It's "totally absurd and insane and goofy," Julie Delpy said of "World Wars and Other Fun Stuff to Watch on the Evening News." It's a script that people "would kill to see," she insisted, "outrageous and crazy." It's a political satire that she places as a cross between "Dr. Strangelove" and "Monty Python."
And it may never get to get made.
"I'm facing the [the] problem [of finding] financiers. They're terrified of serious political subject matter dealt with in a crazy way," she asserted. "They think you'll lose this demographic and that demographic, but it's all bull. I wish people were more ballsy. Financiers are chickens." Read more...
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.
MTV: I think some people may be taken aback expecting another "Before Sunset" when they walk into this.
Julie Delpy: Well, the way I financed the film is I kind of tricked the financiers into giving me money. A friend of mine said, "Why don't you make a film that seems like ‘Before Sunset,' because that's what you were successful for and then make a very different film?" So it's about an American guy and a French girl in Paris. But then it's very, very different.
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Ethan Hawke may be out of Julie Delpy's upcoming drama, "The Countess," but she's just added a dose of cool to the growing cast with one of our favorite actors: William Hurt.
Delpy, currently making the rounds promoting her feature directing debut "2 Days in Paris," was excited to tell us that "William Hurt is now on board. And so is Daniel Bruhl (who appears in her current film), a fantastic German actor."
So who does Hurt portray in this telling of Elizabeth Bathory, the famed "blood Countess" of the 16th century? Delpy told us he "is playing the most Machiavellian [character]. He's not a murderer. He's a very powerful man. There's a lot of political intrigue." Read more...
"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.'"
The second film ended with Jesse [Hawke] in Celine's (Julie Delpy) Parisian apartment, listening to the love that got away sing along with a record. "Baby, you are gonna miss that plane," she says. "I know," Jesse replies.
Allow me to speak for all the fans of the series, then, when I ask: "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?" (Find out after the jump). Read more...
