Wong Kar Wai's New Film Updates

Posted by: Michael

When we spoke to Rachel Weisz about the Fountain she spilled the beans on another film she is working on with Wong Kar Wai. Quote:

The lead is Nora Jones, the singer. Itâ€™s her first acting role and she is amazing in the film. And she is traveling across America, sheâ€™s heartbroken like everyone in a Wong Kar Wai film (laughter), and sheâ€™s traveling across America working bars and diners and she witnesses these different stories in different cities and my story was in Memphis and Iâ€™m married to David Straithern whoâ€™s an alcoholic cop and Iâ€™m this kind of messed up, kind of anti-Southern belle, kind of a good time girl whoâ€™s not having a very good time. And they brawl.

We kind of brawl in this, but we have a very tragic love story with alcohol and itâ€™s all a mess. And Nora Jones is working the bar and she witnesses the stories. That was my part in it.

To me it seems quite odd to cast a singer as a lead, when you have such a talent in Rachel Weisz but what do I know.

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