In the annals of film coulda-beens, Julie Delpy's near-casting in "The Da Vinci Code" ain't exactly Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones, but, even though the movie went on to gross nearly $800 million worldwide, the "2 Days in Paris" actress isn't losing sleep over the fact that she got snubbed for the role which eventually went to Audrey Tautou.
"I never saw the film," she laughed. "I was not crazy for the book."
We'll leave the book debate for another day (although we WILL quote Roger Ebert: "I should read a potboiler like 'The Da Vinci Code' every once in a while," he wrote, "Just to remind myself that life is too short to read books like 'The Da Vinci Code.'"), but Delpy would seem a pretty inspired choice for the character of Sophie Neveu. So why didn't she get the part?
"They told my agent they needed someone with more depth," she revealed. "So they got someone with more depth. What does that mean, 'more depth?'" Read More...
The film "2 Days in Paris" is NOT "Before Sunset." Yes, Julie Delpy stars (alongside Adam Goldberg this time) and yes, she co-wrote the new film as she did the 2004 sequel to "Before Sunrise," but this is a comedy first and foremost, and a biting one at that. The always outspoken Delpy spoke with me the other day about her new film and what she thinks the future holds for her and Ethan Hawke's characters in that other relationship movie of hers.
"Before Sunset" is one of my favorite movies; apparently this makes it my fault that they haven't made a sequel, joked star Ethan Hawke. "If the film had been totally ignored we probably already would have made a third one," Hawke revealed to MTV News. "[Director] Rick [Linklater] said to me the other day, 'It's that whole thing of people coming up to you at dinner parties and saying [they] know what happened to [Jesse and Celine]. You don't want to deal with it.'"
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