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 Uma Thurman
Interview By: Rick Mele
*Click Here For Another Interview with Uma Thurman Uma Thurman is no stranger to playing the ass-kicking superwoman. From turns in Quentin Tarantino’s highly-successful Kill Bill series to a role as the Batman villainess Poison Ivy, Uma’s been playing strong female characters at the box office for years, and I do mean strong. In her new role as Jenny/G-girl, the oh-so-needy title character in the new film My Super Ex-Girlfriend, however, Thurman takes it to a whole new level. Directed by comedy legend Ivan Reitman, who’s responsible for some of the biggest and funniest comedies of the last three decades (Ghostbusters, Stripes, Old School, Animal House), My Super Ex-Girlfriend isn’t your typical comic-book movie. The film revolves more around Uma’s fledgling relationship with co-star Luke Wilson than an epic battle to save the world. My Super Ex-Girlfriend attempts a “naturalistic” take on what happens when you try to break up with a superhero, and a needy, possessive and clingy one to boot. Poor Luke. But underneath all the special effects and superpowers, My Super Ex-Girlfriend remains, for Uma, a very truthful movie. “When you look at these things [the images], you look at the heart of them and that’s kind of what actually makes it work. It’s not just ‘Oh, we’re funny and glib and it’s great,’ but underneath even these little ideas you find what’s real and then take what’s unreal and you have the beauty of the statement ‘Imagine a woman so brokenhearted, that she flies out to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, plucks a great white shark from the sea and goes to throw it at her unfaithful lover.’ It’s funny, but underneath it, that’s passion. That comes from real emotion.” And, for Uma, much of the real emotion of the film comes from grounding it in the realm of everyday experience. Jenny may be a superhero, but she’s still a person behind the costume, and her superpowers don’t make her any better equipped to handle life’s little problems. It was this sort of inability to cope that endeared Uma to her character. “What I like more, what I find sort of touching, some of the women I’ve played, [is] when you try too hard and you just ruin everything… The far-fetched stuff is the far-fetched stuff, but the real simple stuff is the desperate sort of neediness of someone just trying to make you like ‘em.” “So, you know,” she continues, “I just enjoyed that kind of vulnerability of a really strong and bold character, and I think I know most women identify with, and a lot of men too, that thing where you’re just trying to squeeze, like a bar of soap, and the more you squeeze, the further it flies! [laughs] That’s sort of my side of the break-up, being that, and we’ve all been there, that sort of desperate thing just like ‘Do you like me? Please? You must like me!’ Totally crazy, and just letting ... |
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