Thanks to Mari, I’ve added photos of Mary at last night’s SMASHED after party in New York. You can view them all in the gallery.
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Mary at the New York Premiere of Smashed!
Mary looks stunning at tonight’s New York premiere of Smashed! I’ve uploaded the first photos of Mary at the event in HQ into the gallery.
Edit– Close to 50 photos have now been added. 🙂
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New Interview with Mary Discussing Smashed
Hollywood.com interviewed Mary, director James Ponsoldt and Mary’s co-star Mary Kay Place about Smashed. In the interview, Mary talks about attending AA meetings and smoking rock sugar as fake crack for one of Kate’s benders. Check out the interview below!
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New Photos and Upcoming Events
Mary is currently promoting Smashed in New York City and yesterday, Mary attended the Hudson Union Society event with the film’s director, James Ponsoldt. A ton of photos of Mary at the Q&A and what I’m assuming is an after-party, are posted here.
Additionally, it was a day of press for Mary today, and I’ve uploaded a pic of her into the gallery.
Also, tomorrow morning, Mary will be on the Wake up with Taylor Show on Sirius XM radio channel 109. The show airs from 7am-11am. Smashed will be premiering at the Hamptons International Film Festival tomorrow and having an encore presentation Saturday! If you want to attend and purchase tickets, click here. Expect new photos so be sure to check back soon!
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Mary Attends Film Independent Screening of Smashed and New Interview
Last night, Mary attended the Film Independent screening of SMASHED with director James Ponsoldt and her co-star Octavia Spencer. You can see photos from the event in the gallery. If I get any HQs, I’ll let you all know.
Also, Neon Tommy sat down with Mary to talk about Smashed and the type of research she did for the film:
Regarding the casting of Winstead, Ponsoldt reveals, “I’ve been a fan of Mary for a long time. She’s this very still, constant, strong presence. She has a very tough role [in Smashed] because she has to be cold, but she also has a sly sense of humor…we wanted someone to be a surrogate for the audience who could find strength and go through a lot.”
“It was scary for me to take it on because I’d never done anything like that before,” admitted Winstead of taking on her role as an alcoholic.
When asked how she prepared for her role with co-star Aaron Paul, who plays her husband in the film (also an alcoholic), Winstead dishes on how the two went out and got drunk together.
“I did it because I wanted to experience what our dynamic would be like [when we were drunk] since we had to be like that a lot in the film,” she laughs.
She continued by saying that she knew the role would be challenging, both mentally and emotionally:
“I spent a lot of time in AA meetings,” mentioned Winstead. I went to so many in L.A. and there were so many places to do it and see different people from different backgrounds. It was so relatable and that was my first step…and then I had to figure out the problems in my own life.”
When asked why she didn’t do something like this sooner, Winstead explains, “I don’t know if I would’ve been able to play a role like this five years ago…the years of working and growing as an actor just kind of came at the right moment for me and I was finally confident enough and ready to do it.”
Though Winstead’s past roles have been starkly different from her role in Smashed, it seems they’ve set her up over time.
“All I’ve ever really want to do is be a real human being on the screen,” reveals Winstead. “So finally having that opportunity was really exciting.”
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Mary Attending a SMASHED Q&A at the SAG Foundation Tonight
Mary will be at the SAG Foundation tonight (September 27) at 7pm where they’ll be a screening of SMASHED followed by a Q&A session with the leading lady.
The info for the event is as followed:
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Screening followed by a Q&A with Mary Elizabeth WinsteadDate: Thursday, September 27, 2012 Time: 7pm Location: SAG Foundation Actors Center
5757 Wilshire Blvd, Mezzanine
Los Angeles
(free validated parking)
If any photos or videos become available, I’ll be sure to upload the pictures on here. 🙂
2012-13 Awards Season Calendar
The 2012-13 awards season is fast approaching. Beginning in October with the Gotham Award nominations, over four months of ballot mailing, nomination announcements and award ceremonies are coming our way, culminating in the the 85th Annual Academy Awards on February 24, 2013. Some of the dates will probably change, so if that happens, we’ll let you know. With the way Smashed is getting so much buzz, Mary’s bound to attend a bunch of the award and events listed below:
October 2012
18 – Gotham Award nominations announced
November 2012
21 – Screen Actors Guild Award nomination ballots mailed
26 – Gotham Awards
27 – Independent Spirit Award nominations announced
December 2012
3 – Producers Guild Award voting opens
4 – Directors Guild Award voting opens
12 – Screen Actors Guild Award nominations announced
17 – Academy Award nomination voting opens
January 2013
2 – Screen Actors Guild Award final ballots mailed
3 – Academy Award nomination voting ends.
3 – Producers Guild Award nominations announced
3 – Writers Guild Award nominations announced
10 – Academy Award nominations announced
10 – National Board of Review Awards Gala
13 – Golden Globe Awards
26 – Producers Guild Awards
27 – Screen Actors Guild Awards
February 2013
2 – Directors Guild Awards
8 – Final Academy Award voting begins
19 – Final Academy Award voting ends
23 – Independent Spirit Awards
24 – Academy Awards
Official Smashed Site Now Online
Just a quick post to let you all know that the official website for Smashed is now live. If you live in the New York or Los Angeles area, you can find your theater showtimes by clicking ‘showtimes’ on the film’s site. If the film does really well at the box office, the movie will then play in other cities and countries.
You can view the official site by clicking here.
Alternate Ending to The Thing (2011) Described
StudioADI has uploaded a new behind the scenes video when they were working on The Thing and in it, they show what happens in the alternate ending to the film, which depicts an alien pilot to the discovered spacecraft. If you still haven’t seen the film, do not keep reading, spoilers ahead obviously. But anyway, according to the description, here’s how the alt. ending would’ve gone down:
The scripted ending to The Thing (2011) featured Kate inside the spacecraft, discovering the mummified remains of the pilot who first brought the craft to Earth, unleashing the Thing. A second pilot, still alive, attacks just as it mutates into a Thing version of itself. Shot but ultimately discarded in favor of a different direction, it gave us a great opportunity to design and build a unique alien life form and then push it into Thing territory when it changes. A full size animatronic/rod puppet provided physical elements on stage with a planned CG counterpart to flesh out the action. Watch The Thing Tom Woodruff Jr On Fire to see fire elements that were shot for what would have been the death of the CG pilot! All that burnin’ and nothing to do with it…
So bummed we couldn’t see this alternate version in the film, much less any of the amazing other practical effects they’d done at the time.