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 Julia Stiles
Interview By: Stephen Snart
After successfully steering clear of horror films since the start of her career, Julia Stiles finally commits to a horror film that is heavy on the psychological scares and light on the meaningless violence. Join us as she discusses eerie coincidences on set, working with the legendary Mia Farrow and graduating from Columbia University. In 1999, Julia Stiles established herself as one of the most talented young actresses of her generation with the touching and smart comedy, 10 Things I Hate About You. Given the trend that was going on around that time, one might be inclined to assume she got her start in horror movies, as was the case with her contemporaries Sarah Michelle Geller, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Neve Campbell. But instead of slashers and splatter fests, Stiles chose projects like the aforementioned 10 Things, Hamlet and O, three films who not coincidentally have their roots in Shakespearean texts. It is only now that she is 25 years-old and has 20 films under her belt that she decided to headline a horror film. And The Omen is not your standard, hokey, dead-teenager flick for that matter. “I actually never thought I would want to be in a horror film because when it’s shock horror, it’s all about the violence. Actors don’t really get to do much; they’re sort of just reacting,” explains Stiles on why she put off her horror debut for so long. “It’s easy to see violence. You just turn on the news.” With The Omen, the emphasis is less on brutal imagery and more on getting the audience to relate to the characters dealing with a situation of unimaginable turmoil. “I don’t think the movie is just there for shock value. There’s something deeper psychologically going on with these characters. I think that hits a deeper truth.” Part of the reason Stiles was eager to star in the remake was her reverence for the original, directed by Richard Donner in 1976. “I think that a sign of a good horror film is if it lasts thirty years later. There was a scene where Lee Remick tells her husband that she needs to see a psychiatrist and it’s so chilling! There’s so much said and [yet] almost nothing is said. That meant to me that there’s something going on psychologically.” In the 2006 version, Stiles plays Katherine Thorn, the role originally inhabited by Remick. Katherine is the husband to Liev Schreiber’s Robert Thorn, a United States ambassador currently situated in London. Katherine has to find a way to deal with the possibility that their son, Damien, might just be the antichrist. “Her biggest problem is actually not her suspicions about her son but her own self-doubt. The hardest thing for a Mother to be able to come to terms with would be to be afraid of your own son or think there’s something wrong with him. She suppresses that for so long and that’s what ultimately makes ... |
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