- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: LONDON ROYAL FILM PREMIERE OF MOVIE "CHARLIE'S ANGELS
- Date: 22nd November 2000
- Summary: LONDON, UK (NOVEMBER 22, 2000) (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) DREW BARRYMORE "It's as if the agency has never stopped going and it's the year 2000 and we're the new recruits, and since we've seen the show stopped and where we've picked up today there has been 3 angels progressively throughout the time and it's always been Charles Townsend that has employed these wome
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- Location: LONDON, UK
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: "Charlie's Angels" Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu oiled their angelic wings and flew over to London last night to meet Britain's own Charlie - Prince Charles - for the UK premiere of the number one US box office hit.
Unfortunately angel number 3 - Cameron Diaz, couldn't join in - Miss Diaz had to remain in The States where she's currently shooting her new movie.
Already a box office smash hit in America, "Charlie's Angels" arrived in London on Wednesday (November 22) for the British premiere of the movie.
Starting where the popular 70s TV series left off, the new angel recruits embark on their new mission to foil an elaborate murder-revenge plot that not only could destroy individual privacy worldwide, but spell the end of Charlie and his Angels! "It's as if the agency has never stopped going and it's the year 2000 and we're the new recruits, and since we've seen the show stopped and where we've picked up today there has been 3 angels progressively throughout the time and it's always been Charles Townsend that has employed these women and empowered them to do all the great things that they do" says Barrymore.
"I think we contributed different things to our roles because we sort of knew what our characters were gonna be best at and we wanted to make them very specific and very distinctive and we didn't want them to be interchangeable and so we encouraged each other to do that and like a lot of times when we were doing a scene and there was a funny line but it wasn't right for me per se- it was right for Drew we would give each other that line even though it was the joke of the scene it was more important to make sure that the character was coinciding with....adds Lucy.
"We like setting each other up. It's always a matter of making each other look good and servicing ...being funny, we're people that are constantly laughing at ourselves and each other as a matter of what works best for each person and how do you individualize people . How do you have 3 very different people " says Barrymore.
It sounds like a familiar story but this movie has all sorts of action surprises in store - like fierce martial arts sequences for example.
"Yeah it was about 8 hours a day 5 days a week. It was really intensive and I think it was very difficult thing to discipline your body and your mind to set yourself in a way that's gonna get through the 8 hour training, it was a very bonding experience for all of us but ultimately it really pays off in the movie because we really wanted to make it look real and earn the ability to not use guns... When you leave this movie you want to go to a great party race your car be with the people you love and feel the most energized with and that's such a great way to feel" say Lucy and Drew.
As in the original series, actor John Forsythe provides the voice of Charlie, the mysterious and unseen leader of the elite Townsend Detective Agency.
Also on board is Bill Murray as Bosley, the angels' supervisor and part time undercover partner.
It's been almost 20 years since the original series went off the air, and everyone involved knew the film had to update the concept into the 21st century and not simply impersonate the characters in the television version.
But it wasn't all smooth sailing. Reports began to leak off the set of high tensions between the actors, including one widely-reported story of an incident in which Lucy Liu slapped Bill Murray and stormed off the set, shutting down production for a day.
But Lucy put those rumours to rest once and for all.
"I think it was really unfortunate that there were so many rumours about the film because we had such a great chemistry and once people see the film they'll realize that what's happened after the film has been so well received in the US people stopped asking that question because they realized that there was no truth to it."
And the girls got a chance to meet Prince Charles, but what about the young princes? "I would love to meet Prince Henry and Prince William -- uhm Prince Harry sorry - I would like to talk with them about what they care about in the world and what their aspirations are and their mother was someone who was going to change the world. Now that they have the opportunity to do that what is it they want to do with their life" says Drew.
In the meantime, the girls proved to be real angels - all the proceeds of the evening went to Prince Charles' Prince's Trust for young disadvantaged people.
"Charlie's Angels" opens in cinemas across the UK on Friday, November 24.
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