UNITED KINGDOM: Jordan Scott daughter of legendary director Ridley Scott makes directorial debut with "Cracks"

Record ID: 644356

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Jordan Scott daughter of legendary director Ridley Scott makes directorial debut with "Cracks"
  • Date: 28th November 2009
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (RECENT) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) EVA GREEN, ACTRESS - ON HER CHARACTER MISS G, SAYING "Miss G is a very, very enigmatic character with a mysterious past. She seems very strong, very cool she's a great teacher, very eccentric but she's also made of glass and a very fragile character. She's many, many things."
  • Embargoed: 13th December 2009 12:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
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  • Story Text: Director Jordan Scott has helmed her first feature film with "Cracks," a dark tale of coming of age and lost innocence.
    Based on the novel by Sheila Kohler, the story revolves around a remote English all-girl boarding school in the 1930's where several of the young students find inspiration from their diving instructor - the dynamic and independent Miss G, played by Eva Green.
    Miss G regales her students with romantic tales from the outside world, encouraging them to seek freedom beyond the school and it's rules and boundaries.
    But the insular world that the eccentric teacher has created for herself and her disciples is soon disrupted by the arrival of an outsider: worldly and aristocratic student, Fiamma (played by María Valverde). Coming from a rich Spanish family, Fiamma's presence and knowledge of the world outside of the boarding school threatens to reveal that there may be much more (or much less) to Miss G than meets the eye.
    "Miss G is a very, very enigmatic character with a mysterious past. She seems very strong, very cool she's a great teacher, very eccentric but she's also made of glass and a very fragile character. She's many, many things," Green told reuters Television.
    The young foreign student provokes both fascination and resentment from the group of students, and sets in motion events that will change all of their lives forever.
    Green said working with first time director Scott was more of a collaborative process than she was sometimes used to.
    "We really worked together as a team which was great. We called one another all the time, emailed one another about scenes, like I didn't agree on that one, could she re-write that scene. It was a real relationship on the same level, it wasn't that 'I am the director you are the actor, shut up.' It was really good we really worked together," she said.
    "Cracks" was a family affair for Jordan Scott, whose father, legendary director Ridley Scott, and uncle, famous action director, Tony Scott, produced the film.
    She acknowledged that coming from a family of film-makers was bound to draw comparisons to her own style of work but said she couldn't afford think about that when making the movie.
    "Well I mean, yeah, probably there is going to be a bit of scrutiny maybe but you have to sort of keep doing what you're doing I suppose and try not to let it get under your skin," she explained.
    Although she admitted it didn't hurt being able to draw on more than thirty years worth of big screen directing experience from within the family.
    "It's more he gives very practical day to day advice which is really-- it's great, it's what you need to keep going I suppose and also it's great to be able to call your dad at the end of the day and just have a chat, 'By the way...' So he's full of encouragement which is wonderful," she said.
    Eva Green who also worked with Ridley Scott on "Kingdom of Heaven," said that, whatever her background, Jordan Scott brought a style all of her own to the film.
    "I think they're very different people. They're both very talented. Ridley is very strong and Jordan strong too. She's so feminine it's very, very sensitive, very sensual cinema that she does,"
    "Cracks" opens across UK cinemas on December 4.
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