Yesterday in Texas, Mary premiered her new film Faults at the 2014 SXSW Festival alongside Riley Stearns and co-stars Leland Orser, Beth Grant and actor Jon Gries. Head to the gallery to check out the pics in HQ and also check out a new video interview Mary did with We Live Film discussing the movie.
Examiner recently caught up with Mary to talk about her new cult film, Faults. As always, click on the link to read the interview in full. I’ve posted some highlights below:
Tell us about your role in Faults.
I play Claire, a young woman who has been indoctrinated into a cult. When her parents hire someone to kidnap and deprogram her, we learn a lot of things about her that I’d rather not give away!
What was the most challenging aspect of working on this film?
I think the character was incredibly challenging for me. She has so much going on inside of her, but doesn’t show any of it. On top of that, I knew that Riley wanted it sort of dead pan and underplayed and I wanted to hit that style he was going for, while at the same time hint at the emotions trying to get out underneath. Not an easy one!
Tell us about working with director Riley Stearns. What was that process like?
It was horrible and I refuse to work with him again.
Truthfully, it was pretty awesome. We are married, and were warned by many people that working together might put a strain on our relationship, but it was really the opposite. We know each other so well that we always know what the other is thinking and going for, and so it makes for a pretty easy going working environment. I’m forcing him to write a role for me in everything he does from now on.
What new projects do have coming up that you can mention?
I have a couple other films coming out this year: Alex of Venice, which will premiere at Tribeca next month, and Kill the Messenger with Jeremy Renner that will come out later this year. Very excited about both of those projects and currently reading and looking for the next project to jump into.
Mary is at SXSW for the next few days premiering the film, so check back often for tons of new updates & pics!
The full screening schedule for Mary’s new film Faults has been released and the film will be playing at the following dates/times:
* March 9, 2014: The film debuts at 6:45 at the Stateside Theatre.
* Monday, March 10
2:00PM – 3:33PM
SXSatellite: Alamo Slaughter
* Wednesday, March 12
9:30PM – 11:03PM
SXSatellite: Alamo Village
* Thursday, March 13
9:30PM – 11:03PM
Topfer Theatre at ZACH
Also, Mary will be attending a Paste interactive party during South By Southwest, which will feature interviews with Pete Holmes, Todd Barry, Mark Duplass, Alia Shawkat, Josh Lucas, Mickey Sumner, Jason Ritter, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher and many more. The event will be held at Austin’s Swan Dive, located at 615 Red River St., on March 9 and 10. All interviews during the event will be recorded for the new Paste podcast.
Mary sat down for an interview with her skin-care expert and celebrity esthetician Renée Rouleau where she dished on her favorite skin products, red carpet rituals and upcoming projects. Click here to read the Q&A in full:
Renée Rouleau: What three beauty products can’t you live without?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead:“One of my beauty addictions is Dior Lip Glow — it enhances your natural lip color and it’s the best thing to brighten up a tired face. Also, I love dry shampoo (usually Oribe Texturizing Spray) and a good BB cream.”What’s your favorite beauty treatment to indulge in?
“I took a trip to South Korea last year, and became obsessed with their beauty products — particularly their sheet masks. Now, you can find them anywhere, but at that point they seemed very new and exciting to me. I love putting one on at home and terrifying my husband. But it’s great, because it feels like a real at-home professional beauty treatment.”What beauty prep do you absolutely do before any red carpet or premiere appearances?
“Before a big appearance, I’ll do one of the sheet masks I mentioned before, and also apply some Shiseido Retinol Eye Treatment Masks to take any puffiness down. Exfoliation is great for brightening up the skin for a big night. I always use the Renée Rouleau Mint Buffing Beads.”Tell me about some of the exciting projects you have in the works.
“I’m juggling a few things at the moment — I just wrapped a pilot with Logan Marshall Green called Quarry. I also just wrapped a film with Jeremy Renner called Kill the Messenger that I’m very excited about. I have an album coming out this January with Dan the Automator. We call ourselves Got a Girl and you can follow us on Twitter @Got_a_Girl. We’ll be releasing some singles this fall.
Yesterday in Beverly Hills, Mary stepped out onto the red carpet to attend the Max Mara And W Magazine Cocktail Party To Honor The Women In Film and Max Mara Face Of The Future Awards Recipient Hailee Steinfeld. As usual, Mary looked totally flawless on the red carpet. Head to the gallery to check out the new pics!
