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Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes |
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The Women |
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Interview by: Izumi Hasegawa |
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Sep 3, 2008 |
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The Women - Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, writer/director Diane English, Producer Victoria Pearman
Q1: Diane, can you talk about taking on this project and seeing it through because some people said it couldn't be made? Can you talk about making it happen?
Cloris: It took about 10 years.
Diane: It took actually almost 14 years and one of the reasons it took as long as it did is because it's an all-female cast. The nature of the movie industry now is that it caters to young men under 25 and they go to movies multiple times and buy all the stuff, and so that's a major part of the deal. We've always believed if you give women something of themselves onscreen that's meaningful, they will come and they'll come in big numbers and I think the box office of several movies this summer has bourn that out and we'll have a nice, healthy box office too.
Q2: The esthetic of seeing nothing but women on screen was lovely, what was it like behind th...
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