Can be stereotypical good looks a burden for being taken seriously in a movie career? Or beauty and hotness are just the prerequisites to make it big in Hollywood?
"It's not easy being Jake Gyllenhaal, what with everyone falling in love with you all over the place. Blue-eyed and muscular, with perfect brown hair, thick eyebrows, and consistently heavy stubble, the 24-year-old combines an unforced masculinity with a boyish openness and curiosity". Source: men.style.com
"That beauty comes with a cost," says the filmmaker, who directed her in the comic "Easy Virtue" opening Friday in New York. So -- don't hate her because she's beautiful. Or because her boyfriend is Justin Timberlake.
Her movie debut, at 15, was opposite Peter Fonda in the gritty indie "Ulee's Gold"; she was good in "The Illusionist," excellent as a handicapped veteran in "Home of the Brave" and took big risks in the dark comedy "Nailed" and the arty drama "Powder Blue."
Yet to many fans, she's still remembered as "that girl from the TV show," or the officer in the tight flight suit in "Stealth" or -- worse -- simply as the pretty woman on JT's arm for the last few years. She's still a beauty waiting for her breakthrough -- like Charlize Theron the year before "Monster" -- and while she's too smart to ask for sympathy, a little understanding would be nice. "There is that old thing, 'Oh she's a beautiful woman, she has no brains', Biel says, stealing a half-hour to chat in a hotel room after a rushed afternoon of group interviews. "There's that sense sometimes of, 'Just give me a second to talk to you, please? You know, I actually have something to say!'" Biel grew up in Boulder, Colo., the daughter of an entrepreneur and a stay-at-home mom, with a quintessentially American, essentially diverse heritage -- German, English, Irish, French and Choctaw -- that blessed her with the looks that would soon translate into modeling contracts and TV commercials. "Now, acting's a cathartic experience, releasing emotions that you're feeling or stuff that you're dealing with, just letting it all out and going -- bleeeeeeeeeagh! -- all over the place" she says. "But at first, it was just fun to make believe you were somebody else, and then make them believe it, too. Make them believe that you were this sad, messed-up Goth girl. And then get them to hire you."
"London" opened and closed. "Home" opened, closed, opened again -- and then closed again. "Powder Blue" played for barely a week this month before heading straight to video. "Nailed" was eventually shut down, after endless money problems, and sits, unfinished, on a shelf.
"All you can ever do is cross your fingers and say, 'Okay, I've done my job, now please do yours and get this finished and edited well and out there', she says. When she is sitting at home, watching those movies, it's often with Timberlake. Inseparable but not insufferable, they show up at each other's events -- Biel was a happy, laughing witness to the dress rehearsals for his latest "Saturday Night Live" appearance -- but largely keep out of the gossip columns.
"That's because we don't do anything interesting," she says with a laugh. "We just hang out at home. ... Really, my job is wonderful, and I'm grateful for it and I love it. But it's my job, not my lifestyle. When I'm on a set, it can be working working working like crazy, up all hours, doing nutso things. But after that, I'm just mellowing out, seeing my friends and family, keeping on a good workout schedule. ... When I'm not working, I live a really normal life." Source: www.nj.com
Today the Easy Virtue soundtrack is available for purchase in the US.
"New Moon" poster. She was also concerned about a change of actor playing Jacob and is relieved that Taylor is staying on.
"I'm so glad they didn't have to find somebody else; we already had him! I didn't understand all the deliberation on [whether to bring him back]. But now that it's set, we can all rest.
"He's really buff!" she exclaimed of Lautner. "He definitely is. It took him a lot of time."
Kristen's Bella will be hanging with Jacob for much of "New Moon." But don’t worry about Edward, er, Robert Pattinson. She says he's doing fine. Even with that controversial haircut!
"I think he's OK," Kristen told MTV about her fanged love interest. "He's back in London now, which makes it easier for him. It's funny. It only affects you when you come to something like [Sundance]. And then, other than that, he's totally the same guy he always was." Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com
The official trailer for the upcoming "Sherlock Holmes," staring Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock, Jude Law as Dr Watson, Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler and Mark Strong as Lord Blackwood, has been released.
Plot: In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous characters, "Sherlock Holmes" sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the country. Based on Lionel Wigram's yet-to-be-published comic.
