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Mon, Apr 26, 1999 (15:53) |
Wolf (wolf)
You know the name of the movie but can't think of the guy that played him? Here's the place to find out!
39 responses total.
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Response 1 of 39: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Apr 26, 1999 (16:15) * 5 lines
Ok, you can delete topic 38 as i was trying to correct something in the description and didn't catch it in time.
my question:
The Truth About Cats and Dogs: starred Janeane Garofalo and Uma Thurman. who played the guy?????
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Response 2 of 39: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Mon, Apr 26, 1999 (18:29) * 4 lines
Ben Chaplin?
www.imdb.com
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Response 3 of 39: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Apr 26, 1999 (19:28) * 1 lines
oh thank you mike *hug* i couldn't remember and all my searches produced nothing but 3 million websites that have the words in the movie title in them! thank you thank you thank you *smooch* (ben is such a, shall i say, babe?--yeah, i have weird taste)
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Response 4 of 39: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, May 7, 1999 (01:39) * 1 lines
good thing some of us men taste weird...
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Response 5 of 39: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, May 8, 1999 (20:05) * 1 lines
you got that right!
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Response 6 of 39: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (16:36) * 1 lines
got another one for you movie buffs, who played the mummy in the mummy???
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Response 7 of 39: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (16:45) * 1 lines
nevermind, i found it....Arnold Vosloo. he also was in the darkman series....
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Response 8 of 39: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (18:02) * 1 lines
...and you think he is really Babe material...what is there about him? I have no idea of what he looks like...(lead a sheltered life and all that!)
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Response 9 of 39: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (19:15) * 1 lines
What do you think - mucho bandages and the like!
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Response 10 of 39: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (19:25) * 2 lines
I'm guessing that Wolfie likes to unwrap her presents before enjoying them...!
(That, or she has a nurse-fetish that we did not know about...?)
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Response 11 of 39: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (19:30) * 1 lines
Nice to see you back, Alexander. I've missed you.
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Response 12 of 39: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (22:12) * 1 lines
oh all right, lemme find a decent pic!
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Response 13 of 39: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (22:21) * 3 lines
here's a link to just about every scene that arnold was in! enjoy!!
http://www.elkhound.demon.co.uk/pictures/imhoteppics.htm
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Response 14 of 39: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (22:27) * 1 lines
Oh yes, My Dear! I see...BIG guys do it for you!!! And it appears you have enough fur for the both of you...*grin* Actually, the man has definite potential slurpability...!
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Response 15 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 15, 2001 (13:55) * 9 lines
John
Long is writing a screenplay about the story of Lori Berenson, the girl in
prison in Peru. He may get Angelina Joli to play the part, John was the
boyfriend in the movie Gia which Jolie played in. Gia was John's actual
roommate.
mailto://john@realism.cc
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Response 16 of 39: Cheryl (CherylB) * Sun, Jul 1, 2001 (15:47) * 3 lines
Wolfie, you really go for a mummy who looks as though he's been working out. I felt badly for the mummy at the end of "The Mummy Returns" when he was abandoned by his recincarnated love to be attacked by the accursed dead.
Terry, thanks for the information on the possible Lori Berenson movie.
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Response 17 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Feb 16, 2003 (19:42) * 369 lines
2000-1-14 The Charlie Rose Show
John Long
mention !!!
CS: Sage but certainly not her talent. She already has two back to back Golden Globe awards for her work in television films. One, in 1997, for her portrayal of Cornelia Wallace, the First Wife of the former Alabama Governor. The other, in 1998, for another real-life-portrait, Gia Carangi, the drug-addicted model that died of AIDS. Since then, Jolie has been building a body of work in feature films that have earned her a reputation as one of Hollywood's hottest young actors. In November, she starred opposite Denzel Washington in the box office hit The Bone Collector. She is currently receiving critical acclaim for her performance in Girl, Interrupted, costarring Winona Ryder. I am very, very pleased to have her on this program. Welcome.
AJ: Thank you.
CS: (he giggles)
AJ: Very, very happy to be here.--I watch the show all the time.
CS: Oh, thank you. I--I didn't know you lived in New York.
AJ: I didn't know you lived in New York.
CS: Too bad.
AJ: Yeah, I'll be here knocking on the door. I was just saying before it started rolling--I was--I was trying--I was trying to tell them how I don't have friends here and I don't have anybody to go to dinner with, so--so--I love--I love this--I love watching your show--so--so--
CS: Did you love the role of Lisa--once you read that--did you look at
AJ: I did--
CS: --that and say--
AJ: --I had-- It's obviously a dream for an actress to have just so much to work with--but--I've never played a character I didn't--it's tough cuz she's a--the ba-- she's--she's apparently the bad person or the person that should be--you know--corralled--but I--I didn't feel she was--in many ways and I felt for her--and--like--and which--I've never been able to play someone I didn't feel was redeemable--somehow. I read the book like five years ago and I picked it up after I read the script and I underlined everything Lisa. And I was obsessed with--with, uh--her brutal honesty and her just need to--to live and uh you know, so--yeah--I got--I have this--this funny tattoo that I got right after--right after Lisa--my mom--came with me--Thanks mom.
CS: This is--this is one of several, is it not?
AJ: Yes--but--but--this one was with mom so it was just the greatest thing in the world--but was--uh--it's, uh--A Prayer For The Wild At Heart Kept In Cages--
CS: Yeah--
AJ: it's Tennessee Williams and it's, uh
CS: And what's this one--
AJ: Uh--it's--uh--an H my--my brother's middle name is Haven--
CS: And there are what six in all? AJ: Uh--something like that--
CS: Yeah--
AJ: Six or nine--
CS: And why--and why do you do this?
AJ: Uhm I don't have many on places you can see most of them are--are in the areas that--that--you know--can't do nude scenes cuz (they both laugh)
CS: Yeah--
AJ:--but--uh--uh--just--just a few that are just reminders--you know--like these--like Lisa was really personal to me and--it was hard--long time ago--I--I--it was so hard to let Gia go--(slaps her mike) sorry--so hard to let Gia go--so hard to let Lisa go and I--
CS: It was hard to let Gia go-?
AJ: It was hard to let a lot of them go cuz they were kind of--they were--they became friends of mine and they were parts of me and--and I thought a long time ago that it was kind of--exercising parts of me and just getting rid of them and working through them and growing up and--and I realized that--I'm going to keep them and they're all a part of me and It's made me really happy and I was--I just--I was missing Lisa, I think--and--and then having this--and how with my mom--having this moment that I'll always remember with her kind of picking out and--and talking to the other people--she was--in the tattoo parlor kind of offering everybody drinks and seeing if she should go get anybody a sandwich. She was brilliant.
CS: Uh, you're close to her?
AJ: Very.
CS: Yeah.
AJ: Very.
CS: Uh--and have an influence on you doing what you do--or--not?
AJ: Yeah, she, uh--she studied at Strasberg--my--my parents--my mom got married to--met my dad when she was probably twenty--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: And she was uh--so they--she had children and then they separated twenty-five and so she--she's--was--you know my dad--it--he was great it--he--you know--they had an agreement that really he wanted her to be a mom which--is--like not giving enough credit for a really hard job.
CS: Yeah, that is.
AJ: And uh--and that's--what--you know she's--she's done with life--she's raised me--my brother and my dad's uh--always been there--always been never--never not in my life--and--and--
CS: But because he was an actor he--had to be away.
AJ: He was. Yeah. So, and, so, she tried to study after--when we were little kids but--always wanted to be an actress--uhm--but never had the career--cuz she was raising us--but she raised me in that kind of really free way--where she'd--she'd always--uh--she used to have this thing when I'd cry and she'd say "Let me see your soul" and I used to love this so I have this kind of--whenever I'm sad I'm reaching out to everybody going, "See--I'm in pain"--you know--so--you know--she'd--"What are you saying?--What're you thinking?--What're you--what're you feeling?"--and so--
CS: But has being an actress been almost therapeutic then--then and--
AJ: Yeah--
CS: --and cathartic for you?
AJ: Yeah, I'm--
CS: I mean, you can invest--you can both find parts of yourself through giving expression AJ: I had--I had done The Bone Collector before before uh--before Girl, Interrupted--and-- and she's--she's so kind of reserved and she's so from the heart--she's somebody--I--huh--I admire--Amelia--my character--but--she wasn't free and she--was obviously going after-- these people that had--maybe these impulses or were sinners or the bad people and--and uh she didn't know how to make people laugh--didn't have sense of humor about herself and--and then I broke out--was able to breathe with Lisa who--sociopaths usually become serial killers that's just--just--and it was so odd to discover that cuz I had jumped into the thing I was hunting for three months--and this completely opposite side but--
CS: Wait a minute, I don't understand you--did you--
AJ: The--uh--the--the--the other character--the--
CS: Oh.
AJ:--the cop--
CS: Right. Right.
