MEET MARTIN SCORSESE AND LEONARDO DiCAPRIO
Golden Globe winners Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, who have already talked with Hollywood Foreign Press members about their close collaboration, are getting together again to discuss it at the American Cinematheque.
The director and actor, who have made four films together, will be having a conversation about their work as the Egyptian Theatre screens their four films—Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed and Shutter Island beginning on Saturday.
Marty, whose Film Foundation has received nearly two million dollars in grants from the HFPA for film restoration projects, is in London filming his first 3D feature, Hugo Cabret, so he will be talking by satellite with Leo, who will soon begin filming his role as J. Edgar Hoover for Clint Eastwood.
Here’s what they told the Hollywood Foreign Press about each other:
Marty on Leo: “I keep pushing him and keep asking, to the point sometimes where he’ll look at me and say, ‘You know, I don’t know what I’m doing anymore.’ I say, ‘Fine, let’s do it again.’ And I realise then that all his defences are down and something real is going to happen. I mean something internally, emotionally and psychologically truthful. He’s remarkable; he’s young and he really seems to have a range that’s going to get deeper and stronger.”
Leo on Marty: “What Martin Scorsese does best is depict something about humanity and who we are as people. He focuses on the emotions of the characters, so as much as style plays a part of it, his stories are about who we are as people.”
Marty won Golden Globes for directing Gangs of New York and The Departed and was this year’s recipient of the Cecil B. De Mille Award.
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KRISTEN BELL: NO PLANS TO MARRY – YET
At just 5ft 2in Kristen Bell knows all too well the pluses and minuses of being petite.
“It’s easy to fit into a Prius, it’s easy to fit on a plane, I don’t have knee problems and people are generally nicer to you if you’re smaller,” she told HFPA members when she met them recently in Beverly Hills.
But on the other hand height poses problems when she’s out with her boyfriend, the 6ft tall actor Dax Shepherd. “It’s tough taking pictures with him because he’s so tall and unless you have a really wide frame you’re not going to get both our heads in,” she laughed.
Kristen, who made her name playing a gifted but mentally unstable woman in the television series Heroes and is now a major movie star thanks to roles in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Couples Retreat, Get Him to the Greek and the high school comedy You Again, has been engaged to Dax for nearly a year but, she says, she has no plans to marry.
“I come from a very traditional household and for a while I thought a marriage certificate was important but the older I get the more I see how little it means because the piece of paper is not going to make you act any differently, nor is the ring for that matter. What matters is choosing to respect the person you’re with and if you have a ring and all the pieces of paper in the world it doesn’t mean you’re going to get along if you don’t put the work in.”
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JANET JACKSON’S HOLIDAYS ALL ABOUT FAMILY
With Thanksgiving and the holiday season approaching, most Americans are planning parties and celebrations. But not Janet Jackson. The youngest sibling of the pop music dynasty tells Hollywood Foreign Press members that her family does not believe in parties.
“My family is different,” says 44-year-old Janet, who co-stars in Tyler Perry’s movie For Coloured Girls. “We grew up as Jehovah’s Witnesses so we didn’t grow up celebrating Thanksgiving or Halloween or Easter or even birthdays.
“The first time I ever had a birthday party was when I was 23 and it was a surprise and I was so embarrassed. I was on the Rhythm Tour and I had never experienced having a birthday party ever before.”
The Jacksons, do, however, celebrate family reunions. “They try to get everyone together over Thanksgiving for what they call Family Day,” she says. “It’s hard getting all of us together because there’s so many of us. But we do pretty well.”
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INS TO RACHEL McADAMS: STOP MAKING ‘STUPID MOVIES’
Actress Rachel McAdams, whose latest film Morning Glory was screened for the HFPA this week, has revealed how she was told to stop making ‘stupid movies’ by an immigration official as she tried to enter America.
The 31-year-old Canadian born star, who will be meeting HFPA members in New York this weekend, was also criticised for her pink hair colour by the abusive agent.
‘She kicked me to the curb,’ Adams told the New York Times.
‘She was tough. I had pink hair at the time, and she said “Don’t dye your hair that colour and don’t make any more stupid movies”.’
The confrontation came as McAdams attempted to enter the US from her native Canada.
Although she had a ‘green card’ that allows her to work and live in the US she still had to go through immigration control.
McAdams said she was too polite to ask the official what films she was referring to, telling the New York Times: “I was just glad she let me through”.’
More importantly, her fans and Hollywood seem to disagree with the immigration official.
McAdams has several films coming out in the next couple of months. Morning Glory, co-starring Harrison Ford being the first set for release November 10.
Read More »MATT DAMON WANTS TO STAY CLOSE TO HOME
A new Jason Bourne thriller, The Bourne Legacy, is in the works at Universal and like the other Bourne adventures it will be filmed in locations across Europe—but it is unlikely to star Matt Damon.
The 40-year-old actor, who starred in the previous three Bourne films, has told HFPA members that he is looking for projects that will keep him close to home so that he can spend more time with his family.
