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INWALL•E replacesBRIEF celebrities with bleeps, bloops and chirps. Why didn’t we think of that sooner? Artifact THIS MONTH’S OBJET DE FILM THE GODFATHER SCRIPT POSTER If you think this Godfather poster featuring star Marlon Brando looks a little strange, that’s because it’s created using handwritten words, the entire script from the film to be exact. Available from Pop Art (www.lapopart.com), the poster employs the ancient art form of micrography — which uses miniscule script to create shapes and forms — to pull off the trick. You can order a 24” X 30” poster for $14 U.S., while a 44” x 55” MAYTHE limited edition giclée print costs $400. But who knows, maybe you can make them an FORCE offer they can’t refuse. —IR BE WITH HIM ne of the fun things about watching animated movies is hearing the voices of A-list stars coming out of the mouths of pixilated characters. But when it comes to the latest Pixar pic, this month’s WALL•E, actors have largely been replaced by noises created by famed sound designer Ben Burtt. The movie focuses on WALL•E the robot, who’s been left alone on Earth for 700 years and whose dialogue consists entirely of electronic beeps and AND SPYGLASS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT A MARC PLATT/KICKSTART PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH TOP COWJAMES MCAVOY “WANTED” whistles. WALL•E’s director, Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), admits his cinematic ’bot MUSIC COSTUME PRODUCTION Owas inspired by none other than droid R2-D2, and says that with WALL•E, TERENCE STAMP THOMAS KRETSCHMANN COMMON AND ANGELINA JOLIEBY DANNY ELFMAN DESIGNER VARVARA AVDYUSHKOEDITOR DAVID BRENNER ACE DESIGNER JOHN MYHRE “I’m basically making R2-D2: The Movie.” Stanton knew the only person who could “voice” WALL•E was Burtt, the man DIRECTOR OF EXECUTIVE PRODUCED responsible for R2-D2’s chirps, as well as the “swoosh” noise lightsabers make as PHOTOGRAPHY MITCHELL AMUNDSEN PRODUCERS MARC SILVESTRI ADAM SIEGEL BIRNBAUM GARY BARBERROGER BY MARC PLATT JIM LEMLEY JASON NETTER IAIN SMITH they cut through the air and Darth Vader’s menacing breath — the latter of BASED ON THE SERIES STORY SCREENPLAY DIRECTED which Burtt created by recording himself breathing into an old scuba regulator. OF COMIC BOOKS BY MARK MILLAR AND J.G. JONES BYMICHAEL BRANDT& DEREK HAAS BY MICHAEL BRANDT& DEREK HAAS AND CHRIS MORGAN BY TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV But if you listen closely to WALL•E, you’ll hear Sigourney Weaver as the voice SOUNDTRACK ON LAKESHORE RECORDS of a spaceship computer, Stanton’s shout-out to Weaver’s Alien films. —IR A UNIVERSAL PICTURE © 2008 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS 12 FAMOUS JUNE 2008

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ON SCREEN SPECIAL EVENTS The Incredible Hulk WALL•E The Love Guru on the Big Cerebral actor Edward Norton When mankind abandons the Mike Myers spent three years Screen 13 transforms into Marvel’s most Earth, it leaves behind a trash- fine-tuning Guru Pitka, the star of june inarticulate superhero in this bundling robot named his new comedy. Pitka (Myers), a WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW reboot of a franchise that WALL•E, who for the next 700 Caucasian orphan raised inside ONE NIGHT STAND looked unsalvageable after years continues to pick up an Indian Ashram, desperately June1: Mayhem ensues Ang Lee’s Hulk took a garbage with only a pet wants to conquer the North when the WWE hits drubbing from fans and critics. cockroach to keep him American self-help market. So to San Diego for this Norton portrays on-the-run company. But his lonely days further his career he agrees to knock-down extravaganza. scientist Bruce Banner, who come to an end when EVE the help the owner () of turns into the big, green robot arrives, and the Get Smart the , who GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR monster every time he gets lovestruck WALL•E hitches a Remember Bewitched, needs the guru to sort out the PARTICIPATING THEATRES steamed. But now there’s a ride aboard her spaceship. By The Beverly Hillbillies and team’s broken-hearted star AND TO BUY TICKETS. new monster on the block all accounts, Pixar’s latest McHale’s Navy? Those three not- player (Romany Malco). See named the Abomination looks to be one of its best. so-good movie versions of ’60s Mike Myers interview, page 32. (Tim Roth), and he wants a TV sitcoms proved how hard it is Encounters at the piece of the Hulkster. See to adapt 40-year-old TV fare into End of the World Tim Roth interview, page 36. present-day films. However, what Director Werner Herzog and his Get Smart has in its favour is the cameraman travel to Antarctica casting of Steve Carell as to film the continent’s The Happening hapless Control Agent 86, who, breathtaking landscape and Our senses tingled just along with smart-as-a-whip interview the fascinating, watching the trailer for director Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), sometimes odd, men and M. Night Shyamalan’s latest takes on the evil KAOS. See Anne women stationed at the remote “What If...” flick. The plot remains Hathaway interview, page 40. McMurdo research station. somewhat shrouded, Young People F--king but it’s clear some sort of This sexually frank drama, set environmental or man-made and shot in Toronto, recounts phenomenon is killing off what happens when five masses of people, and it’s up various twosomes — a couple, to a high school science teacher roommates, co-workers, exes () to lead his and best friends — get down family and friends to safety. to business. ®

