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JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT Don’t worry, Suri. Spring is 1 on the way. Katie Holmes DAVID ARQUETTE and Suri Cruise look as pretty as a picture — albeit a melancholy CAUGHT KATIE HOLMES one — as they walk through New York City on a cold, wet day. GERARD BUTLER  PHOTO BY FAME PICTURES/KEYSTONE

JARED LETO Jennifer Love Hewitt 2 celebrates her 31st ON FILM birthday like an 11-year-old — with an ’80s-themed birthday party. The actor posed for a few quick snaps in front of her Toluca Lake, California, home, then hopped into a limo and sped away.  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

That’s weird. David Arquette 3 never smiles for the paparazzi, let alone jumps for joy. Oh wait, he’s wearing clothes from his fashion line, Propr. That explains it.  PHOTO BY VICTORIA WILL/SPLASH NEWS

“Don’t look at us. Just 4 because we got all dressed up, came to this fashion show and are sitting in really great seats doesn’t mean you can look at us.” Jared Leto sits between two surly chicks (we’re actually scared of the Selma Blair look- alike on the right) at Dior’s 2010 Autumn-Winter show in Paris. 2 3  PHOTO BY FAME PICTURES/KEYSTONE Who’s going to have 5 the better story to tell tomorrow? “I danced with Gerard Butler!” “I danced with a hot Brahma girl!” Butler enjoys all that Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival has to offer.  PHOTO BY PETER WALSH/KEYSTONE

8 FAMOUS1APRIL 2010 4 5 APRIL 2010 FAMOUS 9 SHORTS ENTERTAINMENT IN A year in the lifeBRIEF of a couple of Stormtroopers. Plus, Wes Anderson drives artist to drink Artifact THIS MONTH’S OBJET DE FILM ROYAL TENENBAUMS COASTERS If there’s one thing most coasters lack it’s references to the films of Wes Anderson. Artist Kelly Puissegur THE EMPIRE’S FINAL DAYS attempts to right that wrong with a series of small clayboards, individual works of art that fter an acting gig she encourages you to place that provided under a sweating glass of A them with a year whatever it is you drink. of steady employment, a Aside from this set HAVE couple of Stormtroopers are inspired by famous inspired by Anderson’s YOU are out of work as of the Star Wars scenes or The Royal Tenenbaums, GOT THE 4th of this month — and, gimmicks, like the Puissegur — who was born sadder, have few ‘This is not the droid’ and raised in New Orleans, prospects for future miniseries. Some have but moved to L.A. after employment. references to other Hurricane Katrina — offers TOUCH? The 12-centimetre- movies or TV shows, sets devoted to Anderson’s high Hasbro action that I bought at a bargain some are about using Rushmore, Quentin figures are the stars of sale two years earlier. After items I have in my house Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, TOUCHPHONESTO “Stormtroopers 365,” starting to play with them — my son’s toys are a and an extensive mix-and- FFROMROM a year-long project that and my camera, I realized great help, but I also like match collection of * saw Stéfan Le Dû, an I had several ideas for to use stuff from the director portraits ranging engineer and Star Wars shots I could make.” kitchen, the bathroom from Woody Allen to the $ 99 withwith sselectelect fanatic living near So on April 3rd, 2009, or the garden — and Coen Brothers. 3-yr.3-yr. plans Nantes, France, post one Le Dû began the series mixing them with the Puissegur says she and image each day, except with an image titled times, four pictures have Imperial Stormtroopers her husband are huge movie for a two-day break in “Escaping from Giant been viewed more than to make something new.” buffs, “especially ’70s and ONLY UNTIL MAY 3 January when his Vader.” It was an 100,000 times,” says The Stormtroopers ’80s era grindhouse cheese, second child was born. inauspicious debut, with Le Dû. But those numbers aren’t the only ones Italian giallos, exploitation “I thought it would be a Storm trooper floating in don’t include the fact dealing with change films and, obviously, from Getting in touch has never been so much fun with exclusive LG, Samsung and Nokia touchphones. exciting to start some - the forefront and a blurry that many shots ended now that the project’s looking at my art work, Now all your pictures, music and games are available to you with the touch of a fi nger. thing a bit challenging Darth Vader behind. But, up on websites and blogs complete. “It will everything by Wes Anderson The hottest new touchphones, starting at just $19.99. Exclusively from Canada’s Reliable Network. with a specific theme over the months, Le Dû’s other than the homepage probably take some and Quentin Tarantino.” and some sort of daily posts became (Stormtroopers365.com) time to lose the reflex A set of four coasters commitment, rather than better, and stranger, and its associated of ‘What could I do (which could just as easily just posting random attracting fans from all Flickr page. with this object I have be hung on a wall) costs pictures,” says Le Dû. “I over the world. As for inspiration, in front of me, and $48 (U.S.) and is available rogers.com/touchphones had two Stormtroopers “The set’s main page Le Dû says it can come Stormtroopers?’,” via Puissegur’s website, figures still in their box was viewed 660,000 from anywhere. “Some laments Le Dû. —MW Retrowhale.com. —MW *LG Shine Touch $49.99, Samsung Flight $49.99, Nokia 5800 $99.99, Samsung Corby Pro $69.99, LG Pop $19.99, LG Xenon (blue) $49.99, Samsung Forever $49.99; all with new activation on any 3-yr. term voice plan. Taxes extra. Early cancellation fees apply. 10 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 TMRogers & Mobius Design are trademarks of or used under license from or with permission of Rogers Communications Inc. or an affi liate. All other brand names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. © 2010 Rogers Wireless.

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Control Alt Delete opens in Vancouver April 23rd TYLER LABINE IS EVERYWHERE yler Labine needs a washroom. “I’m on Rodeo Drive,” he and feeling a little bit of static electricity, and the keys and the shape says over his cellphone from L.A. “I have an audition at 2:15 with and the lines of the computer, he brings his session to fruition.” TIvan Reitman... Feel like I’m going to pee in my pants I’m so nervous.” The film was written and directed by his brother Cameron Labine. He’s up for a role in Friends With Benefits with Natalie Portman. Their other brother, Kyle, is also an actor. “Me and Cam and Kyle But based on his credentials, the Brampton, Ont., native (he now has were always making movies in the basement with our friends, we homes in Vancouver and L.A.) shouldn’t be that nervous. had the first video camera on the block, we were scripting movies His comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil earned big buzz at Sundance, and casting neighbourhood kids.” So they got an agent. he’s had roles on TV’s Reaper and Invasion, and last month Sons of A recent New York Times article called Labine a “bouncy, good- Tucson, a sitcom starring Labine as a slacker hired by a bunch of rich natured joke machine,” which seems to tickle the actor. “It’s a nice kids to pose as their dad, debuted on Fox. “They can pull the plug on little combination of words there,” he says. “I guess humour has airing the show whenever they want, but that’s not going to been my bread and butter for a long time, it becomes a part of you. happen,” he says, then knocks on a palm tree. “That’s wood, right?” And I don’t think you get to play a character unless you are a bit of Plus, Labine’s indie comedy Control Alt Delete gets a limited release a — what’d they call me? — a bouncy, good-natured joke machine? in Vancouver this month. Set in 1999 against the backdrop of Y2K, It’s a job prerequisite. At least being bouncy.” F Labine plays a guy with an online porn addiction that escalates. “He //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// realizes that the computer itself turns him on, by touching the screen —Marni Weisz

