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COMRADE IN THE ’HOOD26 Jay Baruchel talks about shooting The Trotsky — a film 32 about a teen who thinks he’s TALKING ’BOUT SEX Sex and the City 2 strides into theatres this month with its secrets mostly intact, the reincarnation of Russian thanks in part to Kim Cattrall. When Famous caught up with Cattrall — who plays Sex and the City’s vixen revolutionary Leon Trotsky — in Samantha Jones — in London where she’s starring in a production of Private Lives, it was clear she wasn’t the same Montreal neighbour hood going to spill any secrets and ruin the sequel for female fans. For Cattrall, it’s all about showing the love to where he grew up the ladies who love her • By Ingrid Randoja • By Marni Weisz

GAME CHANGER30 Why did Ben Kingsley agree to play the villain in the videogame adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? Because as the Oscar winner says, every role is a chance for him to dust off his Shakespearean skills

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How can you not like Jay Baruchel? He’s smart, unassuming — in other words, typically Canadian. 650,000 copies of Famous magazine are distributed Which fits, since the Montreal native can’t stop raving about his hometown. And, despite being much through Cineplex Entertainment and Alliance cinemas, HMV and other outlets. Famous magazine is not responsible for sought-after for big U.S. productions, he prefers to make his movies right here, like he did with the return of unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other The Trotsky. In “The Revolution Begins at Home,” page 26, Baruchel tells you about his new film. materials. No material in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written consent of the publisher. And you’re sure to find something you like in this summer’s slate of movies. Check out our © Cineplex Entertainment 2010. Summer Movie Preview, page 13, and start working on your must-see list. In Theatres June 4 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Marni Weisz, editor KILLERSFILM.COM

Actors often use parasols VIGGO MORTENSEN 1 to keep their makeup from 3 melting between takes, but none ANNE HATHAWAY more often than Cameron Diaz CAUGHT who always seems to be hiding MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY under one brolly or another, like CAMERON DIAZ this pretty pink number on the L.A. set of Bad Teacher. “ROBERT PATTINSON” PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS ON FILM It’s nice to see an actor 2 who’s so comfortable with public displays of affection. You know Anne Hathaway has to be really into boyfriend Adam Shulman if she’s willing to grab his ass at a gas station. PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS

We can imagine how 3 annoying it is for Robert Pattinson to have girls trying to touch him and run their fingers through his hair. But we imagine all those grubby, reaching fingers are even more annoying for the artist who meticulously sculpted this delicate wax likeness of Pattinson for New York’s Madame Tussauds wax museum. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

Matthew McConaughey 4 takes son Levi for a walk through an impressionist painting. Oh sorry, that’s a trail along the Malibu coast. 2 PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

Ominous-looking award. 5 Viggo Mortensen, who grew up partly in Argentina, shows off a black crow statue given to him by Argentina’s Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro in appreciation of his support. The soccer team has always been Viggo’s fave; he even wore cufflinks bearing their emblem to the Oscars when he was nominated for Eastern Promises. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

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The A-Team franchise. Not the least of which for this story of five grade-school plays an Old West terrorist, Never frame an elite group of is that it’s a Pixar movie, and we buddies who reunite after their yes terrorist, preparing to Special Forces soldiers for a can’t think of a single dud the old basketball coach dies. They raise an army of the dead. crime they did not commit. animation giant has released. travel to the cottage where they RELEASE DATE: JUNE 18 You know they’re just going to But the thing that really piques celebrated a big win back in the break out of jail and become our interest is that the script was day and uncover the ways they Knight and Day vigilante do-gooders until the written by Little Miss Sunshine have — and haven’t — changed The second movie this month day they can take their revenge scribe Michael Arndt. In Arndt’s over the decades. (see Killers) to feature a on you. Liam Neeson, Bradley tale, Andy is all grown up and RELEASE DATE: JUNE 25 secret agent (Tom Cruise) Cooper, Sharlto Copley and moving away to college. He won’t who falls for a lovelorn brawny mixed martial artist/UFC need Buzz (Tim Allen) or Woody Jonah Hex layperson (Cameron Diaz) light heavyweight Quinton (Tom Hanks) or any toys there, What an odd cast. Megan Fox. and pulls her into his world of “Rampage” Jackson adapt the so the lot of them are donated to John Malkovich. Josh Brolin. danger and intrigue. This one 1980s TV show. Guess which a day care centre teeming with Michael Shannon. Will Arnett. sounds like it’s got more of a one plays the role made famous sticky, snotty tots. Uh-oh. Highbrow, lowbrow, beautifully Mission: Impossible flavour, by Mr. T. RELEASE DATE: JUNE 18 plucked brows all come together though. Not just because it RELEASE DATE: JUNE 11 to tell the equally odd story of an stars Cruise, but because his Grown Ups Old West bounty hunter (Brolin) assignment is to protect a The Karate Kid Four Saturday Night Live alumni with ties to the underworld super-battery that can produce Twelve-year-old Detroit native — Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, (not the mob but the actual an infinite amount of power. Dre (Jaden Smith, spawn of Will) David Spade and Rob Schneider underworld, the result of a near- RELEASE DATE: JUNE 25 moves to China with his mom — plus Kevin James join forces death experience). Malkovich continued (Taraji P. Henson) and runs afoul of a local bully. So he turns to maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) to teach him the secrets of (despite the title) kung fu. While we’re dubious this remake can live up to the standards set by the 1984 original, we admit that when choosing a kung fu master we may opt for Jackie “I Do All My Own Stunts” Chan over Pat “Arnold” Morita. RELEASE DATE: JUNE 11 Toy Story 3 There are lots of reasons to be intrigued by Pixar’s third installment of the Toy Story From left: Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copley and Liam Neeson in The A-Team

