Glenn Close and Ewan McGregor in Sunset Blvd!- Page 5

[jo]

Posted: 7/13/05 at 8:41pm

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Hugh Jackman is a chameleon when it comes to playing a role. Contrast Wolverine and Peter Allen. Ditto for Leopold and Stanley Hobson ( Swordfish). He loses himself in the role. I can't wait for Darren Aronofsky's THE FOUNTAIN where he plays 3 different persons in a span of a thousand years. Talking about model-perfect looks -- I doubt he would look like that in a part of this movie. I understand that in the final episode, he shaves the hair on his head and chest and loses more weight to give him an emaciated look - LOL!

I want him to be Joe Gillis because I think the chemistry between him and Glenn Close would be very strong - whether engaged in cynical contretemps or dancing the waltz in "The Perfect Year" with her. But I wouldn't mind seeing him with his model-perfect looks as he is stripped for "The Lady's Paying". I have also heard him sing the duet "Too Much in Love To Care" from a TV documentary on the Australian production of SUNSET and his singing is very romantic! Yes, he has played the role in the stage production in Australia and won the Australian version of the TONY for his performance. No doubt, he is a good fit for the role - as Trevor Nunn so said in that same documentary.

Jo



Updated On: 7/13/05 at 08:41 PM

[Chelsea2]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:22pm

Speaking of chameleons, besides being considered one of the best actors of his generation, Ewan is a true chameleon and is highly regarded for that talent - Mick Hopper in Lipstick on Your Collar, Jerome in The Pillow Book, Renton in Trainspotting, Billy in Little Voice, Curt Wild in Velvet Goldmine, Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, Christian in Moulin Rouge and Joe in Young Adam just to name a few.

I hope the report is indeed false because I want him to stay far, far away from anything to do with Andrew Schlock Webber. To quote another poster *ICK*

I think Hugh and Aretha Franklin should do it.

Ewan at least had the sense to turn down the god awful Boy From Oz, a production and role so cheesy that even Ricky Martin turned it down. lol

From an interview with Jessica Hartman, asst choreographer, dance captain, swing in Boy From Oz, "Big Easy to Broadway", Feb 2004 ~

"Hugh's a hard act to follow. But I can think of a number of people who could perform the role of Peter Allen and draw an audience. Ricky Martin's name has come up. But I instantly thought of Ewan McGregor. He's the kind of performer Hugh is: at home on the screen and the stage. He can sing, he appeals to both men and women and he's charming as hell."

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From an interview with Hugh, New York Times, Sept 2004 ~

A: It's a great role, and all we needed, the producer said, is someone to do it for 12 weeks, to show that other people could do it, and do it their own way.

Q: Who would you have wanted?

A: Ewan McGregor. He's probably top of my list. And also Robbie Williams would have been brilliant.

Q: So why aren't they in the wings?

A: I think that they were asked and just turned it down.

Q: Ricky Martin: true or false?

A: I think they asked him. They asked Harry Connick jnr; that would have worked, too.

Q: Who or what wouldn't have worked?

A: Someone who can't connect with the audience.

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From Entertainment Weekly, June '03, director of Van Helsing ~

"I needed a man for the part, not a boy," says Sommers, explaining why he cast Jackman as the film's swaggering 19th-century vampire hunter. "And the only guys out there are either in their 20s or cost $15 million. Ewan McGregor and Viggo Mortensen were the only other possibilities, but they already have their big swashbuckling franchises."
Updated On: 7/15/05 at 12:22 PM