USA: Clive Owen says he was nervous about speaking Spanish in his new film "Intruders"
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USA: Clive Owen says he was nervous about speaking Spanish in his new film "Intruders"
- Title: USA: Clive Owen says he was nervous about speaking Spanish in his new film "Intruders"
- Date: 20th March 2012
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 19, 2012) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) ACTOR CLIVE OWEN AND DIRECTOR JUAN CARLOS FRESNADILLO POSING FOR PICTURES OWEN POSING FOR PICTURES (SOUNDBITE) (English) CLIVE OWEN, ACTOR, SAYING: "It's much more of a psychological thriller than it is a horror film really. It's one of the things I really liked about the script. It's very spooky and it's very scary at times but all the fear and all the sort of - it comes from within and it comes from the people in the movie." MORE OF OWEN AND FRESNADILLO POSING FOR PICTURES (SOUNDBITE) (English) CLIVE OWEN, ACTOR, SAYING: "It's no accident, I think, in the last few years I've done films where I'm playing the parent. I mean I've got a 12-year-old girl so, you know, and I can relate. And I think the whole thing in this film where you're a very young girl who is very traumatized by some very bad dreams and get very haunted. You know, I've seen it in my girls and I remember it from when I was young - that nightmares and bad dreams can have a very big intense impact when you're very young." OWEN SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) CLIVE OWEN, ACTOR, SAYING: "It took me a while and I got very paranoid that it wasn't very good, but everybody in Spain tells me that it is and I have to trust them." MORE OF OWEN AND FRESNADILLO FRESNADILLO SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) JUAN CARLOS FRESNADILLO, DIRECTOR, SAYING: "Basically it's a movie about fear - I think it's a kind of exploration in the way that at a moment in my life I felt that maybe some of my fears and some of my nightmares had been inherited from my family. I think you introduce an exploration in the world of fear and how sometimes it becomes a kind of legacy, a kind of inheritance that passes from one generation to the other." FRESNADILLO POSING FOR PICTURES (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) JUAN CARLOS FRESNADILLO, DIRECTOR, SAYING: "It's always very exciting to show a movie in the United States. And I think that this is a very global and multicultural theme - that it can be a movie that the American audience would receive in a very positive way. So I'm very honored to be here presenting the movie." MORE OF FRESNADILLO TAKING PICTURES
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- Story Text: Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo put a twist on the classic horror story with the new film "Intruders."
At the film's New York premiere on Monday (March 19), the star of the film, Clive Owen took the film completely out of the horror category by calling it a psychological thriller.
"It's very spooky and it's very scary at times but all the fear and all the sort of - it comes from within and it comes from the people in the movie," said Owen.
"It's a movie about fear - I think it's a kind of exploration in the way that at a moment in my life I felt that maybe some of my fears and some of my nightmares had been inherited from my family. I think you introduce an exploration in the world of fear and how sometimes it becomes a kind of legacy, a kind of inheritance that passes from one generation to the other," Fresnadillo told Reuters.
The film's villain, known as Hollow Face, terrorizes two family relationships; a father and daughter in England and a mother and son in Spain. The lines of imagination and reality blur as each child unknowingly brings Hollow Face to life by writing stories about the figure.
Owen plays John Farrow, a blue collar worker who tries to protect his daughter from the intruder. The family aspect of the movie is something Owen said was easy for him to portray.
"It's no accident, I think, in the last few years I've done films where I'm playing the parent. I mean I've got a 12-year-old girl so, you know, and I can relate. And I think the whole thing in this film where you're a very young girl who is very traumatized by some very bad dreams and get very haunted. You know, I've seen it in my girls and I remember it from when I was young - that nightmares and bad dreams can have a very big intense impact when you're very young," said Owen.
One thing the English actor wasn't familiar with was speaking Spanish. The script, written by Spanish writers Nicolas Casariego and Jaime Marques, called for quite a bit of the language for Owen's character, which he said didn't come easy.
"It took me a while and I got very paranoid that it wasn't very good, but everybody in Spain tells me that it is and I have to trust them," said Owen.
For Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, having a film premiere in New York is exciting.
"I think that this is a very global and multicultural theme that it can be a movie that the American audience would receive in a very positive way. So I'm very honored to be here presenting the movie," said Fresnadillo.
"Intruders" will be in theaters on March 30th. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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