Superman Returns New Interviews!

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Q: Am I crazy or did I see Kirsten Dunst sitting in the airplane?
Bryan Singer: When you're doing color timing it's without sounds and we've been doing the timing, the color correction all week and all I've been doing at things. When you have sound you're mixing sound so I don't even wear my glasses. But when I was watching the footage I found the most bizarre people. I don't want to draw attention to it because it's like a guy from "Deliverance." I don't know.

Q: Can you talk about the scenes you deleted? I know you shot like a big Krypton scene.
Singer: I did. I shot a lot with the space sequence. Return to Kyrpton. There was a 2 hours and 45 minute cut of the film that I showed to friends and family. While watching it with a group of people, watching the movie unfold I just felt it was really interesting on its own and deserved a life somewhere else. Maybe on DVD. I think it should be on 3D IMAX frankly because it's designed to be 3D IMAX. At some point I'm sure you'll see it some time and it's got a little thing that's going on. It's very elegant. In the context of this movie where this movie needed to begin and what it needed to be about, I didn't feel it. It's just one of those things that you bravely do. No one told me to do it, to make these cuts. I had no time restrictions. Nor pressure whatsoever. I just felt the movie doesn't need this so I did something else instead. It could exist later in this form. I think it would be coolest in 3D because of the stuff that's flying around.

Q: How long could the movie have been?
Singer: It was 2 hours and 45 minutes. That was this cut that I screened for friends and family. That's why I stepped back and said I, OK the time has come for me to sit back and bring a bunch of people in a room and just watch it with them. You learn a lot from that moment. They don't even need to say anything to you. I had a few friends I'd ask. But you know it. You feel it in the room. I've lost the audience here. Lost them and then at one moment I got them back. You just learn and that was the 2 hour and 45 minute version.

Q: I was surprised at how much it is an homage to the Donner films. I didn't expect that.
Singer: I'm a big fan of the Donner film. I think what Donner did at that time was kind of summarize what had been done in the original comics and the Fleischer cartoons and the original series and the radio show. I think he had crystallized a lot of that and I didn't want to retell the origin story. I think if you're over the age of 25 you know the original Superman. Somewhere you remember it. If you're under the age of 25 you know Smallville or you just know something about it so I never wanted to tell an origin story. If I was going to tell a return story, I had to pick a place to jump off so I chose Donner's film that I love so much. There's different designs you know. The design is very much a nod to the early comics. The art deco and all of that. When it came to the Fortress of Solitude and even the casting of Brandon, it's very much John Berry and of course Christopher Reeve, things like that come to mind. It has to encompass all of that.

Q: What about casting Brandon? He looks so much like Christopher Reeve.
Singer: It's uncanny isn't it? It's actually not what motivated me to cast him. It just was part of a package. Package (he's laughing) Part 2. Again he has to look and sound as though he's stepped out of your collective memory. Part of it is Christopher Reeve and part is George Reeves. Part of it is the height, the character of voice, the high voice, the low voice. (Says in a high voice) This is a job for (says in a low voice) for Superman. So that informed my decision.

Q: The line that Frank Langella says, the truth and justice. Was it deliberate to leave out the American way?
Singer: Yes. They did it so well with justifying the line "truth, justice and the American way" and the original Superman she says "you're going to end up fighting every politician in Washington." He says, "you don't really mean that Lois." She says, "you've got to be kidding." He says, "Lois I never lie." And that's such a great scene because they took that expression, which I don't shy away from, and they commented on it the way Americans are very passionate, very patriotic and self-depreciating at the same time. Americans are the first people to be weirdly simultaneously patriotic and self-criticizing. It's one of our rights as Americans. We can do that. With that notion, I didn't have a better way to take the edge off it so I did it that way. But, he is an American superhero. There's no denying that. He's the ultimate immigrant, raised on a farm in Kansas. He represents what we as Americans idealistic want to be. In that way I shy away from it, but I don't know how to. But, he's not just fighting for America. He's fighting for, you know, the world. He always was. So it's not shying away from it, it's just treating it in not a better way, but a different way. I couldn't measure up to how they treated it.

Q: What's going on the DVD?
Singer: I think there will be some deleted scenes. Some charming scenes. Wonderful things that existed beautifully on their own. Moments that were wonderful. I had a tough thing. James Karen was in the picture and you know he plays this gentlemen Ben Hubbard that Martha Kent has been involved with and it's wonderful. They're wonderful beats and hopefully those will be there because I'd hate for people not to see them. It's the magic of DVD.

Q: Are you going to do an extended cut?
Singer: No, I don't think I'll do an extended cut. Not at least in the DVD. I've never done that. Those are kind of weird you know. The director's cut. No this is the director's cut. You just saw it. They don't tell me what to cut. I'm not in a place in my career that anyone tells me that I have to cut anything or put anything in.

Q: You had a crew shooting the shooting the whole time. Did they capture anything specifically you're looking forward to sharing?
Singer: I think so. We'll see. I'll look at the footage. I don't know. We'll see. I haven't seen a lot of that stuff cut together. I like what they put in the Weblogs. It's kind of funny. A little embarrassing, but at least it shows we take the movie more seriously than we take ourselves.

Q: Can you talk a little more about the casting and what appealed to you about Brandon?
Singer: One the physical. Secondly there are aspects of his personality, his upbringing, his view of life, and demeanor that I knew in talking to him that I could draw from. That I could mime for this character and the way I saw this character. I just Supermanism's Clarkism's. Different things that I knew I needed for this character and I started to see them in over a two hour conservation with him where by the end of it I got on a plane to location scout in Australia and in my head I didn't tell anybody, but I said I have my Superman.

Q: Did you talk to a lot of other actors for the role?
Singer: I didn't talk to a lot of other actors. I saw tapes. For other incarnations of the movie, a lot of movie stars went on tape too so I got to see a lot of movie stars in t-shirts and capes. Strange.

Q: Can you talk about the balance between the emotional aspects of the film and the action sequences.
Singer: The whole thing about action and adventure, it only really works if you care about the people that it's happening too. The great thing about science fiction and fantasy is you can tell human stories from a complete unique perspective. If you go back and watch the original Star Trek series, if you go back and watch Star Wars, it's all there. All the human, myth, love all that stuff and yet space ships and stuff. And that's what great and that's what intrigues me about this. I want to make a love story. I've never made a chick flick. I want to make something that my mother and father will tear watching and yet I love that science fiction and fantasy. Just love it. So how do I merge these two things so that you know the teenager in me will want to run out and see it, but at the same time a grandparent can take the grandkids to see it.

