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.
And if you feel like liking us on Facebook, you can do so here. 🙂
Thanks to Ginnie, I’ve added more new photos of Mary when she attended the Hamptons International Film Festival from earlier this month. Check out the pics in the gallery.
Yesterday afternoon in Los Angeles, Mary attended the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Event hosted by Lisa Love and Mark Holgate. At the event, she hung out with her friend and actress Jaime King as well as fellow actress Bella Heathcote. Be sure to check out the pics in the gallery, where the first half are HQs.
I’ve added some new event photos of Mary attending the 40th Anniversary and book release Of “W: The First 40 Years” event in Los Angeles. Mary even posed with her husband Riley at the event. Be sure to check out all the pics in the gallery.
Also, there’s new interviews and photos I’ve added to the gallery. Below is part of her interview with Now Toronto magazine:
“I haven’t done a big film since [Smashed],” she says. “I did a cameo in Die Hard 5, but I [only] worked for a day, so I can’t quite count that. I’ve only done small parts in a string of really small films; I haven’t made the leap back to big films yet. I’m moving toward wanting to be a collaborative part of the process as much as I can. I would like to be filmmaker-focused in everything I do.”
GlobeandMail also interviewed Mary about Smashed:
Winstead was knocked sideways when she read Smashed ’s script. “ She’s a completely real character that you just never, ever see in scripts,” Winstead, 27, said during an interview during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. “She always has to be perfect, she always has to be making the guy a better person. She’s on a pedestal. And here’s a woman who’s dragging herself through the mud with what she’s doing to herself, making terrible choices and yet you still root for her.”
The article’s accompanying photo can also be viewed in the gallery.
I’ve added screen-caps of Mary’s scenes in the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie. You can view all of them in the gallery.
While Mary only has a small cameo appearance in A Good Day to Die Hard (or Die Hard 5) when it comes out early next year, a new UK trailer (via Yahoo!) shows part of Mary’s scene in the upcoming action film. Thanks to Darren for the heads up! The film will be out February 14, 2013.
Edit– Caps are now up in the gallery.
So great to see Mary in the film as Lucy again! 🙂 If you want to see the trailer in HD, you can see it over at the Apple site by clicking here.
