Published on February 12th, 2013 | by R. O'Donnell
BSG Star Kandyse McClure Talks “Hemlock Grove”
Whether playing Petty Officer Second Class in the Colonial Fleet on the SciFi Channel’s critically acclaimed “Battlestar Galactica”, or starring in Fox’s “Persons Unknown”, a psychological drama series described as a cross between “Lost” and “The Twilight Zone,” Kandyse McClure’s work has always led to the darker side of cinema. Cast as the troubled Dr. Chausser in Eli Roth’s Goth-horror “Hemlock Grove,” a new series on Netflix premiering Friday, April 19th, Kandyse returns once again to a genre that keeps her close at hand.
Born in Durban, South Africa, Kandyse was separated from her mother at an early age and had to flee to Canada to escape apartheid as a refugee. She lived with her grandparents until she was finally reunited with her mother at eleven years old. One can only imagine how this sort of past is why the talented actress has levitated to the roles that require much more than just another pretty face.
Thank you for taking the time to talk with Static Multimedia.
My pleasure, thank you for taking the time to talk with me.
Tell us about Netflix’s new horror thriller “Hemlock Grove”
Well.. it’s based on Brian McGreevy’s novel “Hemlock Grove,” which I did read during the development stages. It revolves around the gruesome murder of a young girl, and my character is brought in to determine the cause of her death. Dr. Clementine Chausser is an animal behaviorist expert, and is eventually brought in to help with the case. You know, they believe some sort of animal is responsible for the killing? She has some pretty solid theories about whom or what is responsible. Dr. Chausser is a complicated character, though, and she needs to immerse herself in her work; keep an order to things as she’s struggling with a lot of her own personal inner demons.
What was it like working with the cast of “Hemlock Grove”
We have very talented cast of younger actors in their early 20’s and then us older folks. I’m 33. [laughs] And I love working with all of them but working with Famke Janssen (“X-men” franchise, “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,”) I’ll admit I had a “fan” moment. She’s just wonderful to watch. I had a scene with Famke where I forgot to say my lines because I was too busy watching her.
And Eli Roth?
Eli likes the gore. So they’ll be plenty of that. You know, “Hostel,” “Cabin in the Woods”? Unfortunately, I didn’t get to work with him on the set. Dr. Chausser doesn’t appear until later. But Eli’s done so much behind the camera and in front of it; he’s amazing to talk to. Great stories. I did have lunch with him and he’s a lot of fun to talk to. He’s funny and he really loves his craft.
Do you like horror?
It’s not really something I watch on a regular basis. But I do seem to get cast in the genre a lot.
Why do you think that is?
People like to hear me scream? [laughs] I have a good horror scream. Also, I’ve been told, that people like to watch me reacting to these horrible situations. They enjoy watching me work things out, getting myself out of a tight spot. Over the years, I’ve learned to appreciate the genre more and more. I also went through some pretty dark days as a child fleeing to Canada to escape apartheid. All these experiences tend to shape our lives and the choices we make.
What scares you?
Oh… interesting question. Drowning. Drowning scares me a lot. I’m not your typical girly-girl though. That’s not me. I’m not afraid of insects or snakes or anything like that. As a matter of fact, I’m the person my friends call to get rid of the spider in the house, so… but yes, drowning. That scares me.
Does your beauty ever get in the way of casting opportunities?
I think that’s true with any casting experience: you’re too short for the role or you’re too old for the role… beauty is a blessing that can work either way. It can get you the job, too. I really don’t think about it much.
What about Battlestar Galactica, you miss it?
Yes. I do. It was a wonderful experience that changed my whole life. Battlestar will always be a part of me. I learned so much about myself and about my craft. It gave me a career and for that I’ll always carry the experience everywhere I go.
What do you miss the most?
I miss Dualla. I loved the way she grew from a rather small role into a pretty vital component of the show. I miss her struggles and her triumphs.
Do you still get recognized?
All the time! BSG has a large following and very loyal fans, and I’m constantly having people come up to me to say hello.
Valentine’s Day is approaching, do you celebrate it?
I’ll be traveling on Valentine’s Day, so… I have someone, very special, and we’re not into anniversaries and a lot of gift giving, but we celebrate each other every day.
Anything more you’d like to say about “Hemlock Grove”?
