So, there was this LONG blog post from the director about the making of 'City Island' which was not worth posting as a link, but the part about how they got Julianna to sign on was interesting.
If your interested in the entire thing, the link is: link
Otherwise, below is the part about Julianna. Background: Actors has signed on to the project, but によって the time they got the funding to begin shooting, many of them dropped out. It is now like 2 weeks before they are supposed to start and they haven't found an actress to play Joyce (Andy Garcia's wife).
[Disclaimer - everything below this has been copied from the website and is not my words]
And then Andy suggested Julianna Margulies, with whom he'd previously worked in a movie called "The Man From Elysian Fields." How come we hadn't thought of her before? Because she had been in something of a retirement phase ... not working ... living in New York ... got married, had a baby ... and not necessarily 芝居 like she was too interested in going back to work. (This is all a little hard to believe now -- she is, as I'm 書く this, one of the year's great "comeback" event ... but remember, this is the summer of 2008 I'm talking about.) I thought it was a fine idea -- a bit of a long shot perhaps, but why not give it a try?
A couple of days later, she phoned Andy and 発言しました she'd like to meet me.
So there I am, sitting across from Julianna Margulies at DeMarchelier at 86th and Madison. We're less than two weeks away from principal 写真 and as soon as I sit across from this foxy, magnetic and totally down-to-earth woman I suddenly realized: Everything truly does happen for a reason. She was exactly the combination of elements that I wanted for Joyce Rizzo. Attractive, open, funny, unafraid.
We talked around the subject for a bit. How happy she was living in New York again, how much I like it as well, etc., etc. Then we got into the script and I found she had a lot of insight into the role. She also really liked Andy -- we talked about their 前 work together. All the while I'm thinking: This is who always belonged in the movie ... why did it take such a stressful and circuitous route to find her?
And then I started thinking: when is the other shoe going to drop? When is she going to tell me what she doesn't like about it?
But that didn't happen. Instead, after quite a bit of conversation she said: "So when are あなた guys looking to try to make this movie?"
Pause. Try to make this movie? As if it were a faraway prospect, still unfinanced and unready to roll. Apparently nobody had informed her of the emergent nature of the situation. There was the other shoe! She had no idea we were days away from going ... and no doubt she had other plans for the summer that was already upon us.
As calmly as possible I replied: "A week from 次 Thursday."
Now the pause belonged to Julianna. She took this in. Looked away for a moment. Then she said: "Oh. I get it. You're in trouble."
Yes, I replied. I'm in trouble.
Now we understood each other. Another long pause as she no doubt contemplated her still-open options. Then she nodded and said: "Well ... a lot of the time it's much もっと見る fun for me to just jump into something without overthinking it too much. There's one thing that I really would need from you."
At this point I'm thinking: ANYTHING! Even script changes ...
"What's that?"
"I have this great custom-made wig that would be perfect for Joyce. It'll also save あなた guys lots of time because my hair is a big deal to deal with every morning. If I can use the wig, I'll do the movie."
Deal.
If your interested in the entire thing, the link is: link
Otherwise, below is the part about Julianna. Background: Actors has signed on to the project, but によって the time they got the funding to begin shooting, many of them dropped out. It is now like 2 weeks before they are supposed to start and they haven't found an actress to play Joyce (Andy Garcia's wife).
[Disclaimer - everything below this has been copied from the website and is not my words]
And then Andy suggested Julianna Margulies, with whom he'd previously worked in a movie called "The Man From Elysian Fields." How come we hadn't thought of her before? Because she had been in something of a retirement phase ... not working ... living in New York ... got married, had a baby ... and not necessarily 芝居 like she was too interested in going back to work. (This is all a little hard to believe now -- she is, as I'm 書く this, one of the year's great "comeback" event ... but remember, this is the summer of 2008 I'm talking about.) I thought it was a fine idea -- a bit of a long shot perhaps, but why not give it a try?
A couple of days later, she phoned Andy and 発言しました she'd like to meet me.
So there I am, sitting across from Julianna Margulies at DeMarchelier at 86th and Madison. We're less than two weeks away from principal 写真 and as soon as I sit across from this foxy, magnetic and totally down-to-earth woman I suddenly realized: Everything truly does happen for a reason. She was exactly the combination of elements that I wanted for Joyce Rizzo. Attractive, open, funny, unafraid.
We talked around the subject for a bit. How happy she was living in New York again, how much I like it as well, etc., etc. Then we got into the script and I found she had a lot of insight into the role. She also really liked Andy -- we talked about their 前 work together. All the while I'm thinking: This is who always belonged in the movie ... why did it take such a stressful and circuitous route to find her?
And then I started thinking: when is the other shoe going to drop? When is she going to tell me what she doesn't like about it?
But that didn't happen. Instead, after quite a bit of conversation she said: "So when are あなた guys looking to try to make this movie?"
Pause. Try to make this movie? As if it were a faraway prospect, still unfinanced and unready to roll. Apparently nobody had informed her of the emergent nature of the situation. There was the other shoe! She had no idea we were days away from going ... and no doubt she had other plans for the summer that was already upon us.
As calmly as possible I replied: "A week from 次 Thursday."
Now the pause belonged to Julianna. She took this in. Looked away for a moment. Then she said: "Oh. I get it. You're in trouble."
Yes, I replied. I'm in trouble.
Now we understood each other. Another long pause as she no doubt contemplated her still-open options. Then she nodded and said: "Well ... a lot of the time it's much もっと見る fun for me to just jump into something without overthinking it too much. There's one thing that I really would need from you."
At this point I'm thinking: ANYTHING! Even script changes ...
"What's that?"
"I have this great custom-made wig that would be perfect for Joyce. It'll also save あなた guys lots of time because my hair is a big deal to deal with every morning. If I can use the wig, I'll do the movie."
Deal.
