Smith will Suffice
18-09-04, 03:19
hey guys, i was reading this article on IGN.com in the movies section, it was an interview with angelina jolie, mostly about Sky Captain but also other films...like the most of u will be, another dagger of utter dissapointment has been stabbed in my heart when u read the answer to one of the question she was asked.
here is the interview:
Q: Was it difficult to do a film that was almost entirely blue screen?
ANGELINA JOLIE: It was a bit strange. I think that Jude [Law] and Gwyneth [Paltrow] had it worse because they had things coming at them that they were freaking out about, and I had ships coming in behind me and things like that.
Q: Did your part feel like you were playing out a childhood fantasy?
JOLIE: Yeah. There was one moment where I had the bubble on and the eye patch and I was just sitting on a box. And I wasn't in a plane. I wasn't anywhere. I was just sitting and there was a room full of a hundred people and my accent had to be very cool and I was just sitting on this cardboard box pretending that I was sitting on something completely different. At first it felt very silly and then I think that it's great to get back to what's fun about this business. It's creative and you try things that aren't safe and be silly again and be bold with your choices. So it was nice. It was refreshing.
Q: Did you have a back story for how Franky lost her eye and were you involved in that look?
JOLIE: I was. She always had one eye, but I did love that about her. We had talked about a back story. I think that the idea is that if this works well, there will be that in a prequel possibly.
Q: How was the scene done where you fly out of the water?
JOLIE: That was me on my box. That was me with the plastic, with the big bubble on my head that we kept having to wipe because it kept getting fingerprints on it. Yeah. I was just actually sitting on a box pretending to be doing all of that. I felt very weird.
Q: Do you have a preference between fantasy and more realistic films?
JOLIE: I loved doing Alexander, and I think that as an actor, it's more fulfilling. It has a soul and you [get to] be this woman and you can go through so many different emotions and you can analyze yourself and the world and your relationships and so, when you're done with that film, you feel like you've really grown and changed. So I like that.
Q: How was working with Oliver Stone and what did he teach you?
JOLIE: Oliver is a…(Laughs) I think that you can agree with or disagree with Oliver or where he's coming from, but you can't kind of debate who he is. He is who he is and he's coming very straightforward with everything. So I appreciated that. He didn't allow anyone to be safe. If anything, he's demands a certain kind of commitment and bravery and doesn't allow for anyone to kind of get too relaxed. He pushes things so that they're more. So for that he was really great. And I think that he is, like I said, agree with him or not agree with him, he does know life more than most people. He has lived very fully in his life. So when he does films that deal with war and loss and love and pain and relationships or whatever it is, he's drawing from a very deep well.
Q: Were there moments on set where Stone pushed you really hard, scenes that were painful?
JOLIE: It wasn't so much painful. It was just that he expects everything. You can't really come in and say, 'I don't feel like, or I'm not sure of or I'd like to change this or give me a few more minutes to get in this place.' It's kind of like he wanted me to be her. He wanted me to come on set as her. He wanted us all to live as our characters and he'd get upset if I lost my accent when we were out to dinner. He wanted to see everyone become who they were. But he would just test me. My first shot in the studio, I had the six-year-old Alexander who's this little boy who's the sweetest little boy and I had to sing, which I hate doing with my accent, and hold this python and try to get the python around this boy's neck while I'm singing to him and convince him not to be afraid. On your first day, you know, and then he somehow expects everything. Then it was getting late and I had to switch snakes in the basket and put the other one in there and they were getting kind of wild and they said, 'It's nighttime and they think it's time to feed,' and I said, 'Oliver, it's nighttime and apparently it's feeding time.' He was like, 'Oh, get in there.'
Q: What is your part in Shark Tale?
JOLIE: I'm the bad fish. My mom actually said, 'Why are you the bad fish, honey?' It's been an amazing process. To do an animated film is a very different experience. It's been years of kind of coming in. I think that the first time I did it, I was just trying to make voices and I hate my own voice. Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' And so to do something with just your voice is hard.
