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YOUNG GUNS 26 John Cho , Simon Pegg and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek ’s Sulu, cover McCoy and Chekhov) made it story their prime directive not to sully their iconic characters • By Jim Slotek

CHRISTIAN SOLDIER 28 Hison-setmeltdownprovesjust how pumped Christian Bale 38 is to play John Connor in UP RISING Pete Docter ’s name may not be familiar, but the writer/director has had a hand in the Terminator Salvation , but he majority of Pixar hits, from Toy Story to Monsters, Inc. to WALL•E . He helms this month’s Up , which saysthatwasn’talwaysthecase By Bob Strauss sends an old man, a young boy and their flying house into the wilds of South America. And as Docter • tells us, he was determined to make this animated adventure as true to life as possible, which is &OR THE lRST TIME EVER YOU CAN GET  PURCHASE lNANCING AND THE ADDITIONAL PEACE OF MIND  OF *OB ,OSS #REDIT 0ROTECTION ON THE  #OROLLA DURING 4OYOTA 2ED 4AG $AYS 4HE #OROLLA IS why he dragged himself and a team of writers and animators through dense jungle and to the top THE NEED FOR SPEED 32  4OYOTAS BEST SELLING CAR OF ALL TIME BECAUSE IT IS SO WELL BUILT AND RELIABLE !ND SO INCREDIBLY of a South American mountain to get it right • By Marni Weisz Scott Speedman explains why  052#(!3% he made Atom Egoyan radically FUEL EFlCIENT 4HE FACT THAT ITS NOW AVAILABLE WITH  PURCHASE lNANCING JUST MAKES IT THAT &).!.#).' change a character just so he MUCH EASIER TO BUY A GREAT CAR MADE RIGHT HERE IN #ANADA  #/2/,,! could be in Adoration • By Marni Weisz

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manda Walsh recalls the moment she first laid eyes on her upstairs and one of my shoes caught under my other shoe and I Ghosts of Girlfriends Past co-star Matthew McConaughey. ac tually face-planted in front of everybody,” says Walsh. “I flew out “He was playing the side of a cart with his hands, it of the frame, right out of the shot. It was like that moment when was the perfect Matthew McConaughey moment ’cause you are laughing-slash-crying at the same time. I was laughing really you hear about him playing the bongos. I went, ‘Wow, hard, hoping that people would laugh with me, and not at me.” it’s him,’” says Walsh on the line from her L.A. home. She didn’t have to worry, it was all good, just like Walsh’s surging The 27-year-old Rigaud, Quebec, native and for - career. After leaving MuchMusic to act, Walsh has landed increas - mer MuchMusic VJ plays Denise, a bridesmaid, ingly bigger parts in better and better projects. And now the former in the rom-com inspired by A Christmas Carol . VJ says she’s actually able to relax while listening to music. McConaughey is a womanizing photographer who’s visited by three “When I worked at MuchMusic every time a song came on I M O C .

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18 FAMOU S MAY 2009 imaginary friends are full of SPECIAL valuable insider information that’s key to saving his career. EVENTS JUNE RELEASE DATE: JUNE 12  on the Big Screen TheTakingof Pelham123 WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW PREVIEWS A remake of the tense as a EXTREME RULES tripwire 1974 film, this update Sun., June 7, 8 p.m. ET stars John Travolta as Ryder, an arch criminal (with the Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vassilieva in My Sister’s Keeper PHEDRE goatee to prove it) who hijacks Helen Mirren stars in this YEAR ONE a New York subway train and production of the JUNE 19 holds its passengers for stay in the States. Too bad that Decepticon forces need to Jean Racine tragedy You’d think we’d be frustrated ransom. Denzel Washington Miss Canada’s been so cold to capture him alive. mounted by the with Michael Cera for falling plays the subway dispatcher her poor gopher all these years. RELEASE DATE: JUNE 24 National Theatre U.K. back on the same sweet, forcedtoplayherowhenRyder RELEASE DATE: JUNE 19 Thurs., June 25, 7 p.m. shlubby character he wants to swap him for all the MySister’sKeeper local time perfected in Arrested passengers on the train. Transformers:Revenge Actor/director Nick Cassavetes Development — and has RELEASE DATE: JUNE 12 oftheFallen (The Notebook ) steps behind the THE repeated in every film since Filming locations ranged from lens for this cautionary medical METROPOLITAN — for the biblical comedy TheProposal Pennsylvania to Paris to Luxor drama that stars Abigail Breslin OPERA Year One . But somehow seeing Follow closely. American actor (the one in Egypt, not the Vegas as Anna, a child conceived to be THE AUDITION George Michael dressed in a Sandra Bullock plays a nasty hotel) for this sequel to a donor for her sick sister. But A feature film loincloth and with Metallica Canadian book editor working 2007’s blow-’em-up action pic afteryearsofpainfulprocedures , documenting the final hair trying to survive in in New York. Her visa is denied Transformers . This time, Anna enlists the help of a lawyer week of the 2007 ancient times just makes the and she’s about to be sent Sam Witwicky ( Shia LaBeouf ) (Alec Baldwin ) to become Metropolitan Opera movie that much funnier. back to Canada, so pretends has information about the emancipated from her parents National Council Auditions Cera and Jack Black play a to be engaged to her American Transformers’ ancient origins (Cameron Diaz , Jason Patric ) so Live: Sat., June 6, couple of bumbling hunters assistant (Canadian actor that puts him in grave danger. she can make her own decisions. 1 p.m. ET who are kicked out of their Ryan Reynolds ) in order to But he can take solace in the fact RELEASE DATE: JUNE 26 Encore: Sat., June 15, village, and then travel 7 p.m. local time through the ancient world coming across such well- GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR known dudes as Cain PARTICIPATING THEATRES (Arrested Development ’s TheHangover night of pre-wedding partying. MyLifeinRuins AND TO BUY TICKETS. David Cross ) and Abel If you’re making a movie about But the next morning the boys Nia Vardalos returns to her (Paul Rudd ), and Abraham characters that get really drunk wake to find Doug’s missing, strength — being Greek — to (Hank Azaria ) and Isaac and do something catastrophic there’s a tiger in their bathroom play Georgia, a romantically (Christopher Mintz-Plasse ). they won’t remember the next and a baby in their closet. challenged travel guide who The film, which harkens day, be sure to set it in Vegas. RELEASE DATE: JUNE 5 spends her days showing back to Mel Brooks’ History This time, Sin City welcomes North American tourists of the World: Part 1 and soon-to-be-married Doug ( Justin LandoftheLost around Greece’s most Monty Python’s Life of Brian , Bartha ) and his groomsmen In a loose re-do of the 1970s TV romantic sites. was co-written and directed (Bradley Cooper , Ed Helms , series, Will Ferrell is scientist RELEASE DATE: JUNE 5 by SCTV alum Harold Ramis , Zach Galifianakis ) for one last Dr. Rick Marshall, whose belief in whose career has certainly time warps makes him a ImagineThat been rejuvenated by his laughing stock. When Marshall, His Oscar-nominated association with the his assistant ( Anna Friel ) and a Dreamgirls performance Judd Apatow gang. Ramis had survivalist ( Danny McBride ) are gradually fading from parts in the Apatow-directed sucked through a “space-time memory, Eddie Murphy once Knocked Up and Walk Hard: vortex” and spit into an alternate again settles into a family The Dewey Cox Story , and world filled with lizard people, comedy, this time playing an now holds the top job in this giant crabs and dinosaurs, he’s overworked financial exec summer blockbuster proven right. But in order to who all but ignores his produced by the current gloat, he’ll have to get home. daughter ( Yara Shahidi ) — King of Comedy. RELEASE DATE: JUNE 5 until he realizes her Denzel Washington tries to save the day in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