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FAMOUSWhat’s up with McLovin? Where was Miley immortalized? And why is Rupert smiling? MISSING She might not go home with you...

WhereMcLOVIN have you gone Christopher Mintz-Plasse? but we will! After being immortalized as McLovin in last summer’s Superbad, the actor (who turns 19 this month) has all but disappeared. His co-stars Michael Cera and are superbusy — Cera starring in the massive hit Juno and Hill appearing in four films, 16” X-LARGE most recently Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Mintz-Plasse, on the other hand, has been showing up at major movie premieres, like this one for Semi-Pro, in plaid shirts. 1 TOPPING PIZZA Young But fear not, the adorable nerd has three projects on the go. eet Hannah Bailey, If that tagline sounds ups, basketball games, First up is Little Big Men, which co-stars a high school familiar, you’ve likely seen home life and cliques. Paul Rudd and as senior in Warsaw, John Hughes’ 1985 flick The documentary was one a couple of partiers forced to join the MIndiana. Hannah is liberal, The Breakfast Club, which of the most popular movies Big Brothers program. It should be out later artsy and an atheist. Warsaw, starred Ally Sheedy as at this year’s Sundance this year. Then he’s the voice of Fishlegs in on the other hand, is not. Bailey’s sort-of counterpart, Film Festival, where it next year’s animated Viking comedy Bailey’s one of five and used an extremely was nominated for the How to Train Your Dragon (which co-stars $ 99ADD Warsaw High seniors who similar tagline. In fact, the Grand Jury Prize. Hill). And finally he’ll play a high priest in agreed to be filmed as part film’s poster is a darn-near If you want to read what the Judd Apatow-produced, biblical-era dipping sauce ofSHE’S director Nanette ANperfect recreation of that for other students who were at Year One (also 2009), which co-stars Cera 69¢ Burstein’s documentary The Breakfast Club. Warsaw while the movie was and Jack Black as a couple of lazybones American Teen. She’s the Director Burstein and her shot think of the project go turfed from their village. Not valid at theatre locations. “rebel”AMERICAN of the film’s tagline: camera crew trailed Bailey, to the movie’s Facebook Until then you’ll have to satisfy your “They were five total jock Colin Clemens, geek page, facebook.com/ McLovin cravin with a hilarious spot on the 9 strangers,TEEN with nothing in Jake Tusing, princess Megan americanteen. Funny or Die website (funnyordie.com), For Pick-up, Dine-in or Delivery call: or your local common, except the school Krizmanich and heartthrob American Teen hits in which he and Kristin Bell explain the they went to. A heartthrob, Mitch Reinholt every day for theatres in Toronto, McLovin Fund, a charity set up to help the a princess, a jock, a rebel 10 months, detailing their Montreal and Vancouver young actor who, after his one big hit, will

and a geek.” new relationships, break- in August. —MW clearly never work again. —MW continued KEYSTONE BY PHOTO MINTZ-PLASSE CHRISTOPHER

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EVER HEAR OF PEN AND PAPER? Melissa Burech obviously thinks autograph books are for losers. The 25-year-old is famous for getting the signatures of celebs tattooed on her body — she has more than 40 — and she added to that total when she recently ran into Miley Cyrus and her mom in Malibu, California, and asked Ms. Hannah Montana herself to sign. Miley shouted a “Shut Up!” when she heard the autographs were permanent tattoos, and was excited to sign Burech’s upper right arm (the star wanted a prime spot). Although the paparazzi that photographed the event heard Burech say she may wash off Miley’s name, the obsessed fan decided to keep it, and went to a tattoo parlour to have the Melissa Burech (right) makes a permanent commitment to Miley Cyrus’s signature autograph inked for life. —IR GETTING

