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PETA’s 30th Anniversary Gala and Humanitarian Awards will take place on September 25th and Casey, as well as Pamela Anderson, Wilmer Valderrama, and Joaquin Phoenix are set to present. You can read the full list of awardees and presenters right here. Alec Baldwin is set to host.
Casey to present at PETA’s 30th Anniversary Gala and Humanitarian Awards
The hot movies to watch for at this year’s Venice Film Festival
With its early September slot, the Venice Film Festival has always been well placed to launch award-season contenders. Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation both world premiered here in previous editions, and Sofia Coppola — who picked up a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Lost in Translation — is back, in competition this time, with Somewhere. The setting is again a hotel — LA celebrity kip Chateau Marmont — and the plot once more revolves around a boy-girl bonding session.
The other big buzz title of this year’s festival is Casey Affleck’s I’m Still Here (UK release September 17) — billed as a documentary about an odd year in the life of his friend and fellow actor Joaquin Phoenix, following the latter’s announcement that he was quitting acting for a new career as a rapper. Nobody knows if the documentary is actually a mockumentary, or if Phoenix’s career move was a stunt. If the film makes us care either way, it’s achieved something.
Casey Affleck insists his documentary on Joaquin Phoenix is “not a hoax”.
The star makes his directorial debut with I’m Still Here, about his troubled brother-in-law. Casey is married to Joaquin’s younger sister Summer and he has been friends with the actor since they were teenagers.
Joaquin sported a wild beard and claimed to be quitting Hollywood to embark on a hip-hop career in the past year, sparking speculation his erratic behavior was a show for the documentary. However, Casey insists the film is true to life and depicts a side to Joaquin that he usually hides from the public.
“There’s no hoax about it. I really wanted to do something that showed somebody that was very private and was also very, very, very well known,” Casey explained in an interview with British newspaper The Independent. “I wanted to do a super-intimate portrait of them. And I wanted to do something now because I knew that he was quitting acting to embark on this journey, this transition, to a music career – which he has been doing for a long time, by the way.”
“It just seemed like it came out of the blue to everyone, because they just didn’t know that about him. And I thought something interesting would happen over the course of that transition – and I was right.”
It has been reported the documentary – which was filmed over two years – shows Joaquin snorting cocaine, ordering call girls, being rude to his assistants and enjoying oral sex with a publicist.
Casey insists being famous isn’t easy. He believes many stars suffer a public meltdown because they can’t handle the attention that comes with being a celebrity. The 34-year-old does his best to shun the limelight and although he loves his job, he hates facing constant scrutiny.
“People spend 20, 30 years of their life being not-famous, and then they get famous, and millions of strangers suddenly know them and it’s very off-putting,” Casey said.
“I think everybody wants to keep the opportunities that fame affords you – the money and the work. But there aren’t so many people that like the rest of it. I certainly don’t. I wish that I could win the lottery and then I could sit back and work on only the things I love! But then so does everyone else in the world.”
Sundance Film Festival.
in just a few days, Casey will be part of the Sundance Film Festival for his movie The Killer Inside. Joblo had this to say about the anticipation
My most anticipated film of the festival; this stars Casey Affleck as a psychotic sheriff’s deputy, opposite Jessica Alba (as a prostitute), and Kate Hudson. It’s based on a classic piece of pulp fiction by Jim Thompson, and with Michael Winterbottom directing, who previously helmed 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE, A MIGHTY HEART, and the awesome TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY, this could be one of the major films of the year. Of course, being Sundance, where anything can happen, it may also be an unqualified disaster. I’ll keep you posted…
Jessica Alba & Casey Affleck in THE KILLER INSIDE ME Movie Photos
Check out photos for THE KILLER INSIDE ME which stars Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Simon Baker, Elias Koteas, and is directed by Michael Winterbottom.
The Killer Inside Me Synopsis: Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small-town deputy sheriff Lou Ford, who has a bunch of problems. Women problems. Law-enforcement problems. And an ever-growing pile of murder victims in his west Texas jurisdiction. All the while Lou manages to remain his stoic self. However, as evidence is discovered over the course of the investigation, suspicion begins to fall on Lou. But in this savage and bleak universe, nothing is ever what it seems.
The Killer Inside Me will have its World Premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as an out-of-competition movie. Check out more photos below.
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