Seriously breathtaking. I have not seen such a gorgeous woman on the big screen in quite some time. Everything about her performance, delivery, and character complimented her beauty wonderfully. I was a not a huge fan of this movie, but I did not dislike it either - Sarah Gadon's screen time was one of a few saving graces for me. I hope to see her in many more films in the near future.
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DC: You have to find a cast that matches the tone of the movie and the budget level that you're going for. Everybody knows about studio movies where they say, well, we'll do this $200 million movie if you get Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. It's at a different level, but it's still the same dynamic when you're doing an independent film.
It's like, "Well, we'll buy the rights to France if you get someone like Rob Pattinson or Paul Giamatti or whatever." You can't really have your leads be unknown even in an independent film.
You can sort of introduce unknowns. Sarah Gadon, for example, who plays Emma Jung (in "A Dangerous Method"). She's Canadian. She's my discovery. She has a nice big role with Rob in "Cosmopolis." So by the time we're doing "Cosmopolis," she's a real asset. Her star is rising. She's getting attention, and that's lovely to see. And eventually you'll be able to finance.
Cosmopolis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwehC_EuN-k
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ill never forget when i first saw her in happy town lol. she was great in a dangerous method also. i really need to see cosmopolis!! hopefully it comes near my town soon!!
shareShe was very good in ADM, I wish she had been in more of it.
Sarah is in W Magazine for September 2012.
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ON THE VERGE: SARAH GADON
Sarah Gadon is having trouble describing her first time at the Cannes Film Festival, this past May. "I only have hand gestures," the effervescent actress says, waving her lunchtime pita and hummus wildly in the air.
"It was insane," she finally manages. Cannes turned into a bit of a coming-out-party for the 25 year old Torontonian, who starred in two films that premiered there - opposite Robert Pattinson in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis (in theatre's August 17th) and his son Brandon's directorial debut, the forthcoming Antiviral.
"She is beautiful of course," says David Cronenberg, who first cast Gadon as Carl Jung's wife in last years A Dangerous Method. "But it's her intelligence that really comes across." Gadon is a type he favors: She is the latest in a long line of Cronenberg muses - Naomi Watts and Maria Bello among them - known for playing whip-smart blondes.
As aristocratic wife Emma Jung and as a blue-blooded poet in Cosmopolis (an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel), Gadon has convincingly embodied society women. The actress had a harder time playing famous. For her as a media-hounded starlet in Antiviral, she drew from her experience being inside Pattinson's tabloid bubble. Now she's savvier, having learned that it's useful to invent "some kind of public persona," What's hers? She smiles slyly: "I'm still figuring that out."
Cosmopolis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwehC_EuN-k
http://ow.ly/1iTyiC
Ugh, I love her. I know it's crazy but she was my choice as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises! I really want to see her in more movies.
shareShe was perfect ... beautiful and cold but sort of dreamy. I love the way she adjusted her body to face Eric when she said "sex."
shareShe was perfect ... beautiful and cold but sort of dreamy...
When are we going to the lake?
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http://www.cosmopolis-film.com/2012/05/sarah-gadon-cannes-2012.html
Gadon appears in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, which unspools In Competition here next week. But before that she will walk the blue carpet for Brandon Cronenberg’s Un Certain Regard entry Antiviral.
Having worked with David Cronenberg twice now, Gadon is an old hand at dealing with questions of methodology.
“It was really exhilarating to get that call again because I know working with him would be a game-changer for my career and it was,” she said.
“It felt like a gift in the sense that all the movies he makes are so dense and have so many layers of interpretations and methods, it always feels like a project to really get your teeth into.”
The call back to star in for a second Cronenberg project was a massive boost.
“It felt like the responsibility I had felt to elevate my own skills and acting had been worth it. It made me feel like I’d achieved something to be asked back to work again.”
Sarah is working with Cronenberg again:
It's no secret we're big Cronenberg fans here at Dread, so we're happy to report filming has commenced for his 30-day shoot of Maps to the Stars, and we have the film's synopsis to share.
Per The Wrap, production on Maps to the Stars will run through August in Toronto and Los Angeles. Entertainment One and Prospero Pictures are co-financing the Los Angeles-set movie, previously described as a combo ghost story and critique of celebrity-obsessed society. It stars Robert Pattinson, John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska (pictured), Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird.
The script is by Bruce Wagner, with Prospero Pictures founder Martin Katz, as well as Sbs Productions’ Saïd Ben Saïd (Carnage) and Michel Merkt producing. Sentient Entertainment's Renee Tab and eOne’s Benedict Carver are exec producing. Integral Films’ Alfred Hürmer co-produces, while longtime Cronenberg collaborator Walter Gasparovic serves as associate producer.
http://www.vogue.it/en/magazine/vogue-beauty-story/2013/05/beauty-stor y-like-a-diva-by-caitlin-cronenberg-
Sarah in Italian Vogue, shot by Caitlin Cronenberg.
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MTTS: Clarice (Sarah's role) was the mother of Havana (Julianne Moore): Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the 60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/2014-first-look-photos-fast-fur ious-7-escape-plan-need-for-speed-more-20130917
Meanwhile, David Cronenberg is hard at work on "Maps To The Stars" his next outing with new bud Robert Pattinson. And a fan site for the film has uncovered the first image from the film, featuring Sarah Gadon and Julianne Moore.
The story centers on the twisted Weiss family in this takedown of celebrity culture. John Cusack, Mia Wasikowska and Olivia Williams co-star and while there's not release date just yet, we'd reckon a Cannes Film Festival premiere probably isn't out of the question.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxmnyoofPs
Latest Maps to the Stars trailer, Sarah's in it, she plays a ghost.
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This passage works well with this still:
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They’d married in the shroud of this unspoken accord. They needed the final term in the series. She was rich, he was rich; she was heir-apparent, he was self-made; she was cultured, he was ruthless; she was brittle, he was strong; she was gifted, he was brilliant; she was beautiful.
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This is that NY photo shoot Caitlin tweeted about recently.
Sarah Gadon in Filler Mag, shot by Caitlin Cronenberg:
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She's a beauty but she's the one character I couldn't stand. She spoke in the same robotic tone throughout the entire film without ever varying.
shareAnd that's exactly what the director wanted her to do. She wasn't supposed to be a vivacious cheerleader type. She was raised in an immensely wealthy family and was bored with life. Plus, she was a poet, so she was inside her own head much of the time.
I liked her icy portrayal, I thought she captured the character as written in the book perfectly.
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I've watched it again after my initial viewing and her performance does mirror that of Deborah Kara Unger's performance as Katherine in Cronenberg's 1996 film Crash which, ironically, I loved.
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