Emilie de Ravin joins Mann’s ‘Public Enemies’
Lost star Emilie de Ravin has joined the cast of Michael Mann’s Public Enemies.
The Australian actress, who plays Claire in the ABC drama, will play a supporting role opposite Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in the movie.
The film, based on Bryan Burrough’s book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43, tells the story of the US government’s attempts to catch notorious bank robber John Dillinger (Depp).
Christian Bale plays FBI agent Melvin Purvis, with Avatar’s Stephen Lang as the head of the Texas Rangers and Billy Crudup as FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.
David Wenham, Stephen Graham, Marion Cotillard, Branka Katic, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi and Stephen Dorff also star.
Shooting recently began in Wisconsin.
Matthew Fox: I don’t think I’ll do television again
Matthew Fox talks to BBC Movies about playing a Secret Service agent in ‘Vantage Point‘, working with the Wachowski brothers on Speed Racer and what life might be like after ‘Lost‘.
Did you have any reservations about being in an ensemble cast rather than being the star after a massive TV show like Lost?
No, I don’t ever think about that at all. The role is never the first way into a project for me. It’s always about the whole project, the entirety of the film and its potential. The director is probably the biggest piece of the pie of all the elements that vaguely come together in some way towards you feeling compelled to pursue the project, or accept an offer. Then the role comes after the director sort of says: “This is how I’d like you to serve the story”.
What form did the script take when it was presented to you?
It was one of those reads that was difficult. It was well executed and very original, and has this theme of perspective running though it, which I personally find pretty fascinating. I think about it a lot in my life, just how different things can look to different parties, depending on who they are and where they’re standing and how they want to perceive it. But the actual structure of the script was pretty straight through. It began with the event and then the re-telling of the event through these different perspectives. You also knew that it was the kind of project that post [production] was going to be a very intense experience, because there’s almost an infinite amount of ways that you could end up structuring the film.
I saw the movie about 10 days ago and was really happy with how it all turned out. I think [director] Pete Travis is just a really smart, very dedicated director. I loved the movie he did before, Omagh. I remember the first time meeting him thinking he was just somebody I really wanted to work with and felt that he was going to make a really cool film.
Lost Season 4 Premiere
Lost has finally returned, and this episode was an odd mix of satisfaction and, at the end, frustration.
It satisfied because there was actually some sense of forward movement in the story. It felt like something was actually happening. The “rescuers” will soon be coming, there are actual conversations with someone on the freighter via the uber-satellite phone, the castaways learn that Charlie has died and that the rescuers may actually have some nefarious purpose related to the island.
The “flash forwards” are here in full force, showing Hurley freaking out for some unknown reason that is revealed near the end of the episode, and I did NOT like what was revealed at all. I’ll refrain from major spoilers in this article, but feel free to discuss details of the episode, spoilers and all in the comments.
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