photo by Grant FalveyHEART-THROBS: Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell filming at Hoo Hollywood stars descended on North Kent this week to film scenes for a new movie (Jenni Horn writes).Legendary funny man and film director, Woody Allen, along with Irish heart-throb Colin Farrell and Scotsman Ewan McGregor, arrived in Hoo, near Rochester, to shoot part of a film due to be released next year.The production, currently known only as Woody Allen’s Summer Project 2006, follows the story of two brothers (Farrell and McGregor) who suffer severe financial troubles and turn to crime to solve their problems. But their plan goes wrong and they become enemies. It is thought the rest of the action is set in London, where filming began last month.Farrell, who stars in the film Miami Vice, and McGregor, who appeared in Star Wars and Trainspotting, were at Hoo Marina on Monday and Tuesday to film scenes aboard Cassandra’s Dream.Director and writer of the movie Woody Allen was also on site along with relatively unknown actress Hayley Atwell who plays McGregor’s love interest.The film also features British actor Tom Wilkinson who starred in Batman Begins.Hoo Marina was a hub of activity as camera men, security guards, crew and press milled around.Source: www.kentonline.co.uk
Ewan and Colin Farrell filming on August 10, 2006. We’ve also added a new still from Scenes of a Sexual Nature 🙂
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we�re all involved in it. However, the only thing that truly connects us is our attempt to connect. Whether it be emotional, physical, subliminal or sexual, as human beings we need to make contact with others. But what are the rules? How do we really know whether someone likes us let alone is in love with us? How do we decide whether to connect with another person for a moment indeed a lifetime?The word that gets used most when discussing these issues is love. According to many great thinkers love is an unattainable notion that is driven more by need than reality, according to others it is the only thing that makes the otherwise intolerable idea of life remotely worth attempting. Scenes Of A Sexual Nature is a film that looks at some of our attempts to find it and how we behave in love, in lust and in trouble.Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath seven stories are linked by a thirty-something couple as they walk and walk and walk without uttering a word, so much to say to one another and no way of saying it. The film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. Whether it be a divorcing couple discussing how they ever got together, while walking their kid, a gay couple grappling with the very notion that they are now allowed to adopt or an old couple who realise they were once in love forty years ago, the film confronts our assumptions at every turn. It looks at the desperate attempts of a young man to get a young woman into bed, made trickier by the fact she’s just been dumped by her lover, and the case of what happens when a happily married couple are presented with the dilemma of the wife catching her husband staring at a teenage girl’s underwear. We look at the extremes of hope and need set against individual identity through the story of a Blind Date piq-niq where two forty-somethings search awkwardly and desperately for evidence that another person may be enough like them to be a mate and at the case of the man knows it�s all impossible and just prefers to pay for his affection.Scenes Of A Sexual Nature is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick and it seems that what makes us tick is complex, dark and ludicrously funny. Genre: RomanceUK release date: 27/10/2006Starring: Ewan McGregor, Sophie Okonedo, Catherine TateDirected by: Ed BlumOfficial Website: Click hereThanks to Roberta for the link 🙂
The September issue of Premiere (US) magazine has a behind the scenes look at Trainspotting. Great Scots! Ten years ago, “Trainspotting” scored with its controversial look at the adventures, both hilarious and heartbreaking, of a group of Edinburgh addicts. Premiere goes behind the scenes with the stars who showed the world why “It’s shite being Scottish.” Thanks to Wegan for sharing her scans with us! 🙂
Reagan Gavin Rasquinha7 Aug, 2006 VJ-actor Sophie Choudhry has given up London for Mumbai, as the sale of her family home in London proves it.And, the person who bought her house is none other than British actor Ewan McGregor (of Trainspotting and Moulin Rouge fame, to name a few).So how does Sophie feel about selling her house? “I am extremely serious about living in Mumbai, and that’s why I sold the old place. It was pretty emotional for me, pack- up a house that had 20 years of memories in it.The sale was a really private issue and it was done through the agents, of course. I’m really pleased that Ewan liked my home.”And what was it that made Ewan choose this place? “The house has got five large bedrooms, a big garden and is in Hampstead which is ten minutes away from Central London. It’s pretty big,” she says.So did she get to meet Ewan? “Generally abroad, when people buy property, it’s done through agents. I didn’t get to meet him, I just went there to pack my things up. In fact, the caretaker of my house got to meet him!” she laughs.Source: www.timesofindia.indiatimes.comThanks to Roberta for the link!
