Archive for April, 2007

ComingSoon.Net Interview

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Every once in a while, a movie comes along where the chemistry between the lead actor and actress is so strong that it’s hard to believe that they’re not a couple in real life. That’s certainly the case with Marshall Lewy’s Blue State, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. In the romantic political comedy, Breckin Meyer plays John Logue, a left-wing political blogger and John Kerry supporter, who leaves the country in protest of the Bush reelection, while Anna (X-Men) Paquin plays his beautiful and boisterous travel partner who has her own reasons for going to Canada.

Blue State is very much in line with other movies that have played at past Tribeca Film Festivals, including political films like The F Word and the Al Franken doc God Said, as well as road movies like Transamerica and last year’s Snow Cake.

One quickly realizes why it’s rarely a good idea to do a phone interview with two people at once, as Breckin and Anna spent a bit of time catching up before ComingSoon.net jumped in with a few questions about the movie they made together. (And if it feels like there’s any sort of sexual tension in this interview, than it certainly wasn’t coming from us!)

ComingSoon.net: Anna, you’re a producer on this movie, so did you know Marshall beforehand or how did this script come your way?
Anna Paquin: Yeah, I did. Marshall and my brother went to college together, so they’ve been buddies for a really long time. I knew him through my brother, and the script came about, and we all decided we wanted to do it, and so we did. (giggles)

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Source: ComingSoon.Net

Page Six Blurb

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

AT age 11 Anna Paquin won Best Sup porting Actress in Jane Campion’s “The Piano” with Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. She says: “That was 1993. I’ve grown up a lot since, but it’s always what everyone asks about. I’m now close to Holly Hunter’s age. I could play my own character’s mother. It felt weird when I saw it recently on DVD.”

Today, along with her financier brother, she’s a first-time producer and debuting Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival. “Blue State” is a political romantic comedy about a Dem who follows his promise to live abroad if Dubya gets re-elected. Anna, who plays the girlfriend, says: “A writer friend from college took the idea to my brother, and that’s how it began. It’s a small independent film, and I can’t even say what it cost. I was nervous about producing, but I have a high threshold of fear and figured, ‘Well, this either works or doesn’t.’ But I’d rather be scared than not to have tried.”

About whether her face is recognizable to fans today, it’s, “I don’t want people looking and then having to give them my résumé. So I walk really fast. I blend into a crowd.”

Source: Page Six

Glow Scans

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

The scans from Glow are up in the gallery now. Previews are below. I’ll have the article up in the press section as soon as I type it up. Enjoy.

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The Reeler Blue State Interview

Friday, April 20th, 2007

The Reeler has a nice interview up with Anna about Blue State and there’s even a small mention of Margaret in there. Here’s a snippet of it:

STV: Were the film’s politics — to whatever degree they’re emphasized — part of the story’s appeal to you?

AP: You’d have to have been living under a rock to not have some interest in politics since the 2000 election. It wasn’t like we were trying to make a movie that was deeply political or had any strong message of that variety, but do I think there’s a lot of humor to be found in both sides of that debate? Absolutely. That was part of its appeal.

To check out the rest of the article, go here.

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

This is just a small update because I have to get ready for work, but I finally added scans from the July 2006 issue of i-D magazine (which includes the picture I used in a previous layout) to the gallery, you can find that here. If you don’t feel like reading the article from the scan, I have it typed up in press section here. Enjoy!

Gallery Update

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Anna is on the cover of Glow, a Canadian beauty and health magazine, for their May/June 2007 issue. I will be scanning the magazine as soon as I get it in the mail, for now I’ve added some images from the Glow website to the gallery here. Anna looks amazing in the photos.

I’ve also added events from 2000 and some from 2001, as well as pictures from the Black Bird opening night on the 11th and candids from LA.

Also, Marshall Lewy (Blue State director/writer) made a blog entry on The Huffington Post with some interesting little tidbits on Blue State. You can find his post here.

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Trailer

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I’ve caught the trailer for Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee a few times this past week but my DVD-R has been a little messed to record it and cap, but thankfully it’s online now here. Screencaps from the trailer can be found here.