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A Shine of Rainbows The Square Little orphan Tomas (John Bell) Ray (David Roberts) is having 9 is adopted by an Irish couple an affair with the unpredictable april (Connie Nielsenand Aidan Quinn) Carla (Claire van der Boom). INTHEATRES who bring him to the remote Carla tells Ray about a bag of YOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO NEW RELEASES  BY INGRID RANDOJA island of Corrie. The frail child has money her criminal husband difficulty fitting into his strange brought home. Carla says, “Let’s surroundings, until his new steal it and run away together,” mother regales him with magical, Ray says, “Okay,” and then their inspirational stories. plan goes tragically — and violently — awry. april2 Date Night Phil and Clara Foster’s The Eclipse (Steve Carell and Tina Fey) A widower (Ciarán Hinds) living predictable date night takes an in a coastal Irish town falls in unexpected turn when they love with a visiting novelist assume the identity of another (Iben Hjejle) who writes ghost couple to score a restaurant stories. Her profession could reservation. Problem is, they’re prove useful as the ghost of Connie Nielsen and John Bell in A Shine of Rainbows masquerading as a couple that a the widower’s dead wife begins bad guy (Ray Liotta) wants dead. to haunt the new couple.

Death at a Funeral Just three years after the original British comedy Death 16 at a Funeral was released, april comes this American remake. At their father’s funeral, Aaron (Chris Rock) and Ryan (Martin Lawrence) learn daddy dearest was actually gay, and his lover (Peter Dinklage) is asking for $30,000 or he’ll spill the beans to the whole world. Sam Worthington goes to battle in Clash of the Titans Kick-Ass Dave Lizewski (Aaron Clash of the Titans from the first movie to the Johnson) is a milquetoast Death at a Funeral’s Chris Rock (left) and Martin Lawrence This remake of the cheesy Caribbean for a relaxing high school student who loves 1981 flick stars Avatar’s vacation. But since this is a comic books. Fed up with Sam Worthington as legendary Tyler Perry movie you know society’s blasé attitude toward despite the fact he doesn’t become superheroes, like the and the nerdy Red Mist Greek hero Perseus, the son of women will cry over their men, injustice, Dave works out, possess any powers. Dubbed 11-year-old, foul-mouthed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). a human mother and Zeus men will cry over their women, buys a costume and takes to Kick-Ass by the YouTube nation, Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz), her See Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Liam Neeson), king of the gods. and everyone will eventually the street as a superhero — Dave meets others who’ve father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), interview, page 28. When Hades (Ralph Fiennes), count their blessings. god of the underworld, separates Perseus from his mortal family, Women Without Men the boy volunteers to lead a band Set against the coup orchestrated Oceans been exploring them for of warriors against Hades and his by the Shah of Iran in the Disneynature follows its thousands of years, but much army of creepy CGI creatures. summer of 1953, this Iranian 22 critically acclaimed Earth of what occurs within these film follows four women who april documentary with this large bodies of water remains Why Did I Get Married Too? escape their confining lives and dazzling look at the world’s a mystery, which filmmakers Filmmaking machine Tyler Perry’s retreat to a magical garden oceans. Oceans cover nearly Jacques Perrin and sequel to 2007’s Why Did I Get where they are free to be Shirin Neshat in Women Without Men three-quarters of our planet’s Jacques Cluzaud set out Married? sends the four couples themselves. surface, and humankind has to unravel. continued 

14 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 APRIL 2010 FAMOUS 15 ON SCREEN SPECIAL EVENTS  on the Big 23 Screen april THE WIGGLES Sat., Apr. 10 & Sun., Apr. 11

KENNY CHESNEY 3D Wed., Apr. 21 & Thurs., Apr. 22 Sat., Apr. 24 & Sun., Apr. 25 NATIONAL THEATRE THE HABIT OF ART Thurs., Apr. 22 METROPOLITAN OPERA HAMLET (THOMAS) The Losers’ beautiful killer Zoe Saldana Encore: Sat., Apr. 24 WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW The Losers (Zoe Saldana) to take revenge year off, but now she’s back EXTREME RULES Based on Andy Diggle’s graphic against the CIA agent (Jason on the big screen in this Sun., Apr. 25 novel, this shoot ’em up finds a Patric) who betrayed them. rom-com about a single band of special forces soldiers woman who discovers she’s TIMES TALKS — Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris The Back-up Plan pregnant the day she meets MASTERMINDS Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus After giving birth to her twins, Mr. Right (Alex O’Loughlin). BEHIND LOST Short and Óscar Jaenada — Emme and Max, in 2008, See Jennifer Lopez interview, Thurs., May 20 teaming up with a beautiful killer Jennifer Lopez took more than a page 22. Producer Carlton Cuse and co-creator Damon Lindelof on crafting the TV series’ finale a nasty varmint (Callum Keith Rennie), hides out in town and GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR 30 tries to make nice with the non- PARTICIPATING THEATRES april violent Canucks. See Paul Gross AND TO BUY TICKETS. interview, page 26.

Please Give (Amanda Peet, Rebecca Hall) Director Nicole Holofcener and start to feel bad about (Friends With Money, Lovely & waiting for her demise. Amazing) makes intimate movies about people questioning Furry Vengeance their own morals and ethics. Her Real estate developer Dan A Nightmare on Elm Street newest stars Catherine Keener Sanders (Brendan Fraser) and Oliver Platt as a New York has the bright idea to wipe out couple who buy the apartment a nature reserve in Oregon A Nightmare Gunless next door to an old woman and build a residential on Elm Street The polite, decent folks living in (Ann Morgan Guilbert) in the community there. Even his This re-imagining of the original the small Canadian town of hopes they’ll be able to expand wife (Brooke Shields) and 1984 horror stars Jackie Earle Barclay’s Brush get a dose of into her unit when she dies. But son (Matt Prokop) think it’s Haley as Freddie Krueger, the Wild West bravado when the their relationship with their a bad idea, but it’s the forest burned and disfigured serial killer Montana Kid (Paul Gross) rides elderly neighbour grows animals who express their who slices and dices his victims into their midst. The Kid, who’s complicated as they get to anger most convincingly using his four-bladed glove. been shot and is on the run from know her granddaughters by sabotaging Dan’s plans.

