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Jaroslava Schallerová was chosen over 1,500 girls who auditioned for the role of 'Valerie' in "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" (1970). She was 13 at that time. She later revealed that she was not comfortable during the filming of this particular scene. She said, "Nothing was 'just like that', everyone tried to make every scene as believable as possible. I was not very comfortable on a hot summer's day among the high flames. At the last moment, they freed me from the ropes and I quickly jumped off the border. I changed my clothes and blended in with the people watching the filming. Suddenly I heard a whispering voice: 'Well, they're really burning that girl, they paid her parents for her.' I know the person was joking, but to this day the memory still gives me chills and sometimes it seems like a bad dream," P.S: On this day, 66 years ago, "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" (1970) in Bergamo, Italy.
DepressedBergman487,380 views • 22 hours ago
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Jamie Lee Curtis on how she felt about this famous scene in "Trading Places" (1983): "My bre@ sts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they`ve gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time. I make no excuses and have no regrets for my past work in films. I am very proud of the work I did in 'Trading Places'. And if they have become the topic of dinner conversation at frat houses, God bless 'em." ("The Feminine Fistique", The Chicago Tribune, 1990) In 2022, Jamie Lee Curtis said, "I was 21 years old and the part required it. Did I like doing it? No. Did I feel embarrassed that I was doing it? Yes. Did I look OK? Yeah. Did I know what I was doing? Yeah. Did I like it? No. Was I doing it because it was the job? Yes. I wouldn't do it today, it's the last thing in the world I would do now. I also am married for 37 years, I wasn't married then. I'm a mother of children. Absolutely not."
DepressedBergman1,292,760 views • 2 days ago
The first choice for the role of Tina Carlyle in "The Mask" (1994) was Anna Nicole Smith who had agreed to do the movie and then at the last minute, backed out to do "Naked Gun 33 1⁄3: The Final Insult" (1994). Director Chuck Russell was crushed and thought that the movie shouldn't be made, but they kept looking for another actor. One day, coming out from an Academy party, the producer and the team saw Cameron Diaz on the runway and everyone said, "Yeah, that’s the kind of person we’re looking for." Producer Robert Engelman turned to the casting agent and said, "Get her. Let’s at least interview her." Cameron Diaz was a model with no acting experience. Since the Studio wasn't convinced of her acting ability, they made her audition 12 times. Diaz said, I was ready to have a nervous breakdown. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep. I got an ulcer.” Getting the job made it worse for her. ”I thought I was going to throw up my first day. I kept thinking, ‘I’m going to disappoint them and they’re going to fire me.”’ P.S: Happy 54th birthday, Cameron Diaz!
DepressedBergman1,143,492 views • 4 days ago
Richard Gere was offered the part of Edward Lewis starring opposite to Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman" (1990), but he turned it down a few times. Gere felt that "There wasn't a part. There was just nothing. The joke was it was just a suit. You could put a suit on a goat and put it out there, and it would work." For the role, Julia Roberts did screen tests with 10 other actors including Charles Grodin. One day, Garry Marshall brought Julia Roberts to Richard Gere's office. He introduced them and excused himself to the restroom. "I was so mesmerized I don't remember Garry," Gere admitted. "I only remember the girl." When Marshall returned, he found that they had great chemistry. They were getting to know each other & were flirty. Then Marshall asked Gere, "How's it going?" Immediately, Julia Roberts, who was sitting across Gere's desk, took a Post-it note and wrote, "Please say yes" & pushed it towards Gere. He said, "It was so sweet, and after that, it was, 'I just said yes.'" P.S: Happy 77th birthday, Richard Gere!
DepressedBergman437,054 views • 3 days ago
This is up there with some of the greatest endings of all time.
DepressedBergman1,828,893 views • 9 days ago
Pope Francis considered "Babette's Feast" (1987) to be "One of the best movies he had ever seen" & it was one of his top 3 movies of all time. About the film, he said, "The story takes place in a very strict Calvinist community in Denmark. The protagonists, two sisters, daughters of a Protestant pastor, had each fallen in love but rejected this feeling because it was wrongly considered contrary to the very strict morals they had inherited. They lived a life of renunciation, not only in love but in everything, including food and clothing. A kind of continuous self-flagellation. The French cook Babette, a ‘foreigner’ in this context, after winning a rich lottery prize, decides to cook a sublime meal for the whole community, and by this gesture she manages to make everyone feel and see human beauty. She manages to make them perceive this divine pleasure that has been wrongly suppressed for too long. Choosing one’s own food is one of those choices. It is a powerful mechanism for change: it means rewarding one productive and economic model rather than another." P.S: On this day, 39 years ago, Gabriel Axel's "Babette's Feast" (1987) was released in Denmark.
DepressedBergman766,132 views • 6 days ago
Alberto Barbera, the President of the Venice Festival, said that the premire of "Under the Skin" (2013) was one of the worst screenings he had ever attended. According to him, Scarlett Johansson was almost in tears because of the audience's response & it was the only time the audience booed a film. Barbera then tried to console her by saying, "Don’t worry, in time the film will be recognised." He later said, "And that’s exactly what happened. It’s now a cult movie.” "Under the Skin" (2013) was named as 'The Best British film of the 21st century' in a poll of critics. ("‘We knew we would face insults’: Venice film festival’s Alberto Barbera on including Polanski and Allen", Nadia Khomami, The Guardian, 2023) P.S: On this day, 13 years ago, "Under the Skin" (2013) premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, USA.
