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Now there's an enterprising young lady. Write and direct your own movie, cast yourself as the star, then cast Nathan Fillion as your gynaecologist. You get to pick who removes who's clothing (sp?). Wacky fun ensues.

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Exclusive Interview : Nathan Fillion

Most recently, Nathan finished filming a romantic comedy in L.A. titled "Waitress," and stars opposite Kerri Russell. "Waitress" is the story of a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south who meets and falls into an unlikely relationship with a newcomer to her town as a last attempt at happiness. The actor is also currently shooting "White Noise 2".

What else is going on then with you?

Nathan: Well, one project at a time, man. I’ve got two months in Vancouver. I’ve got nothing else planned except for this. Right before Christmas I did an independent film, with Kerri Russell who’s wonderful, called Waitress.

And you play the…

Nathan: Her gynaecologist. Yes. Another departure.

Interesting. And how gynaecological do you get in the movie?

Nathan: Not very. Not very. I mean that’s just how they meet. That’s their connection. …

Is it a drama?

Nathan: No, It’s a story of one woman’s story of perseverance. That’s what it is.

www.moviehole.net/interviews/20060324_exclusive_interview_nathan_fil.h
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Here's the Sundance entry. Tickets at Park City, Utah, Registration is open through 5 p.m. MST, January 4:
http://festival.sundance.org/2007/festival/indytickets.aspx


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WAITRESS

U.S.A., 2006, 104 Minutes, color


Keri Russell (aka Felicity; Mission Impossible III)

Stories about poor women struggling to survive often make use of a rugged vérité aesthetic, but director Adrienne Shelly boldly defies convention with her radiant and gorgeously stylized feature film, Waitress.

Jenna (Keri Russell) is a poor southern woman stuck in a bad marriage to her jealous jerk of a husband, Earl (Jeremy Sisto). Jenna works at Joe's Pie Diner, where every day she creates amazing pies that she titles after whatever's going on in her life. One day, she discovers she is pregnant and makes "I Don't Want Earl's Baby" pie. Jenna dreams of running away, but she is trapped inside her miserable life by poverty and her inability to access her own personal strength. Then she meets Dr. Pomatter, the handsome new gynecologist in town. When a friend encourages her to write a letter to her unwanted baby, an unexpected love story develops that changes Jenna's life.

Russell delivers a wonderful, complex performance as Jenna, a repressed woman reaching for happiness, while Shelly infuses the film with a luminous magical sensibility and an endearing sense of humor. Confident and clear in vision, Waitress makes delicious upside-down cake of the Cinderella myth.— Shari Frilot


Screenwriter : Adrienne Shelly
Executive Producer : Todd King, Jeff Rose
Producer : Michael Roiff
Cinematographer : Matthew Irving
Editor : Annette Davey
Production Designer : Ramsey Avery
Music : Andrew Hollander
Cast : Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Lew Temple, Eddie Jemison


Screening Times

Sunday , Jan 21 3:15 PM Eccles Theatre WAITR21CA
Monday , Jan 22 11:30 AM Library Center Theatre WAITR22LD
Tuesday , Jan 23 6:30 PM Redstone WAITR23DE
Tuesday , Jan 23 9:30 PM Redstone WAITR23DN
Friday , Jan 26 6:30 PM Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden WAITR26OE
Saturday , Jan 27 9:00 PM Tower Theatre, SLC WAITR27WN

Director(s) Bios

Adrienne Shelly
Adrienne Shelly starred in more than 20 films, including Factotum, Revolution No. 9, and Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, which both screened at Sundance. She was also featured in the documentary Searching for Debra Winger. As a writer/director, Shelly previously directed two features, Sudden Manhattan and I'll Take You There--the latter taking the award for best director at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Waitress is part of the enduring legacy she leaves for her family, friends, and fans.

Film Contact

Michael Roiff
(323) 930-2212
michael@nightanddaypictures.com

http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/Default.aspx


Looks like they won't pull the Sundance entry just because the writer, director and star were murdered (in real life) before the movie was finished.
www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=18&t=25136&m=431938#431938

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Premieres at the Sundance Film Festival -- taking place on chilly evenings in Park City, usually with major stars in attendance -- have been showcases for big films, usually from studios and often by established filmmakers.

The Spectrum section changed its name from American Spectrum in 2006 to broaden the category to include international films and docus, "a full spectrum of work," Cooper said. Of particular interest in this section, albeit for tragic reasons, is "Waitress," selected by Sundance programrs before the murder last month of its director-actress, Adrienne Shelly, best known for her work in Hal Hartley's "Trust" and "The Unbelievable Truth." Programrs anticipate a very poignant screening.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards_festivals/news/e3i
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Final Shelly film picked for Sundance fest

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The last film directed by Adrienne Shelly prior to her slaying last month in New York has been selected to premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.

Shelly's "Waitress" was one of the 123 films picked to screen at the Utah film festival in January -- a development that those involved with the film say is bittersweet, the New York Post said.

The actress was killed in her apartment Nov. 1.

"I wish Adrienne was here to enjoy the success of the film. She worked so hard and she is the film, really," said Cheryl Hines, one of the film's stars.

The 40-year-old actress-director's death had originally been thought to be a suicide, but was later ruled the result of a heated argument with (illegal alien) construction worker Diego Pillco, who has confessed to the killing, the newspaper said.

"Waitress" was selected for Sundance from among more than 3,000 films submitted to the festival.

www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/51912


Looks like a real tearjerker.
www.myspace.com/adrienneshelly
www.myspace.com/nathanfillion


Adrienne shelly in Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me

"The opportunity to go to Hollywood was certainly there, my agent was there, I'd been offered a lot of different television series, for example, which would have made me very wealthy, and kind of established me in a particular way. But I didn't want to be established in that way. I have a really sensitive bullshit detector. I think I just stayed where I was happiest, and I've been able to make a decent enough living. I've never been very wealthy, working in independent film, but I've been able to support myself doing what I've wanted to do. I've never needed anybody else to decide if I was successful or not. I've felt successful. I've gone through life with this feeling that life could end at any given moment. When I wrote Sudden Manhattan, a writer friend said to me 'Look, Adrienne, it's your first feature--it might take seven years to get produced!' And I thought, this is not acceptable to me. Because in my way of thinking, I might not live another seven years. I've gone through life with this feeling that life could end at any given moment. This is a feeling that kind of frees me. This is my life, so I'd better enjoy it and be responsible. There's something that Kierkegaard writes about in a similar vein. He said: Don't make plans for the future without adding the phrase 'However, I might be dead in the next 10 minutes, in which case I shall not attend to it.'"
-Adrienne Shelly
www.moviemaker.com/magazine/editorial.php?id=285

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Sunday, December 31, 2006 9:27 PM

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Wonder if it will get a wide release ??? I'd go see it. We've got an "art-house" theater here that plays Sundance-type films. Maybe they'll get it.

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Monday, January 1, 2007 11:10 AM

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Hope a distributor picks it up and it gets a wide release. It sounds like a good movie.

BTW Nathan's movie White Noise:The Light starts in the UK Jan 5. The release date in the US has been delayed. It maybe released in March to capitalize on the premiere of Drive.

There is a fan site already up www.whitenoisethelight.net and a myspace page www.myspace.com/whitenoisethelight.

Nathan and the director have already friended the My Space page.


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