• Naughty - but ever so nice, The Independent, October 3
• Good girl Emily likes being bad, Daily Record, September 23
• Russians, nudity - and a fibreglass pillar, The Telegraph, September 20
• Chic Lit, The Guardian, September 20

14 Toronto International Film Festival - ‘Who Do You Love’ Premiere, September 11, 2008

The British actress - who can soon be seen in action movie ‘Transsiberian’ - admits she was so bad at performing an acceptable sprint on camera that she had to be given tips on improving before shooting started.

She said: “The crew kept trying to adjust my run so it would look action heroine-esque. I don’t look very cool or sexy running. My friends get me to run for a bus to give themselves a good laugh!”

Emily - who has a four-year-old son with husband Alessandro Nivola - also revealed she never thought she would star in a thriller because she didn’t think she was cut out for such a physically exhausting role.

She added to Details magazine: “I am pale, I smoke cigarettes and I’m allergic to physical activity. But just because I get cast as the sweet innocent doesn’t mean that I necessarily am that way. When I was little, I didn’t want to be an actress to delve into another consciousness - I wanted to wear fancy clothes and go to parties.”

Source.

005 Sessions from 2008 > Boston Common Magazine

Her “Molly”–her character in “City Island”–is so lovingly drawn, so original and so effortlessly tossed off as to make me feel that I overwrote, overthought and overthunk the whole thing: Emily showed up and showed me how it should be done and who this woman truly was. Oddly we only worked together for about five days–yet now that I’ve got the whole movie assembled it feels like she’s in at least half of it. Somebody wrote me in the comments section askiing about screentime for the actors: both Emily and Julianna share the same amount of screen time. But for whatever reason, Emily’s shoot days were concentrated into just a few and Julianna stuck out the run of the show. It felt to me like Emily was doing a cameo–but not at all; she is a major and majorly important piece of the puzzle that is “City Island”.

Be sure to read the full blog entry & watch the outtake clips here.

Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer have signed on to star in “Harry Brown,” a British vigilante thriller from MARV Films. Lionsgate U.K. has just acquired the U.K. distribution rights on the film, which British director Daniel Barber is helming.

“Brown” centers on an elderly ex-serviceman and widower (Caine) who lives alone, within a community that has been decimated by drugs and gun crime. When his best friend is murdered, the man dispenses his own brand of justice. Gary Young wrote the script.

Mortimer plays a young police officer.

“It’s a modern urban Western that reflects the stark realities of youth crime in the 21st century both in the U.K. and internationally,” said MARV’s Kris Thykier, who is producing with Keith Bell (”The Descent”)

The film will shoot entirely on location in the U.K., and principal photography is set to begin in November.

source: The Hollywood Reporter

Production has begun on “Saint John of Las Vegas,” a drama that stars Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Emily Mortimer, Tim Blake Nelson, John Cho, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Peter Dinklage.

Newcomer Hue Rhodes wrote the script and makes his feature directing debut.

In a loose adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno,” Buscemi plays an ex-gambler who’s under the tutelage of a maverick insurance fraud investigator (Malco). The film is shooting in Albuquerque, N.M., and Las Vegas.

Not sure how that project fits in with Ms. Mortimer’s schedule which lists another new film ‘City Island‘. Yet seeing as filming for ‘Saint John of Las Vegas‘ is expected to continue till August 23 while Emily was called to the set of the-soon-to-be-finished ‘City Island‘ as of July 31 (source: official movie blog) - it may very well be that she will shoot her scenes as a supporting character in the Inferno adaptation after leaving ‘City Island‘.

In the film, Mortimer plays a dissatisfied newlywed who struggles to be faithful to her doting husband Roy (played by Woody Harrelson), with disastrous consequences. IGN recently caught up with Mortimer via telephone to discuss her participation in the film; in addition, she talks about the fearful process of finding each new character she plays, and collaborating with filmmakers to find deeper truths among each project’s entertaining core.

Click here to read their full interview with Emily!

Anyway, enough about money matters. In the days leading up to the film’s release Ms. Mortimer was busy promoting the indie thriller. You can find many of the text interviews in our press section and I have now added yet another extensive and interesting interview. By the way, this one provides the context for the headline ‘I’m no action star’ which is currently being spread across the internet. Apart from talking about the challenges of shooting on location in Lithuania, running around with plastic feet, the moral ambiguity of the film and her character and the nicest criminals she also talks about her other upcoming film ‘Shutter Island/Ashecliffe‘. Be sure to read this:
• A Roundtable Chat with Emily Mortimer, Bullz-Eye.com

Then to view video interviews about ‘Transsiberian‘ (and also her guest appearance in ‘30 Rock‘) visit ABC News and TV Guide. Of course, let’s also not forget her charming appearance during The Late Night with Conan O’Brien TV Show on July 7. I’ve added caps & clips to the Media Archive.

Gallery Links:
210 Interviews: ABC News
102 Interviews: TV Guide
303 Talk Shows: Late Night with Conan O’Brien

Video Links:
002 Interviews: Promoting ‘Transsiberian’
001 Talks Shows: 2008