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Tomei asks parents to avoid her next movie
Posted by Lisa | October 22, 2007
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From kget.com
Oscar winner Marisa Tomei is begging her parents to stay away from her new movie BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD, because it features a doggie style sex scene with co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The actress insists the scene was very carefully and sensitively shot by director Sidney Lumet, but it’s still likely to shock her family.
She says, “I’m grown up now, so I guess it’ll really hit home. I spoke to mom about it the other day and I said, ‘I don’t know if you really want to come to this or if you want to see it.’ I’d rather you didn’t.
“She said, ‘We heard already, we know about it.’”
Tomei admits she was initially worried about performing a graphic sex scene - but Lumet was a “class act”.
She adds, “Having the Sidney factor balances it out; he’s a mensch. I felt even more comfortable than I did just acting fully clothed.
“I seem to tap into these kinds of women, the ones you call ’slut’.”
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Marisa Tomei bares her ‘Intentions’
Posted by Lisa | October 21, 2007
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From nydailynews.com
Marisa Tomei slides into a back booth of Joe Jr., a Greenwich Village coffee shop near her apartment. Though it’s a warm October day, she’s bundled up in a fuzzy white cardigan with a thin lilac scarf knotted at her throat.
“I’m starting rehearsal tomorrow and I’m so nervous,” she says, ordering a hot cup of herbal tea. “It’s been two years since I’ve been onstage. So this show will either kill me or revive me.”
The play, Will Eno’s “Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions” at the Flea Theatre (located at 41 White St.), doesn’t start previews until next month. But Tomei, freshly returned from a holiday in Italy (she has dual citizenship, thanks to a grandfather who is a native), is talking about her new movie - Sidney Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” a gritty tale of crime, family and betrayal that opens Friday after playing at the New York Film Festival.
Marisa Tomei slides into a back booth of Joe Jr., a Greenwich Village coffee shop near her apartment. Though it’s a warm October day, she’s bundled up in a fuzzy white cardigan with a thin lilac scarf knotted at her throat.
“I’m starting rehearsal tomorrow and I’m so nervous,” she says, ordering a hot cup of herbal tea. “It’s been two years since I’ve been onstage. So this show will either kill me or revive me.”
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Tomei set to return to N.Y. stage
Posted by Lisa | October 19, 2007
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From upi.com
Marisa Tomei has begun rehearsals for the off-Broadway production of “Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions,” the Oscar-winning actress said in New York.
Tomei, who will soon be seen in Sidney Lumet’s film “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” told UPI: “I’m rehearsing a play. … It’s at the Flea Theater and it’s called ‘Oh the Humanity.’ It’s a Will Eno play. He did ‘Thom Pain’ a couple years back and Jim Simpson is directing. I’m very excited.”
The Brooklyn-born actress has previously starred on Broadway in “Salome” and “Wait Until Dark.”
“If you’re lucky enough to have grown up in New York, or gotten yourself to New York or London, some place where there is a lot of (theater acting) going on, if you get it in your blood early on, it’s something that’s very hard to shake,” she said. “It really revives you on your soul level. I don’t think it’s something you can easily give up. … I feel lucky even to get to do this play we were just talking about. It’s a really good play.”
The world premiere production will begin previews Nov. 3 and run through Dec. 22, Playbill.com said.
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More info about Marisa’s new play
Posted by Lisa | October 15, 2007
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Marisa Tomei will star in the premiere of Will Eno’s “Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions,” at the Off Broadway Flea Theater. Previews will begin Nov. 3 for a Nov. 29 opening.
Tomei will star opposite Brian Hutchison in the collection of five short plays by Eno, who was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist for his play Thom Pain (based on nothing).
Tomei won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1992 for her role in My Cousin Vinny as Mona Lisa Vito, the girlfriend of a trial lawyer who famously stomped her leg to emphasize the tic-toc of her biological clock. Classic scene. We just hope she won’t have to wear any floral, open-backed cat suits in any of Eno’s plays.
According to the press release,
….OH THE HUMANITY and other good intentions is five short plays about people like you, facing lives like yours. About life, in a word. Not suitable for children.
Marisa Tomei will star in the premiere of Will Eno’s “Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions,” at the Off Broadway Flea Theater. Previews will begin Nov. 3 for a Nov. 29 opening.
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