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| | Clive Owen makes panties drop in Milan | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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So I was drooling over these new photos of Clive Owen?s manly hotness, and I came across something that scared the dickens out of me. First - this is Clive over the weekend in Milan, where he took in the Armani fashion show, just because that?s the way Clive rolls, you know? Paris? No. London? No. Milan? Of course, Clive says with that delicious twinkle in his eye, I will go to Milan and wear an impeccable suit and give the cameras my best smug, ?I?m always this f-cking sexy? look at Armani. Sigh.
Anyway, back to what scared me? these photos:
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| | Panty-dropper Clive Owen: I don't worry about being likable | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some new pictures of Clive Owen out and about in New York yesterday, looking fabulous. Note: This is how Clive Owen looks on any given day. He?s not wearing that suit for a film role, he?s not carrying his tie because he?s about to strangle someone in some high-octane action shot. He really does walk around like friggin? James Bond all the time. The man is such a panty-dropper, it?s not even funny. He?s stunning. Sigh. It?s a good day for some Clive.
Clive is actually doing some promotional duties for The Boys Are Back, his family drama based on the true story of a British ex-pat widower in Australia, learning how to raise his three sons alone. Clive was just in Toronto to promote the film, and he sat down for a good interview with the Vancouver Sun to discuss the role, his family and why he’s pining away for me (I wish):
You think of Clive Owen and you think of a handsome, elegant man in a tuxedo, or a rugged but charming spy. You don?t really think of a slightly disreputable sports writer throwing water balloons at his rambunctious seven-year-old son, or smacking him on the head in a no-holds-barred pillow fight.
That?s the Clive Owen of The Boys Are Back, a family drama, based on a true story, about a journalist name Joe whose wife dies of cancer, leaving him to raise a young son and a teenager. They live in a rambling house in Australia where a visitor might find a frozen chicken defrosting in the bathtub, and where dad and the kids cope with their grief by running amok: ?free range parenting,? Joe calls it.
And here?s yet another Clive Owen ? the one sitting in a Toronto hotel room whose bathtubs have obviously never seen a chicken, frozen or unfrozen ? an imposingly sturdy-looking man, handsome and elegant in a black open-necked shirt, and also a father who knows what it?s like to deal with kids. The Boys Are Back seems like a departure, but Owen says it doesn?t feel like one.
?It felt like I was exploring a big part of my life that I haven?t explored in my work before,? he said on the eve of the premiere of The Boys Are Back at the Toronto International Film Festival.
?I am a parent of two girls and I?ve always seen that as very separate. I go off and make movies and the rest of the time I?m a parent. And this was a script exploring all that world.?
The Boys Are Back sounds like sentimental material ? Joe?s wife dies at the beginning of the movie, and his young son (played by the remarkable Nicholas McAnulty) is alternately silent with mourning or off carelessly playing ? but Owen says he took steps to make sure it wouldn?t be mushy.
?It was always a big thing for me, I had very strong antennae for any sentiment,? he said.
?I didn?t want it to be sentimental. I wanted to make it tougher in some areas and difficult, and show things not working and not worry that people would be upset by the way he was doing things.?
?I?m not one of those actors who worries about characters being likable,? Owen said. ?I think it?s more important you understand them, it?s more important that you believe and understand. I think it?s a danger some actors fall into. He?s fallible. He?s not perfect. The whole film is about a guy trying to do the best he can. I?ll forgive him everything because he?s trying and he?s not perfect. None of us are.?
?I think there?s huge elements of this film that resonate with everybody. Anyone who?s lost anybody or grieved anybody will relate strongly, anyone whose parents separated . . . a lot of the film resonated with me and will resonate with a lot of people.?
He said he also enjoyed the way the movie depicted the difference between fathers and mothers. ?A day with dad is inevitably different from a day with mom,? he said. ?It just is. I think that the heavy, nurturing thing that a mother brings to a child is different from a guy. This is taken to the extreme, but there is almost an element of that with dad. I think it?s just an instinct thing. We?re not as overly protective as mothers are. Sometimes that?s not good, but I like that the film is about that, too.?
Owen?s daughters, who are 12 and 10, have seen the movie. Did they recognize his parenting style? ?They?re just thrilled they can actually watch one of my movies because usually they can?t ? they?re too young,? he said. ?They?ll have a lot to catch up (on) when they?re 18.?