AJ: --I was playing--
CS: Right.
AJ: --was hunting--
CS: Right.
AJ:--a serial killer--
CS: Right.
AJ:--and so--so Lisa was--was this other--was the exact opposite and--and I so much was--I was questioning so much in my life about things, you know--what I was capable of--and--and Amelia allowed me to believe I was capable of things--and I understood what love was--with her--and--uh--Lisa--I'm--I don't have many friends--I don't have many girlfriends--I don't understand--I just don't understand the world--
CS: You, as a human being, don't have many girlfriends?
AJ: Well, I don't--I'm not in really one place enough time to really be kind of a great, great friend--I think--I mean I'm a great friend to--obviously I have a few great--to everybody I'd like--I'd like to be friends with everybody, so--uhm--but Lisa-- just she--she's has energy and this fire and there are a few people that--obviously are turned off by her and very put--you know--but--there are a few people that come up to me and said--come up--you--she just had this--you know--they--they--there there's a fire that--that I like to see in people and I like to encourage it so--I don't judge people, so I don't think they judge me so I have this freedom of--I think we're all a little crazy, we all, you know, make fools of ourselves, and we all--
CS: I'm not very judgmental, either--I'm not--
AJ: Yeah, so it just makes you completely free.
CS: Yeah, exactly, I mean, I just--Uhm, this notion of wanting it. Did it then come to you or did you go after this role of Lisa, having read the--
AJ: I went after it.
CS: --book. You went after it.
AJ: Yeah.
CS: You, personally, or are those people that work for--
AJ: "Those people"!
CS: Yeah.
AJ: That one person who's out there.
CS: Yeah.
AJ: Uhm.
CS: Did you--did you pick up the phone and say to--Winona or whoever else might be--
AJ: No. I--I actually--got--I had--
CS: Cuz she's executive producing which is--
AJ: I had gotten a call from Winona about a year before--when she was thinking of it--before I'd done--I think she--she had told me she was happy when Gia came out because she was happy that she had--that I could get in that door and--and fight and kind of--you know--cuz she was thinking about me for it--but I got a call a long time ago from Winona Ryder about this--thing--Girl--and I thought it was a prank call--I was so sure that somebody was calling me--I was like uhm--Winona Ryder--
CS: Sure.
AJ: --then I called her and I didn't know what--you know--but--I didn't uh--you know--she was in the process of it and she didn't--she was telling me she really couldn't--couldn't be the--so she was gonna step back and let the director and producers really pick the actress and that she--you know couldn't--couldn't really decide--it was--it was too uh--but she obviously liked me and other people and--and uh was gonna let them--let it happen--and you know--she--she--was really wonderful with me and--
CS: So, what happened?
AJ: I--I uh--I had an audition. And--and I met with the director. And then I went in and I--you know, read my little scenes and came in and--after begging at the door--kind of let me in the door again--let me try--let me give it--show you what I can try to do.
CS: Is there anything else we should say about Lisa--Lisa before we show--seeing--scene--this scene we're going to see is when she arrived bla--back at Clayware and she is upset to find--
AJ: Uh, yeah the--this--the--the original name was--was not Jamie--was this is--was my--my brother's name is Jamie and this is her--uhmbluh--she's coming back in--somebody's missing-- this person from the ward and some--and wondering what happened to them and s--you know thinking maybe people didn't look after--take care of the person she cared about--and to me--I picked the name that meant the most to me in the world, which is my brother--so it's his name--so that kind of helped me--but this--this is--
CS: Okay, roll tape. Here it is.
(Clip)
AJ: Smmm I'd kill anybody that hurt my brother. Yeah, there's--you know, it makes me just--it actually makes me miss--it's the strange thing about life when your--it's so much th--that confinement does or--or we forget in life--how--we all run around doing our things--and when yer--when yer forced together in a situation like these girls are to just survive and go through what they're going through--purge all these things and--you know--it's like Winona--I got to know all these sides of her--her vulnerabilities and her you know fight and her strength and her fear--we see the beauty in these people--but how much I love these girls--I loved being in there, which is strange but--loved that I was forced to just be with other people and we were just forced to just get to know each other and so much in the day you know we don't do that and it's--it was just a nice thing--they were so amazing!-- these women--so amazing--to work with--Clea and Gillian--and everybody Lacey--
CS: But you said you'd kill for your brother.
AJ: Yeah, kinda went over that, didn't I? I was like--it was like--homicidal side of me--and--
CS: No--it says something about your relationship with your brother.
AJ: Yeah.
CS: I mean, what's that about?
AJ: Uhhh--he's just--uhm he's--I admire him so much--I have--I have just watched him become the most amazing per--the most amazing man--he's my strength--he's--
CS: How old is he?
AJ: He's two years older than me--and he and I are looking for a house together--starting a production company together--he is--uh--he's been studying acting--he's been doing--we've done scenes together and things and I think he's brilliant--but he's studied as a d--he actually has a degree as a director--uhm and I did all of his--we did all his student films together and that--it's fun together--
CS: Best friend?
AJ: Best friend. And uh yeah I had just--going through something the other d--some time ago and uh called my--my brother who I usually treat him like a baby but--I'm really protective and really crazy--but--uh I called him and--came in stood up for me and I ended up falling in his arms crying he just--held me but--was just so strong--so good--
CS: This is another scene, where you're flirting with a waiter in an ice cream parlor. Need I say more?
AJ: No, this was fun.
CS: Roll tape.
(Clip)
CS: That's fun.
AJ: That is fun. I'm--I love--her--she was just so she was just so fun to play--it was just being--you know every--just being able to follow our impulses--that thing yer in an elevator and just think--that everybody's just really quiet and you see a little kid some in and he sits on the floor and just goes, "Aaahhgh" and you just think--that's exactly right--and nobody can do it and--she could do it.
CS: Yeah, how did you and Winona get along, after--
AJ: Great--I think--I mean we didn't get to know each other that well--because of the characters and--we had a short time together--so "great" is a funny way--I don't know her as well as you know I'd like to know her.
CS: As you'd like to.
AJ: Yeah, yeah, I think--I think she's a--she's a really--from what I know of--from what I saw of her--I mean she put this film together--and you know, cared about this and gave gave a lot to this I think it was--it was hard to be so vuln--this was a tough character for her and just to watch her go through--watch her worry about it and--put herself through it you know, I--I really admire that. I admire her work. Uhm
CS: It sounds like you like strong people.
AJ: I do--I--I--and I don't--no--I don't not like weak pe--I--I don't like people who are not comfortable with themselves and pretend to be something else so that's the only weakness so--you could be as weak and as silly and as emotional and--
CS: As long as you're authentic and real.
AJ: --because I think that's strong to be able to be real, yeah, yeah--to--to--I like to--I like to meet people--that's why people are always telling me I'm too honest or I'm too--I say too much or I'm too uh--and you know I talk a lot--I love it when people come up and talk to me--I--for some reason I do--I love sharing people and hearing things back--and you know--I--I like--I don't want to get to know the surface of somebody, there's no point--that's why we're here--I want to know--everything.
CS: Let me just talk about this because it's so much of this. I mean, here is Premiere Magazine. Uhm, you and Winona walk on the wild side. (holding it up)
AJ: I know. I like how it's the vanguard the--the--it's like the rebels--
CS: Yeah.
AJ:--the rebels on the cover--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: --that's funny.
CS: Here is something else from-- AJ: Jane.
CS: What The Hell Is Wrong With Angelina Jolie? (holding it up)
AJ: Damnitt!
CS: I don't know what they mean.
AJ: I was trying to figure--I opened it up trying to figure--I was hoping it would answer my question--I thought, "Thank God! Found it! Something I want to read!"
CS: See, you could be any one of these--
AJ: That's something I could tell--
CS: You know, Sex Fantasies You Won't Even Tell Your Shrink--
AJ: I know that's actually--
CS: We could talk about that, too--
AJ: I have a lot of shrink fantasies, too. I know.
CS: Shrink or sex?
AJ: Both.
CS: Uh, Ten Gutsy Women, you could do that.
AJ: And seven spineless losers.
CS: He husband fell off--out of the armor--armor. Sorry, we don't want to talk about that. Uh, Movieline is uh, the next big thing you are. (holding it up)
AJ: I suppose so.
CS: Yeah. Does it matter?
AJ: I--no--we--it's actually--I don't like it.
CS: You don't--
AJ: I like--I like that there's support--
CS: You don't like being the next big thing or being talked about as the next big thing--
AJ: I like that there's support for your work--I--I think that there's sometimes--you can be--I'm so--it's so scary to sometimes become like--like that--you might--seeing your name above title it's great that might mean something--that your other work might mean something--but--it's not Angelina in Girl, Interrupted--and--if you're watching and if celebrities become things--you know my private life--just so you can watch a movie and be watching a movie--and be--kind of--that I can always change--that I don't have anything-- that it's--that it doesn't really matter--it's like you know--I don't--I'm--I don't want to be treated differently, I'm not different--not like--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: You know, so--
CS: Exactly. I'm just gonna show this cuz it's fun.