I really like that you can watch all the episodes anytime you want. Power watching episodes are great fun. That’s a real luxury for people on the go.
I just watched all of Netflix’s “House of Cards” starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright – brilliant.
Exactly! So I’m very excited to be a part of Netflix’s “Hemlock Grove” for that reason as they’re somewhat ahead of the pack – no pun intended. [laughs]
Sports Illustrated SwimsuitWhy SI Swimsuit Has Buzz Despite Leak—Kate Upton
It is an annual rite of passage for "sports" fans—the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.But in this era of Twitter, smartphones and instantaneous publishing, it seems nothing can be done in a vacuum.It's even hit the SI Swimsuit issue, which saw its cover photo leaked early.
The negative is that it won't get it's high-profile reveal on the "Late Show" with David Letterman. The positive is that the cover girl is Kate Upton.
She will still be on the show, and in the end, the early exposure probably doesn't matter. In fact, it may actually help with the buzz ... and the sales.
Why?
Upton is on the cover, and she's different.
Appearing for the second time in a row—the first time that's happened since Tyra Banks in the mid-90s—her appeal is even greater in 2013.
Some think she has supermodel status already.
And when it comes to Upton, the numbers don't lie.
She is fresh off appearing in a Super Bowl ad with Mercedes— two of the official ads have a combined 14-million views on YouTube.
Her Twitter following has gone from about 20,000 two years ago and 120,000 a year ago, according to the New York Times, to over 700,000 in February, 2013.
That proves her popularity, but what about her transcendancy?
Upton is already moving beyond swimsuits, appearing in fashion magazines, commercials and even movies. She's linked romantically to Justin Verlander, one of the best pitchers in pro baseball.
And she's only 20 years old.
So, even if the cover itself was leaked—and sources tell CNBC it was NOT planned—it doesn't seem like it will diminish interest in her ... and the cover.
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I Dreamed a Dream : Anne Hathaway
* pity the other actresses in the category. They'll look good on the red-carpet but Anne is the clear winner, hands down. By the way I don't give a sh*t about the Oscars and judging by the ratings, slowly declining into deserved irrelevance.
Love Battles [Mes séances de lutte]: Berlin Review
The Bottom Line
Let’s get physical.Venue
Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)Director-screenwriter
Jacques DoillonCast
Sara Forestier, James ThierreeActors Sara Forestier and James Thierree duke it out in Jacques Doillon's Berlin Panorama premiere, in which a budding couple engages in a bizarre form of physical therapy.
BERLIN -- First there’s a tete-a-tete, and then there’s a knee to the nuts, in Love Battles (Mes seances de lutte), veteran auteur Jacques Doillon’s latest tale of amour fight, in which a budding couple engages in a bizarre form of physical therapy, pounding each other in the face before they decide to pound each other in the bedroom. Two parts rough foreplay and one part coitus uninterruptus, yet as chatty as a French film can be, this initially engaging exercise grows tiresome by its midpoint, even if stars Sara Forestier and James Thierree throw themselves into the struggle with an energy usually reserved for Skinemax or WWE SmackDown, but rarely for an art house movie.Indeed, the two actors deserve beaucoup credit for their intense and draining performances, not to mention their fierce and, at times, acrobatic sexual stunts. While anyone familiar with Forestier (The Names of Love) knows that she’s capable of perfectly playing a scene a poil, and usually by a film’s second reel, theatre-performance artist Thierree (Total Eclipse, Prospero’s Books, and also the grandson of Charlie Chaplin) is a particular discovery here.
Both of them are highly convincing in a movie that ultimately fails to convince, and even becomes a bit of a turn-off despite the ample flesh and nonstop booty bouts. Thus, Battles will likely go the route of recent Doillon efforts like last year’s Me, You and Us, with limited Francophone distribution and TV sales, although with some auteur-core marketing a la Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs or Patrice Chereau’s Intimacy, it could potentially be carried to wider markets.
The plot is awfully simple: an unnamed girl, She (Forestier), arrives in the countryside to handle her recently deceased father’s estate, and crosses paths with caretaker, He (Thierree), a sort of love interest with whom she once tried to get it on. Distressed by her dad’s death and the iffy relationship she has with her siblings, She takes refuge in her daily conversational ping-pong with He, via several extended dialogs filled with Doillon’s usual floweriness (“You came her to despise pleasure”), until they start getting downright dirty (“You used your boner to ward me off”).For reasons that only the French could fathom, He decides to push She into a radical therapeutic exercise whereby they engage in a form of light brawling/heavy petting that gets more and more violent with each session (the original title is a pun that translates to “My Wrestling Sessions”). Before long, the film slides into one long and endless scuffle, with He forcing She to come to terms with her daddy issues, and She trying to get into He’s pants, all the while jabbing at his uber-ego.