Q: What made Kevin a good Lex Luther?
Singer: He can balance comedy with sadism better than any actor I know. I knew that and in developing the role I always viewed him in my head and it enabled us to write certain moments because I knew I would ask him to do the role. I thought he'd say yes. I hoped he'd say yes. I assumed he'd say yes and then he could execute those moments. And this gives you freedom to be a little wacky and a little vicious. He can do those two things very well.

Q: Why Kate Bosworth for Lois?
Singer: I had seen in her "Beyond the Sea," Kevin Spacey's movie that he had directed. I watched it twice. She was really great in the movie. I called Kevin about her and he said she was terrific to work with. Very trusting and then she has great chemistry in the room with Brandon.

Q: You left the X-Men franchise to shoot this. Have you seen the latest film?
Singer: I did. I went opening night to the Chinese Theatre.

Q: What about it did you like?
Singer: I thought when you have to balance all of those characters and then you have to introduce new characters on top of that as well as service all of the characters that have been created. It's a momentum task. I was genuinely impressed with what he did. I ran into Brett [Ratner] at the theatre and we had this moment. We're friends so we're like 'Oh my God!' He's talking to me about the movie. He's telling me and I'm holding the cup. A Superman cup from the theatre. It's weird. It's like when Brandon and I one night, Warner Brothers sent us a print. We'd get Warner Brothers movies sent out there and one night after a long night of shooting me and Brandon and some of the other crew came over and opened a beer and watched "Batman." Do you know what it's like to spend all day making "Superman" with Superman and then watching "Batman?" Very bizarre moments.

Q: Is there a point where you rise above thinking these are more than comic book movies?
Singer: Yeah, I think that point came when Richard Donner made "Superman" the movie.

Q: If you do a sequel are you going to put off Logan's Run again?
Singer: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

Superman Returns flies into theaters on Wednesday, June 28th.

 

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Q: The film is a new story, but you hit the main themes of the first two movies. The Daily Planet and the Kent farm. How deliberate was that and why did you choose to do that?

Mike Dougherty: It was very deliberate. I view this is almost like a second origin for the character at least in terms of the film universe. He has been off the big screen for 20 odd years. He's persisted through comics and things like Smallville. But, the character of Superman has been absent and I think we really want to make sure that if we're going to be reintroducing the character then you have to reintroduce audiences to the Daily Planet and Jimmy Olsen and Perry White and to the Kent farm just to reacquaint everyone with old friends in a way.

Dan Harris: We believe the first Superman is our can and our bible for these characters and these situations and theme and tone and all of these things. Along the way it was changed and kind of got lost and fell off the tracks in the third and fourth movie. This was our opportunity to move forward with the story and yet retell some of the things from the first movie that we love to bring the audience up to speed.

Q: Is this a sequel to the first two?

Dougherty: My philosophy is and I'm sure Dan and Bryan are probably sick of me saying this, but think of it closer to the James Bond series in right now they're making "Casino Royale." Is it Bond 20? James Bond 19? I don't know. It's a new chapter in the story. Each James Bond film doesn't necessarily reference specific events that took place in the prior films.

Q: But, some of them do and this film does address some specific references like the Fortress of Solitude and the article that Lois Lane wrote just like some of the James Bond films reference his wife.

Dougherty: Right. In other words the comparison matches. What I'm saying is, don't get too caught up in specifics.

Q: What I'm saying is I think that makes it a sequel.

Dougherty: Sure.

Harris: I just don't know if it includes three of four. You don't want to be rude here, but I don't know if I thought of three and four when I was working on this.

Dougherty: It doesn't necessarily dismiss three and four, but it's not referencing Gus Gorman and Nuclear Man either. We're not saying they didn't happen.

Harris: We're not saying they did.

Dougherty: Exactly. Much like James Bond films. They'll reference certain films, but necessarily other ones.

Q: How did you update Lois Lane to make her fit into the 21st century?

Dougherty: She's a mom for one.

Harris: And she's an unmarried mother. Lois Lane has always been a kind of feisty kind of contemporary, you now, forward character. I think she's been ahead of her time for a long time and Superman has been the classic guy. This time around I don't think I think they just fit into their roles.

Dougherty: I think you know what's really interesting is there's this great scene in the first film where she's telling Clark the last thing she wants to do is settle down and be a mom. 'My sister has two kids and a mortgage. I'd go bananas.' All of a sudden, she has a kid. She has a house. She's got a mortgage and she's got a fiancé. I think she's actually a more modern portrayal of working women these days and there was a period at least I think, and women can correct me if I'm wrong, no offense where it was, 'I've got to be a career woman. I've got to have big shoulder pads and be like working girl.' The Sigourney Weaver character. ' I don't have time for a long-term relationships or kids.' And I think women are coming around to realize that it's okay to be a mother. It's okay to be a wife and yet still have a career. So Lois is still very much this feisty career woman, but at the same time she is a mom.

Q: Are there scenes that you love that were cut out of the film?

Harris: There's an extended return to Kyrpton sequence in the beginning of the film that isn't part of the movie. You can read it in the screenplay which is going to be published which has everything we shot and probably has an hour more of footage.

Q: Where he just sees the devastation and the ruins by himself?

Harris: He's exploring the ruins. He goes looking for it. He finds devastation and barely escapes with his life. It was good, but it just wasn't right for the movie in the end because it's better that that question is left unanswered so the audience wants to know. By the time Superman answers the question you feel that's the right moment in the story to tell what happened.

Q: Was there another entire sequence that was cut?

Dougherty: I don't know about another sequence, but more like bits and pieces of each scene. You know for running time and other reasons they were cut out. There's a moment where James Marsden's character is talking to Lois and he's kind of doing the research on Superman. It's in the movie. The entire sequence. 'So how tall is he again?' He's asking about the super powers and there's a moment where James goes 'and what is it? He fires lasers out of his eyes.' And she's like 'heat vision.' It was just a moment where James Marsden is talking about a superhero who fires lasers out of his eyes. It was just kind of a funny moment.

Harris: The movie used to open different. There was an extended opening that incorporated footage from "Superman" the movie and then kind of moved forward. In the script so you can see it. It was cool, but it didn't feel right for the movie.

Dougherty: It had too many prologues. Originally it had theatre curtains and the theatre curtains open up and you had a kid at the counter…

Harris: The curtains open to a comic book and the comic book opens to a 1970 version of the film and that turned into the title sequence. It didn't work.

Q: Can you talk about working with Bryan and how closely was he involved in the process and did that make your job harder or easier?

Dougherty: It's a close collaboration. Unlike other films that are made these days where the screenplay gets written and developed before a director is even hired. This is a story by the three of us and it's a very close collaboration everyday from writing the script all the way through shooting it even through post production.

