Fernley phillips biography of barack

I gave the script to another friend of mine to read and, after an hour and a half, I went back in to see him. He had read the entire script and had turned to page 23 where he was circling every 23rd word to see if there was a pattern. That's what I think this movie will do with an audience - you'll leave the theater going, 'There it is! I want to see something about the idea that challenges, like with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

With that film it was the idea of, 'Who would you erase? Who would you make invisible? Have you ever been erased? I need somebody who can stand up to me and duke it out sometimes on an issue because I'm real headstrong about my ideas. I'm not right all the time, I know that. He doesn't want any trouble. But like everybody, he has things going on inside him that he doesn't even know about.

And 23 is there to kind of coax those things to the surface. He's an angry, very turbulent guy and I really enjoyed playing him. I was able to explore the darker edges of my personality which really was a blast and something different for me. Fingerling is an ass-kicker. He's not somebody who is looking for trouble - he's expecting it. It's an awareness, and the obsession with it is something he can't shake because he hasn't gotten to the bottom of what it is.

So it isn't really the number, but obsession is never what it really is. It's the thing underneath it. There's so much freedom in losing yourself in a character. It's less hard work than it is just a wonderful escape from yourself. Madsen took on the challenging dual role of Walter's wife Agatha and Fabrizia, detective Fingerling's tempting femme fatale.

She's full of rage, and she expresses her rage through her sexuality and her control of men. I was a bit afraid to be Fabrizia, but I went in to it headlong, and it was very exciting. But when she learned that she was being asked to play two different roles, Madsen "tried to be cool about it because inside I was thinking 'I may not be able to do this.

I would need to go to a dangerous place, creatively. I really wanted to do this movie with him because of what I saw him do in " Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ". What I found in him was a really gifted actor and a really sincere, genuine person. He's very warm and supportive and likes to experiment - and he has great ideas. They were very happy to be working with each other - you can tell.

And they gave a lot to each other every take.

Fernley phillips biography of barack

Just the fact that so many of us play two different roles - I've never seen that. It's fascinating. It's going to be quite a trip for the audience. While Fernley Phillips' screenplay was unique, it was a complicated story which still needed some tweaking in order to successfully translate to the screen. Specifically, Schumacher knew that they would need to figure out the best way to bring the characters in the book - Detective Fingerling and the femme fatale, Fabrizia - to life in the film.

And I thought it would be great for the actor to play the duality. What happened with Jim and Virginia is that they really did become other people because Fingerling as the detective and Virginia as the femme fatale in the movie are totally different human beings from Walter and Agatha, although they certainly have some of them in them.

Many things become disturbing. The book chronicles the murderous obsession of a man named Fingerling with the number 23, and how this number comes to rule his life. The more he reads, the more revealing the book becomes, and he begins to notice the number 23 popping up in almost everything he does. Before long, Walter shares the same obsession and paranoia as Fingerling.

Now the book not only knows his past, it begins to forecast his future. And his future seems to be that of a killer. He realizes he is becoming a danger to those around him, especially his family. Is the curse real? Does Walter suffer from some kind of dementia or is there a killer out there waiting for justice? How far will the number push him?

Will it force him to become a killer? The answers will lead him to a truth more horrifying then he could have ever imagined. I could have died there on the street, but that wouldn't have been justice.