Rachel McAdams - Rachel News/Appearances #4 - Page 7

vc318 · 08-20-2006, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Periwinkles (View Post)

And a reminder that the TCA"S are tonight at 8 on FOX. Rachel's nominated in a few categories.

No! I missed it!

How did Rachel do?

water lilies · 08-21-2006, 12:05 PM

Rachel won an award for Choice Actress: Comedy.

She didn't attend the event though, but at least she won something.

vc318 · 08-21-2006, 07:51 PM

She didn't attend? Did she give a video acceptance speech for her award?

NZOCFan · 08-23-2006, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by vc318 (View Post)

She didn't attend? Did she give a video acceptance speech for her award?

No, out of the many awards there are, the TCA's only announce the winners like a portion of them [and those, the people who win, attend]. And the ones they don't announce, they put it onscreen or sometimes they dont.

Red Eye also got Choice Thriller too

ACHmaxima · 08-24-2006, 12:18 AM

Star-studded gathering at West

Veteran actress Patricia Clarkson was the guest of honour at an informal, but star-studded gathering Sunday night at trendy West Restaurant on Granville.

Pierce Brosnan, Rachel McAdams, Chris Cooper and other cast and crew of the locally shot feature flick Marriage turned out to celebrate their award-winning costar Clarkson.

It just so happens that a night earlier she picked up a Creative Arts Emmy award for her performance in the TV series Six Feet Under. She then had to hurry back here to continue work on the period drama Marriage, which is about an adulterous husband who plots the murder of his wife.

24 Hours Vancouver - Entertainment: Star-studded gathering at West

NZOCFan · 08-24-2006, 02:31 AM

Thanks for the article.

water lilies · 08-25-2006, 05:21 AM

Thanks for the information.

Sherri-Berrie · 08-25-2006, 02:23 PM

yay! i'm glad she won, she was a lot of hilarious movies this past year, well deserved!!

vc318 · 08-25-2006, 10:36 PM

Thanks for that, ACHmaxima!

**Quarterley** · 09-07-2006, 04:51 PM

Sept. 6, 2006 - Globe and Mail:

Worth celebrating: two Canadian women who did it their way

THE WAY WE ARE: SUCCESS STORIES

JUDITH TIMSON

Cassie Campbell and Rachel McAdams are two names you don't normally see together, but they share remarkable similarities. They are both high-profile, attractive, young, Canadian stars in two very different fields -- hockey and Hollywood -- who have seemingly accomplished the near impossible: behaving well and astutely managing their careers in two high-octane industries that are often all about bad behaviour.

Judging from the way they've conducted themselves so far, they both could give lessons to the rest of us on how to stay on course, how to get what you want, and how to stay true to yourself.

Ms. Campbell, the engaging 32-year-old Brampton, Ont., hockey star who twice captained the Canadian women's Olympic hockey team to victories, declared last week she was retiring from the game.

Her press conference was both charming and awkward -- she unabashedly blubbered her way through it -- as she announced she was moving on to finish two books and become a TSN hockey commentator. (She isn't actually writing the books, mind you, just participating in them.) Described as a great leader rather than a great player, Ms. Campbell is the only successful Canadian hockey player, male or female, to captain a national team to two gold medals. How did she pull it off? Therein lies a motivational speaking career to die for.

"I hope that I've had an impact on the players as far as leadership goes," Ms. Campbell said modestly as other players and young wannabes hailed her work ethic, her poise, and her diplomatic ability to pull the team together. They described her as a "poster girl of women's hockey." She has obviously, along with her teammates, inspired an entire generation of girls to take their own hockey ambitions seriously.

Ms. McAdams is a poster girl, too -- a beautiful and talented actress who, at 29, is determinedly calling her own shots to the point that Hollywood just doesn't know what to make of her.

Ms. McAdams, a native of London, Ont., who appears in such popular movies as Mean Girls, The Notebook and Wedding Crashers, made headlines last spring for the opposite reason most starlets do: She refused to take off her clothes for a Vanity Fair magazine cover shoot. She even fired her publicist afterward for not warning her that she was expected to disrobe along with sister-stars Keira Knightly and Scarlett Johansson, who got naked without her.

Recently The Wall Street Journal, in a long and mostly flattering article, reported that Ms. McAdams was a bit of a puzzle to career-driven, shark-infested Hollywood. While her salary is now reportedly up to $5-million (U.S.) a picture, she is still living in Toronto, taking public transit, and turning down so many plum roles that don't appeal to her that Hollywood was in "high dudgeon" about her.

It's a little rich that Hollywood, home to the Olympics of bad behaviour, is worried about a star who keep her clothes on and makes highly selective career choices. Just this summer, it had to contend with mega-star Mel Gibson's BUI (bigotry under the influence) incident in which he got arrested for drunk driving, made anti-Semitic slurs and has been in drug and attitude rehab ever since.

So what is Rachel McAdams' primary sin? One of her former producers explained that she's "trying to live a life first," which has include spending time last fall helping out in Louisiana after hurricane Katrina.