20 FAMOUS MAY 2010 COMING SOON ON SCREEN

SPECIAL EVENTS JULY on the Big PREVIEWS Screen WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW MONEY IN THE BANK Sun., July 18

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SALT The Sorcerer’s Dinner for Schmucks The Adjustment Bureau Beastly JULY 23 Apprentice Paul Rudd plays Tim, an up-and- Sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick died 28 This update of the Beauty and the If there’s one woman in In 1940 Disney released coming corporate executive years ago, but that hasn’t hurt his Beast story stars Alex Pettyfer Hollywood who has — excuse Fantasia. Just the studio’s who’s invited to his boss’s Hollywood career one bit. The as a stuck-up high school hottie the phrase — a big set of third animated feature, it monthly “Dinner for Idiots.” The man who wrote the source who spurns the wrong Goth chick balls, it’s Angelina Jolie. So strayed from the usual idea is to show up with the most material behind Blade Runner, (Mary-Kate Olsen) prompting when Tom Cruise, who was format, instead stringing awkward loser you can find, and Minority Report and Next will her to put a curse on him and initially tapped to play the together eight animated short if you bring the biggest idiot have his name in the credits once turn him into just the type of lead in the espionage thriller films set to classical music. there are rewards. So Tim brings more as The Adjustment Bureau person he mocks — ugly. Like, Salt, turned the role down, the The most famous is IRS man Barry (Steve Carell). If hits theatres. Matt Damonstars really ugly. The only way he can producers approached Jolie. “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” this were a rom-com, it would as a politician who discovers fate turn back into his former self is to Cruise thought the based on the 1797 Goethe end with Tim and Barry falling in — an actual, concrete force in make a girl love him just as he is. character and story were too poem it stars Mickey Mouse as love, and Tim having to come this film’s universe — is Enter Vanessa Hudgens as the close to his Mission: the apprentice who gets into clean about his original purpose. conspiring to keep him from the kindly daughter of a drug addict. Impossible films, and Salt’s trouble when he tries to use But it’s not... ballerina (Emily Blunt) he loves. RELEASE DATE: JULY 30 director Phillip Noyce says magic to clean up the wizard’s RELEASE DATE: JULY 23 RELEASE DATE: JULY 30 continued the actor had a point. laboratory. Now Disney has Noyce told the website stretched the story into a Dark Horizons, “It was kind of live-action feature film with returning to an offshoot of a Nicolas Cage as the wizard character that he’d already The Last Airbender Will Arnett, Ken Jeong and to steal the moon in an and Jay Baruchel as the played. It’s like playing the Is Dev Patel worried about Russell Brand all lend their pipes attempt to outdo the world’s apprentice. Throw in an brother, or the cousin, of typecasting already? The to this animated feature about best master criminal, a teen arch-enemy played by somebody that you played in breakout star of Slumdog Gru (Carell), the world’s second geek named Vector (Segel). Alfred Molina and you have a another movie.” Millionaire chose this big budget best master criminal who plans RELEASE DATE: JULY 9 summer blockbuster. The switch to Jolie wasn’t a M. Night Shyamalan fantasy as RELEASE DATE: JULY 16 big problem for Noyce, who his follow-up, and we can’t think worked with the then-little- of a bigger leap from the tough Inception known actor on one of her streets of Mumbai. Patel plays Writer-director Christopher first big films, 1999’s the Fire Nation prince in this Nolan’s first movie since The Bone Collector. live-action adaptation of the The Dark Knight is this slick After going through the Emmy-winning animated TV sci-fi about a world where gender reassignment series about a world divided minds can be controlled by process at the hands of into four warring peoples — technology, making ideas the A Knight’s Tale writer-director Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom, most dangerous weapons. Brian Helgeland, Salt hits Water Tribes and Air Nomads. Other than that, Nolan has theatres July 23rd with Jolie RELEASE DATE: JULY 2 kept the plot under wraps, but playing Evelyn Salt, a CIA we can tell you his stellar cast operative accused of being a Despicable Me includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Russian spy and forced to go With a voice cast like this, it Ellen Page, Michael Caine and on the run while trying to better be funny. Steve Carell, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. clear her name. Kristen Wiig, Jason Segel, Dev Patel in The Last Airbender RELEASE DATE: JULY 16 Inception star Leonardo DiCaprio

