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Vera Farmiga
Probably one of Hollywood's hardest working actresses, Vera Farmiga, 36, who gets to make and break the dating rules with George Clooney in the movie Up in the Air, is becoming more familiar with the cat and mouse game of celebrity interviews. And refreshingly, she takes it with some humour.
Farmiga, the daughter of Ukrainian parents, has won a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of a woman in a midlife crisis, and is also expected to earn an Oscar nod. (You may remember her from The Departed, or Orphan). She is effortlessly elegant, acts her age, and doesn't appear to be running to the dermatologist's office to plump up any unsavoury wrinkles.
Very low key and ''un-actress-like'' she is in a good mood and talks to our US correspondent Michele Manelis about Gorgeous George, having to say ''vagina'' on screen, and the pros and cons of Spanx.
So tell me, in this movie you get to pull the rug from under George Clooney. How does that feel?
It's funny. He's been breaking women's hearts for years. It's fun to reverse the tables on him. I'm always on the hunt for a good, old-fashioned romance, and this particular one came disguised as a thoroughly modern relationship. It's nice to be in this type of romantic comedy and relationship portrayed where it's equal footing between the female character and the male character. And, it's fun to play the female version of George.
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How do you see this woman besides being the female version of George?
I think she represents the plight of womanhood, post feminist era. She's a career woman, she has a family life, and romance. She compartmentalises, she's somebody who wants it all, and is just trying to make that happen. What I respect about her is her integrity of self. She's someone who is very true to her own needs and desires. Whether I respect what she does or condone what she does, it's not important to me. It's a crisis that we all go through and she is going through her midlife thing. I get her predicament. I've been there.
What was the most difficult scene?
The vagina line scene. Saying the word vagina is a fun word and an odd word to say. George was great about it, he said to me, 'Are you OK?' And I said, 'Yeah, why?' And he said, 'Because you're not breathing.' I didn't tell him it was because I was wearing Spanx. Not one pair but two pairs because I had just given birth a month-and-a-half beforehand and I was trying to keep everything in - and I couldn't breathe.
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Farmiga, the daughter of Ukrainian parents, has won a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of a woman in a midlife crisis, and is also expected to earn an Oscar nod. (You may remember her from The Departed, or Orphan). She is effortlessly elegant, acts her age, and doesn't appear to be running to the dermatologist's office to plump up any unsavoury wrinkles.
Very low key and ''un-actress-like'' she is in a good mood and talks to our US correspondent Michele Manelis about Gorgeous George, having to say ''vagina'' on screen, and the pros and cons of Spanx.
So tell me, in this movie you get to pull the rug from under George Clooney. How does that feel?
It's funny. He's been breaking women's hearts for years. It's fun to reverse the tables on him. I'm always on the hunt for a good, old-fashioned romance, and this particular one came disguised as a thoroughly modern relationship. It's nice to be in this type of romantic comedy and relationship portrayed where it's equal footing between the female character and the male character. And, it's fun to play the female version of George.
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How do you see this woman besides being the female version of George?
I think she represents the plight of womanhood, post feminist era. She's a career woman, she has a family life, and romance. She compartmentalises, she's somebody who wants it all, and is just trying to make that happen. What I respect about her is her integrity of self. She's someone who is very true to her own needs and desires. Whether I respect what she does or condone what she does, it's not important to me. It's a crisis that we all go through and she is going through her midlife thing. I get her predicament. I've been there.
What was the most difficult scene?
The vagina line scene. Saying the word vagina is a fun word and an odd word to say. George was great about it, he said to me, 'Are you OK?' And I said, 'Yeah, why?' And he said, 'Because you're not breathing.' I didn't tell him it was because I was wearing Spanx. Not one pair but two pairs because I had just given birth a month-and-a-half beforehand and I was trying to keep everything in - and I couldn't breathe.
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