Maggie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Liv Tyler are all on the cover of USA Weekend to celebrate their roles in the upcoming super hero movies. You can read the article here and view some exclusive photos! Enjoy!
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USA Weekend reports: It was a rainy and cold Valentine’s week here on the East Coast but we were already thinking summer movies. In fact, we’ve already done a fun photo shoot with three of the big-name actresses you’ll see in the sure-to-be blockbuster summer fare: Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Batman: The Dark Knight) and Liv Tyler (The Incredible Hulk). These three talented women and young mothers gathered in New York and our deputy photo editor Sarah Claxton was there to make sure the day went smoothly. That’s not as easy as it sounds, considering there’s a walk-in closet full of designer clothes, a stylist, photographer assistants, hair and makeup people, catering and…well, you get the picture. Read the rest of this entry »
As you may of seen, Maggie has appeared in a video that was made to bring attention to the current writers strike that is going on. Screen Guild Writers member Alan Sereboff who co-wrote with Jill Kushner the video that Maggie is featured in had this to say about the spot;
Regarding Maggie’s spot specifically, we were addressing the AMPTP’s walking out on the WGA negotiations, and the ever growing realization among us writers that we can distribute “on our own,” without the media conglomerates help. In the spot, we made the AMPTP a character “AMPAHTAPAH.”
The clip was directed by George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl) and also starred Zoe Kazan, Allyson Sereboff, and Diana Paschal. When it appeared on YouTube it received over 136,000 views, Here are some other stats for the first day it was online!
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Why did you do SherryBaby?
It was an exceptional script. It was very real in the way that real human beings do things you wouldn’t imagine. I made it quite a long time ago and was drawn to the fact I didn’t know how I was going to do it, it seemed like a challenge. I’m so glad I did it, though, as it turned out to be about what I hope all my movies are about: someone whom it would be easy to judge but who the audience is invited to love despite how messed up she is.
Is it tedious to promote something you did so long ago?
I know getting involved in a teeny independent movie about someone like Sherry is going to take up many years of my life. It’s not like doing a move like World Trade Centre. I had to promote that film but with Sherry Baby I had to help get it sold, distributed and advertised. A lot is on my shoulders and I’m really the only one who can go out and sell it. I have to be part of that. It’s not like it’s come as a surprise.
You’ve said you had a stormy relationship with the director, why was that?
We shot the movie in five weeks which is a very short time and I was in every moment of every scene so I was working very hard. I felt I was Sherry at the time, I didn’t mean to but I started to. I worked long hours, fell asleep with my clothes on, woke up and went to work again. I was very stubborn and it was hard to have a civilised conversation with me because I was being Sherry. We also had a fundamental disagreement about who she was, I wouldn’t back down on my opinion. Sometimes an actress knows more about the character she’s playing than anyone else can know. I felt the only way that the movie would work would be if Sherry was someone who felt she was getting out of jail and going to be a great mother, which makes the obstacles she has to overcome all the more heartbreaking. Looking back though I must have been a fucking handful.
Maggie was one of the celebrities that donated to the 2007 “Lunchbox Online Auction”, where 100+ iconic celebrities from the entertainment, fashion, art, music, literary and culinary worlds remind us that food matters by creating personalized lunchbox art for online auction. The auction went live on Friday, December 7, 2007 and will end on December 21st, 2007. This auction will benefit two hunger-relief organizations Food Bank for New York City and The Lunchbox Fund of South Africa.
Maggie has just done a voice over for a video campaign for TrickleUp, a nonprofit organization that raises money for microfinancing - to help poor people around the world. She also helped design a $100 necklace, and all the sales proceeds go to helping poor people. You can see the campaign video, which just launched last week here: http://www.trickleup.org/seedadream
Check out this worth while organization and help out where you can! The necklace would make a brilliant Christmas present!
This weekend I’ve been playing catch up and adding magazine scans from the last few months. First I’ll mention that I’ve added the last 2 pages from the James Spader/Maggie Gyllenhaal article in Premiere back in March 2002. I also added a interview from Famous magazine in Australia back last year some time. Now for the recent stuff! Lots of press from the UK. She was on the cover of Psychologies for August and the cover of Style for September 2nd. There was also an article about her (with brand new photos!) in the September Issue of Elle in the UK. Lastly in Australia there was a Maggie interview in OK! magazine - dated November 5th (Rove cover). Please enjoy all the scans!
