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Natalie Portman had never seen a ‘Star Wars’ film until she was cast in the franchise. The 42-year-old actress played Padme Amidala in 1999 prequel 'The Phantom Menace' and its 2002 and 2005 sequels, and though she was “aware of the lingo” of the sci-fi world, she hadn’t actually sat through any of the original trilogy. She admitted to Radio Times magazine: “I didn’t know the films at all before I was cast! “I was aware of the lingo, as American culture is so immersed in ‘Star Wars’. “Even if you’ve never seen the movies, you know what Princess Leia buns are, what a lightsaber is, what a Jedi ...
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Natalie Portman finds all sex scenes "uncomfortable". The 42-year-old actress stars in the sex scandal drama 'May December' as the actress Elizabeth Berry, who is studying the real-life subject of her next movie; Julianne Moore's character Gracie Atherton-Yoo, who is caught having sex in a pet store stockroom with Joe, her co-worker, played by Charles Melton, when he was just 13. The movie takes a dark turn when a creepy voice tells Elizabeth through the mirror: “You’re … Gracie." And Natalie says there was "good, open communication" between the co-stars before they filmed the sex scene. She t...
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Todd Haynes doesn't target "the mainstream" with his films. The 62-year-old director has helmed movies such as 'Far from Heaven' and 'May December' and thinks that his work is diverse as it originates "from the margins". Todd told the Guardian newspaper: "People have definitely put my films into thematic through-lines: films that deal with domestic stories and female subjects in one category, and films that deal with artists and musicians in another. "In both, I'm interested in places where identity is called into question by circumstances or by artistic practices. "But I think the thing that ...
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Natalie Portman finds the late Audrey Hepburn’s charity work “inspirational”. The 42-year-old actress has expressed her admiration for the ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ star - who passed away in 1993 aged 63 - for swapping the “glamour” and “allure” of Hollywood to work as an anti-poverty campaigner after cementing a name for herself as an activist. Speaking before the strike be actors union SAG-AFTRA, the 42-year-old actress told the UK edition of Readers Digest: “Audrey Hepburn is one of the most inspirational people to me because she left acting to go work with UNICEF. "I just saw a compilation ...
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Todd Haynes finds Julianne Moore's work "fascinating". The 62-year-old director's latest movie, 'May December', marks the fifth time he has worked with the Oscar-winning actress because they share similar interests when it comes to the themes of their work, and he is always impressed by what she brings to the screen. Speaking to Deadline's Breaking Baz column, Todd gushed: “Oh, she’s singular in so many ways. “There’s this interaction between something transparent and inexplicable, impenetrable about her … or not impenetrable, but there’s an interplay between something that you can’t entirely ...
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Todd Haynes is still desperate to make his Peggy Lee biopic 'Fever'. The 62-year-old director had been set to make a movie that featured Michelle Williams as the legendary singer before the project was scrapped last year for financial reasons, although he is refusing to give up hope that it will eventually come to the big screen. Todd told IndieWire at the New York Film Festival: "When it couldn't happen – when we thought it could happen and it was close to pre-production – it was tough. "It's still a tender spot for all of us. We really put so much time and thought into it. And then I just ha...
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Joaquin Phoenix is set to star in a new NC-17-rated gay romance movie. The 'Beau is Afraid' actor will star in 'Far From Heaven' director Todd Haynes' upcoming new project, which the filmmaker has described as a "gay love story" set in Los Angeles in the 1930s. Speaking during Cannes Film Festival, he told IndieWire: "The next film is a feature that’s an original script that I developed with Joaquin Phoenix based on some thoughts and ideas he brought to me. “We basically wrote with him as a story writer. Me and Jon Raymond and Joaquin share the story credit. "And we hope to be shooting it begi...
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Alessandro Nivola is in talks to join the cast of 'Fever'. The 49-year-old actor looks set to star alongside Michelle Williams in the Peggy Lee biopic – that has been set up at MGM and will be directed by Todd Haynes. Alessandro will play the role of Dave Barbour, the talented guitarist who worked with and eventually married Peggy before his death as a result of alcoholism. The script has been penned by Doug Wright with Reese Witherspoon, Marc Platt, Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon all producing the movie for their Killer Films production banner. The project had previously been in developm...
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Michelle Williams will play Peggy Lee in the biopic 'Fever'. The 40-year-old actress has been approached to play the musician in the film, which is being directed by Todd Haynes. According to Deadline, MGM are in talks to board the project with Doug Wright penning the screenplay. Reese Witherspoon, Marc Platt, Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon are producing the movie for their Killer Films production banner. It is also understood that Billie Eilish, her mother Maggie Baird and record label partner Justin Lubliner have expressed an interest in the project and in early talks to board the flick...
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