16 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 INTERVIEW EWAN McGREGOR What I’m going to do to fi xed-term contracts won’t have a PG rating.

Steven Russell (Jim Carrey, left) cuddles with his prison cellmate Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor) in PRISONERS OF I Love You Phillip Morris

It’s taken three years, and lots of patience, but Ewan McGregor’s LOVEgay-prison-love-story-slash-jailbreak-thriller I Love You Phillip Morris finally hits theatres  BY JIM SLOTEK

wan McGregor admits he sometimes has difficulty “I was in the middle of doing Phillip Morris in Louisiana with saying no — a problem that recently saw him Jim, when I was speaking with Hilary, who’s a friend of mine,” shoot two films simultaneously, more than 1,000 McGregor says during an interview in Rome last year. “And we miles apart. were looking back and forth about whether it would be possible to First he said yes to I Love You Phillip Morris, the play Gene [Vidal]. I was locked into the film with Jim, but somehow controversial Jim Carrey comedy based on the real- they were able to change their schedules accordingly. life tale of incarcerated conman Steven Russell, “So for two or three months, while I was making the film with who fell in love with a fellow inmate, Phillip Morris Jim, I was making the film with Hilary in Toronto and, literally, I E(McGregor), and broke out of prison four times to be with him. was going back and forward and back and forward. And then came another offer, to appear opposite Hilary Swank in “It was quite exciting. In fact, I quite liked it. It was like the way Amelia, playing Gene Vidal — confidante and rumoured lover of it used to be in repertory theatre. You know, we would be acting at aviatrix Amelia Earhart (and the father of literary lion Gore Vidal). night in one play, rehearsing another one during continued 

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Clockwise from left: McGregor and Carrey say goodbye to prison; the pair enjoys a romantic moment; and McGregor in his garden

WHY HE LOVES YOU, “It’s a gay prison I LOVE YOU PHILLIP love story/escape PHILLIPMORRIS MORRIS Last year, Steven Russell — movie...maybe not HITS THEATRES the conman played by th Jim Carrey in I Love You MAY 7 Phillip Morris — gave an the easiest sell,” interview to the U.K.’s The Observer newspaper says McGregor” from his Texas prison cell. Asked to describe the love of  the day, and learning another one on your coffee break. And it about stubble. I don’t know how women put up with that. It’s really it. I love the German crew, the his life Phillip Morris (who worked easily. You’re on a different set with different actors, and prickly and annoying.” makeup department was French has a cameo in the film and being on the plane gives you a chance to look at the work you’re What he remembers more vividly was the contrast in acting styles and the camera department was served as a consultant), about to do and vice versa on the way back.” between himself and his leading man. He says he was surprised how Polish,” McGregor says of here’s what Russell said. The fate of I Love You Phillip Morris says a lot about the tenuous life serious Carrey is about comedy. “Jim’s a very different kind of actor Polanski’s multicultural set. “It was lust at first sight. cycle of movies. Of the five films McGregor shot in a row (including An- to me,” McGregor says. “It was interesting. It was a good experience, “It was fantastic,” he adds. I didn’t think it was possible. gels & Demons, The Men Who Stare at Goats and last month’s The but we’re completely different in the way we approach our work. “With Roman, I loved going to I mean, we were in prison! He Ghost Writer, an adaptation of a Robert Harris novel which Roman He’s fun, but he’s also very precise about it. He’s a comic, and he work very much.” was softly spoken, with a Polanski was editing when he was arrested in Switzerland for that works the comedy in a way I don’t.” Not that it’s a case of all work deep southern accent. I saw longstanding statutory rape charge), I Love You Phillip Morris was the McGregor’s recent filming schedule — as he describes it, “Rome, and no play. McGregor, who him in the library trying to first to shoot and took the longest to find its way into Louisiana, Toronto, Germany, Rome, Los Angeles” — marked the took more than a year off a few get a book. He’s short — he’s North American theatres. busiest time in the actor’s career. years back to motorcycle from only five-foot-two and I’m “It’s a gay prison love story/escape movie...maybe not the easiest “My career has never been famine, but it’s very often feast,” says Scotland to South Africa, was six-foot-two, and I said, ‘Hold sell,” says McGregor of the movie which was without a North American McGregor. “I like to work and I don’t like to give myself boundaries. anticipating travelling with his on, I’ll get that for you.’ And distributor for months after its debut at last year’s Sundance Film So I’m happy to work on scripts that take my fancy, whether they be family (wife Eve and their three that was it.... He’s very Festival. “Two men fall in love in prison and one escapes and gets the leading roles or not. So it leaves me in situations where I can do two daughters) after his filming intelligent, he loves fishing other released. Jim’s a conman who gets me released, but not films at once with Hilary and Jim, because they’re both not leading marathon. “But I don’t think and four-wheel driving. He through any really legit means. And I end up getting thrown back in (emphasizing Russell’s pre-gay life as a God-fearing family man, who, roles. Other times it’s like what I did with [Roman] Polanski, where it’ll be a long trip,” he says. “Take loves music... classical, like prison through his dodgy dealings.” dubious as it sounds, wakes up “gay” and criminal after a car accident I’m in every scene.” too much time off and people Bach and Beethoven and In his ballsiest move, Russell masquerades as a lawyer to set his puts him in a coma). As we spoke, Polanski’s legal troubles had yet to arise. But McGregor think you’re not getting any Mozart. He’s like a little lover free with phony legal manoeuvres (McGregor gets to utter the Still, there’s ultimately no getting around the plot of I Love You was deep into the role — a ghost writer working on the memoirs of work, when, really, you’re just mess. He’s a diabetic, but outraged bons mots, “You’re not even a fu--ing lawyer, are you? You’re Phillip Morris, and the acting demands therein (which aren’t new to a British prime minister with a lurid secret life. He was also deep into doing something else.” he’ll go out and buy 12 a fu--ing liar!”) McGregor, who played a bisexual rocker in Velvet Goldmine). “I do kiss the experience of living in Berlin. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// doughnuts and eat them all During its time in limbo the movie was reportedly edited in order Jim Carrey, with tongues,” McGregor says of the experience. “I would “I’d only ever done press junkets in Berlin before, so I’d been there Jim Slotek writes for at once.” —MW to get a ratings reprieve, and given a zany marketing campaign describe it as tasty, but prickly. In fact, that’s the one thing I realized three or four times but I never got to know it. But living there, I loved the Toronto Sun.

