Showing posts with label Candice Pires. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Jessica Alba / This mucho I know / ‘With this new film I wanted to kick some butt again’


Jessica Alba

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Jessica Alba: ‘With this new film I wanted to kick some butt again’


‘Hollywood can be hard for the faint of heart’: Jessica Alba.

 The actor and entrepreneur, 35, tells Candice Pires about surviving Hollywood, setting up businesses, not going to college and growing up on a military base

Candice Pires
Sunday 21 August 2016 06.00 BST
I thought I was dumb because I didn’t go to college. I felt if you didn’t have a degree you’d never be respected or considered intelligent. Now I realise I’m perfectly capable of doing lots of things.
Jessica Alba
My parents had me young. They were 18 and 19 and always really fun. My dad was in the military – we used to get up at 5am and he would eat kids’ cereal and watch cartoons with my younger brother and I while ironing his clothes in just his underwear. They lived paycheck to paycheck, which made me never want to struggle.
Success in entertainment used to be purely financial for me. Once I was in my mid-20s and had achieved some degree of security, I started looking for something more substantive to focus on. Then when I got pregnant a few years later, I came up with the idea for my company [natural beauty line The Honest Company].
When I was young I didn’t know how to speak up [at work] and say, “I don’t like this.” I wasn’t that person [a sex symbol] people were portraying me as. I come from a pretty conservative background; I was a tomboy wearing baggy clothes. But you’re being marketed in a movie to sell it – I understood it was the characters I was playing.
Strong relationships with other women are important, especially after you become a mum. It gives you a sense of self to be surrounded by a group of people who accept and support you beyond your family.
The Honest Company wasn’t a slam-dunk. I wasn’t saying, “Oh, let’s license my name and sell a perfume.” As a new mum, I found it challenging to find effective products without things like synthetic fragrances. I wanted to create a consumer goods company that stands for transparency and is actually profitable.
Hollywood can be hard for the faint of heart. People hustle to be successful and then that moment when they feel they’ve made it, it disappears in an instant. I don’t feel like my persona in entertainment defines me. I’ve never put a whole lot of importance on it. When I was on every magazine cover and in all the new movies, I knew a lot of it would go away.
Jessica Alba
You learn discipline growing up on a military base. You learn that sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to and you just have to get through it.
I spend a lot more time on my business than acting. When I can find the time and it’s entertainment, I’ll do something. With this last movie, I thought it would be fun to kick some butts again. I just sort of missed it.
I’ve always loved dressing up. I chose to do it for a living. I love that fantasy element of being able to transform yourself into a different person.
It’s really important people vote in the [US presidential] election. I know how I’ll be voting but I’m not saying.
Mechanic: Resurrection is released in cinemas on 26 August



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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Courtney Barnett / This much I know / ‘When I go into a house I have to look in all the cupboards’


Courtney Barnett



Courtney Barnett: ‘When I go into a house I have to look in all the cupboards’


My girlfriend has probably saved my life: Courtney Barnett

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The singer, 28, on her compulsive tendencies, impatience, celery stick diet and wild-ride relationship




Candice Pires
Saturday 6 August 2016 14.00 BST
Music is a strange business with no solid lines. You never really know what anything means, or what level of selling out is really selling out. I’ve never worked with major labels, but the idea is that you don’t sacrifice too much. You make and release music in a way that suits your morals.
Coming out to myself was a bit of a process. I was dating a girl in high school and I was like: “I’m not gay, I’m just happy to be in love with this girl.” I don’t know if that was denial. I was just figuring out what I was feeling. Coming out to others was a bit of a non-event. They’d worked it out.