20 FAMOU S MAY 2009 MAY 200 9 FAMOUS 21 thought about Alvin and the SPECIAL Chipmunks too. JULY RELEASE DATE: JULY 24 EVENTS on the Big TheUglyTruth Screen A TV producer ( Katherine Heigl ) turns to her chauvinistic WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW PREVIEWS reporter ( Gerard Butler ) for NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS From left: Funny People ’s Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Eric Bana honest advice about landing a Sun., July 26, 8 p.m. EST guy. So what are the chances PUBLIC she’ll fall for him in the end? GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR ENEMIES prior to last fall’s release of the to a New York City real-estate We see shades of He’s Just Not PARTICIPATING THEATRES JULY 1 sixth Potter film. But then dynasty ( Ryan Gosling ) gets That Into You , right down to the AND TO BUY TICKETS. Tired of based-on-a-true-story WarnerBros.wavedtheirmagic caught up in a world of trouble casting of Kevin Connolly as one films that turn out to be about wand and made the November when the girl he was seeing of Heigl’s failed dates. as true as Bernie Madoff’s 21streleasedatedisappear.At disappears. RELEASE DATE: JULY 24 that may kill him. Friendless, investments? Well, here’s last Harry ( Daniel Radcliffe ) RELEASE DATE: JULY 24 he bonds with young stand-up something you should know returns to search for FunnyPeople Ira Wright ( Seth Rogen ) who about Public Enemies . That Voldemort’s horcruxes, which G-Force Ever since Pagliacci introduced helps him through his worst scene where bank robber contain pieces of his evil soul. We realize that a live action/CGI us to the sad clown it’s been hard times, including the realization John Dillinger ( Johnny Depp ) RELEASE DATE: JULY 17 pic about an elite squad of highly to look at comedians without a he still loves his ex ( Leslie Mann , has his famous shootout with skilled guinea pigs running bit of pity. Get ready for a whole wife of the film’s director FBI agent Melvin Purvis AllGoodThings secret missions for the U.S. pity party as famous comedian Judd Apatow ) even though (Christian Bale ) was filmed at Like real estate agents need government sounds absolutely George Simmons (Adam Sandler) she’s now married. Wisconsin’s Little Bohemia more to worry about... The heir ridiculous. But that’s what we isdiagnosedwithablooddisorder RELEASE DATE: JULY 31 Lodge, the actual site of the 1934 event. They also used the real Lake County jail in Crown Point, Indiana. Dillinger escaped from that jail using a gun carved from a block of wood. And Marion Cotillard , who plays Dillinger’s lover Billie Frechette, was even spotted at the Wisconsin IceAge:Dawnofthe as Brüno, the over-the-top and responses needed to make a reservation where Frechette Dinosaurs out-of-the-closet Austrian TV hit-and-run comedy work. grew up, digging around for You may have already guessed, personality (who, like Borat, RELEASE DATE: JULY 10 inspiration. but dinosaurs are the big becamepopularonDaAliGShow ) Bryan Burrough , the obstacles for Sid the sloth, popped up fairly regularly HarryPotterandthe Vanity Fair writer on whose Manny the mammoth and Diego over the past year. But it Half-BloodPrince book the movie is based, the sabre-toothed tiger this time remains to be seen whether — Oh, the anguish. The credits director Michael Mann , around. And it’s all Sid’s fault. in a post- Borat world — the disappointment. The tears. who has a reputation for When he tries to steal some dino comedian was able to get the Harry Potter fans were out of being accurate in his reality- eggs, Sid becomes trapped in a kind of damning, off-the-cuff their minds with anticipation based films ( The Last of the hidden world where the big Mohicans , Ali , The Insider ), for beasts still rule. It’s up to his the attention to detail. After buds — including expectant reading the script, Burrough papa Manny — to get him out. happily wrote on his blog , RELEASE DATE: JULY 1 “No, it’s not 100 percent historically accurate. But it’s Brüno by far the closest thing to fact Is guerrilla filmmaking as Hollywood has attempted, successful the second time and for that I am both excited around? Reports of Sacha Baron and quietly relieved.” Cohen jumping up on catwalks What a lovely change. and attending pro-Prop 8 rallies Jim Broadbent (left) and Daniel Radcliffe in HP6

