The X3 Cast Thread

[Retroman]

McKELLEN STRUGGLES WITH DA VINCI CODE LINES

British actor SIR IAN McKELLEN is struggling to remember his lines on the set of new movie THE DA VINCI CODE.

The 66-year-old, who carved out a successful career on stage before switching to the big screen, complains he has been struck with forgetfulness just as he gets used to acting on camera.

He says, "It has taken 40 years of film-making for me to feel at home in front of a camera but just as I'm feeling good a disaster strikes. I can't remember the lines - at least not when the camera's on me.

"Those darn words keep popping out of my head just as I try to mint them anew."

Source: http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/mckellen struggles with da vinci code lines

 

[Retroman]

From The Province:

Ashmore gives an inspired portrayal

Dana Gee
The Province


September 11, 2005
How do you review a movie about Terry Fox?

Even if it is a flawed, often unsympathetic portrayal -- like say HBO's 1983 film The Terry Fox Story -- it would be hard to criticize anything to do with Fox and not feel like a complete jerk.

Thankfully director Don McBreaty and writer Dennis Foon have made this job easy by delivering Terry, a poignant re-telling of a great story about an incredible human being on a remarkable journey.

Like Fox did when he was alive, and film footage still does 24 years after his death, this film touches you.

Even the most petrified cynic will tear up when Fox and his mother Betty share an intimate moment and then ache with pride as he struggles his way to the top of a steep, long hill. I've got one word: tissues.

Ably meeting the challenging job of portraying Fox is Richmond's own Shawn Ashmore. Ashmore's Fox is very much the determined, inspiring athlete we saw playing through the pain on newscasts every night, but he is also the fun, warm and vulnerable young man who those close to him knew so well.

Based on the Port Coquitlam native's own journals and interviews with his family and friends, the two-hour movie opens in Newfoundland in April of 1980 with Fox and his best friend Doug Alward (Ryan McDonald) about to begin their 8,500-km odyssey.

"I'd like to go for $1 million," a wide-eyed Fox tells a reporter at the beginning of his journey.

By the time he had to quit the run he had raised $24 million. Twenty-five years later his legacy looms large, as close to $400 million has been donated in his name.

As Terry unfolds it becomes apparent that this isn't just Fox's story, but it's a buddy picture of sorts with Fox, Doug and Fox's brother Darrell (Noah Reid) starring as three amigos on one heck of a life-changing road trip.

A road trip that came complete with good times and not-so-good times, like the chilly response -- no press and police harassment -- Fox received in Quebec.

But even getting literally run off the road by a transport truck didn't discourage the unshakable Fox.

"I don't care, they die from cancer here, too," Fox tells his brother, who begs him to skip the rest of the Quebec run.

But Ontario was a decidedly different story. With PR man Bill Vigars' (Matt Gordon) help, the Marathon of Hope soon blossomed into a national passion.

Sadly though, that passion all-too-soon became a national heartbreak, as the freckle-faced guy in the grey, sweat-covered shorts would not get to realize his dream of running all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

After 143 days and 5,373 kilometres, Fox's run ended in Thunder Bay when he found out that the cancer that had taken his right leg three years earlier had spread to his lungs.

He died in June of 1981 just before his 23rd birthday.

The film closes with a series of clips of the real Fox during his Marathon of Hope. Those images, which we have seen hundreds of times over the last two decades, are still emotional, powerful reminders that Terry's tale is a timeless one that we will always be proud of.

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Catch Dana Gee on BCTV's Morning News on Global Fridays at 8:45 and on JACK-FM's Larry & Willy Mondays at 7:15 a.m.

Terry

When and where: Tonight at 7 on CTV

Grade: A

Source: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/the....html?id=27f4e1be-3de9-4d46-9f68-362cf94d3efe

 

[Electrix]

Romijn Ready for Marriage No. 2

by Gina Serpe
Sep 20, 2005, 12:25 PM PT



Rebecca Romijn and John Stamos couldn't make a full house. Now she's trying again with a new beau.

The model-actress and her boyfriend of a year and a half, actor Jerry O'Connell, are engaged, Romijn's publicist, Lewis Kay, confirmed to E! News.