Harris: When the movie comes out it will be about two years to the day since we started working on this film. Since the day we started working on it and until now we've been together two years working on it everyday.

Q: You guys have a cameo in the film?

Harris: Our cameo survived for the first time ever and we must have been on Bryan's good side that day because the only reason it survived is because you can not cut out of the shot. It's used as a grid.

Q: What scene?

Dougherty: The museum.

Harris: It passed by us as it hits Lex and we were in "X-Men 2."

Dougherty: In a museum scene that got cut.

Harris: I was wearing a fake mustache and Mike and I were technicians working on Wolverine. It was ridiculous.

Dougherty: You look like a little Hitler.

Harris: 'Cause I had that mustache on. My movie that I directed I put myself in and cut myself out so this is the first time I've survived.

Q: Why does he keep putting you in his movies if he cuts you out?

Harris: Because we keep guilting him to. He's puts all of his other friends in the movie so we're like 'Bryan you know for two years put us in a movie.'

Q: What's going on with Logan's Run?

Dougherty: I haven't read the latest draft so I don't know.

Harris: I don't know what Bryan's doing with the movie yet.

Q: What about Ender's Game?

Harris: Same question. I don't know. "Ender's Game" has been reverted at this point back.

Dougherty: Which is weird because Ender's and Logan's we were almost working on concurrently for Warner Brother's and then the moment Superman came back up we had to pretty much leave both projects for this and they got handed off to other people.

Q: What about Charlie Chan?

Dougherty: Again it's in development and we don't know what's going on.

Q: Are you signed on to do the sequels for Superman?

Harris: If there is a sequel with Bryan involved we will do it.

Q: Were there other plot lines to the story?

Harris: This was our entrance into the franchise. It's a return story. It's called "Superman Returns" for the reason that he's returning to Earth, but he's returning to us as movie goers as audiences. This version of the story let us do that. It's bringing him back and now that he's back we can do anything.

Superman Returns flies into theaters on Wednesday, June 28th.

 

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Q: What was the best part of making this film?
Brandon Routh: The best part, there's so many best parts, I don't know. The best part for me now is people seeing it and now that we're finally finished and getting to see the final product. And for being everything that I wanted it to be and intended for it to be. I'm so proud of the film and Bryan and Kate and Kevin and everybody. It's a pretty amazing thing and I'm so excited to be part of it. The worst thing as always it's probably going to be the physical aspect of being in the harness and flight. Making the flight happen. Some days it was great. Some days it wasn't fun you know depending on how early in the morning I was up and in the harness and if I had to work out at 4am in the morning. All those things.

Q: Kate said you were very patient. I can't believe you didn't have a melt down.
Routh: I learned a lot of that stuff. People ask about the pressure of playing this character and a lot of these things and what I decided very early on was that I would just not listen to it and kind of believe there wasn't any because there was no way that I could continue and portray this character if I were to be worried or have too much apprehension, so I kind of took strength in the character of Superman. I lived in that as much as I could in my own personal life so that I could not worry about things. You know, worry doesn't really get you anywhere except maybe a frown.

Q: Have people pointed out a resemblance to Christopher Reeves before this movie?
Routh: Yeah, my first manager actually talked about my resemblance. I was a big fan of Chris and it was probably one of the main reasons he decided to work with me. Since then people have commented every now and then.

Q: Did you read the Superman comics?
Routh: I did not read the Superman comics. I was a big fan as a kid. You know, I think I've told this story many times about the first time I saw the movie wearing the Superman costume or pajamas with a little cape my mom still has. I was so excited to see the film at age five or six that I gave myself a migraine. I had the little silver bowl next to the couch in case I had an upset stomach through half the movie. I was always throwing things up in the air and seeing how they would fly. Making parachutes out of things and seeing how things would fly and my parents were like 'this kid is crazy." I didn't read the comics, but I was a big fan of the films.

Q: Have you been recognized while you have been out?
Routh: There have been some yeah. In Monaco, there was a guy who had on a Superman shirt that I signed for him. He said he was a big fan. You know, some people are quite nervous when they meet me which is interesting because they haven't seen the film. It shows the power that Superman has, great power the character has all around the world.

Q: What favorite hobby are you going to miss doing without people recognizing you?
Routh: Well, I actually like to go, I wouldn't call it a hobby, but I actually kind of like walking around stores. Like the grocery store in the evening for some reason. It's soothing.

Q: You just go in and walk around the isle?
Routh: Yeah, I go with my girlfriend like places like Whole Food where you can read about the products and all that stuff. Knowledge. You're learning about health. I don't know why. It's just interesting.

Q: Do you do this separately when you don't need groceries?
Routh: No, it's usually when I need something. But, I enjoy it as I'm doing it.

Q: You just need to put on a pair of glasses and nobody would recognize you.
Routh: I've tried that, it doesn't work.

Q: Did you try to mimic Christopher Reeves at all?
Routh: Well, the film is written to be the vague sequel to the first two films. Inheritably in the script there are many homages in the character and especially written from that character so there are similarities because of that. The only thing that was done really only to mimic Chris' performances pushing the glasses up with the forefinger. I did that sometimes and sometimes Bryan would love a shot and I didn't do it, he'd tell me to do it because it fit in a certain shot or sometimes I adjusted the glasses like that. Certainly all of my performance was influenced by Chris. Chris was my Superman, so when I read the script I envisioned the script. He was in my head all the time. My Clark is really everything that comes from him is, all about excitement about being around when he first sees Lois again, you know, meets Jason and Richard. It's all about him being so excited and where the goofiness and clumsiness comes in. There's a certain amount that's always going to seem like Chris and all the other people who have come before because that's kind of where we see as a collective audience. We don't want to vary too much from that.

Q: Have you seen the IMAX 3D?
Routh: Oh it's fantastic. I've never seen anything on 3D so that was just fantastic. I was just blown away in the plane sequence where you see the pen and recorder floating and the mailbox standing there. It was just stunning. I'm going to have to see more because I only saw four minutes of it. I'm definitely going to have to see it in IMAX somewhere.

Q: What is it like seeing yourself as Superman on the screen?
Routh: It's weird. We basically shot the film in chronicle order for Superman anyway. So I think I actually feel that way about it. I feel more confident in the end of film. I think the character is actually making that journey in the film. Even though he's only been gone for five years he's still kind of getting back in the swing of things. So I actually feel that emotionally when I'm watching it. It's still weird for me to watch because I'm Superman, because it's weird. It's much easier for me to watch Clark. I enjoy watching Clark and it was great fun to be able to play him.