I don't know either of these dazzling young women, so for all I know they could be prima donnas or royal pains in the neck in private. Even in public they're not perfect -- Ms. McAdams comes across as a little on the prim side, and Ms. Campbell should probably learn to cry a little less in public. At one point, during her televised press conference, I had the urge to wipe her runny nose.

But they also embody strength, professionalism, a sense of calm direction in their careers, and an insistence on living full lives. (Ms. Campbell is married to a hockey player and hopes to have children.) They probably have excellent career advisers, but you can have all that talent and the best advice in the world and still blow it. Both hockey and Hollywood are filled with fools, bullies and jerks.

One of the key questions high profile achievers get asked repeatedly at public functions, especially by hungry and ambitious young people is: "How did you do it?" In the case of these two women, I'd love to know.

So, here's an idea: Maybe they could make a movie about Cassie Campbell -- Canadian hockey hero -- and get Rachel McAdams to star in it.

jtimson@globeandmail.com

Sheebs · 09-08-2006, 10:21 AM

Wonderful article!

What a gal!

water lilies · 09-08-2006, 03:03 PM

Thanks for the article.

Here's the Wall Street Journal that article was referring about:

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Posted on Sun, Sep. 03, 2006

Hot actress McAdams is playing hard to get
`Wedding Crashers' star stumps Hollywood by rejecting splashy parts

KATE KELLY
Wall Street Journal

Minutes after auditioning Rachel McAdams for "Wedding Crashers," director David Dobkin told the studio executive who had recommended her that she had to be hired.

"She plays like a Stradivarius, man," said Dobkin, who cast her in the 2005 comedy as the young socialite who sets a toxic bachelor straight.

These days, the director might have trouble getting McAdams to even consider showing up for an audition. Though she has only six major studio films under her belt, the 29-year-old Canadian actress has become a red-hot property. But she also is rejecting high-profile, well-paying parts that young actresses are expected to jump at.

McAdams's career-management strategy highlights the pitfalls of being a rising star today in the movie business. Hollywood has generated a bumper crop of promising new film talent in recent years only to see insiders write them off after they appear in movies considered either too commercial or crass.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, for example, have lost cachet through overexposure or questionable creative calls. But 20-somethings Jake Gyllenhaal and Scarlett Johansson, meanwhile, have improved their street cred by taking on complex films with respected directors.

Then there's McAdams, the extreme of selectivity.

"She's an interesting case study," says Michael London, who produced last December's dark comedy "The Family Stone," in which McAdams plays an obnoxious younger sister in a New England family who bedevils her brother's girlfriend, played by Sarah Jessica Parker. "I heard a lot of people say, `That girl better be careful because that auteur trip she's on is going to hurt her career.' But I swear that girl doesn't have an iota of artsy, auteur baggage in her. She just wants to be involved in movies that she enjoys and likes."

`She has everything you want'

Since her Hollywood debut in the 2002 comedy "The Hot Chick" with Rob Schneider, McAdams has had a plethora of opportunities, ranging from Lois Lane in the recently released "Superman Returns" (the part eventually went to Kate Bosworth) to the love interest in the upcoming James Bond film "Casino Royale" (which went to actress Eva Green).Despite her declinations, studio chiefs all over town continue scrambling to work with her. "She has everything you want in a movie star -- the talent, the looks, the accessibility," says Marc Shmuger, chairman of Universal Pictures, which hasn't been able to sign the actress to a movie.

McAdams relies on a small cadre of representatives to oversee her career. On the front lines is her longtime manager, Shelley Browning, who associates say fields many of the job inquiries that come the actress's way.

McAdams's representatives declined to make her available for this article.

Collaborating with the discerning McAdams can be a delicate matter. She threw a wrench in Vanity Fair magazine's plans for its vaunted Oscar-season cover by walking away from the photo shoot last November after discovering the participants would be nude (though strategically obscured). That led to a revamp of the cover and a parting of ways with her publicist. She's also not shy about promoting the work of her boyfriend, actor Ryan Gosling, who appeared with her in the 2004 romance "The Notebook." For a planned movie version of the best-selling novel "The Time Traveler's Wife" in which McAdams may play the title character, she suggested to her representatives that Gosling might want to direct, say people familiar with the matter. (No decision has been made about the film's director.)

`Trying to live a life first'

Supporters of McAdams say her willingness to prioritize her personal life makes her a breath of fresh air in such a work-obsessed industry. Despite the need to spend time in Los Angeles for meetings, for instance, she has refused to abandon her Toronto home. During her recent film shoot for "Marriage," a low-budget, 1940s period drama, she's been photographed waiting for a public bus. And rather than take a high-profile new film role to capitalize on the success of "Wedding Crashers," which took in more than $200 million at the domestic box office, London says she spent a good chunk of last fall in Louisiana pitching in on Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

McAdams is "trying to live a life first," says J.C. Spink, who produced "Red Eye," last summer's airline-kidnapping thriller in which she starred. He adds that he could tell she was down to earth from her behavior on the set. Moments before an important scene was to be shot, McAdams took the time to chat with Spink's mother, who was visiting one day, he recalls. "Rachel is a really nice person, which is half the battle," he says.