AJ: This is fun.
CS: They're all recent--
AJ: I swear my eyes are a different color.
CS: Yeah and what this one is Allure. (holding it up)
AJ: This--this is cuz I spend a lot of time on the beach.
CS: Holy Moly It's Angelina Jolie! You spend a lot of time on the beach?
AJ: No.
CS: No, I thought. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Where'd they shoot that?
AJ: I--I don't know. It was cold.
CS: And you were saying, "Can we get this over with?"
AJ: And they picked it--yeah--I was just like--
CS: And what about--this one says (holding it up)--uh, here, see, Angelina Jolie Is The Next Screen Goddess: Venus Rising.
AJ: I guess I got a lot to do. I'm the next a lot of things. I mean, tomorrow--tomorrow--
CS: Let's just see another side of Lisa before we leave this film. Here is it is, roll.
(show clip--Lisa in chair "jam this in my aorta")
AJ: Whoopie. So fun.
CS: Tell me about the character of, uh, Gia, which is what Winona--as I
understand, first saw--that sort of made her think of you--for Lisa. AJ:
The work. Yeah. Yeah. Well, God, Gia is just--it's like hearing a friend's
name--she's it's funny, people have actually accidentally called me that,
which is weird--and I'm close friends with the guy that was the young man
in the movie, his name is John Long--
CS: Just for the sake of people who didn't see this--
AJ: I'm sorry, she was--
CS: --she was a young model who became addicted--
AJ: --she was from Philadelphia, she was a young girl, she was really spirited, wild--she was really one of the first--
CS: Few.
AJ:--yeah, one of the first models to really, uh, you know, kind of show this kind of wild, free side, I think break from a lot of this, uh, this things out the seventies people were kind of glossy and she was real natural--and, she, uh--and then became addicted to heroin--and it's important to me that she that's spirit--cuz she was so spirited--before--she didn't--as opposed to being wild because of something--that she--just--
CS: She was wild.
AJ: --shows the sadness was because she was so bright before--anything--and--uh, and then she--was in--and then, she, was one the--from what I know, uh you know, was really one of the first, uh--you know it was--AIDS was coming out and she--she got AIDS--and at that time, uhm, people didn't know what it was and so they had this--you know, we had scenes where--we didn't really know what it was--we didn't understand--and there are these people in these kind of space masks--cuz yer contaminated--as far as they're concerned, then--and they locked her in a room and had all these kinds of things and she was--and she died and it was, uh--but she also had these notebooks of her de-which are her death and the poems in the end of the film--and--she--uh--she loved that song--from--it was in The Breakfast Club--everybody knows--"But Don't Forget About Me"--thing--but she used to run around singing it and she wrote these poems that--that were about kind of not--you know, that somebody could--somebody could learn somethi
g from what she went through-- but that--but that she that didn't regret her life and that she felt--so, somehow that sickness, uhm, really kind of put her back in the center of who she was and made her comfortable with her life.
CS: Roll tape. This is just one scene we'll show, in which she encounters a receptionist at her first meeting with a modeling agency. Roll tape.
(Clip)
CS: Now you were how old then? Twenty? Maybe?
AJ: Yeah.
CS: Twenty.
AJ: Yeah, mhmm, twenty, something like that I, uhm--there's an amazing--it did--Michael Cristofer, who I'm about to work with again--I'm so excited--uh--in Mexico--uhm--he just--I--I did everything I could to not do this film--to back away from it when I would get the sc--when I got the script--I don't know, she was too close to me--if I was worried about them making a model, heroin-addict, H--it--not doing it right and making it, you know, kind of superficial and uhm--but--but I met Michael and he forced me to, he said "You know, can can just read me-- just read for me and--I--cuz it'll help me with the script and stuff"--I had dyed my hair blonde and was like, pissed off and stuff and I came in I was like, "Fine"--so, I read and I--and, then, he said, "Can you help with the script?"--and I would go in and meet with Michael--"You know, she can't say that cuz--you know--and you can't"--and apparently my--my little tape was my screen test and I didn't know it and he said--and he fooled me--but--he was so--
CS: He saw what you were like.
AJ:--he really supported--
CS: Cuz he was what you were really like.
AJ: Yeah--he really supported me--he thought--that--I--he said if--if he couldn't find her--it doesn't do--but he was just--he's just--he's just this amazing person--he really c--cared about her--that's why the film worked--he--really liked her she--and thought that her problem--she just--she wanted to make everybody happy--she wanted love--this is what became the attitude--she wanted--you know--that if someone was gonna--which is why then the addiction was just--when she'd go down, she wasn't up and people--she was late and she was in--and people were--disappointed in her--and then if she could get up then everybody was happy with her and she was fabulous and--and she was fun and when she was depressed nobody was--nobody wanted to deal with that--so she wanted to be this--she--so--she was kind of--we thought she was kind of a--caring person--as crazy as it was--she also was really wild and really free--really sexual and--which you can take in the m--which I think I am and I think that is a--I think that's
good thing--I think that's--
CS: I do, very much. I wish I had more time. Uhm. You are remarkable.
AJ: Oh, mmm--thanks, thank you. I--I hope to do this again.
CS: January 14th, Girl, Interrupted, uhm--opens around the country.
AJ: Oh, okay. Go see it please.
CS: Go. Thank you for joining us. See you next time.
Topic 37 of 73 [movies]: Movie Queries
Response 18 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Feb 16, 2003 (19:45) * 364 lines
2000-1-14 The Charlie Rose Show
John Long mention !!!
CS: Sage but certainly not her talent. She already has two back to back Golden Globe awards for her work in television films. One, in 1997, for her portrayal of Cornelia Wallace, the First Wife of the former Alabama Governor. The other, in 1998, for another real-life-portrait, Gia Carangi, the drug-addicted model that died of AIDS. Since then, Jolie has been building a body of work in feature films that have earned her a reputation as one of Hollywood's hottest young actors. In November, she starred opposite Denzel Washington in the box office hit The Bone Collector. She is currently receiving critical acclaim for her performance in Girl, Interrupted, costarring Winona Ryder. I am very, very pleased to have her on this program. Welcome.
AJ: Thank you.
CS: (he giggles)
AJ: Very, very happy to be here.--I watch the show all the time.
CS: Oh, thank you. I--I didn't know you lived in New York.
AJ: I didn't know you lived in New York.
CS: Too bad.
AJ: Yeah, I'll be here knocking on the door. I was just saying before it started rolling--I was--I was trying--I was trying to tell them how I don't have friends here and I don't have anybody to go to dinner with, so--so--I love--I love this--I love watching your show--so--so--
CS: Did you love the role of Lisa--once you read that--did you look at
AJ: I did--
CS: --that and say--
AJ: --I had-- It's obviously a dream for an actress to have just so much to work with--but--I've never played a character I didn't--it's tough cuz she's a--the ba-- she's--she's apparently the bad person or the person that should be--you know--corralled--but I--I didn't feel she was--in many ways and I felt for her--and--like--and which--I've never been able to play someone I didn't feel was redeemable--somehow. I read the book like five years ago and I picked it up after I read the script and I underlined everything Lisa. And I was obsessed with--with, uh--her brutal honesty and her just need to--to live and uh you know, so--yeah--I got--I have this--this funny tattoo that I got right after--right after Lisa--my mom--came with me--Thanks mom.
CS: This is--this is one of several, is it not?
AJ: Yes--but--but--this one was with mom so it was just the greatest thing in the world--but was--uh--it's, uh--A Prayer For The Wild At Heart Kept In Cages--
CS: Yeah--
AJ: it's Tennessee Williams and it's, uh
CS: And what's this one--
AJ: Uh--it's--uh--an H my--my brother's middle name is Haven--
CS: And there are what six in all? AJ: Uh--something like that--
CS: Yeah--
AJ: Six or nine--
CS: And why--and why do you do this?
AJ: Uhm I don't have many on places you can see most of them are--are in the areas that--that--you know--can't do nude scenes cuz (they both laugh)
CS: Yeah--
AJ:--but--uh--uh--just--just a few that are just reminders--you know--like these--like Lisa was really personal to me and--it was hard--long time ago--I--I--it was so hard to let Gia go--(slaps her mike) sorry--so hard to let Gia go--so hard to let Lisa go and I--
CS: It was hard to let Gia go-?
AJ: It was hard to let a lot of them go cuz they were kind of--they were--they became friends of mine and they were parts of me and--and I thought a long time ago that it was kind of--exercising parts of me and just getting rid of them and working through them and growing up and--and I realized that--I'm going to keep them and they're all a part of me and It's made me really happy and I was--I just--I was missing Lisa, I think--and--and then having this--and how with my mom--having this moment that I'll always remember with her kind of picking out and--and talking to the other people--she was--in the tattoo parlor kind of offering everybody drinks and seeing if she should go get anybody a sandwich. She was brilliant.