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What do those baby faces know about going where no man has gone before? We talk to John Cho , Anton Yelchin and Simon Pegg about playing Star Trek ’s younger versions of iconic Starfleet SPACE officers  BY JIM SLOTEK

Star Trek ’s young guns, from left: Anton Yelchin, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, John Cho and Zoe Saldana

CADETS“Your father was captain of a starship for “When they asked me to be involved in Zachary Quinto ( Heroes ) as Spock, Simon Pegg in Toronto last year. Cho admits he too, was a slightly from Aberdeen to Glaswegian. “Half 12 minutes, and saved 1,800 lives including your Star Trek , it wasn’t an obvious movie for me (Shaun of the Dead ) as Scotty, Anton Yelchin latecomer to the sprawling Trek uni verse. “As my family is Scottish and my wife’s Scottish,” because I wasn’t a huge fan of Star Trek ,” as Chekhov and John Cho ( Harold & Kumar a young kid, I thought Star Trek was a little Pegg says. “I had some leeway, and I made mother’s and yours. I dare you to do better.” Abrams says in a taped message shown Go to White Castle ) as Sulu, plus a special bit silly, I was distracted by the velour. But as Scotty’s accent Northwestern Scottish — —Enterprise Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) alongside 20 minutes of the film that was ap pearance by Leonard Nimoy, dropping in I got older and would watch reruns, I re al - just above Glasgow, but pretty Glaswegian.” throws down the gauntlet to a brash delinquent named screened for Toronto media earlier this year. from the future as the older Spock. ized it was an incredibly intelligent show, SPOILER ALERT! James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. “But when I read the script by Alex Kurtzman And I swear, if you close your eyes, Karl daring and thoughtful and meditative.” One thing Abrams’ Trek shares with 2002’s and Roberto Orci, I had to do this movie. It’s Urban as “Bones” McCoy sounds exactly like On meeting his forerunner Takei, Cho says, Star Trek: Nemesis is that Romulans figure No, this is not your father’s Captain Kirk. And there’s a world-destroying villain who’s full of adventure and comedy, it’s sexy and DeForest Kelley. Even Majel Barrett — the “I was nervous about stepping into his shoes, in to the story, in this case a rogue Romulan When we meet the future saviour of the been trying to kill him since his birth. scary. It’s a big, giant spectacle, but it’s also widow of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, but in his typically magnanimous fashion he named Nero (Eric Bana) with a hate-on for Federation in J.J. Abrams’ prequel to the ’60s Whoops, sorry. I forgot to call “Spoiler!” an intimate and emotional story.” and the omnipresent “computer voice” in said, ‘In a couple of years, people are going to Spock’s home world of Vulcan, and for Kirk. TV series, he’s a cocky 22nd-century Iowa (The fanboy world is divided between those Who knows? Maybe fresh eyes are the every Trek series — signed on, voicing com - call me the older version of you.’” Yes, I know what you’re thinking — or at hayseed/rebel. He ends up in a barroom who want to know everything in advance key to a successful Trek movie. John Logan, puters up to within a few weeks of her Yelchin says that veneration sometimes least I know what you’re thinking if you have brawl with six male Starfleet cadets after and those who want to know nothing.) the Oscar-nominated writer of Gladiator and death this past December. took second place to puzzling over the orig - a Starfleet uniform in your closet. In the Trek trying to pick up a young female cadet For his part, J.J. Abrams (TV’s Alias , Lost , The Aviator , was a huge Trek fan, and he end - And though this entire, ahem, enterprise inal accents. The actor, who speaks Russian, canon, humans don’t even meet Romulans named Uhura (Zoe Saldana). Fringe ) says he knew next to nothing about ed up writing the awful Star Trek: Nemesis — has been cloaked in secrecy like a Romulan didn’t “get” what Koenig was doing back until the events of the 1966 Classic Trek And he has about as much desire to enter the Star Trek universe when he signed on to a.k.a. Star Trek IX — the movie that once Warbird, we do know that many Trek alumni then, “but it was fun to take things from the episode Balance of Terror , which took place Starfleet Academy as Amy Winehouse has of resuscitate the franchise. But , word is, the looked like the end of the line for the series. visited the set, including Walter Koenig old character and bring them to the new one. years after the events in this movie. entering rehab. Kirk-meets-Spock-at-Starfleet-Academy idea But despite being a newbie, Abrams has (Chekhov), George Takei (Sulu) and The Next Words like ‘wessels...wery strange...Wulcan,’ All we can tell you is, time travel changes But — shades of Harry Potter! — it turns had been kicking around Paramount since lined up everything Classic Trek fans want, Generation ’s Jonathan Frakes. stuff like that was fun to bring on.” everything. F out this unremarkable youngster from an the ’80s, and was finally honed to the point of including uncanny young stand-ins for the “I met Jonathan Frakes, who is freakishly And Pegg, who befriended the late James //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// unremarkable place has a date with destiny. being worthy of an A-list director’s interest. original characters: Christopher Pine as Kirk , large, a huge hulk of a man,” says Cho while Doohan’s son Chris, shifted Scotty’s accent Jim Slotek writes for the Toronto Sun.

