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November 25, 2005
Paul Verhoeven's latest: a shitfight?
Geoffrey Macnab reports on the shooting of Blackbook, the new Nazi-era film by 67-year-old Paul Verhoeven: "According to producer San Fu Maltha, Verhoeven's reputation as a driven, uncompromising filmmaker is fully deserved. "No matter what he does, he doesn't do it for personal pleasure. It's all for the good of the film. He does it to make a great film. He is always pushing, but he is also willing to find a solution... Don't come to him with bullshit because it doesn't work." Despite the demands Verhoeven places on his collaborators, most show... affection for him. His lead actress, Carice van Houten, has the most gruelling role: one that entails being put alive in a coffin, hiding in freezing water, and being brutally humiliated by Dutch police who think she is a collaborator. "We did some very hard scenes with 200 litres of pigshit," Van Houten says... "Somewhere at the end of the day, I said to him, 'You have to go in the shit, too.' He said, 'OK, at the end of the day we'll shitfight together".' He was prepared to do that."
Posted by pride at November 25, 2005 04:01 PM
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