22 FAMOUS MAY 2010 MAY 2010 FAMOUS 23 ON SCREEN

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Kids flick Nanny McPhee was a AUGUST surprise hit in 2005, leading to this sequel which, once again, PREVIEWS stars Emma Thompson as the magical, buck-toothed governess who comes to the aid of a mother (Maggie Gyllenhaal) raising her three kids — and a niece and nephew — on the family farm. EAT PRAY LOVE RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 20 AUGUST 13 Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir Eat Pray Love has sold more SPECIAL than six million copies since its 2006 release. Women EVENTS found it inspirational and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’s hipsters Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead on the Big even Oprah couldn’t get Screen enough of the book, or WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW Gilbert, inviting the author Scott Pilgrim vs. group of mercenaries who try Chris Brown and rapper T.I. — SUMMERSLAM to appear on her show twice. the World to take out a South American are planning a massive heist. Sun., Aug. 15 It was a no-brainer that the Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic dictator. Stallone’s old timey However, that cop (Matt Dillon) memoir would become a movie, novel comes to life with co-stars — Dolph Lundgren, who’s been tracking them — and GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR and casting Julia Roberts as Michael Cera taking on the Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts their own infighting — could PARTICIPATING THEATRES Gilbert was an equally obvious role of Scott Pilgrim, a hip — are joined by somewhat mess up their perfect job. AND TO BUY TICKETS. choice. The story follows Toronto slacker/musician younger co-horts Jason Statham, RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 20 Gilbert, a thirtysomething who falls for delivery girl Jet Li and Terry Crews. But what New York writer, who suffers a Ramona V. Flowers (Mary every ’80s action fan can’t wait breakdown after realizing she Elizabeth Winstead). But to to see is the much-hyped scene doesn’t want children and no woo her, he must defeat her that unites Stallone, Bruce Willis longer loves her husband seven evil ex-boyfriends. and Arnold Schwarzenegger on (Billy Crudup). She decides to RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 13 the big screen for the very spend a year travelling to find first time. herself, so goes to Italy for food Going the Distance RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 13 and fun, to India to meditate The Other Guys of the dancerific Step Up series Moose (Adam Sevani), as Erin (Drew Barrymore) heads and lastly to Indonesia, where Movies about buddy cops are uses 3D technology to tell they take on all comers in to San Francisco to finish her The Switch she meets, and falls in love always in season in Hollywood, the story of New York street the ultimate breakdancing last year in journalism school With her biological clock ticking, with, Felipe (Javier Bardem). and this comedy pairs Will Ferrell dancers Luke (Rick Malambri), showdown. while boyfriend Garrett Kassie Larson (Jennifer Aniston) Directed by Glee and Mark Wahlberg as two of Natalie (Sharni Vinson) and RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 6 (Barrymore’s ex Justin Long) takes the turkey-baster writer/producer/director New York’s finest. Ferrell plays remains in New York City to approach to getting pregnant. Ryan Murphy, the movie paper-pushing detective focus on his career. Their long- Her sperm donor is a hunk of a was shot in all three Allen Gamble and Wahlberg is distance relationship was man (Patrick Wilson), which aforementioned countries, fiery cop Terry Hoitz, who’s been meant to be a short-term upsets her neurotic best friend and Roberts took her three paired with Gamble ever since situation, but when Erin lands Wally (Jason Bateman), so he kids in tow while filming. an embarrassing public incident her dream job and Garrett replaces perfect guy’s seed Roberts decided not to involving his gun. The duo live in gets a promotion, they with his own. Seven years later meet Gilbert before she the shadow of the city’s coolest question whether they can Kassie and her son pop back started filming. She told cops (Dwayne Johnson and make their relationship work. into Wally’s life and he must Women’s Wear Daily, “I didn’t Samuel L. Jackson) but wind up RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 13 decide how to tell her he’s the want to be overly influenced. interacting with the big boys on real father. She’s such an incandescent an important case. The Expendables RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 20 personality.... We were a few RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 6 Old action stars don’t die, weeks into filming when I met they just find a role in Takers her and her husband, and she Step Up 3D The Expendables. The 63-year- A group of high-end bank was exactly what I wanted Breakdancing in 3D — what’s not old Sylvester Stallone wrote robbers — Idris Elba, Paul Sylvester Stallone fronts The Expendables her to be.” to love? This third installment Mark Wahlberg (left) and Will Ferrell in The Other Guys and directed this tale about a Walker, Hayden Christensen,

24 FAMOUS MAY 2010 MAY 2010 FAMOUS 25 INTERVIEW JAY BARUCHEL

THE REVOLUTIONBEGINS AT HOME The Trotsky A year ago, Jay Baruchel was living in an apartment in the In , Jay Baruchel Anglophone end of Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce plays a Montreal kid neighbourhood — NDG, for those in the know — with who thinks he’s the two roommates and a cat. Today, he’s still living in NDG, but things reincarnation of socialist have changed a bit. Literally…a bit. “Different house, same roommates and same cat,” says Baruchel. revolutionary Leon Trotsky. “Same neighbourhood. Still only about two or three blocks away Best thing is, the movie takes from my mother.” place in the neighbourhood After years of a successful acting career in both Canada (Real Time, Just Buried) and the States (Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, Nick and where the rising star grew up Norah’s Infinite Playlist), Baruchel, who turned 28 last month, — and just bought his decided to pony up the dough and invest in some property. But PHOTO BY PETER TAMLIN PETER BY PHOTO

first house BY MARNI WEISZ that didn’t mean leaving his two roommates — continued