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ook, I’m an actor, people shouldn’t Bale publicly apologized for the harangue — although many in know much about me,” Christian Bale the acting community defended the reason for, if not the length said during our Beverly Hills interview and intensity, of his outburst, since Hurlbut broke basic set decorum early last summer. by adjusting lights in Bale’s sightline while cameras were rolling, Famous last words? disrupting the actor’s concentration. Within a month, the very private Still, while the 35-year-old actor has never nurtured a nice-guy star of the biggest movie of the decade was not only accused of assault image — or much of any off-screen image at all — such embarrass - by his mother and sister on the day of The Dark Knight ’s London ing revelations could not have been comfortable for the guarded Lpremiere (no charges were ever filed); he also let loose an expletive- star. And Terminator Salvation didn’t need anything else that might laden tirade on the New Mexico set of Terminator Salvation against make people snicker. di rector of photography Shane Hurlbut. The first incident instantly The fourth entry in the once-groundbreaking sci-fi series, dragged skeletons out of the Bale family closet for all the world to Salvation has neither director-creator James Cameron nor iconic ponder. It wasn’t until February of this year that a recording of the star Arnold Schwarzenegger on board. Instead, it’s directed by Terminator meltdown hit the internet, but within hours it was being McG, who, beside the goofy name, is best known for making the satirized on TV and turned into X-rated dance mixes. aggressively brainless Charlie’s Angels movies. continued 

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McGEXPLAINSHISNAME When a director named simply McG leapt from obscurity into the big leagues to direct 2000’s Charlie’s Angels everyone assumed he was some cutting-edge hip-hop impresario — an assumption reinforced by the fact that his only credits to date were some music videos. But then we caught glimpse of McG — a pasty, motor-mouthed redhead who looks about as fly as Simon Pegg. On his blog at Warnerbros.com/terminatorsalvation, McG finally explains his McMoniker: “I realize my name is ridiculous. I was born Joseph McGinty Nichol. McG is short for McGinty. I have been called this since the day I was born to create separation from my Uncle Joe and Grandpa Joe. I realize it sounds like some Hollywood nickname, hip-hop choice. But the truth is, this is simply my name — for every day of elementary school, every zit-filled day of high school. I have been taking sh-t for it ever since. I get it, I would think it’s lame too. But it’s just a name, and to change it now would seem fraudulent.” —MW

Yet reinventing the popular a celebrity so distasteful that he almost quit acting for good. Terminator movies creates some “That’s why I have very strong opinions about why kids should understandable pressure. Why not be working at such a young age,” says Bale, who with wife run the risk of screwing up a Sibi Blazic has a four-year-old daughter whose name he refuses to beloved franchise when you’re reveal in public. “I think that introducing children to an industry TERMINATOR already the lead in the most where they may not recognize the pressure — but, very quickly, successful movie series reboot they’re going to — and which is an adult industry…I would be very SALVATION in a generation? Perhaps it has skeptical about putting anybody that I cared about, who was close to something to do with Bale’s me, into this professionally at a young age. I would absolutely sup - HITS THEATRES outlook on his profession: when port it as a hobby and as an amateur pursuit. But to enter into the st good-paying work is offered, professional world is a whole different ballgame.” MAY21 you grab it. By the time he reached adulthood, though, Bale was totally “There’s probably not an actor com mitted to acting — often beyond the call of duty. He pumped  “Absolutely, I was hesitant,” Bale says of being asked to play the the T-800 Terminator sent to kill her in the first movie, but perform alive, unless they come from some wealthy family, who at some point himself up to physical perfection for American Psycho , Reign of Fire grown-up John Connor, leader of the human resistance against the his duty of becoming John’s father. hasn’t been absolutely broke,” he reckons. “Nobody who has any and the Batman movies, starved himself to ghostly dimensions for Skynet machines that have all but taken over a near-future Earth. That should make for a pretty interesting relationship between in tention of getting rich becomes an actor. The likelihood that that’s The Machinist , and went pretty far toward both extremes for the “I was working with Michael Mann on Public Enemies in Chicago Bale’s Connor and his much younger dad. Oh, and there are some gonna happen… It ain’t gonna happen. And if it does, you’re a lucky P.O.W. escape adventure Rescue Dawn . when I got the offer, and I saw a great deal of potential in it. But if pretty cool-looking spider-bots and techno-tentacled things, not to bastard because, you know what, you were never a businessman. I’m Until he hit the Bat-jackpot, few of Bale’s films made significant we didn’t achieve it, or achieved anything less than that, it would mention early models of the deceptively human-looking killing certainly not. You know what I like doing? I like pretending to be money. But that never stopped him from investing an intense emo - be quite a failure.” ma chines that give the series its title. other people. Do you ever think that that could lead to any kind of tional and physical commitment into his work. That’s resulted in Actually, Salvation looks like a pretty decent apocalyptic action “With Terminator , to me, there was an opportunity there in a way fi nancial stability? Certainly not. I never did, whatsoever.” some pretty disturbing performances, which we now know kind of pic that tells a neat story about a crucial period in the Terminator that I enjoy approaching all genres of movies,” says Bale. “That in a In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that Bale come naturally to him. “Whilst I’m making movies, the rest of the movies’ timeline. Some years after Skynet became sentient and sent similar fashion to what we did with Batman Begins — even though has n’t always liked playing other people, either. Born in Wales to a world kind of ceases to exist for me,” he says. its missiles, robots and cyborgs to wipe out humanity, Connor’s resist - we’re going to recognize a previous mythology, unlike we did with South African pilot and entrepreneur (who later married noted femi - And if whatever’s eating at Christian Bale helps power his per - ance group comes upon a young anti-machine fighter, Kyle Reese. Batman Begins , which started the story there — it’s an opportunity, nist Gloria Steinem) and an English circus performer, Christian began formances, we sort of hope that he never gets over it. F Played by Anton Yelchin in the new movie, Reese will grow into the which is our responsibility, to revitalize it and to reinvent. There’s no acting professionally as a child. After his big movie breakthrough in /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// warrior who goes back in time to not only save Sarah Connor from point in doing it otherwise, and that’s what I aimed to do.” Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun , the 13-year-old Bale found being Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers.

