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Jessica Alba is a prude

essica Alba admits she is still a “real prude.” The ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ actress - who Jreprises her role as stripper Nancy Callahan in the sequel - insists that, despite being cast in a number of sexy roles, she is nothing like her characters in real life. She said: “The key word is play - everyone who knows me well knows that I’m a real prude. But a good director can make a scene look sexy without me taking off my top.” The 33-year-old actress - who has children Honor, six, and Haven, two, with husband Cash Warren - also insists she isn’t perfect and finds it a challenge to juggle her busy career and motherhood but thinks it is important to be a good role model for her daughters by doing both. She added in an interview with America’s OK! magazine: “I’m very lucky I have a lot of help. As women, we have to accept that we can’t do it all. It’s important to show our daughters that there’s more to each of us than just being a mother.”

Pattinson had limited Rover diet

obert Pattinson lived on a diet of bread and barbecue sauce while filming ‘The Rover’. The R28-year-old actor insists he didn’t mind shooting the movie - in which he plays a troubled man who is left for dead by his brother in the Australian outback - in remote surroundings because he found it so peaceful. Asked whether it was a miserable experience filming in the heat and humidity of the desert, he explained: “No! Everyone keeps asking about how it awful the conditions were. But it was kind of nice. “I liked it. The landscape is amazing and beautiful. The town was nine hours out of Adelaide in the desert. There was nothing to do. One pub. That was it. I literally ate bread and barbecue sauce for six weeks, every single day.” Pattinson also revealed that despite his acting success- es, he still struggles from debilitating anxiety in front of the camera. He told Time Out magazine: “My main problem with acting is crippling anxiety, espe- cially in auditions. Since ‘Twilight’ I’ve tried to avoid them; I’ve maybe done Zoe Saldana: Groot three. “The idea of it being a competition gets too much for me.” stole the show

oe Saldana says Vin Diesel’s Groot “stole the show” in ‘Guardians of the ZGalaxy’. The 35-year-old beauty “fell in love” with the tree-like creature in the new Marvel movie - in which she plays Gamora opposite stars including Bradley Cooper and Karen Gillan - and can’t remember feeling “moved” as much by any other fictional character. She explained: “I think Grout stole the show, for me. I mean, I just fell in love with this big tree once we started filming. “And even though I’m mature and I’m pretty sane, I can’t really remember a fictional character that really moved me like that.” Director James Gunn, meanwhile, revealed that he is able to gain an insight into fan reaction to the film thanks to social media. Gunn explained that he’s received more tweets about Groot and Dave Bautista - a former WWE wrestler - than anyone else. He added, jokingly: “Also, I like to say it’s Bautista that steals the show because it embarrasses him. He’s the one person I like to com- pliment as much as possible because he hates it.”

