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 I just came across this gorgeous Pippa Lee cast photoshoot from Elle and had to post it right away, alongside it’s accompanying short article/review. The photo is small but it’s a rare treat to see this photoshoot shot of Maria with Rebecca Miller, Robin Wright and Blake Lively!
EDIT: I’ve found a scan of the magazine! Click the thumbnail below to view it.
Movie Release: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Rebecca Miller and a trio of whip-smart bombshells have redefined the chick flick
November 11, 2009
 Touching, tartly comic, and deliciously self-assured, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a triumph for writer and director Rebecca Miller as well as for her dazzling cast, led by Robin Wright Penn. The story of an obedient trophy wife on the verge of the kind of messy breakdown that can be a lifechanging liberation, the movie suggests that an outlaw streak lurks in even the most repressive feminine psyche. Based on Miller’s own very good novel, this is a classic in the making: A deeply felt yet witty update of the films Hollywood used to create for its female stars but has all but forgotten how, it’s full of breakthrough performances, including a sexy, wounded Keanu Reeves; Blake Lively as a bohemian Pippa, in vivid flashbacks, running both shy and wild in her youth; and Maria Bello as her fabulously unhinged, Dexedrineaddicted suburban mom.
“I had to fight for this,” Lively says. “I read the script, and I was head over heels. Being female in this business, you’re lucky to have a role where you’re not dancing around in a bikini, throwing a bottle of water on yourself.” As for Wright Penn, “Instead of doing exposition, I got to be quiet and just let it emerge,” she says, “the unveiling of Pippa’s true self.” Rewarding Miller for giving her the role she has long deserved, Wright Penn makes her character the movie’s luminous center. “Filmmaking is so much about technology, about shots, about lighting,” Miller says, “everything but the moment of truth for an actor, which really is the only thing we have. That’s our currency, our goal, the nugget that we sometimes forget about.”
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Just a quick reminder that The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee and Downloading Nancy are now both available to buy on DVD in the US.
- Buy Downloading Nancy from Amazon.com
- Buy The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee from Amazon.com
Pippa Lee was released on DVD in the UK back in November of last year. No word on a release for Downloading Nancy yet though.
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The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee is released in US cinemas today! It seems to be a very limited release though, and you can see the cinemas it is showing at here. If you do get a chance to see it then go, and let us know what you thought of the film and Maria’s performance!
Here are a couple of review tidbits I’ve just come across:
“Maria Bello once again pushes the envelope as Pippa Lee’s emotionally volatile, pill-popping mother, whose mood swings eventually force the teenage Pippa Lee to flee to a lesbian aunt in Manhattan.” – nypost.com
“But the best performance, next to the nuanced and evocative portrait painted by Wright, is that of Maria Bello. She plays young Pippa’s charismatic but deeply diet-pill-addicted mother. It’s a particularly fearless performance.” – usatoday.com
Remember that the DVD is already out here in the UK, so European fans can enjoy it from the comfort of their own homes. I’ll be adding screencaps very soon.
Stay tuned for more updates here at Maria-Bello.org this weekend!
     
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Well this will be a rare treat for us Maria fans! Ms Bello will be on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson next Tuesday (November 24th). This is presumably to promote Pippa Lee, which is released in North America next Friday.
I’ll be on the lookout for a video of this the day after, so stay tuned for coverage then…
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From Blake’s new interview with Marie Claire (US):
On her first day on set with Maria Bello: “I was honestly terrified. I hadn’t slept that much, and all I wanted that day was for Maria to say, ‘Wow, great job.’ And when she didn’t say anything to me, I thought, Oh, my gosh, I’m terrible. She hates it. She’s calling her agent, saying, ‘What have you gotten me into?’ But once we finished filming, she was so complimentary and sweet. The way Maria worked was very method, and then [costar] Julianne Moore was the complete opposite — between takes, she was a nice, normal mom talking about her kid’s baseball games.”
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LET us now praise famous women. Rebecca Miller is the daughter of Magnum photographer Inge Morath and playwright Arthur Miller. She is married to the actor Daniel Day-Lewis. She has been a painter and an actress; she has now written and directed a movie based on her own novel but, of course, it can’t be any good. Children of famous people rarely have any talent of their own, right?
Well, not exactly. Rebecca Miller confirms with her fourth feature that she’s one of the more intelligent and sensitive writer-directors working in American movies. Who cares who her father is, or who she married? It’s verging on insulting to even mention it, except that it may help a little to interpret this movie.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is so grown-up, it’s scary. It’s the kind of movie that is almost extinct – an intelligent, emotional drama that’s confronting, surprising, elegant and still funny. It has given Robin Wright Penn one of the best roles of her career and she’s not the only one. Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello, Alan Arkin and Winona Ryder all have small but memorable roles. A movie with a cast this good is rare; even rarer that all of them have something interesting to play. I don’t wish to over-praise it. It’s a quiet movie about a woman going a bit crazy. What plot there is happens mostly in Pippa Lee’s head. It’s a little static and mannered but I didn’t mind. Wright Penn so dominates the film that I was content. I loved having this access to a woman’s thoughts and fears.
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The US release date for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee has been pushed back again, and now has a date of November 27th 2009.
The official US site has been updated with a synopsis, a few stills and press details. Videos and Reviews are coming soon, it says.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee will receive a Gala Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 15th. No word on whether Maria will attend, but here’s hoping!
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I’ve added more photos from a photoshoot Maria did for The Mummy last year, and she looks gorgeous in these new additions! Thanks so much to 