26 FAMOUS MAY 2010 INTERVIEW JAY BARUCHEL

A Serious Man This photo of the real Leon Trotsky was taken in 1897 when he was just 18. That year the youngster helped organize the South Russian “Jacob and I were so Workers’ Union, and wrote and Clockwise from left: Jay Baruchel with distributed revolutionary psyched about doing this The Trotskydirector Jacob Tierney; pamphlets promoting socialist film,” says Baruchel. “Our Leon Bronstein (Baruchel) is led away ideals. The following year he by the cops; and Baruchel with student was arrested along with more culture is so rarely depicted union cohorts Ricky Mabe and Kaniehtiio Horn THE TROTSKY than 200 members of the union in movies, so we’re happy and began a two-year prison HITS THEATRES term, before being deported that we’re finally getting to th to Siberia in 1900. show that we exist” MAY 14 both of whom he’s known since he was 15 — behind. Especially since revolution (at his father’s garment factory), motivate the masses (in Although you can’t tell from the trailer, Baruchel says those familiar one of them, Jesse Chabot, has been Baruchel’s writing partner for this case, via his high school’s student union), marry an older woman with Disney’s Fantasia — which features Mickey Mouse as a young more than a decade. “I’ve been writing with him since I was 16 or 17 named Alexandra (Hampshire), get exiled not once, but twice, and wizard overwhelmed by an army of enchanted mops in a segment and we did stand-up together back when we were 17,” says Baruchel. then die a violent death. called “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” — will be able to see shades of the So the three guys and their feline picked up shop and moved to The look and feel of The Trotsky reminds one of movies based on original in this dark thriller. “Not the least of which is the sequence a slightly less humble abode. “It’s f--king awesome,” says Baruchel. Mordecai Richler books. Although the story takes place now, Leon, in which we pay homage to the scene where the mops come to life,” “There’s an oil painting of my cat up on the wall, there’s a bunch of with his pressed white shirts, skinny ties and wire-rimmed glasses, he says. “I’m at the lab, have a big mess to clean up and try to use bedrooms, it’s got a nice little backyard area, I’ve got a shuffleboard is styled to look like he just stepped away from a union meeting in magic for selfish gains. I go take a shower, come out, and everything table that my roommate got for me for Christmas, so we spend a lot the Soviet Union of the 1930s. But he also looks like he’d be at home that can be cleaning up is cleaning up.” of time watching hockey and playing shuffleboard. It’s got a finished hanging out with Duddy Kravitz in the Montreal of the 1940s. Yes, it’s exciting to star in a pricey summer tent pole. But, for basement and a fireplace and not one, but two, solariums.” Baruchel says there’s a good reason for that association. Baruchel, it’s not as exciting as the script he’s been working on with The house is also proof (in addition to the maple leaf tattoo across “Any time people see people speaking English, specifically Jews pal Chabot back at the house. Pig, he says, is a controversial, racially Baruchel’s chest) that all the gushing he does about Canada, specifi- speaking English, in Montreal you think of Richler because he’s the charged horror about a drug-addicted, psychotic, middle-aged white cally Montreal, in interviews is more than hot air. “This is the first only one who’s written about our way of life,” says Baruchel. Despite cop chasing four black kids through a ghetto. time I’ve ever bought a house, or anything,” the actor says of his his blaring patriotism, the actor says Anglos from NDG have little in “Everyone who works with me knows this is the thing,” he says. Montreal property. “I’ll never leave, God no.” Home to NDG, where, to the actor’s delight, he’s shot his last two common with their fellow Canadians, whether those Canadians “If everything works out perfectly this will be my feature directorial Yet, on this day, Baruchel is far from the shuffleboard table and the movies — The Trotsky, which comes out this month, and the upcoming come from Toronto or other parts of Montreal. “That’s why Jacob and debut. Directing horror movies is all I’ve really ever wanted to do. solariums and the cheesy oil painting. He’s in L.A., doing the stuff he Notre Dame de Grâce, about three locals (Baruchel, Scott Speedman I were so psyched about doing this film,” he says. “Our culture is so Acting is great, I have a great deal of respect for it, it’s given me a has to do to pay for those creature comforts. His rom-com She’s Out of and Emily Hampshire) and the serial killer stalking their neighbour- rarely depicted in movies, so we’re happy that we’re finally getting great life, but my passion has always been to direct, and specifically My League — the first American movie with Baruchel in the lead — hood. Both movies were written and directed by Baruchel’s good to show that we exist.” to direct horror movies.” opened the previous weekend and he was in nearby Las Vegas for the friend and fellow NDG native, Jacob Tierney (Twist). A few months after The Trotsky hits theatres in Canada, Baruchel Guess where. premiere. “Tomorrow and Saturday I have the press junket for How to The Trotsky, which premiered at the Toronto International Film will be out promoting another big American movie; he has the title “Ideally,” he says, “I’d be able to shoot it in Montreal sometime in Train Your Dragon, and then the premiere for that thing on Sunday,” Festival, stars Baruchel as an earnest high school student named role in Disney’s live-action version of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. the next three years.” F he says of his first animated feature, which came out at the end of Leon Bronstein who thinks he’s the reincarnation of socialist Leon Nicolas Cage plays the sorcerer in the special-effects blockbuster that /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// March. “And a few meetings afterward and then I go home.” Trotsky and is determined to live his life just as Trotsky did —start a hits theatres around the world in July. Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous.

