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Post by Lauryn on Jan 22, 2007 18:08:51 GMT -5
Pierce naked has always worked as a dream sequence for me.. Actually I'm rather distracted by the interview's transcriber not knowing how to spell Rodin. Rodan makes me think of Perry Rhodan, uber-prolific SF author of space operas. More suitable for "Mars Attacks!" Rodan made me think of the monster from the Godzilla movies. Yes, very distracting. Ace ROFL!!! I'd forgotten that, not being much of a Godzilla fan. In that case, maybe it wasn't a transcription error, but simply bad dubbing. <wink>
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Post by sparklingblue on Jan 22, 2007 18:08:56 GMT -5
Marie: Naked! Cora: It's not naked. It's nude. Marie: What's the difference? Celia: Art. (from Calendar Girls) I think this concept also applies to the scene we're discussing here.
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Post by donnamcg on Jan 22, 2007 19:10:48 GMT -5
MMMMMMMM.... you all are making me crazy here!!! It's soooo amazing a dream! Donna
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Post by IcyCalm on Jan 22, 2007 21:07:35 GMT -5
I understand the "naked" scene was cut, Pierce said so himself in the lengthy interview. I detect a disturbing trend here. First D.A.D and now Sarafim Falls: they go through the bother and expense to film these nude/intense sex scenes only to have them edited out. Either the producers are having a great deal of fun for themselves or the scenes are being kept for future blackmail purposes. Either way, they are messing with my head.
IcyCalm
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Post by sparklingblue on Jan 23, 2007 7:18:27 GMT -5
But why would they want to blackmail Pierce? I am convinced there is nothing about his nude body he needs to worry about. I concur with you, IcyCalm, that they are clearly withholding the art from us.
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Post by Barbara on Jan 23, 2007 17:24:26 GMT -5
IC:
You are absolutely right! This is a disturbing trend to raise the hopes of red blooded American women, only to dash them!
Shame on them!
Love...B
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Post by Ace on Jan 24, 2007 15:47:35 GMT -5
Brosnan enjoying post-Bond career
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Irish actor Pierce Brosnan says he won't limit his roles to suave, leading-man types now that his term as cinema icon James Bond is officially over.
In his gritty new western, "Seraphim Falls," he plays a former Union Army captain who endures incredible hardships while fleeing a vengeful ex-Confederate Army colonel played by Liam Neeson he wronged during the American Civil War.
"For me, as an actor at this point, it's nice to get another color on the palette," Brosnan told UPI in New York Tuesday. "The question always is, 'Am I trying to get away from Bond?' No. I'm just trying to work. Bond was a character and a great one, a great role, a great time and now I'm starting again."
Brosnan said he loved the physical challenges of doing many of his own stunts in "Seraphim Falls."
"Being in the outdoors, there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide," he said, joking how he occasionally wondered, "Should I be throwing myself down this mountain?"
"If you love your job and you've got the wherewithall to do it, you get out and do it," he said. "Handsome leading men, hopefully, I can go back and do that, as well."
Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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Post by Ace on Jan 24, 2007 16:19:16 GMT -5
Entertainment News Wire: Actor at home on the range
Angela Dawson
Jan. 25, 2007 12:00 AM
HOLLYWOOD - Growing up in Ireland's County Meath, Pierce Brosnan loved John Wayne and Clint Eastwood Westerns. Seeing those actors playing rugged cowboys in far-off America fueled the impressionable youth's desire to be an actor. He dreamed that one day he might be up on the silver screen riding horseback on the open range.
Brosnan, 53, has finally gotten a chance to live out that fantasy. In the action thriller "Seraphim Falls," he plays Gideon, a Civil War veteran who has taken to the lonely wilds of northern Nevada to escape the haunting tragedies of his past. But he's not alone in the snowy mountain range. Someone wants Gideon dead and will stop at nothing to accomplish that goal. What follows is an intense chase movie in which Brosnan's character must use his well-honed survival skills to evade a relentless pursuer and his posse. Fellow Irishman Liam Neeson plays Brosnan's antagonist, Col. Carver, whose motives become clear during the course of the film.
Arriving for an interview, Brosnan is clean-shaven and dressed casually in a dark brown suede jacket, tan pants and an open collar black shirt. He is tanned from spending six months in the Caribbean. His modern, sophisticated appearance is a stark contrast to the scruffy "mountain man" look he sports in the film.