The new movie is directed by Guy Ritchie (Snatch, RocknRolla) and is scheduled to hit theaters on December 25th. Source: www.worstpreviews.com
"Helmer Ang Lee has gone back in time a few years to capture the party that led to the hangover. Taking Woodstock, Lee's Cannes Film Festival entry, presents a loving glimpse of the behind-the-scenes hijinks that resulted in the gloriously sloppy music fest.
Set in 1973, 1997's The Ice Storm was a portrait of suburban families unraveling amid adultery, casual drug use and the backdrop of the Watergate scandal. Taking Woodstock shows the summer-long buildup to the 1969 rock 'n' roll gathering that lured half a million free spirits to a rainy, muddy patch of farmland". Source: desmontandohollywood.blogspot.com
"Funny, then, that so much of Chloë Sevigny’s appeal over the years — as an actress as well as a fashion star — has come from playing it so cool. “Oh... Scorpios,” she sighs. “We’re really jealous and on fire and can be nasty without meaning to be. It’s tough being a Scorpio. We’re very strong and powerful. We’re all or nothing.”She is not just beautiful and louche. She is evidently a grafter. She says she did the range “between jobs” to avoid being “totally idle”. Since then, she has been in Wales and Spain filming Mr Nice, a biopic of the one-time drug-dealer Howard Marks, starring Rhys Ifans, and in San Diego, for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, directed by the weighty Werner Herzog and produced by David Lynch, two of the film-makers she respects most in the world.I ask her to “take me through her outfit” (you’re allowed to do that sort of thing, you know, at a grand fashion parade like this). Well...” she says in mock Dolly Parton, “I’m wearing... a top from my new line! It’s silk and has a pocket here if a girl wants to wear it with no bra! And I’m wearing some vintage Claude Montana leather shorts I got in Rellik the other day, and some buckled wedges from my new line, which also come in suede, which is very nice.”On Sevigny, it comes off as the essence of a modern fashion statement. We sit having a tea in the corner, away from everyone. “I’d never want to become famous now,” she says. “I feel like there’s a real cockiness with young people today. Maybe it’s protective, a shell. But the new celeb daughters and sons, the pop stars, are wise beyond their years. “And,” she adds, “that really irritates me.”Next to their brassiness, their knowingness, Sevigny does seem oddly fresh, and this despite being 34 now, and having been in the game for some 15 years. It was the mid-1990s when, as a 19-year-old suburban escapee, she was spotted hanging with the skateboarders in Washington Square Park by her future boyfriend, the director Harmony Korine. Korine cast her in Kids and swept her into the centre of New York’s art, music, film and fashion communities.Soon she was starring in Sonic Youth videos and turning up on the cover of The Face. Every kind of credibility was hers. Then there was the part about being named “the face of the 1990s”. Did she ever believe her own hype? She doesn’t do false modesty. “I don’t wanna sound like an asshole, but I was into cool stuff, I had cool friends. I wasn’t being offered major studio projects, but, generally, the people I liked liked me.”If she ever worried about not making it into the big league, choosing to appear in smaller-budget indie films than her agent would have recommended, she’s now safely installed in the most enviable of careers, working with the best directors — and nobody can touch her. Of Ifans, her Mr Nice co-star (she plays Marks’s wife, Judy), she says: “Yeah, he was a dream. He’d known Howard for years, so he was very into the part. And he’s totally the king of Wales! Everywhere, everybody adored him.” Did he smell at all? He always looks like he might have smelly feet. “He smelt quite nice, actually. Every day he wore patchouli oil — you know, actors use certain ways to take them to a place.”Her bread and butter is the American television series Big Love, in which she plays a girl from a Mormon family living a polygamous lifestyle, but with a serious shopping addiction. It’s a hit in the States, and has just been recommissioned for a fourth seriesShe’s the definition of what the French call “bien dans sa peau”. Her cool is old-school and pre-internet. She’s never played anyone else’s game. Any ambition is kept under wraps: she’s always claimed to be too lazy even to show up to auditions. She doesn’t buy high fashion because everyone else does, so she buys vintage. One day matronly in a pussy-bow blouse and antique YSL earrings, the next vamping it up in a black Balenciaga cocktail dress. You never really know who you’re going to get. Still, I have to ask, has she started to think about dressing her age?Success has its price: a lot of time spent in LA, a city full of wannabes she doesn’t feel comfortable in. Does she feel threatened by younger actresses? “Sometimes when I’m out, I do. But I have something different: I’m a woman. It’s a shame men find it threatening. They’re not after a woman who’s together and successful... I don’t meet enough successful men.” There’s a pregnant pause. She wants a family, kids, she’s said so often. “Yeah, before I’m 40, at least a child or two.” Where does a girl as in charge of herself as Sevigny find a man worthy of her time? It’s hard to imagine artsy boys holding the same appeal these days. Last summer, I saw her at one of those downtown rooftop parties where someone builds a fire in an oil can and people sit around drinking beer and smoking roll-ups. Her natural habitat, maybe, but hardly a place to score yourself an alpha male with an architect-designed flat. If that is indeed what she wants. Chloe Sevigny with Jake Gyllenhaal presenting "Zodiac" in Cannes Film Festival 2007.