[From The Vancouver Sun]
Good Lord, I hope Clive?s daughters don?t see every R-rated film he?s been in. I love Closer, but I think seeing my dad in that way would totally warp me. Remember the scene with Natalie Portman in the strip club? Thinking about some of the quotes that came out of him makes me need to cross my legs - ?I think it’s best I don’t attempt to touch you. I’d like to touch you. Later.? Yeah, his daughters shouldn?t see that.
Photo credit: INFphoto.com (sunglass photos) and ANDERSON/VILA/bauergriffinonline.com (without sunglasses)
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| | Clive Owen in Details: I fell in love with my wife at first sight | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Some days, I need some Clive Owen. Just looking at pictures of his piercing, intense, brooding green eyes and his jet-black hair lifts my spirits. It?s always a good day when I can eyef-ck Clive. So today is a good day. Clive is the cover boy for the October issue of Details Magazine. And I get to read his dark, brooding words too? except Clive in interviews is rarely dark and brooding. He usually pretty pleasant, revealing himself to be one of the most well-adjusted actors out there. Unfortunately, the interview takes place at a graveyard, so that adds to the general morose atmosphere. Was the interview done by a 14-year-old goth chick? I don?t know. Clive talks about his new film out in November, The Boys Are Back, which is based on a memoir of a widower sports writer who finds himself raising two young sons alone.
On his working-class background: ?It was a very, very working-class family,” he says as he takes his seat at the caf. His parents split when he was 3, and he was brought up?the fourth of five brothers?by his mother and stepfather. “It was fine,” he says, trying to shift the subject moments after it’s raised. “It wasn’t an unhappy experience?everybody struggled.”
On fame: “It’s all about how you conduct yourself,” Owen says when asked how a movie star can live such a seemingly normal life. “I’m quite good at getting on with my thing. I feel I’m pretty nifty; I can spot trouble coming. I’ve been in certain situations where people have been drinking a lot.” He pauses. “It’s going to get a little uncomfortable now and then.”
On his wife, Sarah-Jane Fenton, and how they met when they were cast as Romeo and Juliet: ?Yes,” he says, “a clich. I fell in love with her the minute she came in. She was late, she had these glasses and a pile of secondhand books, and there was something about her straightaway.” She gave up acting not long before they had their first child, and she is now training to become a therapist. “There’s no regret or resentment,” Owen says of the different paths their careers have taken. “She always smiles and looks at what acting can be like, and it’s a relief to her that she’s not doing it.”
On traveling so much: “There have been times in the past when it’s become clear that there needs to be a break,” he says. “Too much working. Too much going away. You just stop. As things have opened up for me, I call it. I say, ‘I’m sorry, you want to film then? I can’t do it.’”
On his own family drama: “I knew those scenes very well,” he says as he finishes his coffee. He’s talking about his own family drama, which involved his relationship with his dad, who sought him out when he was 20, after a 17-year absence. “It was a very bizarre experience, looking at someone you’ve never known and going, ‘Oh my God, that’s my father.’”
On future projects: A lot of what he’s reading is “not very good,” he says. “And these are films that are funded and ready to go?expensive movies. You’re amazed that people are funding them. I start to think it’s me?that I’m being too choosy.”
On the being an actor: “I got in a cab in Glasgow years ago,” he says. “And this quite surly cabdriver says to me, ‘You’re that actor, aren’t you? You get paid to lie, don’t you? That’s what actors are, aren’t they? Professional bullshitters.’ It had quite an effect on me. I fucking get paid to lie. . . . I walked out of there and I spent a bit of time thinking about it. And then I realized I think it’s the opposite: It’s an opportunity to tell the truth. I try to do that in everything I do. And whether you like a movie I’m in or not, I want you to believe me. More than admire me or think I was brilliantly skillful, I want you to believe me.”
The Boys Are Back director Scott Hicks on Clive: “I’ve walked with him through [London's] Soho, and occasionally someone will notice him, but he doesn’t turn on this high-wattage projection, and people respect that,” Hicks says. “I get the impression that he’s content with what he has. That’s a rare quality in the movie world, where no matter how much people have got, they want more.”
