I've always wanted to really play a villain-esque character. I think it's great for young women to see that.Įvelyn is also a strong woman who has gone through challenges. Shailene Woodley plays this fantastic, young woman who's going through all kinds of challenges and is able to come out on top over and over again. It will be quite sad when it comes to an end." "I look forward to it when we go back this summer (to film the concluding film Ascendant). "Evelyn needed to resolve this relationship with her son, coupled with her need to take control of Chicago and you have the face-off with Octavia Spencer's character Johanna (Amity faction's representative). But instead of seeing Hall Pass, Battle: Los Angeles or Fair Game, you might be better off watching or re-watching Bottle Rocket, In the Company of Men and Mulholland Drive.Watts, who has two sons with her partner, US actor-producer Liev Schreiber, told M: "The stakes were higher and emotions were hotter. Well, it's not entirely fair to blame the actors, who have to work. Mulholland Drive was what put Naomi Watts on the map, but nothing since then has been anywhere near as good. Her dual "audition" scene is quite enough on its own to earn Naomi Watts her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – when she first wittily runs through her piece for her friend, and then later, when it comes to doing it for real, takes it to the next level with a passionate, brilliant reading. You just have to remember her glorious breakthrough in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, as the young wannabe screen star. Watts gives a performance of egregious blandness, in a film whose smug awfulness I shall discuss in depth later this week. This is probably the most painful comedown of all. Can he ever tap into that dark inspiration again? Naomi Watts in Fair Game, directed by Doug Liman I suspect he may have spent his subsequent career living down that creation. Eckhart was booed and barracked by women at screenings and Q&As, perhaps because they thought Eckhart was relishing the performance too much. "Evil" is a word used casually in the movies, but he is evil, there's just no other word. Aaron Eckhart plays a boorish corporate executive who sets out to destroy the life of a hearing-impaired woman in his office, by dating her and dumping her - out of pure misogynist hate. People who see this film, and know nothing of Eckhart's career may not know that he made an extraordinary breakthrough in Neil LaBute's satirical nightmare In The Company of Men (1997). Nothing out of the ordinary or interesting about Eckhart here in any way at all. Standard-issue beefcake, albeit an older guy. Can't Mr Wilson sit down to watch Bottle Rocket and resolve to get back to his roots? Aaron Eckhart in Battle: Los Angeles, directed by Jonathan LiebesmanĮckhart plays a Marine sergeant, a straight-up handsome, rugged, all-American male. After some great stuff in Zoolander and Meet the Parents, and some great voice work in the animations Cars and The Fantastic Mr Fox, well, all of his charm seems to have fallen away. Right there is the spark, the fun, the likability and the sheer individuality of Owen Wilson, all the things which gave him his career. For contrast, put on the DVD of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket (1996), an off-the-wall comedy which Anderson co-wrote with Wilson, who co-stars with his brother Luke. But all of Wilson's funky, goofy shtick is nowhere. Wilson has to play a basically nice, married, middle-aged guy who still lusts after women, the sort of role that could go to Kevin James, if you want to play up his corpulence, or maybe Jason Bateman, if disillusion is the important thing.
It's a pretty awful comedy, tired, almost contemptuously lazy, without any of the Farrellys' inspired black humour.
Owen Wilson in Hall Pass, directed by the Farrelly Brothers
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