CS: Uh, you're close to her?
AJ: Very.
CS: Yeah.
AJ: Very.
CS: Uh--and have an influence on you doing what you do--or--not?
AJ: Yeah, she, uh--she studied at Strasberg--my--my parents--my mom got married to--met my dad when she was probably twenty--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: And she was uh--so they--she had children and then they separated twenty-five and so she--she's--was--you know my dad--it--he was great it--he--you know--they had an agreement that really he wanted her to be a mom which--is--like not giving enough credit for a really hard job.
CS: Yeah, that is.
AJ: And uh--and that's--what--you know she's--she's done with life--she's raised me--my brother and my dad's uh--always been there--always been never--never not in my life--and--and--
CS: But because he was an actor he--had to be away.
AJ: He was. Yeah. So, and, so, she tried to study after--when we were little kids but--always wanted to be an actress--uhm--but never had the career--cuz she was raising us--but she raised me in that kind of really free way--where she'd--she'd always--uh--she used to have this thing when I'd cry and she'd say "Let me see your soul" and I used to love this so I have this kind of--whenever I'm sad I'm reaching out to everybody going, "See--I'm in pain"--you know--so--you know--she'd--"What are you saying?--What're you thinking?--What're you--what're you feeling?"--and so--
CS: But has being an actress been almost therapeutic then--then and--
AJ: Yeah--
CS: --and cathartic for you?
AJ: Yeah, I'm--
CS: I mean, you can invest--you can both find parts of yourself through giving expression AJ: I had--I had done The Bone Collector before before uh--before Girl, Interrupted--and-- and she's--she's so kind of reserved and she's so from the heart--she's somebody--I--huh--I admire--Amelia--my character--but--she wasn't free and she--was obviously going after-- these people that had--maybe these impulses or were sinners or the bad people and--and uh she didn't know how to make people laugh--didn't have sense of humor about herself and--and then I broke out--was able to breathe with Lisa who--sociopaths usually become serial killers that's just--just--and it was so odd to discover that cuz I had jumped into the thing I was hunting for three months--and this completely opposite side but--
CS: Wait a minute, I don't understand you--did you--
AJ: The--uh--the--the--the other character--the--
CS: Oh.
AJ:--the cop--
CS: Right. Right.
AJ: --I was playing--
CS: Right.
AJ: --was hunting--
CS: Right.
AJ:--a serial killer--
CS: Right.
AJ:--and so--so Lisa was--was this other--was the exact opposite and--and I so much was--I was questioning so much in my life about things, you know--what I was capable of--and--and Amelia allowed me to believe I was capable of things--and I understood what love was--with her--and--uh--Lisa--I'm--I don't have many friends--I don't have many girlfriends--I don't understand--I just don't understand the world--
CS: You, as a human being, don't have many girlfriends?
AJ: Well, I don't--I'm not in really one place enough time to really be kind of a great, great friend--I think--I mean I'm a great friend to--obviously I have a few great--to everybody I'd like--I'd like to be friends with everybody, so--uhm--but Lisa-- just she--she's has energy and this fire and there are a few people that--obviously are turned off by her and very put--you know--but--there are a few people that come up to me and said--come up--you--she just had this--you know--they--they--there there's a fire that--that I like to see in people and I like to encourage it so--I don't judge people, so I don't think they judge me so I have this freedom of--I think we're all a little crazy, we all, you know, make fools of ourselves, and we all--
CS: I'm not very judgmental, either--I'm not--
AJ: Yeah, so it just makes you completely free.
CS: Yeah, exactly, I mean, I just--Uhm, this notion of wanting it. Did it then come to you or did you go after this role of Lisa, having read the--
AJ: I went after it.
CS: --book. You went after it.
AJ: Yeah.
CS: You, personally, or are those people that work for--
AJ: "Those people"!
CS: Yeah.
AJ: That one person who's out there.
CS: Yeah.
AJ: Uhm.
CS: Did you--did you pick up the phone and say to--Winona or whoever else might be--
AJ: No. I--I actually--got--I had--
CS: Cuz she's executive producing which is--
AJ: I had gotten a call from Winona about a year before--when she was thinking of it--before I'd done--I think she--she had told me she was happy when Gia came out because she was happy that she had--that I could get in that door and--and fight and kind of--you know--cuz she was thinking about me for it--but I got a call a long time ago from Winona Ryder about this--thing--Girl--and I thought it was a prank call--I was so sure that somebody was calling me--I was like uhm--Winona Ryder--
CS: Sure.
AJ: --then I called her and I didn't know what--you know--but--I didn't uh--you know--she was in the process of it and she didn't--she was telling me she really couldn't--couldn't be the--so she was gonna step back and let the director and producers really pick the actress and that she--you know couldn't--couldn't really decide--it was--it was too uh--but she obviously liked me and other people and--and uh was gonna let them--let it happen--and you know--she--she--was really wonderful with me and--
CS: So, what happened?
AJ: I--I uh--I had an audition. And--and I met with the director. And then I went in and I--you know, read my little scenes and came in and--after begging at the door--kind of let me in the door again--let me try--let me give it--show you what I can try to do.
CS: Is there anything else we should say about Lisa--Lisa before we show--seeing--scene--this scene we're going to see is when she arrived bla--back at Clayware and she is upset to find--
AJ: Uh, yeah the--this--the--the original name was--was not Jamie--was this is--was my--my brother's name is Jamie and this is her--uhmbluh--she's coming back in--somebody's missing-- this person from the ward and some--and wondering what happened to them and s--you know thinking maybe people didn't look after--take care of the person she cared about--and to me--I picked the name that meant the most to me in the world, which is my brother--so it's his name--so that kind of helped me--but this--this is--
CS: Okay, roll tape. Here it is.
(Clip)
AJ: Smmm I'd kill anybody that hurt my brother. Yeah, there's--you know, it makes me just--it actually makes me miss--it's the strange thing about life when your--it's so much th--that confinement does or--or we forget in life--how--we all run around doing our things--and when yer--when yer forced together in a situation like these girls are to just survive and go through what they're going through--purge all these things and--you know--it's like Winona--I got to know all these sides of her--her vulnerabilities and her you know fight and her strength and her fear--we see the beauty in these people--but how much I love these girls--I loved being in there, which is strange but--loved that I was forced to just be with other people and we were just forced to just get to know each other and so much in the day you know we don't do that and it's--it was just a nice thing--they were so amazing!-- these women--so amazing--to work with--Clea and Gillian--and everybody Lacey--
CS: But you said you'd kill for your brother.
AJ: Yeah, kinda went over that, didn't I? I was like--it was like--homicidal side of me--and--
CS: No--it says something about your relationship with your brother.
AJ: Yeah.
CS: I mean, what's that about?
AJ: Uhhh--he's just--uhm he's--I admire him so much--I have--I have just watched him become the most amazing per--the most amazing man--he's my strength--he's--
CS: How old is he?
AJ: He's two years older than me--and he and I are looking for a house together--starting a production company together--he is--uh--he's been studying acting--he's been doing--we've done scenes together and things and I think he's brilliant--but he's studied as a d--he actually has a degree as a director--uhm and I did all of his--we did all his student films together and that--it's fun together--
CS: Best friend?
AJ: Best friend. And uh yeah I had just--going through something the other d--some time ago and uh called my--my brother who I usually treat him like a baby but--I'm really protective and really crazy--but--uh I called him and--came in stood up for me and I ended up falling in his arms crying he just--held me but--was just so strong--so good--
CS: This is another scene, where you're flirting with a waiter in an ice cream parlor. Need I say more?
AJ: No, this was fun.
CS: Roll tape.
(Clip)
CS: That's fun.
AJ: That is fun. I'm--I love--her--she was just so she was just so fun to play--it was just being--you know every--just being able to follow our impulses--that thing yer in an elevator and just think--that everybody's just really quiet and you see a little kid some in and he sits on the floor and just goes, "Aaahhgh" and you just think--that's exactly right--and nobody can do it and--she could do it.
CS: Yeah, how did you and Winona get along, after--
AJ: Great--I think--I mean we didn't get to know each other that well--because of the characters and--we had a short time together--so "great" is a funny way--I don't know her as well as you know I'd like to know her.
CS: As you'd like to.
AJ: Yeah, yeah, I think--I think she's a--she's a really--from what I know of--from what I saw of her--I mean she put this film together--and you know, cared about this and gave gave a lot to this I think it was--it was hard to be so vuln--this was a tough character for her and just to watch her go through--watch her worry about it and--put herself through it you know, I--I really admire that. I admire her work. Uhm
CS: It sounds like you like strong people.
