At tonight’s AFI Festival, Mary attended the Life of Pi film premiere and she looked absolutely beautiful. Be sure to check out all the pics in the gallery. Also during the festival, Mary participated in the Los Angeles Times’ Young Hollywood roundtable with her Scott Pilgrim co-star Aubrey Plaza, which I’ve also added, bringing the total to over 50 photos. Enjoy!
Life of Pi premiere–
L.A. Times “Young Hollywood” roundtable at the AFI Festival
Mary appears in a new PSA along with a couple other celebrities asking people to vote yes on prop 37. Check out the video below:
Proposition 37 is a ballot measure that requires simple, clear labels letting consumers know if foods are genetically engineered. It was written with broad input from food groups, industry, science, legal and health experts and qualified for the November ballot with more than 1 million signatures from California citizens.
To learn more about Prop 37 and Food & Water Watch’s campaign to make GE Labeling the Law, and to help raise money to broadcast this public service announcement and others like it far and wide, visit www.voteyes37.org.
I’ve also added a few caps which you can see in the gallery.
Back in October when Mary and the cast of Smashed was interviewed by The Academy Awards, they also asked to submit some questions for Mary to answer and now they’ve been released. Be sure to check out the Q&As to see if your question was answered.
Loved all her replies!
Screen Crush gave Mary’s performance in Smashed an amazing review. Click on the link to read the review in full. Below are some highlights:
‘Smashed’ is a film that hits home with ferocity. It’s a quiet little indie film that utilizes subtle direction to invoke the dizzying feeling of drunkenness, but it’s Winstead’s performance that reaches directly into your gut and twists with precision. The way she manipulates her voice when drunk almost sounds monstrous and inhuman — it’s startlingly authentic. The addiction takes over and the addiction does what it wants. It’s pure, irrational Id, encompassing their lives and driving them to do things like pee on gas station floors or smoke crack when a stranger offers it.
‘Smashed’ may only be a movie, but it’s one with a pounding heart that beats from a place that is genuine and honest — so honest, that it hurts to watch. Winstead, like the alcoholic she portrays, becomes an entirely different person, making her performance doubly impressive given that she must essentially play two roles — sober Kate and addict Kate — and be equally convincing as both. A film like this may be overlooked in awards season, but I don’t think it matters — what matters with a movie that speaks to the human experience in such a specific way as this is that it is seen and appreciated, but moreover, that there are those who can and will strongly identify with it, and hopefully it speaks to them the way it spoke to me. And no trophy is going to mean anything to those people.
Next Thursday on November 8, there will be a free screening of Smashed along with a post Q&A with Mary and some cast members. Below is the complete info via Backstage:
Sony Classics’ “Smashed”
Followed by a Q&A with actor Mary Elizabeth Winstead and TBA cast members
When: Thurs., Nov. 8 at 7:30pm
Where: Harmony Gold Theater, 7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los AngelesFree underground parking available
To attend, you must RSVP to screenings@backstage.com with “Smashed” in the subject header. Please indicate if you intend on bringing a guest. You will not receive a response but your name will be placed on a list at the door.
Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive at least 30 minutes early. Screenings are overbooked to compensate for no-shows. RSVPs do not guarantee seating, and no one will be admitted once the film has started. This invitation is for you and one guest.
“Smashed”
Directed by James Ponsoldt
Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and Mary Kay Place
Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Charlie (Aaron Paul) are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking…especially the drinking. When Kate’s drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her friend and sponsor Jenny, and the vice principal at her school, the awkward, but well intentioned, Mr. Davies, Kate takes steps toward improving her health and life. Sobriety isn’t as easy as Kate had anticipated. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother, facing the lies she’s told her employer and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or is just boozy diversion from adulthood.
According to Up and Comers twitter feed, this year’s AFI Festival Young Hollywood Round Table will feature Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Logan Lerman, Aubrey Plaza and Bella Heathcote.
The AFI Festival will take place from November 1-8 in Los Angeles, CA. More info below:
YOUNG HOLLYWOOD ROUNDTABLE
The Los Angeles Times returns with its very popular Young Hollywood Roundtable. Amy Kaufman sits down with four acclaimed young talents – Bella Heathcote (NOT FADE AWAY), Logan Lerman (THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER), Aubrey Plaza (PARKS AND RECREATION, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (SMASHED) – for a lively, intimate discussion about life behind the scenes, the art of acting and the upcoming award season.
Friday, November 2, 7:30 p.m., Chinese 6
If you want to purchase tickets, visit the site by clicking here.
In a new interview with the East Valley Tribune, director James Ponsoldt was asked how he came to the decision of casting Mary in his film Smashed.
Can you tell me a little bit about the casting of both Mary and Aaron?
I’ve loved Mary as an actress for years – specifically “Scott Pilgrim”, though, which I really loved, I saw it a few times in the theater. What I really dug about her was that she’s been in all these genre movies – action movies, horror films – and she’s really diverse. Here’s this character who at times can feel like a sad clown, but the movie doesn’t pity her and (she does) not feel broken or fragile or beyond repair because, you know, we wanted her to be somebody that the audience could relate to and see themselves or their sister or their best friend. So I really loved Mary’s strength and sense of humor and just her sense of fearlessness in incredibly awkward scenes, and playing very sincerely in times that could be severely uncomfortable.
And Aaron, I, like many people, just love from “Breaking Bad” and he’s just a super, super nice, thoughtful guy who has this incredible voice and intensity about him but he’s really a gentle person.
When I got Mary and Aaron together, I sort of set them up to get lunch together. Initially I talked to them afterwards and they were both just really, really excited. It was important to me that they both believed they could be married, that they could continuously be interested in this other person for the duration of a shoot but perhaps for longer. It’s worth saying that Mary is married and Aaron is engaged but it was just super important to me. I saw them as total collaborators, so I just wanted them to be as excited as I was. Once they spent that time together, I just found them endlessly watchable and wanted to create scenes where I could just push them into intimate and uncomfortable places, and, you know, they’re game for anything.
Also, in its third week of limited release, Smashed made $44,436 this weekend, bring the domestic total to $149,949.
Back in August, it was announced that the official DVD for the short-lived series Wolf Lake was going to be released this fall. Now that the date is drawing near, an official Facebook page has been put up as well as a trailer. You can see the trailer below, and I’ve also made caps of Mary off the trailer.
We already have episode caps of Mary from the show, so if you want to see them, click here.
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