It’s like an Eric Rohmer movie starring Hulk Hogan and Beth Phoenix, if those two were also horny intellectuals who could quote Proust while trading off piledrivers. And soon enough, the piles get driven harder and harder until clothes are ripped off, belts are unfastened and, naturellement, some mud is thrown into the mix, with the body blows turning into well, blows, plus lots more, in the film’s extended NC-17 finale.
This could all be written off as risibly pretentious – and that often feels like the case -- if it were not for Forestier’s and Thierree’s investment in their roles, with the former delivering her lines and slugs with gusto, and the latter using his circus-trained body to literally bop his co-star into the wall, when he’s not bopping her elsewhere. It’s a crazy whirlwind of a performance piece, one which Doillon and D.P.’s Laurent Chalet and Laurent Fenart capture with soft and well-framed HD imagery, turning the serene provincial setting into a steel cage match of sex and chagrin.
It’s like an Eric Rohmer movie starring Hulk Hogan and Beth Phoenix, if those two were also horny intellectuals who could quote Proust while trading off piledrivers. And soon enough, the piles get driven harder and harder until clothes are ripped off, belts are unfastened and, naturellement, some mud is thrown into the mix, with the body blows turning into well, blows, plus lots more, in the film’s extended NC-17 finale.
This could all be written off as risibly pretentious – and that often feels like the case -- if it were not for Forestier’s and Thierree’s investment in their roles, with the former delivering her lines and slugs with gusto, and the latter using his circus-trained body to literally bop his co-star into the wall, when he’s not bopping her elsewhere. It’s a crazy whirlwind of a performance piece, one which Doillon and D.P.’s Laurent Chalet and Laurent Fenart capture with soft and well-framed HD imagery, turning the serene provincial setting into a steel cage match of sex and chagrin.
Alessandra Ambrosio Break On Through
from Terry RichardsonAmber Channell and Madison Barber Behind the Scenes
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Chinese Girl Participates in a Near Fatal Photoshoot
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History Channel’s Vikings is just as brutal as Game of Thrones
Vikings, the new scripted show from the History Channel is bonkers violent. It's like Game of Thrones without the nudity. Backed by historical research and lots of sexy Australian actors, this show is the channel's first venture into scripted drama. Thankfully writer Michael Hirst from Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Tudors is manning this ship, which gives us a lot of hope for the series. We've got a great clip of some impressively bloody footage showcasing the way sexy TV Vikings slaughter their enemies! Still, the show doesn't glorify its violence too much.
Here's the official synopsis:
Here's the official synopsis:
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods, legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.Vikings will premiere on The History Channel on March 3rd.
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Showtime’s New Lineup, And Why Sex Is Subordinate To Violence On Television
On Friday, Showtime announced that it had picked up a new show called The Affair, which would tell the stories of a relationship that interrupts two marriages, splitting up the episodes to explore the perspectives of the men and women involved separately. It was a decision that, along with the forthcoming Masters of Sex, a historical drama bout the sex researchers Masters and Johnson, and Ray Donovan, which follows a Los Angeles fixer who is also dealing with the consequences of childhood sexual abuse in his family, that furthered a brand that underlies a great deal of Showtime’s work, and that makes the network unusual among its peers. Showtime increasingly as interested in exploring sex as it is violence. This isn’t to say that all of Showtime’s programming is solely preoccupied with sex, but three of its foundational shows, The L Word, about affluent lesbians, Queer As Folk, an adaptation of the British drama, and Soul Food, an adaptation of the movie, were all substantially concerned with how adults approach sex, sometimes in the context of their families. It’s a theme that continues in the shows that are airing on it presently. Shameless is substantially about the sexual relationships of multiple generations of the Gallagher family. House of Lies examines both the sex lives of successful consultants and the sexual and gender identity of the main character’s son. Californication‘s focus is announced in its title. Dexter is a serial killer show that’s frequently explored the sexual components of violence. And Homeland started out as a show about national security and has morphed into an epic romance grounded in a striking sexual connection between its two main characters, a dogged CIA agent and the undercover terrorist she is pursuing.