Courtney Barnett

When you’re Australian, you’re forever being told it’s a pipe dream to have any sort of career in music or the arts. That whole breaking-it-overseas idea seems so hard, so it’s great to have success anywhere.
I take bits of lots of different people. I’m a big Patti Smith fan, but also Neil Young,Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell. Some people say I’m inspired by Liz Phair, which might be totally spot on. But I’ve not had the chance to listen to her music yet so it’s an incorrect comparison.
Courtney Barnett

I’d like to see Australia become more open-minded. Our government is so backwards on things like marriage equality, and equality in general. White Australia is young, I guess, compared to everywhere else. But that’s not an excuse for treating people terribly sometimes.
My biggest downfall is not having patience. I can be pretty lazy. For example, I’m not a great cook, I just eat whatever is available. I would happily live off celery sticks and hummus forever.
Everything feels extravagant to me. As a kid my grandma told me I was lucky to have things other people don’t. In the early days of touring, four of us used to share a bed, so having my own room now feels extravagant. I don’t buy much stuff – I bought a car once but I’ve even sold that.
I’ve got my dad’s short temper and my mum’s compulsive tendencies. I check doors are locked five times. When I go into a house I have to look in all the rooms and cupboards. It’s getting worse with age.


Courtney Barnett

My girlfriend [Jen Cloher] has probably saved my life in moments. Our relationship has been a wild ride. We began dating before I started touring – before stuff got crazy.
I can recite every scene in Grease. I’ve watched that and Pulp Fiction more than any other film. My favourite character is Rizzo – I didn’t really like her as a kid, but now I think she’s really cool.
I’m not always totally comfortable writing about myself. But I suppose that’s the point – it’s part of what I do. There’s a lot of joy and a lot of frustration in being a musician. Just having an opinion is a form of being political. It’s my thoughts and my life, what I see and how I see it. All of that is political.
I feel like I live in a constant state of being scared. I’ve been trying to learn how to meditate and calm down, but I’m not very good.
Courtney Barnett’s new single, “Elevator Operator”, is released on 12 August (2016) on Marathon



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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Richard Dreyfuss / This much I know / ‘When I die I want the chance to hit God in the face’

Richard Dreyfuss
Photograph by Michael Friberg
Poster by T.A.
Richard Dreyfuss: ‘When I die I want the chance to hit God in the face’

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The actor, 68, on agnosticism, depression and having ‘the finest body of work of any American actor’
Candice Pires
Sunday 24 July 2016 06.00 BST

When I die I hope I’ll have a chance to hit God in the face. If there is a God he already knows about this and he’ll get away – and as an agnostic I probably won’t get the chance. But he deserves it because of everything that happens to you in the third act of life: it’s humiliating and debasing.
My mother was my best friend. We talked about everything. I learned a lot about women and sex from her. She once said to me: “Richard, to put your mind at rest, there’s nothing you don’t do in the bedroom.”


People say nice things to me about Jaws and Close Encounters. And I say: “They’re Steven’s [Spielberg] films.” I didn’t do my films until The Goodbye Girl. And then I did them for the rest of my life.
I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we’ve been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don’t have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.
I think I have the finest body of work of any American actor. It truly reflects my principles. But I am perceived as someone who has fallen. That I was a big hoo-ha in the 70s and fell away. I see it as I didn’t want to be top of the top, because none of them leave their homes or have a normal life. I was given the chance to get up there and I turned it down.
One day I realised I’d hurt every girl I’d ever loved. I had thought I was a really good guy before that. I gathered myself together and wrote letters, apologising. The response was uniform: “This ship has sailed, pal.”
I knew I was a manic depressive when I was 13 or 14, and I loved it. I always told people what I had and I was always cresting on a manic wave. I used it, willingly and happily, and it was an extraordinary experience. When I got hit with the depressive side – Boom! – yes, it was horrible and unendurable, but that’s part of the story.
Richard Dreyfuss

I never shared my life with anyone until I met Svetlana [Dreyfuss’s third wife]. I was staying in a hotel where she worked when she knocked on my door, saying: “You should take better care of your things,” and handed me my passport. We talked and I invited her in. Eventually, I said: “Well, I guess you’d better get back.” We both stood up, I took a deep breath and kissed her. She ran out of the room. I thought: “This is going to be great.”
Trump is an intemperate, mean-spirited, lying bully. If a man like that asked you for permission to marry your daughter, what would your answer be? If it’s no, I think it’s obvious we shouldn’t give him the most powerful office on the face of the Earth.
I was never a Hollywood insider. I had to learn that people do unethical things and it’s just business. I took it all personally and still do.
Reckless is out on DVD on 25 July


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