Tea Leoni, featured on More’s November cover, talked to Margy Rochlin about ageism in Hollywood, her own career and her new project.
About her upcoming film, Manure:
I’m basically made to look like Tippi Hedren. Hitchcock blonde is what we’re going for. The entire movie is brown. Everything. The sets, the props, the wardrobe, the cars. And I’m the only thing in cream. It’s funny, it’s a very simple thread but at the same time it’s all about our relationship to sh–. Our own, others’, selling it, making it, smelling it, being offended by it, reveling in it, getting hit with it when it hits the fan. But at the same time, we have this incredible cast with Billy Bob Thornton, who is maybe my new favorite person in the world.
About why she thinks older actresses are more interesting
It’s not just that a 28-year-old doesn’t have a lot of experience. It’s that I don’t worry about a 28-year-old, certainly not one who looks like most of the young leading ladies.
About being thrilled not to be cast as “the chick of the flick”:
That’s where your skirts are up to here and you’re blissfully 20 years younger than your co-star — and that would be his bliss and not necessarily my own. It simply becomes a different movie if you’re 10 years older.
About paparazzi events:
The red carpet makes me feel like a bullsh– artist. I don’t hang with anybody who stalks press.
For more from Téa, as well as Jane Fonda and Sharon Stone, get the November issue of MORE, on stands October 28.
Source: More Magazine
Did you hear the one about the Polish hit man (Sir Ben Kingsley) who gets sent from Buffalo to San Francisco to sober up? That’s the nutshell plot of John Dahl’s You Kill Me, a return to the off-kilter crime tales of his earlier independents The Last Seduction and Red Rock West. Tea Leoni doesn’t just play the flinty-yet-flirty San Francisco saleswoman who falls for Kingsley; she also came on board the film as a producer. Dahl and Leoni spoke with Cinematical in San Francisco about low-budget film making, scene-stealing and other petty larcenies.
Cinematical: Your previous film, The Great Raid was a effects-heavy period piece set during World War II; was part of the appeal of doing You Kill Me being able to do something more modern-day and not smaller in scope but less arduous on a production level?
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Tea Leoni’s interview with Moving Pictures Magazine at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival is featured as the special Video of the Week on the magazine’s website. Leoni is fun and expressive as she talks about working with Ben Kingsley on the film, You Kill Me.
You can see Leoni featured on the main page here:
www.movingpicturesmagazine.com
The video is part of a series of questions she answered from the festival that you can find here:
www.movingpicturesmagazine.com/videoaudio/mpminterviews/TeaLeoni
Head over to wbztv.com to watch a interview of Tea talking with Sunday’s Liz Walker about her work with UNICEF.
From PEOPLE [March 26 issue]
TEA LEONI: “Lipshitz 6, or Two Angry Blondes by T Cooper and The Echo Maker [by Richard Powers]. I like to have a few going at a time. Lipshitz is a great tale: Echo Maker is stunning.”
Tea Leoni, featured on More’s November cover, talked to Margy Rochlin about ageism in Hollywood, her own career and her new project.