30 FAMOU S MAY 2009 MAY 200 9 FAMOUS 31 INTERVIE W SCOTT SPEEDMAN

some level. There are a lot of good actors, a lot of well-known people Q: You came to Toronto early to work on the character with your who are all sort of feeding for good parts. I got the script, it was very first acting teacher, David Rotenberg. Tell me what that was written for an older man, it was written to be played by a 45-year-old. like and what sort of exercises you did together. I really thought it would be interesting if he was 20 when he inherited A: “I flew up here probably three weeks before we started shooting . I this kid instead of 30 or 35, I thought it would be more dramatic and wanted to hang out with the kid [Bostick], and get to know the kid then I got to convince Atom that that was the case.” because I’m about as far away from a father as you can get [laughs], and then I wanted to learn how to be a tow-truck driver. And I was Q: Does it feel different to shoot at home in Toronto? studying with [Rotenberg] privately on a daily basis.” A: “Yeah, absolutely. It was actually really nice. Making movies is al ways stressful. It’s really fun to be in Berlin or something making a Q: So he taught you how to be a tow-truck driver? movie, but it can also be pretty isolating. My best friends are still in A: “No, he has a warehouse where he has a couple of cameras and we Toronto, so it was nice, when you’re done with the day to be able to would work on the character and do the scenes.” walk off the set and walk to see my friends…. I’d rented a loft apart - Toronto’s Scott Speedman ment on the west side, on Queen Street, Queen and Ossington area.” Q: Do you often work with a coach for a movie? A: “Yeah, if the material demands it, I like to be prepared. You know, fought for a role in Q: Do you live in L.A. fulltime? in these movies you don’t get a lot of time, everything’s moving Atom Egoyan’s Adoration — A: “Yeah, I live outside of Hollywood, I don’t live in Hollywood, I live pretty fast so you have to be on it, you can’t be finding the character and not just because he’d on the East Side of town in an area called Silver Lake, which is, you on set. You can be exploring but you have to be ready to go.” F be able to hang out with could say, like the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot of actors in ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// old friends after shooting my neighbourhood, which is really nice.” Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous. had wrapped  BY MARNI WEISZ

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cott Speedman didn’t wait for Atom Egoyan Q: Atom Egoyan loves it when the audience is confused, and this to offer him a role in Adoration . Instead the movie’s no exception. Was it the same for you as an actor? Toronto-born star of Underworld and TV’s A: “I had to read the script three or four or five or six times and fill in  Felicity chased down the script and convinced major gaps. As an actor I had to do the whole history. One scene’s Egoyan to strip 15 years off one of the central here, the beginning of the movie, but it actually takes place five years characters so that he could play the role. before the next scene, you never know that in the script, so it’s the Why? “He’s one of the guys I really wanted same as for the audience…. You have to give over to the feel of the ADORATION to work with,” says the 33-year-old actor movie rather than it being spelled out for you at all times, which I like , during an interview at last year’s Toronto but it’s not comfortable all the time and some people just don’t take HITS THEATRES In ternational Film Festival. to it, some people want to be spoon fed. Some of the story structure th Adoration tells the tangled story of Simon (Devon Bostick), a sensi - stuff confuses people and leaves them with a bad feeling therefore MAY8 Stive teen who’s been living with his uncle Tom (Speedman) since losing they don’t like it [laughs].” his parents. Exactly how Simon lost those parents is the film’s central riddle, and the narrative jumps back and forth in time trying to solve Q: What’s your take on your character, Tom? it. When Simon writes an essay claiming his father was a ter rorist A: “I saw my character as a pretty damaged man, a man with a lot of who packed a bomb in his mother’s suitcase it sparks a controversy secrets, a man with a lot of guilt, a man whose life, in a way, is over that quickly gets away from the teen thanks to his suspiciously mo - before it really gets started. And not just because he becomes a father tivated French teacher (Arsinée Khanjian). Meanwhile, Tom, a well at such a young age to this kid, I mean because of whatever abuse he ScottSpeedman(left), meaning but weary tow-truck driver, struggles to be a father figure. had put on his shoulders at a young age with his father.” ArsinéeKhanjianand Dressed casually and sporting a beard like the one he wears in DevonBostickpeelback Ado ration , Speedman is listening to a message on his cellphone when Q: You went after this role, rather than waiting to be approached. thelayersinascene he arrives for our interview. “It’s my mother,” he says sheepishly. A: “That happens, I get offered a fair amount of things and most of fromAdoration “She saw me on Canada AM and is very excited.” them aren’t any good. Anything that I like, I usually have to fight for on

