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Sarafyan

March 24, 2011
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ANGELA
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SCENE WEEKLY | March 24, 2011 | www.scenelouisiana.com
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Micah Haley
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Erin Theriot
EDITOR’S LETTER
E
very day, just by speaking with
friends in the entertainment
world, I’m reminded of why
we started Scene: to tell the world
about the great change that Louisiana
is undergoing. It’s a shift, from an
economy that has been chasing
major metropolitan cities since
the Civil War, to a new economy:
the
entertainment
economy.
Over the last few years, it has
been disheartening to hear of pain
caused by financial hardship as the
American economy has contracted.
But meanwhile in Louisiana, I’ve
watched more new companies than
I can remember hang shingles and
open for business with the film
industry. That includes this company.
This week, talk of the biggest
business developments in the
history of Louisiana film has been
on the lips of insiders. That’s
all I can say about that for now.
A music label executive celebrating
the birth of his child mentioned
this in an email to me today: “I am
excited my daughter can grow up in
a state where, if she chose a career in
entertainment, she could do it right
here!” That’s an exciting prospect for
many, parents and their children alike.
And
this
week,
fashion
takes a huge step forward with
NOLA Fashion Week. For more
information on the workshops,
events and runway shows, go to
nola-fashionweek.com. And join
the Scene Team this Saturday night
for the NOLA Fashion Week wrap
party at Eiffel Society. Presented by
Scene Magazine and Vintage Shoe
Company, it will be well worth the
cover. You never know who you’ll see.
MICAH HALEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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NOLA FASHION WEEK WRAP PARTY
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OLA Fashion Week kicked off
this week with The Art of Style
presented by Paris Parker, a
showcase of the Anna Wintour collection by
Sarah Ashley Longshore. Over the course
of the week, attendees with a thirst for style
have the opportunity to enjoy runway
shows, production and styling workshops,
and a panel with national fashion
bloggers. To close out the festivities, Scene
Magazine and Vintage Shoe Company
are hosting the NOLAFW Wrap Party
at Eiffel Society from 9:00pm to 1:00am.
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Photographer: Teddy Smith
Stylist: Tessa Rowe
Make-up: Jackie Dixon Tuttle
Hair: Allison Bell for Lyon’s Den Hair Studio
ANGELA
Sarafyan
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ANGELA
Sarafyan
by Micah Haley
J
ust before leaving Louisiana for Canada, Twilight’s most
beautiful new vampire, Angela Sarafyan, spoke at length with
Scene, discussing her experiences on Breaking Dawn, her love
for New Orleans, and her new film American Animal, which just
debuted last week at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin.
Q: What was it like working on American Animal? Can you tell
me a little bit about your character?
A: Matt D’Elia is the director, who wrote the film as well. He was
casting the movie and happened to see a film that I’d done before,
a movie called Kabluey, and wanted to have a meeting. He first sent
the script to my manager and I really enjoyed it because somehow it
reminded me of Waiting for Godot. So I told her I would like to meet
with him and when we met, we really hit it off! After that first meeting,
he offered the part.
We shot the film in downtown Los Angeles, and it all takes place
in an apartment. [Two characters] in the film are named Angela, so
I played the Not Blonde Angela and I thought the character’s name
revealed a lot about her. Just the fact that she’s not blonde. That became
the leading point delving into what her world must be.
Q: It seems like the director had a very specific movie in
mind. What was the process that went into developing the
character?
A: It did stem from his own life, but I don’t think it’s autobiographical.
I think the things that were occurring in his life, gave him the
opportunity to create this script, this story. And when I was developing
working on the character, he really let me do what I wanted to do. I did
understand his intentions as a writer and I thought, I’m well aware of
that and I [still] have room to create what I’d like to create with Not
Blonde Angela, and he was happy with it. Ultimately, it was in working
every day [that my character was created].
Q: And you also have A Good Old Fashioned Orgy coming up.
Can you tell me a little about it?
A: The movie is about a group of friends who get together every
summer break and they throw these crazy bashes at one of their friends
house and this particular year their friend’s father is deciding to sell
the house so it’s gonna be the last bash. And you see how important
this event is because they’re such close friends and they’re not gonna
have that place to go to. You kind of see how they create this party, this
“good old fashioned orgy” as being the last party of the year. The last
one to happen. So that’s what the movie is about.