“I don’t know where to find a successful guy. Maybe branching out into different circles? Art parties? The boys from my generation are less driven than the women. I meet great women all the time. We all go out and say, ‘There are so many beautiful varieties of women here. Where are the men that deserve them?’ Anyway,” she says with purpose, “it doesn’t happen when you’re looking. For now, I’ll carry on working, maybe do some more clothes.” “No. It’s fun to be involved in fashion campaigns, to stay relevant to a certain extent, but I’ve never consciously pursued it, and I’m not going to start now.” We get onto plastic surgery. I tell her about a famous surgeon’s latest declaration that a woman’s face reaches its peak of attractiveness at 35. “My friends say I’m better-looking now than when I was younger. And my body is intact, although soon I’m gonna have to work harder. As for dressing, I’m more body-conscious and sexier. I know what works on me.” Does she feel like a woman of substance? “I’ve always had substance,” she says.
Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony will be on sale at Selfridges and Dover Street Market from August". Source: women.timesonline.co.uk
"Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire takes his daughter Ruby Sweetheart, 2, to check out motorcycles at the local Ducati dealership in Los Angeles on Sunday (May 17).
The 33-year-old actor and his wife, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, just welcomed a new son on Friday (May 8).
Tobey can next be seen in the war drama, Brothers, out December 2009. A young man Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal) comforts his older brother’s wife Grace (Natalie Portman) and her children after his older brother Sam (Maguire) goes missing in Afghanistan".
"It's not easy being Jake Gyllenhaal, what with everyone falling in love with you all over the place. 
Blue-eyed and muscular, with perfect brown hair, thick eyebrows, and consistently heavy stubble, the 24-year-old combines an unforced masculinity with a boyish openness and curiosity". Source: men.style.com
opening Friday in New York. 
So -- don't hate her because she's beautiful.
Or because her boyfriend is Justin Timberlake.
she was good in "The Illusionist," excellent as a handicapped veteran in "Home of the Brave" and took big risks in the dark comedy "Nailed" and the arty drama "Powder Blue."
She's still a beauty waiting for her breakthrough -- like Charlize Theron the year before "Monster" -- and while she's too smart to ask for sympathy, a little understanding would be nice.
"There is that old thing, 'Oh she's a beautiful woman, she has no brains', Biel says, stealing a half-hour to chat in a hotel room after a rushed afternoon of group interviews. "There's that sense sometimes of, 'Just give me a second to talk to you, please? You know, I actually have something to say!'"
Biel grew up in Boulder, Colo., the daughter of an entrepreneur and a stay-at-home mom, with a quintessentially American, essentially diverse heritage -- German, English, Irish, French and Choctaw -- that blessed her with the looks that would soon translate into modeling contracts and TV commercials.
"Now, acting's a cathartic experience, releasing emotions that you're feeling or stuff that you're dealing with, just letting it all out and going -- bleeeeeeeeeagh! -- all over the place" she says. "But at first, it was just fun to make believe you were somebody else, and then make them believe it, too. Make them believe that you were this sad, messed-up Goth girl. And then get them to hire you."
When she is sitting at home, watching those movies, it's often with Timberlake. Inseparable but not insufferable, they show up at each other's events -- Biel was a happy, laughing witness to the dress rehearsals for his latest "Saturday Night Live" appearance -- but largely keep out of the gossip columns.
Really, my job is wonderful, and I'm grateful for it and I love it. But it's my job, not my lifestyle. When I'm on a set, it can be working working working like crazy, up all hours, doing nutso things. But after that, I'm just mellowing out, seeing my friends and family, keeping on a good workout schedule. ... When I'm not working, I live a really normal life." Source: www.nj.com
Today the Easy Virtue soundtrack is available for purchase in the US.
