A couple years ago I had a big crush on Eddie Vedder. I told my husband, "Do not let me be in the same room with Eddie Vedder." He said, "Don't worry, I won't."
By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.
Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.
I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.
I liked the sense that you were trying to find them and that these were people who could be on the street at any given moment.
I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.
I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.
I think that is one of the things that makes watching him kind of fascinating, that we are watching everybody, this person that we assume is a demon.
I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.
I think that we all have that aspect to us and we all have some little bit of insecurity where we would be tempted to misrepresent ourselves.
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.
I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.
I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
I'm working on a studio film right now where sometimes we do three takes. That's incredible! It's like boom, boom, boom. You're out. Oh, OK.
I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically.
If they were combative, it would make it much easier for the men. Not being combative, it makes it much more difficult for them to penetrate the veil.
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.
It's nice, certainly, to have more than a skeleton-like crew, but once you are in front of the camera, it's still the same.
Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Originally, I got a phone call from Campbell Scott saying that he was doing this movie and that there was this part that he wanted me to play in it.
The dailies that I saw were the sequence where they are in the street and he is trying to teach him how to look at a woman basically. I liked it.
The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
There's about three people in the world that have my home phone number and they are all related to me by blood.
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.
You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.
You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
Jennifer appeared at a benefit production of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues on April 16th in L.A.
In 1996 Jennifer hosted a tribute to Pablo Neruda,the poet, on the occasion of the film "Il Postino".
Jennifers baby girl was born on October 8, 2005.
Jennifer had her baby girl on October 8, 2005.
Jennifer will make an appearance as a guest star on Law and Order,the longest running crime series, episode Charity case on January 12th 2007
Jennifer doesn't want to reveal the names of her dogs since she considers them as part of her family, so that is a matter of privacy. It is alleged though that one of them is called Cerberus (from the Greek mythical beast that guarded the entrance to Hades), however it is not confirmed.
Jennifer has admitted that she would marry Kelly Lynch if she was aroused by members of her own sex - but she would have no desire to get intimate with Angelina Jolie, saying that she would be the last person anyone should think to marry.
Jennifer turned down the Flashdance sequel because artistic credibility is more important to her than money, causing her agents to "lose their minds".
As an amateur photographer--a "brilliant" one according to The Anniversary Party writer, director and co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh, who had Beals take all the photos that were featured in that film--Beals is very concerned with imagery and representation. With her role on The L Word, she hopes to give the gay community the images of themselves that have been so sorely lacking.
Jennifer: Doing a love scene with a woman is easier than with a man. Because when you say to the other woman, 'Look, I have issues with this or that part of my body, can you put your hand there,' they know what you're talking about, and the hand doesn't move. Whereas a guy will forget. Because he doesn't know the meaning of cellulite.
Had it not been for Jennifer Beals, the character of Bette Porter in the hit Showtime series “The L Word” would not have been biracial. Beals convinced producer Ilene Chaiken to make Bette mixed, “so I could serve all those people who were like me and had never seen themselves represented except for maybe in a Benetton ad,” - She told the audience at the POWER UP benefit gala in November 2004. In a stirring speech, Beals talked about noticing the lack of media representations of mixed race people when she was growing up: “Somehow my story wasn't there. I was too young to start reading Faulkner, I hadn't seen ‘Imitation of Life’ and so I wasn't aware that I was supposed to be the insane, oversexed tragic Mulatto gal. Certainly my otherness sometimes was so palpable it was a wonder that anyone could see me. I was that invisible. And certainly when society fails to write your story there is an unspoken message that the story is not worth telling.”
Actress Jennifer Beals, who currently stars in the Showtime series The L Word, has been named celebrity grand marshal for this year's (2006) LGBT Pride Parade. Ride Executive Director Lindsey Jones made the announcement Wednesday, June 10. Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word, attended the event with Beals.
Jennifer is currently filming "Troubled Waters", she has the role of Beck in which she plays a determined detective who is called on to investigate the suspicious kidnapping of a rich man's daughter. The script was written by David Robbeson and the picture is being directed by John Stead.
Jennifer: It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.
Jennifer studied welding for two months for her role as the welder/dancer in the mover 'Flashdance'.
Jennifer is a stepmother to her husband, Ken Dixon's, two children.
When Jennifer was a teenager, she worked as a babysitter for one of her neighbors - Steve Edwards.
Jennifer stared In the film 'The Anniversary Party' (2001), she plays a character who takes photographs of performers which she then gives away, usually to the subjects of the photos. Beals actually does this.
Jennifer and her husband, Ken L. Dixon, had their first child together, a healthy baby girl, on Nov 17, 2005.
Jennifer is currently starring in Showtime Network's 'The L Word' which has just been renewed for a fourth season.
Jennifer's father died when she was only 10 years old.
Jennifer is best known for her role as 'Alex Owens' in the 1983 movie Flashdance.
Gave birth to her first child in October of 2004.
Received a BA in American Literature, 1987; graduated with honours, at Yale University.
Studied welding for two months for her role as the welder/dancer in Flashdance.
Acted in the film “The Anniversary Party” (2001), in which she plays a character who takes photographs of performers which she then gives away, usually to the subjects of the photos. Beals actually does this.
Jennifer has been married twice, currently to Ken Dixon. The couple married in 1998 and are presently still together. Jennifer's first marriage was to Alexandre Rockwell, the couple married in 1986. The marriage lasted 10 years, until 1996 when the pair divorced.
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