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A year after arriving in Hollywood from his native Australia, Chris Hemsworth found himself in the actor’s purgatory of unemployment for nine months. After a brief turn in the 2009 Star Trek reboot—he played Captain Kirk’s father and was killed by Romulans in the first five minutes—Hemsworth was contemplating quitting and heading back to Australia. Out of luck and work, he paid the rent by babysitting his manager’s kids. Yes, the brawny Hemsworth was a babysitter.
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CALLING ALL SWATH FANS! The Huntsman's dwarves will be in London next week and are keen to answer all your burning questions about the film! Simply leave your question below and be sure to check back for their answers.
To leave a question head over to the SWATH UK Facebook! Good luck! Tarsem Singh’s decidedly family-friendly Mirror Mirror opens this Friday, while Rupert Sanders darker and grittier take on the Snow White fairy tale, Snow White and the Huntsman, will be released in June. In this exclusive interview with the director, he discusses his approach to the film and desire to make the fantasy very real.
The Fairytale Site Rupert Sanders on Kristen: "She’s a very one-of-a-kind actor" in new SWATH LA Times Interview3/22/2012 NC: And Kristen Stewart is your Snow White.
RS: She’s quite stunning. She’s really good. First thing I saw her in was probably “Panic Room,” and then I saw her in “The Runaways” and “Into the Wild.” She’s an incredibly talented actor. I think a lot of people think that she’s Bella Swan because she played that part so well, and she really epitomized that character from the books. She was really strict with herself that she’d wear brown contacts, which is hard to act with those things in, because so much is coming from the eyes, but that’s what Bella Swan had. She’s very serious about what she does, and she’s incredibly gifted, and she’s incredibly intuitive, and she’ll just try different things. It was great to work with her. Read More: LA Times Thanks to @Mel452 & @FierceBitchStew! Universal Pictures released a new trailer and extended preview for their upcoming, dark retelling of the classic Grimm fairytale Snow White earlier this week. Sprung from the mind of innovative commercial director Rupert Sanders, Snow White and the Huntsman has faced comparisons to Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror for the past several months. The release of the Disney film along with the footage from Sanders’ offering has made it clear that these are two very different films.
The trailer and preview answered many concerns that fans had about both the casting and tone of Snow White and the Huntsman. We had the opportunity to sit down with Sanders in a small roundtable discussion at WonderCon this weekend to discuss his aesthetic approach to the story as well as the backstory for the characters in the film. Outside of the magic mirror, how much do you play with the magical elements of the tale? RS: "There’s quite a lot. There’s a great sequence in the dark forest, which is really a forest that plays on the mind. Snow White runs in and she falls into a patch of spore-like puffball mushrooms that are hallucinogenic. She falls into that and instantly the trip starts to take her and she’s like trying to run away but then the whole forest starts to turn in on her. To me, as a hallucinator, when you do watch Snow White and that forest scene, they’re very hallucinogenic and I think we really tried to actually say that the forest is dangerous because it’ll play with your mind. The first five minutes in the forest is quite a mental acid trip but designed to kind of protect itself. The forest protects itself. There’s a lot of magical realism in there, there’s a lot of great symbolism in the enchanted forest. We created a world that was protected by the dark forest where the Evil Queen’s poison hasn’t reached and that’s where the magical fairy tale exists, where there’s still fairies and strange creatures. So it’s a very rich journey, you go into so many different worlds and see so many different things and hopefully every scene you go to there’s a new discovery of something else that is happening.” Can you talk a bit about casting Charlize Theron as the Queen and also just exactly how evil is she? RS: “When you’re playing an Evil Queen you can go into pantomime very quickly. I think what she did so well and what really we all felt was the best kind of root for the character was that she wasn’t playing pure evil. I don’t think anyone’s born pure evil. Things happen to them growing up that make them who they are and I think that’s very true with her backstory that you see later in the film. She’s a very disturbed character who’s desperately got to find this heart because she needs to live forever. It’s as simple as that. She’s dead on the inside but she’s determined that she will avenge her family and the tribe that she was with that was constantly brutalized by kings and other kingdoms. She’s determined that the world will feel the suffering that she felt and she will stop at nothing to do that. She’s driven by some dark machinations but she’s also incredibly wounded and fragile underneath that. You can relate to her, because we understand the things she’s gone through and why she’s become evil. She’s not just sitting around with a white cat on her lap and hacking people’s heads off. Her evil comes because of how distorted the character has become. So she plays it very real and I think that’s really the success of the character. She’s incredible to watch.” People were very skeptical when Kristen Stewart was initially cast in this film. But now seeing the trailer and all the footage, you really get why she’s perfect casting. RS: “Yeah, I think we were looking for someone who was obviously a great actor first and foremost but also someone who’s incredibly physical. Everyone thinks she is Bella from Twilight. I think she’s such a good actor that she encompassed that role so well that people think that’s how she is. When you meet Kristen, she’s so far away from that character. I’d first seen her in ‘Into the Wild’ and I was really blown away. I remembered that she was the girl from ‘Panic Room,’ ‘Welcome to the Rileys,’ ‘The Runaways,’ and now ‘On the Road.’ She’s one those actors who does these smaller films and then she does these big movies and she’s really managed her career so well in that way. She’s incredibly spirited and very kind of wild and also she’s got this kind of this alchemy to her. You’re not quite sure what it is about her but on screen she’s just incredible. And when you see her act you realize why she is such a huge movie star and why she’s going to continue to get bigger.” Read More: Screen Rant Thanks @FierceBitchStew for the heads up! Sam Claflin is a name you should familiarise yourself with. A mere two years into his career, he is about to move from the sidelines into the big time. After stealing the show in the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean, he was handpicked to be Kristen Stewart’s Prince Charming in the upcoming Snow White And The Huntsman, promising Pattinsonian levels of fame. First, though, the 25-year-old hits screens this spring as political firebrand Jack in the BBC’s White Heat, a multi-generational epic that prompts comparisons to Our Friends In The North. And given that launched the career of some guy named Daniel Craig, that can only be a good thing…
Read his interview here Because neither Snow White and the Huntsman nor Mirror Mirror has been released yet, it has yet to be decided whether director Rupert Sanders’ adaptation of the Snow White story has the easier, or the more unenviable task of being the second of the two to arrive in theaters. But early trailers and images from both suggest that Sanders’ film is dramatically different than Tarsem’s, indicating that the success of the respective films won’t come down to their release date but whether audiences prefer MIrror Mirror’s funny, fantastical interpretation, or Sanders’ decidedly more serious approach to the source material.
anders appeared at the 2012 WonderCon in Anaheim, CA on Saturday to premiere new footage from the film, which opens nationwide June 1, 2012. After his appearance in front of a capacity crowd in the Anaheim Convention Center’s exhibition hall, Sanders spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the challenges of coming (chronologically) second to another Snow White interpretation, setting the tone for his film, and finding the right balance between classic adventure and contemporary values. The Hollywood Reporter: This of course is your first feature after directing several big commercials with mini-narratives. Is the difference between commercials and feature films as big as people seem to assume? Sanders: To be honest, no. A commercial is a sprint – you have an idea, you work on it, you work on a story, and then it’s like bang! You’re going for three weeks. This is a year, so it’s a very different [process,] and we were working exceptionally hard. We had 45 setups a day, and we had a big story to get in quite a small space of time, so it wasn’t a walk in the park, but when you’re doing what you love, you’re willing to take the knocks, and it was a lot of fun doing it. Read more here:THR via @Vonch |