“Dude, don’t you know I’m a wizard? I could turn you into a toad.” takes a break from shooting Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to check out the Jack the Ripper Experience at ’s chilling underground theme park, The Dungeons. The exhibit recreates the city’s Whitechapel district, circa 1888, when a certain fella nicknamed Jack had a fondness for big knives, the necks of prostitutes and bringing the two together. —MW

THREE-FOR-ONE was based on book one of stars of the Potter pics, the girls PANTS Anne Brashares’ series of four in the Sisterhood have been It’s funny. Warner Brothers has novels about four best friends. extremely busy with other said that the seventh and final But the sequel combines stories projects. Blake Lively stars on Harry Potter book will be split from the second, third andRIPPEDTV’s Gossip Girl and then there’s into two movies — all the better fourth books into one movie. Ugly Betty herself, America to prolong the magic. Yet the So what’s the diff? For one Ferrera. So, never mind the same studio went the opposite thing, this ain’t Harry Potter and audience, who knows if the way for The Sisterhood of the four Sisterhood movies may be a actors would’ve stuck around

Traveling Pants 2. The first movie bit much. But also, unlike the for two more flicks. —MW JAMES/WIREIMAGE SIMON BY PHOTO GRINT RUPERT SPLASH-KEYSTONE; BY PHOTOS CYRUS BURECH/MILEY MELISSA

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LLight enough to tuck into your purse, Get this Organic Cotton Tank Top from Billabong’s It looks and smells like rich, white chocolate but Baggu Shopping Bags ($8, Baggubag.com) help Design for Humanity line ($30, Billabong.com for Cocoa Butter Body Butter ($22, The Body Shop) Being you avoid plastic bags, which take eons to stores) and you’ll contribute to the Surfrider goes on your skin to moisturize and nourish — not Green decodecompose, and are hideously ugly to boot. Foundation, which protects the world’s oceans. in your mouth. Pay attention now, and you’ll avoid oodles of trouble down the line  BY LIZA HERZ

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FAMOUS TEENS SETH ROGEN

Crude, juvenile and oh-so funny, Vancouver’s Seth Rogen makes the kind of flicks he loved as a kid  BY JIM SLOTEK

ould it surprise you to learn Off stage, he knew what he liked in a teen and compile them. So I’ve seen the nine that Seth Rogen’s early movie, and he knew what kind of teen minutes of Porky’s where people are naked life unfolded like a screwball movie he wanted to make some day. a thousand times.”

teen comedy? Case in point: “Porky’s! The highest-grossing Canadian Next on his list of influences, an early ™ his first gig as a 13-year-old standup in Van- film of all time!” exclaims Rogen (Knocked Up, Tom Hanks movie called Bachelor Party. couver turned out to be at a lesbian bar. Superbad, and the voice of Master Mantis in “It’s pretty dirty for a Tom Hanks movie. W“It was a place called The Lotus. I thought this this month’s animated comedy Kung Fu There’s bestiality jokes and stuff like that. UNIVERSALPICTURESANDMARVELENTERTAINMENTPRESENT AMARVELSTUDIOSPRODUCTION AVALHALLAMOTIONPICTURESPRODUCTION EDWARDNORTON “THEINCREDIBLEHULK” CASTING MUSIC MUSIC VISUALEFFECTS it was ‘Ladies Night.’ I didn’t really get what Panda), recalling the 1982 film about ’50s And Kevin Smith (Clerks) was an inspira- LIVTYLER TIMROTH TIMBLAKENELSON TYBURRELL AND WILLIAMHURT BYLARAYMAYFIELD BYCRAIGARMSTRONG SUPERVISORDAVEJORDAN SUPERVISOR KURTWILLIAMS PRODUCTION DIRECTOROF EXECUTIVE was happening,” Rogen, now 26, says, laugh- high schoolers desperately trying to lose tion language-wise, I would say. His EDITORS JOHNWRIGHTACE RICKSHAINEACE DESIGNER KIRKM.PETRUCCELLI PHOTOGRAPHY PETERMENZIES,JR., ACS PRODUCERSSTANLEE DAVIDMAISEL JIMVANWYCK ing at the memory of his cluelessness. their virginity. “I would tape the nude scenes movies were the first continued PRODUCED SCREENPLAY DIRECTED BY KEVINFEIGEGALEANNEHURDAVIARAD BY ZAKPENN AND EDWARDHARRISON BYLOUISLETERRIER AUNIVERSALRELEASE 28 FAMOUS JUNE 2008 ARTWORK & DESIGN © 2008 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. THE INCREDIBLE HULK, THE MOVIE © 2008 MVL FILM FINANCE LLC. THE HULK CHARACTER TM & © 2008 MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT. KING OF TEEN COMEDY TEEN_Rogen _June08:Fcontents 5/12/08 10:17 AM Page 30 TEEN_Rogen _June08:Fcontents 5/9/08 12:03 PM Page 31

