Showing posts with label Toronto International Film Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toronto International Film Festival. Show all posts
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Friday, December 7, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Kristen's Full Interview with Movieline
Stewart spoke with ML during the Toronto International Film Festival where the
film had its North American premiere. She shared thoughts on her character's
"hard love," how she grew herself being a part of the film and how this was the
"biggest experience" she's felt on a set.So what was your road to On the Road?
I was 14 or 15 when I first met Walter Salles. I spoke to him when I was 17, I think I may have shot the first Twilight, I'm not sure - possibly I was about to go do it. At first I was talking about playing another part, so it's been a long time coming. I don't know how I was able to get around that kind of energy, but to convey that I loved this thing in the way [Walter Salles] does and as soon as you get around that energy it passes between you, nothing really needs to be said. I got the job on the spot, and I drove away just vibrating. I was like, 'Are you kidding me?' Plus I was very young, I wasn't quite old enough for the part yet.
When I read the book many years ago, I found it sprawling and didn't seem to have elements that would make it translatable to the screen - at least I remember thinking that at the time. What did you think of the book when you first read it?
I was reading it for school, so I had to read it. I did independent study when I was in high school. I remember, I took so long to read the book. All I had to do was read it and write a report, it wasn't like I had to do an intensive study of the book, and it took me months and months - I was late. But, I think my teacher was OK with it because I think ultimately the paper was good.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Toronto 'On the Road' Promo Guide
Thursday September 6, 2012
- 'On the Road' Toronto International Film Festival Premiere
- Includes HQ Pics, Fan Pics and Videos from the Red Carpet
- Also includes Fan Pics and Videos during the Q+A
- More Fan Pics Added here and here
- Fan Video Added here
- Fan Pics and Video Added here
- Interviews from the Red Carpet
- CityTV: Kristen and Garrett Talk about OTR and preparing for nude scenes
- ET Online: Talks about feeling proud of On the Road
- PopSugar: Talks about pressure of making On the Road
- Associated Press: Talks about how she felt playing Marylou
- Yahoo: Talks about leaving her meeting with Walter
- MTV: Talks Fan Support, BD2 Trailer, and pressure of making OTR
- The Canadian Press: Talks about Reading OTR
- Access Hollywood: Talks about how proud she is of the whole cast
- Screenslam: Talks about working on OTR
- ET Canada: Talks about being a fan of the book and pushing her limits
- Extra: Talks about Fan Support and what dress she's wearing
- CBC: Kristen talks about playing Marylou
Friday September 7 + Saturday September 8
- 'On the Road' Press Junket Interviews
- Tribute.ca - Talks about meeting the character's family members
- Metro - Kristen talks about the pressure of playing Marylou and answers Twitter Questions
- The Globe and Mail - Talks about her road trip and Marylou
- City TV - Talks about the dance scene and driving the car
- eTalk - Kristen talks about what quality of Marylou would she wish had
- The Ottawa Citizen - Kristen talks about how much she wanted to be apart of OTR
- Toronto Star - Kristen talks about OTR effected her at the age of 15
- Now Toronto - Talks about staying true to the book and characters
- MSN Canada - Talks about why playing Marylou if interesting to her
- The Washington Post - Kristen talks about fan support and how Marylou and Dean inspired her
- USA Today - Kristen talks about love scenes and being a fan of OTR
- InStyle - Talks about working with co-stars and Costume Designer, Danny Glicker
- Vanity Fair - Kristen talks about reading OTR and getting the part of Marylou
- ET Canada Uncut - Kristen talks about her time in Montreal
- Movieline - Kristen talks about Dean and Marylou's relationship
- Canada AM - Kristen talks about researching her character
- The Hollywood Reporter - Discuss their starts in Hollywood, love for OTR, and the hardships of living in the public eye.
- Extra - Kristen talks about what drew her to OTR
- Access Hollywood - Kristen talks about how she prepared for OTR
- MTV - Kristen talks about OTR, still not smoking, BD2 and more
- Dp/30- Talks about how she felt reading OTR
- Kristen's Full Interview with Movieline
- New Featurette here
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Kristen and Garrett's Interview with Now Toronto
You can hear the interview clips here
Kristen Stewart swears a lot. It’s great; it instantly makes her a human being rather than the tabloid icon she’s unwillingly become at age 22. (Long story short: She and her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson split up earlier this summer. The reasons why are none of my business, and none of yours either, honestly. But the Twilight movies make hundreds of millions of dollars and there’s one more coming out in November, so apparently it’s news.)