AJ: I do--I--I--and I don't--no--I don't not like weak pe--I--I don't like people who are not comfortable with themselves and pretend to be something else so that's the only weakness so--you could be as weak and as silly and as emotional and--
CS: As long as you're authentic and real.
AJ: --because I think that's strong to be able to be real, yeah, yeah--to--to--I like to--I like to meet people--that's why people are always telling me I'm too honest or I'm too--I say too much or I'm too uh--and you know I talk a lot--I love it when people come up and talk to me--I--for some reason I do--I love sharing people and hearing things back--and you know--I--I like--I don't want to get to know the surface of somebody, there's no point--that's why we're here--I want to know--everything.
CS: Let me just talk about this because it's so much of this. I mean, here is Premiere Magazine. Uhm, you and Winona walk on the wild side. (holding it up)
AJ: I know. I like how it's the vanguard the--the--it's like the rebels--
CS: Yeah.
AJ:--the rebels on the cover--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: --that's funny.
CS: Here is something else from-- AJ: Jane.
CS: What The Hell Is Wrong With Angelina Jolie? (holding it up)
AJ: Damnitt!
CS: I don't know what they mean.
AJ: I was trying to figure--I opened it up trying to figure--I was hoping it would answer my question--I thought, "Thank God! Found it! Something I want to read!"
CS: See, you could be any one of these--
AJ: That's something I could tell--
CS: You know, Sex Fantasies You Won't Even Tell Your Shrink--
AJ: I know that's actually--
CS: We could talk about that, too--
AJ: I have a lot of shrink fantasies, too. I know.
CS: Shrink or sex?
AJ: Both.
CS: Uh, Ten Gutsy Women, you could do that.
AJ: And seven spineless losers.
CS: He husband fell off--out of the armor--armor. Sorry, we don't want to talk about that. Uh, Movieline is uh, the next big thing you are. (holding it up)
AJ: I suppose so.
CS: Yeah. Does it matter?
AJ: I--no--we--it's actually--I don't like it.
CS: You don't--
AJ: I like--I like that there's support--
CS: You don't like being the next big thing or being talked about as the next big thing--
AJ: I like that there's support for your work--I--I think that there's sometimes--you can be--I'm so--it's so scary to sometimes become like--like that--you might--seeing your name above title it's great that might mean something--that your other work might mean something--but--it's not Angelina in Girl, Interrupted--and--if you're watching and if celebrities become things--you know my private life--just so you can watch a movie and be watching a movie--and be--kind of--that I can always change--that I don't have anything-- that it's--that it doesn't really matter--it's like you know--I don't--I'm--I don't want to be treated differently, I'm not different--not like--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: You know, so--
CS: Exactly. I'm just gonna show this cuz it's fun.
AJ: This is fun.
CS: They're all recent--
AJ: I swear my eyes are a different color.
CS: Yeah and what this one is Allure. (holding it up)
AJ: This--this is cuz I spend a lot of time on the beach.
CS: Holy Moly It's Angelina Jolie! You spend a lot of time on the beach?
AJ: No.
CS: No, I thought. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Where'd they shoot that?
AJ: I--I don't know. It was cold.
CS: And you were saying, "Can we get this over with?"
AJ: And they picked it--yeah--I was just like--
CS: And what about--this one says (holding it up)--uh, here, see, Angelina Jolie Is The Next Screen Goddess: Venus Rising.
AJ: I guess I got a lot to do. I'm the next a lot of things. I mean, tomorrow--tomorrow--
CS: Let's just see another side of Lisa before we leave this film. Here is it is, roll.
(show clip--Lisa in chair "jam this in my aorta")
AJ: Whoopie. So fun.
CS: Tell me about the character of, uh, Gia, which is what Winona--as I understand, first saw--that sort of made her think of you--for Lisa. AJ: The work. Yeah. Yeah. Well, God, Gia is just--it's like hearing a friend's name--she's it's funny, people have actually accidentally called me that, which is weird--and I'm close friends with the guy that was the young man in the movie, his name is John Long--
CS: Just for the sake of people who didn't see this--
AJ: I'm sorry, she was--
CS: --she was a young model who became addicted--
AJ: --she was from Philadelphia, she was a young girl, she was really spirited, wild--she was really one of the first--
CS: Few.
AJ:--yeah, one of the first models to really, uh, you know, kind of show this kind of wild, free side, I think break from a lot of this, uh, this things out the seventies people were kind of glossy and she was real natural--and, she, uh--and then became addicted to heroin--and it's important to me that she that's spirit--cuz she was so spirited--before--she didn't--as opposed to being wild because of something--that she--just--
CS: She was wild.
AJ: --shows the sadness was because she was so bright before--anything--and--uh, and then she--was in--and then, she, was one the--from what I know, uh you know, was really one of the first, uh--you know it was--AIDS was coming out and she--she got AIDS--and at that time, uhm, people didn't know what it was and so they had this--you know, we had scenes where--we didn't really know what it was--we didn't understand--and there are these people in these kind of space masks--cuz yer contaminated--as far as they're concerned, then--and they locked her in a room and had all these kinds of things and she was--and she died and it was, uh--but she also had these notebooks of her de-which are her death and the poems in the end of the film--and--she--uh--she loved that song--from--it was in The Breakfast Club--everybody knows--"But Don't Forget About Me"--thing--but she used to run around singing it and she wrote these poems that--that were about kind of not--you know, that somebody could--somebody could learn somethi
g from what she went through-- but that--but that she that didn't regret her life and that she felt--so, somehow that sickness, uhm, really kind of put her back in the center of who she was and made her comfortable with her life.
CS: Roll tape. This is just one scene we'll show, in which she encounters a receptionist at her first meeting with a modeling agency. Roll tape.
(Clip)
CS: Now you were how old then? Twenty? Maybe?
AJ: Yeah.
CS: Twenty.
AJ: Yeah, mhmm, twenty, something like that I, uhm--there's an amazing--it did--Michael Cristofer, who I'm about to work with again--I'm so excited--uh--in Mexico--uhm--he just--I--I did everything I could to not do this film--to back away from it when I would get the sc--when I got the script--I don't know, she was too close to me--if I was worried about them making a model, heroin-addict, H--it--not doing it right and making it, you know, kind of superficial and uhm--but--but I met Michael and he forced me to, he said "You know, can can just read me-- just read for me and--I--cuz it'll help me with the script and stuff"--I had dyed my hair blonde and was like, pissed off and stuff and I came in I was like, "Fine"--so, I read and I--and, then, he said, "Can you help with the script?"--and I would go in and meet with Michael--"You know, she can't say that cuz--you know--and you can't"--and apparently my--my little tape was my screen test and I didn't know it and he said--and he fooled me--but--he was so--
CS: He saw what you were like.
AJ:--he really supported--
CS: Cuz he was what you were really like.
AJ: Yeah--he really supported me--he thought--that--I--he said if--if he couldn't find her--it doesn't do--but he was just--he's just--he's just this amazing person--he really c--cared about her--that's why the film worked--he--really liked her she--and thought that her problem--she just--she wanted to make everybody happy--she wanted love--this is what became the attitude--she wanted--you know--that if someone was gonna--which is why then the addiction was just--when she'd go down, she wasn't up and people--she was late and she was in--and people were--disappointed in her--and then if she could get up then everybody was happy with her and she was fabulous and--and she was fun and when she was depressed nobody was--nobody wanted to deal with that--so she wanted to be this--she--so--she was kind of--we thought she was kind of a--caring person--as crazy as it was--she also was really wild and really free--really sexual and--which you can take in the m--which I think I am and I think that is a--I think that's
good thing--I think that's--
CS: I do, very much. I wish I had more time. Uhm. You are remarkable.
AJ: Oh, mmm--thanks, thank you. I--I hope to do this again.
CS: January 14th, Girl, Interrupted, uhm--opens around the country.
AJ: Oh, okay. Go see it please.
CS: Go. Thank you for joining us. See you next time.
Topic 37 of 73 [movies]: Movie Queries
Response 19 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Feb 16, 2003 (19:47) * 364 lines
2000-1-14 The Charlie Rose Show
John Long mention !!!
CS: Sage but certainly not her talent. She already has two back to back Golden Globe awards for her work in television films. One, in 1997, for her portrayal of Cornelia Wallace, the First Wife of the former Alabama Governor. The other, in 1998, for another real-life-portrait, Gia Carangi, the drug-addicted model that died of AIDS. Since then, Jolie has been building a body of work in feature films that have earned her a reputation as one of Hollywood's hottest young actors. In November, she starred opposite Denzel Washington in the box office hit The Bone Collector. She is currently receiving critical acclaim for her performance in Girl, Interrupted, costarring Winona Ryder. I am very, very pleased to have her on this program. Welcome.
AJ: Thank you.
CS: (he giggles)
AJ: Very, very happy to be here.--I watch the show all the time.