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here’s organized chaos on the L.A. set of Jennifer Lopez’ new resources and doing something completely unexpected,” continues movie, The Back-up Plan. The crew is running around, setting Poul. “So where she thinks he might be taking her out to a restaurant, up for a shoot that’ll go into the wee hours of the morning. which would be what is logical on a Saturday night in New York City, “What we’re shooting tonight is Stan and Zoe’s first real instead he has built this beautiful table setting. It’s a magical world date,” says director Alan Poul. The rom-com about a single surrounded by candles and lights in a sort of semi-public community woman who gets pregnant…then meets the man of her garden in the East Village. We’re shooting it here in Southern dreams marks Poul’s big-screen directing debut after a California but it looks very much like the actual community successful career in the TV world, where he executive produced garden that exists on Avenue B and 6th Street in New York.” HBO’s groundbreaking drama Six Feet Under, and helmed episodes of Before The Back-up Plan took over the space, it was just an empty Tsuch diverse small-screen fare as Swingtown, Rome and Big Love. courtyard. Tonight it’s been transformed with plants and flowers, “What we wanted is for Stan, Alex O’Loughlin’s character, to strings of white lights woven into the greenery, flickering candles surprise Zoe, Jennifer Lopez’ character, by showing his charm and his and brightly coloured paper lanterns. continued  *Offer is valid while quantities last. Coupon expires on December 31, 2010. 22 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 Nair, Nair logo and Shower Power are registered trademarks of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. © Church & Dwight Canada Corp. 2010. INTERVIEW JENNIFER LOPEZ

“It’s funny because it was about having kids and thinking about that phase in your life, and I had just gone through that. So it was all very fresh in my mind,” says Lopez

 But, so far, no sign of J.Lo. Then, moments before shooting starts, she Mixed Nuts appears, looking stunning in a light brown Outside of her pregnancy owns a “socially conscious pet Nuts, a disabled Boston terrier Nip, Tuck and Nubbins. Trainer baby-doll dress with the tag still on (it’s all and relationship with Stan, store” that puts needy pets who needs a wheelchair to get April Macklin (Marley & Me) part of the scene), and takes her mark. As the the one thing we know about up for adoption instead of around. In reality, Nuts was needed healthy dogs in order cameras roll and the scene plays out, it Jennifer Lopez’ character is getting its animals from played by three able-bodied, to train them for the becomes clear why Lopez chose this role for that she’s an animal lover. She puppy mills, and she cares for rescued Boston terriers — demanding role. —MW her return to the big screen after having twins Max and Emme in February 2008. “It was just right up my alley,” Lopez says THE BACK-UP PLAN from the beginning and it’s been incredible,” says Poul. “They have twice. Her first marriage lasted just under a year, and her second, to during a break. “And it’s funny because it was such sexual chemistry.” backup dancer Chris Judd, fared about as well. She was also involved about having kids and thinking about that HITS THEATRES Ah, chemistry. It’s easy to say you have it, but what does it really with Sean “Diddy” Combs, a romance that came to a halt after the phase in your life, and I had just gone through rd mean? “I think chemistry comes from all sorts of things,” says infamous nightclub incident that resulted in Combs being charged that. So it was all very fresh in my mind.” APRIL 23 O’Loughlin, “but if you, you know, if you dig someone and you get on with felony gun possession. It’s what Lopez was looking for when she with someone, you share a sense of humour, you have common But now — it would seem, anyway — Lopez has what she wants. decided to return to work after a nearly three-year break. “You know, date, Zoe keeps her pregnancy under wraps, and as the relationship understandings, it’s great, it really shows, you know? It’s good when She’s a mother, a wife, a recording artist, an actor and a fashion I’ve always enjoyed doing romantic comedies,” she says. “I love heats up, she has to decide how and when to reveal her secret. we’re getting to the stage when you can sort of look at each other. A designer. And, despite a slight case of nerves about heading back to watching them, first of all, and I’ve always enjoyed making them…. “It’s infused with the brave new comedy that we have a lot of funny thing happens and we both get it and it’s good and the camera work, she knows this late-night L.A. set, standing in for a New York The script was very honest and funny and edgy, you know, funny in now,” says O’Loughlin. “It’s a bit risqué, a bit kind of devilish, there’s picks that up.” garden, is where she belongs. “You don’t really realize how much you kind of an edgy way, and I like that it was very grown up. So that’s those sort of naughty elements that I’ve always liked.” It probably doesn’t hurt that, to some extent, Lopez can feel her miss it, you know, because I was having such a wonderful time being what really made me respond to it…it kind of felt like me right now.” Those “naughty elements” helped build that all-important character’s pain. Like Zoe, in real life it took a while for Lopez to find pregnant and having the babies that when I got back to work I didn’t Lopez’ character, Zoe, is tired of waiting for “the one” and is ready chemistry between Lopez and her lesser-known Australian co-star the elusive “one.” She briefly dated husband Marc Anthony (who realize. I was like, ‘Wow, this is really a big part of who I am, you to have a baby, even if she has to do it alone. So she decides to be O’Loughlin, who, prior to The Back-up Plan, had done some TV shows stopped by the set on this day) a decade before they reunited and know, I miss this, I miss this a lot.’” F artificially inseminated. The same day she undergoes the procedure, and had big-screen roles in Whiteout and August Rush. “I had put Alex married in 2004. That rekindled romance followed her very public /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// she meets Stan, who, of course, may be Mr. Right. As the two start to and Jennifer together to be sure and they hit it off like gangbusters relationship with actor Ben Affleck. Before that, she’d been married Melissa Sheasgreen is a producer for the Cineplex Pre-Show.

24 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 APRIL 2010 FAMOUS 25 INTERVIEW PAUL GROSS GUNLESS HITS THEATRES APRIL 30th

