The X3 Cast Thread

[xwolverine2]

hes eating her alive!!!

 

[Kira]

hes eating her alive!!!

Babies and fathers are the cutest thing ever...

 

[LMason]

Pepper Dennis, Rebecca's new TV show - short tv preview below:
http://thewb.warnerbros.com/web/o_generic_blank.jsp?id=PE

 

[Karea07]

she looks great

 

[narrows101]

Pictures from the cocktail party announcing the Australian production of The Boy from Oz from splashnews.com:

Pictures from Hugh's press conference:

 

[xwolverine2]

she looks great

must see!

 

[Specter313]

That show actually looks interesting and funny. I saw a clip of it once: She's a reporter out in the field, and an anchorman goes to turn it to her, and says "Over to you Penny(I think)" and she automatically goes "Who the F**K told you my real name!" They blanked the curse out by switching to one of the producers, and then we see her freaking out because she just cursed on live television.

 

[xwolverine2]

LOL!......gotta check that out

 

[LMason]

If you want to see Brett Ratner in action, he is posting a series of video diaries from behind the scenes on Prison Break. I posted this in Ratner's thread as well


http://www.fox.com/prisonbreak/ratner/

 

[Karea07]

Nice. Thanks LMason

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue hit stands today... and Ashley is in it. Ford Motors picked her for the campaign to run in that issue. I'll post the scan when I can get my hands on a copy, hopefully ASAP.

 

[Karea07]

not to mention, Rebecca is in the SI swimsuit issue too... lookin mighty fine
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2006_swimsuit/allstar/rebecca_romijn.html

 

[Aiden]

not to mention, Rebecca is in the SI swimsuit issue too... lookin mighty fine
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2006_swimsuit/allstar/rebecca_romijn.html

Well hello Ms Romijn

 

[Karea07]

Ashley in the SI Swimsuit issue.

 

[narrows101]

In Variety:

Big 'Boy' heads back to Oz
Jackman takes Tony-winning tuner on Aussie tour

By MICHAELA BOLAND

After dazzling Broadway audiences with his Tony-winning turn, Australian transplant Hugh Jackman is heading home with "The Boy From Oz."

Jackman will headline a multicity tour of a new arena version of the Broadway bio-tuner, based on the life of Australian entertainer Peter Allen. Venture marks the thesp's first national stage tour of his homeland.

Producers Ben Gannon and Robert Fox, director Kenny Ortega and Jackman launched the A$10 million ($7.4 million) show at a media conference Monday in Sydney.

Tour begins Aug. 3 in Sydney, with an initial 16 dates over two months, including stops in Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane. Prior to its Broadway run, "The Boy From Oz" bowed in Sydney in 1998 and played for two years in five cities. Though an estimated one in 20 Australians has seen the musical, the Jackman arena tour is predicted to be the national stage event of the year.

Prior to making a name for himself in musicals in London's West End, and subsequently as a film actor first at home and then in Hollywood, Jackman starred in Melbourne productions of the tuners "Sunset Boulevard" and "Beauty and the Beast."

The 1970s Aussie-pop diva Colleen Hewett joins the "Oz" cast as Allen's mother, while Chrissy Amphlett and Angela Toohey will reprise their roles of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli from the original Sydney production.

The arena show has doubled in size from the original, with new sets and costumes, a cast of 50 and a 30-piece orchestra playing to auds of up to 10,000.

Jackman's star charisma was considered instrumental to the show's popularity on Broadway. While reviews for the musical itself were tepid, Jackman's personal notices were glowing. Tuner ran a year in New York, grossing $42.7 million and yielding a 20% profit, according to Gannon and Fox.

Date in print: Thurs., Feb. 16, 2006, Gotham

 

[grey_jeanie]

Oh God, those put a damper on my Hugh fantasies....

 

[Neto Magnus]

Ashley in the SI Swimsuit issue.

Holy WOW!!

 

[narrows101]

Oh God, those put a damper on my Hugh fantasies....

That's not Hugh, that's Peter Allen. People who knew Peter said they thought that really was Peter onstage - Hugh captured him so magnificently.

 

[narrows101]

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18166496%255E7642,00.html

The star from Oz
All the world's a stage for the mega-talented Hugh Jackman, writes Sandra McLean
17feb06

THE minute you meet Hugh Jackman it hits you: the producers of The Boy From Oz have made a dreadful mistake.

This former journalist-turned-actor, right, is simply too good looking to play Peter Allen, the legendary song and dance man whose life is immortalised in the hit stage musical.

True, the flamboyant Allen, who died in 1992 after a brilliant career in Australia and the US, had sex appeal. He married Liza Minnelli, didn't he? But for all his energy and flair Allen, who wrote I Go to Rio, I Honestly Love You and Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) was hardly leading man material.