CS: Oh, thank you. I--I didn't know you lived in New York.
AJ: I didn't know you lived in New York.
CS: Too bad.
AJ: Yeah, I'll be here knocking on the door. I was just saying before it started rolling--I was--I was trying--I was trying to tell them how I don't have friends here and I don't have anybody to go to dinner with, so--so--I love--I love this--I love watching your show--so--so--
CS: Did you love the role of Lisa--once you read that--did you look at
AJ: I did--
CS: --that and say--
AJ: --I had-- It's obviously a dream for an actress to have just so much to work with--but--I've never played a character I didn't--it's tough cuz she's a--the ba-- she's--she's apparently the bad person or the person that should be--you know--corralled--but I--I didn't feel she was--in many ways and I felt for her--and--like--and which--I've never been able to play someone I didn't feel was redeemable--somehow. I read the book like five years ago and I picked it up after I read the script and I underlined everything Lisa. And I was obsessed with--with, uh--her brutal honesty and her just need to--to live and uh you know, so--yeah--I got--I have this--this funny tattoo that I got right after--right after Lisa--my mom--came with me--Thanks mom.
CS: This is--this is one of several, is it not?
AJ: Yes--but--but--this one was with mom so it was just the greatest thing in the world--but was--uh--it's, uh--A Prayer For The Wild At Heart Kept In Cages--
CS: Yeah--
AJ: it's Tennessee Williams and it's, uh
CS: And what's this one--
AJ: Uh--it's--uh--an H my--my brother's middle name is Haven--
CS: And there are what six in all? AJ: Uh--something like that--
CS: Yeah--
AJ: Six or nine--
CS: And why--and why do you do this?
AJ: Uhm I don't have many on places you can see most of them are--are in the areas that--that--you know--can't do nude scenes cuz (they both laugh)
CS: Yeah--
AJ:--but--uh--uh--just--just a few that are just reminders--you know--like these--like Lisa was really personal to me and--it was hard--long time ago--I--I--it was so hard to let Gia go--(slaps her mike) sorry--so hard to let Gia go--so hard to let Lisa go and I--
CS: It was hard to let Gia go-?
AJ: It was hard to let a lot of them go cuz they were kind of--they were--they became friends of mine and they were parts of me and--and I thought a long time ago that it was kind of--exercising parts of me and just getting rid of them and working through them and growing up and--and I realized that--I'm going to keep them and they're all a part of me and It's made me really happy and I was--I just--I was missing Lisa, I think--and--and then having this--and how with my mom--having this moment that I'll always remember with her kind of picking out and--and talking to the other people--she was--in the tattoo parlor kind of offering everybody drinks and seeing if she should go get anybody a sandwich. She was brilliant.
CS: Uh, you're close to her?
AJ: Very.
CS: Yeah.
AJ: Very.
CS: Uh--and have an influence on you doing what you do--or--not?
AJ: Yeah, she, uh--she studied at Strasberg--my--my parents--my mom got married to--met my dad when she was probably twenty--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: And she was uh--so they--she had children and then they separated twenty-five and so she--she's--was--you know my dad--it--he was great it--he--you know--they had an agreement that really he wanted her to be a mom which--is--like not giving enough credit for a really hard job.
CS: Yeah, that is.
AJ: And uh--and that's--what--you know she's--she's done with life--she's raised me--my brother and my dad's uh--always been there--always been never--never not in my life--and--and--
CS: But because he was an actor he--had to be away.
AJ: He was. Yeah. So, and, so, she tried to study after--when we were little kids but--always wanted to be an actress--uhm--but never had the career--cuz she was raising us--but she raised me in that kind of really free way--where she'd--she'd always--uh--she used to have this thing when I'd cry and she'd say "Let me see your soul" and I used to love this so I have this kind of--whenever I'm sad I'm reaching out to everybody going, "See--I'm in pain"--you know--so--you know--she'd--"What are you saying?--What're you thinking?--What're you--what're you feeling?"--and so--
CS: But has being an actress been almost therapeutic then--then and--
AJ: Yeah--
CS: --and cathartic for you?
AJ: Yeah, I'm--
CS: I mean, you can invest--you can both find parts of yourself through giving expression AJ: I had--I had done The Bone Collector before before uh--before Girl, Interrupted--and-- and she's--she's so kind of reserved and she's so from the heart--she's somebody--I--huh--I admire--Amelia--my character--but--she wasn't free and she--was obviously going after-- these people that had--maybe these impulses or were sinners or the bad people and--and uh she didn't know how to make people laugh--didn't have sense of humor about herself and--and then I broke out--was able to breathe with Lisa who--sociopaths usually become serial killers that's just--just--and it was so odd to discover that cuz I had jumped into the thing I was hunting for three months--and this completely opposite side but--
CS: Wait a minute, I don't understand you--did you--
AJ: The--uh--the--the--the other character--the--
CS: Oh.
AJ:--the cop--
CS: Right. Right.
AJ: --I was playing--
CS: Right.
AJ: --was hunting--
CS: Right.
AJ:--a serial killer--
CS: Right.
AJ:--and so--so Lisa was--was this other--was the exact opposite and--and I so much was--I was questioning so much in my life about things, you know--what I was capable of--and--and Amelia allowed me to believe I was capable of things--and I understood what love was--with her--and--uh--Lisa--I'm--I don't have many friends--I don't have many girlfriends--I don't understand--I just don't understand the world--
CS: You, as a human being, don't have many girlfriends?
AJ: Well, I don't--I'm not in really one place enough time to really be kind of a great, great friend--I think--I mean I'm a great friend to--obviously I have a few great--to everybody I'd like--I'd like to be friends with everybody, so--uhm--but Lisa-- just she--she's has energy and this fire and there are a few people that--obviously are turned off by her and very put--you know--but--there are a few people that come up to me and said--come up--you--she just had this--you know--they--they--there there's a fire that--that I like to see in people and I like to encourage it so--I don't judge people, so I don't think they judge me so I have this freedom of--I think we're all a little crazy, we all, you know, make fools of ourselves, and we all--
CS: I'm not very judgmental, either--I'm not--
AJ: Yeah, so it just makes you completely free.
CS: Yeah, exactly, I mean, I just--Uhm, this notion of wanting it. Did it then come to you or did you go after this role of Lisa, having read the--
AJ: I went after it.
CS: --book. You went after it.
AJ: Yeah.
CS: You, personally, or are those people that work for--
AJ: "Those people"!
CS: Yeah.
AJ: That one person who's out there.
CS: Yeah.
AJ: Uhm.
CS: Did you--did you pick up the phone and say to--Winona or whoever else might be--
AJ: No. I--I actually--got--I had--
CS: Cuz she's executive producing which is--
AJ: I had gotten a call from Winona about a year before--when she was thinking of it--before I'd done--I think she--she had told me she was happy when Gia came out because she was happy that she had--that I could get in that door and--and fight and kind of--you know--cuz she was thinking about me for it--but I got a call a long time ago from Winona Ryder about this--thing--Girl--and I thought it was a prank call--I was so sure that somebody was calling me--I was like uhm--Winona Ryder--
CS: Sure.
AJ: --then I called her and I didn't know what--you know--but--I didn't uh--you know--she was in the process of it and she didn't--she was telling me she really couldn't--couldn't be the--so she was gonna step back and let the director and producers really pick the actress and that she--you know couldn't--couldn't really decide--it was--it was too uh--but she obviously liked me and other people and--and uh was gonna let them--let it happen--and you know--she--she--was really wonderful with me and--
CS: So, what happened?
AJ: I--I uh--I had an audition. And--and I met with the director. And then I went in and I--you know, read my little scenes and came in and--after begging at the door--kind of let me in the door again--let me try--let me give it--show you what I can try to do.
CS: Is there anything else we should say about Lisa--Lisa before we show--seeing--scene--this scene we're going to see is when she arrived bla--back at Clayware and she is upset to find--
AJ: Uh, yeah the--this--the--the original name was--was not Jamie--was this is--was my--my brother's name is Jamie and this is her--uhmbluh--she's coming back in--somebody's missing-- this person from the ward and some--and wondering what happened to them and s--you know thinking maybe people didn't look after--take care of the person she cared about--and to me--I picked the name that meant the most to me in the world, which is my brother--so it's his name--so that kind of helped me--but this--this is--
CS: Okay, roll tape. Here it is.
(Clip)
AJ: Smmm I'd kill anybody that hurt my brother. Yeah, there's--you know, it makes me just--it actually makes me miss--it's the strange thing about life when your--it's so much th--that confinement does or--or we forget in life--how--we all run around doing our things--and when yer--when yer forced together in a situation like these girls are to just survive and go through what they're going through--purge all these things and--you know--it's like Winona--I got to know all these sides of her--her vulnerabilities and her you know fight and her strength and her fear--we see the beauty in these people--but how much I love these girls--I loved being in there, which is strange but--loved that I was forced to just be with other people and we were just forced to just get to know each other and so much in the day you know we don't do that and it's--it was just a nice thing--they were so amazing!-- these women--so amazing--to work with--Clea and Gillian--and everybody Lacey--
CS: But you said you'd kill for your brother.
