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| Ugly side to heart-throb |
Peta Hellard - April 05, 2007 12:00am
Article from: Herald-Sun
HIS good looks have helped make him a household name in his native Brazil and an up-and-coming Hollywood heart-throb, but Rodrigo Santoro has thrown away all vanity.
The handsome man who played the office hunk in Love Actually and Nicole Kidman's lover in Baz Luhrmann's pricey Chanel No.5 commercial is almost unrecognisable in Spartan battle epic 300, inspired by the graphic novel by Sin City creator Frank Miller.
The observation prompts a big smile and a heart-felt thank you from Santoro.
``It was about five hours in make-up every day,'' he says with a laugh.
``I was actually salivating when I saw the picture (of the character), when I saw the drawings, because I thought, this is amazing -- this is a great opportunity to play something completely different from everything I've done before.''
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| 300 Online Press Events Are Good |
The 300 online press event Warner Bros organized Friday, which was hosted by Second Life, went quite well, as director Zach Synder, writer Frank Miller and actors Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and Rodrigo Santoro engaged in an extensive audio chat, answering questions presented by the online bloggers and podcasters who were there. For your convenience, I broke down the information I gathered at the event into a category for each person (plus an additional one for Watchmen info, which was a popular question topic), so if you’re only interested in reading about Frank Miller, then you can just read his category.
Enjoy!
Rodrigo Santoro
Santoro also worked out for about four months (not to the same extent as the Spartans, of course) to play Xerxes, but the make-up was for five hours a day, with the piercings and all.
He loved the costumes, remarking that they were the most interesting clothes he had ever worn. Miller chimed in to note that he was astonished when he saw Santoro as Xerxes, because, when he drew him, he never thought anyone would ever get it right using an actual person.
When asked about whether he’d have a flashback episode on Lost (where he became a new cast member this season), he said “Stay tuned,” but then noted that he cannot talk about upcoming episodes on Lost, except to note that the viewers will learn more about his character this season.
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| SANTORO: 'I'M NOT TALENTED ENOUGH TO PRODUCE FILMS' |
300 actor RODRIGO SANTORO has no plans to branch out into producing movies anytime soon - because he doesn't think he is "talented" enough to do it. The sexy star - who stars as PAULO in hit US TV drama LOST - likes the idea of becoming a producer, but admits that's not where his heart lies. He says, "I thought about producing things for people that I admire as artists just to try and make it happen, but I'm not quite a talented producer I think, I'm not really into it. "But maybe I will one day just to make it happen."
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| Man on Man Action |
It's Spartan hotties versus Persian trannies in Zack Snyder's far-too-faithful Frank Miller adaptation
Long ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing militaristic psychopaths called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a copper-colored land, amid copper-colored fields, in copper-colored homes made from copper-colored stone. Legend has it they would outline their copper-colored pecs and abs with ash to enhance their manly buffness, yet these were men of action and honor, not "philosophers and boy-lovers" like their namby-pamby rivals the Athenians.
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| INTERVIEW: Rodrigo Santoro for '300' |
By Brad Brevet | Tuesday, March 6, 2007
In the press notes Rodrigo Santoro speaks of his character in 300, Xerxes, a self-proclaimed God-King of Persia saying, "He's rich, he's arrogant, he's a very unstable megalomaniac. He just wants to conquer the world. His ambition is unlimited. He wants glory; he wants victory; he wants eternal fame. Underneath all that wanting, though, he's ultimately weak and very insecure." He actually used some of those exact same words in my interview with him, particularly"megalomaniac." However, this is a great description of his character, he is menacing but at the same time you get that sense of instability inside him and Santoro was able to bring that out.
Since his work in 300 Rodrigo has been cast in ABC's "Lost" and while he can say very little about that we talked about both 300 and "Lost" with the Brazilian actor. Take a read and learn how he transformed from a small time actor into a God-King.
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