28 FAMOUS MAY 2010 MAY 2010 FAMOUS 29 INTERVIEW BEN KINGSLEY PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME HITS THEATRES MAY 28th

FOR ANYTHING Don’t trust him: Ben Kingsley (left) seems agreeable enough alongside Jake Gyllenhaal (centre) and Richard Coyle Academy Award-winning thespian Ben Kingsley a noble accused of murdering his adoptive father King Sharaman. Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island and British “It” boy Jim Sturgess in The real murderer is scheming Nizam (Kingsley), whose ascent to the Fifty Dead Men Walking. may not be the first man you think of when throne of Persia is small potatoes alongside his real plan — to acquire “Young actors are so brave,” he says. “They are the poets of the casting a blow-’em-up blockbuster based a dagger which holds the Sands of Time, an artifact of the gods that 21st century in the best sense. I love to be around that energy...tapping on a videogame franchise. But the elegant Brit allows its owner to control time and rule the world. into some mythology and the urge to tell a story.” says actors should be able to bring their skills Prince Dastan is thus charged to wrest the dagger from Nizam’s He’s especially proud his own sons, Edmund, 27, and Ferdinand, control and return it to the Secret Guardian Temple where it belongs 21, have entered the family business. to any role, including his villainous Nizam — with the lovely Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) by his side. “I love them dearly and see their workshops. I went to RADA [the in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Got all that? For Kingsley, keeping the plot points straight isn’t the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art] when Eddie was there and I went to BY JIM SLOTEK only problem. “My dilemma is how can I make something out of Guildhall when Ferdinand was there. And I watched Ferdie’s nothing? It doesn’t matter what the source is. It’s just print on the Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and found it intensely moving.” magine a time when thousands of people on a movie screen him. “It was massive... Massive! I mean, we’re out in Morocco in the page. How can I make something on the screen that is a human being?” Of course, the Kingsley boys’ life with Shakespeare is far removed really were thousands of people on a movie screen — not desert with huge sets and hundreds of extras and camels and horses He did have role models in the form of old friends who’ve gone from the realities of movie-star life that engulf Gyllenhaal and a single computer-generated humanoid among them. and swordfights and battles.” “blue screen” on him — including his old Royal Shakespeare Company DiCaprio. Having seen how it affects those stars, “celebrity” is a word Fresh from the Moroccan set of the videogame-based But that was then. As we spoke at the Toronto International Film castmate Patrick Stewart (a.k.a. Star Trek: The Next Generation’s that rankles Kingsley. movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Sir Ben Kingsley Festival, Kingsley was preparing for the second half of the film’s pro- Captain Picard and The X-Men’s Professor Xavier). “I think celebrity is a strange word,” he says. “By definition it means is bemused as he compares epics, then and now. duction, and it would involve all sorts of acting head games. He was “If the conditions are right, you can hope to bring [Shakespearean] one who is celebrated. An employee is employed, an interviewee is “It really has changed, hasn’t it?” he says when he con- off to the soundstages of Britain’s legendary Pinewood Studios, where skills to the material,” Kingsley says. “Jerry [Bruckheimer, the pro- one who is interviewed, and a celebrity is celebrated. But it’s become siders his most famous role, that of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he’d be working “with lots and lots of blue screen.” ducer] and the wonderful [director] Mike Newell in Prince of Persia reversed. A celebrity is lampooned, leered at, and debased, sneered at, the Mahatma, in director Richard Attenborough’s 1982 Developed in Montreal at Ubisoft, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time have allowed the film to breathe. Of course, it’s going to have great trivialized. It’s ludicrous. Oscar-winning film. “There was no blue screen in was one of the most critically praised videogames ever, spawning a visual effects. Of course, it’s going to have great action sequences. “I think in order to stay healthy, you have to detach from that as an Gandhi. All those people at the funeral were there. It massive franchise, including a new title — Prince of Persia: The Forgotten But they’ve also allowed it to be character-driven. And because it’s actor — step back and not be constantly on the laptop wondering was the last of the great non-CGI epics.” Sands — to be released this month. character-driven, we can really breathe life into the characters.” what the last blogger said. It’s death.” F Which is not to say playing the villain in a mammoth action film The movie, which incorporates elements from the original game Shooting opposite hot young actors has become a normal working ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// is all fakery. The scale of Prince of Persia’s Moroccan set still impressed and its sequels, stars a pumped-up Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan, condition for Kingsley of late, with Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia, Jim Slotek writes for the Toronto Sun.

