Jan 20,2010
BBC James interview
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Jan 20,2010
Style Music TV James Interview
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Jan 19,2010
Im With Cancer Filming During Olympics
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Seth Rogen is hardly the image that comes to mind when you mention the words “Winter Olympics,” but he and his crew will be hitting Vancouver during the games in a quest for movie-making gold.
Rogen will produce and star in “I’m With Cancer” in his native stomping grounds at just about the same time the world will be descending on his fair city to do things like watch figure skating and curling.
The mad logistics of this plan are not lost on one of the “I’m with Cancer” stars. “We’re going to be the only movie filming in Vancouver during the Olympics,” James McAvoy lamented during a press day for “The Last Station.” “There is a reason no one else is filming during the Olympics.”
The Scottish star added that there were “fabulous” aspects to the idea and said he planned to take full advantage of the shoot to catch some events. Not that the Scots are a particular powerhouse in the winter games, but you get the idea.
The reasons for the movie location are biographical rather than any Olympic subplots (so there is hope we will never have to see Rogen in one of those form-fitting speedskating outfits). The story deals with Rogen’s Vancouver life and friend Will Reiser’s battle with cancer in his mid-20s.
McAvoy will play Reiser, who wrote the screenplay and is executive producing. Rogen plays himself in the movie and Anna Kendrick plays a young, inexperienced psychologist assigned to help McAvoy’s character.
“You wouldn’t call it comedy,” says McAvoy. “But there are bits of it that are funny. Because Seth’s in it, everyone calls it a comedy.”
Jan 17,2010
Elliot Tiitensor praises James McAvoy
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He may now be a big Hollywood actor but James McAvoy has left a lasting impression on his former co-star Elliot Tittensor.
Best known for his role as Carl Gallagher on hit show Shameless, Tittensor says he one day would like to follow in the footsteps of McAvoy’s success.
James went from Shameless to The Chronicles of Narnia to a starring role alongside Keira Knightly in Atonement. Even after shooting into the spotlight James has managed to stay true to his beginnings.
Elliot says: “I’m glad for him; he’s stuck to his roots. He is still grounded.”
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Jan 16,2010
Two-Minute Date: James McAvoy Gets Frisky
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Call us crazy, but it’s a good thing actor James McAvoy is married. As much as we love his sexy Glasgow brogue and his boyish good looks (mischievous smile, firecracker blue eyes), we’re not sure he’d fare well in the big bad world of dating. Or so the self-professed terrible dater would have us believe. Once, out on the town with a “surefire thing,” McAvoy says, “we were getting on great,” and yet, by the end, she’d called her ex for a ride home. “It was that bad,” he says, wincing.
Luckily, after three years of married bliss with actress Anne-Marie Duff, McAvoy, 30, can chalk up such humiliation as field research for this month’s The Last Station, where he plays Leo Tolstoy’s assistant, Valentin (“a virtuous vegetarian virgin—all the V’s,” he jokes), who fumbles his way through wooing the beautiful Masha. It’s the bumbling territory he’s known for: In Wanted, his office drone turned assassin stumbled to keep up with sexpot Angelina Jolie; in Atonement, his housekeeper’s son was prone to saying—and typing—the wrong thing to his upper-class lover.
Given his everyman roles, McAvoy’s own situation—Hollywood star in scrappy Scot’s body—seems familiar. “Since my worldview has expanded, I don’t consider myself working class anymore, and I’m attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution,” he says, requesting a green tea from our waiter when he learns there’s no chai available. “That’s what I’m talking about—I drink chai now! Fuck me!” he laughs. “But that’s also a symbol of the changes I’ve gone through.”
Gazing at his floppy hair and scruffy beard (it’s red!), we wonder aloud if he’s also evolved into a better dater. “If I were on a date with one of your readers, I’d declare, ‘Let’s go ice-skating!’” says McAvoy, playing along. “At some point, I’d definitely try to feel her up, and we’d have dinner,” he concludes. “Yes, I think it would go ice-skating, boobs, dinner.” We’d risk it—with a ride home on speed-dial, just in case.
Jan 16,2010
James’ Examiner Interview
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Would you want to do more action roles?