Samantha Barks cast in A Hundred Streets

amantha Barks has been added to the cast of ‘A Hundred SStreets’. The 23-year-old actress, who starred in ‘Les Miserables’ in 2012, will appear in the London-based dra- ma alongside Hollywood heavyweights Gemma Arterton and Idris Elba. The new flick will be directed by Jim O’Hanlon and will also feature per- formances from Charlie Creed-Miles, Ken Stott, Steven Mackintosh, Tom Cullen and Emma Rigby. Fassbender enjoyed Barks has been cast in the role of Lotte, the former love inter- Shy star Eva Green est of rich playboy Jamal (Adam Bakri). When the pair wearing mask for Frank meet again, she sends him va Green lacks self-confidence away from the camera. The ‘Casino Royale’ down a criminal path that ichael Fassbender found it “liberating” to wear a mask in new movie Eactress often plays strong on-screen roles, but says this is a marked deviation leads to all sorts of trouble. ‘A ‘Frank’. The actor, who has previously starred in ‘Inglourious Basterds’ from her real life character. She explained: “I’m not confident in real life. I’m Hundred Streets’ has been M drawn to play characters who aren’t like me because sometimes they’re the people I and ‘X-Men First Class’, plays the role of Frank - a character who insists scripted by Leon Butler and is on singing in a mask - in the new comedy flick. Reflecting on acting wearing a wish I could be in real life. “If somebody annoys you, you say, ‘Off with their head!’ “ shooting now in London. It has mask, Fassbender told Collider: “I found it really liberating. It was like, as soon The 34-year-old beauty started acting as a means of boosting her self-confidence been confirmed that the film will as I put the head on it gave me an element of mischief.” Fassbender was given and has been surprised that is has progressed as far as it has. She explained to be released in 2015. Meanwhile, three weeks to rehearse the musical elements of the film, and he says this time Britain’s Hello! magazine: “I was very shy at school - I never talked and thought I Idris Elba, who plays the role of a for- allowed him to “understand” the music. He said: “I think the really hard task for would pass out every time the teacher asked me a question. “So I decided to take mer rugby superstar in the movie, recent- these guys was to find music that was arty, but not pretensions, that had a real these classes to try to pretend to be somebody else and gain some confidence. I ly hit out at being offered parts in “rubbish films” after ‘Mandela: truth to it, that wasn’t commercial, but wasn’t awful, that had moments that really enjoyed it so it went from there.” The revelation is perhaps made more surpris- Long Walk to Freedom’. Elba, 41, said he was “disappointed” with were quite catchy, but again, not to be anything that’s in the vein of pop music, ing given that Eva’s mother, Marlene Jobert, also worked as an actress. Eva some of the offers he has received in recent months. He so it was really a huge undertaking for them and I think they did a great job.” explained: “She was very successful in France but she gave it up in her early 40s. She explained: “You know, I’d just played this iconic human being, The new flick features Domhnall Gleeson and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and is direct- said, ‘This business is quite mad and I want to live my life how I want to live it, with- and the scripts I got afterward were sort of ... disappointing ... ed by Lenny Abrahamson. out people judging me.’” —Bangshowbiz Look, I know that I work a lot, but I’d prefer to wait sometimes because I don’t want to just do rubbish films anymore or char- acters that anyone can play.” Affleck unsurprised by Taylor Swift’s tour excitement reaction to Batman casting en Affleck was unsurprised by the reaction to his casting as the new Batman. The decision to appoint aylor Swift can “barely function” because she is excited about B Affleck, 42, to the iconic role prompted some fans to touring. The ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ hitmaker T voice their unhappiness online, but the ‘Argo’ star says he recently took a break from her music career to shoot her debut movie role in ‘The Giver’ and though she enjoyed the experience, she expected there to be a mixed response. On the reaction to can’t wait to get back on the road. She told Us taking over from Christian Bale as Batman, he said: “This is Weekly magazine: “I would never say I’d never part and parcel of these movies now. There are a lot of do another movie, but then again, I know I’m active fans with a lot of opinions. To me, having been going to be touring for the next two years pret- through a certain amount of that, it doesn’t really... ty soon, and I’m so excited about that I can Everyone’s entitled to their opinion. “I wouldn’t have taken barely function.” The 24-year-old singer admit- the part if I didn’t trust my instincts in terms of the film- ted she was in awe of her ‘Giver’ co-stars Jeff making. I think Chris Terrio wrote a terrific script. Zack Bridges and Meryl Streep, but was too jet- [Snyder] is a great visual director. And there’s an interesting lagged to be intimidated by them. She said: “To take. I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t think I could do it. I be honest, I was so jet-lagged that my entire have the benefit of a lot of that understanding. But also, time on set slipped away and the days would everyone is entitled to their opinion.” Affleck - who is mar- fade into each other. But the numerous breaks ried to fellow Hollywood superstar Jennifer Garner - said he in between takes were the best. Jeff and I held jam sessions in his has been dedicating a lot of time to getting himself in dressing room with his drums, guitars and keyboard. We’d play, then shape for the part. He explained: “I can tell you that every everybody joined in whether they knew the song or not.” But she time I do a role, it’s the responsibility of an actor to get added: “Even getting to meet Jeff Bridges is a crazy thought to me. And their physical self as close to the role as possible. And actually getting in the scene with him was so far above and beyond what I could expect for what’s essentially my first role in a major movie.” Batman’s obviously got a set of expectations that are tough. So I spent a lot of time working out.”