More of Megan Fox & Amanda Seyfried in "Jennifer's Body"

Diablo Cody, "Jennifer's Body" screenwriter.Karyn Kusama, "Jennifers' Body" director.Megan Fox as Jennifer Check in "Jennifer's Body".Megan Fox with her co-star Amanda Seyfried.Amanda Seyfried as Needy Lesnicky in "Jennifer's Body"

"Megan Fox talked with MTV about her upcoming film, Jennifer's Body and her kissing scene with costar Amanda Seyfried. Megan said, "I feel much safer with girls, so I felt more comfortable kissing her in the movie than kissing any of the other people that I had to kiss. I think she was extremely uncomfortable. I don't think that -- I know that. She was not comfortable and there was a lot of laughing -- like, giggling fits that happened in between takes". Source: www.shoppingblog.com

Jake Gyllenhaal joins the Muppet gang for Shalom Sesame

"Jake Gyllenhaal, Christina Applegate, Ben Stiller and Debra Messing are among a host of celebrities joining forces with Grover and the rest of the Muppet gang for Shalom Sesame, a Jewish-themed version of Sesame Street aimed at teaching Jewish-American preschoolers about their culture and heritage.Per published reports, the 12-part series will follow our lovable furry blue hero as he and his A-list pals film educational segments with children in the U.S. and travel to Israel to visit some of Judaism's most prominent sites, among them the Western Wall.

Other stars aboard Shalom Sesame include Greg Kinnear, Cedric the Entertainer and Anneliese van der Pol from Disney's That's So Raven.
The show is actually a reboot. It was first adapted from the original Sesame Street in 1986 for American public television stations and then again in 1990". Source: uk.eonline.com

Jake interviews Natalie Portman

Jake Gyllenhaal interviewed to Natalie Portman, his co-star in the upcoming war drama Brothers for the September 2009 issue of Interview Magazine (featuring Natalie Portman on the cover):

PORTMAN: [laughs] I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.
GYLLENHAAL: That’s interesting because you seem so fearless.

PORTMAN: Really?

GYLLENHAAL: Yeah. Looking at all these things that you’ve done and contributed to the world so far, I would have thought that the evil wizard Gargamel would’ve been something you could have very easily stepped over.

JG: What’s your favorite food?
NP: Well, I don’t think you can really improve upon Carvel ice cream cake.

JG: I’m more Baskin-Robbins style myself.

NP: Oh really? I am so Carvel. Did I just bring us back to 1985 Long Island?

JG: What song best describes your current state?

NP: My current state . . . I’m trying to think of a song that feels like sleepwalking. [laughs] I don’t know. I’ve mostly been listening to dirty rap lately. That’s sort of my scene.JG: Your affection for dirty rap is something that people really don’t know about you, which I think is fascinating. You do incredible things for the world, and then you listen to just completely obscene hip-hop music.

NP: Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. Those are like my two favorite things, so combined . . . I’ve been listening a lot lately to “Wait (The Whisper Song)” by the Ying Yang Twins, where the lyrics are like, “Wait ’til you see my d—”—which is just amazing because it’s whispered. [whispers] “Wait ’til you see my d— . . . ” [laughs] Crazy. So I just listen to it like I’m a five-year-old, like, “Oh my god! I can’t believe he just said that!”

JG: It’s interesting that you think the lyric “Wait ’til you see my d—” describes your current state. I think people are learning more about you right now then they ever have in an interview. I’m proud of that.PORTMAN: As far as skills go . . . I don’t have that many skills.

GYLLENHAAL: Oh, come on!

PORTMAN: I’m serious. I really wish I could make something. I mean, you’re a really good cook, you know how to build things—you can make things with your hands. I can’t make anything . . . Well, I can make chitchat, but not much else. I mean, I’d basically have trouble with any job that doesn’t require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

GYLLENHAAL: I’m interested in this because you’re a traveler: What are your cures for jet lag?

