Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring starring Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, and Claire Julien is out on DVD and Blu-ray today.
The Bling Ring is also available via Movies on Demand and iTunes.
Emma Watson and Taissa Farmiga talk about Sofia Coppola’s directing techniques in this clip from the DVD extras.
Today we have scans from Glamour and Joy from Germany, Best Movie from Italy and Glanc from Czech Gepublic. Glamour includes some photos by Vincent Peters we’ve only seen as outtakes before, and that last one only in black & white. Glanc includes a new image by Lubomirski. Thanks to Luca and Kataisa.
Catching up on new stills from The Bling Ring, and a new interview from StudioCanal.
In an interview for her June cover feature in W Magazine Emma Watson talks about her early roles before Harry Potter, getting the part of Hermione, her character in The Bling Ring, and finally accepting being famous.
We have a couple of radio interviews today. Emma talked with BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat about celebrity lifestyle, and security concerns.
On BBC Radio Scotland’s The Culture Studio, Shereen Nanjiani and James Kleinman discuss background of the real life Bling Ring, and background of the movie. This is followed by an interview with Emma discussing her character, her accent, and why she chooses the roles she has. The interview with Emma starts at 6:25 if you want to skip ahead.
Emma Watson appeared on the Lorraine Show from England, talking about The Bling Ring, the “celebrity” lifestyle, and her life as an “English girl”. The movie opens tomorrow in the UK.
Emma Watson attended a screening for The Bling Ring at the Paris Theater in New York yesterday.
A new behind-the-scenes featurette for The Bling Ring has been released.
New Stills
Several new stills from the movie were released recently.
Press Conference
A press conference was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California the day after the Bling Ring premiere. Emma wore Antonio Berardi from the Fall collection.
F magazine
F magazine from Italy has an article on Emma’s role in Bling Ring and other things. Thanks to luca for the scans.
Stealing Beauty
In a Wallstreet Journal interview, Emma talks about The Bling Ring, continuing to act and celebrity. See the full article here.
In “The Bling Ring,” your character is loosely based on a true-life member of a group of privileged teens-turned-burglars. What were the challenges that came with the part?
How do you sell a line like “I could rule a country one day” and not sound completely ridiculous? I realized very quickly that my biggest challenge was to somehow make this surreal, delusional, eccentric character believable. She’s utterly tragic and hilarious at the same time. She could come across as unsympathetic, but I also tried to get the audience to identify with her, even if it’s just for a second.
I wanted there to be a palpable sense of sadness and loneliness about her. I talked to everyone I know—my mom, my friends and, of course, Sofia—to figure out how to understand her. I never met the real girl, and worked only from the script. I didn’t want to do an impersonation.
What else attracted you to the character?
I think everyone can relate to those teenage years when you don’t really know who you are. You feel rootless, disconnected, lost, pressured by what your friends are doing, self-conscious, image-conscious, and you really want to fit in.
I enjoyed exploring the mind-set of someone who is my polar opposite. I’m quite shy and a very private person; Nicki is an exhibitionist and loves attention. She dresses to impress, whereas when I’m not working, I usually dress to draw as little attention to myself as possible. I grew up in the countryside in a small town in England, which couldn’t be more different than L.A. The first time I went to L.A., I felt like I’d arrived on an alien planet. It still seems very foreign and voyeuristic to me.
We have some scans from the French magazines Cosmo, Biba and Les Inrockuptibles thanks to Isabelle. The article about The Bling Ring in “Les inRocks” is mostly an interview with Sofia Coppola, but there is a section on Emma and her character in the movie as well photos from Cannes. Cosmo and Biba have advertisements for Emma’s Gloss in Love line for Lancôme.
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