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The View - 12/24/04
[Transcripts]Posted by: gbnetadmin
Article Date: December 24, 2004 | Publication: ABC TV | Author: ABC TV (transcript by fieryangel)]
ER: (talking about her audition) ‘Cause I kind of like, thought it must be my cue to sing. So that’s exactly what I did.
Barb: What did you sing?
Joy: (same time as Barb) So what did you do?
Barb: Do it, just do it.
ER: No you have to go see the movie!
Joy: I saw it, it was wonderful, do it!
ER: I sang ‘ToM’ and ‘WYWSHA.’
Barb: some kind of garbled motivation egging Emmy on.
ER: (Sings two lines).
Everyone: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Meredith: And Gerry, so many actors wanted to play the Phantom, that is such a sought after role, and then you come along—relatively unknown—I understand even your mom didn’t know you knew how to sing?
GB: Yeah, she still doesn’t know I can sing.
Meredith: You can sing.
GB: Whenever I mentioned to people I was doing the movie, I could see their brain process working and saying ‘The Phantom? You’re doing the Phantom? Is it a musical?’ and I’m like ‘Yeah!’ and then they went…’Ok, ok...can you sing?’
Barb: Following MC, who became so world famous playing the Phantom all over the world…
GB: I couldn’t ever think of it like that, actually I never saw MC play the role, and we were always trying to do something very, very, very different with the movie y’know. And then you can just focus on what we’re trying to do. And we have a chance to make a much more intimate, romantic passionate…
(All the ladies in the house say “hell yeah”--not literally of course)
GB:…which is the value of making it a movie.
(fast forward to more questions with GB)
Barb: You have to wear that mask, how many different masks did you have? Is that one mask?
GB: No, no we went through quite a few. I think by the end of it we probably went through about fifty because when it was…if you touched them they often became smudged.
Barb: Was it hard to do that makeup for that disfigurement and the mask?
GB: That was a nightmare, because they had to glue my eye here (points to lower lid), and then attach a piece of string that went down my back and then pull it down…
ER: And people were tugging, people would tug it if he was bad.
GB: If I was bad tug it down and I was in makeup for—the first three times it was nine hours—and then we got it down to about five hours. So by that point in the movie, that’s when he’s going insane, so when I finished that, I was kind of in a psychological state to go out and take on the world, so it wasn’t nice.
Barb: The Phantom does not have this Scottish accent
GB: No, I think it’s an English accent. It’s supposed to be and English accent, God knows what it actually is.
Joy: Both accents are great, I wanted to ask you Emmy, you’re 18 years old, Barbara just said that, these guys are a little older than you. You had to do love scenes with these older men.
ER: Yeah! (as in, Austin Power’s-like “yeah baby”)
PW: Just out of high school.
Joy: How’d you feel about that, I mean you’re a baby, you’re a child.
ER: GOOD! (laughter from everyone) Look at them! They’re both very handsome guys and you know what, they were, if they were at all uncomfortable—I know I wasn’t—they were such gentlemen about it. I was 17 and most important they really treated me like their equal. So they were like my big brothers.
GB: We were never uncomfortable, I have to say!
Joy: You loved it Gerry, I have a feeling…
GB: Oh I loved it, yeah..yeah.
(some got cut again)
Meredith: (asking about being in that character to ER) How were you able to do it Emmy, were you just able to stay up all night with it there all the time?
ER: Absolutely yeah. And especially disassociating from a character that was so strong for me, someone who’s so kind of vulnerable and fragile in that way. Emotionally too, kind of tough for me to disassociate from, so yeah it was stuck it my head.
MD: I was doing the same thing, I would be going home and going (in Carlotta’s voice) ‘I wanta cappoocheeno! NOW!’ (shakes her self out of Carlotta) ‘Sorry, I want a coffee…’
Barb: You are so wonderful in this you are so funny, you are the comic relief!
(cut)
Barb (onto a discussion about PW’s stage experience): In ‘The Full Monty’ you took it all off?
PW: I did.
Meredith: Do it again!
(Minnie and Emmy clap as female audience cheers…Patrick pretends to unbutton shirt)
PW: This old thing?
Minnie (clapping all the while): C’mon do it! Do it! Do it!
Meredith: C’mon it’s Christmas!
(Emmy hides face.)
PW (lifts up bottom of his shirt flashing his tumtum): Merry Christmas!
(laughter all around)
Joy: Do it and sing a high note at the same time! That would be acting.
PW: That’s the only way I can do it, that’s the only way I can do it. You have to.
Barb: All of you had to learn to do so many things. The two of you (pointing to Patrick and Gerry) had that sword fight, yeah? And (to Gerry) you had to do the whole number with the cape?
GB: Yeah, I had a bit of cape action going on.
Barb: We have a cape!
GB: HAHA!
Barb: Here we are…we won’t make you (to PW) take it all off but we’ll make him do this (to GB).
GB: This is hilarious, I’ll do the cape. (to the audience who is cheering by the way) I haven’t…this was just sprung upon me about four minutes ago, so you have to forgive me if I mess up but…
Emmy: Give it a good swing!
(HUGE laugh from Patrick)
GB: Making my excuses already as I do to everything.
PW: He does it on the weekends anyway…
GB: Are we ready to go?
(everyone: we’re ready!)
GB: hrmmm! (swoosh on, swoosh off, swoosh around town!)
Meredith: Whoa!
GB: (takes a bow as the entire audience erupts in cheers) Merry Christmas!
Barb: And with a mask on and singing at the same time.
