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A Juicy Tale: Leighton Meester Talks to Beautygeeks About The Oranges

Some time ago when Leighton Meester was in town, I shared a back seat with her enroute to the airport. Parts of that interview are here, here, here and here. This post is what she told me about her role as Nina Ostroff in The Oranges, which features a terrific cast, including Hugh Laurie. (The film had its TIFF opening at the Winter Garden Theatre last night. When asked whether they knew about Hugh’s role as a spokesman for L’Oréal Paris Men Expert, castmates reacted with surprise, even shock — you’ll see video soon.)

LEIGHTON MEESTER “…I did a movie called The Oranges. That was a wonderful cast. We shot it in New York: Hugh Laurie, Katherine Keener, Allison Janney, Oliver Platt. [It's] about two families who are best friends and neighbours. My character is the daughter of one family who falls in love with the father in the other family. It’s very funny and dark.

BEAUTYGEEKS That kind of role is going to make some people uncomfortable. How do you deal with that, prepping for it, then just doing it?

LM The script is amazing, one of the best scripts I’ve ever read. I fell in love with it the first time I read it, and being on the set… it was a delicate subject because I know a lot of people wouldn’t understand. But at the same time, the two characters actually love each other. It’s a real love story, not just lust. It’s not necessarily a happy story, but it has a lot of truth in it, and is all about learning about life and how things change. It doesn’t always stay the same. I think we executed it in a way people will understand and sympathize with… and, I mean, it’s Hugh Laurie.

I did “House,” years ago. I played a young girl who gets sick in the brain and becomes obsessed with him. He’s wonderful and a completely different character in this. In “House” he’s so cool and sarcastic, but in this movie he’s very funny, but he’s so awkward. He lives a very rigid lifestyle; my character helps him break out of that. We have a lot of fun together. We had a blast on that movie; I adore him.

BG What’s it like working with someone you’ve worked with before, but in a completely different story, as a different character?

LM …the beauty of working with someone like Hugh Laurie [is that] he really makes excellent choices as far as what he decides to do with the character. Whether it’s from wardrobe to the way he to the way he walks — I really admire that. You have to make really firm choices with your characters and really follow through.

That’s the beauty of my job, I get to play all of these different people and fall in love with each one of them for different reasons. And also notice their flaws and love them for that, too. This character in The Oranges is very imperfect.

Quelle: http://imabeautygeek.com/2011/09/11/a-j ... e-oranges/

[Tritziii]

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[Chilly]

OHHHHH MEIN GOTT Ich liebe diese Lederjacke

*lol* Genau DAS war auch mein Gedanke gerade.

Vielen Dank für all die Infos, Bilder, Videos, etc.

[Tritziii]

"House" star Hugh Laurie enters "The Oranges" after party at Goodnight Gansvoort
Source: http://www.globaltv.com/etcanada/tiff/p ... ugh+laurie

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Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester and Allison Janney at the premiere of The Oranges
Last night saw the premiere of suburban morality tale The Oranges at the Winter Garden theatre (scheduled in a dueling time slot with the Russell Peters flick Breakaway, which played at the Elgin below). Oliver Platt was the first to arrive at the premiere, followed by cast members Allison Janney and Hugh Laurie. Leighton Meester emerged from a Goodnight Gansevoort limousine in a white lace Alexander McQueen dress. Unlike her co-stars who marched immediately into the theatre, 25-year-old Meester stepped off the red carpet to greet the swarming fans and sign autographs. Before the movie, first-time director Julian Farino informed the crowd that he’d only finished the film four days ago (his parents had flown over from England for the occasion).

After the screening, the cast assembled onstage for questions (and fawning “I-actually-just-have-a-comments”). Platt made a point of crediting his onscreen chemistry with Laurie to the screenplay, asking writers Ian Helfer and Jay Reiss (who were in the audience) to stand while he chanted “The script, the script, the script” (more than 10 times). One audience member asked the director to justify the morality of the movie, in which a 50-something dad hooks up with his neighbour’s 24-year-old daughter. Director Julian Farino responded there were no easy answers on the road to happiness. A few minutes later, when asked a completely different question, lead actor Hugh Laurie insisted on returning to the morality issue, taking that same audience member to task for having an overly simple idea of what morality was. Sadly, no one asked any questions of Allison Janney, Leighton Meester and Alia Shawkat, who stood politely onstage while the boys had all the fun.

Source: http://www.torontolife.com/daily/hype/t ... -premiere/

[mj1985]

[mj1985]

Und die drei Ausschnitte nochmal extrahiert:

[Hughligan]

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Leider sehr schlechte Qualität

[Tritziii]

Hugh Laurie rushing to SUV #tiff11 #theoranges http://instagr.am/p/M3qDI/

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[--SemperFi--]

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[Tritziii]

Na ein Glück, ich hab den wirklich schon in der Autoszene vermisst

Danke --SemperFi--

[--SemperFi--]

Na wenn einem so gedankt wird, muss ich mal wieder öfter was posten

[Hughligan]

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