USA: Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood dazzle at New York premiere for their latest film

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  • Title: USA: Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood dazzle at New York premiere for their latest film
  • Date: 24th April 2008
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 15, 2008) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS EVA AMURRI SAYING: "I mean, I thought God what a challenge, especially from the work I had been doing at the time to play a character who was this different from myself and everything I'd done. It was a great opportunity to challenge myself."
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  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: Actresses Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood sauntered down the red carpet at the New York premiere for their latest film. The movie touches on a life cut short by a tragic event and explores a life that could have been.
    Actresses Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood and Eva Amurri walked down the red carpet of the New York premiere of their latest film on Tuesday (April 15). The movie titled "The Life Before Her Eyes" is about two teenage friends who are forced to make a painful choice when a gunman at their high school confronts them in the bathroom. 15 years later, one of the girls grapples with the consequences of that day on the anniversary of the shooting.
    Thurman, who plays the older version of "Diana", said she was instantly drawn to the story because she liked the script.
    "I was so much reminded of how difficult and lonely it was to be a teenager and that experience. At the same time the sort of shocking thing about random chaotic violence can do to our lives and I don't know, it was very moving, I thought," she said.
    Evan Rachel Wood, who plays the 17-year-old "Diana" turned down several other parts just to be free to take on the role. She said she could relate a lot to her character in the film. "Everybody kind of wants to label her as this rebellious, bad girl and she's not. She's just different and they don't really understand her and she's kind of tortured by it but she still isn't going to let it stop her," she said.
    Playing Wood's best friend is Eva Amurri, the yang to Wood's yin. Her character "Maureen" goes to Church and has dreams of getting married and settling into her hometown. The role was not an obvious choice for Amurri who has nothing in common with her character, she said.

    "I mean, I thought God what a challenge, especially from the work I had been doing at the time to play a character who was this different from myself and everything I'd done. It was a great opportunity to challenge myself," said Amurri.
    The movie has a dreamy, ethereal feel with beautfifully shot scenes that allude to the fragility of life. The screenplay was adapted from a novel written by Laura Kasischke.

    "Laura who is the author of the book - she used to be a poet. So what she did is she really imbued the book with a lot of visual imagery and beauty and all I did was just translate it to the screen," said the film's director Vadim Perelman.
    The movie hits theatres April 18.
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