Bonnie And Clyde 2013 Part One
Holliday Grainger Talks Bonnie Clyde and Cinderella. In this special two night, four hour event thats airing simulcast on A E, History and Lifetime, Bonnie Clyde retells the fascinating tale of the legendary couple whose crime spree enraptured the American public. Directed by Bruce Beresford Driving Miss Daisy, Clyde Barrow Emile Hirsch and Bonnie Parker Holliday Grainger were able to stay one step ahead of the law and escape capture, time and time again, which led to riskier and more dangerous crimes, making them the most famous criminals of the modern era. The film also stars Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Sarah Hyland, Lane Garrison, Elizabeth Reaser, Austin Hebert and Dale Dickey. During this recent exclusive interview with Collider, actress Holliday Grainger talked about how she won this role from an audition she put on tape, what she most loved about this script, how she viewed Bonnie Parker, how she found her performance, working with her partner in crime Emile Hirsch, having such a beautiful wardrobe, and just how bizarre it was to film Bonnie and Clydes fatal final shoot out. She also talked about playing one of the evil stepsisters in Kenneth Branaghs Cinderella and feeling like theyre making a fairy tale come to life, as well as how she misses being a part of the Showtime series The Borgias, in which she played Lucrezia. Check out what she had to say after the jump. Collider How did you come to be a part of this Was this a role you had to audition for HOLLIDAY GRAINGER It happened shockingly quickly. It was my first project that Ive ever gotten from a tape. Im so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent. And then, I got a phone call saying, They liked your tape. Can you put yourself on tape again, for the other scene that you never got around to doing I was like, Yeah Wow, someone actually watched it and liked me Amazing It was the best script Id read in ages. And then, I Skyped with director Bruce Beresford for five or 1. I was really freaking out because I hadnt met anyone. I was like, Youre trusting me to play an American icon, and youve not actually met me Hed only seen my audition tapes. It scared me. I was like, Are you going to get me a dialect coach, and they were like, Yeah, when you get over here. So, I was like, Ive gotta get my own dialect coach. I completely freaked out and took myself to ballet lessons and started researching panic attacks. Everyone was like, You can start prep when you come over, in a few weeks. I just dove into Bonnie Parker, head first. Once you did get to meet Emile Hirsch, did you breathe a sigh of relief that things would actually work GRAINGER Yeah I was in Louisiana for five days, before any of the other cast arrived. I met Emile and we were on the same wavelength about it. And then, I met Holly Hunter, as well. My first scenes were with her, and she was just so generous and so lovely. She really held my hand through it. She could tell how nervous I was. She said, You know, youre doing great. She really put my nerves at rest. I started to enjoy it, from then on. Bonnie And Clyde 2013 Part One' title='Bonnie And Clyde 2013 Part One' />When you read this script, what most stood out for you GRAINGER I loved the surreal elements that were in the script, and the way that it dances around and between present and pasta. And the fact that Clyde has second sight was something that I read into in biographies and thought it was really interesting to play on that. I very rarely want to play a character that I dont like, but after reading the script, by the end of the script, I hated her. I just thought she was the most thick skinned, selfish, manipulative little bitch, every. She was like a selfish little teenage girl, in adult form. Pluralsight Automated Testing. She was fame hungry and self centered. It all was so complex, with her desires and her need for recognition and her need for something more out of life. And then, when I started reading more about her in biographies, and reading about the era and being a product of the Depression, there was no hope in a small suburb of Dallas. There was nothing beyond waitressing or secretarial work, if you were lucky. This girl really took her life into her own hands and really did something with it. I was intrigued, as well, with her diary entries and her letters to Clyde, when she was younger. There was a totally different side to this manipulative woman that was in the script. She was quite a naive young girl. It was that juxtaposition that really intrigued me. With as much as Bonnie enjoyed the fame and celebrity, she probably would be someone who would love to be a reality star todayBonnie and Clydes violence, especially its final shootout, busted cinematic taboos and set the stage for how we watch films now, writes Luke Buckmaster. Bonnie Clyde is a revisionist 2013 miniseries about Great Depressionera outlaws Bonnie and Clyde starring Emile Hirsch as Clyde Barrow and Holliday Grainger as. Bonnie and Clyde is a milestone in the history of American movies, a work of truth and brilliance. There is a moment in Bonnie and Clyde when Bonnie. GRAINGER Exactly Its like she was the original fame hungry reality star. She would have loved to have gone on Pop Idol, or something like that. Were you ever hesitant about taking on this story and this character, knowing that these are not just historical figures, but that theyre cinematic icons, too GRAINGER Gosh, no I think Im a bit like Bonnie, in that Im selfish when it comes to work. Im like, Oh, that will be fun I wanna do that I never think beyond my participation in a project. Its never something that plagues my mind when Im working on something. And then, I finish and Im like, Oh, yeah. I hope people agree with my version. When you were doing your research for this, were there specific things you read about Bonnie that helped you find how you wanted to play her and how you wanted to carry yourself, physically GRAINGER The Bonnie that I created in my mind from biographies that Id read, and then from the script, seemed like two totally different people, so I went with the Bonnie in the script because I thought shed be more interesting to play. Also, of course, were making a TV show and not a documentary. But, what I did take from reading her diary entries was that element of innocence and this need to be liked and wanted. She needed to be liked by her mom. She needed to be liked by Clyde. She needed a guy in her life to follow. She needed to be liked by the public. She was so distraught that people would think she smoked cigars. They took a police officer hostage and the one thing that Bonnie asked him to do, when they let him go, was to tell the world that she didnt smoke cigars. She cared about her image. She had this innocence and naivete, and then this aesthetic preoccupation for such a young girl. How did you approach acting out the panic attacks to make them as realistic as possible
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