In today's filmdom reverberating with so much glitz, Sandra Bullock and Hilary Swank play it vanity-free in their upcoming respective movies All About Steve and Amelia.
Sandra Bullock stars in All About Steve opposite Hangover's Bradley
Cooper. This hilarious tale is of a
woman named Mary Horowitz (Bullock), a cruciverbalist (crossword puzzle
constructor) who after falling hard for a guy named Steve (Cooper), thinks
they're an item, on the other hand, he thinks she's stalking him.
For Mary, nothing is typical, especially
relationships--her brain spins at warp speed with an endless stream of arcane
information. She can come up with the
perfect word--and dozens with the same meaning, but normal behavior eludes
her. Mary, who just knows she's found
her soul mate, decides to do anything and go anywhere to be with him. She begins to pursue Steve relentlessly as
he crisscrosses the country, covering breaking news stories.
Bullock
says getting into character wasn't always easy. "At first, I didn't know whom to model Mary after, so I had to
start taking pieces of people whom I knew," she recalls. "I took a three and a half year old. I took Kim Barker, our writer. I took myself at my most amped and
manic. Then I just pieced it all
together."
Two-time
Academy Award winner Hilary Swank is garbed as one of the most celebrated
empowered woman of all time in the biopic Amelia co-starring Ewan McGregor,
Richard Gere and Christopher Eccleston.
The movie aviates when in the summer of 1937, Amelia Earheart (Swank)
set off on her most daunting mission yet: a solo flight around the world that
she and George (Gere) both anxiously foresaw as destined, whatever the outcome,
to become one of the most talked-about journeys in history.
After becoming the first woman to fly across
the Atlantic, Amelia was thrusted into a new role as America's sweetheart--the
legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life
charisma. She became an inspiration to
people everywhere, from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to the men closest to her
heart: her husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P. Putnam, and her
long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (McGregor).
Swank, known for her unconventional
choices in her roles shared the following thoughts in a recent interview with
Katie Krause of www.listall.com. "She's an inspiration, she's ahead of her
time and a style icon. She did so much
to help women and women's rights. It
was a great honor to play the role."
Pioneering acts of empowered women
in All About Steve and Amelia will soon hit local theaters from 20th
Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
