Posted on 04/30/2005 6:30:23 PM PDT by Danae
Rosie O'Donnell (search) is an actress -- but she was a talk-show host for so long and such a controversial figure after that that some viewers may have forgotten this fact.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
O'Donnell told FOX that playing Beth in the Hallmark Hall of Fame drama was "a very scary thing to do."
"When she was young girl (she is my age, 43) they called her retarded, but she now falls somewhere along the spectrum of autism, which is a wide and varied spectrum ... she has minimum social skills or interest in anyone outside of her own world. She is a fascinating character to play and it was a very scary thing to do. But with Angelica Huston (search) directing and Andie (MacDowell) helping me get through it, it was a magnificent journey to try to do it."
Sometimes, O'Donnell's celebrity interfered with shooting.
"We shot for about six weeks up in Hamilton, Ontario, and they had this great huge bus that had cameras and lights on each side. It looked like a UFO. Driving around this little town, people would come outside and they would see me and scream, 'Hey Rosie,' and we were like 'Cut!'"
And she does miss her talk show sometimes.
"I thought the maximum would be four years and I did six ... So, I look back on it fondly and I do miss it. And I sort of miss having the platform so I started my on blog, which is better than a show because nobody can answer back."
Huston, who steps into the director's chair for the third time for "Riding the Bus," says she jumped at the chance to collaborate with O'Donnell, who also served as executive producer.
"She was a total pleasure to work with, extremely talented. She comes very prepared and is good to everyone," Huston told the Associated Press, calling her star "a major goodwill ambassador."
Inspired by Rachel Simon's autobiographical book of the same name, the film chronicles the relationship between the assertive but dependent Beth and smart, self-absorbed Rachel (Andie MacDowell (search)).
Their uneasy sisterhood changes when Rachel joins in Beth's daily pastime of hanging out on city buses — her way of interacting with a world that's sometimes harsh, sometimes kind.
The film eschews sentimentality in its depiction of Beth.
"You don't want to embrace her at all times," Huston said. "I think the movie comes from a pretty direct point of view — which is this person is at the same time enchanting and exasperating, adorable and irritating."
Ohh now here is an example of Method acting at it's finest! A role perfectly suited to the actor if I have ever seen one!
Ok, OK! I know it isn't news..... But good fodder none-the-less!
Hope it's a big bus.
I think I will be sick.
PULL!!!
BOOM!
Why is FOx even interviewing her.
Her freak show is inseperable from her, she is a negative no matter what she does.
I'm blowing the whistle on criminal misuse of quote marks. That headline:
Rosie's 'Riding the Bus' Back to ActingShould be:
Rosie's Riding the Bus Back to 'Acting'
I saw O'Donnell call Bush a "war criminal" on FoxNews. Can anyone say "idiot?"
I can't believe O'Donut is getting so much press for what really amounts to an After-School Special.
She'll be playing the part of the bus.
"She'll be playing the part of the bus."
When did she loose weight?
Sorry, but this person alone guaranteed I would not tune that show in.
I remember Rosie being hypocritical about guns.
I remember Rosie insisting it was O K, and "getting married" in San Frransicko
I remember the biloe that poured out of Rosie about G W Bush.
Oh wait, they need somebody funny, too.
Didn't even have to make rehearsals, no doubt.
I've watched her in the trailers and she seems pretty good. We have to live with that.
Sounds like typecasting.
Somehow I keep thinking of South Park's Eric Cartman and the episode where he pretends to be a retarded kid in order to win the $1000 prize...
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