AJ: Yeah, kinda went over that, didn't I? I was like--it was like--homicidal side of me--and--
CS: No--it says something about your relationship with your brother.
AJ: Yeah.
CS: I mean, what's that about?
AJ: Uhhh--he's just--uhm he's--I admire him so much--I have--I have just watched him become the most amazing per--the most amazing man--he's my strength--he's--
CS: How old is he?
AJ: He's two years older than me--and he and I are looking for a house together--starting a production company together--he is--uh--he's been studying acting--he's been doing--we've done scenes together and things and I think he's brilliant--but he's studied as a d--he actually has a degree as a director--uhm and I did all of his--we did all his student films together and that--it's fun together--
CS: Best friend?
AJ: Best friend. And uh yeah I had just--going through something the other d--some time ago and uh called my--my brother who I usually treat him like a baby but--I'm really protective and really crazy--but--uh I called him and--came in stood up for me and I ended up falling in his arms crying he just--held me but--was just so strong--so good--
CS: This is another scene, where you're flirting with a waiter in an ice cream parlor. Need I say more?
AJ: No, this was fun.
CS: Roll tape.
(Clip)
CS: That's fun.
AJ: That is fun. I'm--I love--her--she was just so she was just so fun to play--it was just being--you know every--just being able to follow our impulses--that thing yer in an elevator and just think--that everybody's just really quiet and you see a little kid some in and he sits on the floor and just goes, "Aaahhgh" and you just think--that's exactly right--and nobody can do it and--she could do it.
CS: Yeah, how did you and Winona get along, after--
AJ: Great--I think--I mean we didn't get to know each other that well--because of the characters and--we had a short time together--so "great" is a funny way--I don't know her as well as you know I'd like to know her.
CS: As you'd like to.
AJ: Yeah, yeah, I think--I think she's a--she's a really--from what I know of--from what I saw of her--I mean she put this film together--and you know, cared about this and gave gave a lot to this I think it was--it was hard to be so vuln--this was a tough character for her and just to watch her go through--watch her worry about it and--put herself through it you know, I--I really admire that. I admire her work. Uhm
CS: It sounds like you like strong people.
AJ: I do--I--I--and I don't--no--I don't not like weak pe--I--I don't like people who are not comfortable with themselves and pretend to be something else so that's the only weakness so--you could be as weak and as silly and as emotional and--
CS: As long as you're authentic and real.
AJ: --because I think that's strong to be able to be real, yeah, yeah--to--to--I like to--I like to meet people--that's why people are always telling me I'm too honest or I'm too--I say too much or I'm too uh--and you know I talk a lot--I love it when people come up and talk to me--I--for some reason I do--I love sharing people and hearing things back--and you know--I--I like--I don't want to get to know the surface of somebody, there's no point--that's why we're here--I want to know--everything.
CS: Let me just talk about this because it's so much of this. I mean, here is Premiere Magazine. Uhm, you and Winona walk on the wild side. (holding it up)
AJ: I know. I like how it's the vanguard the--the--it's like the rebels--
CS: Yeah.
AJ:--the rebels on the cover--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: --that's funny.
CS: Here is something else from-- AJ: Jane.
CS: What The Hell Is Wrong With Angelina Jolie? (holding it up)
AJ: Damnitt!
CS: I don't know what they mean.
AJ: I was trying to figure--I opened it up trying to figure--I was hoping it would answer my question--I thought, "Thank God! Found it! Something I want to read!"
CS: See, you could be any one of these--
AJ: That's something I could tell--
CS: You know, Sex Fantasies You Won't Even Tell Your Shrink--
AJ: I know that's actually--
CS: We could talk about that, too--
AJ: I have a lot of shrink fantasies, too. I know.
CS: Shrink or sex?
AJ: Both.
CS: Uh, Ten Gutsy Women, you could do that.
AJ: And seven spineless losers.
CS: He husband fell off--out of the armor--armor. Sorry, we don't want to talk about that. Uh, Movieline is uh, the next big thing you are. (holding it up)
AJ: I suppose so.
CS: Yeah. Does it matter?
AJ: I--no--we--it's actually--I don't like it.
CS: You don't--
AJ: I like--I like that there's support--
CS: You don't like being the next big thing or being talked about as the next big thing--
AJ: I like that there's support for your work--I--I think that there's sometimes--you can be--I'm so--it's so scary to sometimes become like--like that--you might--seeing your name above title it's great that might mean something--that your other work might mean something--but--it's not Angelina in Girl, Interrupted--and--if you're watching and if celebrities become things--you know my private life--just so you can watch a movie and be watching a movie--and be--kind of--that I can always change--that I don't have anything-- that it's--that it doesn't really matter--it's like you know--I don't--I'm--I don't want to be treated differently, I'm not different--not like--
CS: Yeah.
AJ: You know, so--
CS: Exactly. I'm just gonna show this cuz it's fun.
AJ: This is fun.
CS: They're all recent--
AJ: I swear my eyes are a different color.
CS: Yeah and what this one is Allure. (holding it up)
AJ: This--this is cuz I spend a lot of time on the beach.
CS: Holy Moly It's Angelina Jolie! You spend a lot of time on the beach?
AJ: No.
CS: No, I thought. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Where'd they shoot that?
AJ: I--I don't know. It was cold.
CS: And you were saying, "Can we get this over with?"
AJ: And they picked it--yeah--I was just like--
CS: And what about--this one says (holding it up)--uh, here, see, Angelina Jolie Is The Next Screen Goddess: Venus Rising.
AJ: I guess I got a lot to do. I'm the next a lot of things. I mean, tomorrow--tomorrow--
CS: Let's just see another side of Lisa before we leave this film. Here is it is, roll.
(show clip--Lisa in chair "jam this in my aorta")
AJ: Whoopie. So fun.
CS: Tell me about the character of, uh, Gia, which is what Winona--as I understand, first saw--that sort of made her think of you--for Lisa. AJ: The work. Yeah. Yeah. Well, God, Gia is just--it's like hearing a friend's name--she's it's funny, people have actually accidentally called me that, which is weird--and I'm close friends with the guy that was the young man in the movie, his name is John Long--
CS: Just for the sake of people who didn't see this--
AJ: I'm sorry, she was--
CS: --she was a young model who became addicted--
AJ: --she was from Philadelphia, she was a young girl, she was really spirited, wild--she was really one of the first--
CS: Few.
AJ:--yeah, one of the first models to really, uh, you know, kind of show this kind of wild, free side, I think break from a lot of this, uh, this things out the seventies people were kind of glossy and she was real natural--and, she, uh--and then became addicted to heroin--and it's important to me that she that's spirit--cuz she was so spirited--before--she didn't--as opposed to being wild because of something--that she--just--
CS: She was wild.
AJ: --shows the sadness was because she was so bright before--anything--and--uh, and then she--was in--and then, she, was one the--from what I know, uh you know, was really one of the first, uh--you know it was--AIDS was coming out and she--she got AIDS--and at that time, uhm, people didn't know what it was and so they had this--you know, we had scenes where--we didn't really know what it was--we didn't understand--and there are these people in these kind of space masks--cuz yer contaminated--as far as they're concerned, then--and they locked her in a room and had all these kinds of things and she was--and she died and it was, uh--but she also had these notebooks of her de-which are her death and the poems in the end of the film--and--she--uh--she loved that song--from--it was in The Breakfast Club--everybody knows--"But Don't Forget About Me"--thing--but she used to run around singing it and she wrote these poems that--that were about kind of not--you know, that somebody could--somebody could learn somethi
g from what she went through-- but that--but that she that didn't regret her life and that she felt--so, somehow that sickness, uhm, really kind of put her back in the center of who she was and made her comfortable with her life.
CS: Roll tape. This is just one scene we'll show, in which she encounters a receptionist at her first meeting with a modeling agency. Roll tape.
(Clip)
CS: Now you were how old then? Twenty? Maybe?
AJ: Yeah.
CS: Twenty.
AJ: Yeah, mhmm, twenty, something like that I, uhm--there's an amazing--it did--Michael Cristofer, who I'm about to work with again--I'm so excited--uh--in Mexico--uhm--he just--I--I did everything I could to not do this film--to back away from it when I would get the sc--when I got the script--I don't know, she was too close to me--if I was worried about them making a model, heroin-addict, H--it--not doing it right and making it, you know, kind of superficial and uhm--but--but I met Michael and he forced me to, he said "You know, can can just read me-- just read for me and--I--cuz it'll help me with the script and stuff"--I had dyed my hair blonde and was like, pissed off and stuff and I came in I was like, "Fine"--so, I read and I--and, then, he said, "Can you help with the script?"--and I would go in and meet with Michael--"You know, she can't say that cuz--you know--and you can't"--and apparently my--my little tape was my screen test and I didn't know it and he said--and he fooled me--but--he was so--
CS: He saw what you were like.
