Sep 01, 2010 Filed Under: Gallery Updates Comments (0)

I have updated various of photoshoots with new and/or better quality pictures.

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Photoshotos from 2000 > Shoot 001
Photoshoots from 2005 > Shoot 003
Photoshoots from 2005 > Shoot 005
Photoshoots from 2010 > Shoot 002
Photoshoots from 2010 > Shoot 005
Photoshoots from Unknown Years > Shoot 017

Aug 27, 2010 Filed Under: Headlines & Rumours,Hysteria Comments (0)

The recent announcement that Maggie Gyllenhaal was cast in Hysteria, a film about the Victorian-era invention of the vibrator, may have sounded awfully familiar – kind of like In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, a play about the Victorian-era invention of the vibrator, now playing at Woolly Mammoth.

But producer Judy Cairo (of Informant Media, which also produced Gyllenhaal’s film Crazy Heart), says that the film was not inspired by the play and that they have only the Victorian-era vibrator in common. The original screenplay, written by Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer, focuses on the inventor of the vibrator, rather than a doctor who administers it to patients, as Ruhl’s Pulitzer-finalist play does. The biggest difference between the two productions, says Cairo, is tone.

“It is very much a romantic comedy from beginning to end,” says Cairo. “The Vibrator Play has a serious tone. This is a comedy in the vein of Shakespeare in Love.”

In the film, Gyllenhaal plays Charlotte, the daughter of a doctor played by Jonathan Pryce. She falls for a young doctor named Mortimer Granville, played by Hugh Dancy, who administers her treatments for hysteria, a catch-all term for women’s maladies that was thought to be cured by orgasm. Cairo says they will begin to film in October, and the film will be released in 2011.

When Gyllenhaal learned about the role, “She immediately responded in a delighted way,” says Cairo. “The character Charlotte is perfect for Maggie because she is spirited and ahead of her time. Maggie is going to be phenomenal.”

As for The Vibrator Play, Cairo says she doesn’t know if Ruhl knows about the film. But Cairo has seen and enjoyed the New York run of The Vibrator Play.

“We were well into our script [then],” says Cairo. “It was developed several years ago, with [co-producer] Tracey Becker, before anyone had any knowledge of the play.”

The timing of both productions does not surprise her, Cairo says, because it was only a matter of time before this unusual and forgotten piece of history rose back to the surface.

“I think it’s such an intriguing piece of history,” says Cairo. “it is not surprising that it would inspire both [productions]. Our film is using the same kernel of history as the play, but in a different fashion.”

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Aug 26, 2010 Filed Under: Headlines & Rumours,Interviews,Nanny McPhee Comments (0)

Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the role of the harried young mother Mrs. Green who receives some magical (and much needed) assistance raising her children while her husband is at war in new family-friendly film “Nanny McPhee Returns.”

It was almost a case of life imitating art for the 32-year-old actress, who told Pop Tarts she couldn’t keep up with the demands of movies and motherhood after she and husband Peter Sarsgaard had their first child together in 2006.

“Mrs. Green literally had a birds nest in her hair and children hanging from the chandelier and she kept saying she was fine. I was definitely like that. When my daughter was first born I kept saying ‘I don’t need anybody, I’m just going to do this by myself.’ I thought I could make a home, be a good wife, and do all these things. I thought ‘I’m just going to call my mom,’” Gyllenhaal told Pop Tarts at a special screening of the film in New York City last week. “But I have since realized that wasn’t realistic for me…It’s okay not to be able to do everything all the time, to fail as a parent sometimes. Now I have a wonderful nanny. I am somebody who spends every possible minute I can with my daughter – I really believe that’s important, but I do need help.”

Gyllenhaal is also convinced that the positive energy that came from Emma Thompson’s fantastical Nanny McPhee rubbed off even when she left the set.

“I believe this movie must have brought me good nanny karma because I found a lovely, lovely nanny for my daughter – I just thank god for her,” she added.

Gyllenhaal said caring for children as a single parent is a concept many relate to in 2010.

“Your husband doesn’t need to be at war [like hers is in the movie] to be up against it. Coping and not coping – it’s a very fine line,” Thompson said. “Maybe you’re away for work, or the parents are divorced, but it’s a very contemporary issue.”

As for her own magical mothering tips?

“You don’t always have to solve their (the kids) problems, just sit with them,” Thompson suggested. “Just being with them and not saying anything can do so much.”

Aug 24, 2010 Filed Under: Gallery Updates Comments (1)

More gorgeous outtakes from Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 2009 Marie Claire photoshoot have been added to the gallery. Most of these are tagged but the shots are still so beautiful!

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Photoshoots from 2009 > Shoot 002

Aug 22, 2010 Filed Under: Site Updates Comments (2)

The old gallery layout had been up for ages so I thought it was about time for a new one. I hope you will enjoy it!

Aug 20, 2010 Filed Under: Headlines & Rumours,Hysteria Comments (0)

Hollywood is a-buzz over reports today that Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy have signed on for the Victorian-era, medical-themed romcom Hysteria. The film charts the pair’s fling against the backdrop of the invention of the vibrator, apparently created by a doctor who used it to treat hysteria in women.

