From the 'Director's Cut' commentary:
"Ok, so we've got the big Hui San opening-shot here. Had
six Panaflexes rolling. George Clooney mid-frame, lookin' good,
but no, a huge dog came outta no-where, lifted it's leg on poor George.
Had ta send the entire crew home early that day - a pain in the ass".
"oh yeah, here's the Baoli wc shot. We had three of our stunt guys
positioned just right. Bob had the anamorphic framed perfectly.
Then, yeah...see here....in the left of the frame here...some German
engineer-guy, a real jerk, stumbling into our set! 'No!', I yelled, 'that aint a real one, its a prop
wc!' But, too late, and (groans) just when we thought we had it in the can too."
"This sequence - the New District bus ride - my personal favourite. There's
Brad, in the Englush teacher role. Now, right about here....in she comes....Angelina
had to time that one just right. She got that chopstick straight down the back of his pants,
110% script-perfect. Beautiful".
"ahh, yeah, here's our panning-shot inside that big store. Whatzit called...Bow Bow Barn...yeah.
I tried to kinda borrow a...a.....ah, a, y'know, a Hitchcock-ian style, back-lit scene there.
You could say, well, it sorta worked fine, yet
George Clooney in Wuxi?
ReplyDeleteI heard that guy got malaria!
Serves him right for being such a pompous pain in the ass!
Still, I have a man crush on him!
George Clooney wasn't allowed into Wuxi - his scenes were filmed on an LA studio backlot.
ReplyDeleteClooney isn't of course a member of the Film Actor's Guild (FAG).
Besides that, the studio chiefs had only released this movie as a promotional/preview dvd....it has been withdrawn. Understand that
casting has begun for the new Expatdom movie. So, there'll obviously be at least 120,000 Expat extras needed for the massive crowd scenes.