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Forgotten Supernova by Tathya S is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at forgottensupernova.tumblr.com.
“The most important thing I learned about myself while making Battle Studies is that I can do it. I don’t have to rely on the universe lining up and sending me a song that I should be thankful for, and assume that I will never be able to do it again.”
Well I think when you’re doing a descent into madness, where the character is doubting his or her sanity, it’s going to leave a lot of room for ambiguity. Because I think [Natalie Portman’s character’s] whole movement into insanity is ambiguous to the character herself—until she finally seizes on it and takes the reigns. It was very intentional that the audience could be as unsure as she was, when strange things seemed to happen. There needed to be doubt on that journey.
Darren Aronofsky in a FiveBooks interview when he was being asked about, “Hitchcock often left the line between what his characters experienced and what they imagined quite hazy. Is that what you intended to do in Black Swan?”
Actually, you know, it is quite extraordinary because life on a film set is inherently infantile. Everything else is taken away to the point where we are helpless. You are picked up at a certain time of day. You are driven to a place not of your choice. You are then given clothes to put on. And then someone does your hair and your face, and again according to someone else’s schedule. You are brought your breakfast. Then you are taken to a place where you do your job and you are told where to stand, where to look, and here are the words you are going to say, and they’re not yours. And so there is very little that you have in your control, except what happens when you close the bathroom door. It is preposterous. It makes no sense whatsoever, unless it’s wonderful. You are always treading that line.
Colin Firth, from Newsweek article.
Paul Rudd interviewed Jon Hamm for Interview magazine ›
Stumbled upon this article, an interview from Interview magazine. There’s 7 short pages of the interview and I posted 2 pages of it. I didn’t know Paul Rudd and Jon Hamm are best friend since way back when. The interview is hilarious, they’re very funny!
Photography by Paul Jasmin
[…]This interview takes place at the Grove shopping center in Los Angeles.
PAUL RUDD: You and I have known each other for about 20 years.
JON HAMM: That’s a lot of hairstyles.
PR: What would you say was your most treasured hairstyle during that time?
JH: I had a pretty serious mullet back in the day. We both had long hair for a while. You had the Michael Hutchence.
PR: I was greatly inspired by INXS. Now, you were a St. Louis Cardinals fan growing up, obviously, because you’re from St. Louis.
JH: You were living in Kansas City.
PR: That’s how we know each other, essentially, because I would come visit the Clarke family in St. Louis. And then later, when I left Kansas to go to acting school in California, you came out to visit.
JH: You’d done a Nintendo ad. I remember thinking that was the coolest thing.
PR: Now, what happened after that?
JH: I went to school, and you became a major international movie star.
PR: Almost overnight. Because after the Nintendo ad, I was able to book a Toyota ad …
JH: That’s how it happens.
PR: You and I had the same manager for a time.
JH: Briefly. I finished school, and then I stayed in St. Louis and tried to make some money and failed. So I came out to Los Angeles with whatever money I had, and it was right when you were leaving-you moved to New York, basically. And then you introduced me to our then manager, and I got an agent. Then I didn’t work for three years.
PR: And so you were out there working on what became the movie Kissing Jessica Stein[2002].
JH: I think so.
PR: Which was based on a play called Lipschtick.
JH: Because it sounds like lipstick. But it’s supposed to be schtick-you know, funny, schticky. That’s how I met my girlfriend of 10 years, Jennifer Westfeldt [who co-wrote and starred inKissing Jessica Stein]. This must have been around ‘97 or ‘98 because the night I actually got together with Jen for the first time … We started our relationship, essentially, at one of your premieres.
PR: For The Object of My Affection [1998]. Do you think she became the object of your affection because you guys kind of started your relationship at that premiere?
JH: I think she did. Either that or she responded to my lip-schtick.
PR: So for a while, you were on the series The Division. How was that? You were kind of the only guy on that show.
JH: I was. It should have been called Ten Tits and a Dick.[…]
Esquire, September 2010 issue: The James Franco Project
In the September issue, we take a look at prolific cover subject James Franco from five different perspectives — as a profile, a short story, a personal history, an art exhibition, and even a poem. His brother Dave is also an actor. And a filmmaker. So we gave him an assignment at the photo shoot: Make a funny video. Or five.
By Dave Franco
