Johnny Fontane
09-02-2003, 09:00 AM
This is an excerpt from an interview with John Waters about his film "Cecil B. Demented":
"CF: Melanie Griffith is kind of drag queeny in this film.
JW: Well, it's a different look than Revlon! It's an old tradition in my movies that the stars get there and sob when they see their costumes. That scene where they give her her makeover and she says, "Oh, my god. I look terrible!" and everybody applauds -- that's true. But Melanie had no qualms with dialogue or anything. She didn't mind saying the rudest stuff. She spent three days in a porno theater with all the extras jerking off around her.She wanted to make this movie. But you know, movie stars have to reinvent themselves if they're in their forties. We don't have forty-year-old women movie stars. No women star in movies, except Julia Roberts, and she's not forty. Computer effects and men are the stars of big budget movies."
I've never seen this movie, so I don't exactly have much context as to why she might do this to "prepare" for her role. In any event, do you think this could possibly be true? It sounds pretty outrageous, but not inconceivable. What do you think?
http://www.grandinotizie.it/image/g/000/00040.jpg
"You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!"
"CF: Melanie Griffith is kind of drag queeny in this film.
JW: Well, it's a different look than Revlon! It's an old tradition in my movies that the stars get there and sob when they see their costumes. That scene where they give her her makeover and she says, "Oh, my god. I look terrible!" and everybody applauds -- that's true. But Melanie had no qualms with dialogue or anything. She didn't mind saying the rudest stuff. She spent three days in a porno theater with all the extras jerking off around her.She wanted to make this movie. But you know, movie stars have to reinvent themselves if they're in their forties. We don't have forty-year-old women movie stars. No women star in movies, except Julia Roberts, and she's not forty. Computer effects and men are the stars of big budget movies."
I've never seen this movie, so I don't exactly have much context as to why she might do this to "prepare" for her role. In any event, do you think this could possibly be true? It sounds pretty outrageous, but not inconceivable. What do you think?
http://www.grandinotizie.it/image/g/000/00040.jpg
"You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!"