FAMOUS TEENS SETH ROGEN

Freaks and Geeks’ cast circa 1999, clockwise from top: Jason Segal, Seth Rogen, Linda Cardellini, Busy Philipps and James Franco. Inset: Rogen’s high Pineapple Express stars Seth Rogen (left) and James Franco. Below: Rogen and Franco with Danny McBride school, Point Grey

movies that I saw where people just cursed next film, Pineapple Express, hits theatres in up a storm and that was very amusing to August and reunites Rogen and James Franco, me,” he says, bursting into a belly laugh. “So a buddy from his big acting break, the cult • AGE 13: Makes his to know series creator I think we took a nod from that when it fave TV series Freaks and Geeks. stand-up debut at a Vancouver Judd Apatow. comes to sexual language.” Revolving around high school politics, lesbian bar called The Lotus. • AGE 18: Plays bully “We” is Rogen and his high school buddy the show was created by Judd Apatow, the • AGE 13: Uses his budding Ricky Danforth in the Evan Goldberg, who first collaborated at 14 director of Knocked Up, who would become stand-up skills to entertain indie film Donnie Darko, which to write the high school sex comedy that Rogen’s mentor. fellow campers at Camp stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a became Superbad. “It was born out of a very In Pineapple Express, Rogen plays Dale, a Miriam, a Jewish sleepover troubled teen plagued by pure desire to just see kids acting like we act- murder witness who, it turns out, can be camp on Gabriola Island, near visions of a giant bunny rabbit. ed on film, and speaking how we spoke. And tracked down by the bad guys because he Nanaimo, B.C. • AGE 18: Apatow asks him to it just happened to be really dirty [because] left a rare strain of pot at the scene — a • AGE 14: Joins forces with join the writing team for his that’s what made us laugh...unfortunately, “bud” called Pineapple Express, sold to him hisSeth Point Grey Rogen High School’s ownnew TV teen series Undeclared years. really filthy jokes are what amuse us.” by his dealer Saul (Franco). So they both hit classmate Evan Goldberg to After accepting the writing He qualifies that statement, adding “I think the road, a step ahead of the killers. write the script for a raunchy gig, he’s also given the role of almost any guy is redeemable. Our movies “Pineapple Express is not nearly as dirty as comedy based on their own beer-loving business major have a very simple message which is try to be Superbad. It’s more of a marijuana-themed lives. That script eventually Ron Garner. a good guy or girl, just do the right thing, as buddy comedy,” says Rogen. “Action-wise, becomes Superbad. •AGE 19: Rogen and Goldberg Spike Lee says. You can kind of have people it’s pretty jam-packed. We’ve got car chases • AGE 16: Places second in write Pineappple Express, say all the filthy, despicable things you want and shootouts and explosions.” were amazing,” Rogen says. “It was amazing the Vancouver Amateur about a couple of pot-addled and have them do stupid things, but as long The reunion with Franco brought back to work with [James Franco] again. We kept Comedy Contest. twentysomethings on the run as that character’s trying to be a good per- memories of Freaks and Geeks, a show that looking at each other saying, ‘If you’d told us • AGE 17: After just two from a drug lord and a crooked son, that’s kind of all I need to latch onto.” was bursting with future stars, including eight years ago that someone would allow auditions, nabs the role cop. It finally comes out this Of course, Superbad — the adventures of ER’s Linda Cardellini, Jason Segel (Forgetting us to be in a movie that we’re stars of, I of Ken Miller, a cynical “freak,” August with Rogen and his three redeemable horny kids named Seth, Sarah Marshall) and Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma). would never have believed it.’” F on TV’s Freaks and Geeks. Freaks and Geeks co-star Evan and McLovin — is now the Porky’s of a “It’s funny, I look back at Freaks and Geeks ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Moves, with his parents, to L.A. James Franco in the starring new generation. And Rogen and Goldberg and it never dawned on me at the time that Jim Slotek lives in Toronto where he writes to work on the show and gets roles. —MW are still writing to amuse themselves. Their this was a great show and all these actors about movies for the Toronto Sun.

