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Red Eye Premiere – LA - August 4th 2005
Interviewer: What’s happening with “Burns”?
Gerry: Oh, God… God knows. You know what? We are sitting with “Burns”, we have an incredible cast, we have the best script I’ve read in a long time, it’s wonderful. It just takes a bit to get that together. Cuz it’s essentially about an 18th Century Scottish boy, you know, a Scottish boy that we in Scotland think the whole world knows but they don’t. And ….erm… but it really has that kind of “Shakespeare in Love” feel about it as well, it’s very funny and it’s very moving and ….erm…. but it’s just gonna, I think it’s gonna happen next year. That’s the plan, you know, that’s, it’s just, you know, is one of these movies made up of a lot of different taxmen (?), it’s very complicated, I don’t even know how that goes but it should happen next year.
I: Now, there’s a rumour on the Internet that they were reworking the script, is that true?
G: No, no. Well, yeah, I mean yeah, but not in any major way, you know. They are always putting kind of little touches to it. It just got better and better. You know, the first script I read was like a 170 pages long, which if anybody knows is a bit long for a script, it was one of the best reads I’ve ever had in my life. It broke my heart to take things out of there, but now we have it refined and it’s just, you know, all the best stuff is in there and it’s really a beautiful story of an artist, an incredible artist and a passionate and sexy human being, GRRRRR!
I: Is it a little intimidating playing him though, cuz I mean, everyone in Scotland looks up to him?
G: Yeah, I mean yeah, but it’s intimidating playing the Phantom of the Opera, it’s intimidating playing Dracula, Attila and it’s, it’s a matter of degree. It’s intimidating taking on these roles but I love that, I love a challenge. You know, so, you kinda hope that at the end of the day people go “oh, wow, you know, he did do it” and you also, you know, nobody never, you never have a movie that everybody loves or a character that you know, some people…. And I think, the more of an angle you take on it, the more intensely some people will love it and the more other people will dislike it. Rather than doing something watered-down that you are trying to please everybody with. You know, so we are definitely taking…
[Audience yells “Rachel!!!!!!!!!!!!!”] [G turns around to look at them]
G: an angle on “Burns”. My name is Rachel by the way, that’s me they are screaming at, yeah, yeah. [G turns around as if he was talking to the audience] I’ll be there in a minute!
I: Is it going to be totally filmed in Scotland?
G: Yes, yes. Absolutely. On my mother’s back garden!
I: And what do you think about them casting Julia Stiles who isn’t Scottish, in this role?
G: Fantastic! It was me. I was in Iceland, I was filming and so was she, and I suddenly thought she’s, and we had this talk about Burns and I’d never even mentioned, I’d never even thought of her until afterwards and then I went, she knew so much about Burns, she was so curious about him, she’s perfect for this role! I gave her the script, she called me up and she said “this is the best script I’ve read in such a long time, I’m really”, It’s a, Gerald Ducraft serves on this movie (???). And she’s been incredibly patient with us because the movie’s been pushed and pushed. She’s an incredible, I love her, and she’s a wonderful human being and she’s such a talented actress so, to me that’s the best, she’s the best thing that’s happened to this movie.
I: With it being pushed and pushed, have you guys lost anyone that was signed on to it?
G: Well, we don’t know yet because what happens is, once we finally you know say, right we are all going, then we find out who we’ve got and who we’ve not. But I often find that when you lose people, you so often end up, it’s like me with movies, movies that I lose, that I get depressed about, and I end up getting one that’s even better. You know, there were movies that I lost before Phantom and if I’ve done them, I wouldn’t have been able to do the Phantom, you know. And likewise, I just got a movie that I wouldn’t have been able to do if I hadn’t lost the one before.
I: What is it?
G: I’m not telling you! Cuz it hasn’t been announced yet. But it’s HUGE!
I: k, wait. It’s not …em… you are not gonna be playing James Bond?
G: No!
I: Beowulf, what’s happening with that?
G: It’s just finished, It’s gonna be premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, and ….erm… I haven’t seen it with the music but I can’t wait to see it because again…. It’s great to pick very specific types of movies and types of characters, and this is such an unusual, and poetic, and beautiful and weird story, you know, that’s so not like anything Hollywood would throw up, you know. And we filmed in Iceland, the most impressive landscapes I’ve ever come across, you know, so you have all that in this movie…
I: Who’s the target audience for that?
G: God knows! You know. Quite an intelligent audience I think, cuz it’s actually very deep and spiritual and really…. It’s really a metaphor for racism and human ignorance of other cultures, that’s the kind of angle we’ve taken. And in the end it’s very profound. And we find, we’ve set up a website for it, and you know, if you look on that web site the people that go on that web site are all very literate and well read and…
I: and they are your fans!
G: No, a lot of them, no, no. Some of them hate me! hahaha
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