I just can’t stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I’m up there.
I wanted to work in Hollywood. I was captivated by it. I read ‘Premiere Magazine’ and ‘Movieline Magazine’ and ‘Us’ before it was a weekly magazine.
It’s the cable shows that are really the most interesting – ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.
Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of ‘Scum.’ All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.
I do have ambition – I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it’s not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.
You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.
When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it’s huge. It’s nerve-wracking.
The USA marketing team are geniuses at what they do. They do the right kind of thing for every medium. They’re very active on social media; they’re releasing videos every day up to the premiere.
At the premiere for ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ I was walking down the red carpet, and they were screaming my name, and I’m wondering, ‘What do I do?’ So I had to think, ‘OK, calm down, one person at a time.’ Everything is kind of rattling, but afterwards, my publicist said I did really good.
When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It’s like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I’m very lucky.
There’s a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.
Releasing a film through DTH is a double-edged sword. The opinion formed following the premiere of a film can mar or enhance its business.
I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I’m so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I’m doing.
When ‘The Kid’ made its premiere I was so young I fell asleep and never saw the movie.
I was at the premiere of ‘Prisoners,’ and I heard two thousand people scream at the same time. I turned to my wife and said, ‘I love cinema!’ It’s the sharing of emotions together, and it’s collective. It’s one of the last communions we have.
I was in Cannes two years ago at our ‘U23D’ movie premiere. I love the French.
I like to be comfortable. If I go out, if it’s a premiere, I’ll put on a suit and look nice. I like Hugo Boss for that.
Once in a while, it’s fun to dress up for a premiere. But I’m not someone that’s going to stick on heels and a dress every day.
It’s always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.
For a ‘GOT’ premiere, I wore a white dress by Antonio Berardi, which fitted beautifully. And I felt empowered by the Jenny Packham gown I wore for ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ premiere. That is the beauty of the designer – to help a woman or man feel that way.
Nothing makes a girl feel more special than being adorned with some lovely Didier Dubot jewelry for the ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ premiere.
I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I’m comfortable in it, I feel confident.
Be it a movie premiere or an event, I personally prefer to wear a lot of saree. For me, they are very comfortable; I can carry them off.
The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn’t have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it’s up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.
I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don’t want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen’s house on the first movie and then I didn’t see him again until the premiere.
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