GUN Paul Gross and Sienna Guillory kick back in Gunless

that this guy, the Montana Kid, who I play, shows up in a Canadian quality of Westerns. I think they are the modern descendents of FOR HIRE town and is insulted and challenges someone to a duel. But they can’t very old medieval mystery cycles, with their object lessons about Paul Gross takes a break from writing have it right away because no one’s got a gun, so they find a gun, but avenging forces.” it’s broken, and they need to get a part. But they have to order it, and and directing to just act for a change, it’s gonna take a couple of weeks, and so it goes [laughs].” Q:It’s interesting that although Canada has its very own West, playing an American gunslinger in we don’t have a tradition of making Westerns in Canada. the Canadian Western Gunless Q:It sounds like a gentle satire poking fun at non-violent A: “It’s kind of curious. Partly, it’s that our cinematic traditions are Canadians and aggressive Americans. based around auteur filmmaking and not genre filmmaking. Most of  BY INGRID RANDOJA A: “It’s in that vein of comedy in Canada where we make fun of our- the people who make movies are urban people and prefer these selves and everybody else at the same time. Full-serve comedy. It’s interior, domestic stories. And we haven’t done it because we are not like the Canadian default position is not to default to weaponry, but mythologizers, as Canadians, and Americans are. We don’t carry aul Gross needed to get on his horse and ride. Q:Did you feel you needed a break after the years it took to at the same time there is something about our relentless politeness the burden of being the bright, shining light to the world, and they After writing, directing, producing and starring make Passchendaele? that is terribly effective as a weapon [laughs]. It’s a peculiar little do, and in order to bolster that conviction they invented this fantas- in his dream project — 2008’s epic World War I A: “I did need a break, that’s why I decided I’d finally take one of film, it’s got a wonderful quality to it, it reminds me of those gentle tically rich mythology.” film Passchendaele — the 50-year-old (he turns these pilots [Eastwick] that I get offered every year. And I thought I comedies, like Local Hero.” 51 later this month) wanted to work on some- also needed to just get outside the Canadian business for a little bit. Q:I imagine acting in a Western is a lot of fun. thing fun, something that would make him smile. And it’s been perfect because I’ve reconnected with people down Q:You have a light comedic touch. Do you agree with the notion A: “I loved going to work every day. I didn’t have to produce the Along came Gunless, a Canadian comedy here in Hollywood, which I needed to do because the nature of the that good comedy is harder to play than good drama? movie, I just showed up, put on my clothes, got on a horse, rode to about an injured American gunslinger (Gross) business is changing so rapidly.” A: “Ummm, I think everything is hard to play [laughs]. But comedy the set and had a gun. A horse, a gun and the amazing desert, what’s who strays into a dusty Canadian town. We’ll is sort of double-jointed in a way because you do play it as drama, not to love.” F let Gross fill you in on the film’s plot details — Q:Eastwick didn’t last too long, only 13 episodes. and yet there’s a kind of technical vibe to it that comes with timing. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// he does such a good job of it — and have him explain the nature of A: “You mean it met its end? Yes. But I really enjoyed the people I So you have to have a split-brain, I find.” Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Famous. PCanadian comedy while he’s at it. worked with and I enjoyed going to work, but I can’t say that I am Gross is entering an interesting period in his career. The most terribly sad to see it go only because I didn’t feel like the show was Q:Are you a fan of Westerns? iconic of Canadian performers is spreading his wings due south. allowed to be what it wanted to be.” A: “Yeah, I love them.” Check out Cineplex.com He’s spending a lot of his time in Hollywood writing a script for and the Cineplex Pre-Show for an Universal Films, this after his ABC TV show Eastwick — based on the Q:So when the Canadian film Gunless came your way did you Q:Are you more of an Unforgiven kind of guy, film The Witches of Eastwick, and in which Gross was cast as the devil — think, hey, this looks like fun? or more of a Young Guns kind of guy? exclusive visit to the set of Gunless was cancelled. He was in Los Angeles when we spoke by phone. A: “Yeah, I just thought it’s a terrific idea. Just a very funny notion A:“More of an Unforgiven kind of guy. I like the Old Testament

26 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 APRIL 2010 FAMOUS 27 INTERVIEW CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE

KICK-ASS HITS THEATRES APRIL 16th REVENGE OF THE

Top Left: Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Chris D’Amico in Kick-Ass. This Picture: Red Mist suits up Let’s face it. It’ll be hard for Christopher Mintz-Plasse to NERDscore a role that’s not a little nerdy. But at least his nerd in Kick-Ass is a despicable wannabe supervillain. Nice.  BY MARNI WEISZ

hristopher Mintz-Plasse knows you think he’s a great roles and worked with amazing people so it’s only been good.” high school student who is so fed up with watching bad people do own superhero persona, Red Mist (complete with pricey leather nerd. And it doesn’t bother him. Really. “Especially Best known for his breakout role as the vest-wearing, fake ID- mean things to good people — and get away with it — that he decides outfit and tricked-out Mustang) — the plan being to befriend Kick-Ass, because I sort of am a nerd. I’m a skinny guy with pushing McLovin in 2007’s Superbad, over the past three years to turn himself into a superhero, despite the fact that he has no super- and then deliver him to papa. glasses,” he says over the phone from his bedroom Mintz-Plasse has parlayed his drippy image — bad haircut, gangly powers. He buys a stretchy suit, works out with nunchuks, names his “He’s misunderstood,” Mintz-Plasse says of his character. “He has in the suburban valley community of Calabasas, limbs, nasally voice — into nebbish parts in Role Models, Year One and alter ego Kick-Ass, and manages to do a few good deeds, like rescuing a rich father who doesn’t pay any attention to him and he can’t really California, where he still lives with his parents. the animated movie How to Train Your Dragon. a guy who’s being swarmed by a bunch of thugs. A video of the inci- hang out with friends ’cause he has this bodyguard stuck with him Aside from looking the part, there’s a more prac- He plays a nerd again in this month’s subversive superhero movie dent ends up on the web and suddenly Kick-Ass is a grassroots hero. everywhere. So when his dad wants to get Kick-Ass he sees this as an tical reason the 20-year-old doesn’t mind being Kick-Ass, but a nerd with a serious edge. Believe it or not, he’s the villain. But then Dave runs afoul of mafia boss Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong), opportunity to bond with his father.” known as the quintessential geek. “I’m trying to Based on the Mark Millar comic book and directed by Matthew who puts a bounty on his head. Mintz-Plasse plays D’Amico’s shel- Meanwhile, there are two other plain old humans — Big Daddy make a living off it, which is incredible. I’ve gotten Vaughn (Stardust), the film stars Aaron Johnson as Dave Lizewski, a tered son, Chris, who, in an attempt to get close to his dad, creates his (Nicolas Cage) and his precocious 11-year-old daughter continued 

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“We wanted the

horrible violence Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, right) takes and the horrible Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) out in the Mustang gore and the KICKING awful language” ONTARIO’S