I30 FAMOUS MAY 2010 MAY 2010 FAMOUS 31 MORE CYNTHIA NIXON 32 COVER STORY THAN FAMOUS SARAH JESSICA PARKERSARAH LIFE MAY 2010 her performanceinaNoelCoward play, On thelinefrom London, where she’sgettinggreat reviews for KIM CATTRALL KIM CATTRALL TO TO being onstage,howtheactingbizhaschangedin30years and —ohyeahSextheCity2 SEX KRISTIN DAVIS The performance tochatwithusabout near midnight,andCattrallhadstayed uplateafterher and eventhewritingofsexually themed how-tobooks. was castasSexandtheCity Mannequin 1975 flopRosebud, sloggedherwaythrough ’80s dreck — hercareer asateen—debutingindirector OttoPreminger’s began mostindustrious.BorninEngland,butraisedVancouver, she the production ofNoelCoward’s Lives Private 53-year-old isbusystarringasAmandainacriticallyacclaimed the not duetoanydramaorillwillbetweencastmates,butbecause City lem; thistrioshouldbeaquartet.KimCattrall,thefourth 2010 EnsembleAward. yearly gathering)where they’re beinghonoured withtheconvention’s Nixon havearrivedinLasVegas forShoWest (themovieindustry’s Sex andtheCity2 Hollywood beginnings. Hollywood contractually allowed tosay, herthrivingtheatre career andher We caughtupwith atired Cattrallonthephonefrom London.Itwas Her The mostseasonedactoramongthe The fashionablethreesome lookshappy, excited, butthere’s aprob- star, isconspicuouslyabsentfrom thephotoop.Fortunately, it’s SatC Sex , success ledtoincreasing theatre work,TVcommercials Police Academy aae r infullswing. are capades stars SarahJessicaParker, KristinDavisandCynthia Kim Cattrall ’s sex-obsessed vixen Samantha Jones. ’s sex-obsessed — andhitherstrideinthe’90swhenshe SatC SatC — well,asmuchsheis in London’s West End. foursome, Cattrallisalso YIGI RANDOJA INGRID BY talks about continued Private Lives Private Sex andthe , Porky’s

PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS COVER STORY KIM CATTRALL SEX AND THE CITY 2 HITS THEATRES MAY 27th

Sex and the City 2’s harem, (from left) Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon

Q:How did the performance go tonight? Q:So you see the friendships as the key to its huge popularity? A: “Great, really fun. I am having such a great time doing this.” A: “Yes, but I think it’s also about questioning what it means to be a woman in this point in time. It addresses issues that most women live Q:How do you relax after a performance? with on a daily basis. They’re working mothers, or they are single and Have a drink, watch television? they are at a certain age and they didn’t get married, or they didn’t A: “Oh, I come home and do some emails, I stroke my cat, I have a stay married, or they didn’t have kids. All these different scenarios nice glass of wine, a very light dinner and I usually just go to bed.” represent women’s lives of the last 30 to 40 years and [Sex and the City] addresses post-feminism in a way that hasn’t been done before.” Q:How are you handling the exertion of being on stage every night? Q:The new movie is set two years after the first Sex and the A: “I’ve been a theatre actress most of my life, so I feel very home on City. What’s going on with Samantha at this point in time? stage. The thing I love about the theatre is that it’s very organic — A: “You know, I can’t tell you any story points, I can’t even go into there’s a beginning, middle and end to it — and it keeps evolving. the plotlines. That’s a question I can’t answer, I’m sorry.” And I think this is the best play Coward wrote, it’s very funny, very heartbreaking. It’s this dance between male and female.” Q:It’s interesting, you not being able to talk about the movie just shows how big this franchise has become, and how people Q:That dance between male and female is also part are so invested in these films. of Sex and the City. A: “I don’t really understand it myself, I guess it’s the surprise factor A: “But that to me is not as important as the communication be- for the fans. It’s sort of like waiting for Christmas — they want to tween the women. Sex and the City, to me, is a show about women for peek at the package but they don’t really want to open it and know women. Yes they’re in relationships, but to me it is about family, and what’s inside until the time is right…. So many women came out to that family is not blood, it’s love of friends.” support the first film. They came out more than once, continued

34 FAMOUS MAY 2010 COVER STORY KIM CATTRALL

UNCOVERING THE

PLOTKim Cattrall may be all coy about Movieline magazine that Sex and the City 2’s plot, but simply is not the case. “Yeah, Warner Brothers gave sex- if you go online you’ll see that starved fans something they’ve been saying that for to drool over during their months and months,” says ShoWest presentation — a Corbett. “They have a picture second SatC trailer. of me from Istanbul years ago Press who saw the trailer sent and they just say that I was in out dispatches a.s.a.p. Some of Morocco shooting the sequel the highlights include: so I don’t know who is blowing that stuff up.” • Stanford and Anthony tie the Movieline asked one more knot with Liza Minnelli time to, you know, be sure: officiating. Mazel Tov! “So one hundred percent you • Miranda is still with Steve are not in Sex and the City 2?” but feels fed up with her job “One hundred percent,” and wants to become a full- he replied. time mother to son Brady. The plot thickens... —IR • Charlotte — now with two kids — fears hubby Harry is having an affair with a hot Irish nanny. and dressed up for it. It became an occasion, which was truly extraor- • Samantha takes the girls dinary, so I think in some ways it’s for those fans that we want to to Abu Dhabi where her keep it under wraps and keep the secrets.” ex-boy toy Smith Jerrod is filming a movie. It’s in Q:So then let’s talk about you playing Samantha. You’re one of Abu Dhabi where Carrie the few female actors who’s played the same character over a meets ex-lover Aidan long period of time, much like Sigourney Weaver playing Ripley (John Corbett) in a market. in the Alien films, or Helen Mirren playing Jane Tennison in But not so fast... Corbett told Prime Suspect, not many actors have that opportunity. A: “It’s true. I feel very grateful for this character and I love her, but I feel as an actress I like the challenge of playing someone completely the studio was sort of looking after you and there was a feeling you different.” were a part of an elite group in that old studio system. I feel as if I have come up through the ranks, doing a couple of lines in a TV show Q:And you’ve played a lot of characters, considering you signed to starring in movies, and really learning and building my craft.” a long-term contact with Universal Studios when you were just 18. It’s hard to imagine actors working under that system in Q:And you seem to really love what you are doing now. today’s Hollywood. A: “It’s a very happy time in my life. Working in the West End on a A: “Yeah, these contracts were quite popular, they were these seven- great play with a wonderful role and cast is so much better than year contracts, which don’t exist any more. When I look back on it now,it sitting in a trailer in Vancouver waiting to do a populist movie with seems so antiquated, but that’s how it was in the late ’70s. It was my- special effects. I don’t get the same kind of charge out of that.” F self, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sharon Gless, I mean we were all coming up at the ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// same time and were friends…. It was kind of a fantastic thing because Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Famous.

