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 Exactly how or why she was able to pull this off still eludes the actress and while she is very conscious of guarding against sounding too ethereal about the whole thing she does offer thought. “There’s something magical about movie making. It’s hard to express and difficult to talk about but there’s something about the whole process of filmmaking that is such that you wait and you hope for the magical moments while you’re shooting and this was one of those things and we really needed it because like I said no money, no time, no budget, no nothing so thank God for the miracle moments that happened where I could play pool under the pressure that we had.” Famke is the first to stand up and talk about the value of truly independent films in the market place and how influential it has been in her career thus far. “It’s great because if I only relied on being in studio big budget films I would never have the career that I’ve enjoyed to date,” she says. “Just because I get cast in specific very different types of parts in studio films than I’ve been able to play in the independents. What I mostly do is with the sort of name recognizability that you get from being in movies like the X-Men films I then go and they can finance a little indie on my name and I get to play the grittier, more interesting, more complex characters and leads versus little supporting parts or something.” No stranger to support parts is the highly animated Rip Torn, Famke’s on screen mentor and pool hustling expert, Mr. Quinette. “He’s great, he’s a character,’ she laughs. “Every single time I watch the movie he just makes me laugh because his delivery is so unique only he can say the lines the way he says them and I don’t think he has any idea how odd and funny and sort of unique and weird they are.” When you see the movie you’ll see that Rip Torn is just the type of guy you could imagine having a lot of fun with hanging out at your local Billiards Bar but unfortunately during filming that wasn’t so much the cast for anyone. “I’m imagining under normal circumstances it would be but we had no a/c and we were shooting in 110 degree weather in the summer in New York so we left the pool ... |
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