 Hit-Girl (Chloë Moretz) — who, like Kick-Ass, have turned themselves into independent avengers. Only difference is, spurred by a vicious hate-on for Frank D’Amico, who they hold responsible for the death of their wife and mother, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl really have trained (and armed themselves) to the point of being legitimate superheroes. ASSSeasoned actors know there’s a pool table, it’s what This is one film that doesn’t pull any punches. People — both good that when a journalist you do.’ And he got so upset and bad — die in horrific ways, moral ambiguity abounds, and 11- asks what it was like to film in with us. It was very strange.” year-old Hit-Girl uses language that would make a rapper blush. their readership’s neck of the Torontonians will quickly Think Tarantino’s Kill Bill. There was never any doubt this movie woods, the proper response recognize downtown Yonge St. would get an R rating, and in the process have to turn away a large is, “It was great.” Thank God in a scene where Kick-Ass chunk of potential moviegoers. But Mintz-Plasse says that potential Christopher Mintz-Plasse is and Red Mist are driving in loss of revenue didn’t effect the decisions made on set. no seasoned veteran. a Mustang. Apparently, “I don’t think they were worried about that yet because we didn’t Kick-Asswas largely filmed Mintz-Plasse’s experience even have distribution,” he says. “‘Will this film even be released at in Toronto and Hamilton in there wasn’t much better. all,’ was our thought. Matthew produced it and funded it all himself, the fall of 2008, and when “That was kind of strange,” so he kept joking that this could be the most expensive home movie asked about that experience he recalls, “because you’re I’ve ever made. Mintz-Plasse says, “We filmed driving around and people “But once it got picked up by Lionsgate I think we knew it was in Hamilton. I hated it. Hated are just staring at you. You’re going to be a very hard R,” he continues. “We knew going into it that it. It was so bad. It was a bad dressed up like ridiculous that’s what we wanted. We wanted the horrible violence and the area, but you’ve gotta do what clowns in these costumes in horrible gore and the awful language, because if you like the comic, you do for a good movie.” this really flashy Mustang you’ve gotta stay true to it, and that’s what it was.” Asked to expand, he says with a huge crane and camera Looks like their philosophy is paying off. Kick-Ass was one of the that aside from the sketchy pulling you. And I remember buzz movies at last summer’s influential Comic-Con, and a series of neighbourhood, the people one guy, we drove by and he test screenings has inspired gushy online fan reviews with lines like, were rude, and then tells the goes, ‘Batman would never “The best superhero movie ever made.” So it’s no surprise that talk following story. “We were at a drive that car,’ in this smug of a sequel has already started. bar and it was Open Mic Night attitude. So I stuck my head Mintz-Plasse confirms the “s” word has come up, but says, “It’s all so one guy was covering the out of the car and said, ‘I’m ideas and talk right now.” Based on the events of the first movie, if a Red Hot Chili Peppers, I believe, not filming Batman.’” sequel does happen, there’s little doubt Red Mist will be the big baddie. and I was playing pool with On the plus side, In the meantime, Mintz-Plasse has to start thinking about other a friend in the back. And we Mintz-Plasse did manage life-and-death challenges, like moving out of his parents’ house. “You were just talking, we were to have some fun in Toronto. have a decent paying job and [people] expect me to have my own conversing and drinking, and “We went to a strip club once, place already. But I’m just trying to ride out the parents situation,” he three guys run up to us and go, that was very interesting... says with a laugh. ‘Some guy’s playing his heart I was kind of laughing the “I’m going to be out of town for the next month and a half pro- out up there and you can’t whole way through.” moting Kick-Ass, then after that do a movie or two, and then get out even have the respect to Stay gold, you crazy kid. of here,” he says of the inevitable flight from his comfy nest. Not that watch him!’ And we’re like, —MW he’s started looking for a place yet. ‘Dude, there’s a pool table back “Closer to the end of this year,” says the young movie star, as if to here, you’re like 30 feet away, lessen expectations. F that’s the point of the bar. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// There’s Open Mic Night and Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous.

30 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 INTERVIEW CAREY MULLIGAN HOT COMMODITY It’s amazing what one great performance can do for your career. In the past year Carey Mulligan has gone from Carey who? to Oscar nominee to star of one of the biggest sequels of the decade, next fall’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps  BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON

hether in pre-swinging London or post-recession the first film, which reflected the Reagan era, Stone’s sequel is Wall Street, Carey Mulligan’s stock is rising. clearly aimed at tapping the populist zeitgeist — something that’s Consider that a little more than a year ago she often easier said than done. was an unknown British actor best recognized (if at Still, however the Wall Street sequel is received, there’s no down- all) for a minor turn in Pride and Prejudice and a one- side for Mulligan, who is surrounded by such A-list veterans as time stint on an episode of Doctor Who. Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella and Josh Brolin. Now she’s a freshly minted Academy Award nominee “It’s a different world than anything else I’ve done before,” she W— thanks to her effervescent performance as a schoolgirl seduced by says during last fall’s Toronto International Film Festival. an older man in the 1960s coming-of-age drama An Education — and Stone cast the 24-year-old Londoner as Gekko’s estranged co-star of an upcoming, big-budget, high-pedigree Hollywood sequel daughter, Winnie — and the girlfriend of LaBeouf’s ambitious opposite her real-life boyfriend Shia LaBeouf. The movie in question Wall Street trader Jacob Moore — after discovering her, as the rest is Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. of Hollywood did, in An Education. Although not the lead role, The follow-up to 1987’s Wall Street reunites director Oliver Stone it’s a pivotal part, since it’s Winnie who brings Jacob and Gordon and actor Michael Douglas — the latter reprising his Oscar-winning together, as Jacob tries to repair the damaged relationship between role as iconic corporate raider Gordon “Greed is good” Gekko — and his gal and the financial genius he admires. is scheduled to come out next fall. No doubt, Main Street hostility “It was a mad phone call to get,” Mulligan remembers. “I was toward the traders and tycoons who drove the global economy to the shooting Never Let Me Go with Andrew Garfield and we were having brink of collapse will still be red-hot a few months from now. And like sushi and my agent rang me and said, ‘Oliver Stone continued 

