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Morning

Let’s begin with a small article that has a couple very interesting Natalie quotes.

Stereogum has put out male and female lists for Indie hotties and strangely, Nat makes an appearance. Chan was robbed! Thanks to Pasha.

Next up are a couple Brothers related links from Fanatical.

Writer David Benioff mentions Brothers in this interview.

CS: This is an interesting time because there’s a highly-publicized strike going on and you have like a thousand projects in the works in various stages of being filmed. How’s that been working out? I know that “Brothers” just started filming in New Mexico…

Benioff: Yeah, “Brothers” they’re shooting in Santa Fe, and unfortunately, I can’t be there with them, because I’m not allowed to be on set, so maybe with any luck, the strike will be over before the movie finishes shooting, and I can fly over there and check it out. I’ve never not been on set for at least a part of the time for any movie that I’ve written, and it would be sad if I couldn’t see them for a little bit.

CS: Did you get a chance to spend some time with Jim Sheridan beforehand?

Benioff: I did and we were working together pretty intensively right up until the deadline, which was a great experience. I was working with Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman and that was also a lot of fun.

CS: I’ve interviewed Susanne Bier a few times and I think we’re both interested to see how it works out in an American setting.

Benioff: Yeah, I think the American setting part actually makes a lot of sense. In a weird way, it’s one of those movies where the original I thought was such a great movie, but it kind of makes more sense being about Americans, because there are like 50 Danish soldiers in Afghanistan. It’s not like a real big national issue for them. Obviously, there are thousand and thousands of Americans there, and it’s much more of present in the American psyche. As wonderful as that movie was, moving it to America didn’t frighten me as much as it would with certain remakes, where you kind of think… sometimes, they take Japanese movies and bring them here and they don’t really make that much sense in America. In this case, I thought it would make a lot of sense, being brought here. It’s just a question of whether our movie will be as good as her movie, because she did an incredible job. So that’s happening, and I have a novel coming out in May. That’s what I’ve been working on since the strike started basically.

And a certain blog had this funny little tidbit:

Hollywood will call you to send in tape for one of those q-rated roles and you will get to be in your underwear with Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. oh, did i mention it was just me in my underwear. just me. in my underwear. them? fully clothed. me, underwear. yep. oh yeah, Jake makes fun of my body too. yep. yeah. hairy underwear ray. yep.’

Sak has been updating the video section and the following clips might be new to some.

Charlie Rose – WTHI
Charlie Rose – Anne Frank
Charlie Rose – Garden State

All 3 files are in .flv format so you’ll need a program like VLC to view them.

And finally, Celiana sends word that the Goya’s Ghosts DVD will be available from February 26.