Q: How is it trying to envision a character in the studio that you won't see until later?
JOLIE: Well ... when I was invited in to meet with them on Shark Tale, they brought me into this room and there were all these different pictures of fish. They were going to explain to me what they wanted me to do and I kind of looked around and I saw this fish that I could see Will [Smith] doing. And I looked at this other fish and then I saw this fish with this big red mouth and pointy eyebrows and I thought, 'They can talk as long as they want. I know that I'm that fish.' That was my fish. So I saw her immediately and I knew it and I liked her. It was me just kind of filling those shoes because they made her very sparkly, sexy. So yeah, she came first.
Q: Can you talk about doing Catherine the Great [in the upcoming Randall Wallace film Love and Honor]?
JOLIE: I love those historical characters. But I do think that they need to be done right, which is why it's never been a situation where I'm certainly doing that. That one, the more I've researched her the more I think that her story is very complicated and needs to be done correctly. And so I get nervous that they could be done wrong. I take it seriously, especially if it's a whole people's country or a people's hero. To step into that and say, 'Okay I'm going to be this woman that you revere or respect or like or dislike, she's a part of your history.' And I just take that more seriously. I want to make sure that it's how people see her and it represents who she actually was. So I'm fascinated by those kind of women. Olympias was that kind of a woman in Alexander. She wasn't everyone's favorite woman. She was a bit dark, but I still wanted to try and respect who I thought she was.
Q: Do you think you'll do another Tomb Raider?
JOLIE: No. I don't think so. I mean, I loved doing them and I learned so much. I had a great time and I think that I did them. So I tend to not want to do them again.
Q: What drives you to do all your charity work?
JOLIE: I think that it's just that I've seen a lot. I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves. I think that it was…I wouldn't feel right about the money that I earn or the money that I have if I wasn't generous with it. I think that it's not a big deal for me to be generous with it. And the money it would cost here to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.
Q: Is there a film or franchise that you'd like to be a part of, a dream job?
JOLIE: I don't know. I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.
here is the interview:
Q: Was it difficult to do a film that was almost entirely blue screen?
ANGELINA JOLIE: It was a bit strange. I think that Jude [Law] and Gwyneth [Paltrow] had it worse because they had things coming at them that they were freaking out about, and I had ships coming in behind me and things like that.
Q: Did your part feel like you were playing out a childhood fantasy?
JOLIE: Yeah. There was one moment where I had the bubble on and the eye patch and I was just sitting on a box. And I wasn't in a plane. I wasn't anywhere. I was just sitting and there was a room full of a hundred people and my accent had to be very cool and I was just sitting on this cardboard box pretending that I was sitting on something completely different. At first it felt very silly and then I think that it's great to get back to what's fun about this business. It's creative and you try things that aren't safe and be silly again and be bold with your choices. So it was nice. It was refreshing.
Q: Did you have a back story for how Franky lost her eye and were you involved in that look?
JOLIE: I was. She always had one eye, but I did love that about her. We had talked about a back story. I think that the idea is that if this works well, there will be that in a prequel possibly.
Q: How was the scene done where you fly out of the water?
JOLIE: That was me on my box. That was me with the plastic, with the big bubble on my head that we kept having to wipe because it kept getting fingerprints on it. Yeah. I was just actually sitting on a box pretending to be doing all of that. I felt very weird.
Q: Do you have a preference between fantasy and more realistic films?
JOLIE: I loved doing Alexander, and I think that as an actor, it's more fulfilling. It has a soul and you [get to] be this woman and you can go through so many different emotions and you can analyze yourself and the world and your relationships and so, when you're done with that film, you feel like you've really grown and changed. So I like that.
Q: How was working with Oliver Stone and what did he teach you?