Jonathan Pryce will play a physician, who is also Gyllenhaal’s character’s father; Dancy plays another medic, who, along with a colleague played by Rupert Everett, stumbles upon the discovery.

Says Gyllenhaal: “I play a firecracker whose father is a doctor who is in the business of curing hysterical women. He cures them basically by getting them off and that actually happened. I end up having a sort of unexpected love affair with this guy who works for him, and who by mistake invents the vibrator.”

Hysteria will be directed by Tanya Wexler, who has just two film credits to her name, the most recent, Ball in the House, released in 2001. Production is scheduled to begin this October in London and Luxembourg, with plans for a 2011 release.

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Aug 20, 2010 Filed Under: Interviews,Media,Nanny McPhee Comments (1)

Maggie Gyllenhaal appeared on the CBS The Early Show yesterday (August 19) to talk about Nanny McPhee. Maggie talks about how it can be hard to be a working mother, her friend and mentor Emma Thompson and how she stills see her brother Jake (Gyllenhaal) as her “little” brother who she still protects.

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Television Appereances > CBS The Early Show – August 19 2010

Aug 20, 2010 Filed Under: Interviews,Media,Nanny McPhee Comments (1)

Maggie Gyllenhaal appeared at Live with Regis & Kelly on August 18th to talk about Nanny McPhee. Start off with a little microphone  problems but from there Maggie was absolute lovely chatting about filming a big movie like Nanny McPhee, having a brother and a husband that both are in the same business and she does not at all remember making her younger brother drink milk out of a bowl while playing “Cats” as kids.

Aug 20, 2010 Filed Under: Interviews,Nanny McPhee Comments (0)

Maggie Gyllenhaal has grown wiser from her experience with nannies, thanks to her three-year-old daughter Ramona.

“One thing I learned as a mother was I started out having babysitters that were young and lovely, bright, great girls, but they left,” the married mom, 32, says during the Nanny McPhee Returns special screening to benefit the Lollipop Theater Network held this week in NYC. ”When you think about it, when I was 23, there was nothing that was particularly going to keep me other than what was pulling my heart. I have a grown-up nanny now. There’s a different level of responsibility when you get to be a grown-up.”

When it comes to nannies, Maggie sees the dark side of Mary Poppins.

“Mary Poppins was a complicated lady,” she says. “Yeah, she’s hanging out with her boyfriend basically – Dick Van Dyke played her boyfriend – and she’s with the kids. She was a narcissist, but she’s also pretty great. That’s one thing I’ve realized watching Mary Poppins a lot with my daughter. Julie Andrews is pretty amazing. She’s pretty incredible.”

What movies does Maggie enjoy with her daughter?

“Right now, we’ve been watching – what she’s been liking and I’ve been liking too – are Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire movies. They’re really cool. There’s dancing, beautiful dresses, simple plot.”

Emma Thompson, who plays the iconic caretaker in Nanny McPhee, admits she was turned off by nannies when her au pair ate her “sweeties” at age 7.

She compares the chemistry between fictional nannies Mary Poppins and Nanny McPhee.

“I love Mary Poppins, but how would they respond to each other? I think Mary Poppins would say to Nanny McPhee ‘you really need to get in touch’ and Nanny McPhee would say that Mary Poppins was a bit of a showoff.”

Director Susanna White sings Maggie’s praises in the motherhood department. Her twin daughters got to know Maggie’s Ramona during their time on the set.

“Maggie’s absolutely wonderful as a mom. Very loving and sweet, but also, like any good parent, there are boundaries for her daughter. Her daughter knows what she can and can’t do, which is a way to feel secure. I think she’s a wonderful mother.”

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Aug 20, 2010 Filed Under: Interviews,Nanny McPhee Comments (0)

Maggie Gyllenhaal shot to the top of public consciousness with her unnerving performance in Secretary. Her stellar string of film work continued with Mona Lisa Smile, SherryBaby, Stranger Than Fiction, The Dark Knight and Crazy Heart.

Maggie may we talk?

SheKnows: As the maternal influence over five children on the Nanny McPhee Returns set, what was your most memorable scene with the kids?

Maggie Gyllenhaal: I like the scene, which took us five days [to shoot], which I’ve never done before, not on Dark Knight, not on Mona Lisa Smile, any of these movies, ever. Five days shooting was this scene where I come home from work and the skies are saying, “The person you need is Nanny McPhee.” I’m covered in syrup, I come home and the kids are fighting, everything’s crazy. I’m kind of hallucinating. She comes in and brings order. That whole madcap scene, that was my favorite.

SheKnows: I was told that one of the child actors cried after you set off back to America.

Maggie Gyllenhaal: They’re great kids. Also, that was part of my job to make it believable that I was a mother to them. It felt real. Also, when you’re working with kids, it’s different than grown-ups. Emma and I would be on our knees behind the camera making fart noises, or saying a line for them over and over again fifteen different ways to get different reactions from them. You get invested in them in a different way.

SheKnows: Ever get crazy like that at home for you?

Maggie Gyllenhaal: Well, I have one child. I don’t know, if I had to take care of five children alone and try to make a farm run and work at a general store, I think it would be possible to get that crazy.

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