32 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 INTERVIEW CAREY MULLIGAN GEKKO- NOMICS “Greed is good.” It’s the most famous line from Wall Street, Oliver Stone’s 1987 diatribe against that decade’s obses - sion with success at all costs. Spoken by the guru of greed, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), those three words became a touchstone for the era. But it wasn’t Gekko’s only WALL STREET: business lesson. While he may be morally reformed for MONEY NEVER SLEEPS the sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, here are five HITS THEATRES things the old Gordon Gekko FALL 2010 really wanted you to know. 1. “Lunch is for wimps.” Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Below: Michael Douglas in 1987’s Wall Street 2. “If you need a friend, get a dog.” 3. “It’s not a question of  is going to call you in 10 minutes.’ So we got this hands-free enough.... It’s a zero sum thing so Andrew could listen in on the conversation. So we game, somebody wins, were trying not to giggle because it was Oliver Stone. I somebody loses. Money haven’t told [Stone] that. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that.” itself isn’t lost or made, it’s Maybe not. But even so, Mulligan can shrug it off as just simply transferred from one another lesson in the crash course of fame she’s been expe- perception to another.” riencing since An Education electrified 2009’s Sundance 4. “I don’t throw darts at a Film Festival. Now she’s an “It” girl, hailed by some as the board. I bet on sure things. heir to cinema legend Audrey Hepburn. She counts Warren Read Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Beatty, Penélope Cruz and author Nick Hornby (who wrote Every battle is won before it An Education’s screenplay) among her friends and fans. is ever fought.” During this year’s Best Actress Oscar contest, she was com- 5. “Greed is right, greed peting against such Hollywood royalty as Sandra Bullock, works. Greed clarifies, cuts Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren. play when I was six of The King through, and captures the Only the future will tell whether Mulligan’s career will measure up and I. And from then on that was essence of the evolutionary to the hype, of course. But she isn’t disappearing from the spotlight the only thing I was interested in.” spirit. Greed, in all of its anytime soon. In addition to Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, she Right now, Mulligan isn’t shoot- forms; greed for life, for has two more movies set for release this year: the aforementioned ing anything. Instead, she hopes money, for love, knowledge science-fiction drama Never Let Me Go with Garfield and Keira Knightley, to return to the theatre (in 2008 has marked the upward and The Greatest with Pierce Brosnan and Sarandon. she appeared opposite her co-star surge of mankind.” —MW Until then, there will be the ever-present paparazzi, eager to snap from An Education, Peter Sarsgaard, candid photos of her and LaBeouf. Even walking the red carpet, she in the Broadway production of says, is a fearsome prospect. “You get to meet people you’d never Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull). before and it’s nice and girly to get dressed up and all that, but stand- “I really want to do a play again. I want to do more Chekhov. ing in front of cameras… That sort of stuff is scarier.” Maybe a contemporary play in New York; the audiences there are Mulligan is just happy to be acting — a vocation she’s pursued amazing and I love living there. I was there for six months and it since her teens, despite her parents’ pleas that she go to university. was sad to leave. “There was nothing else I wanted to do,” she says simply. “My [London] flatmate would kill me if I decided to move to It was a revelation that struck at an early age. Mulligan’s father was New York, but I really like it there.” F a hotel manager and she spent much of her childhood residing in hotels ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// — in both England and Germany. It was in the latter country where Kevin Williamson is a Calgary-based movie she first realized what she wanted to do with her life. “I did a school columnist for Sun Media.

34 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 INTERVIEW LIAM HEMSWORTH THE LAST The Last Song stars Cyrus as Ronnie Miller, SONG a rebellious New York teen who’s forced to spend the summer on Georgia’s Tybee Island HITS THEATRES with her estranged father (Greg Kinnear) st and younger brother (Bobby Coleman). MARCH 31 Bitter about her parents’ divorce, and hav- ing turned her back on her prodigious musical talent, Ronnie undergoes an attitude adjust - ment when she falls for Will (Hemsworth), a strapping, 6’4’’ local boy who also happens to be as rich as he is handsome. It was while making the film that Hemsworth got a first-hand look at the media circus that surrounds Cyrus. “Yeah, it was crazy, the people who turned up on set, it was unreal,” says Hemsworth. “Five photographers at one end, a hundred fans at the other end, it was crazy. At first, it’s kind of a shock, but you just block it out.” Hemsworth also had to block out Miley’s grandmother, who was on set while the young stars filmed their make-out scenes. Falling in love: “That was funny,” he says. “Miley’s grandma Liam Hemsworth and was on set every day and she is the happiest, Miley Cyrus get to know each most loving person I’ve ever met. Actually, other in The Last Song someone from [Miley’s] family is pretty much always with her.” Of course, if you follow the tabloids — even in the most cursory way — you know Cyrus and Hemsworth have taken their on- screen love affair off-screen. The pair has been seen canoodling in Paris, going to parties in New York, and holidaying in Australia. And while Hemsworth is too shy to talk about his personal life, he does admit that being stalked by the paparazzi is downright weird. WHAT DOES “Photographers following you, it’s a bit much sometimes,” he says. “It’s...it’s kinda embarrassing when we walk into a shop MILEY SEE IN HIM? and there’s photographers taking photos of us. It’s a very odd thing, and it’s a very new He’s tall, handsome, has an Australian accent thing to me.” but it’s hard for me, I miss them a lot.” “I was a pretty bad kid when I was young,” and, apparently, can act. Oh, that’s why Hemsworth grew up in Melbourne, but It’s easy to forget that Hemsworth is still recalls Hemsworth. “Me and Chris didn’t get Miley Cyrus fell for co-star Liam Hemsworth moved with his family to the touristy only a pup, having just turned 20. So it makes along. We used to fight about everything.  Phillip Island when he started high school. sense he relies on his brothers to help him We’d go down to the shop with my mom on the set of The Last Song BY INGRID RANDOJA He watched as older brothers Chris and Luke negotiate show business. “It’s great having and we’d have a fight about who’d sit in the took up acting — Chris made a name for them there for me,” he says. “Any kind of front seat, a million different things. I threw all it a tradeoff: Liam Hemsworth without making his splash in America, himself in the Aussie soap Home and Away question I have about something within the a knife at his head when I was little and the doesn’t get to swing Thor’s axe, Hemsworth learned he’d landed the role of before decamping to Hollywood and kick- industry, yeah, I speak to them about every- handle of the knife hit him in the forehead.” but he does get to kiss Miley Cyrus. Will Blakelee, opposite Miley Cyrus, in the starting his career playing James Kirk’s thing. I’m supercomfortable on a movie set, I tell him he better be careful, Chris can C The 20-year-old Australian actor weepie The Last Song. father in Star Trek, while Luke works mainly “I guess my parents didn’t give us enough but anything outside of that is all very new to return the favour by throwing Thor’s mam- arrived in Hollywood last year to audition “It was such a significant time in my life,” in Australian television. direction to do something different,” me and I’m kind of learning it day by day.” moth axe in his direction. for the lead in the upcoming Thor pic, but says Hemsworth on the line from L.A., Not since the early 1990s when the Hemsworth says with a laugh. “They were Thank goodness Hemsworth’s rela - “Oh no, no, I don’t want that, lost the part of the Marvel superhero to his where he lives with brother Chris. “It was younger, thinner Baldwin brothers blan- always really supportive of us wanting tionship with his siblings has evolved; he’s big now.” F older brother, Chris Hemsworth. Just when such a big deal getting that job and being keted Hollywood have a set of acting bros to [act]. My mom and dad both support there was a time the brothers couldn’t stand ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// he thought he’d have to return to Australia able to stay in America and keep working.” caused such a stir. me and Chris living here in the States, one another. Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Famous.