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INTERVIEW MIKE MYERS

KARMA CHAMELEON Mike Myers’ first new character since Austin Powers sees him transform into an opportunistic Hindu guru. But why did it take so long?  BY BOB STRAUSS

kay, we’re finally going to see Mike Myers “The Love Guru is about a [North American] boy who is left in an on the big screen again. ashram in India, grows up to become a guru and is hired by the How long has it been? Well, the 45-year- Toronto Maple Leafs to win the ,” Myers says during an old comedian’s last two movies were 2 interview at the W Hotel in L.A.’s Westwood Village. “He has to and ; he was a cartoon ogre help a star player who’s gone off the rails get it together.” in those. The Cat in the Hat — in which he Romany Malco plays the heartbroken skater whose errant wife played, well, a cat — came out way back in () takes up with a Francophone player from a rival Receive 25 BONUS SCENE POINTS with the purchase of CINEPLEX BIG SCREEN SNAX MICROWAVE POPCORN. 2003. The last time we actually got a glimpse of anything like his real team (um, ?). Jessica Alba is squeezed into the puss in a theatre was earlier that year, when he made a cross-eyed scenario for good measure as the Leafs’ owner and is Ocameo in the barely seen comedy View from the Top. its coach, while Marco Schnabel, who was an associate producer But the Toronto-born cut-up is back in full flower as The Love Guru, on Austin Powers in Goldmember, makes his directing debut. his first self-created, headlining character since the supersuccessful All right. So this is the best Myers could come up with since the spoof spy Austin Powers. Under long, flowing locks and a fake nose, last Austin Powers movie in 2002? Myers plays Pitka, a self-help life coach who, unlikely though it may “This is what I’ve been working on,” Myers states flatly, not sound, is offered big bucks to work his motivational magic in the sounding like someone who thinks he needs to make any excuses. world of big league sports. “I would do secret shows in the character of the continued

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INTERVIEW MIKE MYERS

EVIL POWERS It has yet to be cast and has no director, but it looks likely that Austin Powers 4 will happen. Mike Myers has said the story will be told from Dr. Evil’s perspective, and several sources have the film listed as a 2009 release. As for the “I would do secret shows in newest Powers Girl? Smart the character of the guru at money has Brazilian-model- turned-actor Gisele Bundchen friends’ theatres,” says Clockwise from left: Jessica Alba following in the go-go booted Myers. “I did that for a year and Mike Myers; , Alba, footsteps of , Myers and Manu Nurayan confront and Beyoncé. and I videotaped them, and Verne Troyer; Troyer and Myers But nothing’s official. they informed the movie”

guru at friends’ theatres. About a third of the audience were friends “I haven’t done many movies over the period of time that I’ve been world and we’re its number-one trading partner. Y’know, I always of mine, a third would be people who had heard that I was doing it doing movies,” he acknowledges. “I create and I write the movies love American maps; each state has its own colour and Canada’s just and a third would be people who thought they were coming to see a that I do. An average film takes 60 months from your first inkling of a blob of pink. So we have an identity problem and a self-image sutra by an actual guru. I did that for a year and I videotaped them, an idea to it first being in front of an audience, and I actually only problem, and I relate to that.” and they informed the movie.” take 36 months, generally. But because I write and produce them, I’m Rough as his household could be, there was one saving grace Myers’ That’s typical of the long, involved process that Myers says goes actually in an office from nine to five every day. And because that’s so British parents brought to it from across the pond: a rich English into the creation of his signature movie characters (Wayne Campbell, satisfying, it does take a lot to break me out of that cycle and do sense of humour. the aspiring rock guitarist who made Myers a movie star in the somebody else’s movie — although I have, I will and I do.” “My dad was funny,” he recalls. “He was from , and one Wayne’s World films, was workshopped at Second City before being While he sees no reason to apologize for his limited output, Myers of the biggest joys was making him laugh. And one of the greatest refined on-air during Myers’ eight-year stint on ). may have to mend fences with some members of the Hindu com- feelings was that no matter what kind of chaos was happening in my Another part of Myers’ process is honing a script until he consid- munity after The Love Guru comes out. house, if a funny comedy was on TV, there was a truce. It actually ers it just right — something that may not be immediately evident Before its release, some religious figures publicly fretted that the made the house smell nicer, everything was just good. So I love in the anything-for-a-laugh style of Powers and Wayne’s World. But movie would make fun of their beliefs. And with characters named comedy, blah blah blah. It seems so precious to talk about it.” with a collective box-office gross of well over $600-million (U.S.) for Guru Satchabigknoba and Tugginmypudha, they may have grounds Myers has said that The Love Guru’s genesis was the personal spir- those five films in North America alone, it’s obvious that there’s for concern. Then again, Myers’ pal makes a cameo itual journey he began after his beloved dad died. As for his next movie some method to the madness. appearance, so how insulting can it be? forays, well, there are Shrek and Powers sequels in the works, and a “There are two things you’ve got to chart in a movie, which are It’s doubtful that Myers set out to offend. He seems pretty sincere characteristically long-awaited bio-pic of Who drummer Keith Moon. going for the dramatic goal, and your A laughs,” Myers explains. about simply wanting to entertain as vast an audience as he can. And Will there be any new comic characters, though? Probably, but “They have to be figured out to get that comedic momentum. It’s when he talks about growing up Canadian it’s clear that, even when don’t hold your breath. more of a journeyman task, or like being an engineer, in that way. But joking, he’s extremely sensitive to matters of cultural identity. “I never pre-plan anything,” the comedian insists. “There’s no it takes time, that’s the thing.” “I’m the youngest of three brothers; my head is mostly scar tissue,” central committee that makes decisions. I try to make considered Myers swears that he doesn’t slack off during these long develop- he says, not exactly smiling, about his youth in suburban Scarborough, decisions and do stuff that appeals to my heart and to this little, silly ment periods, even though he can afford to (he makes eight figures . “It was tough, I’m the ‘Hey guys, wait up!’ kid. And I come pocket that wants to make something. I love making things.” for the blockbuster Shrek voice jobs, and reportedly received 21 percent from a younger brother country. Canada is, in many ways, the younger /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// of the gross for the last Powers movie, Goldmember). brother to America. We have the longest undefended border in the Bob Strauss is a freelance entertainment writer living in L.A.

