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 Jennifer Connelly
Interview By: Michael Dance For one of the best actresses of her generation, Jennifer Connelly is unusually quiet in person. Unlike other actors who trip over their own words in an effort to hear themselves speak, Connelly seems to prefer thinking carefully before she speaks, and then formulating answers in actual complete sentences. If that occasionally makes her seem distant, it also makes her remarkably polite and professional. It also might have a little something to do with the topic at hand, Connelly's latest movie Reservation Road. Despite her unmistakable beauty, she has managed to turn in numerous roles over her long career that are completely different from one another - everything from a wide-eyed fifteen-year-old girl in 1986's Labyrinth to a hopelessly addict in a downward spiral in Requiem for a Dream. In Reservation Road, she once again gives a stunning and original performance, this time playing a mother grieving for the loss of her son in a hit-and-run. "I never consciously considered my own children," Connelly says of her preparation for the role. "It seemed too frightening of an idea, too repugnant of an idea, to even consider that. But that said, I think what I did was try to do a lot of research and make a lot of decisions and choices and try to make that fictional reality as convincing as possible to me, so I could surrender to those scenes. In that surrender, what comes out, probably on a gut level, is stuff that I'm made of, and a lot of that is, I'm a mom, and I've got a lot of love for my kids. I think it informs what I do every day." Her character grows to provide a contrast to her husband, played by Joaquin Phoenix. While she wants her family to grieve and heal, her husband seems bent on vengeance. "This woman certainly didn't believe that [vengeance] would accomplish anything," Connelly says. "Certainly didn't believe that any more violence or bloodshed would in any way lessen the pain, or take away the fact that her son wasn't coming home. And that was really what she focused on, that she was left with this huge hole in the middle of her life. She didn't even know where to put her feet down. She's literally trying to find the space to move around in. And I think it takes incredible bravery to do that, and I think to her, it sort of seems futile, this endeavor of chasing down this monster demon that her husband's creating." The film was co-written for the screen and directed by Terry George, who most recently made the critically-acclaimed Hotel Rwanda. "I'm already like, 'Terry, what are we doing next? Can I be in it? I'll do craft service! Anything!'" She laughs. "I really just think the world of him, I |
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