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| Keira Knightley details her hysteria in ‘Dangerous Method’ Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:17 AM PST NEW YORK, Nov 22 — In director David Cronenberg's new film about Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis, "A Dangerous Method", Keira Knightley plays Jung's formerly hysterical patient and lover Sabina Spielrein. The movie debuts in US theatres tomorrow, and Knightley told Reuters back in September at the Toronto film festival that she initially turned down the role due to its spanking sex scenes opposite actor Michael Fassbender, who portrays Jung.  Knightley poses for photographers as she arrives for the premiere of 'A Dangerous Method' at Leicester Square in London on October 24, 2011. — Reuters pic Q. Before the movie, what did you know of psychoanalysis? A. "Absolutely nothing. I mean I had obviously heard of Freud and Jung, and I knew vaguely that it was all meant to be based on sexuality and that your parents came into it somewhere. But apart from that, I really didn't know anything. So it was a question of starting from scratch." Q. You've said you read "a stack of books." A: "A Jung biography. And then 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' and the letters between Freud and Jung. It was Nietzsche, a little bit of papers by Freud, papers by Jung and then I found a book called 'Sabina Spielrein: A Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis.' That was Jung's notes on Sabina and then her dissertations and several papers, essays about her and then diary entries. So it was quite a stack." Q. Did you ever think about studying psychology? A. "No ... there are a lot of parallels in acting. You are trying to understand the world from a different point of view without judging it. Looking at it from a psychological point of view is something you do naturally as an actor anyway." Q. Your depiction of hysteria in the film has drawn mixed criticism. How did you come up with, say, your jaw movement? A. "That's the tricky thing, when you are reading a script that says, 'has a hysterical fit, ravished by tics'. And you go, 'OK, what does that mean? And what do you mean a tic?' So really, a lot of the reading was based on trying to get descriptions of tics and trying to understand what that was. "I wanted it to be shocking, because what was going on internally (for Sabina) was shocking. I just thought, I wanted to reflect that externally as much as possible, so I literally sat in my bathroom pulling faces at myself until I came up with this jaw thing. And I thought, 'Well that looks vaguely demonic,' and then I got on Skype with David (Cronenberg) and I had about two or three ideas and he went, 'That one.' Q. Is this your most difficult character yet? A. "As far as a role, every actor wants a role like this. It sounds perverse to say it's fun, but it's so interesting. Trying to understand that, to get into that point of view. Particularly if it's a filmmaker like David Cronenberg. I would have had serious reservations playing an hysteric with a director whose work I didn't admire as much has him." Q. Every actor says sex scenes can be difficult. These seemed particularly so. Would you agree? A. "They are always difficult and they are always exposed. This one was, sort of, something quite different... There were these two scenes, and I didn't know that I could do those two scenes. In the age of Internet and all the rest of it, I didn't know that that is what I want particularly to be out there. "I phoned him up initially to turn it down because I thought they were incredibly important for the piece. So it wasn't a question of trying to negotiate them out of the film because I thought they were very necessary for the film. But I just thought, 'I don't think I can do that.' "So, I phoned up David and said, 'I love you, I love your work, but I really don't think that I want to do this.' And he said, 'Well it would be a tragedy if you turned the role down because of that, so if necessary we can take them out.' And I said, 'No, because I understand why they are there'. He said, 'Well look, I don't want it to be sexy, and I don't want it to be voyeuristic. I want it to be clinical.' "We talked for quite a long time about exactly what it was and trying to understand it psychologically. Once we discussed, I said 'All right, fine, as long as it is not sexy. That brutal horrible aspect is kept, and it isn't a sexy spanking scene.'" Q. Do you ever look back to learn from any performances? A. "I don't watch any of them. I haven't seen 'Bend It Like Beckham' in nine years. It's all a learning curve. There are going to be good performances and there are going to be bad performances. There are going to be experiences where you click with people and experiences where you don't. There are performances that I know just from having been there where I haven't done well, just because I couldn't, for one reason or another. And then there are performances that I know on the day, actually that was pretty good." — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| UK wins five International Emmys as Gaga drops in Posted: 21 Nov 2011 09:15 PM PST  Lady Gaga (left) and Lythgoe pose for photographers at the International Emmy Awards in New York November 21, 2011. — Reuters pic The Emmys, which honour television produced outside the United States, extended their reach at its 39th annual awards. While the United Kingdom dominated, winning five of 10 competitive categories including best actress for Julie Walters and best actor for Christopher Eccleston, it was not a sweep as in recent years when it won as many as eight awards. Belgium, Chile, Portugal, Canada and Sweden each won one award, with Chile winning its first-ever Emmy, for children's programming for "What Is Your Dream?" Belgium won best comedy series for "Benidorm Bastards," a hidden camera show in which elderly people play tricks on younger folk. The UK series "Accused," which chronicles the stories of suspects awaiting trial verdicts, was named best drama. Eccleston won for his role on "Accused" while Walters triumphed for her performance as British Labour MP Mo Mowlam. Neither was on hand to accept their awards. But the show got an injection of Hollywood glamour when Gaga took to the stage in an unannounced appearance to present the Founders Award to Lythgoe, who also executive produces "So You Think You Can Dance," calling him her favourite executive in the business. Lythgoe returned the warmth, saying that Gaga, who wore a relatively understated black gown and sported a long blond wig and dark glasses, "certainly is, for my money, the most creatively talented woman in show business right now." Among other honours, Sweden's "Millennium," a crime-solving drama that pairs an investigative journalist with an anti-social female computer hacker, won best TV movie or miniseries, while Canada won for its documentary, "Life With Murder," about a man accused of murdering his sister. The arts programming and non-scripted, or reality, Emmys were both won by the UK's Twenty Twenty Television for the opera-world set "Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne," and "The World's Strictest Parents," in which wild teenagers are sent to live with families run by strict parents. Subhash Chandra, the media magnate behind India's Essel Group of companies and Founder of ZEE TV, India's first Hindi satellite channel, received the Directorate Award. Portugal won its second consecutive Emmy for telenovela, winning for revenge drama "Blood Ties," about two sisters, one long presumed drowned in an accident survived by the other. Other presenters at the ceremony, hosted by actor Jason Priestley, included Ally Sheedy, journalist Dan Rather and Tony award winner John Larroquette. — Reuter Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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