the day with John and within six months we were recording here in L.A. They showed us a rough rendering of our characters and everything involved; Richard, our director, has been working on this for four years. He’s been in a little cave literally for four years and is just now seeing the light of day. Researching arcade games must have been more fun than your average movie prep work. I learned a lot about this world because I’m not a gamer, and am still not a gamer. But the whole world of the arcade, that resonates with a lot of kids. It’s geared toward children of today who know games like Call of Duty, which Hero’s Duty is based on, but there’s a lot more for the now-grown adults who played 8-bit games as children decades ago. Were those games in your life at all when you were a kid? Not a lot. I think I played Pac-Man a couple of times and I played Asteroids in college, but not obsessively or anything. Just at the bar. Your character is, interestingly enough, one of the only representations in Wreck-It Ralph of modern gaming – she’s the heroine of a first-person shooter called Hero’s Duty , and one of the sole female characters in this male-dominated world. But she’s also got a soft core inside that Jack’s character, Fix-It Felix, is able to find . He fixes my heart! And he doesn’t even need to use his magic hammer. No, just by looking at me with the honey glow. “Well, I’m getting the honey glow!” You two have so many great lines; were they all written beforehand or did you slide in some improvisation? They were all written, so I can’t take credit for them. We did improvise a little bit because I got to work with Jack in the sessions, but not a lot, but that always brings the chemistry element into it. Rich really loved that and the stuff we did in those sessions, he used it all. My favorite Calhoun line is “Flattery doesn’t charge these batteries.” I might try to use that in real life, maybe in a bar situation. Go for it! [Laughs] The big theme in this film for Ralph is that he’s turning 30 years old, facing a life crisis. He’s turning 30! I’d never looked at it that way – I’ve been going into adulthood, have been doing the same thing for 30 years and now I’ve got to shake it up. Wondering if you’re on the right path in life, or if that’s even something you can change – is that something you feel you can relate to? Oh, yeah. More about when you’re 20 and stuff like that, but when you’re going into 30 there’s a certain set of expectations that you should be into your adult life now, you should be into your purpose, and a lot of people aren’t. And, you know – should’ve, would’ve. Who knows when the right time is for that? But I think Ralph is at a point where he’s been doing the same thing over and over for years, how many times a day, countless times a day, and he’s not getting any appreciation for it. He’s not enjoying it. He’s not getting invited to any of the parties; he sleeps in the garbage dump. It’s awful. So he says, “You know what? I’m not going to do this anymore.” He thinks being a hero is about getting a medal, but he finds out that being a hero is all about his relationships. He meets Vanellope and cares about her and champions her, and he comes back to where he started, like Tennyson says, and it’s like he’s seeing it for the very first time. Everybody appreciates him now because when he left the game fell apart; he’s like the prodigal son. He takes pride in his work and he knows it’s not about a medal. I love the end of the movie; I burst into tears at that moment. Have you had any Ralph-like moments of revelation in your own life? Getting out of my hometown; going to college was what everybody did, but when I went to graduate school I didn’t have any support for that. Wanting to be an actress, it was like, find something you can do and learn to type. I got offered a scholarship to Cornell to go to graduate school and although my parents were like, “Wow! That’s really great,” they were like, “Theater? Theater ?” I was like, I’m going to do it anyway. I hopped on a train and went to Ithaca, New York. I worked to make money and was given a fellowship, and I taught a class in order to make money, but I did it on my own. What did you teach? Acting. It was part of my fellowship. I think we made $120 a week or something, but it was enough. It was enough in those days, anyway, to pay my rent and keep me in beer and coffee. The essentials! So I think we all have those things where we go, you know what – I’m not getting a lot of support here for this, but I just have to go. I have to go do what I need to do, and I have to take the chance. I can’t take one more day of being in the doldrums because that hurts too much. That’s what I love about this film; these are games, but they’re such metaphors for life. You’re playing your game, but you can “jump” your game. Wreck-It Ralph is in theaters; read along as Movieline gets way existential with star John C. Reilly here . Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Jane Lynch Talks Sgt. Calhoun And Her Own ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Journey
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Kristen Stewart has a big Grauman’s Chinese Theater Hollywood premiere this weekend and vampires are no factor. That didn’t stopping legions of teens to line Hollywood Blvd to catch a glimpse of Stewart (and who knows who else) who is starring along with Garrett Hedlund , Sam Riley , Kirsten Dunst , Amy Adams and Steve Buscemi in Walter Salles ‘ stunning On the Road , screening as a Centerpiece Gala at AFI Fest where it is having its U.S. premiere. In the film version of one of the most celebrated works of 20th Century American literature written by Jack Kerouac, Stewart plays the unconventional free-spirit 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. Stewart spoke with ML during the Toronto International Film Festival where the film had its North American premiere. She shared thoughts on her character’s “hard love,” how she grew herself being a part of the film and how this was the “biggest experience” she’s felt on a set. 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 bring 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. How do you hope your Twilight fans will approach seeing this movie? Undoubtedly some 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.
