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Now that’s what I call Method acting!
Let’s say you’re an executive at New Line Cinema. You have a movie scheduled for wide release on December 1 called “The Nativity Story,” about the life of the Virgin Mary.
You have a young actress in the lead, Keisha Castle-Hughes, who gave a remarkable performance in the indie hit “Whale Rider” and became the youngest Best Actress Oscar nominee at the age of 13. You also have a promising director, Catherine Hardwicke, who has shown considerable skill in directing teen actors, most notably Evan Rachel Wood in “thirteen.” Hey, maybe you’ll get a few more noms out of this.
Then your star confirms that she’s pregnant. At the age of 16. Not long before she has to start selling her movie about the Virgin Mary.
Do you think to yourself:
A) “Cool! Now our movie gets all kinds of free publicity!”
B) “Aaaahhh! I didn’t mean to make ‘The Last Temptation of Mary!’ Thanks a LOT for sending the fundamentalists after us, Keisha!”
C) “I need to join the ‘Apocalypto’ crowd for that support group on how to deal with stars’ blood pressure-raising offscreen behavior.”
D) All of the above?
Put another way, does this help the movie/hurt the movie/make no difference?
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By Allie D.
October 11, 2006 2:05 PM | Link to this
She ruined it when she said she knew who the father was. She should have claimed immaculate conception. ;) The irony here just makes me giggle, really. I think it might actually hurt the movie a little bit. Whereby Mel’s anti-semitic remarks were not a surprise in light of certain elements of Passion of the Christ and wouldn’t have mattered a wit to the Fundies who lapped it up with a spoon, a 16 year old, unmarried pregnant girl promoting a religions movie to Fundamentalists might prove to be more difficult. I’m sure it will do well enough, though.