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I
COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN
Casting
MICHELLE
PFEIFFER – ROSIE
The story of this multi-award winning, former Miss Orange County’s
journey to movie superstardom is Hollywood folklore. Pfeiffer
worked in a supermarket before moving to Hollywood to pursue
acting. Some of her first professional work included parts on
the television shows Delta House and Fantasy Island. She first
came to public attention opposite Maxwell Caulfield in Grease
2 for which she was nominated for the Best Young Motion Picture
Actress Award.
However, she became a veritable screen idol as the hauntingly
beautiful wife of Al Pacino in Brian De Palma’s classic
Scarface. The rest is history, with Pfeiffer going on to become
one of the most respected and bankable actresses in the industry.
She has received three Academy Award nominations: two as Best
Actress for her Dallas housewife role in Love Field and for her
breath-taking performance in The Fabulous Baker Boys (for which
she also won a Golden Globe). Her third Academy Award nomination
was for supporting actress after her unforgettable part in Dangerous
Liaisons. Pfeiffer has also been nominated at the Golden Globes
for her performances in The Age of Innocence, Love Field, Frankie
and Johnny (reuniting her with Pacino once again), The Russia
House and Married to the Mob.
She has worked alongside leading men such as Bruce Willis,George
Clooney, Sean Penn, Robert Redford and Sean Connery,starring
opposite Jack Nicholson twice in The Witches of Eastwick and
Wolf. Her numerous screen credits include The Story of Us, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, One Fine Day, Up Close and Personal,
Dangerous Minds, Catwoman in Batman Returns, Tequila Sunrise,
Sweet Liberty and Ladyhawke to name but a few.
Michelle Pfeiffer will soon be seen in STARDUST, with Robert
DeNiro, Sienna Miller and Claire Danes, and HAIRSPRAY with John
Travolta.
PAUL RUDD – ADAM PERL
Paul Rudd continues to surprise audiences with his widely diverse
performances on stage, screen, and television.
Rudd recently
wrapped production on his third collaboration with Judd Apatow
in the feature "Knocked Up" opposite Seth Rogan
and Katherine Heigl. Rudd plays Heigl's hen-pecked brother-in-law
Pete in the upcoming comedy about a one-night stand with unexpected
consequences. Universal will release the film on August 17, 2007.
Additionally, Rudd completed shooting David Wain's "The
Ten," a comedy spoofing the Ten Commandments featuring an
ensemble cast including Winona Ryder, Amanda Peet, Jessica Alba,
Justin Theroux, Ken Marino, Liev Schrieber, Famke Janssen, and
Adam
Brody. Rudd plays Jeff, the narrator of the film who presents
every commandment as we see him commit adultery on his wife Gretchen
(Famke Janssen) with the young and beautiful Liz (Jessica Alba).
Rudd also served as producer on the film.
Rudd is currently in production on "How I Met My Boyfriend's
Dead Fiance" opposite Eva Longoria and Lake Bell. The film
centers on a female psychic (Bell) who falls in love with a skeptic
(Rudd) while the ghost of his dead fiance (Longoria) tries to
keep them apart.
Rudd's other film credits include "The 40 Year Old Virgin," "Anchorman," “The
Cider House Rules,” “The Object of My Affection,” “Wet
Hot American Summer,” “The Chateau,” “Clueless,” “William
Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet," among others.
On stage, Rudd starred in Richard Greenberg's "Three Days
of Rain" opposite Julia Roberts and Bradley Cooper. He also
starred in Neil Labute's "Bash" in both New York and
Los Angeles as well as Labute's "The Shape of Things" in
London and New York.
After successful runs on both the London and New York stage,
LaBute brought "The Shape of Things" to the big screen.
Rudd made his West End debut in the London production of Robin
Phillips' "Long Days Journey Into Night" opposite Jessica Lange.
Other stage credits include Nicholas Hynter's "Twelfth
Night" at Lincoln Center Theater with a special performance
which aired on PBS' "Great Performances" and in Alfred
Uhry's Tony Award winning play, "The Last Night of Ballyhoo."
On television, Rudd guest starred on NBC's "Friends" as
Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) husband Mike Hannigan for the final two
seasons and starred as Nick Carraway in A&E's production
of "The Great Gatsby."
Director
AMY HECKERLING – WRITER AND DIRECTOR
Born and raised in the Bronx, Heckerling attended the High School of Art and
Design there before going on to study film and television at New York University.
Her NYU student film High Finance won Best Film at the New York, Bronx and
Venice Film festivals. She received her MFA degree as a Directing Fellow from
the American
Film Institute. Heckerling’s directorial debut was the teen hit Fast
Times at Ridgemont High, spotlighting such young talent as Sean Penn, Nicolas
Cage, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards
and Judge Rheinhold.
She went on to write and direct the John Travolta and Kirstie Alley box office
smashes Look Who’s Talking and Look Who’s Talking Too. Look Who’s
Talking won the People’s Choice Award for Best Comedy and at the time
of its release was the most profitable comedy in the history of cinema. In
1995 Heckerling’s razor-sharp comedy Clueless – which she wrote
and directed – won the Best
Screenplay Award from the National Society of Film Critics and was nominated
by the Writer’s Guild of America. The film launched the stellar career
of Alicia Silverstone and a spin-off television series, which Heckerling executive
produced.
Lawrence
Lau (also known as Lawrence Ah Mon) was born in South Africa
in 1949. He grew up in Hong Kong and later studied film production
in California,
USA.
He was an assistant director for Tsui Hark and went on to become
one of the major directors of the 2nd New Wave of Hong Kong Cinema
in the late 1980s.
He is renowned for his on-location realism and a sensitivity for
humanistic drama,
always motivated to root his characters into the social context
of an era. His first majorly acclaimed film Gangs (1988) deals
with triad youths. His
continuing
interest in exploring the young generation as they confront social
problems in modern Hong Kong was demonstrated in Queen of Temple
Street (1990), A Boxer's
Story (1991) and Spacked Out (2000).
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