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Kristen Stewart Shares How ‘On The Road’ Helped Her Be Unabashedly Herself
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AFI Fest is fast approaching and the event unveiled Centerpiece Gala and Special Screenings details with Ang Lee ‘s Life of Pi (3-D) and Walter Salles ‘ On the Road on tap for their West Coast debuts. Peter Ramsey’s Rise of the Guardians and Jacques Audiard ‘s Rust and Bone will also debut. Bone star Marion Cotillard will receive a tribute during the festival, taking place November 1 – 8. All galas will take place at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. A number of Toronto premieres will be presented as Special Screenings at AFI Fest. Eight titles including The Central Park Five , Ginger and Rosa , Holy Motors , The Impossible , Quartet , Room 237 , TIFF winner Silver Linings Playbook and West of Memphis will screen in the section. As previously announced, the World Premiere of Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock will open AFI Fest, while Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln will close out the event. For the fourth year, AFI Fest will off free tickets for all of its screenings (though packages are available to ensure reserved seats for Galas). AFI Fest 2012 Galas with descriptions provided by the event: Opening Night Gala: Hitchcock : The love story between the iconic filmmaker and his wife, Alma Reville, during the filming of PSYCHO in 1959. DIR Sacha Gervasi. SCR John J. McLaughlin. CAST Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel, Michael Stuhlbarg, James D’Arcy, Michael Wincott, Richard Portnow, Kurtwood Smith. USA. World Premiere. Thursday, November 1, 7:00 p.m., Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Centerpiece Galas: Life of Pi in 3D: Director Ang Lee ( Brokeback Mountain , Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ) creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with another survivor – a fearsome Bengal tiger. DIR Ang Lee. SCR David Magee. CAST Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu. USA. Friday, November 2, 7:30 p.m., Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. On the Road : Jack Kerouac’s seminal pseudo-autobiography arrives on the big screen at the intersection of fact and fiction. DIR Walter Salles. SCR Jose Rivera, Jack Kerouac. CAST Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Alice Bragga, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortenson. France/UK/USA/Brazil. Saturday, November 3, 8:00 p.m., Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Rise of the Guardians in 3D: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Sandman and Jack Frost are The Guardians – legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities charged with protecting children everywhere from an evil spirit’s attempt to take over the world. DIR Peter Ramsey. SCR David Lindsay-Abaire. CAST Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, Jude Law. USA. Sunday, November 4, 4:00 p.m., Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Rust and Bone (De Rouille Et D’Os) featuring A Tribute to Marion Cotillard: An unusual love story between a back alley boxer and a woman who has suffered a profound loss. DIR Jacques Audiard. SCR Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain. CAST Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Celine Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, Jean-Michel Correia. France/Belgium. Monday, November 5, 7:30 p.m., Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Closing Night Gala: Lincoln : Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln , a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come. DIR Steven Spielberg. SCR Tony Kushner. CAST Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones. USA. World Premiere. Thursday, November 8, 7:00 p.m., Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Special Screenings: Silver Linings Playbook : When a history teacher is cuckolded by his wife and a co-worker, he goes ballistic, lands in jail, then moves in with his sports-obsessed parents. DIR David O. Russell. SCR David O. Russell, Matthew Quick. CAST Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, Julia Stiles, John Ortiz, Paul Herman, Dash Mihok, Shea Whigham. USA. Friday, November 2, 8:00 p.m., Rigler, Egyptian. The Central Park Five : Ken Burns’ documentary about what was known as the crime of century showcases a group of teenagers who were forced to give false confessions and were wrongfully convicted for raping and beating New York City jogger Trisha Meili. DIR/SCR Sarah Burns, Ken Burns, David McMahon. Saturday, November 3, 3:30 p.m., Rigler, Egyptian. Holy Motors : Denis Lavant plays Mr. Oscar, a shadowy figure who inhabits many roles while fulfilling assignments from inside a white limousine in Léos Carax’s beguiling work. DIR/SCR Léos Carax. CAST Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue. France/Germany. Saturday, November 3, 7:00 p.m., Rigler, Egyptian. The Impossible : A family is swept up in the monumental turmoil of the 