Showing posts with label Sacha Baron Cohen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacha Baron Cohen. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2021

SAG Awards 2021 - Congratulations to the cast of The Trial of the Chicago 7

 



Thanks to Amy Komorowski (@akgroomer on Instagram) who took the beautiful
SAG Awards Virtual Red Carpet photos of Eddie wearing Gucci. 


Logging in from around the world were Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne,
Frank Langella, Mark Rylance, John Carroll Lynch, Alex Sharp, and
Kelvin Harrison Jr., cast members of Aaron Sorkin’s historical courtroom drama.



The Trial of the Chicago 7 won the SAG Award
for 'Oustanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture' 👏👏👏

After winning the guild’s top honor, the cast spoke briefly with The Associated Press
in an interview recorded Thursday before Sunday’s broadcast of the pre-taped awards.


"A lot of credit has to be given to Francine Maisler, who was our casting director.
All of the characters represented in the film were so unique and so specific.
I think she collected a group of actors who had completely different styles and
completely different outlooks on the way to approach work. For me, what I
loved when I got to see a cut of the movie was that you saw that. It was like
a clash of different types of music, whether it was jazz or rock or classical —
but all of that coming together under Aaron. He was the conductor, almost. So
I give Aaron and Francine a huge amount of credit. It was a joy day-and-day-out
to watch these great and different and varied actors slugging it out." 


"Making films is such an odd process. You sort of come together with a disparate
group of people. Sometimes you have rehearsals but on this, we didn’t really have any.
Actors would come in for a day or two. You make the film and you all go away again.
The promoting process, sometimes, can be the moment when you actually all sit down
and get to know each other. The only time we have all met up is on Zoom calls when
someone like yourself is asking the questions. It feels unique. And I feel pretty lucky.
But at the same time, it sort of buries a slight sense of it not feeling complete." 
-- Quotes from the cast interview via AP



My collage and screenshots from the video above
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Monday, March 8, 2021

Critics Choice Awards - Best Acting Ensemble

 
Aaron Sorkin, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne Sacha Baron Cohen, and Alex Sharp
at the 26th Annual Critics Choice Awards broadcast on Sunday 7th March at 7pm ET.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 was nominated for 6 Critics Choice Awards
and won Best Acting Ensemble and Best Editing (Alan Baumgarten).

Sacha Baron Cohen accepted the award on behalf of the cast.



Congratulations!
Well deserved.

Friday, February 26, 2021

Variety conversation on The Trial of the Chicago 7


“The Trial of the Chicago 7” stars Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, writer and director
Aaron Sorkin, producer Marc Platt, and editor Alan Baumgarten joined Senior Artisans
Editor Jazz Tangay in the Variety Streaming Room to discuss the film’s timeliness and
creation process. The Oscar contender, which nabbed a Palm Springs International Film
Awards Vanguard, has swept major nominations in the awards circuit for the cast and crew.


 Eddie Redmayne said the film was an “urgent story to tell.”




Eddie went shopping in London Wednesday, Feb.24, 2021

Thursday, February 25, 2021

New long BTS video for The Trial of the Chicago 7

 

A deep dive into a towering, timely story of conflict and
conviction. Behind the Scenes with Aaron Sorkin and the
cast and crew of The Trial of the Chicago 7.



Interviews with Aaron Sorkin, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen,
Jeremy Strong, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Frank Langella, Mark Rylance,
John Carroll Lynch, Yahya Abdul Mateen II. and more.




My screenshots from the video below.



New BTS video from Netflix with interviews, and clips.

Friday, February 19, 2021

Watch The Trial of the Chicago 7 on YouTube now!

Eddie Redmayne plays Tom Hayden in the movie.



On February 18, 1970, the verdict in The Trial Of The Chicago 7 was announced
To commemorate the anniversary of this monumental trial,
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is available globally
for 48 hours for free on Netflix US YouTube Channel
until Saturday, Feb 20th, 11:59pm PST






NPC conversation on The Trial of the Chicago 7


On February 18, the 51st anniversary of the trial’s end, Aaron Sorkin, the writer and
director behind the film The Trial of the Chicago 7, and stars Sacha Baron Cohen
(“Abbie Hoffman”) and Eddie Redmayne (“Tom Hayden”), will join National Press
Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews for an in-depth discussion on the legacy of the
Chicago 7 and the movie’s relevance today following a year of massive protests and
America’s long-overdue reckoning with systemic racism.
 

