Uma Thurman Talks About Her 'Life,' Her Rebellious Teen Years And The Future Of 'Kill Bill'
Virtually since the bit she stepped come out of a giant star seashell in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen" in 1988, audiences bear taken notice of the ethereal beauty of Uma Thurman. In the deuce decades since, she's more than proven herself as an accomplished worker, viz. in the films of Quentin Quentin Jerome Tarantino (she earned an Oscar nod for "Pulp Fable" and the admiration of stacks with the "Toss off Billhook" saga).
At 38 geezerhood old, Thurman is now actually old enough for another actress to play the younger versions of her characters, which is exactly what Evan Rachel Wood does in "The Life Earlier Her Eyes." In the fresh drama, both Wood and Thurman play Diana — Wood as the rebellious teenager caught in the heart of a Columbine-like incident, and Thurman as Diana on the 15th anniversary of the tragedy.
MTV caught up with Thurman to discourse why she thinks she constantly over-analyzes everything, the futurity of the "Kill Bill" films (and thither is 1!) and the "Lord of the Rings" part she had to turn down.
MTV: This is a plastic film that's very often around looking for before and expression. Would you view yourself a reflective individual?
Uma Thurman: As well a great deal so. Yea.
MTV: How so?
Thurman: I simply convey very caught up in my head and think everything over 9 meg times. [Laughs.] It's really drilling to be me.
MTV: Your character for certain has a rebellious streak when she's played as a stripling by Evan Rachel Wood.
Thurman: She's rebellious. She's misunderstood. She's lonely. She's trying to find herself as a thomas Young charwoman. She's finding her own voice. She's trying to relate to her teachers. She's trying to find herself as a student. She's quite incredible.
MTV: How lots of that could depict Uma at 17?
Thurman: I was already performing in films by 17. I had made "The Adventures of Power Munchhausen." I had made four-spot films by 18! So I had a different life. [My reference] says in the motion-picture show, "When's it passing to start?" I matte up that a lot. I matt-up that so badly. So I went and got a job. I was very, very restless. Rattling eagre to receive my lifetime started, rattling panicked about it almost.
MTV: Why were you so restless?
Thurman: What real got me was I somehow knew you didn't last out animation with your parents, wish, that wasn't passing to be sufficiency. And I then got in truth scared, wish, well, then what volition I do? If I can't stay put here, what am I leaving to do? It became an obsession. It's my explanation for wherefore I was variety of so aegir to commence my grownup life as a child.
MTV: This moving picture revolves about a horrific violent do in a school. It's intelligibly a different form of force than we've seen in your films earlier.
Thurman: Well, only in the Quentin Tarantino films I've made. Otherwise I don't experience a history of making films involving violence. He's sort of playing my little exception to that.
MTV: If you're departure to make an exception, it power as well be for soul like Quentin.
Thurman: Mightiness as well. I mean, it's so much fun! Front, I can't complain. I think there's something über-modern both in "Pulp magazine Fable" and in the "Kill Handbill" movies. Being a part of that has been an amazing experience for me.
MTV: He was talking at one spot around anime. Take you guys of all time talked more around that?
Thurman: His anime stuff is strong. Right now, he's putt the deuce films together with an suspension with an added zanzibar copal succession he had already written. So additional stories are in on that point, in liveliness.
MTV: Will you be doing the voice of the bride?
Thurman: It has nothing to do with me. It has to do with another quality. You'll have to escort.
MTV: I've heard you near appeared in the "Overlord of the Rings" films.
Thurman: Yeah, I was asked. I wish well I had done it. I had a small kid at the clock time, and I couldn't go off for a twelvemonth. I was but overly attached to domicile. It scarce caught me at the wrong moment.
MTV: Ar you a big winnow of those books?
Thurman: Huge! Oh, I truly wish I could've been able to take that plunge, and mayhap I should've, simply I just couldn't at the time.
MTV: Was it to be Miranda Otto's character, Eowyn?
Thurman: Eowyn.
MTV: Another project I heard you almost did was a Francis Edgar Stanley Kubrick pic. Is that true?
Thurman: I was expiration to get a film with him. For a long time I was scheduled to fix a film with him.
MTV: Was that "Wartime Lies"?
Thurman: Yes. I was contracted to do it, and things happened and he shelved the photographic film. He never made the cinema.
MTV: What was your fundamental interaction with him like?
Thurman: Well, we just wheel spoke on the phone. Just it was devastating because it was an incredible portion. It would take been the share of my life history, the best constituent I ever had been offered or had written for me, or anything.
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