JOLIE: Oliver is a…(Laughs) I think that you can agree with or disagree with Oliver or where he's coming from, but you can't kind of debate who he is. He is who he is and he's coming very straightforward with everything. So I appreciated that. He didn't allow anyone to be safe. If anything, he's demands a certain kind of commitment and bravery and doesn't allow for anyone to kind of get too relaxed. He pushes things so that they're more. So for that he was really great. And I think that he is, like I said, agree with him or not agree with him, he does know life more than most people. He has lived very fully in his life. So when he does films that deal with war and loss and love and pain and relationships or whatever it is, he's drawing from a very deep well.
Q: Were there moments on set where Stone pushed you really hard, scenes that were painful?
JOLIE: It wasn't so much painful. It was just that he expects everything. You can't really come in and say, 'I don't feel like, or I'm not sure of or I'd like to change this or give me a few more minutes to get in this place.' It's kind of like he wanted me to be her. He wanted me to come on set as her. He wanted us all to live as our characters and he'd get upset if I lost my accent when we were out to dinner. He wanted to see everyone become who they were. But he would just test me. My first shot in the studio, I had the six-year-old Alexander who's this little boy who's the sweetest little boy and I had to sing, which I hate doing with my accent, and hold this python and try to get the python around this boy's neck while I'm singing to him and convince him not to be afraid. On your first day, you know, and then he somehow expects everything. Then it was getting late and I had to switch snakes in the basket and put the other one in there and they were getting kind of wild and they said, 'It's nighttime and they think it's time to feed,' and I said, 'Oliver, it's nighttime and apparently it's feeding time.' He was like, 'Oh, get in there.'
Q: What is your part in Shark Tale?
JOLIE: I'm the bad fish. My mom actually said, 'Why are you the bad fish, honey?' It's been an amazing process. To do an animated film is a very different experience. It's been years of kind of coming in. I think that the first time I did it, I was just trying to make voices and I hate my own voice. Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' And so to do something with just your voice is hard.
Q: How is it trying to envision a character in the studio that you won't see until later?
JOLIE: Well ... when I was invited in to meet with them on Shark Tale, they brought me into this room and there were all these different pictures of fish. They were going to explain to me what they wanted me to do and I kind of looked around and I saw this fish that I could see Will [Smith] doing. And I looked at this other fish and then I saw this fish with this big red mouth and pointy eyebrows and I thought, 'They can talk as long as they want. I know that I'm that fish.' That was my fish. So I saw her immediately and I knew it and I liked her. It was me just kind of filling those shoes because they made her very sparkly, sexy. So yeah, she came first.
Q: Can you talk about doing Catherine the Great [in the upcoming Randall Wallace film Love and Honor]?
JOLIE: I love those historical characters. But I do think that they need to be done right, which is why it's never been a situation where I'm certainly doing that. That one, the more I've researched her the more I think that her story is very complicated and needs to be done correctly. And so I get nervous that they could be done wrong. I take it seriously, especially if it's a whole people's country or a people's hero. To step into that and say, 'Okay I'm going to be this woman that you revere or respect or like or dislike, she's a part of your history.' And I just take that more seriously. I want to make sure that it's how people see her and it represents who she actually was. So I'm fascinated by those kind of women. Olympias was that kind of a woman in Alexander. She wasn't everyone's favorite woman. She was a bit dark, but I still wanted to try and respect who I thought she was.
Q: Do you think you'll do another Tomb Raider?
JOLIE: No. I don't think so. I mean, I loved doing them and I learned so much. I had a great time and I think that I did them. So I tend to not want to do them again.
Q: What drives you to do all your charity work?
JOLIE: I think that it's just that I've seen a lot. I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves. I think that it was…I wouldn't feel right about the money that I earn or the money that I have if I wasn't generous with it. I think that it's not a big deal for me to be generous with it. And the money it would cost here to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.
Q: Is there a film or franchise that you'd like to be a part of, a dream job?
JOLIE: I don't know. I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.