DepressedBergman455,348 views • 5 days ago
Paul Verhoeven was very dissatisfied with "Hollow Man" (2000). He became so depressed that it took him 6 more years to make his next movie. It was also his last American film. He considers it the "Worst film" he has ever done & regrets making it. He said, “I decided after "Hollow Man" (2000), this is a movie, the first movie that I made that I thought I should not have made. It made money and this and that, but it really is not me anymore. I think many other people could have done that. I don’t think many people could have made 'Robocop' (1987) that way, or either 'Starship Troopers' (1997). But 'Hollow Man', I thought there might have been 20 directors in Hollywood who could have done that. I felt depressed with myself after 2002.”
DepressedBergman1,530,460 views • 12 days ago
![To prepare for his role in "The Road" (2009), Viggo Mortensen lived on red meat & dark chocolate to lose weight and slept in his movie costume [filthy rags]. According to director John Hillcot, Mortensen didn't even bathe. When Mortensen went into a local shop one day wearing his movie outfit, security was called to remove him from the premises, thinking he was a homeless bum. P.S: On this day, 17 years ago, "The Road" (2009) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Italy.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2095239187327041552/amplify_video_thumb/2095239080330301440/img/Zp74qw1yHzhTrhOe.jpg)
To prepare for his role in "The Road" (2009), Viggo Mortensen lived on red meat & dark chocolate to lose weight and slept in his movie costume [filthy rags]. According to director John Hillcot, Mortensen didn't even bathe. When Mortensen went into a local shop one day wearing his movie outfit, security was called to remove him from the premises, thinking he was a homeless bum. P.S: On this day, 17 years ago, "The Road" (2009) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Italy.
DepressedBergman55,926 views • 23 hours ago
When Robert De Niro arrived for the filming of "American Hustle" (2013), he met every cast member and shook their hands. De Niro met Christian Bale first and kind of blew by him like he was a nobody. Afterwards, he asked David O. Russell, "Who is that fat guy?". Russell replied, "That’s Christian Bale." He said, ‘No, no, no, the fat guy, the guy who’s talking to Jeremy Renner right now.’ Russell reaffirmed that it was Christian Bale. Finally, De Niro was convinced—“Wow, he looks really different.”—and Russell had to take him back to reintroduce him. This time De Niro looked Bale in the eye and said, ‘Oh my God, so nice to meet you.” ("David O. Russell Reveals That Robert DeNiro Didn’t Recognize Christian Bale on the ‘American Hustle’ Set", Film Independent, 2013)
DepressedBergman1,348,504 views • 14 days ago
It was reported that after watching Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" (1955) at the Cannes Film Festival, François Truffaut said, "I don't want to see a movie of peasants eating with their hands" and had stated that the movie was "Insipid". When Truffaut was asked about it in 1977, he retorted immediately & said, “On the contrary, I wanted to see 'Pather Panchali' once again after it ended. I did struggle with its pace initially but realised it had to be that way because the film isn’t about poverty at all. It’s a coming-of-age work about children being introduced to the horrors and wonders of life.” P.S: On this day, 71 years ago, "Pather Panchali" (1955) was released in India.
DepressedBergman565,449 views • 7 days ago
At first, Emmanuel Lubezki deemed the mission of filming the Car scene in "Children of Men" (2006) impossible. So Alfonso Cuarón dared him by saying he would do the scene in CGI. However, Lubezki felt it went against everything they were trying to do, especially the documentary-like feel of the movie. Lubezki took it as a challenge and the scene was completed in a single take. Lubezki said, “On 'Y Tu Mamá También' (2001), we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors and there are no cuts and you feel like you’re there. When Alfonso started talking to me about the scene in 'Children of Men' (2006), he said, ‘I would love to do it in one shot, and I have an idea: Why don’t we put the car on a stage and surround it with a green screen?’ Basically, to shoot it as a visual effect. For probably a week, I was thinking that way, until I realized it was absolutely the wrong way to do it. The rest of the movie was going to have a very naturalistic, almost documentary-like feel to it, and maybe the best way to shoot it was to really be in the car with the actors. At that time, we didn’t have much support for doing those very long scenes, because the other people around us were used to cutting and doing these scenes in a very Burbank way. They’d say, ‘Why bother? What a waste of effort.’ In reality, we could not shoot it more than two or three times, because the scene is so long and the choreography is so complex that it takes hours to reset between takes. So we did our first attempt, and when we said ‘Cut,’ we had achieved it on the first take, and the actors were screaming. They couldn’t believe it! I’ve never seen something like that, where they were shouting like little kids, ‘Yeah, we did it!’ The guy who was operating the crane? He was crying. It was that release of tension.” ("The Future is Now: Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’ Paints a Bleak Picture of a World Devoid of Humanity", Koraljka Suton, Cinephilia & Beyond) P.S: On this day, 20 years ago, "Children of Men" (2006) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Italy.
DepressedBergman43,303 views • 1 day ago
Character introduction scenes in movies seldom get hotter than this one.
DepressedBergman1,372,962 views • 20 days ago
RIP Dolly Parton (1946-2026) Knowing that she'd be starring opposite Burt Reynolds in "The Best Little Wh0rehouse in Texas" (1982), it was Dolly Parton's idea to have Miss Mona and the Sheriff romantically involved, though she faced criticism from both the screenwriter and critics for this drastic deviation from the real-life story which inspired the film. She said, “When they started askin’ for suggestions, I said I would like to see more of a romance. Wouldn’t you feel like you wasted five dollars if you paid to see Wh0rehouse and you didn’t see me and Burt kiss? I was makin’ a joke, and I stuck to it. I’m not going to miss my chance to kiss Burt Reynolds". (Dolly Parton's interview with Chet Flippo, The Rolling Stone, 1980 & IMDb)
DepressedBergman507,739 views • 9 days ago