36 FAMOUS APRIL 2010 APRIL 2010 FAMOUS 37 COVER STORY SCARLETT JOHANSSON IF THE SUIT

ScarlettFITS Johansson admits she knows nothing — and cares little — about comic books. But when you’ve got a body like hers, and have the opportunity to put it in a suit like that, playing Iron Man 2’s sexy villain becomes a lot more appealing  BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON

carlett Johansson couldn’t list to discuss not only the Widow but other cos- Marvel’s stable of superheroes if a radioactive tumed crusaders. spider jumped up and bit her. “It was just to talk about some of the No, nerds, she’s not one of you. superheroines in the Marvel universe and But unlike other young starlets who feign Black Widow was one of them,” she recalls. geek cred, at least Johansson doesn’t pretend to Which other characters was she circling? know the difference between the Daily Bugle “Let me see if I can remember them. Scarlet and the Daily Planet — even though this is her Witch was one of them.” She pauses. “Blonde second foray into the comic-book realm, after Phantom, is that the other one? Am I messing playing Silken Floss in director Frank Miller’s that one up? Is there a Blonde Phantom?” widely panned 2008 adaptation of The Spirit. There is. She’s an obscure Marvel heroine “It’s all new to me,” the 25-year-old says whose existence began in 1947 and ended in during interviews at last summer’s 1949. Not a likely candidate for a feature film. Comic-Con, where the first footage of For now, Johansson will have to suffice with Iron Man 2 was unveiled. Iron Man 2, which finds Robert Downey Jr.’s S In the sequel, Johansson turns armour-clad avenger coping with the unex- up as Tony Stark’s new assistant, pected consequences of retiring from arms Natasha Romanoff, who, in dealing in order to save the world full-time. comics lore, moonlights as the “A lot of the characters in this film have to With a quick change red-tressed Russian secret make a choice,” Johansson says. “And good Scarlett Johansson goes from agent the Black Widow. and evil comes into play. There are choices that Natasha Romanoff (left) to The gig originated have to be made. It’s not gray. Some characters Black Widow in Iron Man 2 from a meeting she had have to step up to the plate and realize how with Iron Man director valuable they are. It’s ‘I have this all in the Jon Favreau and Marvel palm of my hand, which way can I go?’ It’s an Studios president epic kind of story.” Kevin Feige Among the forces Stark confronts this time out? The U.S. government, for one, which wants the Iron Man technology for itself — an ambition that puts Stark at odds with his long- time friend and military liaison James Rhodes (Don Cheadle, replacing Terrence Howard). And there’s a duplicitous new weapons manufac- turer on the scene — Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell) — who wants to pick up where Stark left off. But the most lethal adversary continued 

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“She blends in,” 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, the studio (now owned by Disney) has been meticulously plotting to create a cohesive comic-book movie says Johansson. “It’s universe. Next summer sees two more Marvel mainstays — Thor not like she comes and Captain America — make the leap to the big screen ahead of The Avengers in 2012. onto the scene and That interconnected mega-franchise has long been expected to you’re like, ‘Who’s team Downey’s Iron Man and Edward Norton’s Hulk with Thor and that Russian chick?’ Captain America against a common enemy. Such supporting characters as Cheadle’s Rhodes (who dons grey armour of his own to become I would think that War Machine), Jackson’s Fury and Johansson’s Black Widow will also, would be a dead presumably, have stakes in the burgeoning Marvel mythos. Could giveaway. I don’t there be a Black Widow spinoff film someday? “I wasn’t pitched it that way,” Johansson says. “Certainly Marvel is know how covert building a fanbase around these characters to extend their life in the you would be movie world…. But it’s up to the fans, and if the fans respond to the char- tawking like acter. Marvel works that way. They’re fans themselves. So they’ll feel out what the masses are craving and hopefully that’ll be Black Widow.” theese” And while some actors might find that kind of multi-film commit- ment more constricting than any rubber outfit, she doesn’t see it that  of the lot is Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash, a way. Downey, she points out, has considerable creative input behind COMIC BOOK COVERS AND BLACK WIDOW ILLUSTRATION: 2010 TM & © MARVEL CHARACTERS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. RIGHTS ALL INC. & © MARVEL CHARACTERS TM 2010 ILLUSTRATION: WIDOW AND BLACK COVERS BOOK COMIC cybernetically enhanced menace out for the camera.  revenge against the Stark empire for reasons “You’re able to develop your character with the studio,” she says. as yet unknown. There are familiar faces too: “For me that’s exciting because rarely does an actor get to take it to the Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, newly next level. We see a beginning, a middle and an end in a two-hour promoted to CEO of Stark Industries, and segment and you’re done with it. But for me to build something with Samuel L. Jackson as SHIELD honcho Nick Fury, a character who has such a history and has had so many paths, to think hoping to convince Stark to help him form a about where she might go, that’s something you can invest yourself in.” cadre of superpowered do-gooders. Besides, no acting resume is complete these days without a comic- And that’s about all the information the book franchise on it — and there’s not much chance The Spirit will cast members, including Johansson, who’ve spawn a sequel. Johansson’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, after all, has come to Comic-Con will give up. Johansson not one but two superhero franchises: Green Lantern and Deadpool. even hesitates to confirm her character is Black Widow prepares to bite But that doesn’t make it easy. “The whole getting-the-crap-beat- Eastern European. “You’re going to have to Bottom Right: Johansson’s out-of-myself thing is a little daunting,” admits Johansson. F wait and see. I will say she is covert. She Natasha Romanoff with /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// blends in. It’s not like she comes onto the Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) Kevin Williamson is a Calgary-based movie columnist for Sun Media. scene and you’re like, ‘Who’s that Russian chick?’ I would think that would be a dead giveaway. I don’t know how covert you would be tawking like theese,” she says with a Russian accent. “But I would have if I had to.” Of course, when portraying a superhero, even if an accent is optional, the skintight spandex is not. And the Black Widow, she quickly learned, is no exception. “It’s all about the suit,” Johansson says. And about being able to fight convincingly. “There was a lot of training — stunt train- ing, weight training, strength training…. I SHEGETS AROUND wanted to be able to look at something and And that’s why they call it the Marvel Universe. say, ‘I’m going to beat the sh-t out of that Black Widow was born alongside Iron Man in the pages person,’ which is a challenge when you’re of Tales of Suspense 46 years ago, but you can’t keep a 5’3” and fighting, seemingly, a giant. To good woman caged. Over the years she’s appeared in have conviction in that was just as much a IRON MAN 2 Marvel comics from The Amazing Spider-Manto The Avengers, challenge as the physical part.” updating her look appropriately along the way. If all goes according to Marvel’s master HITS THEATRES From top to bottom: Tales of Suspense#52 (1964); Daredevil#90 (1972); plans, it will prove to be time — and energy th The Uncanny X-Men #268 (1990); and as she looks today in the — well spent. Since Downey appeared in MAY 7 brand-new Black Widow comic book, her first solo effort. —MW

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