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Las admin de tibette.com hicieron anoche una entrevista a Jennifer Beals por Teléfono. En cuanto puedan la publicarán en su web y nosotros la traeremos aquí, debidamente traducida

BetteandTinaforever ha informado que también habló por teléfono con Jennifer Beals y le hizo una entrevista. Esta aparecerá publicada en l-word.com. Supongo que forma parte de la promoción de The book of Eli, y Jennifer ha querido contentar, y premiar por su apoyo, a las principales webs de fans de TLW.

B&TF ha adelantado algunos puntos de lo que hablaron en la entrevista:

- Le gustó mucho trabajar en The book of Eli, sobre todo por los directores, que eran muy abiertos y escuchaban todas las opiniones. También le gusta su personaje.

- El libro de The L word saldrá el 1 de Febrero.

- Cualquier facebook, twitter o red social que diga que es ella, es falso, no tiene ninguna de estas cosas.

- Ama a las fans de lword, y cree que son geniales.

Entrevista a Jennifer Beals en Shewired.com.

http://www.shewired.com/Article.cfm?ArticlePage=1&ID=24240

B&TF ya ha subido a l-word.com su entrevista con Jennifer Beals.

Parte 1:

Book of Eli and The L Word Book

Parte 2:

Charities, The L Word, Running, OurChart, and More

Gracias por ponerla K_S!!

Segunda parte de la entrevista a Jennifer Beals en SheWired.com.

http://www.shewired.com/Article.cfm?ArticlePage=1&ID=24243

gracias por todo el trabajo K_S

Saludos a todas las foreras y me presento Piluca.Alguien seria tan amable de traducir la entrevista que la revista First le ha hecho a Jennifer Beals.

Bienvenida Piluca,

La entrevista de la revista FIRST FOR WOMEN que dices está en tibette.com.

En cuanto podamos se traducirá.

Entrevista telefónica de Tibette.com a Jennifer Beals.

http://www.tibette.com/jennifer_interview.html



Jennifer Beals interview

In anticipation of the release of Jennifer’s Lword book,
we had an insightful telephone interview with Jennifer . The book will
be released online on February 1st 2010 and proceeds of the book and
prints will go to three different charities: the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Mia Kirshner's I Live Here project and The Pablove Foundation.
When we talked to Jennifer we had the chance to ask her about the
working process behind the book, her new movie The Book of Eli which
will be released on January 15th and new projects she might be working
on in 2010.



tibette.com:
Can you tell us about the working process of the book – did you get to
choose the photos on your own or the rest of the cast helped you choose?

Jennifer:
I did a first pass at everything, and it was an enormous selection.
Then I went to the cast one by one or everybody that I could sit down
with. Some people I wasn’t able to sit down with but almost everybody,
I was able to. Those people that I wasn’t able to sit down with, I sent
them their photos to go through and edit what they didn’t want to have
shown or to tell me what they liked so it was sort of a combination. I
did a first pass and then everybody else went through their stuff and
told me what they felt comfortable with and what they didn’t feel
comfortable with, that’s kind of how it went. And then the designers
looked at it and decided what would work with the book. So it was sort
of a group effort.

tibette.com: Do you have a date for the book, we heard it’s going to be next week – is that correct?

Jennifer:
Next week? Gosh, wouldn’t that be lovely! It’s going to be February
1st. We’re going through the proofs right now and doing test runs to
make sure, because I really want to make sure that when the book goes
up that everything runs smoothly, so we’ve been in the mix of doing
some test runs to make sure that when people upload their own
photographs into the book, that that goes smoothly and people would be
able to put their own dedication on the book if they choose. I want to
make sure that goes smoothly so it’s all about getting the technical
aspect up and running because the book is ready. The text and the
photos and everything is ready but it’s just a matter of making sure
that, you know, somebody from China uploading their photograph is going
to get the correct book.

tibette.com: Why did you choose to sell the book online rather than a more conventional way of selling the book in a bookstore?