"The weird thing when you start out acting is that it's quite a solitary thing. You go
and you make a film or you do a play, you become very close very immediately
with a group of extraordinary people. And you then go off and do another one.
Now...film crews are ofter work in smaller groups together so they might bump into
each other more often. In acting, it doesn't happen so much. Fortunately having been
in it long enough you begin to remeet people and reconnect. For me - Sacha and I,
we've met on Les Miserables. That was an extraordinary experience. We're getting
to work together here, it was wonderful. Mark Rylance who's in the film had given
me my first ever job in a production of Twelfth Night in which he played Olivia
and I played Viola twenty years ago, so I genuinely have him to thank for my career.
Down to Jeremy Strong who was an old (pal) ... it was this wonderful mixture of
people that I haven't seen for a long time, new people, Yahya and Kelvin, whom
I haven't work with, Frank who I had met, so it did have this kind of familial
quality to it, but the most glorious thing was, everyone had totally different
processes, so it felt like all these different ... sort of musical genres colliding..."


Aaron Sorkin: “Anyone who is a fan of Eddie in Les Mis, which would be
everyone, go and also watch The Good Shepherd. It's one of the first films
Eddie did  - Matt Damon and Eddie - And you’ll hear Eddie sing
‘Shenandoah’ like you’ve never heard anyone sing it before.
You can tell from watching it.”

Eddie: "Oh, Aaron I love you, but you’ll also see one of the worst performances
I’ve ever done in my life because I was so terrified about getting fired.




Sunday, February 14, 2021

TODAY Show interview on the timeliness of the courtroom drama


Stars Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
chat with Al Roker about the timeliness of ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’.




"Most actors love Aaron Sorkin's writing because he writes very intelligent characters
who speak incredibly quickly, and basically substantially brighter than you are..."



"One of the great pleasures of this film for me was being surrounded
by this extraordinary band. It felt like this sort of wonderful clashing
of different types of music. You had a bit of jazz, you had a bit of
punk, and classical, all of these things combining."




“The writing is so muscular and full, that actually we’re just so sad
not to get to say those words again, so maybe they’ll be. I heard, that
originally Aaron thought about doing it as a musical, so maybe...”





Update: Extended interview video below



Links:

Interesting interview by Tyler Coates for The Hollywood Reporter


Monday, January 25, 2021

Deadline's Contenders - The Trial of the Chicago 7 panel



Pete Hammond interviewed writer-director Aaron Sorkin and actors
Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II,
and Jeremy Strong at Deadline’s Contenders Film
awards-season event on Saturday, 23rd January 2021.


In the video below you can watch the part of the interview when
Eddie was asked about his approach of playing Tom Hayden. 
The video is edited, zooming on Eddie's part of the screen.



For Eddie Redmayne, who plays Hayden, it was all on the page. “Hayden
had an extraordinary facility with speech, but with a quiet integrity that
drew people toward him,” the actor said of the leader of the protests.






My screenshots, video edit, and gifs from the video by Deadline.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

30th Gotham Awards Ensemble Tribute awarded to the cast of The Trial of the Chicago 7

Congratulations to the cast of THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 for
IFP’s inaugural Gotham Awards Ensemble Tribute!

In a newly created honor, the 30th IFP Gotham Awards saluted
The Trial of the Chicago 7 with the Ensemble Tribute.
The show was streamed live from Ciprian Wall Street tonight
(January 11, 2021).

The cast including Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeremy Strong, and
Sacha Baron Cohen recorded a message cut together from various locations.


“Half a century after the events of ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7,’ peaceful
protestors are again being met with tear gas…political gridlocks continue
to plague our own leaders,
 The echoes have been unmistakable, but if nothing else, they remind
us of the work that still has to be done in bridging the divide.


‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ happened then but it’s happening
now and it’s destined to keep happening until America lives up
to its ideal of liberty and justice for all.” - Video here

The live stream also included a BTS video with cast interviews,
the same that Netflix shared recently - the video is here.








my screenshots from the live stream