USA: Actress Abbie Cornish greets fans on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival for the world premiere of her latest film "The Girl"
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USA: Actress Abbie Cornish greets fans on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival for the world premiere of her latest film "The Girl"
- Title: USA: Actress Abbie Cornish greets fans on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival for the world premiere of her latest film "The Girl"
- Date: 22nd April 2012
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 20, 2012) (REUTERS) DIRECTOR OF "THE GIRL" DAVID RIKER, TALKING TO A REPORTER CAMERAMAN (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVID RIKER, DIRECTOR OF "THE GIRL", SAYING: "The metaphor I use is that she's in quicksand. Everything she does to try and get out just sends her deeper into the kind of train wreck of her life. And Abbie, over the course of the film, has to come out of that and she and she does it in the most subtle, nuanced ways." (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) VARIOUS OF CORNISH POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ABBIE CORNISH, PLAYS ASHLEY IN "THE GIRL", SAYING: "I just felt like, for the first time everything came together: the cast, the crew, the project, the film, the characters, the story, like everything had this sort of centrifugal force to it. And because of that I was able to be in an environment where I could be the best I could possibly be." CORNISH AND RIKER HUG ON THE RED CARPET (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVID RIKER, DIRECTOR OF "THE GIRL", SAYING: "To see that even though millions of people are leaving their homes around the world to make the journey to the north, to the U.S., to Europe, to England, it doesn't mean that the villages they're leaving behind are without hope." CORNISH TALKING TO A REPORTER
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- Story Text: Actress Abbie Cornish greeted fans at the red carpet for the world premiere of her latest film, "The Girl".
In the American/Mexican production, Cornish plays Ashley, a struggling, single mother in Texas who helps smuggle immigrants over the border.
The Australian says the role called on her to not only become comfortable with a south Texan accent, but to also learn fluent Spanish.
"When I got to Mexico and I started working with a dialect coach, I said to her, 'I'm really confused; am I meant to do the Spanish with Texas accent or do I do the Spanish with a Mexican accent?' And she said, 'Well, that's what we've got to figure out, let's try it.' So, Spanish with a Texas accent? Not so good, doesn't really work," she laughed.
Cornish, who won an Australian Institute best actress award for her 2004 role in "Somersault", said the working environment for "The Girl" was so "free and so heartfelt" that she could bring her best to the table.
"I just felt like, for the first time everything came together: the cast, the crew, the project, the film, the characters, the story, like everything had this sort of centrifugal force to it. And because of that I was able to be in an environment where I could be the best I could possibly be."
Director David Riker, who directed "La Ciudad", said that Cornish put in an enormous amount of work to become the character in "The Girl" and understood Ashley better than Riker did and that the character started out in the film as her own worst enemy.
"Everything she does to try and get out just sends her deeper into the kind of train wreck of her life. And Abbie, over the course of the film, has to come out of that and she and she does it in the most subtle, nuanced ways," said Riker.
Riker said the he hopes the film will reveal to viewers that there are tremendous riches in parts of the world often considered to be downtrodden.
"To see that even though millions of people are leaving their homes around the world to make the journey to the north, to the U.S., to Europe, to England, it doesn't mean that the villages they're leaving behind are without hope."
"The Girl" does not yet have a theater distribution schedule. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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