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About the photoshoot for the Burberry spring/summer 2010 campaign (2009): "Today is very special for me in many different ways. It's so nice to see Mario (Testino) and Christopher (Bailey) again. They get to shoot my brother in the campaign, he's having such a great time!"

Emma in La La Land

Back in June there were reports that Emma Watson was in talks for a lead role in the musical La La Land, with Miles Teller (Whiplash, Divergent), but since then, nothing. Then this week Teller apparently mentioned that after filming “Bleed for This” in Rhode Island he will be back in Los Angeles to film La La Land with Emma, adding “It’s with the same director as ‘Whiplash’. It’s a musical that takes place in L.A., hence the ‘La La Land.’ I’ll get to play piano, sing and dance and stuff like that.”  I’m not sure that’s confirmation, but close.

 

Director Damien Chazelle’s vision for La La Land

I’d like to make a contemporary musical about L.A., starting with the L.A. we know but slowly building to a vision of the city as romantic metropolis–one that is actually worthy of the dreams it inspires. I’d like to make a musical about the way L.A.’s peculiar rhythms can push its residents to the edge of their emotions–be they hope, desperation or love. Think the kind of teetering-toward-madness you see in “The Graduate” or “Boogie Nights”, and imagine if you were to push that further. In this case, the city pushes its residents all the way: it pushes them into song.

The characters of this movie are just people trying to make it. One thing most movies about struggling L.A. actors and musicians miss is the poetry of their struggle: these are blue-collar folks working day in and day out to make something happen. What I’m interested in is pitting their yearnings and their ambitions against the musical genre. After all, musicals are all about the push-and-pull between reality and fantasy; the heroes of this film, because of their big dreams, are constantly poised on that edge. 

At its core, this is a movie about artists in love–and what it means to be an artist in love in arguably the most competitive city on the planet. How do you juggle the need to find success as an artist with the need to share oneself with another human being? And how do you do so in a place where every poster, every street corner and every sign remind you of the glories just beyond reach? L.A. is the “Dream Factory”, and to me there’s something swooningly romantic about that: all those unsung songs and unrealized ideas clouding the air. By casting an affectionate eye on a pair of young hopefuls, while aspiring to the kind of full-fledged romanticism you hardly ever see in today’s movies, I hope to capture the spirit of the city I now call home, and make a movie that feels both classical and urgent–and, yes, intrinsically L.A.”

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6 Responses to “Emma in La La Land”

  1. Ian says:

    Hope so. Just want her to make more films! 🙂

  2. arghavanXXX says:

    i really hope it won’t going to be like ‘your voice in my head’ i just want to watch her in this

  3. Brittain says:

    Me too, Ian! Love her, she’s so good!!

  4. Adelie says:

    Oh my god ! That is just amazing I hope so, I’m so excited about this I know that for the moment it’s just rumour, but thanks so much to send me hope in your beautiful website, do you know that Emma is going to host a reunion HeforShe ? A news from UNwoman, hope I didn’t waist your time,

    Adelie Champvert

  5. dook says:

    News tips are never a waste of time. Thank you.

  6. dool says:

    http://t.co/dUepgMjoei Miles Teller confirms it again and says filming will be in March!!