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One Night at McCool's
Furthur Films, USA Films
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Prod: James Jacks, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi; Exec prod: Sean Daniel, Ted Tannebaum, Gregory Goodman, Rob Tapert; Co-prod: Richard Wright; Dir: Sam Raimi; Scr: Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson; Ph: Jamie Anderson; Prod des: Neil Spisak; Cost des: Julie Weiss; Ed: Bob Murawski, Arthur Coburn; Mus: Christopher Young.
With Cate Blanchett (Annie Wilson), Giovanni Ribisi (Buddy Cole), Keanu Reeves (Donnie Barksdale), Greg Kinnear (Wayne Collins), Hilary Swank (Valerie Barksdale), Katie Holmes (Jessica King), Michael Jeter (Gerald Weems), Kim Dickens (Linda), Gary Cole (David Duncan), JK Simmons (Sheriff Johnson), Chelcie Ross (Kenneth King), Lynnsee Provence (Mike Wilson), Hunter McGilvray (Miller Wilson), David Brannen (Ben Wilson).
International
distribution:
Lake Shore International.
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Through the eyes of men: for John Goodman’s Detective Dehling, Jewel is the picture of innocence
Is there actually a ‘real’ Jewel?
It’s the classic mother-and-the-whore. Matt Dillon sees all of it in one package because, of course, there’s the very motherly thing that he says about her: she takes control of the home, she cleans up the place. But he’s very passive. Paul Reiser sees the whore: he sees the sex and the raunchiness. And John Goodman just sees that innocent angel and has all this protection thing going with her.
Each of the three main actors plays a supporting role in the other stories, where he is usually seen in a much less favourable light than in his ‘own’ story. There are obviously certain points where the stories overlap, so how did the actors react to having to play the same scene differently?
for Paul Reiser’s Carl, she is all raunch
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I think it was a big juicy thing for all of them: they had great fun with being the good guy in one and the bad guy in the other. Liv could be all innocent with John Goodman and she could be raunchy and sexy with Paul Reiser and she could be mature and tough with Matt Dillon. She just loved exploring all these sides: she’s a very, very clever actress.
The film is produced by Michael Douglas’ company, Furthur Films. But I gather he only decided fairly late that he was actually going to be in the film?
He didn’t want his commitment as an actor to be the factor that made this thing fly: he didn’t want to be the one that made other actors commit to the project. He’d just come off a picture [Wonder Boys] and he wasn’t sure if he wanted to do it. But then, one day, he called me into the office and he said, ‘Well, I’ve been thinking and, if you have nothing against it, I’d like to play the part of Burmeister!’ The first time we see him, he is playing bingo with Matt Dillon, so you can look forward to the thought of Michael Douglas playing bingo and being really upset when he loses! ’Cos Matt Dillon, of course, wins - although purely by accident.
It just shows how narrow-minded and short-sighted men can be always thinking with their...
can I say that in a non-dirty way?
I guess not! And women always have a second agenda. |
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