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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2013 21:01:15 GMT
Taylor Swift will appear on the big screen alongside Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges in the upcoming film adaptation of "The Giver." Sources said that Swift was offered a supporting role by Harvey Weinstein in Toronto when she hit town for the premiere of “One Chance,” for which she wrote the song “ Sweeter Than Fiction” with Jack Antonoff of fun. According to Entertainment Weekly, the singer will play a supporting role in the film based on Lois Lowry's dystopian children's novel. The Weinstein Company announced her casting Friday. Other cast members include Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush ("The Odd Life of Timothy Green") and Australian actor Brenton Thwaites. "The Giver" tells the story of Jonas (Thwaites), a young boy living in a dystopian society who is chosen to be the next "Receiver of Memory," who is taught by The Giver (Bridges). Streep will play the Chief Elder of Jonas' community.  Taylor Swift & Cast at Romeo and Juliet Premiere at Arclight |
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2014 23:36:05 GMT
 While pop superstar Taylor Swift might make headlines for her part in the upcoming movie adaptation of “The Giver,” producers want to manage everyone’s expectations: She actually has a very small role in the film. “It always makes us laugh when people announce ‘Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep — and Taylor Swift,’” joked producer Nikki Silver, at the Library of Congress on Monday. Silver was on stage with “The Giver” author Lois Lowry to promote the film adaptation of the best-selling dystopian young adult novel, which will hit theaters on Aug. 15. Given that Swift has worldwide name recognition, it’s no surprise she gets third billing next to the A-list actors. Sure enough, in the crowd during the event on Monday (mostly made up of class field trips), the room started audibly buzzing when Lowry suddenly told Silver, “Talk about Taylor Swift.” So, Silver told everyone the story about how Swift was cast for the part of Rosemary. In the book, Rosemary plays the former “receiver of memory,” the job of the book’s main character, Jonas. Rosemary appears only in flashbacks, and for a few very brief scenes. Silver explained that producers initially — and coincidentally — wrote the character as someone who played the piano, before Swift was even in the conversation. In fact, they had auditioned several other actresses for the part. Then the producers saw Swift in concert last year; right then, (perhaps during this wildly emotional piano performance?) a light bulb went off.  “She’s a very soulful, interesting young woman and we had this very out-of-the box idea that maybe it would make sense that she could be our Rosemary,” Silver said. “And she’s fantastic. I’ve spent a lot of time with her, and she had just been looking to dip her toe slightly in acting…” “She doesn’t sing in the movie,” Lowry interjected at this point. She doesn’t sing in the movie,” Silver clarified. “But she does play a little piano, which we had written for that character before we hired her.” Swift flew to South Africa for a week to film, and spent a lot of time with Jeff Bridges, as the two shared scenes (with Swift in a brunette wig). Silver says Swift, an acting novice, did “a really wonderful job.” “She was interested, we were interested,” Silver said. “It was one of things that was timing and just happened.” |
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Post by Admin on May 15, 2014 21:42:04 GMT
Despite having only the smallest of roles in the movie adaptation of “The Giver,” Taylor Swift is possibly one of the most buzzed-about members of the cast.  And after the internet went wild over the first photo of Swift on set — showing her perched at a piano in a brunette wig and with Jeff Bridges at her side — another interesting story from producer Nikki Silver has revealed how she came to be in the film in the first place. According to Silver, who spoke Monday at the Library of Congress alongside author Lois Lowry, Rosemary (Swift’s character) was always meant to be a girl with musical inclinations. And though other actresses were already auditioning, Taylor’s name came up as a surprise frontrunner after someone from the studio saw her in action and became convinced that she could play the part.  Swift plays the small but important role of Rosemary, a past trainee for the job of Receiver of Memories, who has more going on than meets the eye. We only caught the slightest of glimpses of Rosemary in the film’s first trailer, leaving fans intrigued about Swift’s character. For now, however, you can peep Swift in a still from the movie, sitting beside a younger version of Jeff Bridges’ character, the titular Giver. |
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2014 15:38:56 GMT
