Word: understanding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Casting was key, and Hardwicke was intent from Moment One about you. Did you understand where she was coming from about Bella? I had one audition. It was a very conventional audition. I read with another actor for a really long period. It was, like, five hours. I don't know if we completely agreed conceptually about who this character is, because everyone reads Bella differently, and I've never agreed with any one person entirely. But after that first audition, we had a really thriving working relationship. It was like, Wow, I want to play like this...
...Gabriella, 32, profoundly deaf and several months pregnant, refuses to try to understand Carrie, a 28-year-old with dwarfism, telling her that her mouth is simply too small to lip-read. "People speak of the disabled community, but we're the most diverse community," says Kiruna Stamell, the Australian actress who plays Carrie. "Even with short-statured people, we come from different backgrounds, different cultures. The shared experience we have is social discrimination." (Read "Disabled Models: A U.K. Reality...
...were in a tough spot taking over Twilight, not only as a guy, but the guy who directed American Pie. How did you deal with that?There was a reasonable amount of skepticism when I took over the second movie. I understand that. I directed American Pie. I would be worried too. I tried not to take it personally. I just tried to reassure the fans as much as I could, I even wrote a letter. The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read...
...There’s usually an initial shock period where people don’t understand what I’ve said,” Xie says. “Sometimes I just say I’m pre-med because it’s easier...
...Chinese reality-TV show and a half-South African, half-Chinese athlete on China's national volleyball team became the subjects of a flurry of racist comments in China's blogosphere. But Ndesandjo is optimistic about ethnic-minority life in China, saying, "If you make an attempt to understand where these attitudes come from, it can really help...