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kay. Time to bust out those high heels, call up three good friends and practice striding, Ofour abreast, along busy urban sidewalks. Sex and the City is back. Sequel mania started last fall when the first paparazzi shots appeared of Carrie in pure white Halston, Mykita aviators and With caffeine and three massaging rollers to de-puff, Named after skier Franz Klammer, but now No harsh lip colours for Carrie. Bourjois Lip sparkly Louboutin pumps. The image was Biotherm Homme Force Supreme Re-Builder immortalized by Carrie, these reflective Gloss Effet 3D in Fleur d’Oranger Poetic so singular it became the movie’s poster. ($60, Shoppers Drug Mart) lets men stay up late, Mykita Franz Aviator Sunglasses ($575, ($18, Shoppers Drug Mart) is a soft, apricot And since Sarah Jessica Parker is now the but look as groomed and rested as Mr. Big. josephson.ca) are more glam than sporty. shade with loads of shimmer. President of Halston Heritage (a less expensive line based on the Halston archives and available in Canada at the Bay), what better chance for a little creative cross-branding? Call it serendipity or corporate kismet, but the classic bold colours/big accessories look, popularized by the girls on Sex, just happens to coincide with this summer’s hottest trends. Sex and the City has always been ground zero for nurturing designer lust. Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo were considered out of reach for the average consumer until Carrie slipped them on — as if it were nothing for a freelance columnist to have a shoe collection equal in value to the down payment on her Manhattan apartment. A strappy Manolo Blahnik Sandal in tropical This mixed Metal and Pearl Necklace ($18, Schwarzkopf Professional Bonacure Repair But even if such pricey trinkets exceed turquoise suede ($598, Browns shoes) adds Reitmans) is the perfect accent to a solid-coloured Rescue Sealed Ends ($18, salons) smooths your budget, you can still own a bit of the colourful punctuation to every summer look. Best summer dress, and costs significantly less than and mends split ends. A tube tucked into your Sex and the City brand. Sarah Jessica Parker’s worn when striding city sidewalks with gal pals. the $198,000 necklace Carrie sports in the poster. bag ensures a day of glossy, problem-free hair. new fragrance, SJP NYC, inspired by “Carrie Bradshaw, walking down her favorite New York City streets,” starts at $45. Carrie’s studded belt from the first movie is $120 and an “I’m a Carrie T-shirt” is $30 (both available at SatC costume designer Patricia Fields’ website). AT THE Want Carrie’s hair? Frank Barbosa, head Sex stylist on SatC 2 and Schwarzkopf spokes- person, created those curls using two different-sized curling irons and Bonacure STORES Hairtherapy Repair Rescue Sealed Ends. The second Sex and the City On the men’s side, Chris Noth is the new face of Biotherm Homme skincare. Noth movie hits theatres this month, sounded quite unlike Mr. Big when he recently told me how Biotherm’s products and — no surprise — its ripples Short dresses and spiky heels demand smooth In a cheery multi-patterned container, SJP NYC This Tiered, Ruffled Dress help rejuvenate his skin, especially “if I’ve are being felt throughout the legs. Gillette Satin Care Floral Passion Shave Gel Fragrance ($59, 60 ml eau de toilette spray, drug ($30, Winners) in punchy tangerine would been out drinking or smoking a cigar and ($4, drugstores) moisturizes for a close shave, and department stores) is a mood-lifting blend of be perfect on Carrie with bold accessories I’ve got to work the next day.” fashion world BY LIZA HERZ and the foam stays pink during your shower. juicy strawberry and creamy white flowers. and high, high heels.

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Matthew Goode catches Amy Adams’ eye in Leap Year MAY 18 STORY: Harrelson earned an team, led by captain François Oscar nomination for his role in Pienaar (Damon), it would go a Extraordinary this little-seen gem. He plays long way toward bringing the to re-enlist. And that’s just MAY 4 voyage hits a detour and she film director who is suffering without a healthy stock of Measures Captain Tony Stone, whose job country together. DVD Extras: the beginning... meets Declan (Goode), sweet, from both writer’s block and humans, whose blood will they STARS: Brendan Fraser, is to knock on doors and tell the “Matt Damon Plays Rugby” Leap Year adorable Declan. DVD Extras: a mid-life crisis. DVD Extras: drink? Dang. Enter Edward Harrison Ford people who answer that their The Road STARS: Amy Adams, deleted scenes commentary, “Behind the Look (Hawke), a researchertrying to DIRECTOR: Tom Vaughan loved one has died in the Iraq War. 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The documentary Babies follows four wee ones from different parts of the 1 world during their first few years of life. Name the similar 2007 doc that followed four diverse animal families for a year, instead of humans.

