The X3 Cast Thread

[Daniella]

But not a yellow spandex, please...

Dany

 

[TNC9852002]

Yeah,..there'd be no point if they didn't decide to change up the suits a little...

-TNC

 

[spark627]

i wonder why we havent heard about who will play young jean, assuming the flashback scene is part of the movie... i thought the mind block thing was a cool way to explain phoenix

 

[JP]

Yeah, I hope those elements are still in.

 

[TNC9852002]

We dont' have to learn about every little bit of casting to confirm that they're there or not..

Especially when it's still in the FIRST week of principle photography...Let's just wait it out and not hold X3 to anything particular in case changes have been made to what we think we know about the story...

-TNC

 

[Retroman]

Update on Rebecca Romijn
From the ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE:

Painted blue again: The foxy Rebecca Romijn popped in for a minute to plug her midseason WB series, Pepper Dennis."Pepper falls down a lot," she said. "They’re going to be humiliating me week after week, which is great."Romijn then excused herself, saying she was flying to Vancouver to shoot X-Men 3.

Source: http://www.ardemgaz.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2005/08/09&ID=Ar02901&Section=Features

 

[Wynne]

Shawn is cute in that picture and Aaron looked like a zombie.

Aaron is so Malkavian there. Awesome.

The two really set each other off; nice, nice picture.

 

[Retroman]

Halle Berry

She's expected shortly in Vancouver to shoot X-Men 3.

Source: http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/Showbiz/2005/08/02/1156125-sun.html

Ian Mckellen

ASYLUM
Opens 12 August 2005
in select US Cinemas

Source: http://www.mckellen.com/

 

[Electrix]

I'm pregnant

(bump)

 

[ljr]

OK,didn't need to know thta-whatever.

 

[Electrix]

www.canada.com

VANCOUVER -- Doing justice to Terry Fox onscreen meant six weeks of work for Richmond, B.C.-born actor Shawn Ashmore before filming even began this summer on the CTV movie Terry.

The movie filmed for a month in Newfoundland and Ontario, but Ashmore had already been hard at work by then, working with trainers to perfect the cancer marathoner's distinctive gait. The movie airs Sept. 11 to mark the 25th anniversary of Fox's journey from Newfoundland to Thunder Bay, Ont., where the cancer that had earlier taken his leg reappeared in his lungs.

"One of the things I was really concerned about was having enough time to train and get the physical aspects of the character down," says Ashmore. "For Canadians especially, it's such an important image to all of us, it's something that's very recognized. I just wanted to make sure that I had time to do that properly, because if that wasn't right, then people would not necessarily be able to connect."

Ashmore, currently reprising his role as Iceman in the Vancouver-filmed X-Men 3, worked with a theatre movement coach from Stratford and with amputee athlete Grant Darby to capture Fox's physicality. During filming, Ashmore wore motion sensors on his right leg, which enabled computer graphic artists to add the prosthetic leg in post-production. As well, Darby doubled for Ashmore in wide-shot scenes filmed from behind.

The TV movie focuses on the time from when the 21-year-old Fox started his fundraising run in Newfoundland, to when he became a national hero while running through Ontario, and ends with the recurrence of the cancer in Thunder Bay. Fox later died in hospital in Vancouver.

"We didn't tell the story of a cancer patient. This movie is about the run and the great thing that he did," says Ashmore. "It's a really personal story, too, just four main characters, Terry, his friend Doug Alward, his brother Darrell and a guy named Bill Vigars."

A daunting but inspiring highlight of the movie is the recreation of the speech Fox gave to a huge crowd at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square. Ashmore says Fox's sister Judy was among those in the crowd of extras when they filmed the scene, and many people showed up that day who had seen the real Fox speak. Ashmore studied footage of Fox's speech to prepare for that sequence.

"There were a couple of hundred people there (for filming) in period garb," he says. "It was pretty emotional. It was difficult, but there was an amazing energy. It was kind of eerie in a way. It's also amazing how many people who were there had been there originally. A lot of people who were little kids, their parents had brought them. Even some people on the crew."

Ashmore himself was born in 1979, a year before Fox's run, and learned about the fallen hero as most kids do, by participating in the annual run for cancer.

"I didn't discover Terry until I was 10 years old, he was a legend by that time," says Ashmore, who talked at length with Darrell Fox to get a feel for that time.

"They had food fights all the time, they were three young guys in a van, for the first time.going across the country. They were excited more than anything, especially in the beginning. As much as it was serious and hard work and all that, there's no way they could have done what they did without having fun."

Vancouver actor Ryan McDonald plays Terry's friend Doug and Noah Reid plays Darrell.

"We were out in the country running for a lot of the shoot," says Ashmore, who learned from Terry Fox's own journals how the trio battled the elements, did laundry, cooked meals, and tried to get news coverage -- all while Terry was running 26 miles a day.

