Post by stormy on Nov 14, 2005 20:19:24 GMT -5
Cillian on “At the IFC Center” 11/14/05
(sic) means it's exactly the way he pronounced it.
You can hear “Children of the Revolution” in the background of a lot of this, clips and interview.
Interviewer (Alison Bailes ):
CM: If you’re going to set a movie about sort of –you know, a character looking for – looking for acceptance and looking for love and but -- but messing about with that duality of sexuality and everything that androgyny and everything, the 70s was the best era because Bowie was doing it, and Jagger was doing it – it was all that thing, you know. And the clothes were the coolest.
(Clips)
CM: A protagonist, generally, in a movie changes – starts off as one thing and becomes another, whereas, in this picture, Kitten is relentlessly herself all the way through the picture and other people change, as a result of meeting her and encountering her.
(Clip)
AB: You refer to her as ‘she’.
Cillian: I didn’t ever want to have the character described as ‘effeminate’ or – I wanted her to be femiNINE (sic), and I think if you can achieve femininity then you can counteract all that kind of queeny, campy stuff, which is easy to do, you know, um. And I think the whole tranvestiteism (sic) and drag thing is when you see the movie I mean not the main I mean, you know, it’s peripheral to it.
AB: Did you enjoy tapping into that, though: the feminine side?
CM: Yeah, absolutely, it was wonderful. I mean, that’s what we get to do as actors, for like, 3 months of the year you get to be this very strange, very wonderful lovely character and I loved it, you know I really – and particularly this character, because there isn’t a bad bone in her body, you know what I mean, it’s all so giving and so warm and good.
(Clip w/Bertie, mommy, Windmills)
(Sound quality bad)
AB: What about Neil Jordan? I mean, wow, he’s got some amazing films.
CM: Some of those films are, to me, very, very important films to me – growing up, even before I was an actor – and as an actor they have influenced me and I think, stylistically and the way he uses the camera and he’s very much not limited by his extraction the way some people from Ireland, I think – artists can be, in that he isn’t making, you know, “Interview with the Vampire” or “The End of the Affair”. Then, you know, there’s the obvious Irish- themed movies but he’s a true sort of international artist and director.
(Clip = subway, Bertie, rose in teacup, “Fantastic”, BoP)
AB: And CM is having a banner year, you may already have seen him in Batman Begins as the villainous Scarecrow, and in Red Eye with Rachel McAdams.
(sic) means it's exactly the way he pronounced it.
You can hear “Children of the Revolution” in the background of a lot of this, clips and interview.
Interviewer (Alison Bailes ):
CM: If you’re going to set a movie about sort of –you know, a character looking for – looking for acceptance and looking for love and but -- but messing about with that duality of sexuality and everything that androgyny and everything, the 70s was the best era because Bowie was doing it, and Jagger was doing it – it was all that thing, you know. And the clothes were the coolest.
(Clips)
CM: A protagonist, generally, in a movie changes – starts off as one thing and becomes another, whereas, in this picture, Kitten is relentlessly herself all the way through the picture and other people change, as a result of meeting her and encountering her.
(Clip)
AB: You refer to her as ‘she’.
Cillian: I didn’t ever want to have the character described as ‘effeminate’ or – I wanted her to be femiNINE (sic), and I think if you can achieve femininity then you can counteract all that kind of queeny, campy stuff, which is easy to do, you know, um. And I think the whole tranvestiteism (sic) and drag thing is when you see the movie I mean not the main I mean, you know, it’s peripheral to it.
AB: Did you enjoy tapping into that, though: the feminine side?
CM: Yeah, absolutely, it was wonderful. I mean, that’s what we get to do as actors, for like, 3 months of the year you get to be this very strange, very wonderful lovely character and I loved it, you know I really – and particularly this character, because there isn’t a bad bone in her body, you know what I mean, it’s all so giving and so warm and good.
(Clip w/Bertie, mommy, Windmills)
(Sound quality bad)
AB: What about Neil Jordan? I mean, wow, he’s got some amazing films.
CM: Some of those films are, to me, very, very important films to me – growing up, even before I was an actor – and as an actor they have influenced me and I think, stylistically and the way he uses the camera and he’s very much not limited by his extraction the way some people from Ireland, I think – artists can be, in that he isn’t making, you know, “Interview with the Vampire” or “The End of the Affair”. Then, you know, there’s the obvious Irish- themed movies but he’s a true sort of international artist and director.
(Clip = subway, Bertie, rose in teacup, “Fantastic”, BoP)
AB: And CM is having a banner year, you may already have seen him in Batman Begins as the villainous Scarecrow, and in Red Eye with Rachel McAdams.