Q: Can you talk about wearing the suit and what kind of dieting you had to do?
Routh: Well, I did a lot of things. I lifted weights obviously. I did Rope Yoga which is a mix between Pilates and Yoga and then my first trainer Gudni Gunnarsson created. It's a great core building routine so that was put in place so that I could sustain myself with the wires and the harness for extended periods of time. So we did that early on. Also with weights and especially training my body to get in shape. We got my body in shape to be in shape. I mean, I was in shape, I was an athlete before that. I did certain things, but never to this extent. By the time we got into Australia, two months into my training we starting hitting the weights really, really hard and building more mass and I put on 22 pounds for the film. It was fantastic to see my body change in five months time. I had a little extra time when we went into Sydney because we didn't start filming Superman right away so it was pretty fantastic. I've dropped a little bit now because I'm not working out as heavy definitely now. To actually do it again, if and when we go again because it's such a powerful feeling to.

Q: Did you have to maintain a certain size for the suit?
Routh: Yeah, I had to and there were a couple of times where we got over zealous in our workout and I started to got, you know, I had to back down because you start to lift a lot, but you have to maintain the limit.

Q: Can you describe the first day you were on set and wearing the costume?
Routh: I think I probably did some mental relaxation and take some deep breaths in my dressing room before I went out. The first scene that we shot if I remember correctly is actually not in the film anymore, but it's in the Daily Planet. Some of the crew had seen me in passing for costume test and we'd done small things like this. But, this was the full crew and actually there was all of the people in the Daily Planet, all of the extras and they couldn't look and turn around. We didn't want anyone taking pictures or shots. A photo hadn't been released yet and so everybody had to keep their backs turn. These 100 extras you're in the Daily Planet so that was kind of cool. Just to know the first time it was on camera, it was really powerful. That was kind of the final piece that I needed to be secured in the role was to actually have some footage in the camera and to know that day was marked and I had become the character.

Q: What did Bryan do for you as the director?
Routh: He's gentle. We had a lot of great conservations. We didn't really rehearse which we didn't end up needing to do because we had so many in-depth conservations about the character and how he felt about certain situations. Being open to how he felt about the character was always so important so he always had great insight and he was coming from a different place than I was. It was awesome because there were more layers in there as well as Dan and Mike and other people being open to people's ideas and pieces of information. Very creatively if a line wasn't working for me, we'd talk about it and change it, alter it or if it wasn't quite working the right way we'd figure it out. It's a creative process and if I can't be creative and know that he's able to be creative on the day we're actually filming then it kind of shuts everything down.

Q: You're about to do the talk show circuit for the first time. Are you excited?
Routh: I'm excited. You know I've pretty much grown up with all of them. It will be fun for my parents I think to see a lot of the stuff. My grandma will get to see me on Regis and Kelly. Proud moment for her. I use to work out with Reg. at the NY Reebok sport's club. He didn't know me, but he was there.

Q: Are you going to have different stories to tell everyone?
Routh: I always try to make it different somehow. You know, make sure they ask me different questions.

Q: Can you talk about working with Kate? Did you envision her as Lois Lane?
Routh: I was open and didn't have anything envisioned. She was cast because she really stood out when she tested with me. It was a very simple test. But we did two of the most important scenes in the film and she was just great. She got to me and to do that in an audition is so powerful because I didn't have a script. She didn't have a script. She created this character. The history of the character was so important because we hadn't played these characters in the film two films that we're kind of being part of. We both had to create this history between the characters. We'd come together not in a happy time. So captivating and so strong. The difference in how she creates the characters is important. She's not nice and cheery to Clark necessarily which is what they used to have. But, she's got big things happening in her life. She's got a kid. She's got all of this stuff happening. She doesn't have time to deal with him in the same way anymore. So she was fantastic and so easy and great to work with. She's the professional. She's the one who even though we're both young, she has the experience and never once did I feel like I was acting with Kate Bosworth. She was very collaborative and just amazing.

Q: How many sequels are you signed for?
Routh: We'll do as many as everyone wants to get together and do.

Q: What did your girlfriend think of you in the tights?
Routh: She's great. We all grew up with Superman so she was a fan before, so it was pretty cool for her to see me like that.

Q: Do you have another project coming up?
Routh: I actually have a short film that's going to be playing at CineVegas. It premieres on Friday and I'm going to be there Monday to see it. It's a 35 mm short film called "Denial." It's about a choice one man has to make between the woman of his dreams and his sanity. It's quite different from Superman, but awfully exciting and I'm really excited about it. Courtney produced that film and a friend of ours Joel Kelly wrote and directed it.

Q: Did you get to keep the suit?
Routh: No, I actually don't have a suit, but I did keep the curl. The fake curl. The fake curl that they made and never used.

Superman Returns flies into theaters on Wednesday, June 28th.

 

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Q: How was it working with Kevin Spacey again?
Kate Bosworth: It was a very different experience. Actually, it was just as wonderful and amazing. I love Kevin! He's such a special person to me. But you know we played love interests. In "Beyond the Sea" he was my husband and in this one, he's my archenemy. That was so fun for us to play on and laugh about. And in this one, as well, he… it was fun because in "Beyond the Sea" he was directing it and producing it and starring in it, so he dawned a lot of hat in that and was juggling a lot of balls. In this one I got to work with him as purely just on an acting level and that was really neat. And, I again am constantly impressed by Kevin, because he came in to do this film and he had six weeks and six weeks and not a day over because then he had to fly, on the last day of the six weeks, back to London and star that evening of a production at The Old Vic. So, in between playing Lex Luthor-where he's brilliant-he would finish a take, go to his trailer, sit outside and be learning lines for that play. And I'm sitting there and I'm watching him saying, 'Kevin, how are you doing this? How do you do it, I just want to know?' He just wants to do it all and it's constantly impressive to me and I just adore him so much.

Q: Did you know that he was suggesting you for the role of Lois Lane?
Bosworth: I didn't know, not when it was going on, no, not at all. I went in and met with Bryan… I can't really remember how I heard that if it was from Bryan or if… I know it wasn't from Kevin-it must have been from Bryan. I'm sure I sat down with him on one of those first meetings and he said 'oh, I spoke to Kevin about you.' I can't really believe that I'm sitting here and I got this experience and you know he… it's really wonderful when you get to make friends and companions like I have with Kevin in this business. Because, as we all know, people who aren't as constant and supportive and loyal.

Q: Are you familiar with the Lois Lane character from television and the previous movies?
Bosworth: Yeah, well, certainly I think every little girl loves Lois Lane. But, for me, it was really from the film…from Richard Donner's film. I saw that when I was about six or seven, and it had already come about because I hadn't been born when it was originally released. I don't even think I was a glint in my parents' eye. But I remember watching it and it's a magical film and Superman is magical.