So great to see Mary out and about again! Feels like it’s been a while. 🙂
Update: WWD caught up with Mary where she revealed a little about her upcoming projects:
“I’m working on two indie films this summer and my first album,” she said. “We just made our first video with all women producers, directors and actors, which isn’t the norm in the music world.” Produced by Dan the Automator, the album will be released by EMI in August.
A new video interview of Mary during the Dallas International Film Festival has been posted online via What The Hell Did She Say. In the brief Q&A, Mary talks about how she and the Scott Pilgrim cast are close and how she prepared for her role in Smashed. Check it out below:
Now that the Dallas International Film Festival is over, I’ve added several new photos to the gallery of Mary attending the festival in addition to the ones I previously added. Also, be sure to check out this great new interview she did talking about her most recent films and photo portrait Mary did while at the event. Head to the gallery to check everything out!
DIFF Day 9
Q&A for SMASHED
DIFF 2013 Portraits
Mary looked lovely in blue while attending the Dallas International Film Festival yesterday in Texas to receive the Dallas Shining Star Award. Head to the gallery to check out the photos, the first few credited towards the respective owners. Shoutout to Ellie for posting the HQ ones!
Congrats again, Mary! Well deserved!
A reporter for Examiner also caught up with Mary at DIFF & shared the following story:
My favorite interview of the evening was with one of my favorite actresses, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Winstead has appeared in many films including Sky High, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Thing, Final Destination 3, and most recently starred in the independent film Smashed with “Breaking Bad” actor Aaron Paul. Winstead talked to me about her favorite kinds of movies to do. She says that small movies that do not get trailers and that everyone is there because they are really passionate about it are her favorite. Of course, she also enjoys working on the bigger films like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World where she got to play iconic comic book character Ramona Flowers. She and I spoke about my 9 year old newphew’s love of the film and how he makes us watch it with the commentary on so that he can learn trivia about his favorite film. The photo in the slideshow of us speaking shows her reaction to this, along with finding out he went as the title character for Halloween carrying around the famous, “Have you seen a girl with hair like this?” drawing. Winstead was very honored to have gotten the call about DFS wanting to honor her accomplishments and spoke about how well Dallas was treating her. Winstead has several projects that will be released later this year. The first one, which she spoke a little about, is The Spectacular Now which will be released in August. It is directed by her Smashed director James Ponsoldt. Winstead has a supporting role in the film. She also talked about finishing up the comedy A.C.O.D. with the “very funny” co-stars Adam Scott and Amy Poehler. Winstead was unsure of when the film will be released.
I’ve added additional scans of Mary in the March issue of Wonderland Magazine as well as adding better quality scans of her photoshoot from it. Thanks to Martin for the scans! Head to the gallery to check out Mary’s interview where she talks about Smashed, being named a “newcomer” (even though she’s been acting for years), and wanting to write and produce.
Thanks to Melanie, we’ve uploaded over 1000 screen-caps of Mary’s amazing performance in Smashed. Head to the gallery to check them out.
I’ve also begun capping the deleted scenes. The first deleted scene is already up in the gallery as well.
Be sure to keep checking back! I’ll be adding more caps from the DVD extras. Additionally, a new interview with director James Ponsolt, who directed Smashed has been posted online and he talks about why he chose Mary and how they filmed the emotional scene towards the end of the film. Click HERE to read the full interview. Below is James’ reason as to why he picked Mary for the lead role:
I knew Mary from many movies, especially Scott Pilgrim which I really loved her in. That’s obviously a hyper-stylized live-action cartoon of a movie but she gives a really grounded, naturalistic and strong performance in it. And I think there’s a reason Mary has been in a number of action and horror movies: she’s tough, she doesn’t feel weak and fragile. And it was important to us that the person who was going to play Kate to be someone who could be a surrogate for the audience. It was important for us to have someone who was brilliant and had a great sense of humor; who would allow us to laugh with her and not just at her. It was a strong and complicated person. And Mary knew she hadn’t done films before where she was in every single scene and acted this kind of way. So she was nervous and shouldered the burden of the film. The movie lives or dies by her performance. I didn’t ask her to audition, but when we first met over lunch and had a long several-hour conversation getting to know each other, she offered to put herself on tape to give her take on the character. So she did that at home and did a lot of scenes, including this one. I watched them with my wife and we were just blown away by her.