Friday, September 26
Mary Elizabeth Winstead has lots of jobs couple of years. Following her star turn in Final Destination 3, the North Carolina-born actress scored parts in such high-profile pics as Bobby, Grindhouse and Factory Girl. She also won the role of Lucy, John McClane's (Bruce Willis) daughter in the last Die Hard movie - beating hundreds of other actresses to the coveted part.
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Printable versionWednesday, September 3
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, star of Final Destination 3, had not danced professionally for five years when she walked into the rehearsals for Make It Happen.
"The first day, I thought they were going to kill me, that I was never going to be able to walk again," says Winstead, on the line from Los Angeles. "The next day, I couldn't get up or down. I just had to throw myself on to the chair as my legs were so shaky."
For six weeks leading up to the shoot, Winstead rehearsed moves eight hours a day. "It was quite intense and exhausting and they didn't cut me any slack," she says. Winstead plays Lauryn, a girl from the sticks who moves to the city to audition for the Chicago School of Music.
Make It Happen is set in Chicago, which looks almost wholly unlike Winnipeg, Canada, where the film was shot. "It's quite different but we did go to Chicago for a few days and got a few exteriors of all the landmarks," Winstead says. "Because we only had a couple of days, it was like 'There's something over there - shoot it. There's something else - shoot it'."
"The first day, I thought they were going to kill me, that I was never going to be able to walk again," says Winstead, on the line from Los Angeles. "The next day, I couldn't get up or down. I just had to throw myself on to the chair as my legs were so shaky."
For six weeks leading up to the shoot, Winstead rehearsed moves eight hours a day. "It was quite intense and exhausting and they didn't cut me any slack," she says. Winstead plays Lauryn, a girl from the sticks who moves to the city to audition for the Chicago School of Music.
Make It Happen is set in Chicago, which looks almost wholly unlike Winnipeg, Canada, where the film was shot. "It's quite different but we did go to Chicago for a few days and got a few exteriors of all the landmarks," Winstead says. "Because we only had a couple of days, it was like 'There's something over there - shoot it. There's something else - shoot it'."
Sunday, August 10
Mary Elizabeth Winstead reveals that ballet's lame motion is crueller than
Hollywood.
She tells her story when she was in the ballet world, "I used to audition all
the time for summer programmes. You have no name; you're a number; you're a body
and nothing else. There are some companies who just look at you and cut you
based on how you look, or how your feet look or some other completely arbitrary
reason. It's pretty brutal."
"They are definitely more ruthless than Hollywood auditions. In Hollywood
everyone is nice, whether they're fake or not, they're nice to you. In the
ballet world they don't care about being nice. They'll just tell you if you
suck."
That sounds harsh..
Source: Independent
Friday, August 1
Mary Elizabeth Winstead had suffered for a month to fit her body for her role as a sexy burlesque dancer in Make It Happen.
The sexy brunette confessed, "It took a month of 10 hours a day training sessions, dancing constantly. It was really rigorous so it was highly rewarding to see it on screen.
"Normally I'd feel self conscious about being in a sports bra, but this time I was like, 'I've been exercising so much I'm gonna do it."
The result of a misery is a sexy body.
Source: The Sun
Friday, May 16
A movie 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' directed by Edgar Wright is now in Pre-production status.
The director has chosen Michael Cera who was successfully playing his role as Paulie Bleeker in Juno (2007), and now reportedly is in negotiations with Mary Elizabeth Winstead to star opposite Cera in that Universal's film.
Winstead will play an American delivery girl named Ramona V. Flowers, the dream woman of a 23-year-old Canadian slacker (Cera) who must battle and defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends to win her heart.
The 24-year-old actress is now in the post-production of 'Make It Happen' (2008) where she plays Lauryn; young woman from a small town in Indiana who moves to Chicago with dreams of entering the Chicago School of Music and Dance.
About the latest film she is about to starring, Scott Pilgrim, is originally a comic character which was recently ranked 89th on Wizard magazine’s list of the 200 Greatest Comic Characters of All Time.