"Getting back to being superficial and leading man," he jokes of his cleaned up look. "I kind miss the beard, though. I thought it gave me a certain gravitas, but my wife hated it."
"Seraphim Falls" was a delight for Brosnan but it also was one of the most physically challenging movies he's ever made. Among the trials he faced: riding horseback in the snow, getting near-naked in freezing temperatures, floating down rushing rapids and traipsing through desert salt flats in 110-degree heat.
"It really was an endurance test," he recalls, chuckling. "The reality of a script and the reality of shooting a script are two different things."
The film was shot mostly in the mountains and deserts of New Mexico over a four-month period in late 2005 and early 2006. The remote locations meant no movie set luxuries, especially since the project was modestly budgeted and had a tight shooting schedule.
Tumbling in the roaring rapids for one sequence was frightening, the actor recalls, even with a safety harness attached.
"The power of prayer is very strong in moments like that because you know things can go wrong very fast," he says. "If the wires slipped, well, you're going out in a little bag."
Even scarier for Brosnan was riding horseback. Though he knew how to ride prior to the shoot, he hadn't been in the saddle in nearly a decade after injuring his back in a jumping accident. (He had back surgery and has recovered but was still feeling a bit coltish at the thought of riding across pockmarked prairies.) Indeed, one of the stuntmen - Neeson's stand-in - took a tumble one day while they were rehearsing a scene.
"When you have to do a scene 20 times and you're half a mile away (from the camera) and you're up at a full gallop and you've got long lenses pointed at you, you just hope that you don't go down," he says. "Anyway, nobody else did, thank goodness."
Running around in cold, wet clothes wasn't Brosnan's idea of a winter holiday. He even shot one sequence, which didn't make the final cut, where he is was lying naked in the snow. "But it was too much of a distraction," he says with a wink.
Director David Von Ancken, who co-wrote the script with Abby Everett Jaques, says that his two big stars were game for roughing it and didn't require much movie star pampering.
"We were a pretty tight group, fairly far out there in the middle of nowhere many days, but these guys never left the set," Von Ancken recalls. "Very early on, they both made it clear to me that they were going to be my partners in making this."
Brosnan had long wanted to make a Western using Irish actors but he says Von Ancken beat him to the punch.
"His script just touched me," he says. "It was very eloquently written and it had the challenges of the narrative, so simple, a chase movie with the underpinnings of redemption, forgiveness, the brutality of war, that tore this country asunder, and is still going on to this day in its own disguised way."
Brosnan also relished the opportunity to work with Neeson, whom he knew only casually. "I'm a huge fan of his work so I said, let's go make it,'" he says.
Hiring two Irishman to play American Civil War veterans was purely coincidental, insists first-time director Von Ancken. They weren't playing Irishmen necessarily, but he didn't care if their native accents came through in the dialogue because many Americans of that era were Irish immigrants, and it would not have been unusual if these two characters spoke with an accent.
The irony that struck Brosnan was the fact that Neeson is from Northern Ireland and he is from the independent south, and they are playing soldiers who fought on opposite sides of the American Civil War.
Though "Seraphim Falls" is an action film about one man chasing another, it also serves as an allegory about violence and the tragic ripple effects of war. Gideon is a survivor of the bloody battle of Antietam, where he lost both of his sons fighting the rebel insurgents. Later, he loses his wife to illness so he takes to the mountains to live out his life.
"I'm sure he wanted to put a bullet in his head many times but he hasn't because he's too fearful of it, too fearful of dying, having seen so much death," Brosnan observes.
The anti-violence, anti-war message resonated with him, and the actor is not shy about voicing his opposition to the current war in Iraq. He calls it "atrocious and meaningless."
A naturalized American citizen, Brosnan makes his home in Hawaii with his wife, Keely Shaye Smith, and their two children, Dylan, 10 and Paris, 5. He also has a 23-year-old son, Sean, from his first marriage to the late actress Cassandra Harris, as well as two adult stepchildren.
With his iconic James Bond role behind him, Brosnan is happy to have moved on to other kinds of roles in various genres. He knows he always will be identified with British agent 007, but he hopes to create other memorable characters as well.
He earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of a low-life hit man in 2005's "The Matador." He is also producing films through Irish DreamTime, a production company he founded a decade ago with producing partner Beau St. Clair. Among their collaborations: "The Thomas Crown Affair," "Evelyn" and "Laws of Attraction."