Q: Do you think this Lois is a little bit stronger?
Bosworth: Yeah, well I think that… certainly I didn't think about that then. When I was given the opportunity to play her… you know there's different elements involved in the script that's not in… that wasn't in that film. There's a… obviously the element of her having a son is a complete um…you know…it would change a woman completely then when she doesn't have to concentrate on someone else rather than herself. I think in terms of her being perhaps as you say so chaotic or bubbly or frantic, it was my choice because I just don't… I couldn't imagine someone being so unfocused when, although I don't have children, I would imagine that your focus is constantly on that other person. So I think it forced her to mature.

Q: What was it like working with Brandon as the newbie?
Bosworth: Oh, he so did not need any tips from me. He was so unbelievably professional and he blew me away on many different levels but certainly on the professional level. And he's in this skintight suit and the cape and his curl and all these things that had to be… no pun intended but hair out of place. And he had people constantly picking at him and prodding him and making sure the cape laid perfectly. Because of course it couldn't flip over, you know that'd be… you couldn't see that on the screen. So it was a constant pressure and focus on this person. And I just remember sitting there thinking… and I'm usually the one who is getting poked and prodded so much because I'm the girl… you know I'm sitting there thinking oh, thank god, it's all on Brandon this time! And he was just so wonderful because he never once got impatient or frustrated-and especially when you're doing a scene where it might be more emotional, and you get, there's heightened emotions going on inside of you, and then when someone's picking at you it's just an easier situation to snap or get annoyed and he never did. And he would just kind of close his eyes and zone out and he was just constantly professional and lovely to everybody.

Q: Can you talk a bit about the dynamic between Superman and James Marsden's character from Lois' point of view?
Bosworth: It's funny you know because I wish I could speak eloquently and clearly on love, but I don't think it's really anything that someone can have the answers to… and I think that everyone in life understands that there's no reason to the heart, really. Superman is her great love. And as much as you try to push that away or if you're hurt by that person or confused by them or disappointed, there's no denying what you feel in your heart, and that might be the denial that you see on the surface. But inside of someone she's… inside of her she's…

Q: How do you think Brandon will handle all the attention from Superman? Do you have any advice for him?
Bosworth: Oh god, not from me. Again, he doesn't need it. And that's the simplest way I can put it. He's just a lovely person and he's not someone I see changing in anyway to the negative. He really is genuinely a wonderful down-to-earth just kind person. I adore him.

Q: How do you approach the talk show world and do you have any tips for Brandon on that?
Bosworth: This whole process of the talk show? I remember my first… it's so funny because I don't really think you can give anyone advice on it because it's such a unique strange experience that even if you do when you're in that moment and you're about to go onstage on Letterman and he's introducing you… I remember I thought, 'oh my god, I'm going to faint, I'm going to faint right now, right this second. I'm supposed to be walking out and it's going to be embarrassing.' And it didn't matter what anybody else had told me, I just thought, I'm starting to see spots and I'm gonna pass out right now. And so I think that I would just say be yourself. That's all I could say and all the rest just hold on for the ride.

Q: When did you get comfortable with it?
Bosworth: I'll let you know…

Q: Did you train for the flying? You wear a dress the whole time.
Bosworth: I know…all the ladies know exactly what I'm talking about. It's beautiful to watch, it's not the most comfortable contraption that I've ever been in. You're in a harness, and over the harness is like a bodysuit kind of thing, and then over that is the dress-and I get claustrophobic really easily, so I remember just thinking I just can't even think about this because even I couldn't get this thing off if I wanted to, and that always freaks me out. The same as when I did "Blue Crush" I had to have a head-cast made of me and it was… you know just basically from here up [motions neck up] having plaster all around your head and just two straws sticking out of your nose and I remember just thinking, 'just chill out, it's going to be fine. It'll come off at some point.' And it's the same… it's just a strange feeling. And then the hanging… I felt worst for Brandon. I could deal with it but the pressure it gives on your lower body is just outrageous so… I had more sympathy to him than me.

Q: What about the scene in the water, was that you?
Bosworth: Oh, yeah! I mean that was all me. I've worked with water before obviously.

Q: But did you ever do it while wearing a formal gown?
Bosworth: Well, yes, I did have a couple scenes in the formal gown. But this one was much more…it's being in a confined space as well. Obviously it's a lot more action in terms of being thrown around and hitting my head and having those type of reactions as well. It was really fun to do on one hand because when I saw the playback for those action sequences it was exciting because you can see how the audience will get really involved with those sequences. But it was… it's hard work. It really is. And then that is the moment where you start to feel more like a stunt person at some point. And I haven't been on a film this big and I loved it but I love the independent films because it is such a… sort of… it's an amazing experience because it's so fast and you're really in the… you're sort of in the jungle with everybody else and just trying to figure it out. And with this… there will be three weeks where I'd just be kind of hanging from the wires. And you know maybe do one shot a day and I was just thinking… so the water part, a lot if it, you know… obviously when there were master shots where it looked great and those were the acting sequences it was fun but there were certain moments where I just thought, 'so this is what it's like to be on a big film…' You have three weeks for one action shot. It's crazy. It's really insane.

Q: Would you do the sequel if they ask you?
Bosworth: Oh I can't wait. I can't wait.

Q: So you liked the experience?
Bosworth: Oh, I loved it! I absolutely loved it. That was really the only, and that's just me loving what I do, being an actor. It's the same thing. My stunt woman would look at me and say, 'well I don't know how you do what you do.' And I would look at her and say, 'I don't know how you do what you do.' And that's kind of why we have our own professions… but I loved so much being on this film! And it's exciting when you get to do a press junket and talk about something that you love in terms of the film, but also the people and the experience that was involved. It was such a really unique experience for me.

Q: What would you like to see happen in the next movie?
Bosworth: It's funny you know because one of my huge fears is… I have flying so that was a pretty full-on experience for me, living out that nightmare. I had a dream about this, actually, I remember I had a dream-this was before I saw the film--and I had a dream that I was watching the film and I saw my character just jump off a building. And I remember watching going, 'I never did that, wow, they must have added that in, that's crazy' in the dream. So maybe that…I don't know maybe it would be fun to just do a full-on-obviously not really jump off a building-but have some kind of fun big fall.

Q: Did you like being a brunette?
Bosworth: Yeah, yeah.

Q: Did people treat you differently?
Bosworth: Yeah, they do. They do. I think whenever you change your appearance you get treated a bit differently. Yeah, I did feel a bit different.

