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Steamy Meg Ryan flick heats up Toronto
Yahooooo News ^ | 09/09/03 | Jeffrey Hodgson

Posted on 09/09/2003 2:10:13 PM PDT by bedolido

TORONTO (Reuters) - A sexually explicit murder mystery pairing romantic comedy star Meg Ryan with Oscar-winning director Jane Campion has sent tongues wagging at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"In the Cut", which was making its world debut at the September 4-September 13 Toronto festival on Tuesday, stars Ryan as a lonely writing professor who becomes involved with a crass detective investigating a series of murders.

But journalists at the Toronto festival could talk about little other than the decision by the star of "Sleepless in Seattle", "You've Got Mail" and "When Harry Met Sally" to appear nude in the film's many steamy love scenes.

Ryan said she didn't especially want to do the scenes, but put her faith in New Zealand-born Campion, whose films "Holy Smoke" and "The Piano", for which she won an Academy Award for best screenplay, were similarly explicit.

"I think the scenes are really good though, I think they're very honest. Jane didn't want them to be coy, so I don't think they are at all. And I love how much dialogue is in those scenes. That's what makes them really intimate," Ryan told journalists on Tuesday.

"It was the right movie with the right director and the right character. I've seen her movies before and I think she's very trustworthy."

Ryan said the scenes were shot with just a few people in the room and Campion did everything she could to set the stars at ease, at one point threatening to take her own clothes off.

But relative newcomer Mark Ruffalo, who plays the detective, said there was little the director could do to calm his nerves.

"I was scared. I was really scared. And she (Ryan) was with Russell Crowe. All I could think of is 'what am I going to be like compared to Russell Crowe?'" he said.

Based on Susanna Moore's novel of the same name, "In the Cut" has been in the works since 1996, when Campion had talks with Nicole Kidman about playing the lead character.

Kidman reportedly backed out because the role seemed too emotionally demanding after her divorce from Tom Cruise.

The film, which also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kevin Bacon, is set in a gritty, claustrophobic New York, where the female characters are tormented by loneliness and each new relationship seems to pose a threat.

Ryan said her latest film did not mean she'll turn her back on the genre that shot her to fame.

"I love doing comedies. I needed a break for a little while, but I love it," she said.

"I come to these rooms all the time and they say 'this is a departure'. Except I've done like 30 movies and I've done seven romantic comedies. So you all can say what you want. I don't care."

Now celebrating its 28th year, Toronto is ranked with Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Sundance among the world's most influential film festivals. This year's event will screen more than 300 movies from 55 countries.


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1 posted on 09/09/2003 2:10:13 PM PDT by bedolido
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2 posted on 09/09/2003 2:14:05 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects)
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To: bedolido
This book, In The Cut was recommended to me as an "intellectual" and "psychological" book.

It's actually pseudointellectual, boring smut.

3 posted on 09/09/2003 2:14:23 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: bedolido
"In the Cut", which was. . .

They got that spelled right?

4 posted on 09/09/2003 2:16:13 PM PDT by mikeb704
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To: bedolido
I wish she made this movie 15 years ago.
5 posted on 09/09/2003 2:17:03 PM PDT by dead (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: bedolido
Ah, another Campion film. More nudity from the “lady” who gave the world a good long look at Harvey Keitel's doohickey in The Piano. Do we have to have full frontal in every flick from now on, Ms. C?

Naked Mega Ryan or not, no movie's worth the kind of exquisite boredom I've experienced while watching Ms. Campion's other films. No thanks.

6 posted on 09/09/2003 2:17:36 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: dead
I knew you were going to pop up in this thread...
7 posted on 09/09/2003 2:18:17 PM PDT by Registered (Gray Davis won't be baaaaahhck)
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No comment.
8 posted on 09/09/2003 2:19:57 PM PDT by dead (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: dead
true... she's old enough to be a grandmother. But still beautiful
9 posted on 09/09/2003 2:20:00 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects)
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true... she's old enough to be a grandmother. But still beautiful

Ah-HA! She's a GILF

10 posted on 09/09/2003 2:23:56 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: bedolido
she's old enough to be a grandmother

Perhaps - but then I'm old enough to be a Grandfather.
I wouldn't kick her out!

11 posted on 09/09/2003 2:24:01 PM PDT by grobdriver
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To: bedolido
Show of hands:

Who beside me can't tell Melanie Griffith from Meg Ryan?
12 posted on 09/09/2003 2:29:21 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat.)
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Who beside me can't tell Melanie Griffith from Meg Ryan?

Easy... Melanie Griffith is beautiful and older, and Meg Ryan is old and beautiful.

13 posted on 09/09/2003 2:31:55 PM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects)
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The film, which also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kevin Bacon,

"Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" note:

This casting move will place Kevin Bacon within six dergrees of everyone whoever appeared in a film with Christopher Plummer (co-starred in "Delores Clayborn" with Jen Jason-Leigh) and Eliot Gould (co-starred with Plummer in "Silent Partner").

Plummer has done a TON of films. Gould is up there too.

14 posted on 09/09/2003 2:36:07 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (®)
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To: bedolido
Beautiful and older?? Older perhaps:


15 posted on 09/09/2003 2:36:16 PM PDT by capydick ("We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.")
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GILF


16 posted on 09/09/2003 2:37:44 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: bedolido
Just another level down in Meg Ryan descent into a hell of her own creation. When she started cheating on her husband and wrecked that home (he has custody of their children), she was a mega star and Dennis Quaid was all washed up, Now take a look: she is reduced to pathetic "art" flicks like this, and Quaid had "Traffic", "The Rookie" and now "Cold Creek Manor", which will be #1 when it is released. Just desserts for fellandering Ryan and loyal father Quaid.
17 posted on 09/09/2003 2:37:45 PM PDT by montag813
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To: dead
I wish she made this movie 15 years ago.

What happened to you 15 years ago?

18 posted on 09/09/2003 2:39:17 PM PDT by ALASKA
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To: bedolido
Being a Meggie fan, I will see the film, not to see the skin but to see the performance. She's a beautiful woman that has the 'girl next door' face and figure. She is the modern day Audry Hepburn, although Audry had a class that no actress can ever achieve. None the less, Meggie has brought me to tears a few times, as well as made me laugh uncontrollability. She's good at her craft and she keeps her politics, mostly, to herself.
19 posted on 09/09/2003 2:41:25 PM PDT by timydnuc (FR)
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What happened to you 15 years ago?

It was rumored to have been a bizarre gardening accident.

20 posted on 09/09/2003 2:41:33 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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