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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Aug 19, 2010 Filed Under: Media,Nanny McPhee Comments (1)

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Aug 19, 2010 Filed Under: Candids,Gallery Updates Comments (0)

More new candids have been added to the gallery. First set is from August 4th of Maggie, Peter and Ramona arriving at LAX airport. Second set is from yesterday (August 18th) of Maggie arriving at her New York hotel.

I have also added another 51 HQs from the Nanny McPhee Return US premiere.

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Candids from 2010 > 04.08.10 – Arriving at LAX
Candids from 2010 > 18.08.10 – Arriving at her hotel in NY

Aug 19, 2010 Filed Under: Headlines & Rumours Comments (0)

If you’re not a child under the age of 10 or don’t have any of your own, you may be surprised to learn that not only does Maggie Gyllenhaal play a lead role in Nanny McPhee Returns, but she’s actually really good in it, nailing the right comic tone and posh British accent. She’s doing the publicity rounds now to promote the movie, and talking to Screen Crave that she’ll have an upcoming role opposite her husband, Peter Sarsgaard.

We learned in late June that Sarsgaard would be starring in a biopic about bluegrass musician Bill Monroe, but apparently she’ll be joining him– and bringing her Oscar-winning Crazy Heart collaborator T. Bone Burnett with her:

Bill Monroe, who invented Blue Grass music had a kind of Sid and Nancy style affair with this woman Bessie Lee Mauldin throughout his life and T-Bone Burnett’s going to do the music and Callie Khouri who wrote Thelma & Louise wrote the script so we’re going to do that together.

This the first we’ve heard of T. Bone Burnett’s involvement, and if a Gyllenhaal-Sarsgaard matchup weren’t enough to get me interested, that definitely seals the deal. With Khouri still working on the script it will probably be a while before we see the final product, but isn’t this kind of match-up worth the wait? The two said in February of last year that they wouldn’t team up again at the movies (they worked together in a production of Uncle Vanya in New York), but I suppose anyone will change their mind if the right project comes along. All the better for us, I’d say.

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Aug 19, 2010 Filed Under: Interviews,Nanny McPhee Comments (0)

Before she was nominated for an Oscar opposite Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart,” and before she dazzled Bruce Wayne and the Caped Crusader in “The Dark Knight,” Maggie Gyllenhaal was the darling of the low-budget, independent movie set.

We loved her in “Secretary,” “SherryBaby” and “Happy Endings.” If you’re a real student of indie films, you might even remember “Mona Lisa Smile,” “Donnie Darko” and “Cecil B. Demented.”

Jake Gyllenhaal‘s older sister likes to surprise her fans with the diversity of her roles, and now she is really surprising people by starring in a big-studio family film called “Nanny McPhee Returns,” which opens Friday.

The sequel to the 2006 hit “Nanny McPhee” was written and executive produced by Emma Thompson, who also reprises her role as the mysterious and magical nanny who drops into the lives of needy families. The unattractive nanny somehow gets better-looking as the movie progresses, without the benefit of cosmetic surgery.

Gyllenhaal, 32, plays the mother of three children trying to cope during wartime after she receives word that her husband is missing in action.

When she walks into a suite at a Los Angeles hotel, the actress is taller than one expects (5-foot-9), and her clear blue eyes are spectacular. She has a girlish, high-pitched voice, but she has a serious and thoughtful manner, as befitting a graduate of Columbia University, and a new mother. Gyllenhaal and actor husband Peter Sarsgaard‘s daughter Ramona will turn 4 in October.

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Aug 18, 2010 Filed Under: Gallery Updates,Nanny McPhee Comments (0)

And the pictures are finally in the gallery! I’ve already added 85 HQ pictures from the premiere.

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Appearances from 2010 > Nanny McPhee Returns New York Premiere

Aug 18, 2010 Filed Under: Interviews,Media,Nanny McPhee Comments (0)

I’ve added some videos from the Nanny McPhee US premiere, interviews and a video from Apple Store Soho’s Meet the Filmmakers. Pictures from the premiere is coming up!

Aug 18, 2010 Filed Under: Nanny McPhee Comments (0)

The Nanny McPhee movies may be principally for kids, but make no mistake about it: They are, quite literally, a parent’s dream.

Overwhelmed single parents with unruly kids are rescued by a magical nanny who seemingly appears out of nowhere. And at no cost! For some older moviegoers escorting little ones, this premise might be impossibly alluring. And they said fans of “Avatar” were depressed when they left the theatre.

“Nanny McPhee Returns” is the sequel to 2005′s “Nanny McPhee.” Both were written by Emma Thompson (who stars as the nanny in question) based on Christianna Brand’s Nurse Matilda books, which were published in the 1960s and ’70s.

That McPhee owes much to P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins is obvious, and there’s a whiff of familiarity to both Nanny McPhee movies that prevent them from being truly fresh. But there’s still a warm, British naturalism to “Nanny McPhee Returns” and an old-fashioned cheerfulness uncommon to most of today’s kids movies.

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Aug 18, 2010 Filed Under: Headlines & Rumours,Nanny McPhee Comments (0)

Co-stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Emma Thompson took the Nanny McPhee red carpet by storm, both opting for the style-safe – but super elegant LBD!

A far cry from her past roles – (who could forget Secretary!) Maggie Gyllenhaal hit the premiere of her new family film, Nanny McPhee Returns in New York. Looking stunning in a black Lanvin one-shouldered gown, Maggie finished her look with a pair of on trend patent nude heels to complete the perfect understated red carpet look.

And not to be outshone in the dress department, Emma Thompson showed off her fab figure in a LBD and metallic peeptoe heels. The iconic British actress had recently been honoured by getting her name in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Supporting the two leading ladies at the premiere was Maggie’s hubby An Education star Peter Sarsgaard, who looked suave in a pair of Wave-Farers.

Co-starring a whole host of British talent – including Rhys Ifans, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Smith and Ralph Fiennes, Nanny McPhee Returns – or Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as it’s known in the UK, is already out on DVD – so there’s no excuse not to see it!

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