Q: And what was it like being a mom?
Bosworth: That was amazing!

Q: Did you bond with the boy who played your son?
Bosworth: Yeah, I felt like he did become my stepson. I mean, he's just a wonderful little person. I love him to death.

Q: You're very maternal.
Bosworth: Good!

Superman Returns flies into theaters on Wednesday, June 28th.

 

[Cinemaman]

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Q: Don't you think Lex could make a lot more money just running a corporation?
Spacey: I'm sorry, I thought that was a question for George Bush.

Q: Why do you think Lex Luthor is evil and how did you prepare for the role?
Spacey: I guess Lex has always been a character really almost from the beginning who's always been a capitalist. And for him, it's always about land, it's always been about land. I always loved in the script, in the writing, there's that scene where he finally just sort of crystallizes his whole philosophy, which is I just want my cut. [laughs] Capitalism at its soul. I don't know, it's a hard question to answer, why doesn't he, because then he wouldn't be Lex Luthor, I guess. But I mean, in terms of analyzing the character, I really didn't spend that much time doing it. I think I was so impressed with what the writers had been able to do in terms of developing the story of it, and also the fact that it is such a long period of time since we've had a Superman movie, that I was just delighted by the way in which I think that they wrote a story line that in many ways, I think, pays homage to the Donner films and certainly to the fan base, which I think to some degree what some people expect are one, and their Superman, but also because it's Bryan. Bryan has always been so interested in character, and so interested in what motivates character, in whatever genre he's been working in. But I was just delighted that the arc of it seemed to take some twists and turns that were that kind of thing you expect from Bryan. But it was also just so much fun, I mean, it was just a complete lark to play this part.

Q: Can you talk about working with Kate Bosworth again?
Spacey: Well it was great, and an entirely different circumstance. You know, it was very different to play a character that was as tough on her in this film, as opposed to as loving as their relationship was in 'Beyond the Sea.' I was very, very pleased when Bryan first - when Bryan saw 'Beyond the Sea,' and then he called me a couple of days later and said, 'what was it like to work with Kate [Bosworth]'? I could talk endlessly about what a great experience it was, because she was - she really trusted me, and I said Bryan, it's like in any case with an actor, if you can get them actually to trust you, they'll go anywhere you want to go. And I said Kate is incredibly dedicated, I mean, she was always on time, she never held me up on that film, and we had very little time to shoot it. And I said I think she's a very, very, very good actress, and I think that she's been growing and she's making good choices, and I think she's terrific. And then he met her and the next thing I heard he called me and said I think I'm gonna make her Lois Lane, and I said yeah, that's great.

Q: Are bad guys driven by ego, in your opinion?
Spacey: Oh, I think in Lex's case, he just - I think there must be something about him that loves a challenge, and it's that - you know, I think he says it at one point, a form of it, which is it's mind over matter, it's intelligence over brawn. But you know, when you play a character, you're right, you don't know - like you'd be playing Iago in Othello, you're not thinking 'oh, I'm playing this villain, this evil character,' you're trying to play what each scene is about and what the character's trying to get. I think that it's fun for an audience I think to be able to categorize. But as an actor I think you have to be quite careful about it, because otherwise you'll just be twisting your mustache. And I had no hair to twist.

Q: What was it like to play bald?
Spacey: It's the easiest job in the world, they'd just shave my head every day. I mean, it really is, they make it look better than it actually looks without make up. But yeah, it was the easiest thing in the world, and it's actually kind of fun, because you can't stop touching your head. Has anyone been bald here? It's sort of weird, you can't stop touching your head, and then this other thing happens, it takes about a week to get used to, is that it's very hot. Because you know, when you put your hand on your head and you have hair, you don't feel it, but suddenly when you have no hair, it's like my head, am I sick? No, it's just the heat of my hand on my head. No, it was easy, and I also think that Louise [Mingenbach] did a great job with the costumes, you know. Really made him - really took him sort of a step up, from I think the way that he'd been dressed in the past, in a sense, has grown up with time. He's a smooth operator now.

Q: This is your first villain since "A Bug's Life." Did you intentionally stay away from them? Was it fun to be back?
Spacey: Well as I've said, you know, it's a funny thing, because in any of the characters that I've played, going back to I'd even say 'Swimming with Sharks,' which a lot of people looked at as a very dark, very kind of villainous character. You just don't think of them that way, so to me they're just incredibly complex and interesting roles to play. And there was certainly a period of time where I felt that that was the way I was being thought of, and I was definitely not interested in being slotted in a particular category. I think that what happens if you allow that to happen, is that you start to be thought of that way, and then in terms of how directors think of you or how casting directors think of you, or studios think of you, or independent people think of you, 'oh he'd be good in that part,' as opposed to something that might be more challenging. So I definitely started to take a turn in different directions. I don't know if it was after 'Bug's Life' or not, but somewhere in that period, I wanted to start to in a sense just expand my own tools, and to keep waking up in the morning and not feeling like I was doing the same thing.

Q: Couldn't you even start with "Wiseguy"?
Spacey: Yeah, but that was - God, again, that was such a fun character. You can't poo poo a part if it's really well done, I mean, obviously I tried to not play these kind of characters if I felt they were just versions of something else. After I did 'Se7en' I was offered a lot of scripts that were like really bad versions of 'Se7en.' And I didn't do them, because I figured once you've done that, why do a lesser version? But you know, I also made a conscious choice in the last really probably five years, I made the decision at the end of '99, and into 2000, that I was gonna shift the focus of my career back toward theatre. And even though I continued to work in film, my entire focus and my entire focus now, and my full time job, is running the Old Vic theatre. And so, I kind of just got to the place, whether it was playing the kind of characters you're describing, or in a sense playing any characters, I mean, it was almost to me like after 'American Beauty' I felt well, this is about as good as it's gonna get, so I'm not gonna spend the next ten years of my life trying to top myself, I'm gonna actually do something that I've always wanted to do, to start to play parts in the theatre that I've always wanted to play. And in a sense try to now do things that are bigger than myself. And for a long time, you're working as an actor to succeed in a sense in a kind of singular career mode, and now I'm not interested in that at all anymore, I'm interested in something much different, and now the work I'm doing at the Old Vic is probably the most satisfying work that I do, because it's about so many other people, and it's about something so much bigger than just a singular career. And then in a sense I feel like I'm trying to take all the good fortune that's happened for me, in film, and help theatre, because movies don't need my help.