“I tend to look for things to shoot in the area as much as possible,” said Matt, who lives in New York with his Argentinian-born wife Luciana and their four children.
“Alexia, my 12-year-old, and Isabella, my four-year-old, are both in school here and Alexia is starting to have a social life so we can’t just pick up and move to Europe for a year like we did in the past, as wonderful as that experience was for the kids,” he said.
Matt, who has two other daughters, Gia, 2, and Stella, who was born last month, recently finished filming True Grit for the Coen brothers and is currently working on the thriller Contagion, which also stars Kate Winslet and Jude Law and is being directed by Steven Soderbergh.
The Bourne Legacy will be written and directed by Tony Gilroy, who wrote the screenplays for the previous Bourne movies.
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COURTNEY COX TALKS ABOUT SEPARATION
When former Friends star Courtney Cox decided to talk for the first time about her struggle to deal with her recent separation from her husband of 11 years David Arquette, she chose to meet and discuss it with the Hollywood Foreign Press.“He’s a kook,” she said of her husband, who revealed to Howard Stern that he had cried after he had sex with another woman after separating from Cox. “It wasn’t shocking to me.”
Courtney, 46, who stars in the TV series Cougar Town, added: “I feel I have been in a whirlwind. It’s all new and I don’t know how it’s going to turn out. Now that we are separated there is a big adjustment.”
Talking with HFPA members at the Four Seasons Hotel, she said that she and 39-year-old Arquette, who met on the set of the film Scream in 1996, still see each other regularly for the sake of their six year old daughter Coco.
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DANIEL RADCLIFFE’S TEARFUL GOODBYE TO HARRY POTTER
Now filming has wrapped on the last of the Harry Potter films and with Part One of The Deathly Hallows due for release on the 19th of this month, Daniel Radcliffe has talked of the cast’s tearful farewells on the last day of shooting.
“I was devastated and so upset that I cried,” he told HFPA members. “We all did. I’ve never seen Rupert Grint cry in my life before but he did. It was a very emotional day because for the last ten years my day-to-day life has been going into work and seeing those people.”
Part One ends with Voldemart getting possession of the Elder Wand and Part Two, which will be released on July 15 next year, leads to a massive battle at Hogwart’s and Harry’s final confrontation with the Dark Lord.
The six Potter films have earned more than $5.4 billion worldwide, making it the highest grossing global franchise in film history—-Star Wars beats it domestically but just barely.
Daniel Radcliffe, 21, is keeping busy without Harry Potter. He is currently filming the spooky suspense thriller The Woman In Black and is taking dance lessons in readiness for his appearance on Broadway next year in the musical How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
“I’m apprehensive but very excited,” he said.
Watch the official preview below!
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MICHELLE WILLIAMS TO PORTRAY GOLDEN GLOBE ICON MARILYN MONROE
Trademark Films and The Weinstein Company have announced that principal photography has started on My Week with Marilyn for seven weeks at Pinewood Studios and on location in and around London.
Michelle Williams who got a Golden Globe nomination for her supporting role in Brokeback Mountain (2006) plays Marilyn Monroe.
The iconic Marilyn Monroe has been nominated twice by the HFPA: Bus Stop, 1957 and Some Like it Hot, 1962 for which she won a Golden Globe for her Leading Role in a Musical or Comedy.
The film My Week with Marilyn chronicles a week in the life of Marilyn Monroe in which she escapes the shackles of her Hollywood career and embraces British life with a 23-year-old assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe.
Watch below a tribute of Marilyn Monroe at the 1962 Golden Globe Awards.
HILARY SWANK’S INSPIRING BOOKSHELF
The Golden Globes on HiIary Swank’s bookshelf remind her daily of her good fortune in being offered such powerful, award-winning roles.
“I look at my Golden Globes and other awards on my bookshelf as I walk by them every day and I’m in awe of the fact that I get the opportunities to play such rich, deep emotional people,” she told HFPA members when she met them at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills recently.
“There’s not a lot of these great roles yet somehow I’ve found them. I’m truly beyond grateful for the awards and the recognition for doing what I love.”
The 36-year-old actress won her Golden Globes in 1999 for Boys Don’t Cry and in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. That same year she was also nominated for her performance in the made-for-television movie Iron Jawed Angels.
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER TINA FEY RECEIVES MARK TWAIN AWARD
The Kennedy Center will present its 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Tina Fey on Nov. 8 in Washington.
Fey is the star, executive producer and a writer of “30 Rock,” for which she’s won two Golden Globes.
She has starred in two feature films — “Date Night” and “Baby Mama” – as well as voicing characters for two animated features. She got her start with the Chicago improv company The Second City and was a writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live” for nine seasons.
Fey is also at work on a book of humorous essays for Little Brown; she signed the deal, rumored to be worth more than $5 million in the fall of 2008.
Previous recipients of the Mark Twain Prize include Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner and Bob Newhart; the first honoree was Richard Pryor.
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