32 FAMOU S MAY 2009 MAY 200 9 FAMOUS 33 INTERVIE W RACHEL WEISZ RAC HEL GET SHER QUIRK ON Prepare to be befuddled, bewildered and bemused. Rachel Weisz ’s conman caper The Brothers Bloom is a puzzle of a movie that had even its star perplexed  BY MARNI WEISZ

achel Weisz admits she was confused while making “There was a lot on the page in terms of unusual, bizarre, great The Brothers Bloom , a conman caper which will come dialogue,” says Weisz in an interview at the Toronto International out this spring. “Permanently confused,” she says. Film Festival. “It’s very rare that a character as interesting as Which is appropriate, since — for the most part Penelope comes along, particularly a female char acter. You get the — the audience doesn’t have a clue what’s going clever girls or the beautiful girls. Penelope is so many different on either. That’s not a slam against writer -di rector things, she’s unpigeonholable as a person.” Rian Johnson’s ( Brick ) second film. You’re supposed Penelope’s seeming naiveté and her bottomless bank account to be confused, as are the characters. make her a natural mark for the Bloom brothers, professional con - Weisz plays Penelope, a thirtysomething hermit men Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and his younger brother, known simply who has spent years and years living alone in her New Jersey mansion. as Bloom (Adrien Brody). Stephen concocts a complicated plan that ROver that time, she has entertained herself by mastering one bizarre will see Penelope travel to Europe with the brothers where she’ll skill after another — ping-pong, skateboarding, juggling, making a put up a huge wad of cash to buy a rare book that doesn’t really pinhole camera out of a watermelon. exist . But for that plan to work, Bloom has to continued 

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Threeofakind:(fromleft)AdrienBrody, RachelWeiszandMarkRuffalo “A lot of the clothes were Inset: DirectorRianJohnson(second mine,” says Weisz. “We did fromtheleft)conferswithhiscast a fitting at my flat and I pulled out these big, lace-up clunky boots, which I believe Penelope ends up wearing in every single scene. They’re just wonderful boots. As soon as I put them on I thought these are Penelope boots — and they go with almost nothing, which was perfect”

 romance Penelope, and as the story progresses (the movie is very much about the art of storytelling), at least some of Bloom’s feelings for Penelope become real. Or, so we think… And yet, when Weisz says she was “permanently confused” while making this movie, she’s not just talking about the script’s flips and flops. She’s also talking about being perplexed as to how to create a character that is so utterly eccentric. “I don’t know anyone like Penelope,” she says. “I’ve never experi - enced anything like Penelope. It wasn’t like I could do research, it was just completely living on my wits.” The role does seem like it was tailor-made for an oddball like Helena Bonham Carter, rather than Weisz, an English Rose best known for her Oscar-winning turn in the earnest drama The Constant Gardener , as adventurous Evelyn Carnahan of the first two Mum my movies, or the sickly heroine from the melodramatic The Fountain , which was directed by her husband Darren Aronofsky. But, the truth is, Weisz did draw on her own life to create at least one important part of Penelope. THEBROT HERS “A lot of the clothes were mine,” she says. “We did a fitting at my flat and I pulled out these big, lace-up clunky boots, which I believe BLOOM Penelope ends up wearing in every single scene. They’re just wonder - ful boots. As soon as I put them on I thought these are Penelope boots HITS THEATRES — and they go with almost nothing [laughs], which was perfect.” nd She says that director Johnson (whom Weisz describes as “a bit like MAY22 a character in his films”) didn’t give her too much instruction. At first, she thought he might want her to give a very stylized perform - ance, because that’s what she’d seen in his first movie, Brick , a film noir set in a high school. money. “Shooting in Eastern Europe is definitely much cheaper than from very silly drunk to very serious drunk. I think what ended up in “And he said, ‘No, no, no, no, no. I want it to be dusty,’” recalls shooting in America,” says Weisz, “so it meant that it was a low- the film was very serious drunk because I think when people get Weisz. “And I said, ‘What do you mean by dusty?’ And it turns out budget movie that has incredible production value.” drunk they can take themselves very seriously, which is funny.” what he meant by that — he’s a very imaginative person, so he uses With those beautiful settings, quirky characters and surprising In fact, Weisz thinks that, often, the key to making good comedy is to his words in odd ways sometimes — but he meant that he wanted it plot twists, it also looks like a film that would be a lot of fun to make. play it very seriously. “Look at Sacha Baron Cohen,” she says. “He’s tak - to be messy, naturalistic. In real life people don’t act in a polished, For Weisz, the most fun was filming an intimate encounter between ing his characters in- cre -di-bly seriously. He’s committed. Peter Sellers , stylized way, we’re all over the place and messy.” Penelope and Bloom, on a train, getting drunk, in a thunderstorm the same thing. It’s about commitment to what you’re doing.” F Shot in Serbia, Montenegro, the Czech Republic and Romania, the that has a powerful aphrodisiac effect on Penelope. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// film has a lush Old-World look despite being made for relatively little “We did varying degrees of drunkenness,” explains Weisz. “It went Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous .

36 FAMOU S MAY 2009 MAY 200 9 FAMOUS 37 COVER STOR Y PETE DOCTER GOING

Sitting at their desks and drawing palm fronds just wasn’t good enough for the artists at Pixar. So UPthey got on a plane and went to South America to see those palm fronds…and exotic birds…and remote mountaintops first-hand. Director Pete Docter tells us about the trip  BY MARNI WEISZ

ou’d think scouting locations would be the one thing you wouldn’t have to worry about when making an animated film. You’d be wrong. At least when you’re talking about a Pixar movie. The groundbreaking animation studio’s latest, Up , follows a grumpy old man and his painfully enthusiastic eight-year-old neighbour from a congested downtown K T

