USA: Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine open the Los Angeles Film Festival with a screening of their film noir, "Bernie."

Record ID: 219966

  • Title: USA: Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine open the Los Angeles Film Festival with a screening of their film noir, "Bernie."
  • Date: 17th June 2011
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JUNE 16, 2011) (REUTERS) ***CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** RED CARPET AT LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL JACK BLACK AND SHIRLEY MACLAINE ON RED CARPET PHOTOGRAPHERS VARIOUS OF JACK BLACK AND SHIRLEY MACLAINE ON RED CARPET (SOUNDBITE) (English) JACK BLACK SAYING: "He's a mortician from Texas and he has a relationship with a recently widowed woman, played by Shirley, and they have an interesting relationship and then things go badly." JACK BLACK AND SHIRLEY MACLAINE ON RED CARPET (SOUNDBITE) (English) SHIRLEY MACLAINE SAYING: "There are things that happen in this film that are life and death stuff. Mean. I play a real bitch. I play someone everybody hates. He plays someone everybody loves. And his job is to make more people love him than already do and I fall for that." JACK BLACK AND SHIRLEY MACLAINE DOING INTERVIEW (SOUNDBITE) (English) SHIRLEY MACLAINE SAYING: "During our improvisational things, we would go on and on. And, he made me laugh so hard, that became part of the character. I don't think she was really like that, but she was after I got finished with him." MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY ON RED CARPET (SOUNDBITE) (English) MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY SAYING: "It divides two sides of thinking in this town and the fact that it really happened, but the way it went down, and almost with the innocence that it went down, you'll come out of the movie definitely feeling different than you think you would going in to see a movie about a woman who got murdered by this guy that the town absolutely loved."
  • Embargoed: 2nd July 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Usa, Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA7GTCW93I9LHC9VUWO64YJEDIU
  • Story Text: Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine opened the Los Angeles Film Festival on Thursday (June 16) with their new dark comedy, "Bernie."
    The duo walked the red carpet together and talked about their film - which is based on a true murder story.
    "He's a mortician from Texas and he has a relationship with a recently widowed woman, played by Shirley, and they have an interesting relationship and then things go badly," said Black.
    Things go very bad. Black's character kills MacLaine's, then goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she's alive.
    MacLaine said working with funny-man Black changed her entire character.
    "During our improvisational things, we would go on and on. And, he made me laugh so hard, that became part of the character. I don't think she was really like that, but she was after I got finished with him," said MacLaine.
    The film also stars Matthew McConaughey, who said audiences will be in for a real surprise with "Bernie."
    "It divides two sides of thinking in this town and the fact that it really happened, but the way it went down, and almost with the innocence that it went down, you'll come out of the movie definitely feeling different than you think you would going in to see a movie about a woman who got murdered by this guy that the town absolutely loved."
    The Los Angeles Film Festival will run through June 26.
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