Stewart’s come to TIFF to launch On The Road, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic Beat novel in which she plays Marylou, the sexually adventurous child bride of the charismatic Dean Moriarty. (Yes, there are nude scenes. No, they aren’t explicit.) On the press day, Stewart is paired with Garrett Hedlund, who plays Moriarty. And the two of them were their most animated when they were discussing the freewheeling, improvisational style director Walter Salles encouraged on the shoot.
“There are probably, like, 600 movies within the film that we shot,” Stewart says. “I think the only way to have done this, and be really true to how the book feels, is to not be so connected to [memorizing] lines. I mean, certain things just find their way into your heart, and you’re like, ‘I need to say that. I love that fucking line.’ And that’s fine, as long as you’ve opened yourself up to letting it fall out, rather than trying to do something a certain way.”
The challenge for the actors was keeping themselves in that headspace, which Stewart says she had trouble with.
“I tortured myself in the most amazing, wonderful way for four weeks,” he says, “and then as soon as the four weeks were done it was like, ‘You need to stop thinking, because if you don’t, you’re gonna regret this entire experience. You’re gonna look back and say:s I fucked up. I thought too much.’”
Hedlund credits the resources that were made available to the actors over what turned out to be a very long pre-production period. Both he and Stewart signed onto On The Road in 2007, but it took four years to get to the first day of principal photography. Fortunately, that just let everyone soak up more material.
“We’d gotten so many wonderful stories,” Hedlund says. “From real-life characters like Al Hinkle, who was in the book as Ed Dunkel. Neal [Cassaday]’s son told me a lot of wonderful stories, we’d read plenty of stories from Carolyn Cassady’s Off The Road, wonderful stories from LuAnne Henderson’s audiotapes. We always had stories to go for if there was space for improvisational infusion.”
Stewart says the fact that she was playing a real person – the aforementioned Henderson, who was the basis for Kerouac’s fictional Marylou – made her a little more careful about her own improvisations.
“It’s always fun to have freedom and have, like, happy accidents where you go, ‘Wow, that’s cool, I didn’t expect that,’” Stewart says. “But when you’re playing somebody who’s [actually] existed, you know …” And she stops herself, rethinking her position on the fly.
“I don’t want to discredit what it feels like to play a character who’s been written by somebody,” she continues. “You feel just as responsible to the writer and the character to everyone who’s been affected by that person.”
There is no doubt in my mind that she’s referring to Bella Swan. And I have to respect her instincts; given how many millions of people worship the Twilight movies – and how worried everyone is that those Twi-hards will boycott Breaking Dawn Part Two because of Stewart and Pattinson’s recent breakup – it’s the savvy thing to do. But it’s also crap, and she knows it, because as soon as she’s finished that statement, Stewart returns to her real point and her energy shoots right back up.
“I’ve played Joan Jett,” she says, “and because she was on set every day, I couldn’t improv. I couldn’t. Everything I said, I spoke to her about it. You know – you can’t put words in their mouths unless you know. Unless you really feel it, and it’s coming from the right place.”
“Unless you felt trust,” Hedlund says.
“Precisely,” Stewart says, nodding emphatically. “Because of the time that we put in initially [with the material] and because of the heart that Walter, like, shoved down all of our throats, into our chests, it had to show up. It was impossible for it not to. “
Hedlund picks it up. “And once you know what your character’s instincts are, what their wants and needs are, it can free you up – there can be carelessness, recklessness. There can be emotion.”
“Yes,” Stewart agrees. “Then you can forget everything, and just do it.”