He had a weedy frame, a receding hairline and despite his penchant for maracas and sequins, always looked like a boy from Tenterfield.

But Jackman is definitely leading man material. He's tall, charming and handsome. Think Cary Grant meets Gregory Peck. "He's a dish – pure and simple," sighed one of his admirers.

Women just love Jackman, not only for his good looks but for his obvious devotion to his wife, fellow actor Deborra-Lee Furness and their two adopted children, Oscar, 5, and Ava, nine months.

It's not only women who can't find enough superlatives to lavish on Jackman.

The notoriously demanding New York theatre elite loved him so much they let him host the coveted Tony Awards and then gave him an award as well for his portrayal of Allen in The Boy From Oz on Broadway

in 2003.

When The Boy From Oz premiered in Australia in 1998 with Todd McKenney as Allen, audiences embraced it. It made $60 million at the box office and more than a million people went to Rio with a floral-shirted Allen.

Not quite that many will see Jackman bring his Broadway magic to Australia when he appears in a lavish arena production later this year.

It's a coup for audiences but Jackman's decision to break his busy film schedule to do The Boy From Oz back home is curious as he could easily have left Peter Allen on Broadway.

At 37, he is one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, having just finished working with Woody Allen on a new film, Scoop.

After his brief visit to Australia this week, when he made an advertising campaign for Foxtel, he returns to the US to film The Prestige with Scarlett Johansson.

Jackman has his third X-Men film out later this year. He could have been the next Bond until wife Furness reportedly advised him against taking the job and he turned it down.

In six years since his first Hollywood movie, X-Men, Jackman is no longer just a boy from Oz. According to leading producer Ben Gannon, he has the talent to become the legend from Oz.

He cites Arthur Laurents, writer of West Side Story and Gypsy, who described Jackman's Boy From Oz as "the greatest Broadway performance since Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl".

"Hugh has charisma, first of all," says Gannon, who with Robert Frost is producing the arena version of The Boy From Oz.

"When he walks on stage he has a quality that is hard to define – you see it occasionally in really big stars and that is what Hugh will become."

Gannon says Jackman is one of the few big stars who can mix film with a musical theatre career.

"That's what makes Hugh different," Gannon says. "He has the soul of a performer. He is a movie star too but most movie stars are not performers. They could not do a Broadway show. I can't think of anyone who could. So Hugh is unique. He loves performing but it is really hard for him now that he is such a hot commodity to find time to get away from doing movies."

Jackman says the decision to bring The Boy From Oz home to Australia was largely of his making – after it had got the financial nod from Gannon and Frost who are backing the $10 million production.

"It all started when I was doing the Tony Awards last year and we did a little bit of Peter Allen," he said. "It was a big venue, the Radio City Music Hall where Peter had most of his success. There were seven-and-a-half-thousand people there and it felt great. When we did the last week of The Boy From Oz on Broadway, I just knew it wasn't over. It was bittersweet because I wanted to finish then because I was exhausted, but I didn't want it to be over."'

With an arena show Jackman has the chance to assuage the rock star within. "My wife says I'm the biggest ham she knows," he says ruefully. Emmy-Award winning American director Kenny Ortega, who has worked with Cher, Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand, will be at the helm so it could be more rockbiz than showbiz, with a chorus of Rockettes and special effects.

Jackman, like Allen, went overseas to seek fame and fortune, but the similarities between the two appear to end there. Yet Jackman says when he plays Allen it is like having an alter ego.

"It's like Jekyll and Hyde," he says. "Peter just takes over. When I did a part of the show in Las Vegas after we closed on Broadway I wondered if I still had it in me but it was like I had a Peter Allen battery on my back. You become a different person."

Allen left Australia in the 1960s and went to the US and Japan where he met Judy Garland who introduced him to her daughter, Liza Minnelli. Allen and Minnelli were married for four years, the young Australian then going a separate way to pursue a less conventional career and lifestyle. His chart hits were romantic and introspective but Allen's true persona emerged on stage. In 1981 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York he danced with the Rockettes and rode a camel during a rendition of his frothy hit I Go to Rio. Eleven years later, Allen died in Australia of complications from AIDS.

Allen's homosexuality is not glossed over in The Boy From Oz and it provides the most touching parts of the performer's life story when his lover dies and he writes a song for him.

Jackman, like fellow actor Heath Ledger, has found himself as a heterosexual heart-throb in a gay role, says he had no misgivings about taking the part.

"I don't think Peter's sexuality defined him," Jackman says. "He was known as one of the first big performers to come out about his sexuality and that was very brave. But ultimately knowing all this doesn't help me in portraying the role. He was just a natural performer who loved life. His attitude towards his sexuality was like everything else – he just didn't believe in any barriers.

"Women found him sexy too. He wasn't mincing it up all the time. He just wanted people to have a good time – he would laugh at himself and make fun of himself. He was just a great performer. I am just trying to get the essence of him."