"We couldn't be happier and are looking forward to the next chapter of our lives," the obligatorily giddy couple announced in a joint statement Tuesday. No wedding date has been set.

According to Us Weekly, which first reported the engagement, O'Connell, 31, popped the question over the weekend at his family's New York City apartment, sealing the deal with "a humongous diamond ring."

The magazine also quotes an unnamed source close to the couple saying Romijn, 32, "is not pregnant." Baby rumors have dogged the couple for months.

This will be the second matrimonial go-round for Romijn and first for Crossing Jordan star O'Connell.

The couple met on the Vancouver set of the Ben Affleck romantic comedy Man About Town in April 2004, just after Romijn's split from Stamos, who were married for six years.

She finalized her divorce from the former Full House star in March and reverted back to her nonhyphenated maiden name.

The longtime bachelor O'Connell, whose credits include Stand by Me and Sliders, was previously in a longterm relationship with E! News anchor Giuliana DePandi. He had also been publicly linked with former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

The couple are now back in Los Angeles for some heavy-duty wedding planning--and their respective day jobs.

Aside from sharing credits on Man About Town, which is slated to open in early 2006, and the indie romantic comedy The Alibi, due out this year, each has several solo projects in the works.

Romijn is reprising her role as the blue-hued, shape-shifting Mystique in the X-Men 3, which is currently shooting. She is also set to star in the WB's midseason replacement Pepper Dennis as the titular ambitious reporter.

O'Connell, meanwhile, has three films in the pipeline, including the computer-animated feature Cat Tale, in which he provides voiceover work alongside Sean Astin and David Cross. O'Connell returns as Detective Woody Hoyt for Crossing Jordan's fifth season, kicking off next Monday on NBC.

www.eonline.com

 

[Electrix]

For those in the UK...

Bill Duke is in Predator on ITV2...now!

 

[Mister Sinister]

No, I'm watching the 100 Greatest Kids Shows on E4!

 

[narrows101]

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm

PIMPLE PANIC

ANNA Paquin is having a tough time on the set of her flick "Margaret," shooting in New York. The stressed-out teen broke out in a bad case of acne last week and placed a distressed call to the Mario Badescu Spa on East 52nd Street. Paquin went in for the "works" and spent over two hours getting a facial, and walked out with a bag of products. "She'll be fine," said an insider. If it makes her feel better, we hear Anne Hathaway, of "The Devil Wears Prada," also shooting in Gotham, has called the salon as well.

 

[Endeavor]

See this is why I don't buy it when we get the comments : "Marsden screw himself by getting involved with Superman, they cut his scenes down to a minimun in X3 because there's no way he can do big roles in both films given the time..." Or something to that effect like we've been getting. Many in the cast are busy doing other projects. Look at Anna, she's filming another movie right now in which she's the lead!

 

[Downhere]

That's true about Anna but isn't it like a small independent kind of movie?

 

[ljr]

Yeah it is,so she'll probably be done with her shoot in like a month tops.As for marsden we just can't tell at the moment what size his role is.Plus the article says she's a teen-she's 23.

 

[Electrix]

Bad movies, not tough heroines, turn filmgoers away

I believe Michael Medved is reading way too much into the recent failures of action heroines at the box office in his commentary "Leading ladies: More glamour, less grit" (The Forum, Wednesday).
Medved argues that filmgoers have no interest in seeing women in action roles. If that is true, how does he account for the success of The Matrix, featuring Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity; Charlie's Angels, starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu; Terminator 2 starring Linda Hamilton as a gun-toting, buff Sarah Connor; the Alien franchise, starring Sigourney Weaver as Ripley; and the X-Men franchise, starring Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn, Famke Janssen and Kelly Hu?

This is to say nothing of Michelle Yeoh of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Tomorrow Never Dies, and Uma Thurman of Kill Bill, whom Medved mentions. In fact, combined, both Kill Bill films grossed more than $300 million at the box office.

What audiences want from their action heroines is what they want from movies in general: intelligent scripts, believable acting and fresh, engaging overall concepts. The gender of the star has little or nothing to do with it.

