Harden and Quinn join "If I Were You"
Posted: 2010-01-20
The cast has come together for a new indie film that just started shooting in Toronto. According to
The Hollywood Reporter, Marcia Gay Harden, Aidan Quinn and Leonor Watling have come aboard If I
Were You. The film, directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin, began principal photography today and also stars
Joseph Kell, Michael Therriault, Elizabeth Whitmere, Claire Brosseau and Bethany Jillard. The film
centers on Harden and Watling's characters, two women who form an unlikely bond to repair their
lives. It was said the film will shoot for five weeks in Toronto. No release plans were revealed.
Harden on Dreams, Nightmares, and Why There’s No One at the Movies
Posted: 2010-01-15
Pop Matters
has interviewed Marcia on her charity work and career while appearing at an event to read a
children’s book to a group of Brooklyn schoolchildren. The book, The Dream Picker of Perrysport,
was collaboratively written by children aboard Carnival Cruise Line ships. Harden was reading
at on the occasion of the grand unveiling of a 15-foot-tall, 20-foot-wide edition of the book,
which served jointly as the unveiling of Carnival Dream, a new family-oriented ship. Carnival
has also entered into a multi-year relationship with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
around the Dream, with a goal of raising $3 million to aid in children’s cancer research. The
full article can be read
here.
"I went to a movie the other day, and there was just no one there. Maybe it’s DVD. If you can
get it in your home, why come out? You have to get the babysitter and everything. It seems
to me the disconnect is that people think, "Why would I want to go and sit around with a bunch
of other people to watch a movie?" The community aspect is what’s becoming eclipsed by instant
access. The audience thinks, "Why should I go to a movie theatre? Why should I rent a DVD and
watch it on a TV with my friends? Let me just download it on my iPod, and watch it in my
cubicle. Let me sit in my cubicle and be plugged up." It’s such a Woody Allen nightmare
image. And I see that, and I think, "I want to go to a theater and have a movie wash over
me." It used to be that was the point of going to see a film, and that’s really being lost".
