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Dec.12 - Dec.19, 2004 |
The stars come out during the Film Festival
Actors Cage, Blanchett, Rossellini, Del Toro, Washington speak up during annual event
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2003-09-14
Matchstick Men
The first major press conference of this year's Toronto International Film festival took place yesterday afternoon with none other than a Knight, an Oscar-winning performer, and two of the most promising actors in the business today.
Sir Ridley Scott and Nicolas Cage entertained journalists as they answered questions about their latest movie, Matchstick Men, alongside co-stars Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman.
"I met Ridley over 15 years ago," said Cage when asked why it took so long for the two to make a film together. "And we always talked about working together, but the right project never came along. Then this dropped on Ridley's lap, and he told me about, and we both knew it was the right time."
The film stars Cage as an obsessive-compulsive con-man who must contend with his precocious teenage daughter (Lohman) and an overtly concerned protégé (Sam Rockwell).
Meanwhile Rockwell, who received accolades last year for playing Chuck Barris in George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, working opposite Cage and Scott was a dream come true. "I've always made sure that the roles I choose are challenging, but also fun. And working with Nic was like a rollercoaster, never a dull moment."
And it was Cage who got the final laugh during the conference after his cell-phone interrupted the proceedings. He got good-natured grilling from the press - often chastised for not turning off the ringers - which he took in stride.
Emile
Better known lately as the Magneto in X-Men, Sir Ian McKellen told a packed press conference that he was happy to have made the small Canadian film Emile.
"There's a constant state of high energy. Sometimes when you're on a big movie the energy is just seeping out of the trailer. On this it was just Wham! Wham! Wham! You get to the end of the day and think, 'Wow, we just did 10 pages.' So, if I had to choose between one or the other, I'd probably choose this way, but people have to have breakfast," he said with a wink.
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