Q: Do you worry that Hollywood will forget you while you're out of the loop, or do you not care?
Spacey: I must not care. Because truly, I have to say that, I've been living in London now a little more than three years, we're eighteen months into our new company, and we've done eight plays, so we're a very, very new company. And I'm happier than I've ever been, I'm more challenged than I've ever been, and you know while what gets attention is the plays we do, we're also about social enterprise, and we're also about social responsibility and we have a huge educational part of our program and an outreach program and a development of new and emerging talent, and all of that stuff is actually incredibly satisfying, to see how many people you can affect, and start to give confidence to and start to give them a sense of their own worth and what they can accomplish, because when people start to believe they can do things, whether they be actors or producers or playwrights or directors, that's the first step to success, I think. And so, all of that work for me is so valuable. And if doing that means that I won't be offered as many movies, or I'm not available to do movies, because my first priority is the theatre, so if a movie comes along and it fits within the theatre schedule, then I'll consider doing it, but if it doesn't then I won't. This is what I was meant to do.

Q: Brandon's going to the talk shows for the first time, do you have advice for him?
Spacey: Yeah, he should just take over Letterman. Don't wait for the questions, just take it over. He loves that. I mean, look, there's no advice you can give anybody about that sort of stuff. You just have to experience it, and through years of doing it, you start to learn how to sort of handle yourself in those situations. I mean, there's no doubt that doing talk shows is a performance, it's not an interview, it's a performance. It is a talk show, they want you to be anecdotal, they want you to be funny, and they want you to set up lines for the host. It's all pretty much shaped. And you're either good at it and feel comfortable doing it, or you don't. But it's not a one on one New York Times interview.

Q: Is that across the board?
Spacey: Of talk shows? Well, some take themselves more serious than others. Some are out and out comedy programs. If you don't go on and at least try to be amusing, then it sort of falls dead in the water. But yeah, those are like seven or eight minute segments, that they're just moving very rapidly.

Q: Have you signed for a sequel to this?
Spacey: I think they're probably gonna wait and see what happens,there's certainly discussion about doing a second one, and I would love to do a second one, if Bryan is at the helm.

Q: Are you okay with being a cog in a massive production at the Vic, since you go away a lot?
Spacey: Well the truth is, is that no matter where I am, and no matter what I'm doing, I'm still the artistic director of the Old Vic, and every single day there's work to do, and no matter where you are in the world, because of email and Blackberry's, and phones and stuff, you're in constant communication literally every day, I was never out of the loop.

Q: How did you feel playing a character made famous by someone else?
Spacey: I guess I kind of come at it from a perspective of how many actors have played Hamlet, or how many actors have played Iago. I think there is something great about audiences being able to see different actors do the same role, and come at it in a different way. I mean, I've seen countless productions of plays by different actors, and they're different by virtue of the fact that it's a different director, it's a different time, sometimes you see a modern production of the play, so in my mind, in terms of these kind of parts, I feel the same way that I do about those kind of roles, which is that no single actor owns the part. We sort of rent it for a little while, and get a chance to explore it. And there's been great actors that have played Lex Luthor in the past, and obviously great actors have played Superman.

Q: Did you concentrate on not doing a Hackman-like performance?
Spacey: I didn't watch them, in terms of the respect for the Donner movies, I figured Bryan was gonna take care of that completely, because he does so admire it, and he has such respect for the genre. I mean, Bryan unlike me grew up loving the comic book and stuff, and I never was into that when I was a kid. But I sort of avoided seeing it, because in all the discussions I've had with Bryan - because also, I accepted the movie before I saw the script. And that's because I trust Bryan completely. But he'd given me a sort of shape and idea, and the thing he kept saying was, this is going to be a much darker, a much more bitter, a much more seeking revenge Lex Luthor than we've seen before. And so I thought well, it's probably best I don't get another performance in my head, so I just kind of avoided seeing it.

Q: Do you think it may have affected your performance?:
Spacey: I think yeah, I mean, look, I just did Richard II in London, and there are film versions of Richard II, taped versions of other actors, or recordings of other actors, Gielgud's famous Richard II. And I deliberately avoided listening or watching them, because I think you can't help if something's really good, you can't help try to steal it, and I think I just - you just have to sort of say, I'm gonna trust the director, I'm gonna trust whatever my own instincts are about this and allow myself to be shaped by somebody who has a vision, and the thing that you've gotta know about Bryan, is that his vision is so absolutely clear. I mean, it makes working on a set with Bryan so enjoyable, because you always feel like you're in safe hands, because he knows exactly what he wants. He practically - he'll sit there and describe a scene for you, and he's practically cutting it in his head, and then the music will be there, he's already in the editing room, he already knows how he wants it to line up, so you feel as an actor, you don't feel like you have a director who's guessing or gonna shoot it from every conceivable angle and then figure it out in the editing room, he knows exactly what he's trying to go for.

Q: What do you get out of stage work that you don't get from film?
Spacey: I would have to say first of all, the ritual. There is something to coming to work every day, and working with the same people every day, for five or six or seven weeks of rehearsal, and then getting up every night and exploring what a play is about, and how deep it runs, and howdeep it runs within you. And there is something about making a family, it really is. After a sixteen week run of a play, or an eleven week run of a play, you come every night, you work with the same people every night,you're always trying to attack it in a different way. Audiences are different every night. And I think that the journey that I take as an actor, and that I see my fellow actors take, from early previews to the closing night performance, is a pretty remarkable journey. How the experience enriches you, and I think what you learn about yourself and about a play. We just did Richard II again, we closed it last November, and then we remounted it about four weeks ago and took it to Germany to a play festival for a week of performances, and it was really incredible to have another shot at it, with sort of four months of all the work that we were doing when we closed still percolating, and being able to attack it again in a different way, with so many new cast members.

Q: How different was it to work with Bryan this time? Same guy?
Spacey: It is the same guy. It was like a day hadn't gone by, for both of us. I mean, he had obviously more money and more tools at his disposal, and more toys to play with, but he's the same guy he was ten years ago, and for us, it was a great joy, because it wasn't just Bryan and me, but his cinematographer, costume designer, John Ottman the editor, and composer, so it felt like the family was coming back together.

Q: What's next for you and the theatre?
Spacey: We're gonna travel the show for a little bit.

Superman Returns flies into theaters on Wednesday, June 28th.

 

[Cinemaman]

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Q: Did you have that dog in the movie because you'd already had one in a previous vampire movie?
Parker Posey: Omigod I forgot about that. The dog came about sort of naturally. We were shooting in the Vanderworth mansion and we'd had a long day. And I said, 'I want that dog in every shot.' Look is so important to movies like this and parts like this that waiting with the dog and the glasses, so yeah. The shu was great. Her dog trainer Lindy was amazing. And she trained cats before she trained dogs. She had a parrot and a cockatoo named Marcello. Yeah, Lindy was amazing. By the end of it, her hair matched the color of the dog. (Laughs.) They were very attached. Kitty and Molly. We had a special relationship.

