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| Angelina Jolie on ALEXANDER! |
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| POSTED Monday , November 22, 2004 01:14:20 PM |
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SOURCE - ComingSoon!
REAL SOURCE - Andrew Weil
ComingSoon! talked to Jolie about starring in the movie:
CS!: Was handling the snakes dangerous?:
Jolie: No. I mean, they weren't defanged or anything. They fed them the day before so they wouldn't be hungry. I mean, really, that's what it was. And I just tried to get to know a lot of them and spend days with them so they'd hang on me. I'd spend a lot of days just walking around Pinewood studios with snakes attached to me, trying to get them, so I could have that comfort that she has. We just kind of felt - they kind of said to me at worst, they bite you. But I don't think they were highly poisonous. It would be more like they bite, they aim for your face, they bite your face and the worst that's going to happen is you're going to have a bite mark and you'll live. I was okay with that for me, but I was nervous when there was a little kid that I, as a responsible adult, had to be carrying a large snake around the six-year-old. And say, "Kick it." This little kid's first day on a movie ever in his life and he's surrounded by this room full of fire and snakes all over the bed and the floor and this psychotic woman he's never met snuggling up to him in bed and putting snakes on his head. He was just great.
CS!: What was your approach to your character Olympias?
Jolie: I loved her actually. I mean, I felt that if I lived at that time, with the dangers she had and the threats she had and the lack of power she had as a woman, I would not have been that different from her. And I thought I also just saw her as a mother who really would push her son at a time that if he didn't get the throne, he didn't acquire a certain kind of strength and ability and greatness, he would probably just die or be killed or be exiled. So out of concern, out of love for your own, just to come from this place that seems very much like the horrible mafia father, but in fact it was for his own survival that she was focused on, which made it very easy for me to focus on thinking of my own son and what he had to do to protect himself from bad things that could hurt him.
CS!: How was working with Oliver Stone?
Jolie: He's tough. The thing with Oliver is he's very smart. He can make some reference to Aristotle, he can make jokes about things that are so of such high intellect you don't know what he's talking about. But he's actually great. He's just a real passionate, professional person who just loves these characters. He's worked and lived with them for 13 years, sees them a certain way and is very driven to get to- - so you can't step on and in any other film say, "Well, this line here, I kind of have this." He's like, "What are you doing? Why? Back it up." So any kind of decision you make, you have to be ready to go to the mat for and back it up with why you're going to do it. So it was great. It was really fun. You just feel so challenged.
CS!: How was working with Colin Farrell?
Jolie: Colin's my son. Colin is Alexander to me. Colin is. And in the best of the political side of it all, but Colin is that. It's very hard to find, I think, a modern actor who can be as bold, as free, as open and who women respond to and men would follow into battle. And Colin actually has that quality. He's not arrogant and he's not out to get anybody. He's not selfish. He came out of boot camp with all the guys and I could see when they would all be together that they were happy he was their Alexander. And when they went to boot camp, they went to a hard boot camp. I'm sure you guys will hear about it. So yeah, and he's a great actor.
CS!: How was working overseas?
Jolie: It was great. Because I love to travel, it was Ramadan so it was interesting working with an entire Muslim crew or mostly Muslim crew who we all became great friends with. And it was really funny - not funny, but we were such good friends, come six o'clock, time to breakfast, it was interesting. Then you go through a period where you're not supposed to eat during this time and normally if you weren't working, you could adjust your life a little, wake up at 11 o'clock. But it was like Oliver Stone movie working from 4:30 in the morning to 6 o'clock at night and none of these guys could eat during the day. So we certainly had a huge respect for them and it was just interesting to learn about them and be through that month with them.
Wow! This movie sounds pretty ... awesome!
 NightWolverine007
The Howling X-Stud
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