Q: It kind of sounds like the end-of-high-school party, but for
thirty-year-olds.
A: It was great! We were filming it in Wilmington and it was a cool
experience. I had a lot of fun on that job. Every day was a lot of fun. So I
think it’ll be a fun time for the audience.
Q: Talk about your impressions of Louisiana during your first
stay here a few years ago.
A: I got a taste of New Orleans and Louisiana and it was a delicious
taste. It was really cool because I had no idea a place like that existed
in the world. It was really cool to see a world of incredible musicians
and great photographers and great artists. I find New Orleans to be
immensely creative and to be in the spot where Tennessee William
wrote Vieux Carré and lived for a long time, I mean, how incredible!
It’s a dream, ultimately.
Q: Now that you’ve come back and you’ve been here for three
months, was there anything that you were looking forward to
coming back to?
A: I was looking forward to going to New Orleans again! I couldn’t
wait to go back to have some beignets. Eat some gumbo and walk
down the French Quarter and see more of New Orleans. I think that
what the French Quarter reveals is...you know a lot of people say New
Orleans is so dirty and all those [bad] things? I think it’s beautiful. I
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ANGELA SARAFYAN
think that element of dirt and and danger...it’s the most beautiful part of it
because you see these incredible musicians on the street, you hear people
just living fully almost every night and they’re real people. They’re people
full of their own worlds and their own lives and they’re not waiting for
anything. They’re not looking at somebody else’s life, they’re not in front
of a computer typing away. They’re out experiencing the world. I loved that.
Q: How have you enjoyed working on Breaking Dawn?
A: To be quite honest, I have no full grasp of the enormity of this film. I
know it in theory but I haven’t experienced it.
Q: Many of Twilight’s cast members are now very closely
identified with their characters and it may be difficult to be
perceived differently in the future. Are you at all concerned about
that?
A: I don’t ever go into work thinking that I’ll be defined by a certain
character for the rest of my life. I don’t know if Kristen and Rob will be
forever recognized for that. I’m sure they may be for a lot of kids and a lot
of people. I don’t know honestly what the future holds because I really live
in the moment and kind of deal with everything on a daily basis. And so,
in terms of the outside world and how they see things, I guess I just have
no idea about that.
Q: One thing it will hopefully do is open up opportunities for you.
Is there an actor who’s career you respect or aspire to?
A: Whenever I read a script or I read a part, I like to be inspired by the
person on the page and the character. I like to see if I’m inspired by them
and what I can give them. It usually happens instantaneously so I don’t
really know if I’m gonna follow this person’s career or that person’s career.
It reveals itself with each experience. It’s kind of unpredictable. There are
plenty of incredible actors that I love. Anna Magnani is a favorite of mine.
She’s an Italian actress. I completely love Meryl Streep as well. And there
are so many. I look at Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro and I look
at Al Pacino and the list goes on and on...Marlon Brando or even Klaus
Kinski.
Q: Those guys definitely are fully dedicated to the job they do.
A: Yes, and I strive for that. I love to tell stories and, ultimately, at the
end of the day, these characters become gears for me because I learn a lot
about myself through them. I get to see the world in a different the way,
because I think each character lives in a different world. A person that
works at a Rite-Aid in Los Angeles versus a musician sitting on one of
the steps in New Orleans. Two very different worlds. So these characters
written on a page reveal these worlds to me and they let me enter into
their life and challenge my own. That’s a real gift.
Q: It sounds like you have a very clear methodology of how to
approach your characters. Can you tell me where that comes
from? How did you get interested in acting and where did you
develop these very carefully considered methodologies?
A: I loved acting. I loved stories. Ever since I was a kid. I love going into
stories and living in these fantasies. Just living. Sitting in my bedroom
and watching TV and walking outside, I just imagine all these things. So
I wanted to discover more and more about life and I found that at a very
early age - and I’m talking around, like, four, five, six. ‘Cause I had some
questions for my parents that they couldn’t answer and so I had to look
for these answers in different places. And so acting became this possibility
for me, this opportunity to find these answers. It became endless what I
could experience through acting, through characters, because they give
you permission. They give me permission to do all the things that would
usually get you in trouble. You have the freedom through a character to
have some of the most intimate and great experiences.