Shooting recently wrapped on Irish DreamTime's sixth production "Butterfly on a Wheel," in which Brosnan co-stars with Maria Bello and Gerard Butler. The psychological thriller centers on a couple whose seemingly perfect life is upended when their daughter is abducted. Brosnan plays the nasty kidnapper. He's wrapped the romantic thriller "Married Life," with Rachel McAdams, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. And he recently signed on to play a gambling mentor to a young poker player in "The Big Biazarro," based on the Leonard Wise novel.
"There's life after Bond," he says, laughing. "You know, it's so crazy. I mean if I believed everything I read, I wouldn't make a move. I wouldn't do anything."
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Post by Ace on Jan 24, 2007 18:58:49 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Jan 24, 2007 19:58:42 GMT -5
am New York: Pierce Brosnan takes on the WestBy Marshall Crook Special to Am NewYork January 24, 2007, 6:27 PM EST Even before his four-film run as James Bond, Pierce Brosnan had one of the classier personae in Hollywood. Clean-cut and sophisticated, Brosnan became synonymous with 007 for nearly a decade. His latest role in the Western, “Seraphim Falls,” takes the Irish actor 180 degrees away from the Bond brand. “I¹ve managed to strip away [the Bond image],” Brosnan said. Rife with gore and dirt, this western represents the freedom, “both creative and financial,” the actor has earned after years spent in an Aston Martin. In “Seraphim Falls,” a bearded, bearskin-clad Brosnan gives an almost silent performance as Gideon, a hermetic soldier on the run. “This is a man who has gone months, maybe a year without using his voice,” Brosnan said. The film begins as a sweeping, post-Civil War chase picture, but evolves into a hallucinatory morality play. Gideon, and Liam Neeson¹s Carver, both scarred by war, hunt each other in the American Southwest and perhaps meet the devil, portrayed by Angelica Huston. “I like things that have a surreal flavor to them,” Brosnan said, referring to the film¹s religious allusions. Beyond a childhood ambition to be in a Western (“John Wayne was the man” he said), his role in “Seraphim Falls” seems another in a series of similar character choices: lonely men whose moral code isn¹t just black and white. Like the raffish Thomas Crown, hero-thief of “The Thomas Crown Affair,” Gideon is as capable of sin as he is heroism. Brosnan is set to revisit Crown in a sequel, “The Topkapi Affair,” another foray into ambiguous morality. “There is something appealing about the anti-hero,” said Brosnan, though he insists he does not seek such roles out intentionally. “But then,” he said, interrupting himself, “maybe I do.”
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Post by Ace on Jan 24, 2007 20:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by DCZinger on Jan 24, 2007 20:27:41 GMT -5
Wow, Ace...Is this tooo wondeful that EVERY REVIEW basically says Pierce was a marvel to behold as an actor?
No wonder I'm seeing his beautiful face grinning ear to ear.... I'm thrilled for him.
I may bite the bullet--being the easily queasy sort and not into blood and gore and killing--- and go SEE this one in a real theatre.
DCZinger
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Post by Ace on Jan 24, 2007 21:54:51 GMT -5
It would be nicer if some didn't seem so shocked. I thought critics got past that particular myopia with Matador, but then before that I thought they got over that with Tailor of Panama and so on. I like westerns, and they're such a rarity that I'm really looking forward to this film. But I'd probably wait until DVD if it wasn't for Pierce, the praise for his performance, and the lure of how he and the old west will look under the talented lens of Toll. For that I'm willing to go and peak through my fingers a few times.
