why is claire danes in it?


how come shes in an aussie film?

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her ex boy friend (ben lee) is australian

I spent my whole life wanting to like Joey from Dawsons Creek, to bad i turned out like Jen.

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I'm pretty sure Claire is Australian too....


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no shes from new york.




I spent my whole life wanting to like Joey from Dawsons Creek, to bad i turned out like Jen.

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Romeo + Juliet is an Australian film also, though with mainly American actors.

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Romeo and Juliet was filmed in Mexico.

And she's in the film, as someone said, because Ben Lee and her were together.

It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there!
Dodgeball

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So does that make Romeo + Juliet a Mexican film?

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Nah. It's a "Verona" film.

It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there!
Dodgeball

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it's an american film made by an australian director, filmed in mexico.

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How did Ben Lee get Claire Danes? 0_o He's incredibly average-looking.

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It's funny how people think looks are the basis of relationships.

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Simply because they were boyfriend and girlfriend at one point.

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was she in it a lot or just a bit.



I spent my whole life wanting to like Joey from Dawsons Creek, to bad i turned out like Jen.

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she was in it for like 10 seconds when she said one line to ben and then walked off.. i didnt see the point, were they broken up at that point? or still dating?

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Still together. It probably wasn't supposed to have a "point"; it was just a cameo.

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Yeah, cameos don't really have points. But yes it was because they were dating. She was probably there on set/location as he was filming and so they thought they'd give her something to do.

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ya like Sarah Michelle Gellar in shes all that.




I spent my whole life wanting to like Joey from Dawsons Creek, to bad i turned out like Jen.

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I believe a film's nationality is determined by the HQ of the company that produce's it. Just because Baz Luhrman directed it doesn't make it an Australian film. I can't recall any Australian actors in it and it was probably an American production company shooting in Mexico to keep costs down, especially as Luhrman would have planned an expensive shoot. Clare Danes is not Aussie either, Ben Lee should have held on, he'd done well for himself. BTW I'm an Aussie and would be proud to claim Clare Danes as an honourary Aussie through marriage, but I never claimed Tom Cruise, the Yanks can keep him

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you are kidding me??? claire danes is an airhead who vilified a whole nation in philipinnes....

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Actually, she said the same thing I think most people would at least think. I'm also pretty sure Claire Danes knows how to correctly spell the country, too. This is Claire Danes' opinion on the Philippines.




"The place just *beep* smelled of cockroaches. There's no sewage system in Manila, and people have nothing there. People with, like, no arms, no legs, no eyes, no teeth. We shot in a real [psychiatric] hospital, so takes would be interrupted by wailing women -- like 'Cut! Screaming person.' Rats were everywhere."

"I had all these defenses up throughout filming, but in the last week I just started to crumble. I was on the phone to Ben at four in the morning and I saw a cockroach on the wall. Then I saw another one crawling toward me, and I just started screaming like a maniac. I was afraid to move. And Ben was like, 'Just turn on the lights.' Finally, after half an hour of discussing the situation, I went screaming into the bedroom and turned on every light and ran back panting, 'I did it, I did it.' I was so afraid. I was going to have to hotel staff turn the lights on for me, but I braved it. I didn't sleep the entire night."

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Regarding the Philippines comment by Ms. Danes, my wife and I hosted an exchange student from there. The girl's father is an architect, and their home has wet-cell batteries (NOT rechargable like auto batteries) to run the lights when (not if) the electricity goes out. As an architect, his home has that luxury.
Even in the USA, it is not that long ago that electric toasters were (legally) considered a luxury item. And not that long ago, repo'ed houses were stripped of items like garbage disposals and dishwashers before a "welfare" family was placed in them, (pre-removing "luxury items"). Once the general public found out, the accountants at the GSA ran the numbers, and discovered it cost a lot to remove those items, and the practice was discontinued, (before the big foreclosure crisis).

Obviously unknown to Ms. Danes, (and most/many Americans) is the simple fact that every now and again a typhoon comes through the islands and quite literally sweeps the place clear of any modern conveniences like electricity, phones, running water, and/or sewer system. They have to occupy much more of their time and limited wealth (as a country) rebuilding all that. (What the storms don't literally sweep out to sea, (utility poles, transformers, wires, etc.) is grabbed up by the scavengers who are just trying to survive.) Just look at how little of the city of New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) has had all of that rebuilt to pre-hurricane Katrina conditions, in how many years now?
And on top of all that, when the volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupted, the volcanic ash it produced compromised the major US Air Force base there (ash damages aircraft and engines), and that air base was there to protect the US Navy base. Both of those were large employers, and both were relocated. As much as the American servicemen were "corrupting" the country, they still spent a lot of money while the bases were there. Absent that source of income for many years now, I'm pretty sure things have gotten worse.

Furthermore, even a world-class city like Rio de Janerio, Brazil, has multi-million dollar residences merely a couple football field lengths from residences without water, sewer, phone, and many without electricity.

As far as even the USA goes, there are places I have personally seen in the near vicinity of the Capitol area in Washington, D.C. where there are very similar conditions, and apartment buildings that look like Lebanon did just after their civil war, (less some of the bullet holes in the buildings).

It's not at all surprising the 'folks' from LA-LA land have no concept of D.C., New Orleans, (or Detroit recently) never mind countries like the poorer parts of the Philippines, (or Hati as another example of disaster/storm-ravaged nations).

As one example, I recall a reporter asking the President of the USA if he knew how much a gallon of milk cost.
He didn't, and would not hazard a guess.

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Take Tom Cruise for example... take him, please

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Actually, she was in it because the set for She's All That is the same as the set for Buffy, but yeah, weird cameos...

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

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Are you sure? she's all that was the same?

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Yeah, it's the same school. My cousin's cousins attended that school back when Buffy was on.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

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Because she is an actor and that is what actors do - act

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