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The new CillianSite Top 5 topic + more Detectives news
26 April 2007 at 09:18 PM | by Melty_Girl
May's Top 5 topic—and one more fan's list for April
Everyone's Top 5 lists were such fun the first time around, so it's exciting to announce May's Top 5 topic: Top 5 Film Roles That Coulda/Shoulda Gone to Cillian Murphy.
If you could have practiced mind control on casting directors the world over, which roles would you have given to Cillian? And which roles do you think would've appealed to him? There are no right answers—just write down your personal vision, counting down from #5 to #1, and e-mail your list to by 15 May.
In the meantime, we couldn't resist adding one more fantastic list, from new Cillian fan Morrigan—so check it out.
More about making Detectives, Cillian won't be at premiere
The Hollywood Reporter's got a nice feature on Watching the Detectives, which will be seeking American distribution during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York next week. Martin A. Grove reports that Cillian will not be in attendance at the Detectives premiere, because he'll be across the pond shooting The Best Time of Our Lives.
Grove interviewed Detectives director Paul Soter for the story, and got some more interesting nuggets about the filmmaking process, including more about how Cillian's visa problems impacted the production:
"...[Cillian] ended up not getting in until like a day and a half before the first Monday of shooting. So my plan really went out the window in terms of really getting to spend a lot of time with [him and Lucy Liu]."
Murphy, he added, "had to do all his costume stuff on Saturday so I figured we've got Sunday and we'll spend all day Sunday rehearsing. We'll make up for it and we'll get everybody comfortable with each other. And then I had a crisis at home. My wife was pregnant at the time and I ended up having to leave. I think Cillian and Lucy ended up sitting and watching the World Cup finals. So we just didn't rehearse much. I think we just got lucky. They both had really gone through the script a lot. We had had a lot of phone conversations about the characters and they're both really good actors and really responded to each other chemistry-wise. It was a scramble because we shot this thing in 22 days so basically I just tried to have (everything) ready as quick as possible and give the actors as much time on set together as I could.
"Most of the time we just got lucky and they kind of said, 'Oh, let's just shoot it and we'll get a feel for it and we'll play with it.' ...I can only think of two times where we had to sort of send everybody away and say, 'Let's sit down. We aren't quite feeling this scene. Let's talk through it. Let's walk through it.' And you figure out of 22 days of shooting (it's not so terrible) if you only have to really do that twice, where you sort of shut down the set and send everybody away. It ended up being that everybody just enjoyed thinking on their feet that way."
Not only did they have to shoot fast, they had to do it under pretty adverse conditions: 2006 was a particularly muggy, hot summer in the New York metropolitan area. And that's even harder when you're dressed as a cowboy!
"...some of our interiors were unventilated areas. There was one week of shooting where we were (really uncomfortably hot) and it happened to be when everybody was wearing the most clothing in terms of the actors. Like Cillian was wearing t-shirts and jeans for most of the movie, but there was one scene where Cillian was dressed up like Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly so he's got jeans, he's got a denim shirt on, he's got a bandana on his neck, he's got a wool poncho over that and a cowboy hat on top of that. And we're in 95 degree sweltering hot sticky weather. And Lucy's wearing this saloon girl outfit.
"They were both great sports about it. I've seen actors and people on sets really snap under those conditions. I mean, it was ridiculous. We're like toweling these people off and every take we were putting (things like) soaked rags on everybody's head. So there was one week where it really was miserably hot, but—you know what?—again, I got really lucky with my people. Nobody snapped. Nobody complained."
Thanks for The CillianSite Top 5 list, Morrigan!
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