GB: And a corset! Not really…
ER: That was the girls!
(another cut)
Barb: We are all so excited about this film and all of you and we know that you’re going to become so very well known. Minnie of course already is very well known and just so wonderful in this. We thank you for coming on.
Barb mentions upcoming fashion show and asks Gerry if he wants to come on with the cape to which he replies: “oh I think I’ve done enough with that cape!”
*****
The Voice and Face of the PHANTOM
[Interviews]Posted by: gbnetadmin
Article Date: December 21, 2004 | Publication: Fangoria.com | Author: IAN SPELLING]
Gerard Butler seethes, sighs and sings quite convincingly as the Phantom in Joel Schumacher’s big-screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s venerable stage musical of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (opening December 22 from Warner Bros.)—but heading into the project, the Scottish actor considered himself an unlikely choice for the character. "I was very surprised when they first came to me with this, because I’m not a singer," Butler says. "I can sing. I’ve been singing for a long while, but I never had a lesson in my life. When they approached me, I had sung for fun in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. But that was about as good as it got. So when they came to me, I thought, ‘Why? I’m too young.’ And I didn’t come from a musical background. So I was surprised until I read the script and what I connected with, I could see.
"Also, Joel Schumacher and I were friends," Butler continues, "and if there’s one thing about Joel, it’s that he’s a genius for casting. I thought, ‘There must be something going on here. He must have some reason for coming to me,’ and then when I read it I understood. Then I talked with him, and when he explained wanting to bring the whole age down, I could see the genius of that. It’s all the more heartbreaking for [this] Phantom because he’s a man in the prime of his life. Therefore, he’s denied sexually, intimately. It’s more heartbreaking when you know he’s already had his story, so he’s already been through a lot of that pain, but here he still has so much to offer, but this love is not for him. That killed me in every way."
Schumacher co-wrote the Phantom script with Webber, and in this version, the characters are indeed younger. While the basic story from Gaston Leroux’s novel and its many other film adaptations remains the same, there are significant additions. The Phantom still haunts the Paris Opera House, where he has surreptitiously trained the beautiful young orphan singer Christine (Emmy Rossum); now he’s eager to push her into the limelight on stage, as well as to woo her romantically. Christine seems willing to do both, but then another suitor, the handsome Raoul (Patrick Wilson), enters the picture, forcing Christine to consider her options and driving the Phantom to great fits of anger and bursts of violence.
Despite the more youthful casting—Rossum is 18, while Butler and Wilson are in their early 30s—it remains to be seen if PHANTOM will appeal to that most important of moviegoing demographics, 18-25-year-olds. Complicating the challenge, PHANTOM is steeped in classical music, unlike something along the lines of CHICAGO or MOULIN ROUGE. Butler says he can’t worry about matters outside his realm of responsibility.
"I’ll tell you something: I’m an actor, and I do something because it touches me," he notes. "If I were to offer something up, it would be the same reasons it touched me. We are all at heart romantic and passionate, and there is nothing like a dark romance to stir us, no matter what age we are. On top of that, this movie has everything. It has a lot of old Hollywood and it feels like a vintage musical, but at the same time it’s vibrant and alive and beautiful and lush. It has a great energy, because that’s what Joel is great at capturing. Cinematically, it’s a treat. The music appeals to all ages.
"When I walk past [the theater showing the stage] PHANTOM here in New York, I can’t believe how many kids are going to see it," Butler continues. "So it’s obviously their story, and it appeals to everyone. And the movie makes it more accessible because of the price. A lot of kids don’t go to the theater because of the cost, but now they can go see it in the cinema and claim it. This movie has recreated the world of the Phantom, of the Paris Opera House, in a dark, luscious way. And you can claim it and abandon yourself to a romantic, tragic love story."
Butler has played formidable characters before, among them the Count in DRACULA 2000, Attila in the cable movie of the same name and Beowulf in the upcoming adventure/horror film BEOWULF & GRENDEL. So that came easy. What proved scary, so far as PHANTOM was concerned, was the scope of the project and, more to the point, meeting and trying to impress Webber. "The thing is, I treated this in my head as an interesting independent production, which it was," Butler explains. "That helped me to not get too nervous about it. I work very, very hard as an actor. Even before I met Joel, I was working with a vocal coach taking singing lessons, even before I knew how interested he was in me for the role. And then after that, I always knew [it would boil down to if] I could sing or not. ‘I’ll put in as much work as I can and then the experts will tell me whether I can handle this kind of singing or I can’t.’ So that didn’t make me nervous; it was either a yes or no.
"Acting is much more difficult; it’s a comment on your soul," he continues. "A bad acting audition can go far worse than a singing audition. You have a page and notes that you can stick to. If you’re not good, you can lose 20 percent, but at an acting audition, I can lose 300 percent or I can fly. So therefore, I wasn’t nervous until I stood by the piano and then the enormity of what I was trying to achieve [struck him], and my mind went, ‘No, this isn’t an interesting independent movie. This is THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, probably the biggest musical of all time.’ And then I was singing ‘Music of the Night,’ one of the most famous songs of all time, sung and made famous by someone who isn’t me [stage Phantom Michael Crawford], in front of the composer, one of the most famous composers of all time. All those things went through my mind and my legs started shaking. [Longtime Webber associate] Simon Lee was playing the piano and he was [Butler imitates a gasp]. It was like a comedy act; he was telling me to breathe, but he kept [gasps again]. I kept singing, and, of course, I’m my own worst critic. I thought I’d sung terribly—but Andrew really dug it."
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