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INTERVIEW TIM ROTH

TIMROTHIS SUCH A

Playing the muscle- MONSTERbound, lumbering villain erhaps you’ve heard that they’re not very happy in Hulkville. in The Incredible Hulk Edward Norton, the stubborn star of The Incredible Hulk, may seem like an reportedly had a few post-production creative differences Pwith brand-new production company Marvel Studios. Bringing more people to more remote places. Then both the actor, who was hoping for a more character-based odd career choice for The Five passenger 2008 Jeep Wrangler UnlimiTed. With a 202-horsepower 3.8l v6 engine and Command-Trac™ take on the mean, green comic book legend, and Marvel got mad at Tim Roth. But he had a 4Wd system, the Wrangler Unlimited can take you and your friends to the most remote places on earth. Whether or not you make it back the reporters who reported on their differences. is another story. The Jeep Wrangler Unlimited starting at $25,245.* Continue the adventure by visiting jeep.ca or by calling 1-800-361-3700. very specific reason And hanging pall-like over the whole effort, from start to finish, for taking the role is the memory of The Hulk, Ang Lee’s poorly received, cerebral take  BY BOB STRAUSS on the franchise from five years ago. continued Have fun out there.

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INTERVIEW TIM ROTH HULKING PRESENCE It must be hard for 6’3” muscleman Lou Ferrigno to go anywhere without being noticed. But during the filming of The Incredible Hulk in Toronto last year the actor who brought the comic book icon to life in the 1970s TV series surprised Edward Norton and most of the cast and Clockwise from left: The Hulk; crew when he appeared on his mild-mannered counterpart set for his two-day shoot. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton); The former Mr. Universe’s Tim Roth’s Abomination; Lou Ferrigno involvement was kept as TV’s Hulk; Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky secret so the media wouldn’t find out. And to this day the part he plays But then, who could really expect a movie about a mild-mannered has been kept under scientist who gets zapped by gamma rays and turns into a muscle- wraps. But according to bound rage-aholic to be all fun and games? Ferrigno, now a Deputy If they call you the Abomination, you do. Sheriff for the Los Angeles Tim Roth plays Hulk nemesis Emil Blonsky, who becomes an even Sheriff Department, he was bigger and more destructive monster after military experiments a welcome sight for Norton. (and lots of CGI) kick in. According to the English actor, Abominating “He was very excited. around on the special effects-laden set was a blast. William Hurt was excited. For him, anyway. It meant a lot to me,” “As far as I’m concerned, it was just a lot of fun stuff going on, Ferrigno says in a recent that’s all that I know,” Roth, 47, says during a recent L.A. interview. phone interview. “I know Perhaps Roth’s motivation for making a comic book movie kept everyone just went crazy him from taking the project too bloody seriously. The stage-trained, because they knew the real well-regarded actor — a favourite of auteur directors ranging from Hulk was on the set.” Francis Ford Coppola (Youth Without Youth), Stephen Frears (The Hit, Ferrigno, who appeared Roth’s first feature film) and Robert Altman (Vincent & Theo) to as a security guard in (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) and Tim Burton “I auditioned for a play at school purely as a joke, and I got it,” he 2003’s Hulk, says he (Planet of the Apes) — took the I-Hulk job, he claims, solely to please recalls. “I had to do it in front of all the bullies. But when I walked shared a scene with Norton his two adolescent sons. on stage, that’s when I discovered it and decided I wanted to do it. and also spent some time Of course, that generated a different kind of angst. I was 16, and I just pushed right through and started doing talking to the actor about “This is just one for my boys,” Roth insists. “Really, on set, all I was television and film, and a lot of theatre.” the TV series and the asking was, ‘This has got to be a cool shot for my kids, all right? Am Even now, after more than 60 theatrical and TV movies, character they’ve shared. I going to look cool in it?’ It’s truly, completely about that for me. And Roth just kind of shrugs about his accomplishments. However, had the we’ve done some very cool things; I think it’s going to be fun....I’m in “I can’t do anything else, that’s the problem,” he says 56-year-old actor been in my own world with this one. There’s a lot going on that I didn’t see.” with a chuckle. “The reality sort of hits you. I mean, it’s 25 charge of casting, there’s Initially, Roth wasn’t even aware of the bad vibes the previous Hulk years of doing it, and it’s spoiled brat time to complain no doubt who he would movie had created. “I never bothered about it,” he says. “First of all, “I never pay attention to stuff like that, and I mean that in all about it, because you’re doing a job that isn’t really a job.” have chosen to go green. I didn’t know there was a problem with the first one. I’d never seen honesty,” he says. “I have very strict rules about what I think of being Must be home life that keeps him humble. Indifferent “They would have it and I don’t read reviews, so I had no idea. And once I’d said yeah, an actor and how one should behave. I very rarely see films I’m in. I as he is to both criticism and praise, Roth does hope definitely either used me then I found out that people had had issues.” don’t look at entertainment magazines; I don’t see a photograph of that, whatever its other troubles may or may not be, to play the Hulk or used Marvel obviously felt that hiring Louis Leterrier, the French myself except purely by chance. I stay away from it all, and that helps The Incredible Hulk pleases the only viewers he seems to all motion capture for all director of the adrenalized Transporter films, would help avoid some a lot, so really what you’re concentrating on is the experience of really care about. “I am treated with great suspicion,” my body movements. It’s of the artier pitfalls Lee dug for himself. Why they also chose the making the film and if it’s good or if it’s bad.” he says, referring to his sons. “‘So, is it going to be very important because equally intellectual Norton, who has a writing credit on the film, was While he obviously puts a lot of care into his work, Roth refuses cool, dad? Is it?’ And you don’t know. I mean, I could no one can play the Hulk a head-scratcher at the time of his casting and remains so. to mistake acting, like some do, for anything overly important. A be ridiculed when I drop them off at school.” F better than me.” But that’s just not the kind of thing Roth dwells on, whatever or middle-class kid who was not exactly comfortable at his school in ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// —Dave Mendonca whomever the buzz is about. Especially if it’s about himself. London’s tough Brixton district, he began acting as a lark. Bob Strauss is a freelance entertainment writer living in L.A.

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©2008 Samsung Electronics Canada, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Samsung is a registered trademark of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Screen images are simulated. INCOVER STORY ANNE HATHAWAY CONTROLAnne Hathaway plays Control’s sexiest spy, Agent 99, in the update of TV’s Get Smart. But the poised young actor admits that while her character was trying to keep Steve Carell’s bumbling Maxwell Smart together, she was losing it off screen  BY BOB THOMPSON

nne Hathaway’s made a point of agency Control. But when almost separating herself from the fairy all of Control’s agents have their tale persona which arrived with secret identities revealed, Smart is her breakthrough performance promoted to the field. Like in the in 2001’s The Princess Diaries, TV series, Hathaway’s 99 — the only was reinforced in its sequel, other agent whose secret identity is and cemented in 2004’s Ella Enchanted. still intact — spends much of her ASince then, she’s played against type as the time and energy getting Carell’s wife of a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, incompetent 86 out of jams as he an abused office assistant in The Devil Wears battles Control’s arch-enemy, KAOS. Prada and Jane Austen in last year’s period Alan Arkin shows up as Max’s Anne Hathaway as piece Becoming Jane. beleaguered boss, the Chief. Get Smart’s sexy Agent 99. If that doesn’t make the once-upon-a-time plays the ego- Above: Hathaway with chapter of her career go poof, this just might. centric Agent 23 and Terence Stamp Steve Carell Now 25, Hathaway is getting her goof on as is the evil KAOS villain Siegfried. Agent 99 opposite Steve Carell’s Maxwell Sounds familiar. So, besides Smart in the big-screen remake of the 1960s the actors (Don Adams and TV spy spoof Get Smart. Barbara Feldon played 86 and The movie starts with Smart (a.k.a. Agent 99 in the series), what sepa- 86) working as a lowly analyst for the spy rates the new continued

