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Casting agents did, and the starlet quickly won leads in the English costume drama I Capture the Castle and the upcoming U.S. remake of the French thriller L'Appartement. Brad Pitt's virginal sex slave in this month's Troy is a role with considerably more heat. And so, at 24, Byrne finds herself on Vanity Fair magazine's "Coming Attractions" list, and the cover girl for "Hot to Trot '04" in the New York Daily News. So will she attain her Moscow - that longed-for thing over the horizon called stardom...
...spoils of war" to Achilles, Byrne acquits herself commendably in the film's only fully fleshed female role (in contrast, Diane Kruger's Helen of Troy parades around like some kind of supermodel, which in fact Kruger was). As for Byrne's love scene with Pitt, nine years of yoga helped with any performance anxiety she might have felt. "It's really important to try and come from a place of relaxation," she explains, "because only if you're relaxed will you be able to perform at your highest peak...
...TELEVISION RECENTLY BOUGHT THE RIGHTS TO YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY. WHOM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE PLAY YOU? Brad Pitt couldn't do it. He's not built like me. I like Steve Buscemi. He'd need a lot of makeup, but when he's onscreen you're always looking at him. I also like Paul Giamatti, who was in American Splendor...
...Greeks had a word for it: hubris. But Brad Pitt's Achilles wears it well. Whether he slices through a horde of Trojan soldiers or blithely decapitates a statue of Apollo or struts naked through a tent--his elaborately muscled body a perfect subject for sculptor Praxiteles and already gold-plated by the sun--he gives a sense of the beast god luxuriating in his earned star quality. "I've known men like you my whole life," says the defiant virgin Briseis (Rose Byrne). "No, you haven't," Achilles replies, not as a boast but as a warning...
...outdoor epic, everyone has to look great, and everyone does here--fit for battle (the guys) or for bed (the women). Pitt and Bana carry the film on their dishy delts. Bloom is so winsome as Paris that he almost makes the cowardly girly-man a teen idol. And for echoes of epics past, Troy has David Lean's Lawrence and Lara: O'Toole, sere and majestic, and Julie Christie as Achilles' mother Thetis...