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami along with thousands of strangers. DIR Juan Antonio Bayona. SCR Sergio G. Sánchez. CAST Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast, Marta Etura, Sönke Möhring, Geraldine Chaplin. Spain/USA. Sunday, November 4, 8:30 p.m., Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Room 237 : Rodney Asher’s documentary delves into the symbols and messages hidden within Stanley Kubrick’s acclaimed film, THE SHINING, revealing more secrets after 30 years. DIR Rodney Ascher. CAST Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns, John Fell Ryan, Jay Weidner. USA. Sunday, November 4, 9:00 p.m., Chinese 1. Quartet : A birthday concert for Verdi at a home for retired opera singers is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, a diva and former wife of one of the residents. DIR Dustin Hoffman in his directorial debut. SCR Ronald Harwood. CAST Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Michael Gambon. UK. Sunday, November 4, 9:00 p.m., Rigler, Egyptian. Ginger and Rosa : As the Cold War meets the sexual revolution in 1960s London, the lifelong friendship of two teenage girls (Elle Fanning, Alice Englert) is shattered by ideological differences and personal betrayals. DIR/SCR Sally Potter. CAST Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Annette Bening, Oliver Platt, Timothy Spall, Jodhi May. UK/Denmark. Wednesday, November 7, 8:00 p.m., Chinese 1. West of Memphis : Amy Berg’s film casts a light on the brutal murder of three young boys and the 18-year struggle to exonerate the teenagers who were convicted of the crimes. DIR Amy Berg. SCR Billy McMilin, Amy Berg. CAST Damien Echols; Lorri Davis; Jason Baldwin; Jessie Misskelley, Jr.; Pam Hicks. USA. Date, time and venue TBC.
Sounds like Kristen Stewart is really getting into her post- Twilight freedom : ” He puts so much inside of you…Once we got on set, it was so about just breathing and letting it happen. He put so much trust in us, so it was like, ‘Okay, so I have to take my clothes off?’ It’s so not a big [deal] .” You’d be forgiven for thinking she’s referring to her Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) director Rupert Sanders (Google it, geez), but that’s Kristen telling MTV News about her experience working with director Walter Salles in On the Road (2012), the upcoming Jack Kerouac adaptation that also happens to feature K-stew’s nude debut (above). Could that freewheeling Beat spirit be rubbing off on the usually moody Twilight (2008) star? Speaking of beats, we’ve got some rubbing off to do… On the Road hits theaters in the US on January 1, but you can get a sneak peek with sexy pics and clips of Kristen Stewart right here at MrSkin.com!
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Kristen Stewart Was Really, Really Into Her On the Road Topless Scene [PIC]
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Kristen Stewart said that the sex scenes and the nudity weren’t the difficult part of playing Marylou in On The Road . Rather it was her character’s emotional openness. “She loved so openly — and that’s hard ,” Stewart said of Lu Anne Henderson. She also referred to her character, who Neal Cassady married when she was just 15, as “a bottomless pit” — presumably a reference to her emotional capacity — who would have been “ahead of her time even now.” (For more photos of Stewart, check out our Toronto Film Festival photo gallery .) Stewart, who wore a sparkly floral dress and black high-tops, seemed her usual intense and uncomfortable self as she spoke during an extremely brief Q&A session that followed the movie. But the more she spoke about Henderson, the more animated the actress became, particularly when she said that Henderson, in spirit, “was so fucking there for me” on the set. The second and last question asked of her came from a fan, who drew winces when, in the spirit of On the Road , she asked Stewart where she’d choose to go if she could go anywhere. After taking a half-hearted stab at answering the question, the actress finally said, “I don’t know, dude.” Judging from the polite applause that followed the screening, the crowd liked but didn’t love On the Road, which, thanks in part to its source material, felt aimless at times. That said, the performances by Stewart, Garret Hedlund, who plays Cassady doppelganger, Dean Moriarty, and Sam Riley, who essentially plays Kerouac, are strong. Stewart doesn’t have a lot of lines, but she brings a sultry radiance to the screen that is impossible to ignore. I don’t know if this performance is going to net her an Oscar nomination, but it’s clear that she’s got the right stuff. As for the sex scenes, the most envelope-pushing performance of the film belongs not to Stewart but to Steve Buscemi who is depicted taking it up the bum from Hedlund. Well, you wanted to know, didn’t you? Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
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Kristen Stewart Tells Toronto Her Character’s Ability To ‘Love So Openly’ Was Difficult, Nude Scenes Not So Much
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