Hollywood Actress Bo Derek Talks About the Evolution of Cinema, Filmmaking and Her Four-Decade Long Journey in an Exclusive Interview with Community
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Community Community Embassy of Qatar South Africa University P7 organises P16 College of Ubuntu Bash, Pharmacy recognises Heritage Bazaar, 75 of its top students for at Doha Sports the Fall 2018 and Spring Park. 2019 term. Thursday, November 21, 2019 Rabia I 24, 1441 AH Doha today: 180 - 240 10 on 10 Hollywood actress Bo Derek talks about the evolution of cinema, filmmaking and her four-decade long journey in an exclusive interview with Community. P4-6 COVER STORY REVIEW SHOWBIZ A gripping family odyssey of Kevin Hart happy to go back tragedy and redemption. to work after car crash. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, November 21, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.34am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.56am Zuhr (noon) 11.21am Asr (afternoon) 2.25pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.45pm Isha (night) 6.15pm USEFUL NUMBERS Frozen 2 a strange sound from the north calling her. 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The program services to the locals as a way of giving Education Fair off ers a choice of 3 specialist tracks in General back to the community and learn about WHERE: City Centre Doha Management, Entrepreneurship and Business the lifestyles, traditions, socioeconomic WHEN: Tomorrow Development and Marketing and Sales. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, November 21, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “Good movie is a good movie, I don’t care where you see it” — Bo Derek, Hollywood actress It was so expensive to make a movie back in the 80s, so expensive to release it, and you had to make a film to please the masses. For the most part, the ‘films were not that specific. Now, whatever you like, whatever documentary, whatever you want to learn about or however you want to be entertained — it’s just a click away and it’s fantastic ’ Thursday, November 21, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY “When I produced my first film, I had a very strong position in the industry. The biggest you can get — for a moment. So many people started pulling me and telling me what to do — I wasn’t prepared. So, I decided to be my own boss. When I look back, I think, I might would’ve made better career choices but I wouldn’t have traded the experience or anything” POPULAR: Following Bo Derek’s appearance in 10, everybody started wearing cornrows, trying to look just like her, accrediting Bo more than anyone else for popularising cornrows. A 1980 People article even cited Derek as the catalyst for making cornrows a ‘cross-cultural craze’ and a ‘beauty store bonanza.’ Although Bo’s subsequent film films, but Bo has always been decades, what keeps her busy now it’s a very exciting time. I like it,” By Muhammad Asad Ullah Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) did interested in behind the scene and her take on #Metoo. says Derek. well on the box office, but it was aspects of the films and hence “Absolutely everything has Drawing a parallel between raved with negative reviews due went into production soon after. changed. There were just a few the old age cinema and the o Derek made her to the objectification of Bo rather Bo Derek recently spoke to motion pictures made a year back current scenario of online movie acting breakthrough than keeping the focus on Tarzan. Community as she is visiting then, now as a consumer or an streaming services and how it has in the 1979 romantic Post Tarzan, Bo did Bolero (1984), Doha to celebrate her birthday, actor there’s so much content changed the media landscape, Bo comedy 10, and Ghosts Can’t Do It (1990), Tommy about how she thinks cinema has and so much work because of Derek said, “It was so expensive to her performance Boy (1995) and a couple of other evolved over the period of four streaming and Internet, cable and make a movie back in the 80s, so —B including an iconic scene of expensive to release a movie, and Derek running down the beach you had to make a film to please in a skin-coloured swimsuit and the masses. For the most part, cornrows — quickly propelled her the films were not that specific.