Evan Rachel Wood talks about karaoke with James in this recent interview:

What did you learn from Robin?
We had a really great time. She’s a very powerful woman. And funny. Her and James [McAvoy] would be laughing literally up to the point where they said, “Action.” And then in a second, they’d be in this jail cell and all dramatic. And I was so thrown. I was just like, “God, I can’t keep up with you.” But she was really fun. And her and James and I went karaoking all night, and it was really fun.

Karaoke? What’s your go-to song?
“Piece of My Heart,” Janis Joplin. James did “Copacabana,” and Robin and I sang the Beatles. And “Sweet Home Alabama.”

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Lionsgate has announced that the political drama THE CONSPIRATOR, from director Robert Redford and starring James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long and Alexis Bledel (television’s Gilmore Girls), will be released on Blu-ray in a deluxe edition and for a limited time will be available in a collectible foil-stamped packaging on August 16, 2011. The film follows the trial of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) who is the only woman charged as a co-conspirator in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. She must have faith in her skeptical lawyer (James McAvoy) to prove her innocence and save her life.

Feature-length documentary about the plot to kill Lincoln
Interviews with the cast and crew
Numerous featurettes on the making of the film and the true story behind it
Blu-ray Exclusive: Image galleries
Blu-ray Exclusive: Video commentary with Robert Redford

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The Conspirator hits theatres today. Make sure to check your local listings to see if it is playing where you live. The movie is out in Canada on April 29!Tweet

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This movie tells part of American history that nobody knows, and given that you’re not American it must have been even more of a lesson for you. Was there a lot of history to learn before going into this?
Yeah, a hell of a lot. I knew about Lincoln and I knew what happened, but I didn’t know anything else really. It was actually an interesting film for me, especially rehearsals and the period when I was researching, because I got to read so much that I probably wouldn’t have gone to myself.

Do you like that aspect of making historical movies, the research?
Yeah, I do. I like reading about the past. I’m definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting. To read about another country, about America. I don’t read that much about American history. The history that I’ve read is weirdly more focused on the colonies and the kind of fall of the empire. It was really good to diversify.

There are all these clear parallels to modern times and the way we’ve handled rights during this more recent war, and Robert Redford seems very interested in those parallels. Was that part of the conversations you had during filming, or before filming?
It was impossible not to see the parallels, and how abundantly resonant it all is. I think this story would and probably should be told anyway whether there are parallels or not. We didn’t really talk about the parallels that much on set, because it’s so clear. You have to be blind to miss them. It became incumbent on us not to point them out too much, because it was already pointed out, you couldn’t hide it. Otherwise it’s ramming it down peoples’ throats.

You focus on the character and the actions on the screen. We did some research and some etiquette and all that, but Bob is really into being streamlined and simple in our storytelling so that the story comes to the fore.

You say etiquette– did you have to go to 19th century charm school?
Not quite so much, no. We formalized everything a little bit. We couldn’t abbreviate words, everything was the long way around a sentence. It was actually kind of beautiful sometimes, and just a kind of stiffness. And most of the men in the film are lawyers and professionals, orators and men who have held positions of middle to high command in the army. They’re used to speaking with authority and being obeyed….

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