The Boy From Oz, Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Sept 1-3. Tickets ($99 to $249) go on sale February 27.

 

[MoPlaYa]

I love Ashley Hartman`s body....

 

[Karea07]

I love Ashley Hartman`s body....

she is amazing.

 

[sebaa]

2 X Men Are On Birthday Today!!! Kelsey Grammer (51) And Ellen Page (19) !!!! Happy Birthday Beast And Kitty!

 

[PhePhe112]

2 X Men Are On Birthday Today!!! Kelsey Grammer (51) And Ellen Page (19) !!!! Happy Birthday Beast And Kitty!

YAY! Happy B-day!

(you beat me to it!)

 

[Electrix]

Happy Birthday! I hope they are both doing re-shoots so they get a cake!

 

[LMason]

This is from today's premiere of "That GUy".
Looks like he is growing his hair out for "Enchanted".

 

[narrows101]

http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/story.html?id=ff812bcb-d0a8-4a9d-a3a0-96a1e707036b&k=51706

Canadian actor Cameron Bright has shining future

Michael D. Reid, CanWest News Service

Published: Friday, February 24, 2006

VICTORIA -- You know you've arrived when Hugh Jackman greets you on the set of X3, gushes about your acting and tells you how lucky he feels for having been cast in your movie.

Cameron Bright, 13, got that reception last December when he showed up to film scenes as Leech, a hairless young mutant. The Aussie screen star was dumbstruck when he recognized the young Nanaimo, B.C., actor.
"Omigawd, you're that kid from Birth!" Cameron's mother, Anne Bright, laughingly recalls Jackman saying.

In Birth, Jonathan Glazer's eerie 2004 psychological thriller, Cameron played a boy claiming to be the reincarnated husband of an emotionally fragile New York widow (Nicole Kidman).

"You were amazing in that," Jackman told Cameron. "I can't believe they didn't tell me I was in Cameron's movie."

X3, due out in May, is one of four pictures that are putting Cameron back in the spotlight. Three are opening in as many weeks, starting with this weekend's release of Wayne Kramer's Running Scared.

The easygoing Grade 7 student also plays an enigmatic child in Ultraviolet, the sci-fi thriller he shot in Hong Kong and Shanghai with Milla Jovovich (March 3), and the son of a smooth-talking tobacco-industry lobbyist (Aaron Eckhart) in Jason Reitman's comedy Thank You For Smoking, which opens March 16 in Los Angeles.

In Running Scared, Cameron plays Oleg, an asthmatic, abused boy who triggers grisly mayhem when he shoots his sadistic stepfather with a stolen gun stashed by a low-level mobster (Paul Walker).

Cameron, who got his start in commercials and TV series such as Dark Angel and Higher Ground, caught Hollywood's attention when he was cast as a sadistic boy in the thriller The Butterfly Effect (2004).

The cherubic actor was soon receiving plaudits for his ability to convey a compelling mixture of spookiness and vulnerability.

His most memorable roles were as the sinister clone of the dead son of a distraught couple (Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) in Godsend (2004), and as the solemn young stranger whose bathtub scene with Kidman in Birth famously generated controversy.

Today, Cameron has a deeper voice and is leaner, having soared from four-foot-ten to five-foot-four.

"I was a bit chunky back then," he says matter-of-factly. Adds his mom: "It was all that movie-set food."

When Cameron sees Running Scared, he figures he'll react as he usually does. "Most of the time, you get to judge yourself and you say, 'I could do better than that,' when you've probably done the best you can."
He says he's relieved his growth means the flood of calls for "10-year-old parts" will subside.

"Now that my voice is changing, it's kind of obvious I can't do those."
Stardom has its perks, of course, like when Cameron, considered a potential Oscar contender for Birth, was flown by Vanity Fair to London for a photo shoot with Freddie Highmore (Finding Neverland) for an Oscar story that never materialized. Still, Cameron enjoys his normal life with friends and family in the Harbour City.

A soccer buff, he also indulges his passion for paintball as a member of the Young Guns team.

He says he'll keep making movies as long as it's fun, as it was on Thank You For Smoking.

"It's a really funny movie," says Cameron, who welcomed the chance to lighten up and work with Eckhart. "He had his bad days, like everyone. But he was very nice."

He says he loves filming more than auditions, not that he always has to do them.

He was offered roles without auditioning in the sci-fi series Supernatural and in Stargate SG-1, Running Scared and Thank You For Smoking.
And he was cast in X3 by director Brett Ratner, who was a producer on Running Scared.

X3 was fun, he says, partly because Ratner let him help direct a scene.
He didn't even mind having his head shaved. "It was kind of weird, but I didn't have to wash my hair, because I didn't have any hair."
Victoria Times Colonist