[From Details]
Sigh. I love this man. I?ve started to get a slight ?curmudgeon? vibe off Clive, but somehow that just makes him sexier. I love when he talks about his wife and his two daughters, but mostly I just love him, the man. I even learned something new about Clive - I didn?t realize he had been estranged from his father at all, let alone for such a long time. As far as the movie goes, it sounds a little weird, doesn?t it? Not really a family film, but too kid-oriented to be a straight drama? Well? I?ll probably still see it, because it?s Clive. I sat through that crapfest The International for my Clive, and this one can?t be worse. By the way, I just rented Duplicity two weekends ago, and I loved it. I would highly recommend it if anyone if looking for a good, sexy Clive movie. And Julia Roberts wasn?t even half-way annoying! Hurray!
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| | Clive Owen's daughters think he's a bad dresser | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Clive Owen and Julia Roberts are still promoting Duplicity. They?ve been promoting it for what feels like two months. It?s sort of reminiscent of Tom Cruise?s neverending Valkyrie press tour (which I think he?s still on, by the way). Duplicity comes out this weekend in America, and they just held the New York premiere Monday night. Clive Owen stopped and talked to OK! about the film and his life.
A lot of the quotes are the same kind of stuff he?s said before. Unfortunately, he doesn?t go into any more detail about his hot David Bowie obsession, or how Geroge Clooney is obsessed with him. Too bad. But Clive does reveal that his daughters think that he?s so utterly uncool. OK! has more:
Just because Clive Owen is a movie star doesn?t mean his family treats him like a king 24/7.
?Whenever I?ve done a movie and been away from home, I tend to take considerable downtime, and then we lead as normal of a life as we can,? the actor, 46, who has been married to wife Sarah-Jane Fenton since 1995, tells OK! at last night’s NYC premiere of his new film Duplicity, co-starring Julia Roberts ?I take the kids to school, Sarah-Jane and I hang out, go out in the evenings and do all the things you?d expect.?
His daughters, Hannah, 12, and Eve, 9, like to make sure dear ol? dad doesn?t let his ego get too big.
?They send me texts like ?Don?t wear the velvet jacket because it?s weird and embarrassing.? They make me too self-conscious now, like ?Oh, I?ve gotta go and get changed in the dark.??
Wait, they don?t think he?s rugged and cool?
?They definitely don?t think that, no. They know me better than that.?
Despite the ribbing he gets from his kids, Clive enjoys taking them to the movies.
?I?ve literally seen every kids? movie for the last eight years I think,? he says.
[From OK! Magazine]
It?s weird to think that Clive?s daughters wouldn?t think he?s well-dressed. He’s always well attired, as far as I?ve seen. But then again, I?ve never spied him in a velvet jacket, so maybe he does have some bad clothes in the old closet. Other than that, it just seems like normal kid stuff. His girls will get how cool their dad is when they?re older.
Here?s Clive (with Julia Roberts) atthe “Duplicity” premiere, held at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City, last night. Images thanks to Fame.com.
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| | Clive Owen on sex scenes: 'weird & uncomfortable' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Imagine filming a sex scene with Clive Owen. You just squealed, didn?t you? Clive and Julia Roberts have some sexy, naughty scenes in their new film Duplicity. Both have been hitting the publicity rounds pretty hard to sell the movie, so it?s surprising that we?re just now getting around to hearing Clive talk about the dirty stuff.
Clive talked to someone at the Los Angeles Times gossip blog ?The Dish Rag?. He claims that it?s a myth that actors get drunk together before shooting the naughty scenes, though I?ve heard many actors say that they needed a glass of wine or a shot of tequila before disrobing and grinding on camera. But not Clive! He does it the old-fashioned way: sober and British (he probably closes his eyes and ?thinks of England?). He calls these and any sex scenes ?weird and uncomfortable? but says that he gets through it by having a laugh. And now I?m imagining Clive naked and laughing. Mmm… LAT has more:
Clive Owen has some pretty hot sex scenes with Julia Roberts in “Duplicity.” Try complaining to your wife about that long hard day, huh?
“I’ve learned that you don’t go home after a scene and say uuuhhh, babe, honestly, I’ve had such a tough day. I’ve been in bed with Julia Roberts all day,” Clive tells The Dish Rag at the New York press junket.
And he insists (seriously) that sex scenes are no fun at all. “It’s always awkward and embarrassing doing sex scenes ? whatever anyone tells you,” Clive says. “There are 50 crew members standing in a room and it’s always weird and uncomfortable. The best way, through, is to have a laugh always.”
