Emily Mortimer: Blackbook mag interview
Emily Mortimer: So can you tell me about Ashecliffe, the movie you’re making with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio? We just wrapped on Wednesday. I worked with Sir Ben Kingsley again on it. I just spoke to an actor named Adam Scott, who shot The Aviator with Scorsese, and he said working with him made him shit his pants. Did Scorsese have any effect on your bowels? I shit my pants in the presence of many great minds and talents, but not at all with Marty. I found him really chatty. You can say something lame, and he’ll make you feel like you haven’t been an idiot for saying it. He’s incredibly good at making you feel comfortable. There’s also something really old-school about his sets, which is quite intimidating, but in a good way. It’s like you’re walking onto some sort of old-fashioned movie set from the 1930s, and everything is quiet, everybody’s in their place, and everybody who’s doing their job, from the camera man to the costume designer, is at the top of their field, a sort of master of the art. So it’s just plain class. http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/a-trip-down-emily-lane/3392

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Emily Mortimer has spoken out about what it's like working with Leonardo DiCaprio and acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese. The trio have finished filming thriller Ashecliffe, which will be released in October 2009 and also stars Sir Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo and Michelle Williams. "I've had an amazing time doing it. It's got a great cast. All my scenes really are with Leonardo," the British actress revealed in New York, where she is promoting her la-*test*-('") thriller, Transsiberian. "He's really great. He's a brilliant actor and amazing. He's got his feet on the ground so he's just a funny, normal, bright, nice, young guy. Not what you might imagine a huge, major film star to be." Emily also admitted enjoying meeting director Martin, who had previously worked with Leo on The Departed, The Aviator and Gangs Of New York. "I really have got a kick from being around Martin," gushed the mother-of-one. "He's not in the least bit disappointing. He's everything you want him to be and more, partly because he's so chatty - he likes talking. He makes talking very easy. He loves talking about movies, and one feels from being around him that his whole inspiration is about the movies that he's loved, watched all his life and is obsessed by, so there's not very much ego involved." The 36-year-old added: "He just seems totally thrilled to be having the opportunity to make a film when films are what he loves most in the world" http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/.../article-212626-detail/article.html

Thanks, Courtney. :) Lovely comments.

I add my thanks Courtney... It's a delicious thing to feel that someone cares of the way you can feel about speaking to that person... in our case, Scorsese. Very elegant. (Not sure, I'm clear in english but well)... Was very nice.

Thanks, arnzilla.

Thanks Arnzilla, I've been reading the Cinema media for... more than 30 years, and I've always dreamed to be a little mouse... to see, how it was going on movie sets, backstage mouse. Rarely actors say that they want to be stressed by their directors, most of the time, they cherish the quiet, peaceful and interactive relationship they can have with their directors. But I remember reading reports about movie sets (Pialat's Police or Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.. and also the famous Coppola's Apocalypse Now) where there was an hysteric atmosphere on the set, and fights, that, according to reporters, (?) fitted well wih the characters and the story line and was approved and maintained by director and actors... Maybe it's also a legend... or a reality in that time period, or considering the reality of some directors and their vision of movie-making. But personnaly I don't think you need to suffer... in life. Wether it's in your personal life or your profession. What you need (and not only when you're an actor), is simply to learn, pay attention, and remain critical (that's what teaching also means to me). I've been around here for about 10 years following the last Scorsese pictures, and what came out all the time was how he interacts with "his" actors. I remember, years ago, asking our dear MC here, Arnzi, - it was Pre-GONY time - if Scorsese was the kind of guy who liked "entering in conflict with his actors to get the best of them"... I guess you all know the answer now...

My screen name is and has always been LOU. or Lou1810.. since early GONY Thai boards, when they were filming Dany Boyle's flick (1998-99) and we were wondering if De Niro will finally get the Butcher's part in the next Scorsese's....Then came the DDL fans to chat with us about it.... Clashes and Sweet souvenirs... I was a pro-De Niro and I remember beeing "slapped" in the face when I said that Day-Lewis wasn't such a good choice (Childhood disease).... I've recovered... Arnzi.. Nice to meet you again :D Hey what's happening ?J

Oh, this 'n that. Ahhh, so we have two Lou's for the price of one then. That must've confused the hell outta me back in the Cinecitta days. http://movies.ign.com/articles/897/897665p1.html IGN: Do you find that filmmakers actively seek you out for those roles or do you have to seek them out yourself? Mortimer: God, it's hard to know. I don't know how jobs come one's way. A lot of things I'm still auditioning for – like the Scorsese film I just did, I auditioned for Scorsese, and that was a frightening thing to do and I think that I somehow am good in frightening situations. I think you just instinctively fight harder for the parts you are drawn to, and then they therefore tend to come your way because you set your heart on them. So I suppose in some way I am deciding my own destiny, although it very often doesn't feel like that; it feels like things happen, and I do them. But things come about in the weirdest ways; I know that Scorsese, for instance, saw a scene from Young Adam which is a film I did years ago, and there was something about the atmosphere of that film and the way that I looked in that movie that struck him for the film he was making, and that was why I got to see him. It's strange how one comes in the way of the people you work with and it always seems somehow serendipitous and accidental. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

Young Adam non-spoilers: http://thecia.com.au/reviews/y/images/young-adam-1.jpg Young Adam spoilers (some nudity required): http://images.celebritymoviearchive.com/...EmilyMortimer@YoungAdam-3.jpg

Thanks Arnzilla, I remember now, I saw that film, Young Adam, years ago... Yes some hot scenes. PS : I understand your confusion with my screen name, as I see (below Tintin) that my number of posts = 6. A couple of weeks ago, I made a big "cleaning" on my computer, and I don't know what happened, I probably deleted coockies, stuff like that, and on different websites (this one included) I had to re-register. But I confirm, I'm the good (hope) old Lou from Belgium :) I think I will go back to my old avatar (This Tintin takes too much place, sorry for that)

Thanks Arnzilla I had completely forgotten that Emily was in Young Adam. Please rap me over the knuckles and send me to the dunces corner. :oops:

Amidst the Marty buttbussing, comes another Hitchcock reference... The Independent - October 3, 2008 The surprisingly wicked Emily Mortimer tells Liz Hoggard that after working with Martin Scorsese and David Mamet she's no longer a posh English rose Emily Mortimer is telling me about Martin Scorsese. "The conversation goes on for hours, because he can't stop talking. You never feel you're boring the great auteur, or 'Oh God, I shouldn't have said that!' It's just so amazing, why can't all geniuses be like this?," she laughs. Mortimer has just shot Scorsese's new film, the feverishly awaited Shutter Island, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley. A 1950s crime story based on a Dennis Lehane novel, it's about the hunt for a murderess who has escaped from a hospital for the insane on an island in Massachusetts. The plot of the film is a secret, but Mortimer is effusive about Scorsese. "His motivation comes from his love of film. That's the thing he cannot stop talking about: other people's movies. Everything he does, every shot, is a homage to someone else, such as Hitchcock. He's getting such a kick out of it."