I think I’ve done enough. I’m quite satisfied. What I’d like to do next is something new for me. I just want to keep trying new things. It’s called “I’m With Cancer” shot in Vancouver. We’re going to make that with Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick. And it’s about a guy who gets cancer in his 20s — it’s a true story written by the guy [Will Reiser] — and it’s about his couple of years of a cancer odyssey that he goes on to try and get better, and thankfully, he does get better. So it chronicles his time of his illness and treatment …And I just did 10 weeks on “The Conspirator,” which is a Robert Redford film. It’s a drama. It’s another period piece, but it’s a courtroom drama. I’d never done that before. That was quite exciting. I still feel that I’m getting to examine myself as an actor and see how far I can go in different directions.
Speaking of period pieces, which era from the past do you like the most?
The early 1940s. To play in that period has always been good, and that just might be because I had good scripts in that period. Actually, anything. Even between the two great wars [World War I and World War II] is really good. The period between World War I and World War II, I made a film called “Bright Young Things,” and that was super-interesting, because there was a generation of people who didn’t know what they were doing sans the war … and there was a real decadence that went on in the gentry, which was quite interesting, too. But something about the sacrifice made en masse by entire generations of countries is something I don’t think we understand now.
I know we’ve been in wars and conflicts, but not everybody in a country feels connected to it and are in danger. To have a mindset to be in as a nation, to have a collective subconscious that is in tune that is focused on one thing and everybody’s facing in one direction, it seemed like it galvanized [people]. I’m not saying that everybody’s on the same page, but it’s a really interesting.
Jan 16,2010
More Im With Cancer scoop
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Anna Kendrick talked about Im With Cancer a bit at the Critics Choice Awards.
One thing she can talk about, however, is the role that could take her career to the next level: playing opposite Seth Rogen and James McAvoy in “I’m With Cancer,” a drama about a 25-year-old comedian diagnosed with the disease.
“Yeah, I’m really excited about that. I play James McAvoy’s therapist,” she said of her character, who helps McAvoy’s funnyman — well, kinda. “I’m not very good at it, and I’m probably the most reluctant psychiatrist ever. But I’m really excited about working with that cast, and the script is really good.”
Jan 16,2010
James MTV interview on Wanted 2
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“I got a phone call from Timur on New Years Eve,” McAvoy told MTV News. “I thought he was phoning to tell me what’s happening with the film, but he said he’d get back to in a couple of weeks, and he should have some stuff.”
However, before you get too excited about the potential sequel, McAvoy confessed that he’s heard very little about it at this point. In fact, he hasn’t read the script yet.
“I really know nothing,” he said. “I don’t really know what’s going on. I haven’t read a script or anything like that.”
Asked for some thoughts on a potential second act for Jolie’s character, Fox, McAvoy seemed a bit skeptical.
“I don’t know how he can do that,” he said. “I know we have a wax bath and all that, but… we’ll wait and see.”
Jan 15,2010
Moviefone James interview
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Your wife, Ann-Marie Duff, is also in the film and I know you’ve said in the past that you two don’t want to star together in films. So how did you two come to agree on this?
We’ve been offered to do a lot of films together and this worked because we really don’t act together, there’s two scenes we’re in but don’t really interact, so it was a good fit.What’s next for you? Will there be a ‘Wanted 2′?
There should be. Universal wants there to be. But I haven’t seen a script. Until I’m on the set of a film to me it’s still not for real.How about the rumors that you’re going to play Ian Fleming in his bio pic?
Just rumors … I’m going to be shooting ‘I’m with Cancer’ in about a month. It’s with Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen and directed by Jonathan Levine, who did ‘The Wackness.’You also wrapped on ‘The Conspirator,’ about the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination, directed by Robert Redford. How was he to work with?
Awesome. He’s just a really, really nice guy. And with this film it is a court room drama and I’d never done that before. It is also about American history, which I hadn’t done.You seem like someone who isn’t out there trying to grab the spotlight. You want your work to speak for itself. So is it easy to keep your private life private or do you have to work at keeping it that way?
In all honesty if you stick to doing what you’re involved in you won’t really get bothered. I thought I would have more to worry about when ‘Wanted’ came out but nothing happened. It’s when you start going to all of the premieres, I mean to films that you’re not even involved in and going to the award shows and you’re not even nominated or presenting, then you’re f***ed. And if you’re an exceptionally beautiful girl then I think you have more problems.So you think it’s harder for women to stay out of the paparazzi and gossip than men?
Much harder for women. I’ve seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It’s really rough.
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