So how does a frustrated studio executive win over the reluctant star? With a colorful script or a seasoned director. Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, the production company making "Marriage" for under $20 million, didn't have a fat salary to offer, but it did have an intriguing script and an offbeat director of art-house films, Ira Sachs. Sachs flew from New York to Los Angeles and made the pitch to McAdams over dinner, emphasizing the project's Hitchcockian flavor.

"We all sat on pins and needles for about a week or two," says William Horberg, Kimmel's president of production, "and then got the call back that she wanted to do it."

Source

NZOCFan · 09-08-2006, 11:22 PM

Thanks for posting the Globe and Mail article

water lilies · 09-18-2006, 02:15 PM

Not really Rachel news, but a more general article on "Marriage":

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A very long engagement
Big-name 'Marriage' cast holes up in Vancouver for suspenser shoot

Sept 11

By DON TOWNSON

TORONTO -- On the Vancouver set of "Marriage," a neo-noir drama about love, deception and murder, it's supposed to be pouring rain as the young seductress Kay (Rachel McAdams) tells her adulterous older lover, Harry (Chris Cooper), "You look a little bit off. Why don't I put up some soup? Go and sit by the fire."
Actually, it's an unusually hot August summer day outside and even hotter under the lights inside the soundstage of First Avenue Studio. And Cooper, beneath his pale makeup, is in the pink of health, despite a hectic schedule this summer that has him going back and forth between this film and the Peter Berg-directed thriller "The Kingdom."

"I'd rather help you," Cooper replies wistfully.

In a way, the physical discomfort lends an extra edge to the period suspenser about a man (Cooper) who attempts to leave his faithful but cold wife (Patricia Clarkson), for the passionate and much younger Kay. Afraid of the shame divorce will bring, Harry plots to poison Kay, which he reveals to his best friend, Richard (Pierce Brosnan). In the noir tradition of whatever can go wrong will go wrong, the plot thickens when Richard falls in love with Kay, becomes Harry's rival and tries to foil the murder.

The long-gestating project, with its starry cast and Sundance prizewinner Ira Sachs at the helm, represents somewhat of a coup for a new studio complex known primarily for its commercial shoots.

"I'm still awestruck," says First Avenue Studio owner David Switzer, as he watches carpenters dismantle the main set, a meticulously crafted, 1930s-style house erected inside his 9,000-square-foot building in Burnaby, a Vancouver suburb.

"We just opened last year, and a 'Marriage' location scout saw our sign and knocked on the door," says Switzer says. "So this has been one amazing experience."

It's taken four years for the on-again, off-again "Marriage" to march down the aisle this far. In the end, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment came onboard to finance the $17.5 million pic.

Homegrown star

The first 22 days of shooting have gone smoothly, and the crew is in a good mood. They are clearly enamored with McAdams, a homegrown star on the rise who is the daughter of a truck driver and a nurse. Earlier in the week, McAdams -- who was raised in St. Thomas, Ontario -- was named No. 8 on Canada's Celebrity Power list by Canadian Business magazine (after Avril Lavigne and before Matthew Perry). Brosnan has almost achieved local status, having made thriller "Butterfly on a Wheel" in Vancouver earlier this year.

With the bulk of the shooting over, production manager Simon Abbott has just circulated a memo to the crew on behalf of the producers extending their "heartfelt thanks for a job well done." Most of them are looking forward to an Indian summer vacation before returning to finish filming in October. Not returning are McAdams and Brosnan, who have completed their scenes.

"This is only my 74th day as a director in my life," says Sachs. "But people are willing to take a risk with me because creatively, 'Marriage' is full and rich."

Screenplay, penned by Sachs and Oren Moverman, is based on a 1953 novel by John Bingham, first published in the U.K. as "Five Roundabouts to Heaven" and then Stateside as "The Tender Poisoner." Sachs brought the project to exec producer Geoff Stier, who introduced it to SKE's production prexy Bill Horberg last year. Stier worked with Sachs on "Forty Shades of Blue," which won the 2005 Sundance Film Fest's grand jury prize.

"Marriage" is being produced by Sachs, Sidney Kimmel, Steve Golin and Jawal Nga.

"The opportunity to work on a film so performance-driven is refreshing," says David Nicksay, one of the seven credited executive producers involved with the film. "This kind of picture is the new wave for North American filmmaking. They're able to attract better casts than ever before. Indies are the place for movies with content and ideas."

Cooper was the first actor inked for "Marriage." "He had seen the script," says Nga, who produced Sachs' Sundance winner. "Then Ira and I went to Boston in 2005 and showed him 'Forty Shades of Blue.' He's been completely dedicated to the project."

Nga, a NYU grad who grew up in Tripoli, Libya, and London, says he's looking forward to people seeing "Marriage."

"You can win all the awards, but you can't get four people to see it," he says. "Nobody went to see 'Forty Shades of Blue.' Distribution adds legitimacy to your project." MGM will distribute "Marriage" Stateside through its arrangement with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, and Kimmel International is handling the film overseas.

NZOCFan · 09-20-2006, 10:34 PM

Thanks for the article, Belle.

Movie sounds awesome.


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