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Post by Ace on Jan 24, 2007 22:06:11 GMT -5
Watching Westward: Cinema Society's SoHo Grand penthouse Seraphim Falls after partyWednesday, January 24, 2007 Natasha Richardson in J. Mendel and Liam Neeson © Patrick McMullan (NEW YORK) A testament to the draw of new drama Seraphim Falls, the celeb-studded Cinema Society afterparty at the SoHo Grand’s intimate penthouse impressed even the film’s own star. “Well, there are a few celebrities here, like Lauren Bacall; she’s a friend but she’s also a great icon, and she said her husband, Humphrey Bogart, would have loved it, too,” Liam Neeson raved at the Andrew Saffir-hosted evening. Judging by the crowd, the Western—directed by David Von Ancken and also starring Pierce Brosnan—which comes out tomorrow, may just be a straight shooter. “The intimate setting takes the pressure off, but I find it excruciating to watch my own stuff,” added Neeson as he held court near the roof deck after watching the film and took in rave reviews from Natasha Richardson and Kim Cattrall. “But Gabriel [Byrne] and Pierce know me too well to give compliments —we just acknowledge each other.” The attached penthouse suites split up the mood. While Carson Kressley dined on comfort food like fried chicken and mac ‘n cheese in one suite, Six Degrees star Erika Christensen talked to DJ Marlon B, who set up spin tables in the other. “I was going through the DJ’s music to see what he had,” the actress explained. “He’s playing salsa right now which is fun for me, but no one seems to want to dance!” Others who came downtown for the occasion included Ann Caruso, Jackie Astier, and Bobette Cohn, it was fellow actors like Julianna Margulies who had the most to say. “I thought it was visually spectacular; it’s very rare to see a movie that’s so still.” The Snakes on a Plane star mingled with guests before running into Brosnan and heading out for the evening, exclaiming “You’re who I was looking for!” ALINA DIZIK
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Post by Ace on Jan 24, 2007 23:04:51 GMT -5
So all that and they don't use the scene? Pffft.
BROSNAN FACED THE BIG FREEZE FOR NUDE SCENE
1-25-07
PIERCE BROSNAN risked hypothermia on the set of new period drama SERAPHIM FALLS when he stripped naked in icy temperatures. The Irish star had to bare all in the snows of Los Alamos in New Mexico on a frosty morning, and couldn't get warm all day. Writer/director DAVID VON ANCKEN says, "The location was about 11,000 feet up and when we got to the set at five o'clock in the morning it was 30 below zero Fahrenheit. "The upholstery on your car is cracking when you touch it; that's not an exaggeration. Even when the sun comes up it's still 10 below zero. "It was 9.8 degrees and Pierce has to be buck naked in the snow. Even our warmers couldn't keep him warm. We had to turn his character's bear coat inside out so the fur was facing him. That was the only thing that could keep him warm; forget the heaters and the hot water bottles. "Pierce was a great sport. It was absolutely freezing."
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 24, 2007 23:30:40 GMT -5
It would be nicer if some didn't seem so shocked. I thought critics got past that particular myopia with Matador, but then before that I thought they got over that with Tailor of Panama and so on. As Gleiberman as much as said in his EW review, even when an individual Brosnan performance gets props, it's almost if they think it happened somewhat by accident, or as if it's a one-shot reactive thing -- Brosnan takes on his image. They can't see him in relation to anything else. And it's also their problem with his "image" that they can't see that the art resides in the actor, not just in the chemistry of a certain role. Hard to go broke over-estimating the herd instinct and amnesia of critics. Maybe the SMA will spend the rest of his life getting re-discovered <wink> Of course it works as often the opposite way, recent easily cited case in point with Casino Royale. Daniel Craig's been a critic's darling for some while due to his propensity for offbeat, dramatic or heavy art house roles, so since they've already annointed him, it's much easier for them to buy in to the framing that he's the best actor ever to play Bond, and some are happy to extend it to the best Bond ever because it slots right in with their preconceptions. Ditto on all counts. I need to stop reading the reviews because now I really want to see this movie!
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Post by Ace on Jan 25, 2007 3:04:48 GMT -5
I think there must be something in the water with critics. Behold the very next review I found online or at least the first two paragraphs. Pierce Brosnan, best known for playing James Bond in a series of films over the last decade or so (before Daniel Craig recently assumed the role), is an actor too easy to dismiss in advance. What could he be but urbane, sardonic, supremely self-confident — a man who knocks women over with a lifted eyebrow? But his serious work, including a role in The Tailor of Panama (2001), has been better than one might expect. Even so, it’s startling to see him in the new, almost mythical Western, Seraphim Falls. Bearded and middle-aged, he plays opposite Liam Neeson (his fellow Irishman) in a role that lets him display a range of real talents.. Oy.
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Post by sparklingblue on Jan 25, 2007 8:10:09 GMT -5
Pierce Brosnan, best known for playing James Bond in a series of films over the last decade or so (before Daniel Craig recently assumed the role), is an actor too easy to dismiss in advance.
Ugh.
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Post by Ace on Jan 25, 2007 13:58:55 GMT -5
Another junket report this one from CinematicalA streaming video (if you can get it to play) interview with Pierce at Hollywood.com
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Post by steeleinc on Jan 25, 2007 15:26:01 GMT -5
Great interview clips. Thanks for the link.
Debra
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