Elizabeth Hoff, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Male characters wrong, too

Michael Medved is right, but he doesn't go far enough. Hollywood is off the mark in its depiction of both female and male characters.

While women are portrayed as muscular and macho, men are shown to be dark, twisted, perverse or even psychopathic. And that's just the good guys.

A recent article in USA TODAY on slumping movie ticket sales asked, "What do you people want?" The answer is simple: give us characters we can identify with. Just as we don't like women who are unrealistically macho, we also don't like male protagonists who are vicious, narcissistic or mentally disturbed. We're sick to death of dark anti-heroes. The people I admire and identify with aren't anything like that.

Give us heroes, male and female, who are real heroes — not perfect, but generally healthy people motivated to do good because it's the right thing to do.

It may be hard for cynical Hollywood to create genuinely moral characters who do good for unselfish reasons, but if it wants to sell tickets, it had better see the light.

Kevin Myers, Bartow, Fla.

Strong women, key roles

Michael Medved's column about the need for "glamorous women" in the movies should bring shudders to all women from New York to Iraq, and stares of disbelief from anyone born after Queen Victoria's reign.

Does Medved forget how many Oscar nominations Bette Davis and Joan Crawford earned for playing husband-killers or lover-killers? Does he forget the laughs and hurrahs every time Kate beat Spence in sports? Does he forget the great battles and pratfalls that made the movies of Rosalind Russell, Carole Lombard and Barbara Stanwyck so great?

The only "purely glamorous" women in the movies were Greta Garbo, who ran off to seclusion, and Grace Kelly, who ran off with royalty.

Tough women who fight and men who aren't afraid to cry have been around since Charles Chaplin and Lillian Gish. They are what make movies interesting.

If Medved were a true film critic instead of a self-appointed moralist, he would know that.

Mike Smolinski, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Danger in 'make-believe'

Michael Medved is right on the money. Actresses become stars when they portray the feminine virtues: tenderness, generosity, inner strength, vulnerability and sex appeal. A long string of tough girl roles almost always sends their careers into the tank. Witness Demi Moore.

But equally important is the false and dangerous message sent to girls by make-believe macho females: that they can win physical fights with males. In the movies, when a woman punches a man, he goes rolling head over heels. In real life, her hand breaks, then he beats her up. Politically incorrect, but true.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-09-25-letters-movies_x.htm

 

[Retroman]

A intervew with Cameron Bright.
From stargate-project.de:

Interview mit Cameron Bright (SG-1 junger Orlin - August 2005) English
Von: chobostyle am 29.08.2005 6:52
Themengebiet: Interviews

Cameron Bright, full name Cameron Douglas Bright, is a 12 year old boy, who is already well known in Hollywood. He war born on January 26nd 1993 and appeared on screen next to superstars such as Nicole Kidman and Robert DeNiro. Cameron continues his successful way - his new movies ("X-Men 3" and "Running Scared" also featuring Paul Walker) will be in theaters in 2006.

Born in British Columbia / Canada, Cameron, who is still going to school, started acting to finance his education. Currently he lives together with his brother Bryce, his mother and also two dogs and a cat.

Cameron's favourite bands are Nirvana, Linkin Park and Kings of Leon, his favourite movie is "Saving Private Ryan". A few days ago we got the chance to talk with Cameron, who is on the right way to become a great actor - but still keeps his feet on the ground and remains cool. Of course we talked about his life and his work at Stargate SG-1 during the 9th season. He plays "Orlin", an Ancient, in the mid-season two-parter "The Fourth Horseman". Orlin visits Earth to aid Sam Carter and the whole mankind.

Stargate-Project: For your age you have an incredible list of projects and you’ve worked with some of the best actors in Hollywood but about you in person there is not so much. So would you like to tell us something about yourself, so our readers have some sort of introduction?
Cameron Bright: I am 12 yers old and was born in British Columbia, Canada. I have a brother Bryce, who is 16. We live with our mom, 2 dogs and a cat. I love to play soccer and paintball.

SG-P: How did you get into acting? Was there anyone who inspired you?
CB: My mom signed me and Bryce up for acting to hopefully get a few commercials to put money away for our future education. We never imagined it would get this big.

