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on 2008/10/5 23:19:32
Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't prepared for the intensity of filming the violent spy thriller ``Body of Lies.''
DiCaprio arrived for location shooting in Morocco a few weeks after completing ``Revolutionary Road,'' about a couple seeking fulfillment in a Connecticut suburb. The contrast, he said, was jolting.
Filming ``Revolutionary Road'' was like appearing in ``a 1950s play or something where we were talking about our feelings for months at a time, and then I wound up in Morocco with missiles being shot at me,'' DiCaprio said during a Los Angeles press briefing with director Ridley Scott and co-star Russell Crowe. ``It was a bizarre transition.''
DiCaprio also was thrown off by the different approaches of the directors. Sam Mendes of ``Revolutionary Road'' was a methodical planner who rehearsed every scene. Scott often called for impromptu shots, DiCaprio said.
The toughest part of making ``Body of Lies'' was a torture scene in which DiCaprio's character, a U.S. intelligence operative, is interrogated by al-Qaeda operatives. The scene, DiCaprio said, is pivotal to the story line and the character.
``We knew we had to knock it out of the park,'' DiCaprio said. ``I got sick for three days after that scene because there was so much intensity to that.''
The Warner Bros. film, based on a book by David Ignatius, opens Oct. 10.
`Rescue Me'
Tommy Gavin, the tormented firefighter played by Denis Leary in the television drama ``Rescue Me,'' is getting a new antagonist.
Michael J. Fox, who rarely acts these days because he suffers from Parkinson's disease, will join the series for five or six episodes as the love interest of Tommy's estranged wife, portrayed by Andrea Roth.
Fox will play a paraplegic whose cocky attitude annoys Tommy, FX President John Landgraf said in an interview. ``Rescue Me,'' created by Leary and Peter Tolan, returns to the network for a fifth season in March.
Fox's last recurring TV role was in 2006, as a drug company executive in ``Boston Legal.''
Vampire Tale
``Cloverfield'' director Matt Reeves will write and direct an English-language version of the new Swedish vampire film ``Let the Right One In.''
Based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, it tells the story of lonely 12-year-old boy who befriends a girl who appears on the playground only at night. Her arrival coincides with a series of grisly murders.
The Swedish film, which won the best narrative feature award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, is scheduled to open Oct. 24 in New York and Los Angeles.
Reeves's version will be produced by Beverly Hills, California-based Overture Films and Hammer Film Productions, the U.K.-based maker of horror classics such as the 1958 version of ``Dracula'' starring Christopher Lee and ``The Curse of Frankenstein.''
``Cloverfield'' is about a gigantic creature that destroys much of Manhattan. Reeves also is set to direct ``The Invisible Woman,'' working from his own screenplay.
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