But Clive says it’s often easier if you’re already comfortable with your costar. “If you’re friends and you like each other and you trust each other, you can sort of just have a laugh and be in it together.”
Maybe all that “champagne” that Clive and Julia drank helped. “It’s movie champagne,” Clive explains. “It all looks real until you taste it and it’s like ginger ale. [laughing] We’ve got five pages of dialogue and we’ve got to do it 25 times; if we were drinking real champagne, we’d be half-cocked.”
Clive admits that his pre-movie workout routine is completely based on whether he has to take his shirt off in the film.
“You read a script that says, ‘He takes his shirt off….’ Let me tell you, you get down to the gym,” he says, laughing. Not that he lets himself turn to mush when he’s not working. “No, I don’t ever let myself go that badly. But it intensifies when you know that you’ve got to get your clothes off in a movie, for sure.”
We’re going to see “Duplicity” just to check out Clive’s shirtless scenes.
[From LA Times ?The Dish Rag?]
Does anyone else get hot and bothered imagining Clive say ?half-cocked?? I realize that a lot of people adore Julia, but I would need a drink if I was spending three months filming a movie with her. But I?d imagine anyone would grate on my nerves after that kind of time.
Both Julia and Clive are really selling Duplicity like it?s a standard romantic comedy, so I don?t know what to tell you. I swear, I?ve read some coverage about the film, and it really sounded like the film was a dialogue-heavy spy story. We?ll see.
Here?s Clive Owen at the Cinema Society screening of ‘The International’ on February 9th. Images thanks to WENN.
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| | Julia Roberts loves Clive Owen because he's not a Clooney-esque prankster | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Julia Roberts has long claimed that she was the victim of severe hazing during the filming of the Oceans movies, often at the hands of George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Neither Pitt nor Clooney has ever admitted what pranks were played, but Julia maintains that the boys did things to her toilet, light bulbs and phone. Sounds more like Clooney than Pitt, but what do I know?
Julia didn?t have to worry about those kinds of pranks while working with Clive Owen though. Yes, Julia is continuing her endless tour of talking about how great Clive is, how much fun they have together, and how well they get along. Funny, Clive never mentions how close he and Julia are. Maybe it?s all in her head. Julia talked (and talked) more about Clive in a new interview with People Magazine:
Julia Roberts says there’s an ocean of difference between working with Clive Owen and her other recent costars, George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
She didn’t have to watch her back.
“What a relief. I didn’t have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone,” she says of the on-set pranks by her Oceans Twelve pals. “It was just good old-fashioned friendship.”
And fun. Roberts, 41, returns to the big screen in the romantic caper Duplicity, in theaters March 20, reuniting with her Closer costar Owen. She says Owen, 46, makes her laugh constantly, which helped sparked instant chemistry onscreen.
“We have a similar sense of humor,” she says. “Our list of priorities in our personal lives are not different. We are both happily married with families and lead a pretty normal, unaffected existence within in this odd universe of show business that we’ve both chosen to go into.”
Roberts and Owen play spies turned corporate operatives in the midst of an on-again and off-again love affair trying to scheme and seduce each other using quick banter.
“I’m Southern so I can talk really fast,” says the Oscar-winning actress. “I grew up on Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, His Girl Friday movies ? that rat-a-tat-tat talking cadence and that rhythm. I love that kind of thing.”
One thing she doesn’t love as much, at least right now, is the thought of her three children ? twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 4, and son, Henry, 1, joining her and cameraman dad Danny Moder in show business.
“My first instinct is that if my children wanted to be artists, that they wait,” Roberts says. “I would prefer that they just wait as long as they can.”
From People Magazine
Julia is good at movies with a lot of dialogue, I will give her that. Clive is too, even though he usually plays the strong, silent type. Duplicity is being billed as a sort-of rom-com with a spy side-story, but I really think the film is more about spies than laughs. The producers have cut the trailers so it looks like it?s all romance and laughter, most likely in an attempt to tap into Julia?s hardcore fanbase of women who have seen Pretty Woman a million times. Just keep in mind - Tony Gilroy, the writer/director of Duplicity, is the same guy who did Michael Clayton.
Julia Roberts is shown on 3/6 and 3/7/09 outside her hotel. Other images are stills from Duplicity. Thanks to WENN.