In terms of my approach, a lot of it is instinctual. I wasn’t aware of it
when I was fourteen or fifteen. A lot of it came naturally. But I started
studying with a teacher that introduced method acting from the Actor’s
Studio. I started reading all these books about the history from the Group
Theater to all the people that came from the Group Theater like Stella
Adler, Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan...I watched all these movies and started
to see how they were approaching these scripts. With each part, with each
job, there is different challenge—I feel like I start over with each character
because I don’t know what that character is going to demand from me so
it becomes discovery more than anything. I’m discovering how I’m going
to go about doing this. So, I started to really learn and become conscious
of where I am [in the] now. And I don’t think there’s a right way to act or
a wrong way to act. Right or wrong doesn’t make sense in acting. And I
think it’s in the discovery of things.
Q: What has it been like to join a pre-existing family like Twilight
and work with some returning people and then a director like Bill
Condon, who’s working on the series for the first time?
A: It’s been welcoming. They’ve been very, very nice. Everybody from
the cast past. And the new members that are coming in, it’s been truly like
a family and so I’ve had a lovely time with them. I’m very grateful for it
and humbled by the fact that I can be here doing this. Bill Condon is very
nice. A very nice director and very patient. It’s been a lovely experience.
Q: What are you going to miss when you leave Louisiana? What
you hope to find at Twilight’s next location?
A: I think I’ll miss the people in Louisiana. I’m reading A Confederacy
of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. I love this book! It is unbelievable! A
friend of mine gave me this book, he said, ‘You have to read this while
you’re out there’ and I am just amazed at the magic that exists in the way
he writes and how he views that the Mississippi is a dirty and disgusting
river and all that. And he, in a way, shows a different side of New Orleans
and Baton Rouge. Then there’s Tennessee Williams and then there’s the
French Quarter and I will miss the musicians on the street and this girl
with orange hair playing the violin and the beignets. I’m going to miss a
lot over here. I’m having a hard time leaving.
Photographer: Teddy Smith. Stylist: Tessa Rowe.
Make-up: Jackie Dixon Tuttle. Hair: Allison Bell, Lyon’s Den Hair Salon.
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BATON ROUGE
DARK CIRCLES
NEW ORLEANS
21 JUMP STREET
Feature Film – Independent
Location: Baton Rouge
Feature Film – Columbia Pictures
Starring Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube
Director: Phil Lord & Chris Miller
Phone: 504.524.8820 Fax: 504.524.8821
Resumes: [email protected]
Status: Starts shooting April 1
Location: New Orleans
UPM: Todd Lewis
Based on the 1980s television series of the same name.
MISSISSIPPI WILD
Status: March 1
THE PHILLY KID
Status: March 7
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER
STASH HOUSE
Status: April 3
TAP THE HEAT
Director: Joey Travolta
Status: Looking for an October start
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 4
Feature Film – Independent (Unlimited Production Services)
Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme & Dolph Lundgren
Director: John Hyams
Status: February 2011
Feature Film – 20th Century Fox
Starring Benjamin Walker
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Phone: 504.355.1787 Fax: 504.304.8517
Resumes: [email protected], [email protected]
Casting: Batherson Casting (www.bathersoncasting.com)
Status: Starts shooting March 14 for 75 days
PM: John Kelly POC: Kathy Chambless Oliver
COGAN’S TRADE
Feature Film
Starring Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell, Bella Heathcote
Director: Andrew Dominik
Phone: 504.224.2272 Fax: 504.224.2272
Casting: Batherson Casting (www.bathersoncasting.com)
Status: Now shooting
UPM: Anthony Katagas Prod. Supervisor: John Fedynich
CONTRABAND
Feature Film - NBC Universal / Relativity Media
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni
Ribisi, Caleb Landry Jones, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna
Director: Baltasar K. Baltasarsson
Phone: 504.708.2400
Status: Now shooting until March
PM: Bill Johnson Prod. Supervisor: Peter Novak
S
NEW ORLEANS
FREELANCERS
Status: Shoots April 4 for 4 weeks
JUSTICE FOR NATALEE
MOW - Sony Television
Director: Stephen T. Kay
Phone: 504.558.9191 Fax: 504.588.9181
Status: Shoots January 31 for three weeks
Line Producer: Kati Johnston
THE LOFT
Status: Shoots in May/June for 6 weeks
LP: Patty Long
LOOPER
Feature Film - Independent (Endgame Entertainment)
Starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano
Director: Rian Johnson
Phone: 504. 335.2515 Fax: 504.525.1857
Status: Now shooting through April 1
UPM: Dave Pomier Prod Supervisor: Tony Rossi
MEDALLION
Feature Film – Nu Image/Millenium Films
Starring Nicholas Cage & Malin Akerman
Director: Simon West
Phone: 504.309.3763 Fax: 504.309.3765
Status: April 11 to June 10
UPM: Rob Ortiz Asst UPM: Matt Hirsch
MEAN CUISINE
Starring Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey, Alec Mapa, Martin Short
Status: Starts shooting March 28 for 2 weeks in NOLA, then moves
to Shreveport
Location: New Orleans & Shreveport
UPM: Danelle Hand
MEMPHIS BEAT - Season 2
TV Series - TNT
Starring Jason Lee
Phone: 504.454.6889 Fax: 504.455.2145
Status: Starts filming March 10
Location: New Orleans & LaPlace
UPM: Chris Morgan
NUMBA ONE
Status: March 1
THE SHADOW RUNNER
Status: April 4
TAP THE HEAT
Director: Joey Travolta
Status: Shoots March 1 for 8 weeks
TREME - SEASON 2
TV Series – HBO
Starring Wendell Pierce, Melissa Leo, Khandi Alexander, Steve Zahn
Casting: RPM Casting (www.rpmcasting.com), tremeextras@gmail.
com
Status: Now shooting until May 2011.
Line Producer/UPM: Joe Incaprera
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SHREVEPORT
CHANGING OF THE GUARD
Casting: Glorioso Casting (www.gloriosocasting.com)
Status: Starts shooting April 1
Location: Shreveport
JUST WEST OF HELL
Status: Shoots April 18 for 4 weeks
KANE & LYNCH
Feature Film – Nu Image/Millenium Films
Starring Bruce Willis & Jamie Foxx
Phone: 318.841.3599
Status: Slated for late February
UPM: Ed Cathell
Based on the popular video game of the same name.
LAFAYETTE
ALIEN TORNADO
Feature Film – Independent (Bullet Films)
Phone: 337.706.8957 Fax: 337.706.8971
Status: Shoots March 7-30
Location: Lafayette
DIRT ROAD TO LAFAYETTE
Feature Film – Independent (Bullet Films)
Phone: 337.706.8957 Fax: 337.706.8971
Location: Lafayette
ALEXANDRIA
TORRENT (aka SEVEN BELOW ZERO)
Feature Film - Independent (Efish Entertainment)
Status: Shoots February 28 to March 19
Location: Alexandria
MEAN CUISINE
Starring Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey, Alec Mapa, Martin Short
Status: Starts shooting March 28 for 2 weeks in NOLA, then moves
to Shreveport
Location: New Orleans & Shreveport
UPM: Danelle Hand
PLAYING THE FIELD
Starring Gerard Butler
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Phone: 318.841.3599 Fax: 318.841.3591
Status: Starts shooting March 28
Line Producer: Ed Cathell PM: Sarah Donohue
S
LOUISIANA
DOWNERS GROVE
Starring Hayden Panettiere, Nikki Reed & Rebecca De Mornay
Status: May or June 2011
Location: Louisiana
HEADSHOT
Starring Sylvester Stallone
Director: Wayne Kramer
Status: May
Stallone plays a New Orleans hitman who teams up with a young New
York City cop in a high stakes investigation.
RUMORED
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES
A SOUTHERN MELODY
DARK CIRCLES
G.I. JOE 2
NOTHING TO FEAR
ARABIAN NIGHTS
I-59 SOUTH
BAD LUCK (2011 DAVID R. ELLIS PROJECT)
THE BIG VALLEY
UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT (DUKE LACROSS
RAPE INCIDENT PROJECT)
NAGASAKI DEADLINE
Director: Spike Lee
Status: Slated to start shooting in April
Location: Louisiana
PURE LIFE
Starring Elle Fanning and Omari Hardwick
Director: Van Fischer
Status: April 30
Location: Louisiana
PIRANHA 3DD
Feature Film - Dimension Films
Director: John Gulager
Phone: 323.549.4350
Status: Now slated for March 2011
Location: Louisiana
Line Producer: Louis Friedman
Sequel to last summer’s remake of the killer fish-focused classic.
If you are in the film industry and have information or corrections
for Production Updates, we welcome your emails at [email protected]

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