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Kristen to be Interviewed by MTV Movie Night and Canada AM at TIFF 2012
MTV MOVIE NIGHT at the Festival
MTV's MOVIE NIGHT host Johnny Hockin and correspondent Josh Horowitz gives viewers the inside scoop on everything at the Festival. MOVIE NIGHT catches up with Ryan Gosling to discuss his upcoming drama A Place Beyond the Pines and hangs with Snoop Dogg to chat about the premiere of his documentary Reincarnated. From Kristen Stewart to Rob Zombie, Andy Samberg to Colin Farrell, MOVIE NIGHT has the Festival covered. An original production, MOVIE NIGHT airs Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. ET.
CTV NEWS at the Festival
Meanwhile, CANADA AM's Marci Ien wakes up viewers with special Festival coverage on Monday, Sept. 10 from Toronto's Ritz Carleton Hotel. Getting into the Festival spirit, co-hosts Marci Ien and Beverly Thomson interview the biggest stars including Kristen Stewart, Robert Redford, James Earl Jones, and many more. Throughout the Festival, CANADA AM checks in with film critics Richard Crouse and Pete Hammond on the hot films of the Festival; ETALK chats parties and red carpets as Hollywood comes north and descends on Toronto; LouLou Magazine's Liv Judd reports for CANADA AM on what the styling stars are wearing; and travel expert Loren Christie looks at celebrity getaways.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
New Shorter Cut Of 'On The Road' Will Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
From The Playlist:
Decades in the making, the Francis Ford Coppola produced, Walter Salles directed "On The Road" finally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May to a mixed response. The adaptation of Jack Kerouac's seminal novel of a generation was never the easiest thing to bring to the screen, and our review by James Rocchi from the Croisette called it "lustrous but long winded." And indeed, running nearly 2 hours and 20 minutes, this writer was definitely checking his watch during the film. Now as it heads to TIFF, it looks like Salles has hit the editing bay one more time for a new, slimmer cut.
IndieWire recently chatted with IFC Films honcho Jonathan Sehring, and he elaborated on what audiences in Toronto will see. "The response at Cannes was that some people loved it and some people were respectful of it, like some people loved the book. And Walter took a lot of that to heart. He’s gone back, and we’re unveiling a new cut in Toronto, which is about 15 minutes shorter. It’s a little over two hours now. He’s added certain things that weren’t in the cut that was in Cannes," he explained. "He has been in New York and Rio and L.A. working on it the past couple of months, and it’s going to be very wet when it gets to Toronto. We’re locked, but they’re finishing the mix up right now. We’re very, very excited about it."
It will be interesting to see what elements and moments get axed, shuffled and added to the movie, and certainly with an extensive cast featuring a number of actors in brief appearances, we wonder who might ultimately end up on the cutting room floor. If we were to take a wild stab in the dark, we'd wager that Alice Braga might be one who could get sliced out. She plays Terry (aka Bea Franco), a young Mexican woman Kerouac meets on his journey and exchanges letters with that he fictionalized in the novel, and her role is already quite small and a bit inconsequential in the film.
Whether this makes for a smoother, sharper "On The Road" remains to be seen. If anything, Salles has kept the ambling nature of the source material intact, though the cut we saw certainly could've used a bit of a pacing punch up, and this may do the trick. And as Sehring notes, it's the kind of movie that will split audiences. "That novel and that whole Beat thing, people take it so personally. Either they passionately love it or they passionately hate it, and that’s one of the things that really attracted us [to the film] across the board, everyone in the company," he said.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Kristen to be at Toronto International Film Festival on September 6th
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director Toronto International Film Festival, has confirmed that Kristen will be attending the festival!
On the Road will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6th at the Ryerson Theatre!
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
On the Road to be at Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 through September 16. According to Charles Gillibert, 'On the Road' will be there on Septembre 6.
The film schedule will be announced on August 21.
You can get tickets online at TIFF.net/thefestival, by phone at 416-599-TIFF or toll free at 1-888-599-8433 (10 AM to 7 PM daily). You can also get tickets in person at the TIFF Box Office at Reitman Square, 350 King Street West (10 AM to 10 PM daily).
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The film schedule will be announced on August 21.
You can get tickets online at TIFF.net/thefestival, by phone at 416-599-TIFF or toll free at 1-888-599-8433 (10 AM to 7 PM daily). You can also get tickets in person at the TIFF Box Office at Reitman Square, 350 King Street West (10 AM to 10 PM daily).
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