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opening in the clouds and the hel - Docter thinks the Cannes honour may also relate to Pixar’s refusal icopter was able to go back in and to be pigeonholed by its methods. “We’ve always looked at the films pick up the second group.” we do at Pixar as just films, not necessarily animated,” says Docter. So was the trip absolutely nec - “We happen to use animation, that’s the medium, but we try to tell essary, or just a way for a bunch of the strongest stories that we possibly can and I think the results are creative types to finagle a free born out in those films.” vacation out of their employers? Having finally arrived back at Pixar, Docter contemplates his first “I think without that trip it would trip to Cannes as he walks down the hall. “I don’t have any delusions be more of us making things up, that anyone will know who I am or anything,” says the man who’s and to be honest we did make a had a hand in some of the biggest movies of the past 15 years. “It’s a lot of things up,” says Docter. star-studded place. But I think it’ll be fun just to attend and watch “But there are a lot of [plants] that the movie with the crowd…. It’s an audience of film lovers and to be are pulled right out of what we in that same group that welcomed Hitchcock and all those guys, it’s saw down there and I think really incredible.” F there’s a little bit more grounded - /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ness because of that.” Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous. And grounding a film is neces - sary when dealing with such an JohnRatzenberger absurd concept. Up tells the story withTheIncredibles ’ of Carl Fredricksen (who’s voiced Underminer by Ed Asner), a timid balloon UP salesman who falls in love with, and marries, an adventurous HITS THEATRES woman. They spend their next th 60 years dreaming of a trip to MAY29 South America, but life slips by, the couple grows old, and soon enough Carl’s wife is no longer around. Now 78, Carl simply wants to live out his remaining years in the house they shared, which requires fighting off an aggressive developer’s attempts to buy him out. After a heart - breaking accident, Carl is deemed a danger and told he must move to  but there was only so much they could glean about South America But if you’re imagining a bunch of artists sitting on little stools at an old folks home. So, he ties thousands of brilliantly coloured heli - from looking at photographs and watching documentaries. a resort, sipping from coconuts and sketching the well-manicured um balloons to his house and lifts off — heading for South America. “We were getting this foggy sense of what it’s like,” Docter explains flora, you don’t understand these guys. They headed straight for Of course, every adventure-movie star needs a foil. Enter Russell over the phone from California. “It’s probably similar to when you a remote locale called Triple Point, where Brazil, Guyana and (Jordan Nagai), the eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer (similar to a WHO’S RATZENBERGER come back from some exotic place and you show friends photos of your Venezuela meet in a spray of a hundred mountains, more than half of Boy Scout) who happens to be on Carl’s front porch when the house vacation, there’s only so much you can convey with photographs.” which, says Docter, have never been touched by man. breaks free. Together, Carl and Russell fly to South America, where THIS TIME? Docter, whose Pixar credits include supervising animator and story “It took us three days just to get to one,” he recalls. “We hiked up à la The Wizard of Oz the film shifts from a housebound drama to a Best known as barfly Cliff from TV’s Cheers , John Ratzenberger is artist on Toy Story , directing Monsters, Inc . and coming up with the and we camped up there, because to get down, we wouldn’t have far- out thriller involving a 13-foot-high flightless bird, talking dogs the only actor to voice a character in every single Pixar feature. original story idea for WALL•E , is in a car being driven by his editor been able to even make it before nightfall…. Then we arranged for and a long-lost explorer (Christopher Plummer). This time, listen for Ratzenberger as the voice of Tom the down a California highway. They’re on their way from George Lucas’s a helicopter to pick us up and take us to an even more remote, inac - Before being released (in 3D where available) in North America on construction foreman early on in Up . Here’s his Pixography: Skywalker Ranch — where they spent the morning mixing the final cessible one. I think they said you can hike up it but it would take a May 29th, on May 13th Up will become the very first animated movie  Hamm in Toy Story (1995) reel of Up — back to Pixar’s office an hour away. “It’s supposed to be week and a half, so we opted for the helicopter [laughs]. to open the prestigious Cannes film festival. “That was a shock for  P.T. Flea in A Bug’s Life (1998) done by the end of this week,” Docter says of Up . “It’s hard to believe “And the tops of these things are pretty volatile in terms of the me,” says Docter. “I thought we were just screening the film so that  Hamm in Toy Story 2 (1999) it will ever be over, it’s been five years on this picture for me.” weather,” Docter continues. “So it’ll be sunny and you’re in shorts hopefully we could be included somewhere. So the fact that it was  The Abominable Snowman in Monsters, Inc . (2001) Concerned that the real South America just wasn’t coming through and a T-shirt and then two minutes later it’ll be a downpour.” opening — wow.”  Fish School in Finding Nemo (2003) those photographs and documentaries, in September of 2006 Docter Which is exactly what happened when a quick-moving storm But maybe Cannes’ acceptance of an animated film shouldn’t be so  Underminer in The Incredibles (2004) took a team of about 10 writers and animators to Venezuela to stranded half of the Pixar group at the top of a mountain — the hel - surprising. After all, Pixar’s last two movies, 2007’s Ratatouille and  Mack in Cars (2006) expe rience the jungle first-hand. “When you got there it was the icopter simply couldn’t pick them up. “So there were a couple of last year’s WALL•E were among the best-reviewed films of their  Mustafa in Ratatouille (2007) smells, the feeling of it, you could see things up close, take pictures, hours where we thought these guys are going to be stuck on top of re spective years, each earning an astounding 96% on the popular  John in WALL•E (2008) do watercolour sketches and make all sorts of notes for ourselves so this mountain where very few people have ever been in the history Rotten Tomatoes website, which surveys hundreds of professional  Tom in Up (2009) that we could capture more accurately the feeling of the place.” of mankind,” recalls Docter. “But luckily in the end there was a small reviews to create an average score.

