Great interview to listen to as a whole. SWATH talk starts around 2:04!
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Kristen in Premiere Translation:
Revisiting Snow White today is before all a look and attitude business. Fun, funny, and coloured to one side; dark, tortured and gothic to the other. Speaking of look, a true shock aesthetic is waiting for us in Pinewood's corridor when Snow White/Kristen Stewart heads to us wearing the medieval armor that she wears in the movie. "I didn't want to play a Disney-style heroine,says the actress directly. I mean, come on look at me, I'm more like Joan of Arc right? In our version, Snow White's a warrior." A warrior that spends almost the all time yomping in the forest next to a quiet huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, the handsome Thor) and bringing together an army to evict the queen of her kingdom. If you hoped a scene where she's baking an apple pie while humming Someday My Prince Will Come, you might wait a long time. " It's good 'cause when I was a kid, I was never dressed up as a princess. My thing was more Dracula", she says with a smile, aware of the impact that has that kind of statement when the world still see her as Bella Swan in Twilight.. "But we're not here to play differences game, she says just before she was going back to the set. Before you go see the movie, reread the Grimm's version and you'll see that we stayed very close to it." Rupert Sanders in Premiere Translation: "Walt Disney made Snow White as an entertainment to watch in family, but our version will be much more darker. Anyhow, Grimm's tale is a material filled of wealth. As Shakespeare's plays, every kind of rereading is allowed." (On the first trailer) "It's one of the first things we shot. A lot of key elements are in there: the mirror scene, the queen's bath, Ravenna's transformation into a crow... That allowed us to affirm our ideas and to show the visual language of the movie." "I haven't seen one picture of Tarsem's version but our projects seem so different, that's why I'm not worried. It's not like two girls who arrive at a party and find out that they wear the same dress!" "The idea of the eight dwarves was in the first version of the script. I found it excellent so I guess this was crazy enough." "It's an amazing cast. With such actors, I could have shoot a gansta movie!" "The names of the dwarves, Snow White's costume.. In the end, they're just details. We approach the same topics as the Grimm brothers: the obscure journey of a young girl who became a grown-up, the need to bring light back in a world infested by darkness. They are universal metaphors and, I hope, timeless." Thanks so much to @KSFrancecom for the scans & translation! :) Do you still get the same thrill when walk onto a set now as you did on that first film?
I don't think you can help being blown away. On the last film I worked on, Snow White and the Huntsman at Pinewood, they built a castle on the back lot that was as big as a real one. There were 500 extras night after night, 30-50 horses galloping through it, explosions… you'd be pretty tired if that didn't whet your appetite. Your work is all done with available light--has the high sensitivity of the FX range helped? My Nikons are brilliant, and totally reliable – and I do take them to extremes! Shooting Hanna in Lapland we were down to minus 30 yet the exposures were totally consistent. And I'm shooting very high volume, too – I ended up with 30,000 exposures on each camera for Snow White and the Huntsman over the 17-week shoot – that's a tough work rate for any camera to manage. Do you have a favourite out of all the films you've worked on? It's so hard to pick just one. I really enjoyed Enemy at the Gate, and Atonement is pretty high up there – I was shooting both digital and film, which was very rewarding. I also had a great time on the Snow White set – the whole look was amazing. Hanna was good – very varied, as we went all over Europe shooting it. And Gambit was challenging but pretty good fun. When I first started out, there was a tradition that certain photographers would get called for certain types of jobs – just romances, just comedy, just action. I wanted to do everything. I'd go insane if I only did one genre. There's a great variation and diversity in what I do – there aren't many areas of specialisation that come close to this. Read his entire interview here: Nikon Europe via @KstewAngel If you remember the Sixties, the old joke goes, then you weren't there. Writer Paula Milne was there and she has harnessed her powers of recollection for an epic new BBC2 drama that not only spans the Sixties, but the Seventies and Eighties as well. White Heat follows a group of students thrown together in a London flat-share in 1965, and it's already been dubbed "Our Friends in the South" – a comparison with Peter Flannery's 1996 series Our Friends in the North that Milne (The Politician's Wife, Small Island) believes is not quite on the mark.
[...] "I didn't want it to be just a group of London students... I wanted to have this mix, but at the same time why would they be together?" asks Milne. Her solution was to turn this particular house-share into a deliberate social experiment engineered by student landlord Jack (Sam Claflin). A radicalised MP's son whose father bought the house, Jack gets to make up the house rules, including a ban on monogamy, that reflect the free love (or "contingent relationships" – Jack is keen on his Sartre and De Beauvoir) spirit of the time. "I went to art college and there was quite a lot of that," says Milne, "particularly the rule about not sleeping with anyone for more than three consecutive nights. There was a sense of 'let's run this differently'." The six hour-long episodes are set respectively in 1965, 1967, 1972, 1979, 1982 and 1990, taking in anti-Vietnam War protests, IRA bombs, industrial unrest, the Falklands War, Aids and Thatcher. The mix of the personal and the political is framed by a flash-forward to the present day, in which their old house is being revisited by the former friends after one of their number dies and makes them the executors of his or her will. The survivors haven't seen each other in 20 years ("something cataclysmic happens in 1990," says Milne), and the identity of the dead character is withheld until the final episode, although from the opening episode it clearly isn't the feminist Charlotte (played in the present day by Juliet Stevenson) or former art student Lilly (Lindsay Duncan), who are the first to arrive. The younger versions of Charlotte and Lilly are played by Claire Foy (Little Dorrit, The Promise) and MyAnna Buring (The Twilight Saga); they're joined by Claflin, Lee Ingleby (Being Human), David Gyasi, Reece Ritchie and Jessica Gunning. "Getting the right cast was crucial," says Milne. "They must age from 18 to their early 40s and they have to have the maturity to actually get into the mind-set of somebody in their thirties facing childlessness, or whatever. We cover seven time frames... and they all say they are lucky to play such parts. Me, I think we are lucky to have them." Read More at The Independent Marvel Studios has a new poster for The Avengers out this morning, joining the seven-member superhero team in a bit of comic book chaos on the streets of New York.
