Jim Sturgess Fan

Got an email with a link to this Q&A with Jim and Ben Kingsley. Think it’s a great interview. Jim also stated that he’s not doing Spiderman The Musical, so yeah there you have it.. He’s not doing it, so I will move on from that topic. (;

Here’s some parts of interview.

Did you call friends and family on the phone and speak in the Irish accent?

Sturgess: Yeah, my mum hated it. She couldn’t understand a word I was saying.

Kingsley: She said, “Speak properly!”

Sturgess: Yeah!

Kingsley: “Speak properly! Stop showing off!”

What did you learn about yourself by doing this movie?

Kingsley: You learn about each other. You learn actors, when they’re pushed into a corner, are very mutually supportive — especially in the scenes where Jim and I are very tough on each other … That’s what we learned. You learn about yourself in a situation, not about yourself in isolation. We learned a lot about that mutual dependency when the film gets dangerous. I mean, I was hanging out the back of a fast-moving ambulance. That wasn’t CGI. That ambulance was moving very fast.

Sturgess: I couldn’t tell. I was looking at the ceiling! I was strapped in. I didn’t know what was going on!

Jim, do you know what’s going on with the “Spider-Man” stage musical? There were rumors you might be cast as Peter Parker/Spider-Man.

Sturgess: I’m not doing it … I did a workshop to help out.

Jim, can you talk about your upcoming horror film?

Sturgess: It’s a film called “Heartless. It’s kind of psychological, weird; it’s a very strange film. It’s all set in East London and it’s done. I think it comes out in February [2010].

Source: Examiner

According to NY post, the production of Spider-man musical has been stopped due to lack of fund.

Taymor, the director of “The Lion King,” conceived of “Spider-Man” as an “installation show,” something big and bold and full of special effects. Something, in other words, like Cirque du Soleil.

That’s fine if you’re going to put the damn thing up in Las Vegas, where “installation shows” run several times a day and are funded in large part by hotels and casinos.

But at $45 million — and with a weekly running cost of almost $900,000 — “Spider-Man” at the 1,700-seat Hilton could never be profitable.

The show would have to run five years, selling every single seat in the house, to just break even.

“That,” says a source who crunched the numbers, “is insane.”

The musical was directed by Julie Taymor and Evan Rachel Wood was one of the leading actress. Jim is never confirmed for this musical although several sources have admitted that Wood and Taymor want him on this show.

Just thought I let you know cause we never been sure if he’s going to do it or not.
Anyway, new layout is on its way. This one has been online for way too long.

NY Mag recently published a list, or rather a slideshow, of the swooniest British actors at the moment. Jim is one of them…

From the slide:

Jim Sturgess
Type: Up-and-comer.
Most appealing role: As Jude in Across the Universe, Sturgess held his own, crooning sexy Beatles tunes like “Something,” then transforming into angry sexiness with “Revolution.”
Trademark vibe: Adorably sweet.

Fifty Dead Men Walking will be released in US at August 21. The movie has been picked up by Phase 4.

U.S. rights to writer/director Kari Skogland’s thriller “Fifty Dead Men Walking,” starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess (“21”) has been picked up by Phase 4 Films. The company, which is the new theatrical, DVD and television distribution company founded by former Peach Arch Home Entertainment president Berry Meyerowitz, negotiated the deal with Hand Made Films International and plans an August 21 theatrical release

Source

I think this is a great article where Jim talks about his experience while shooting Fifty Dead Men Walking.

Below is an excerpt of the article.

Sturgess was the opposite. Whereas Kingsley’s character is more cerebral, more of a coaxer, Sturgess plays the doer, a young man caught in a violent mess. The actor hung out with Belfast residents in the weeks before shooting began. Local guides introduced him around pubs and house parties. It was also the first time that Sturgess, a native Londoner, maintained the accent of a character for the entire production, even when talking on the phone with his mother, he says.

“You live in the accent, and by doing that it changes you as a person. If you change the way you speak, it changes the way you behave,” he says. “I remember I became a lot more cheeky, because the accent sort of allows you to have that cheekiness in your personality.”

He adds that he never met Martin McGartland, the informant whom Sturgess’s character is roughly based on, and who wrote a 1997 memoir with the same name as the film. There was enough material in the book and the script to understand his role, Sturgess says, without having to try to adopt McGartland’s specific mannerisms. Instead, the actor relied on the city and its stories.

“It just wasn’t black and white, there was so much grey area in between. It was about filling in those grey areas and finding out what they were for everybody,” Sturgess says. When the actors and crew shot on location, local residents gathered to watch. What was their reaction given the tensions undoubtedly still raw for some?

“They were excited, they kind of loved it. Kids would hang around and steal our sandwiches. They were just such a good group of people. Literally, we would be filming on the streets where [the violence] really happened. And in the riot scene, a lot of the people in the scene were people who were there when it really happened to them all those years ago. And they were coming back, and they were reliving that experience,” Sturgess says.

Sometimes locals were asked by the film crew if Sturgess could quickly change outfits in their homes between takes. He invariably would be welcomed in and offered tea and biscuits. “The sense of community is so strong in those areas,” Sturgess says, “which I think helped me to understand the guilt – or the difficulties – that Martin McGartland would have gone through when he acted against some of the people of the community that were strong IRA believers or sympathizers.”

Source

See Magazine reviewed the movie Fifty Dead Men Walking, starring Jim as Martin McGartland.

Here’s a quote about Jim from the review:

But the film’s lucky charms comes in the form of the cast. Sturgess puts in a career-best role as the smart-assed but dedicated McGartland. He captures both the swagger and naïveté of the 22-year-old Irishman who finds himself in way over his head, while Kevin Zegers matches his talents as McGartland’s best friend, a hot-headed IRA member named Sean. And if you can ignore his ridiculous hairpiece, Ben Kingsley gives one of his better performances of late as Fergus.

Source: See Magazine

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