Few musicians have made the transition to film as well as 2 Just Wright’s Queen Latifah. Name the 1991 Spike Lee film about interracial relationships that marked the hip-hop artist’s big-screen debut.

On which popular 1990s TV series did Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau Namibian Ponijao in Babies 3 play a recurring character named Pete Decker?

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Prince Dastan in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. 4 Which 2005 movie starred Gyllenhaal as a soldier serving in the sands of Saudi Arabia during the First Gulf War?

The fourth Shrek movie, Shrek Forever After, comes out this month. 5 Of the voice actors behind the four principal characters — Shrek, Donkey, Princess Fiona and Puss in Boots — who’s the only one with an Oscar nomination? Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’s Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton

Cate Blanchett plays Maid Marian to Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood in 6 Robin Hood. Who played Maid Marian to Sean Connery’s Robin Hood in 1976’s Robin and Marian?

Which star of Sex and the City 2 has won a Tony, an Emmy and

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46 FAMOUS MAY 2010 FUN %8<<285029,(7,&.(76 Virgo Pisces STAR ( ( GAZING August 23 September 22 February 20 March 20 21/,1($7&,1(3/(;&20 HOROSCOPE FOR MAY 2010 BY DAN LIEBMAN Someone twists your words, and Ever-curious Pisces suffers it’s best to say little — or have a from a rare case of information witness around — during the overload. The rumours are weeks of the 10th and 17th. If better than the facts, and it’s seeking a partner, find someone important to separate the who knows the meaning of the two. Someone who’s been word “equal.” distant becomes more attentive. Late May is an ideal Libra time to ask tough questions. September 23 ( October 22 It’s a winding journey, but you Aries reach a professional or personal March 21 ( April 20 goal by the 31st. Along the path, You learn that you were wrong you meet unusual people and take about a person’s intentions. on an unexpected job. Be cautious Don’t let your Aries pride get around the 20th that you don’t in the way of correcting an promise too much. error. It’s an excellent month to take on the role of goodwill Scorpio ambassador. October 23 ( November 21 There’s only one rule this month, and it’s don’t be intimidated. You’re surrounded by control MAY freaks, but remember — no one BIRTHDAYS SULQWHGP\WLFNHWDWKRPH can compete with your secret 1st: Wes Anderson weapon of composure. 2nd: Christine Baranski 3rd: Dulé Hill Sagittarius 4th: Lance Bass George Clooney November 22 ( December 22 5th: Michael Palin SIGN: Taurus Pool ideas, compromise and 6th: George Clooney BORN: May 6, 1961 don’t let your ego get in the way. 7th: Amy Heckerling WHERE: Lexington, Kentucky If you can do all that, you’ll 8th: Melissa Gilbert accomplish an extraordinary 9th: Candice Bergen GLGQҋWSD\DQ\VHUYLFHIHHV amount of meaningful work. Your 10th: Bono Taurus Cancer timing can be off after the 20th. 11th: Tim Blake Nelson April 21 ( May 22 June 22 ( July 22 12th: Jason Biggs Anyone taking on mild-mannered Size matters this month. Make Capricorn 13th: Stephen Colbert Taurus is in for a surprise. You’re big plans, look at the broad December 23 ( January 20 14th: Cate Blanchett competitive, witty and ready for picture and expand your goals. The month gets off to a rocky 15th: Lainie Kazan battle all month long. But you’re After the 17th, be cautious about start and a possible power 16th: Pierce Brosnan generous as always. May sees any deal that seems too good to struggle. Things are on a 17th: Bill Paxton VNLSSHGWKHER[RIÀFHOLQH you helping a friend through a be true — it is. Late in the month, smoother course starting on 18th: Chow Yun-Fat personal crisis and negotiating your home becomes a haven the 10th — professionally and 19th: Rebecca Hall a late-month family dispute. for a stream of eclectic personally — thanks to your 20th: Cher personalities. persistence and resourcefulness. 21st: Fairuza Balk Gemini 22nd: Richard Benjamin May 23 ( June 21 Leo Aquarius 23rd: Joan Collins You’re everyone’s coach this July 23 ( August 22 January 21 ( February 19 24th: Kristin Scott Thomas 3/86DVD6&(1(PHPEHUHDUQHGH[WUDSRLQWV month, as you help prepare There’s a twin focus on finance Avoid negative thinking. 25th: Mike Myers others for their big moments. and creativity this month, and Concentrate on your 26th: Helena Bonham Carter However, don’t miss out on your you can increase your income achievements — even the minor 27th: Joseph Fiennes own major opportunity, which through a craft or hobby. After ones — rather than mistakes. 28th: Gladys Knight surfaces around the 21st. Also, beating about the bush, relatives Less is more is the theme of the 29th: Annette Bening be cautious not to reveal are more upfront about what month. If you want to be noticed, 30th: Wynonna Judd personal information. they want from you. try a subtle approach. 31st: Colin Farrell

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