Hey everyone! Nominees are now up for the People’s Choice Awards 2012 and although Mary isn’t on the nominee list, you can write in your nomination for her under favorite movie actress. Head on over to the People’s Choice site to get her on board! The top five in each category will become the official nominees and will be announced on November 8, 2011 and the actual show itself will air live Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 (9:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT).
“The Thing,” released on October 14, acts as a prequel to the original mobie and centers around the discovery of an alien craft by scientists in an Antarctica research site. Winstead plays Kate Lloyd, a graduate student who ends up having a confrontation with Dr. Sander Halvorson, played by Ulrich Thompson, upon discovering the frozen corpse of a creature. Joel Edgerton plays Braxton Carter, a pilot.
Winstead, 26, described the key differences and similarities from the original 1982 film, and the new 2011 revamp.
“You know, I think we are very much a part of that same world and you know we are really trying to make an homage to this film, so it feels very similar,” Winstead told OnTheRedCarpet.com at the recent Los Angeles premiere.
“We have tons of animatronics, I mean on set every day we were dealing with amazing creature affects and working with incredibly talented people making our creatures,” Winstead added. “But of course in the modern age we do have technology to kind of take into a different place, so we did blend a lot of CGI worth it as well and that’s always a surprise as an actor to see on screen because you know, you don’t know on set what they’re going to do with it, so I thought they did a beautiful job kind of blending those two elements.”
The actress is herself a scary movie buff, citing “The Shining,” which stars Jack Nicholson, as her favorite. Horror movies, she noted, are becoming more popular among women.
“I have a lot of girlfriends who try to drag their boyfriends to horror films,” she added. So, I think it’s kind of interesting how it’s kind of taking on that new thing now, I think more girls are checking out horror films now.”
Check out this Cinemax double-take with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Eric Christian Olsen while watching the autopsy scene from The Thing.
The weekend came and went and with that, The Thing finally debuted in theaters. Critics didn’t like it much, but who cares? The Thing debuted at #3, which I kind of was expecting it to land there given the other two films it was competing against. But anyway, here’s how much the top 3 films made over the three-day weekend.
1. Real Steel $16,304,000
2. Footloose (2011) $16,100,000
3. The Thing (2011) $8,700,000
As I’ve already said, the film is really good so whether you’re a fan of Carpenter’s version, see it. Hopefully it’ll do better next week. 😉
Hey all. I’ve added several more pics of Mary at last night Spike TV Scream Awards 2011 and you can see two new videos from the event below walking the carpet and talking about the comparisons between The Thing 2011 and the ’82 film. Personally, I like Mary’s dress. Check out all the pics in the gallery. Oh, and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World won two awards– Best Fight scene (the final fight between Gideon and Scott) and best comic book movie.
Mary attended the 2011 Spike TV Scream Awards tonight! And Mary truly is a star with the black dress patterned with white stars. Check out the pics in the gallery. More will be added if they arrive.
Just a quick update to let you all know that Mary has informed us she’ll be a presenter at tonight’s Spike TV’s Scream Awards where Scott Pilgrim Vs The World has 8 nominations. The show will be airing Tuesday, October 18 at 9pm/8C. We’ll update with pics when they arrive!
Yesterday I tweeted about Mary being in a new video shoot for Filler Magazine modelling some of the clothes she did for the magazine and screencaps from the vid have been added. In case you missed it, click here to see the video and click on the caps below to see the rest in the gallery.
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Now that The Thing is officially out, Cinema Blend has published a new interview with Mary. Click on the link to read the FULL interview. It’s pretty lengthy, but it’s a great interview.
You have a bit of experience in the horror genre thus far in your career. What keeps bringing you back to the genre?
I think a lot of my earlier work was more coincidence than anything, because I was just trying to work as an actor, and I kind of thought after doing a few horror films I thought “Oh I won’t do those anymore, I’ve done that thing.” But I just love horror films. I’m a big horror fan. And when I read a good horror script, I get really, really excited. So even though I might have someone saying, “Oh, don’t do horror films, stray away”, I just can’t help but want to do it, because a good portion of my favorite films of all time are horror films. I just keep trying to reach that level of greatness.
Does the tone of the movie leak on to the set in between takes?
It was a lot of fun. I mean, from what I remember it was just like, we are all a bunch of big kids, everybody in the cast was just like a big kid who loved to goof around and just play and stuff, which made it a really fun experience. For me it was hard work, like it was exhausting, so there’s a lot of working… and going home and sleeping and working… and going home and sleeping. So you start to feel kind of weird when you live like that for a long enough time. But I’m so lucky to be surrounded by people who have such great energy about them that I never got, like, tired on set. Everybody was making me laugh constantly, just having a great time. So it was great.
Being a veteran of the horror genre now, I also want to ask about acting in them, as fear is a very strong emotion. It’s not exactly easy to pick up without stimuli. And when you’re doing a film you’re asked to do it take after take, so how do you do that?
Yeah, I mean it is kind of tricky, you definitely have to figure out what would terrify you in a deep way, a more emotional way that you can connect with it. Then on top of that I would always have to be doing jumping jacks or pushups or something just because the adrenaline you would feel in that situation is so hard to just create from nowhere. So Joel and I would always be doing pushups with the flame thrower packed on our backs. [laughs] And like, dude, I was always jumping up and down. But the tough thing about doing those scenes is that by the end of a day, after doing it all, you do start to feel light headed. And you’re like “Ok, I made it, I’m going to go sit down,” I can barely pull my head up I’ve been breathing so hard.
Here’s a new video of Mary talking to Extra about The Thing while going through The Thing: Assimilation horror maze at Halloween Horror Nights.