PORTMAN: Cures for jet lag? I don’t have any. Why? Are you having bad jet lag these days?GYLLENHAAL: No. But I’ve been finding that it’s a tendency for most magazines to ask celebrities about their cures for jet lag. I’m fascinated by it. I heard there’s this new drug coming out that’s like melatonin. It’s natural, but it’s been modified more specifically for sleeping.

PORTMAN: I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, “I’m just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane.” But I can’t do any of that stuff—it scares me.

GYLLENHAAL: My favorite situation that I was ever in was when I was on a plane with a group of people and all of them took Ambien except for me, and two of them had adverse reactions. They were awake and aggressive . . . Apparently aggression is one of the side effects of Ambien.

PORTMAN: And they were completely unaware, right—like they didn’t remember it after?

GYLLENHAAL: No, I think they remember it. Everyone else was dead asleep, and these two people were like, bashing their heads against the side of the plane, trying to jump out. So I was like, If taking this pill means that there’s even a 30 percent chance of me getting aggressive like that, then I would just rather stay at peace.
PORTMAN: You’re a very peaceful man, Jake.
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Ang Lee, collecting memories of innocence

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain" (2005).

"After the heartbreaking tragedy of Brokeback Mountain and the scorching sexual intensity of Lust, Caution, Lee needed to remind himself of what it was like to smile and laugh and experience joy.He found it in Taking Woodstock, which opens Aug. 28.

``Even just smiling is a learning curve'' Lee says.

He cites one of his favourite characters in literature.

``Who was it who has a problem smiling? It was Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Every time I smile, I think of that character.''

Darkness intrudes into many of his films - The Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain, Ride with the Devil and Lust, Caution. And it seems to have intensified in recent years to the degree of casting a shadow over quite different movies like Sense and Sensibility and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. So yes, maybe it is important ``to just chill out and lose your control-freak characteristics, and appreciate people.''He quietly concedes that happiness can be challenging to convey on film. He says it's not just a matter of ``smoke some pot, drink some beer. It's nothing like that.''
One of his toughest scenes came when the gay Elliot, who has been agonizing about his sexuality, is persuaded to take an acid trip. Lee had to use his imagination to conjure up the skewed world which Elliot witnesses.

"Everybody had done acid and I was tempted", Lee laughs. But he didn't succumb.

He did, however, come up with a hallucinatory moment which he hopes communicates the essence of Woodstock ``as the centre of the universe. The hill becomes water and then becomes sea waves. And you have this cosmic shot. That's how I envisioned it.''What connection is there among the Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, a tragedy of gay cowboys like Brokeback Mountain, the dazzling pyrotechnics of Crouching Tiger and the nostalgia of Taking Woodstock? Lee has no real answer himself.

``I am a drifter and an outsider'', he said a few years ago. ``There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. My cultural roots are something illusive.''
All movies are in a sense illusive - yet Lee himself does want to give audiences something tangible. That's why Taking Woodstock seems so important to him. Ask him what he wants audience's to bring away from it, he's quick to answer.

``I hope happiness'', he says. ``The innocent part of hoping that things can still be changed - the innocence and hope and good feelings . . . our collected memories of innocence.'' Source: www.canada.com


Stills from "Taking Woodstock" (2009), by Ang Lee.Emile Hirsch as Billy in "Taking Woodstock".Emile Hirsch and Demetri Martin in "Vanity Fair" photoshoot, August 2009 (The Grapes of Wrath outtakes).
Emile Hirsch with Ang Lee in "Taking Woodstock" N.Y. Premiere.Emile Hirsch holding a big daisy in the "Taking Woodstock" N.Y. premiere.
Claire Danes holding a daisy in "Taking Woodstock" N.Y. premiere.
Kirsten Dunst holding a pink rose on the set of "All good things".
Kirsten Dunst on the set of "All good things", New York, on 25th May 2009.Kirsten Dunst and her brother Christian walking in Soho, on 22nd August 2009.