AJ:--he really supported--
CS: Cuz he was what you were really like.
AJ: Yeah--he really supported me--he thought--that--I--he said if--if he couldn't find her--it doesn't do--but he was just--he's just--he's just this amazing person--he really c--cared about her--that's why the film worked--he--really liked her she--and thought that her problem--she just--she wanted to make everybody happy--she wanted love--this is what became the attitude--she wanted--you know--that if someone was gonna--which is why then the addiction was just--when she'd go down, she wasn't up and people--she was late and she was in--and people were--disappointed in her--and then if she could get up then everybody was happy with her and she was fabulous and--and she was fun and when she was depressed nobody was--nobody wanted to deal with that--so she wanted to be this--she--so--she was kind of--we thought she was kind of a--caring person--as crazy as it was--she also was really wild and really free--really sexual and--which you can take in the m--which I think I am and I think that is a--I think that's
good thing--I think that's--
CS: I do, very much. I wish I had more time. Uhm. You are remarkable.
AJ: Oh, mmm--thanks, thank you. I--I hope to do this again.
CS: January 14th, Girl, Interrupted, uhm--opens around the country.
AJ: Oh, okay. Go see it please.
CS: Go. Thank you for joining us. See you next time.
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Response 20 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Feb 16, 2003 (19:50) * 25 lines
(Clip – aorta)
Charley Rose: Tell me about the character of Gia. For what I understand it was what Winona first saw that made her think of you for Lisa
Angelina Joli: Well god Gia is just..its like hearing a friends name she’s..its funny cause people have accidentally called me that which is weird and I’m close friends with the guy who was the young man in the movie John Long. She was from Philadelphia she was younger very spirited wild was one of the first
models to really show this wild free side and break from the side of the
70’s people were really glossy and she was really natural. And then she
became addicted to heroine but its important to me that she was so spirited
before opposed to being this wild because of something the sadness was
because she was so great before anything. And she was one of the first, from
what I know..aids was coming out and she had aids and that time people
didn’t know what it was and we had scenes where we didn’t know what it was
and didn’t understand and there were people in these space masks cause she
was contaminated far as they were concerned and she died and she also had
these notebooks and these poems near the end of the film and she loved that
song from The Breakfast Club ‘Don’t forget about me’ and she used to run
around singing it and she wrote these poems about..you not so people could
learn something about what she went through. But that she didn’t regret her
life and somehow that sickness put her back in the center of who she was and
made her comfortable with her life.
Charley Rose: This is one scene we’ll show where she encounters a receptionist at a modeling agency
(Clip)
Topic 37 of 73 [movies]: Movie Queries
Response 21 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Feb 16, 2003 (19:56) * 25 lines
(Clip – aorta)
Charley Rose: Tell me about the character of Gia. For what I understand it was what Winona first saw that made her think of you for Lisa
Angelina Joli: Well god Gia is just..its like hearing a friends name she’s..its funny cause people have accidentally called me that which is weird and I’m close friends with the guy who was the young man in the movie John Long. She was from Philadelphia she was younger very spirited wild was one of the first
models to really show this wild free side and break from the side of the
70’s people were really glossy and she was really natural. And then she
became addicted to heroine but its important to me that she was so spirited
before opposed to being this wild because of something the sadness was
because she was so great before anything. And she was one of the first, from
what I know..aids was coming out and she had aids and that time people
didn’t know what it was and we had scenes where we didn’t know what it was
and didn’t understand and there were people in these space masks cause she
was contaminated far as they were concerned and she died and she also had
these notebooks and these poems near the end of the film and she loved that
song from The Breakfast Club ‘Don’t forget about me’ and she used to run
around singing it and she wrote these poems about..you not so people could
learn something about what she went through. But that she didn’t regret her
life and somehow that sickness put her back in the center of who she was and
made her comfortable with her life.
Charley Rose: This is one scene we’ll show where she encounters a receptionist at a modeling agency
(Clip)
Topic 37 of 73 [movies]: Movie Queries
Response 22 of 39: Autumn (autumn) * Mon, Feb 17, 2003 (17:55) * 1 lines
I'll bite--who the heck is John long, Terry?
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Response 23 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Feb 19, 2003 (12:37) * 6 lines
He's an old friend of mine who's selling his home in NJ and moving to Texas to my neighborhood.
It's a kick that the movie Gia is about his life.
He'll be here in Austin for SXSW around March 5.
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Response 24 of 39: Autumn (autumn) * Wed, Feb 19, 2003 (21:47) * 1 lines
Is he going to live in one of your houses?
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Response 25 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Feb 20, 2003 (12:17) * 1 lines
John will stay with us till he finds his own place.
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Response 26 of 39: Autumn (autumn) * Fri, Feb 21, 2003 (23:09) * 1 lines
Cool! Does that mean you'll be hanging out with supermodels from now on?
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Response 27 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Feb 24, 2003 (12:11) * 1 lines
John can bring along as many of his supermodel friends as he wants, we'll find room for 'em somwhere.
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Response 28 of 39: Autumn (autumn) * Tue, Feb 25, 2003 (16:49) * 1 lines
What a pal! :-)
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Response 29 of 39: Cheryl (CherylB) * Thu, Feb 27, 2003 (13:49) * 1 lines
Since John's supermodel friends will, no doubt, be very thin they shouldn't take up much room. They probably don't eat much, as well. Of course, one of them may be one of those people who eats five times as much as the average person and never gains weight.
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Response 30 of 39: Autumn (autumn) * Thu, Feb 27, 2003 (14:41) * 1 lines
Or one of those people who binges and...er, spends a lot of time in the bathroom...
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Response 31 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Feb 28, 2003 (09:04) * 1 lines
I'm glad we have four bathrooms then, Cheryl and Autumn.
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Response 32 of 39: Autumn (autumn) * Sat, Mar 1, 2003 (19:29) * 1 lines
LOL!
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Response 33 of 39: Rob Glennie (AotearoaKiwi) * Mon, Jun 2, 2003 (07:09) * 5 lines
Hi all
FYI: the attractive girl on the start of The Longest Day who is riding the bike past the German troops is Irna Gemich. Don't know why but I thought it was Sophia Loren.
Rob
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Response 34 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 8, 2004 (17:30) * 22 lines
Just a fun thing.
http://www.empty-handed.com/archive/2004_01_08.html
12:34 PM :: Final Fatality: the direct-to-video movie title generator.
Deadly Target. Fatal Lesson. Sudden Death. Oh yes, there's a great
tradition of naming your movie with an adjective and a noun. Most of these
movies star Anna Nicole Smith, end up being played on Showtime in the
early morning hours, and are released on video without ever seeing a
single theater.
I was thinking about the adjective-noun formula for these movies this
morning, and it gave me the idea for a simple JavaScript app. So if you've
got JS enabled (haven't tested it on Mac yet), click the button below for
a randomly generated movie title. (To make it a little more interesting,
I've also got some code to randomly generate the plot for the movie. No
pictures, though; you'll have to imagine the gun battles, the softcore sex
scenes, and the grimacing villain that would be included in the movie.
Have a look at these still frames from To The Limit to see what I'm
talking about.)
Topic 37 of 73 [movies]: Movie Queries
Response 35 of 39: Autumn (autumn) * Thu, Jan 8, 2004 (19:02) * 1 lines
Fun!
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Response 36 of 39: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Thu, Jan 8, 2004 (19:07) * 4 lines
"Oh yes, there's a great tradition of naming your movie with an adjective and a noun. Most of these movies star Anna Nicole Smith, end up being played on Showtime in the early morning hours, and are released on video without ever seeing a single theater."
Erm... Basic Instinct? Death Wish? Runaway Train? Urban Cowboy? American Beauty? Fatal Attraction? Easy Rider? (There are lots more... I didn't list "Midnight Cowboy" or "Star Wars" because, although "Midnight" and "Star" are used as adjectives in the titles, they are generally used as nouns)
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Response 37 of 39: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Thu, Jan 8, 2004 (19:08) * 1 lines
"Trading Places" is a double entendre, and "Trading" is an adjective in only one of the meanings...
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Response 38 of 39: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Thu, Jan 8, 2004 (19:11) * 5 lines
"Fatal Beauty" probably went straight to video, but that starred Whoopi Goldberg and Sam Elliot.
Goldberg: "Where did everybody go?"
Elliot: "They probably got a whiff of yer perfume!"
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Response 39 of 39: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Mon, Jan 12, 2004 (19:24) * 1 lines
And, of course, the two Garry Marshall/Richard Gere/Julia Roberts classics: "Pretty Woman" and "Runaway Bride".
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