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COVER STORY ANNE HATHAWAY

“I lost it on camera a lot with [Steve Carell],” says Hathaway. “I ruined a really great take once. So then the pressure was on for me. I never wanted to do that again. I started to work on deep breathing”

Get Smart from the old one created by Mel Brooks, Buck Henry and Leonard Stern? For one thing, the action and the special effects will be very new millennium. For another, the two main characters are expected to be a little less exaggerated than the Adams and Feldon versions from way back when. What will be referenced from the sitcom, however, are sight gags THE ’60S’ involving the cone of silence and the shoe phone, and catch phrases “Right, Chief” and “Would you believe...?” As a nod to Feldon’s 99, Hathaway says she even sports a bob haircut in some scenes, and occasionally utters dialogue in that demure and breathless Feldon way. Other than that, she just tried to do what director Peter Segal (Anger Management) told her to do, understanding hardcore fans will always second-guess. “I learned on Ella Enchanted you will never make everyone happy,” 99Barbara Feldon, seen here with says Hathaway in a recent Manhattan interview. She’s referring to Don Adams, played Agent 99 in one of her rare bombs, which was based on a popular teen novel. the 1960s TV series. After the “Even if you make a cute movie based on a beloved person, or a show went off the air, Feldon beloved book, or a beloved TV series, anything beloved, you will largely made her living in TV never be able to make everyone happy.” movies, doing voiceover work All she knows for sure is that she has the backing of the original and making guest appearances Get Smart creative folks, and that counts in large amounts. “When I on sitcoms like McMillan & Wife, got Get Smart I just really wanted to hear Mel Brooks, Leonard Stern Cheers and Mad About You. In and Barbara Feldon approved of my casting and they all did,” she the latter, she poked fun at says. “Once I had that in my back pocket, I said, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’” herself playing Diane Caldwell, Unfortunately, Hathaway wasn’t quite prepared to work with a difficult actress best known Steve Carell, famous for his 40-Year-Old Virgin ad libs and Second City for her TV persona “Spy Girl.” improvisational skills. She should’ve seen it coming, but she didn’t. “I lost it on camera a lot with him,” she confesses. “I ruined a really great take once. So then the pressure was on for me. I never wanted performer as a child and later was the only teenager accepted into “I’m a private person and one of my mantras in life is from the bril- to do that again.” New York’s Barrow Group Theater Company’s acting program. As a liant Mr. Oscar Wilde,” says Hathaway. “He says ‘The less said about In response, Carell did everything he could to make Hathaway laugh soprano, she performed as a finalist at the All Eastern U.S. High School life’s sores, the better.’” during a scene. “I started to work on deep breathing,” she recalls. “And Honors Chorus at Carnegie Hall. The turn of phrase she uses to describe her own skills in the human- I found biting the inside of my lip helped. And many times below frame In 1998, when she was just 16, she landed her first big role, starring nature department is slightly less eloquent. “I have a finely tuned I was pinching my wrist — but I mean anything to distract me.” in the Fox TV series Get Real. But when the show was cancelled after bullshit detector,” she says, adding, “And I’m not someone that On the plus side, Hathaway got to watch Carell suffer the same fate. one season Hathaway enrolled at Vassar College. She was still at trusts very easily, so I keep the majority of myself closed off from “I’ll tell you something lovely,” she happily reports. “You know Vassar when, at 19, she was catapulted to stardom with the release most people until I know them well enough.” who Steve can’t keep a straight face around? Alan Arkin. We did a of The Princess Diaries, but she proceeded cautiously and admits she Not that she’s complaining about her popularity, even if it’s not scene and Alan had us all in stitches, but especially Steve.” had her disappointments. She missed out on the Christine role in exactly what she expected when she first dreamt of acting so many One sequence between Carell and Arkin was particularly harrow- 2004’s The Phantom of the Opera and turned down the female lead in years ago. “I don’t believe in all that malarkey that it’s the exposed ing for Carell. “He kept screwing up take after take,” she adds, “and Knocked Up, last year’s big surprise hit. life you’ve chosen,” she says. “When I grew up, my understanding it was wonderful.” And boyfriends? She refuses to make a big deal of her love life, of being an actress didn’t include being a celebrity.” F Apparently there are some situations for which even the best arts despite the fact that she’s often photographed next to her partner //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// training can’t prepare you, and Hathaway does have credentials. since 2004, Raffaello Follieri, an Italian-born real estate developer. In Bob Thompson lives in Toronto where he writes about movies Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was an accomplished singer and general, though, she feels it best to keep personal things personal. for the National Post.

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