SG-P: What do your friends say now that you are a big star?
CB: My friends are still my friends. They don't treat me any differently.

SG-P: How did you get the role of Orlin on Stargate SG-1? Did you have to audition or have you been asked by the studio?
CB: They offered me the guest starring role. Mom asked for the episode that the first Orlin was in so we could see what his relationship was with Sam. Sean Patrick Flannery was the first Orlin and I was in a movie called Lone Hero with him and Lou Diamond Phillips.

SG-P: Have you heard about Stargate before? If you do so – do you watch the show on television?
CB: Yes, we watch Stargate on TV and I met Amanda Tapping on a plane on a flight from LA to Vancouver. She was very nice to me and my mom.

SG-P: What is your favourite movie and tv-show?
CB: My favorite movie is the 3rd Blade one but I like to watch all that my mom will let me. I like Everyone Loves Raymond, Stargate, the CSI's and all on the Discovery Channel.

SG-P: What can you tell us about Orlin – how is he like?
CB: Orlin is a kind being who loves his people and others.

SG-P: Where and when did you shoot the two parter "The Fourth Horseman"?
CB: We shot it at the Bridge studios and a location near the US border in June 2005.

SG-P: How was shooting for SG-1? What things do you still have in mind when you think back? What was really cool?
CB: We had fun I thought it was great. The set was cool too.

SG-P: Who’s the funniest guy on set?
CB: Michael [Shanks], Chris [Judge] and Amanda [Tapping] were fun to hang out with. Michael and I had a goofy moment while shooting one of the scenes where they are monitoring me from another room. I was in the other room and he was looking at a tv monitor that had me on it and I was kicking him in the face and he was whipping his head back as he saw my foot coming to him. The director and everyone were laughing so hard and Andy [Mikita] (director) rolled on it so maybe it will be on a dvd someday so you will all know what I am talking about.

SG-P: Who did you have the most scenes with?
CB: The scenes were pretty even but Amanda was predominant.

SG-P: Did you have the chance to visit the Atlantis set or meet some of the guys from Atlantis?
CB: The Atlantis cast was on location so I used their set as my school room. It was sweet....

SG-P: Some preview photos show you also wear a hazmat suite – how was it to get into that thing and how was acting with it like?
CB: The hazmat was great and fit me good. It was made for me (except the helmut) but everytime I moved my head the helmut stayed to the front so I have to move my whole upper body to turn to camera.

SG-P: Do you know if you will come back to any other episodes in the ninth season?
CB: Ask the publicist this... but I would love to if they will have me back.

SG-P: Which one do you enjoy more? Making big screen movies or shows for television?
CB: They are both similar but TV is shot on a shorter day so the hours are better.

SG-P: Are there any other projects you’re working on right now and what can you tell us about them?
CB: I was offered the role of Leech in the new X-Men movie, "X-3".

SG-P: What are the plans for your future? What are you going to do after you have finished school?
CB: Future plans? I am only 12, I just want to finish school... (laughts)

SG-P: Thanks again very much! We wish you all the best for your future and let us know if we’ll se you again on Stargate or at a convention!
CB: Thank you for your interest in me. It was my pleasure to answer your questions.

Source: http://www.stargate-project.de/stargate/index.php?seite=artikel&aktion=show&ID=328

 

[Electrix]

Cool

 

[Retroman]

cosmicviolet (cosmicviolet) wrote,@ 2005-08-19 12:45:00
Hey, debauchery does happen here!
I heard this story on the radio a few days ago and didn't think much of it. But then it was in the paper. It amused me, so I'm posting the details.

Apparently, Matt Le Blanc rode over to Victoria on his motorbike during a cross Canada road trip with some friends in June. On June 28, he visited our one and only strip club, where an "aggressive" stripper did a little more than lap dance with him. Then she sold the story to the National Enquirer. I find this funny because nothing like this ever happens in sleepy Victoria. I'm surprised he even knew this place exists. We get celebrities coming here occasionally (like right now for the filming of X-Men 3, for instance), and since it's a fairly small place, people talk. Yet somehow stars keep a low profile and seem to enjoy their stay. Matt Le Blanc almost managed that, until the stripper told on him. But she didn't have the last laugh-she was fired as a result.

