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2008 FALL MOVIE PREVIEW Blindness How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Flash of Genius Beverly Hills Chihuahua Forever Strong Eagle Eye Miracle at St. Anna Choke Nights in Rodanthe My Best Friends Girl Lakeview Terrace Battle in Seattle Igor Recently Added Spotlights Clark Gregg Sean Faris Charlize Theron Stuart Townsend Justin Hartley Samuel L. Jackson Patrick Wilson Kerry Washington Meg Ryan Jada Pinkett Smith Eva Mendes Debi Mazar Alan Ball Nicolas Cage Anna Faris |
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 James McAvoy
Interview By: Andrea Tuccillo James McAvoy has been quietly building a solid resume, appearing in films such as The Chronicles of Narnia , The Last King of Scotland , and Becoming Jane . He has also been dubbed one of People’s sexiest men alive, earned the title of best on-screen kisser according to his co-star Keira Knightley, recently completed the action-thriller Wanted with Angelina Jolie, and has a Scottish accent to die for. Now this man of many talents is garnering some series Oscar-buzz for his latest role in the tragic romance, Atonement. The dashing McAvoy is well on his way to captivating audiences with his heartbreaking portrayal of Robbie Turner, an aspiring doctor in love with his childhood friend (Knightley) whose life is turned upside down when he is accused of a crime he didn’t commit. The film takes place in the 1935 and goes through the start of World War II. McAvoy reveled in portraying this time period. “It’s of such interest to me, that period, that a lot of the research I did wasn’t even research, it was just personal reading,” he says. “I got to use a lot of that for the first time. However, more important than any of the reading and any of the first-person accounts I had seen on tape or TV, was meeting two veterans that had been at Dunkirk. They didn’t enlighten me very much at all as to what happened because they found it difficult to talk about and so much so that they told us very little about the darker side of what happened. They told us a lot of funny stories about Dunkirk and they were really interesting men but at the end of our meeting with them one of the two gentlemen leaned forward to Danny Mayes, me, and Nonso Anozie who played the three soldiers in the Dunkirk sequence, and said, ‘When you’re making this boys, just know how terrible it was.’ And to know how much it cost that guy to say that imparted a kind of emotional truth; it gave us an emotional research that we wouldn’t have had otherwise and it imbued that day and that scene with much more respect.” In the Dunkirk sequence McAvoy refers to, director Joe Wright included an astonishing six-minute tracking shot. “Joe pretty much came to me and said we’re going to do this 6-minute tracking shot, just like he described, and said what do you think about that?” he says. “And I went, wow that’s really ambitious, man. We all only had one day to do it in because we couldn’t afford 1,000 extras for any more than that really. So everybody busted a gut and he managed to galvanize everybody and make it bond because something like that really needs to hang together and it’s hard to make it hang together. But he managed to corral and he managed to rustle everybody together brilliantly and he had a crew busting ... |
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