why didnt the chose a 20 yeas old female actor who look 15 to play Lolit
she was only 17 weird they choose her
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Miss. Swain was actually 14 when the movie was filmed. The book covers a five year period beginning when Lo is 12 and ends when she is just shy of 18 with most of the events taking place when she was 14.
It would have been pretty hard to find a young actress who could pass for 12, 14, and 18 but as I said, most of the events in both the film and the book occur at 14 so 14 year-old Swain was the right age.
what??? she was 14 when this was filmed? then isn't it illegal for jeremy irons to make out with her? or is it ok if she signed legal papers or something? this make me uncomfortable :/ troughout the movie i honestly thought she's an 18+ woman who played a child.
shareWell, Jeremy Irons isn't making out with her for real- they are acting. They were on a set surrounded by crew members as well as Dominique Swain's parents.
Also, a pillow was placed between Irons and Swain while she was sitting in his lap.
I do know that there were many scenes that were shot and then cut from the final film at the studio lawyer's insistence because he thought they could possible result in legal problems if left in. This was due to a newly passed law which prohibited images of minors engaged in sexual conduct with adults. It was aimed to cut down on internet child porn (which was real-life sexual abuse and exploitation) but no one was really sure how this law would apply to child actors in major motion pictures.
Don't forget Lolita is supposed to be disturbing. The whole message of the film is how destructive the relationship between Humbert and Lo truly was.
Have you ever seen pretty baby? What Brooke Shields was allowed to do in that film at the age of 12 is REALLY disturbing.
never thought of it that way, you're right; it IS supposed to be disturbing. no i haven't seen pretty baby, is the story good? i actually enjoyed Lolita, aside from the disturbing scenes i really like the movie overall.
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The character was supposed to be 14, but Dominique Swain was 17, not 14.
shareMiss. Swain was actually 14 when the movie was filmed
Where did you get that from? She was 17 when the movie was filmed. I remember reading her interview when she first got cast, she said she was 17, plus, this movie came out in 1997, she was born in 1980. It did not take three years for this movie to be filmed and distributed.
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This movie was made in 1995. Casting took place around late-1994 so Swain was 14-15 when this was filmed.
A lot of movies do not get released until a year after production. This movie took almost 3 years to find a distributor willing to take a chance at it. In fact, this movie was supposed to have a THEATER release, but no one was willing to do it due to its content.
SHO finally picked it up, but not after many years (and heartache for Adrian Lyne). They only showed this in very limited release special "art-house" film theaters and to a few private universities. Lyne had no choice but to do the "university-circuit" to promote this film. I found out about this movie because Columbia University was screening it ahead of the SHO release.
I think only 1 university showed this in way back in 1996, and that was Harvard's theater arts program/school. The earlier screenings had some additional scenes that they had to edit out for fear of an NC-17 rating.
Imagine those never-before seen footage! :)
It did not take many years for the movie to get released in this case. When I read about this coming out, Dominic Swain had just got cast and she she was 17.
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