Archive for September, 2009

An HBO biopic starring actress Claire Danes that chronicles Dr. Grandin’s life and experiences over the decades of the 1960s and 1970s is set to air in 2010.

Just Jared Jr – August 21, 2009

Zac Efron was in way over his head when he heard that Claire Danes would be playing his love interest in Richard Linklater’s Me & Orson Welles.

The 21-year-old actor dishes to Blackbook mag, “I was intimidated, even just the name Claire Danes carries such weight with it. I needed to be a worthy love interest in the film and I didn’t know that I had any of the qualities necessary to woo a girl like her.”

Zac continued, “Claire and I were trapped on an island together with nowhere to go for four weeks, like a reality show. My character was supposed to fall in love, but she was also supposed to be out of his league. After meeting Claire, that was definitely the way it was supposed to be.”

Check out the full feature on Miss Claire Danes at BlackBookMag.com.

Black Book – August 26, 2009

Sure, she was still a child in the ’80s. But given her string of command performances, we knew that Claire Danes was perfect for our fashion story on the revival of powerhouse dressing inspired by the greed decade. After all, her strength on-screen — and off — made Zac Efron quake in his boots at the mere thought of working with her in Richard Linklater’s upcoming film, Me and Orson Welles.

As it turns out, she was refreshingly down-to-earth on that set—and on ours, where, in the penthouse of Manhattan’s Cooper Square Hotel, she gamely stepped into this season’s outré fashions with ease (and the occasional half-roll of the eyes). At one point, Danes, who is set to wed actor Hugh Dancy this month, found herself flat on her back, legs in mid-air, with two stylists yanking boots down on each foot: “I’ve never felt so infantilized in my life.” Clad in unwieldy high-heel boots, she laughed about the irony of the situation. “I was playing a character that was seemingly undefeatable and powerful,” said Danes, “yet I couldn’t move. I was actually pretty feeble. But who cares? It’s the land of make-believe.”

Just Jared – August 21, 2009

Claire Danes channels her inner sexy new ‘powerhouse’ look for the cover of the September Fall Fashion issue of BlackBook, on stands next week.

Shot in the penthouse of Manhattan’s Cooper Square Hotel, and inspired by the ‘Greed Decade’, the shoot shows the 30-year-old actress in an entirely new light and is one of the last major photo shoots before her marriage to Hugh Dancy next month. (They will wed in mid-September in France.) “He’s such a cutie patootie,” she says about her fiancé. “Sometimes I forget just how good-looking he is.

At one point Danes found herself flat on her back, legs in mid-air, with two stylists yanking boots down on each foot: “I’ve never felt so infantilized in my life.”

Danes will next star in Richard Linklater’s upcoming film Me and Orson Welles (starring alongside Zac Efron), and a controversial new movie, Temple Grandin.

Check out the full Danes article at BlackBookMag.com.

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NY Times – September 10, 2009

Richard Linklater’s “Me and Orson Welles,” which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, will be released theatrically in the U.S. on November 25.

A coming-of-age drama that involves the legendary director’s 1937 staging of “Julius Caesar,” the film stars Zac Efron and Claire Danes and introduces Christian McKay as the young Orson Welles.

U.K. producer and financier Cinemanx has struck distribution deals with Freestyle Releasing, which will secure theaters, and Warner Bros. Home Video, which will handle the DVD release, and a number of other deals for publicity, sales and advertising.