40 FAMOU S MAY 2009 MAY 200 9 FAMOUS 41 STYL E

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as summer come early this year? This season, the fashion industry has fast-tracked fruity, bright colours to the front of the display racks. Never mind that it’s still spring — let’s get that happy, summer vibe started now. This KORS Michael Kors Yellow Wedge Thepomegranatefragrancewakesyouup,whilethe So here we are in May, still weeks away from the summer ($295 , Michael Kors boutique, Rockland, Montreal) non-abrasive rice in Aveeno Smoothing Body Wash solstice, yet vivid reds, oranges and acid yellows are already mixes edgy high-shine patent with an earthy cork ($7.50 ,drugstores)keepsyoufromover-exfoliating part of the visual landscape. Just a fluke? We think not. sole for the perfect day-to-night shoe. when prepping for spring’s bare fashions. Per haps the powers of corporate couture colluded with the government (which, in 2005, moved daylight savings time up by three weeks to early March) to make us all a little bit happier. And you know what? That’s the kind of conspiracy we can totally get behind. It’s scientifically proven that a vibrant dose of colour can improve one’s mood. The Lüscher test (you can take it at Bright colour http://www.viewzone.com/luscher.html), used in advertising claims to quantify your desires, and lots of goals, even your ability to withstand stress, is based entirely on colour preference. Uncover skin herald a which colours you like and then hit the mall and clothe yourself head-to-toe in happy. warming trend We’re always saying “it’s all about accessories” and this season is no exception. The organic, on the Hervé chunky bracelet from Dandi Maestre on the opposite page works now with your spring Léger runway. tran sitional items and, come summer, will look great with a bare and narrow tank dress or add punch to safari-inspired separates. And those wondrous acid-yellow wedges will really

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42 FAMOU S MAY 2009 MAY 200 9 FAMOUS 43 THE GOOD S HOTPLAY Taking the road less travelled MUS IC  BY SCOTT GARDNER MAKERS Ben Harper thinks he sounds like Dr. Phil. Plus, Diana Krall at Cineplex  BY INGRID RANDOJA Singers On Screen R&B SINGER CHRISTINA MILIAN gets plenty of face time in May as she releases her fourth CD, Elope , and also pops BEN up as one of Matthew McConaughey’s female conquests in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past . HARP ER FUEL PC, PS3, XBOX 360 or the daredevil drivers of FUEL , there’s no crying over ROCKS KRALL spilt milk. Or more correctly: the melted polar ice caps ROCKS RIO thathavecausedsealevelstorise,andthrowntheworld’s Diana Krall’s “Live in climate out of whack, leaving much of North America Rio” concert, filmed an inhospitable wasteland. en Harper has carved band, Relentless 7, which demo. “It’s so refreshing last November at Inanear-futureravagedbytheeffectsofenvironmental out a stellar career he calls, “A collective of when you remember life Vivo Rio concert hall in Fabuse,mostsensible folk have fled for greener pastures, but a few playing bluesy-rock, four men playing very loud , can happen to us as much Rio de Janeiro, comes thrill-seekers have remained behind, pitting their grungy, home- folksy-rock, reggae- and hard, and who sweat.” we have to make life happen to the big screen tuned vehicles against each other to win fuel supplies in a new rock — a lot of Harper met guitarist for us. I sound a little bit for a one-night-only extreme sport. hyphenated rock — Jason Mozersky in the late like f---ing Dr. Phil here, but screening on May 20th. Unlike simulation games that strive to convincingly replicate the over his 12 albums. ’90s when Mozersky, who it’s true. Growth is one of Krall’s sultry set list includes standards handling of a real car, FUEL is an arcade-style racer, offering over-the- But suddenly, the worked as a driver for a the best things in life, and such as “Cheek to Cheek” and “Let’s Fall in top action and thrills. So what’s the twist? For once there are literally Buniverse told Ben Harper Texas music promoter, was this album represents such Love,” and a smattering of bossa nova hits, no boundaries — if you see something, you can drive to it. The game X-MenOrigins: Punch-Out!! WII he needed to just rock. shuttling Harper to a gig a vast creative expansion including “Este Seu Olhar” and the reworked models an astonishing 14,000 square kilometres of diverse terrain Wolverine DS, PC, PS2, After a 20-year absence, “There’s nothing forced and bravely asked to play for me personally. It wasn’t “Boy from Ipanema.” and instead of racetracks with start and finish lines, you carve your PS3, PSP, WII, XBOX 360 scrappy boxer Little Mac — or cookie cutter about it, the star his demo tape. to be denied and it wasn’t GotoCineplex.com forparticipating own route across vast landscapes. Likeitsbig-screeninspiration,this hero of the beloved Punch-Out!! it’s just where the music Harper said sure, loved it, contrived.” theatresandtobuytickets. Even better, the new-and-improved climate mixes things up with third-person brawler unsheathes for the NES console — returns demanded I be in the and they became friends. unpredictable extreme weather like blizzards, lightning strikes, the cantankerous Wolverine’s to pummel both challengers moment,” Harper says of The pair eventually hooked sandstorms and tornados. Not only does this affect your vehicle’s wicked adamantium claws for and new fighters. Naturally the his conversion to all-out up with drummer Jordan 8OUT THIS MONTH performance in the moment, every time you race through an area, bone-crunching action. To game will use Wii-mote and S N

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44 FAMOU S MAY 2009 MAY 200 9 FAMOUS 45 THE GOOD S DVDRELEASE S BIG MOVIES COMING TO THE SMALL SCREEN  BY MARNI WEISZ May

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Everyone planet who crash lands on nosurprisethatheconnected his childhood asabent-over would rather have her stepfather Wendy (Williams) runs into ball howling and snarling for STARS:KevinJames, thought that killer was dead, Earth during Viking times. To withthisprojectstarringour senior,growsintoa strong walk her down the aisle. trouble when her car breaks the camera in this prequel to RainiRodriguez but as soon as Tom returns, complicate matters, he brings Bridg(Zellweger)asabig-city middle-aged man, then a Drowning his sorrows at a pub down and she becomes the other two Underworld DIRECTOR:SteveCarr the murders begin again. along an unwelcome stowaway consultant who is transferred to youthful old man, before ending he meets Kate (Thompson), who separated from her only friend movies. Sheen is young (AreWeDoneYet? ) DVD Extras: Special Edition DVD in the form of a monster called small-town Minnesota to put its his life as a baby. Blanchett is has been stood up. 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