Says the Times Colonist article:
One staffer says she was "disgusted" that some observers that fateful night accepted money from the Enquirer to spin it's tawdry tale and signed confidentiality agreements.
"He was here just having fun with friends," she said. "As far as I could see, he wasn't doing anything wrong. He was a nice guy. You couldn't pay me to rat out somebody."
She said she was concerned the LeBlanc affair could affect business. "Celebrities aren't going to want to come here anymore."

Are you kidding?! Something like this will probably only help business, although admittedly more of the non-celebrity type ("Notorious Celebrity spots" tours, maybe?). And then there are some stars who make a career out of stunts like this.
But seriously, I do feel bad for the guy. He seems really nice. I hope he doesn't hold this against us and comes back some day.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/users/cosmicviolet/2210.html

 

[Electrix]

I've just watched him on TV!

 

[Retroman]

I've just watched him on TV!

Who? LeBlanc? or Bright?

 

[Electrix]

Who? LeBlanc? or Bright?

Matt LeBlanc...Friends.

 

[Retroman]

Matt LeBlanc...Friends.

Okay..cool. I'm more a Seinfeld guy myself but if Friends is on i'll watch.

 

[Halcohol]

Okay..cool. I'm more a Seinfeld guy myself but if Friends is on i'll watch.

Seinfeld is the epitome of the sitcom. Friends was good, but I think I've seen them all about 400 times. The only show on TV more often than Friends is Everybody Loves Raymond :

So how bout the cast of X3?

 

[Electrix]

Acting Lessons from Ewan McGregor and Patrick Stewart

Posted Sep 30, 2005, 10:15 AM ET by Martha Fischer
Filed under: Newsstand

Actors and directors who are good (and lucky) enough to impress in interviews and auditions will have the chance to take classes from the real deal - working, big-name professionals. Joining professors McGregor and Stewart on the temporary staff will be other well-known actors, among them Brian Cox and Imelda Staunton. Held at London's Actors Centre, the classes will take place over the course of a full year, and will be scheduled to accommodate the filming commitments of their teachers. The best thing about the classes, however, is their price: students who are accepted into the program will have their tuition subsidized and will pay only £38 (about $67) for the entire year. The result, hopefully, will be that talented people who would not normally be able to afford acting classes will get the experience and high quality instruction that they need.

http://www.cinematical.com/2005/09/30/acting-lessons-from-ewan-mcgregor-and-patrick-stewart/

 

[Retroman]

Seinfeld is the epitome of the sitcom. Friends was good, but I think I've seen them all about 400 times. The only show on TV more often than Friends is Everybody Loves Raymond :

I laugh just tinking about some of the hilarious characters on Seinfeld. The soup nazi, the library police guy, Neewman, Kramer, the Costanzas, Kramers mom (now that was hilarious!), Milosh, bubble boy, Puddy. Not to mention the funny guest appearances by Jon Voight, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, Teri Hatcher etc etc.
Everybody Loves Raymond was on for a little stint here but then they took it off. Probably wasn't popular enough. I really liked it actually. I hope they bring it back now that it's gone in to syndication.

So how bout the cast of X3

What about them?

 

[Retroman]

http://www.cinematical.com/2005/09/30/acting-lessons-from-ewan-mcgregor-and-patrick-stewart/

So...Stewart is a proffesor in real life too?

 

[Halcohol]

What about them?

I was just trying to get the thread back on track, but it seems my meddling wasn't needed :P

Though I still crack up every time I hear someone say "Jambalaaayaaa!"

 

[Retroman]

I was just trying to get the thread back on track, but it seems my meddling wasn't needed :P

Though I still crack up every time I hear someone say "Jambalaaayaaa!"

''No more soup for you!''

 

[Halcohol]

''No more soup for you!''

"4."
"I'll stay."
"I SUGGEST you hit, sir."
"I also like to live dangerously..."
"7. House wins. NO SOUP FOR YOU."

 

[Retroman]

"4."
"I'll stay."
"I SUGGEST you hit, sir."
"I also like to live dangerously..."
"7. House wins. NO SOUP FOR YOU."

Lol