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| | Clive Owen is too obsessed with David Bowie to meet him | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Clive Owen rarely gets into details about his life with wife Sarah-Jane Fenton and their two daughters. He sometimes makes a casual slip, like the USA Today interview where he claimed that his daughters were obsessed with Jennifer Aniston, or the Esquire interview where he talked a little about his marriage.
So it was surprising to read Clive?s recent interview with Irish Independent, where he talked in depth about how he and Sarah-Jane make it work. Spoiler alert: it doesn?t involve hot affairs with random gossip-blog readers. Damn! Clive gives a lot of credit to Sarah-Jane, saying that she has always given him the leeway to go and work and she gives him ?space and freedom?. He also mentions in passing his total obsession with David Bowie. More from Irish Independent:
[Clive Owen] met his wife Sarah-Jane Fenton in his early twenties when they played the title roles in a Rada production of Romeo and Juliet. When they had children 10 years later, Fenton put her career on hold to be a full-time mother, allowing Owen the freedom to pursue his own opportunities.
I ask him if there have been moments when, like Watts’ character in The International, he has been forced to tailor his career as family considerations come into play?
“Amazingly, no,” he answers. “I give all credit and thanks to my wife Sarah-Jane for that. She has always given me the freedom to go and do that. I can honestly say I’ve never chosen a film because where it’s shot is convenient. I’ve just been in Australia for three months. But it’s very tough — it’s tough for me; it’s tough for the kids.?
“But I make sure there’s a balance to it. I make sure that if I’m off doing a film that then there’s time off afterwards. But all that juggling is made very easy because Sarah-Jane is so cool and gives me the space and the freedom.?
“She has maybe once in my entire career at some point called and said: ‘You need to stop and take some time off. You’ve been away too much’. I listened to her straight away and did that straight away. But ultimately she is the one who keeps the family together and gives me the support and the freedom so I’ve never felt constricted or felt I have to choose or not do something because of family commitments.”
It’s rare for any relationship to work in the kind of circles Owen is now part of, let alone one that existed before one half of it became famous. Though Owen admits that he’s “a little obsessive” about his work, he doesn’t appear to go in for any of the trappings that go hand-in-hand with stardom, meaning that when he’s not working his family and marriage is the focus of all his attention.
“I think Sarah-Jane and I work at it, but ultimately I give most of the credit to her. She keeps it all together. I feel I have everything. I have a very solid, lovely family life and I go off and I make movies and completely fulfill that part of my life too. I never take that for granted. I appreciate that and understand what a gift it is, but most of the credit is hers. I picked a good one.”
Sarah-Jane and their two daughters, Hannah, 12, and Eve, nine, came out to visit him during the school holidays. Owen is an avid Liverpool fan, insisting on having sports channels piped into his trailer wherever in the world he’s filming. He admits being “very intimidated” by singer David Bowie and Liverpool footballer Steven Gerrard. “I can meet any actor but not those two.”
As a treat, his daughters wore Liverpool shirts when they came to meet him but aside from that touching gesture he claims they see their dad as a figure of fun. “They always laugh at me. They don’t take me seriously in the slightest. They think I’m a joke.”
[Clive] would make a good Bond… he [appears] on every ‘best dressed’ and ’sexiest man alive’ lists whenever they’re compiled. What does he think of such praise? “My 12-year-old girl had one of her friends go up to her with some magazine and go ‘Ugghhh. Your Dad’s on this list. It’s so weird’. I pretty much feel the same.”
From Irish Independent
As far as the David Bowie stuff goes, I?ve known a couple of David Bowie fanatics in my life, and they put all other celebrity-fans to shame. I?ve seen completely heterosexual men lovingly apply a full face of make-up to attend a Bowie concert. I?ve seen girls try to pretend they?ve got it going on like Iman. Not happening, Bowie-loonies.
Clive Owen is shown on 2/17/09 at the Jameson International Film Festival. Thanks to WENN for these photos
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| | S.S. Dirty Hot Clive Owen | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Okay, here’s another one for you ladies. I think Clive Owen is hot in that gruff, brooding-forehead, creased-faced, drowsy, low-timbered voice, chainsmoking, foul-mouthed kind of way. Oo yeah. I think I first really took notice of him in Sin City, then subjected myself to Closer just to see him. Wow, he was hot in that.
Here he is at BBC Radio One Studios in London, promoting his new film, “The International”.
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| | Clive Owen is 'perfectly willing' to use stunt people | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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US Weekly has a little interview with Clive Owen to promote his new film The International. Clive has already given a hand-full of interviews in Berlin, where the film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival opening night.