I asked Showtime president David Nevins about that trend at the Television Critics Association press tour in January, and about how intentional the network’s focus on sex was.
“We have the ability to be adults, try to use the lack of restrictions that we have because we don’t sell to advertisers, use it to most interesting effect. And there are
taboo subjects that we can explore that other people don’t have — other programmers don’t have the same freedom and ability,” he said. “Masters of Sex feels like a show that only we could get away with, that only pay cable could get away with…Sex is one of the places where we can distinguish ourselves. But it’s really important to me also that we be interesting and provocative in a deeper way, not just salacious.”
That’s an ambitious goal to set, and one I’m particularly curious to measure The Affair, Masters of Sex, and Ray Donovan against. And it’s hard precisely because fewer people have worked at it. Mainstream movies and television have done an enormous amount of work to explore what makes for stylish violence, and what about the employment of violence we find alternately exciting and revolting. Some of the reason that’s happened is because of incentives set up in the television and movie ratings systems, which make it easier to make violent content reach a mass audience than to do the same with considerations of sex that are comparatively grown-up and intense. Some of it’s happened because there’s an alternative to mainstream entertainment that’s making sexual content that mainstream entertainment can’t and wouldn’t want to replicate.
And some of it is simply because the practice we’ve had at making entertainment intelligently or entertainingly violent isn’t matched by an equal set of established conventions around sex. It’s pretty easy to figure out what will make an audience either gasp in admiration at violent prowess—James Bond’s ability to take as good as he gets, and to dole out violence with precision is a good rule of thumb—or recoil in disgust from the damage done to a body. It’s much harder to figure out how to do a sex scene that will make a mass audience have the same unified reaction, and some of that’s because what we feel about sex isn’t close to standardized. In The New Republic, Sam Lipsyte, writing about how to write about sex, suggests that aspiring novelists “Trust in the modern gods who guide your hand: Sad and Funny. Like it or not, these are the twin poles for most of our tiny thoughts and doings. Sad and Funny are both the world and how we withstand it.” But poles aren’t the entirety of experience, and joy deserves some recognition in there as well.
I understand the many reasons that a network would choose to go with violence as its primal stakes and subject for exploration: it’s exciting, our reactions to a lot of it are easy to predict, and it is, in a lot of ways, easier to get on screen and easier to sell once it’s there. But even if violence isn’t an exhaustible subject, it’s far from the only one that matters, or the only stakes that any of us experience—for many of us, we’re deeply fortunate to avoid it. Going after sex and romance, and doing it with the same level of sophistication and style as many of the great cable dramas is a harder thing to do, and it’s why sex is an equal or close to equal subject maybe only in Deadwood and Mad Men.
“I believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure,” Bikini Kill sang in 1995. Television still hasn’t even begun to tap that potential, but I do wish they’d start getting around to it. If Showtime is digging in on questions of what sex means to us, how we study it, and how we survive trauma around it, I’m excited to see what arguments those shows are going to make—and how viewers will react to them.
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Scenes from Soulard Mardi Gras, 2013 (NSFW)
The Saturday before Fat Tuesday again saw revelers of all stripes flood the streets of Soulard after the Mardi Gras parade on February 9, 2013. Photos by Jon Gitchoff and Steve Truesdell for the Riverfront Times.
More St. Louis Mardi Gras photos here
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Go Away With ... Meghan Markle
Actress Meghan Markle was born and raised in Los Angeles and films her series, "Suits," which airs on the USA Network, in Toronto, Canada. Her mother was a travel agent, which meant that Markle got to travel quite a lot as a child and she grew to love it. "I got the travel bug quite early," says Markle, who portrays Rachel Zane on the series. "My earliest memories are of going to Mexico twice a year and Hawaii quite a few times. We never did conventional family trips like Disney World. Hawaii and Mexico were closer for us than going to Florida or the Caribbean." Fans may follow Markle on Twitter (at)meghanmarkle.