Q: Were you familiar with the Superman story?
Posey: I'd never heard of it no. (Laughs.) So, it was like. I had to watch the movies over a weekend. Yeah…

Q: Through the movies or the TV shows?
Posey: Through the movie. I saw the movie when it came out.

Q: How old were you?
Posey: I don't know (whispered). (Laughs.)

Q: How rude!
Posey: How rude! I'm 37. And I must have been about nine or 10. Seven, eight, nine, 10, I dunno. Yeah, I mean I love the movie I saw a cut of it a month ago when I was here doing 'Boston Legal' and it was so warm and romantic and it had such a nice peaceful message. Which I didn't…I mean when I read the script I was so glad it had these elements to it. It dealt with issues of feeling left…orphaned or as far as being different. And it's this great love story. Lois has a husband who watches her in love with another man, Superman, who brings her to the hospital. I mean there's a lot of…I mean, I only saw it once, but there are a lot of things in this movie that I really like that really turn Kitty into this totally flushed out, full on character-woman in a comic book world. I just see her in love with Lex and waiting for him to be that man she thinks that he is. And he's not and he will never be. And it takes somebody to turn to destroy the world that she finally wakes up to that little fact.

Q: Does Kevin's type of outrageousness make you hold things back?
Posey: The balance yeah. He was cool like that. He's just in character. He was just like Lex in this world. You know, you're tiny and the set is huge. You're just like the ratio to you and the world that you are in is very…y'know…so, that was a real adjustment to find out how to fit into this big majestic environment going to set on Kryptonite which was all black. You're waiting around and it kind of smells like rubber. Different things feed into it. He's a great actor, so I never thought that it wasn't Lex. And I didn't ever feel that it wasn't Kitty. That's really the thing you should want, that should be happening.

Q: Was it a relief after going through a movie like this to move on to "For Your Consideration"?
Posey: God, every …it's about the part. This is kind of a heavy part. But, in a way, my part in 'For Your Consideration' is sort of heavy as well. You know, you dream big and you have high expectations and you get very disappointed. This is like an Academy Award attention. It's not even like..y'know…on the Internet. It's so inflated. 'What am I gonna wear????' (Laughs.) Like, 'Whoa." So, yeah.

Q: Is that type of format very easy to work in and play off each other?
Posey: You're just very in and trying to be in your world. You're just trying to protect yourself in a space, but with those movies you don't know what the other person is going to bring to it. I was talking to Catherine (O'Hara) about it and I have all of these things that I'm kind of meditating on. And I got to set and my character changed. And she goes, 'Oh, yah, yah. It happened with me - Mitch and Mindy. Yah.' I dunno if it's a female thing or what, but it does change as it's happening. But, that happens in movies. That happens in movies.

Q: What else are you working on?
Posey: I just wrapped a movie yesterday morning. It's called "Broken English," Zoe Cassavettes movie, her first movie. So, yeah I wrapped up.

Q: How did they get you to do "Boston Legal"?
Posey: David Kelly had been asking for my availability for a while and I'd never been available. I was here doing - for a movie called "Adam and Steve" that my friend, Craig Chester, wrote and directed. So, David Kelly has a part for you in 'Boston…' English I was about to say. (Laughs.) I met him, the writer came in, the director came in, and we started talking about it and I was like, 'That sounds great. Let me see the show.' I'd never seen the show and I watched it and then that happened. But, that's kind of how my career has worked out. Very immediate or y'know. It's not like, 'Let me think about this. This makes sense right now.' Sometimes I can read something and it could be in another language. It could be the greatest movie ever, but it's just not speaking to me at a particular time.

Q: How did you get this part in "Superman Returns"?
Posey: I was doing "Hurlyburly" in New York for about six months. There was talk. There is a lot of talking involved in how you get cast. A lot of conversations. I just imagine them spiraling going, around, 'So, what do you think of so and so? And we need to see these people?' It goes on for months. 'Oh, they are talking about you. They are really interested.' 'Well, we'll see what happens and I would like to read it.' 'Uh, no, you can't read the script.' 'Well, I don't have time to read it anyway, I'm doing a play. Good for me.' Then they offered it to me and I said, 'Can I read it?' And they said, 'You have to say yes before you can read it.' And I was like, 'OK, I really don't have room to say no.' (Laughs.) So, yeah. They flew someone in to bring the script to me and I read it in a café.

Q: Where they standing right there?
Posey: Oh yeah, with briefcases. (Laughs.) Glasses like "Men in Black." Robots moving around. So yeah, already - world!

Superman Returns flies into theaters on Wednesday, June 28th.

 

[Topdawg]

Nice read!

thanks.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Q: What about casting Brandon? He looks so much like Christopher Reeve.

Singer: It's uncanny isn't it? It's actually not what motivated me to cast him.


Oh, come on. So it's just co-incidence he looks AND SOUNDS so much like Reeve.

 

[Cinemaman]

Your Welcome

 

[Nautica7mk]

I cracked up at Brandon hanging aroun the Whole Food store. lol I love that guy!

 

[Ita-KalEl]

Kirsten Dunst in the airplane?

 

[Mentok]

Q: What about casting Brandon? He looks so much like Christopher Reeve.

Singer: It's uncanny isn't it? It's actually not what motivated me to cast him.


Oh, come on. So it's just co-incidence he looks AND SOUNDS so much like Reeve.

The very next part of that quote explains that...

'It just was part of a package.'

 

[DorkyFresh]

how hard is it to gain 22 pounds of muscle in 5 months? i've never done any extensive weight loss or gain so i don't know...

 

[Kevin Roegele]

The very next part of that quote explains that...

'It just was part of a package.'

I know. Which is a retractment in the face of the obvious.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

how hard is 22 pounds in 5 months to achieve? i've never done any extensive weight loss or gain so i don't know...

Depends if you're just putting on weight or body building.

 

[dabilee01]

"The first scene that we shot if I remember correctly is actually not in the film anymore, but it's in the Daily Planet."

hmm, i wonder if this is the scene where clark goes back to the DP to change into his supes outfit because he forgot he didn't have it under his street clothes...

from the clips we've been seeing, it looks like clark does have his costume on underneath when he does his shirt rip (and not vice versa, as was previously presumed). i can understand that change because i think it would have broken the momentum of that sequence of events. hmmm...what do you guys think?

dammit, i want the dvd with extra scenes now! =)