Losing him was blue like she'd never known. Taylor Swift looks "gray and all alone" as Rosemary on the promotional poster of The Giver, which was revealed Thursday, May 22. As evidenced in the black-and-white picture, the country-pop star has transformed—dramatically—for her role. Swift appears to be made-under on the colorless promotional shot, ditching her blonde hair for wavy brunette tresses parted down the center, while keeping her lips neutral in color.  One feature that still remains the same? Swift's baby blue eyes. "The truth lies in her past," the megastar's poster reads. (In Lois Lowry's classic dystopian young adult novel, on which the film is based, Rosemary is mentored by the Giver, the memory-bearing, color-seeing title character played by Jeff Bridges in the film. Eventually—and spoiler alert!—Swift's storyline turns into one of tragedy.)  Though her story is sad, Swift expressed how happy she was to work with the A-list cast last November. "I couldn't believe it was happening to me," she gushed to Access Hollywood. The actors as a whole grew close while filming The Giver in South Africa last year. "I learned so much," she added of working alongside Bridges, Meryl Streep, and Katie Holmes.   Here’s the plot: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the “real” world. Look out for The Giver, in theaters on August 15. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2014 6:23:32 GMT
In advance of the film’s opening, MTV News hopped on the phone with Lowry to talk about Swift’s role, changes from the book to screen, and how she almost filmed a nude scene for the movie:  MTV News: Obviously this had a very long development as a movie, I’m curious to hear what went on on the process on your side… Lois Lowry: Well, I wasn’t behind the scenes, so I’m not exactly sure about the details, but I will say from my point of view it involved a whole lot of waiting! Getting to know a number of people involved. From the first, Jeff Bridges was one of them, he’s hung in there for all of these years and gotten old enough over those years to play the leading role himself, which is great. He does a great job. For me, I was just sitting at home, aware that it was out there and I was writing other books and publishing other books year after year after year. MTV: It’s interesting to hear you say the last part because reading the book, it’s very much about language and the use of language and figuring out language. Certainly there are very strong visual elements, but did you have any concern when bringing it to screen? Did you worry you might lose that element, going from the page to something that was purely visual? Lowry: Yeah a concern, I don’t think a worry. I mean, what was gonna be, was gonna be. I thought it was in good hands and they would do it as well as possible which they have proven to do. I was aware all along that words are often the least important part of movies. As a writer, I hate to acknowledge that, you want the words to be primary, but they really aren’t. It’s the visual stuff and the action, the other stuff… Although, certainly there’s been a lot of wrestling with words in this movie and much tweaking of the screenplay in order to get it right. But I’ve just sat back and watched with interest rather than alarm and I think they’ve done a terrific job.  MTV: Similarly, a lot of the book is based on things being revealed… What an apple is, or what the color of an apple is, something that, when you’re seeing in a movie theater is you’re just seeing an apple. I know as an audience member it’s either red, or green, there’s no real mystery. So how do you deal with that on screen? Lowry: Well, I had no hand in it. Aside from having written the original material from which they created the screenplay and the script, but they do do it. You know? They start out in black and white, and as the boy begins to see — oh, well this is not a spoiler, this is in the trailers that are out there, it changes gradually to color. And so it’s done quite effectively. I’m not sure how effectively they would’ve done it 20 years ago so they seemed to pull it off now just fine.   MTV: Of particular interest to the MTV audience is Taylor Swift’s role as Rosemary. She plays a relatively small and crucial role in the book, but once you brought on Taylor Swift was it expanded at all in the movie? I have a copy of the movie in its final stages here on my computer, and I had my two grandsons here for the Fourth of July weekend — they’re 13 and 15 ,and I showed it to them–probably against the rules–anyways, I asked them was there anything special that they liked best and one of them selected the scene with Taylor Swift. I don’t think because of Taylor Swift particularly, but because the elements of that particular scene he found very gripping. So her role in the movie is much the same in the book, except in the book she’s only remembered… And in the movie you can see the memory of her. She appears in, I don’t know the technical term would be, but you can see her. And it’s very compelling.  |
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