Q. As a child, did you ever wish you could go on more conventional trips like you friends?
A. You know, this is all I knew. Just like being an only child was all I knew. I was always aware of how unique and cool it was that my mom got to take me to all these cool places because of her job and connections. It was so much fun traveling, primarily with my mom. I never felt envious of the more cookie cutter-type of vacations, although I'm sure those would have been wonderful, too. But my mom never wanted me to just go to a resort and not leave the property, and think that was all there was to visiting a foreign country. We liked going to Oaxaca, Mexico, and tried to really get an authentic cultural experience.
Q. What has traveling taught you?
A. It really shapes you from a young age and makes you really empathetic of people of whatever culture, wherever they're from. It made me much more courageous to take myself out of a sheltered bubble. I moved to Argentina at 21 and worked for the U.S. Embassy. And then I went to Madrid. My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually. But when I was young, I knew I wanted to try something else. So it was wonderful to be in the foreign services and live in Buenos Aires. I think that kind of life experience can only help in your performance as an actor.
Q. What's the most important thing you've learned from your travels?
A. That you should just go! It doesn't have to be a fancy or expensive trip. Some of the best trips of my life, I've paid for in pennies. When I was a student at Northwestern University, people were doing the quintessentially spring break to Cabo San Lucas. I backpacked with a friend through France and then went to Italy. We nickeled and dimed it, because we wanted to see the world. You gain new friends everywhere. Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.
Q. Are you comfortable traveling alone?
A. Absolutely. I just use street smarts. When I was in France, I would've loved to have gone from there to Morocco, but at that time, specifically, it wasn't wise to go. Being cautious doesn't mean you need to be sheltered. You just need to make wise decisions. When I was growing up, my mom said, "It's not you I'm worried about. It's the other people out there."
Q. What are your favorite cities?
A. Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It's stunning and you get a therapeutic experience there. The drive up the coast is one of the most beautiful I've ever done. Also, Hong Kong. I could easily live there!
Q. Are you an adventurous eater?
A. Oh gosh. I eat everything! My poor husband has to try to keep up with me. In Vietnam two years ago, I was eating everything I had seen Anthony Bourdain eat. My husband just got sick. Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.
Q. What's on your travel bucket list?
A. I haven't spent a lot of time exploring Asia. I want to go to Laos. I'd love to tour around Cambodia.
Q. Camping or five-star hotels?
A. Both! It all depends on where you are. We went campervanning through New Zealand for 14 days once and it was amazing. We hiked through the glaciers and visited the wineries in Marlborough. Then we went off the North Island off the coast of Auckland and stayed four nights in a beach house. It really is a beautiful country. This island is like a California beach town meeting Nantucket. It was so easy to explore. Before that trip, I'd never driven on the opposite side of the road. I'd never been in a campervan. It was easily one of the best trips of my life. I'm looking for more places where I can go campervanning. I think Scotland would be a fun place to try that next.
Q. Do you favor warm or cold weather destinations?
A. It depends. Warm can be more comfortable than cold, but there's such a thing as too hot, too! (Laughs.) I love Chicago and loved going to college there. People warn you about the weather in the winter, but they don't tell you about the humidity in the summer. That was so challenging! I'm used to nice, crisp weather. But all of that was trumped by the people and the amazing food. It was an adjustment, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Q. What helps you feel more at home when you're away for a long period of time?
A. The first thing that comes to mind is that there's something so comforting about a peanut butter sandwich. Wherever I am in the world, I'll always try to have one if I'm feeling a little homesick. And I also like to bring candles so that it'll smell like home wherever I am. Other than that, I just throw myself into my travels and don't need much else.
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Mila Kunis Loved Being Single, Talks Onscreen Nudity, Showing Side Boob With Allure
In fact, pre–Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis loved flying solo. The Black Swan actress tells Allure that she had "an amazing time" by herself after breaking up with Macaulay Culkin.And now, the 29-year-old actress appears to have found her match in Kutcher, whom she's known since she was 14.
"People change," she says, seemingly referring to her former That '70s Show costar. "So who you knew years ago is not necessarily the person that you [know now]...And who somebody was yesterday is very different from who they will be tomorrow."
Truth. And she's also smart when it comes to onscreen nudity—she leaves something to the imagination.
"I showed side boob. I don't need to show ass," she says, describing a sex scene with Justin Timberlake in Friends With Benefits. "You get one or the other. You don't need both."
Wise woman!