Jennifer:
I did get a very lovely offer from a great company to publish the book
but they wanted to give me such a small royalty and because the book is
a charity project, it’s not a vanity project, I just thought I want the
charities to see more money, that’s all. Kodak had approached me quite
a while back to do a project with them so I contacted the
representatives at Kodak and I said that I was thinking about doing
this book in a different way – what do you suggest and how can we work
together. They suggested this process of people being able to upload
their own photographs and they introduced me to a company called
ColorCentric who’s very experienced at doing this, as experienced as
anyone can be in the 21th century with these things. It’s been a really
great partnership so far. We’ll see what happens, it’s just a complete
experiment . Frankly I appreciate that the publishers need to charge
that much and not to give away their profits because they have so much
overhead. So I don’t think they’re being greedy by any stretch of the
imagination, I think they’re just trying to conduct their business and
trying to stay afloat but I just realized that with online publishing,
you do have the opportunity to create more revenue for whomever and in
this case, it’s the charity. Stuff like that is really helpful and it’s
interesting – it’s a brave new world, it’ll be fun! I thought it would
be fun but really its mind boggling, like I thought it would be so
simple and it really, really isn’t.

tibette.com:
I think it’s a great idea because we have the opportunity to actually
upload our pictures and it’ll be kind of our own book – we’re going to
be a part of it.

Jennifer: Yeah, see that’s
what I realized when I went to the convention – gosh it’s been a while
now, back maybe a couple of years ago – you know you realized very
clearly that it’s a communal show. The show doesn’t just belong to me
or the cast or the crew or Showtime or Ilene – it belongs to everybody
so I thought it was important to have those people who supported the
show, kind of made the show what it is, be part of the archive of the
show.

tibette.com: It’s going to be really special for all of us.

Jennifer:
I think it’ll be fun! People will get a kick out of it, you know, it’s
images that you’ve never seen and really the book is pretty much about
the cast and sort of what we went through behind the scenes and it’s
all pictures of people on the set or at dinners or at their house, you
know, with their families or pets or whatever. Pets take up a big part
of the book. (laughs). It’s not like some great tome, it’s not "War and
Peace" and it’s not some kind of “tell-all” but it does give you a
glimpse into what our day-to-day life was working on the show in
Vancouver.

tibette.com: How many pictures does it have?

Jennifer:
Well, there’s over 220 pages right now so I can’t really tell you how
much pictures I have in there but in addition to the pictures, what I
did was, when I was showing the cast members the images, I also
interviewed them to a certain degree and let them have their responses
to their photographs on tape so then I transcribed those interviews and
those are in the book as well. So you have people talking about the
photographs and what they’re doing in the photographs and their
relationship to so and so – you know perceptions and misperceptions
that we had of each cast member. You kind of get a sense of how these
separate individuals grew to be a family, basically.

tibette.com: Do you have a favourite photograph from the book?



Jennifer:
There’s two that come to my mind. There’s one of Leisha jumping through
all the clothes at the Vanity Fair shoot and then I also have a picture
of Laurel when she was very very pregnant, she was about to give birth
in a couple of days,
I really really love that one too but there
are several and I love them for different reasons. Some of them that I
really loved aren’t necessarily great photographs but they remind me of
something. They have a meaning to me and the rest of the cast and
hopefully, the fans will be able to see and understand.


tibette.com: We love your B&W work and just wondering, what makes
you choose to photograph something in black and white over colour?

Jennifer: Well, I have learned to process black and white. I don’t know
how to process colour on my own. If I went to a lab, I wouldn’t know
how to process colour but I know black and white so I understand it a
little bit more but I wanted to play with colour so I shot some in
colour just for fun just to see what it would be like. It’s always a
process, right? You never know what’s going to happen. You know, you do
your best and then the rest is a surprise and that’s also what I like
about film, there aren’t any real surprises on digital and I like the
surprise that film has. You’re pushing something to stop, you don’t
really know what it’s going to look like. You have a sense but you
don’t really know exactly what it’s going to be and so it’s fun, I like
the surprise of it.


tibette.com: When did you start taking photos seriously as you do now? Did you take any course ?

