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Date Posted: 07:32:14 07/23/02 Tue
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: Some info about "Full Frontal"

I got this off the AP Entertaintment Wire. There was a lot of person stuff about Soderbergh that I cut. Comments from me a the end!

STEVEN SODERBERGH GETS BACK TO BASICS|

By CINDY PEARLMAN|
c. 2002 Cindy Pearlman|
(Distributed by The New York Times Syndicate.)|

‘‘I know this is the summer of ‘XXX’ and ‘Full Frontal,’’’ director Steven Soderbergh says, ‘‘but neither are porn films.’’
That out of the way, the Oscar-winning director — whose ‘‘Full Frontal’’ will open nationwide on Aug. 2 — is happy to clear up some of the other rumors about his highly unusual film.
Yes, it was shot for a microscopic $2 million, which contrasts a little with his last film, the star-packed crime movie ‘‘Ocean’s Eleven’’ (2001). Yes, it does star a dazzling cast that includes David Duchovny, Catherine Keener, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood. Yes, all those big stars worked for scale — adding up, for example, to about $3,500 for Roberts, who normally makes $20 million-plus for each film — and provided their own costumes.
And yes, former ‘‘X-Files’’ star Duchovny does have a nude scene.
‘‘He’s naked for one quick shot during a scene where he’s lying face up in bed,’’ Soderbergh says. ‘‘David was totally game for it, but audiences will have to go back and freeze-frame it to see anything — which should help with DVD sales!’’
Soderbergh took some chances of his own on ‘‘Full Frontal,’’ shooting the movie on 35-millimeter film and adopting a guerilla-filmmaking approach to his frantic three-week filming schedule.
‘‘The short production schedule and the 35mm look was my antidote to ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’’’ the director says. ‘‘That movie was this big monster. Afterward I was desperate to have an experience where all I did all day was deal with actors.’’
As to how he got such supremely talented actors to agree to be so spectacularly underpaid, the answer is Soderbergh himself. A string of recent hits that includes ‘‘Out of Sight’’ (1998), ‘‘Erin Brockovich’’ (2000), ‘‘Traffic’’ (2000) and ‘‘Ocean’s Eleven,’’ not to mention an Oscar as Best Director for ‘‘Traffic,’’ has made Soderbergh arguably Hollywood’s hottest director.
Besides, he’s famous as an actor’s director, a rarity in a business in which many directors think of themselves as cattle-herders.
‘‘I can’t promise the big bucks,’’ Soderbergh says, speaking by telephone from his New York office, ‘‘but I do give actors a sense of joy about coming to work. People show up for me because they want to be there, and I think that feeling comes across on the screen, too. You can’t fake that emotion on screen.
‘‘I think they like me because I believe in ‘State of the Union’ meetings,’’ he adds. ‘‘Everyone gets to voice their opinion at my meetings. A lot of directors are like, ‘Will you just f---ing show up and do this thing the way it’s written and stop hassling me?’
‘‘There are a lot of directors who don’t really like actors, and I’m not one of them.’’

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I had to laugh about audiences watching the movie on video or DVD so they could freeze frame the naked shot of DD!
That will be all of us here!!
Detoured, are you planning on going to the premiere of this movie?? I like how almost every article I read about it listsd DD's name first in the credits. He must have the biggest role because I know by Hollywood standards he isn't considered quite as "major" of a star as Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. I never heard of the other two people mentioned; I'm not sure if Blair Underwood is a man or a woman. . .it's kind of a gender-neutral name.
I probably won't get to see this until it comes out on video. For one thing, it may not even come to theaters in the relatively small town where I live. For another, my husband -- who is really quite understanding of my obsession with all things XF-related -- tends to get a bit testy if he feels it's morphing into a generalized DD obssession.
Maybe someday DD will star in a movie with Jennifer Garner (the chick from "Alias'). . .somehow, I don't think my husband would have an objection to going to see *that* movie!!

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