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NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT : The Bounceback
The raucous nightlife of Austin, Texas, is the setting for this outrageous and heartfelt comedy about two ex-couples burned by love. Depressed and lonely, Stan finds out his ex, Cathy (Ashley Bell), is headed back to Austin for a girls' weekend. He jumps on a plane to Texas to win her back, but is thwarted by Cathy's best friend, Kara (Sara Paxton), who is locked in a vicious break-up with her own ex: Stan's best friend, Jeff. The four of them bounce from sweaty nightclubs to honky-tonks to Air Sex competitions looking for a new start, or maybe just some sweet, sweet revenge.
Who is going to do a 'Alison Brie'? Sara or Ashley.....
THE MIDNIGHTERS: Cheap Thrills
Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.
* I been informed that Sarah Paxton portrays a 'baddie' in the flick. She plays the rich and bored wife of the Koechner. Amanda Fuller plays a smaller role as Pat Healy's wife. If you're a fan of Trent Haaga's previous horror DEADGIRL, you'll dig CHEAP THRILLS as well. Some nudity perhaps at the strip club segment (Mexican model Claudia Salinas?).
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Director : Esteban Wautier
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He's currently in Australia filming The Rover, a "futuristic thriller," but it sounds like Robert Pattinson has another edgy movie role lined up once he's finished Down Under.
A source says that Rob is set to star in a film called Hold On to Me alongside actress Carey Mulligan. The jist of the flick is pretty simple -- it's about a woman who holds her rich boyfriend for ransom. Duh, Rob will supposedly play the rich boyfriend (who also happens to be a drug dealer), and Carey will play the woman holding him hostage in the hopes of scoring some decent cash.
Based on a few of the alleged scenes between them, however, it sounds like Rob's character is more than willing to be her prisoner -- and things are going to get pretty steamy.
According to Brad Inglesby (a dude who says he knows the script), Rob's character and Carey's character will even get down and dirty in a swimming pool under the moonlight. (That's hot.)
I love the Twilight series just as much as the next fan, but it's just such a refreshing change to hear about Rob taking on roles that are more mature, tougher to portray, and more human, if we're being honest.
By accepting much edgier roles, Rob is doing himself a huge favor. Portraying these types of characters is really the only way he's going to lose his Twilight connection and move on in his career.
Yeah, yeah, I know he'll always be Edward in a sense, but if he wants to be known as a serious actor, he has to break out of the vampire mold and get people to take him seriously. And if this new flick doesn't do the trick, nothing will.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++A source says that Rob is set to star in a film called Hold On to Me alongside actress Carey Mulligan. The jist of the flick is pretty simple -- it's about a woman who holds her rich boyfriend for ransom. Duh, Rob will supposedly play the rich boyfriend (who also happens to be a drug dealer), and Carey will play the woman holding him hostage in the hopes of scoring some decent cash.Based on a few of the alleged scenes between them, however, it sounds like Rob's character is more than willing to be her prisoner -- and things are going to get pretty steamy.
According to Brad Inglesby (a dude who says he knows the script), Rob's character and Carey's character will even get down and dirty in a swimming pool under the moonlight. (That's hot.)
The 26-year-old is certainly leaving his vampire saga years behind him with the edgy new role, which centres around 'Nancy', rumoured to be played by Mulligan, who holds her rich boyfriend to ransom.Ok, please tell me I'm not the only one who is already excited to see this film, and please tell me I'm not alone in thinking "bad ass" roles are much more well suited for Rob than his Edward Cullen role ever was.
A source close to the script writer, Brad Ingelsby told HollywoodLife about the role: “[Rob] plays an amazingly attractive guy who is a very cool cat, and he is also a top level drug dealer!”
He'll also be involved with love scenes with the Nancy character, where the pair will get it on in a sexy swimming scene under moonlight. Sounds super sexy. Rob is currently in Australia filming 'The Rover' with Guy Pearce, but it's not the first controversial role for the hunk.
I love the Twilight series just as much as the next fan, but it's just such a refreshing change to hear about Rob taking on roles that are more mature, tougher to portray, and more human, if we're being honest.
By accepting much edgier roles, Rob is doing himself a huge favor. Portraying these types of characters is really the only way he's going to lose his Twilight connection and move on in his career.
Yeah, yeah, I know he'll always be Edward in a sense, but if he wants to be known as a serious actor, he has to break out of the vampire mold and get people to take him seriously. And if this new flick doesn't do the trick, nothing will.
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