Jennifer: I probably started in high school, it was always around
boyfriends. At first I just started photographing – my boyfriend had a
darkroom so wasn’t it great to be in the dark room with my boyfriend?
(laughs) So that was always exciting and yeah. His mother couldn’t open
the door. (laughs) And then I had a boyfriend again in college, I’d
never taken a class and my boyfriend took a class with some really
wonderful professors at Yale, and I wasn’t sure if I could cut it in
the class because there was a certain amount of being unsure of myself.
So I took a portrait of him and I said can you submit this in your
class as self-portrait?. Every week the students put up their work on
the wall and they would have a critique, the professor would critique
the work. I said, could you put this up on the wall and say it’s a
self-portrait and just tell me what they say. He said the professor
really liked the photograph blah blah blah and then at the end of the
year, the professor picks two photos of each student to put in the
final show and the professor picked the picture I had taken to
represent my boyfriend's work. I was thrilled because I thought, oh ok,
alright so I can take a class and I won’t be...torn apart. So then I
started taking photography when I was at Yale and I didn’t really start
studying until I was at Yale.

tibette.com: You have friends who are professional photographers,
do they give you any tips?

Jennifer: Oh sure, I always ask them about one thing or another. But I
haven’t been photographing that much lately. I’ve been so busy with
acting and it has to be a particular moment, for me anyway, to be able
to bring a camera onto a set. I can’t always do it because I do need
all of my faculties for the acting most of the time. I’m not like Jeff
Bridges who can just seem to go in and out of character very easily and
pick up his camera and be so facile with it on set. Really, he’s a
remarkable genius actually so I’m envious of him in that way because I
can’t always do it. Most of the pictures taken on the set are more of a
snapshot, not all of them are very considered, there’s only a handful
that are truly considered.

tibette.com: You seem to like photographing people, if you had the chance to photograph anyone , who would it be and why?

Jennifer:
It’s not like I want to photograph a specific person... when I was very
young, I was interested in very close portraits, I was very interested
in the person’s face, just the face and now I’m more interested in how
the person is in space and how the environment informs the person and
how the person informs the environment and I think as I get older I’m
also more interested in landscapes, which is why Alexandra Hedison’s
work really affects me. What’s really cool is that before she put up
the show, she came to work one day with 8x10’s of her work and some of
them were just Xerox copies and in her trailer she put them all up and
she numbered them and she asked everybody to go and number which ones
they liked and which ones they didn’t like and why and we all did it
anonymously. While she was working on the L Word, she was editing the
show and she enlisted everybody’s help and opinion which I thought was
really lovely and brave.

tibette.com: In general, what is the one lasting impression you want to leave with your photos?

Jennifer:
Gosh, in general – I don’t know. It’s really documenting where I was at
a certain time and I don’t think I have any kind of agenda in that way.
To me, it’s just about partially remembering but not in a sentimental
or nostalgic way but it’s kind of putting things back together and
re-figuring things and sort of figuring things out in a way that a
journal would. Sometimes there are certain things that I’m just so in
love with, like I’m just so in love with the way something looks that
by photographing it I’m part of it. In a way, I become part of it and
it’s exciting. If you love a character, you get to be part of that
character, if you love a story and you get to be part of that story. I
think sometimes with photography, I get so excited that it makes me
very excited to be in the world. A very simple thing like seeing a
pattern of fabric on a chair, sometimes it gets me really excited in a
way like a light will hit it and when you look at the detail like that
– it just makes me excited to be in the world, anything to make you
happy to be alive is a good thing.
tibette.com: You seem to be very observant…

Jennifer: I tend to be a lot more when I have a camera in my hand. It
slows me down quite a bit which is a good thing, for me to slow down,
so it’s very helpful.


tibette.com: Let’s talk about another book, The Book Of Eli. What can you tell us about Claudia, your character and how did you prepare for this role?