"He was unknown at first, even through Quebec. The first couple of weeks at least, a month even, two guys living in a van, staying in motels, eating beans and peanut butter and jam sandwiches. That's what's so great, these guys were doing it when nobody was supporting them, and Terry was working just as hard when he started as the day he stopped.

"The biggest thing, especially in the beginning, was the monotony of the run. The journals were very dry: 'Woke up today. Ate two cans of beans and a peanut butter sandwich, did 50 pushups and got on the road.' But then, every once in a while, there'd be a journal entry where it would talk about a town they went into, a person they met or a little kid who gave them five bucks. And it would suddenly get personal.

"Until you read in his words, you don't understand how hard it was and how much of a beating his body was taking, and how moved he was by people who helped him."

Twenty-five years later, the Terry Fox Foundation has raised more than $360 million worldwide for cancer research. Production company Shaftesbury Films is donating any net profits from worldwide sales of the movie to the foundation.

 

[ljr]

Thanks for that,but that sure was a long article for one relevent line.lol

 

[Retroman]

Thanks Electric! Thats a really intersting article. I'd never heard about Terry Fox until Shawn signed to play. His story is inspirational.

 

[Electrix]

I know it wasnt much but its about a film he's doing and some people might be interested.

 

[Electrix]

Model-turned-actress REBECCA ROMIJN is heading back up the aisle - she's planning a secret New Year's Eve wedding to actor JERRY O'CONNELL.

The X-MEN star started dating the KANGAROO JACK actor shortly after she split with ex-husband JOHN STAMOS and now she's hoping to become Mrs O'Connell as 2005 becomes 2006.

And friends claim the wedding is the real incentive behind Romijn's recent drastic weightloss.

A source says, "As far as she's concerned, it's just as well that everyone thinks the movie (X-MEN 3) producers pressured her into losing the weight.

"Since they started planning the wedding, Rebecca realised she would have to go through several fittings for her gown. She wanted to look her best."

http://www.contactmusic.com/

 

[Retroman]

http://www.contactmusic.com/

Thanks Electric.
Rebecca and Jerry look cute together. I hope it lasts.

 

[Angry Sentinel]

http://www.contactmusic.com/

Aaww how special... the woman's gettin in shape for her man on their big day.

Doing something to please herself and her new hubby all at the same time, Good for you Rebecca!

**Sentinel remembers when being a "caveman" was a good thing**

 

[Electrix]

Connery returns to heist movie he turned down

Sean Connery is set to return to the movie project he walked away from last year to write his autobiography.

The Scottish actor is said to be ready and willing to give the prematurely squashed Josiah's Canon another go, according to website MovieHole.net.

Brett Ratner is expected to resume as the director of the movie, about a Holocaust survivor who leads the world's foremost team of bank robbers on a heist to recover gold deposited by Jews prior to the Nazi atrocities.

A litte something from http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=10140240&p=yxy4xz86&n=10140328&x=

 

[narrows101]

From the Sunday Herald Sun (Australia) (P.S. his son is 5, not 6):

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16557407%5E27258,00.html

Superdad's aria for Ava
By FIONA BYRNE
11sep05

HOLLYWOOD heartthrob Hugh Jackman went from superstar to superdad in Canada this week.

Jackman, who is in Vancouver filming the third instalment of the lucrative X-Men franchise, and wife Deborra-Lee Furness hosted a star-studded baby shower for their new daughter Ava. The couple adopted Ava days after she was born in Texas in July.

The A-list gathering included Jackman's X-Men co-star Halle Berry, Australian actor Patrick Ward and prominent director Michael Rymer.

Besotted dad Jackman showed a bit of the talent that saw him collect a Tony Award last year for his performance in the Broadway production of The Boy From Oz, by serenading his tiny daughter with a heartfelt rendition of I Still Call Australia Home.

And he wore his heart openly on his sleeve singing the tender tune My Little Girl for the assembled guests while cradling Ava in his arms.

Insiders say there was not a dry eye among the close-knit gathering.

The couple's six-year-old son Oscar also won hearts at the soiree.

The family is expected to spend the next few months in Canada while Jackman completes filming X-Men 3.

The performer is expected to spend at least two months in Australia next year so he can star in what will surely be the hottest theatre ticket in town -- an arena-style production of The Boy From Oz.

 

[pyromaniac]

Aaron is so Malkavian there. Awesome.

The two really set each other off; nice, nice picture.

Machiavellian?

And Electric Wire - congrats, I think?

 

[Electrix]

Lol. For what?

 

[pyromaniac]

Pregnancy.

 

[Electrix]

Its biologically impossible for me to become pregnant.

You've confused me.

 

[pyromaniac]

I'm pregnant

(bump)

This one.

 

[Electrix]

Oh..that.

I just did that to bump the thread. it was a random word lol