Along with the full image, EW has exclusive interviews about what the Joss Whedon written-and-directed film does with this crew of iconic characters. Tomorrow, a new trailer for the film — out May 4 — will debut online. CHRIS HEMSWORTH AS THOR The point of last spring’s movie about this god-like being from the celestial realm of Asgard was that an arrogant but powerful man had to learn humility to become a true hero. Thor doesn’t need to be told twice, says Chris Hemsworth. In The Avengers, he returns as someone with a greater sense of responsibility for the world – or worlds – he inhabits. “There’s a maturity to the character because of the journey he went on, certainly. He was a petulant sort of kid at the beginning of Thor, and by the end of it hopefully you walk away thinking that he is matured and there was a grounded quality to him that wasn’t there before,” Hemsworth says. Read More at EW.com What can you share about Snow White and the Huntsman?
Filming it made me feel like a teenager, like I was 12. The movie itself is a very ambitious project, and to me playing Ravenna was a lot of fun. What was it like filming with the young Kristen Stewart, who plays Snow White? From the moment we met there was this amazing chemistry between us. We had a great time filming that movie. I really hope people enjoy it. Kristen is only 21… I remember when I was that age. Her performance is fantastic. In fact, she’s quite the fighter. Thanks TwilightPoison! Is there something you really admire about Snow
White? Yes. It's strange playing a character that you could never truly embody. I can't have Snow White's effect on people. I can't actually be completely selfless because nobody is. You can only really play a character like that in a fairytale and play it with an awful lot of integrity. She's a very fully formed but "very farfetched from the reality that we live in" type of person. She also is strong in a very different way than you'd expect. Do you mean the strength of character? I mean, like she's strong. She can kick ass. But you're not watching going, "Yeah! Kill him!" Really, it's more like you're watching someone having to do something that doesn't just go against your sensibilities or that you agree with. It's gutting. Read More at Teen Vogue Kristen Stewart found it a "very confidence building experience" to punch Chris Hemsworth during filming for 'Snow White and the Huntsman'.
The brunette beauty - who plays the titular character in the forthcoming movie - gave the Hollywood actor, who stars as Eric the Huntsman, a black eye while shooting the motion picture but she admits it made her feel "horrible". She said: "It's actually a very confidence building experience. I don't like punching anyone. So, you know, when you dream and your hand just slides right down their face, it doesn't do that in real life. It really works. Read more here: NZ City Photo: Universal Pictures Just a few days ago, we told you that we met Kristen Stewart on the London set of Snow White & The Huntsman. Yeah. We’re still not over it either. And then we told you that she’s awesome and so pretty and so so nice in real life. And we think this interview with Kristen — ya know, the one we did in her trailer (!!!) — will prove, it guys. She even talked to us about Twilight!
You know you want to read on… (oh, and make sure you check out our Chris Hemsworth interviewfirst if you haven’t already!) Teen.com: First things first — what do you love most about playing Snow White? Kristen Stewart: It’s strange playing a character that you actually could never truly embody. I can’t have Snow White’s affect on people. I can’t actually be completely selfless because nobody is. You can only really play a character like that in a fairytale and play it with an awful load of integrity and not have it just be like a fake character in a movie with other people that do seem real. She’s a very fully formed but very farfetched from the reality that we live in type of person. She also is strong in a very different way than you’d expect like bullying a person in an action-type adventure movie. Read more here: Teen.com Here we are, moving right along with our Snow White & The Huntsman coverage, and today, the focus is on the movie’s hottie number two aka the huntsman, Chris Hemsworth. We’re even surprised we were able to utter words being in his presence on set, to be honest, but somehow managed to chat him up after that infamous scene where Kristen accidentally punched him in the face. While upside down. Yup. That really happened and we really saw it happen. We were drenched from rain, shivering from, well, being in London and shaking from BEING SO CLOSE TO CHRIS HEMSWORTH, but lucky for you, we found out deets on his character, the love triangle, and whether or not he’s going shirtless in the flick.
You know you want to read on… (oh, and make sure you check out our Sam Claflin interview first if you haven’t already!) Teen.com: You and Kristen were hanging upside down for so long! What were you talking about while you were up there? Chris: “Get us down! Get us down! What are we doing?” Honestly, it’s using every bit of energy to kind of hold yourself in a certain position so your arm doesn’t tear off, ’cause you’ve got a harness hooked up at your shoulders and then your ankles, and it’s all different. Teen.com: Was it fun? Or not so much? Chris: Not that much fun at all, actually. It’s a head rush. It’s like going on a roller coaster a hundred times upside down. It’s like that sick feeling coming off. It looks good though, hopefully, so… Editor’s note: It did look good. And so did he. Wink wink. Teen.com: Ok, we need to get to the bottom of this. Is there a love triangle happening between you, Kristen and Sam’s characters? Chris: It’s not so much a love triangle. It’s kind of what the individual characters feel for each other. I think they are kind of unaware of whether anyone else is involved within that mix. It’s not quite as public or as open I guess as a love triangle. It’s sort of obvious. Read More at Teen.com! |