Jennifer:
First of all we’re talking about a post-apocalyptic landscape. The
character is blind, she’s been blind since birth and the fact that she
is still alive is a testimony to her resourcefulness. She has a young
daughter under 20 who she has cared for and the fact that they are both
alive is extraordinary. She is the paramour/queen to Gary Oldman’s king
and she is trying to hold onto hope in this time of real desperation
and she thinks there is no more hope. The only hope she has is her
daughter and then Denzel’s character Eli comes through town and things
start to change.
In terms of preparation there were little things
that I tried to do, there is this necklace that my character wears in
the film that I made myself, out of things that she would have found
and each thing on the necklace represents a memorable event in her
life, so as to not forget. Her life has been so incredibly painful that
it would be very easy to forget everything and that would perhaps be a
way that you would survive, but she doesn’t want to forget. For her, to
forget everything means you are no longer human, really. But I had a
great time working on the film, one of my favourite experiences that I
have ever had on a show or a film or anything else, it was so
wonderful. I mean, it’s huge, I could go from the l word to this huge
testosterone driven movie, but at the helm of this big testosterone
action movie, that has a big heart, actually, are the Hughes Brothers.
They are two wonderful men, who are biracial twins and Allen Hughes
told me that he had heard a lot about my show and I said, oh how’s that
and he said well, my mom’s gay, she’s a lesbian. So, they were two
biracial boys raised by a lesbian mom and I was like: ‘I gotta meet
your mother! When is she gonna visit the set?’ She raised them to be
pretty great men, artists.
We filmed in New Mexico, in the high desert with basically no oxygen in
the air and when you’re running you feel like you are dying but when
you get back to a regular altitude you feel like a super hero. Working
with Denzel was really fun and easy and Gary Oldman was amazing, he is
so dedicated to acting and so much fun to be around, very inspiring.
Mila Kunis was great too.

tibette.com: We heard that you and Mila wrote a song for Gary, is that true?

Jennifer:
Where did you hear that!?! Yes, we did, I wish I could remember it…
“Gary is not scary, on the contrary....”, he’s something...
I can’t
remember. I made it up, I’m always making up dumb songs and I had to,
because he should have his own variety show, he’s so funny. I probably
wrote it down somewhere, I can’t remember what the tune was. He’d be
sitting in hair and make-up and he would make us all laugh. Certainly
he is scary when he is in character but as soon as he is out of
it...you know we’re sitting singing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang songs
between takes. He’s really amazing, I’ve never seen anybody so intent
on not giving up until he has solved the problem, the acting problem
and doing it with such joy. I’ve never met an actor quite like that,
he’s a very interesting man.

tibette.com: Are we going to see you in more episodes of Lie To Me?

Jennifer:
I shot a couple of episodes but I don’t know when they are going to
air, you know how the networks are. We could be shooting things in
December that air in June...

tibette.com: Do you have any other projects that you might be able to share with us?

Jennifer: I have a film coming up called A Night For Dying Tigers that I’m going to shoot soon, that’s the next project.

That
was all the time we had with Jennifer, we thanked her for taking the
time to talk to us and Jennifer left with a message to all of us:
"Thank you so much to all the tibetters, I’m very, very appreciative !!
"

2010 tibette.com

Entrevista a Jennifer en Examiner.com:

Jennifer Beals plays blind in 'The Book of Eli' and looks back on 'The L Word'

Habla de The Book of Eli, The L Word, Lie To Me y de sus proximos proyectos.

Lo mas destacado de la entrevista:

- ¿Qué es lo siguiente para ti?

Trabajo ahora mismo en una película llamada "A Night for Dying Tigers". Es sobre una familia única y disfuncional. Interpreto a la cuñada, que tiene parte de locura, pero sin los rasgos hereditarios.

Es difícil hablar sobre ella por que acabamos de comenzar... Lauren Lee Smith está en ella, que estuvo en "The L Word" y ella hizo en realidad una película llamada "Lie With Me".

gracias por la entrevista K_S

Gracias por la entrevista K_S!!

Interesante ver a JB y a Lauren juntas!