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 The most challenging scene in the movie for her was an early love scene between her and Phoenix -- or, more accurately, a masturbation scene, as someone bluntly says when asking her about it. "Thank you for reminding me that that was a masturbation scene," she says, laughing. "Most people just say love scene, but you just broke it down, thank you. That was nerve-racking, absolutely, but you know, you gott do it." Was it embarrassing? "Well, I would say Children of the Corn 5 was more embarrassing, as a whole." (Ah, good point.) "I was so scared that morning, just really trying to stall, but you just go, 'I have to do this,' and James was really helpful. You usually always feel that ticking clock, when you're on the set, but that morning was just James and Joaquin and me for a couple of hours just talking, just letting me talk in circles and stalling and stuff. So eventually I just talked myself into an oblivion, and then we shot it. Having proved herself as anyone but a stock character, Mendes is already expanding her career horizons -- to get her aforementioned independent movie Live! made, she became an exec-producer. "Producing for me is not like I'm looking to be the next Brian Grazer," she says. "It's more of, you know, when I read a script and there's a great female character in it, I'm like why isn't this being made? If I can help by attaching my name and making some calls and writing some letters, that's what producing is for me. It's not for an extra credit or anything. It's to get these stories told." The downside, of course, is that sometimes that can't happen. "There's a couple of stories that I've just been dying to tell that I just can't get off the ground," she says, citing a TV show concept she tried to pitch but everyone passed on. "When I see shows like All in the Family, or Good Times, it's like, why don't we have any shows like that anymore? I was watching Good Times on Nick at Night the other night, and it was hysterical, of course, but it got so deep. They were talking about social/political issues and they were getting so deep, and it's like, where are those shows today? Right now [the TV networks] are ... |
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