The US Weeklypiece makes sure to mention the smoldering star?s wife (boo!) and his daughters (aw!), as well as Julia Roberts. Because even though Clive is promoting a film where his leading lady is Naomi Watts, they still have to ask about Julia Roberts. I guess because he?s contractually obligated to discuss how the world revolves around her? Whatever. I would buy a magazine with only pictures of Clive Owen in various poses.
Hollywood luckiest leading man? This year Clive Owen is starring with two of the town?s hottest actresses. First, the British actor, 44, portrays an Interpol agent taking down a corrupt world bank in The International (out February 13), alongside Naomi Watts. Next, the father of two (he?s been married to Sarah-Jane Fenton for 13 years) reunites with Julia Roberts in the thriller Duplicity (out March 20). He opens up to US about his star stints.
US: The International is action-packed. Did you do many of your own stunts?
Clive: I always do as much as I can, but I?m perfectly willing for somebody else to step in. If it?s getting to a dangerous level, I will go, ?That?s what this man is getting paid for.?
US: What was is like to film in so many locations, including Turkey and Italy?
Clive: Amazing. The end of the movie was filmed on the roof of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. We filmed me tearing through it all with a gun and real people were everywhere. It was shocking.
US: How do you balance work and being a father?
Clive: I?ve been lucky. Last year, I got to spend the summer home with the girls [Hannah, age 11 and Eve, age 9] before they went back to school, and then I did a film. We had proper family time together.
US: How was it working with Julia again?
Clive: It was such a treat. We had such a good time on Closer. It might not look that way, but we actually did.
[From print edition of US Weekly, February 16, 2009]
Here?s some additional Clive Owen news: he will be appearing on The View this coming Friday (the 13th). Those ladies are going to have heart attacks, I promise. He?ll probably be all over American television, promoting his film, but I just wanted to make special mention of The View, because it really will be funny seeing those women got all hot and bothered in the presence of Clive.
Clive Owen, his wife Sarah Jane, and his Ulrich Thomsen, co-star Ulrich Thomsen, and director Tom Tykwer are shown on 2/5/09 in Berlin. Credit: Fame and WENN
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| | Clive Owen smolders at Berlin premiere | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The Clive Owen film The International just premiered in Berlin, and the man is just smoldering. I keep hoping for a huge media blitz for Clive, one in which he gives many heart-wrenching interviews about how he?s searching for his one true love, a gossip blogger named Kaiser. Unfortunately, Clive has just given a hand full of interviews, staying on-topic about his film. Good thing the man can wear the hell out of a suit, or I would be done with him. Who am I kidding? I just can?t quit Clive.
“The International,” starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, was contrived years before the banking crisis hit, but German director Tom Tykwer said that what has happened on the markets did not come as a complete surprise.
“Back then many people said, is it actually feasible that a private bank is the villain in a movie?” he told Reuters.
“But we instinctively … said this is a reality we have to formulate because this represents a system that is about to torpedo itself,” said the maker of the critically acclaimed “Run Lola Run.” “And the fact this is actually happening now is a grotesque coincidence.”
The International, shown to the press earlier on Thursday, opens the 2009 Berlin film festival with a red carpet gala event. It kicks off 11 days of screenings, parties and deal making at Europe’s first big festival of the year.
Owen plays Interpol agent Louis Salinger, who sacrifices everything to bring down a major multinational bank which is selling arms to anyone willing to buy them and prepared to stop at nothing to protect its own interests.
For Owen, the attraction of playing the doggedly determined Salinger was his moral strength.
“He has got weaknesses, his private life is a mess, the pursuit of this bank is at the cost of everything else in his life, but at the center of him is this morality,” Owen told Reuters in an interview to publicize the film.
From Reuters
Did you see that? When he said ?He has got weaknesses, his private life is a mess…?, Clive was on the verge of declaring his love, I know it. Even though The International is getting great reviews, some are speculating that people won?t want to see a movie about massive financial fraud during a recession. When faced with difficult times, apparently people want to watch dog movies or something, although I spent last weekend watching Schindler?s List again, so what do I know?
Clive Owen is shown with co-stars Armin Mueller Stahl and Ulrich Thompson, and director Tom Tykwer at the Berlinale on 2/5/09. Credit: AllStarPhotos/DPA/Newscom and WENN.
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