I have added one new photo of Mary with her “Charles Swan” co-stars Katheryn Winnick and Charlie Sheen. The trio seemed to have filmed a funny scene at an ice cream truck. Check out the new photo in our gallery.
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Showing Up Website Gets Huge Makeover, New Vid Interview about The Thing
A couple of new stuff to post about. First up, the official site to Mary’s appearance in the long-awaited documentary “Showing Up” finally got one heck of a makeover. Although Mary’s not featured in the trailer, a trailer is posted on the site along with some new stuff so be sure to check that out. The film is about actors talking about the audition process. “Showing Up” is currently being submitted to festivals and when more info is available, I’ll let you all know.
Secondly, a new video interview for The Thing has been posted, which you can view here.
Third, please vote for Mary in Portrait Magazine’s ‘Top 30 under 30’. You can vote as many times as you like over and over again.
And last but not least, Mary’s twitter account has been verified so no more second-guessing who is the real Mary on Twitter anymore!
Be sure to follow us on twitter here!
Mary Starring in Charles Swan!
Variety is reporting that Mary has joined Bill Murray and Patricia Arquette in Roman Coppola’s Charles Swan.
Eight years after earning an Oscar nomination for his perf in Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation,” Bill Murray has agreed to work with her older brother, as he has joined the cast of Roman Coppola’s “A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III” along with Patricia Arquette and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Trio will co-star alongside Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza and Katheryn Winnick.
Sheen stars as the title character, a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have made him irresistible to women. When his girlfriend breaks up with him, his life swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection. Through delirious fantasies involving his many failed romances, he begins the hard road of self-evaluation to come to terms with life without her.
Mini Scott Pilgrim reunion! Production is currently underway in Los Angeles.
Congratulations, Mary!
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New UK interview with Mary About The Thing
It’s no secret that by now, everyone has compared Mary’s character Kate in The Thing to Sigourney Weaver’s character Ripley in the Alien movies. There’s a new interview out with Mary featured on the Total Film site talking about the comparison. The Thing hits UK theaters December 2.
When we asked Winstead, who up to this point is probably best known for playing the object of Scott Pilgrim’s affection, about the comparison, she responded: “I definitely expect people to be bringing up the Ripley thing!”
She continued by talking about the female empowerment she feels on the film because of her character.
“She’s sort of androgynous in a way, because her focus, and her passion in life, is her job. Finding a fossil in the ice is the utmost thing she could do. It’s a dream world for her, at first. And then it turns terrifying…”So how was it being stuck in such a claustrophobic, testosterone-heavy environment? “I like being the only girl around here! It’s nice. I feel respected and one of the guys, which I don’t often get to experience.“I feel honoured to be the first female in this story. It’s cool.”
I will add scans from the TF issue as soon as I can!Production on SMASHED Wraps!
Huge congrats are in order for Mary and the cast of her upcoming film SMASHED. According to director James Ponsoldt, the film has officially wrapped filming!
Below are his tweets:
And…that’s a wrap. Wow. Thank you to everyone who worked on or helped with the film!
@M_E_Winstead You’re such a generous collaborator (and it’s kinda nuts how good you are in this film!).
As for Mary, here’s what she had to say about working on the film:
SMASHED was such an amazing,exhausting,challenging and incredibly rewarding experience, with a wonderful group of people. Now time to sleep.
@jamesponsoldt can’t thank you enough for letting me be a part of it- it was a dream job. Dream role. Best experience I could’ve hoped for
Riley even gave us a little insight on the film, revealing that Mary is one hell of a hard-working actress by filming Smashed while promoting The Thing:
For the last month or so @M_E_Winstead has worked 6 grueling days a week on SMASHED while promoting THE THING on her days off. She’s my hero
Such great news and once again, congrats to Mary, the cast, crew and director for a job well done. 🙂
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New Video from the Los Angeles Premiere of “The Thing”
“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.”
Cinemax Does A Double-Take on The Thing with Mary and Eric
Check out this Cinemax double-take with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Eric Christian Olsen while watching the autopsy scene from The Thing.
Weekend Box Office
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) $8,700,000As 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. 😉
Mary Presenting at Tonight’s Scream Awards
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!
New Interview with Mary About The Thing!
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.