Felicity Like Crazy video interview

Felicity Jones Talks Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes Movie, 'Hysteria' & More After 'Like Crazy' Gotham Award Win

Here's an article updating us on Felicity winning Breakthrough Actor at the Gotham Awards and her next roles.

Felicity Jones is often compared to her friend Carey Mulligan for being this year's It Girl -- a title perhaps reinforced by her win Monday as Breakthrough Actor at the Gotham Awards -- but Jones hopes to prove she's got longevity with her post-"Like Crazy" choices, even if a lot of them are love interest parts. "The key is working with great directors," Jones told The Playlist following her win. "A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person." To that end, Jones reteamed with "Like Crazy" director Drake Doremus for his next film, as yet untitled, in which she would play a character who tempts a married Guy Pearce. "It's a companion piece to 'Like Crazy,' in that it's another aspect of love," she said. "And it's also largely improvised, so it's a variation in that aspect as well. Maybe we can call it 'Like Crazier'!" For Tanya Wexler's upcoming invention-of-the-vibrator comedy "Hysteria," Jones was attracted to the subject matter as well -- "It's stimulating!" she joked -- and welcomed the chance to play against type. As a foil to Maggie Gyllenhaal's character, Jones is part of a love triangle with Hugh Dancy. "I play Maggie's younger sister," Jones said. "She's a prim and proper Victorian woman, very conventional, very conservative, and a bit dim. Hugh thinks he's falling for her, because at first she fits his vision of what is perfect femininity, until he meets Maggie's character. And then you realize that we're not actually right for each other, my character is too stupid for him, and he should be with Maggie." Next on Jones' plate is working with Warren Beatty for his untitled Howard Hughes film, which he wrote and will direct and star in next year. "It's something I'm very excited about," she said. "The story in part is about Howard Hughes, and Warren is Hughes, but the other aspect is two young people who work for him, one of which is my character, and their love story interweaved with their relationship with Hughes, and how he affects both of them." Her counterpart has yet to be cast, she said, but will be decided in "the next few weeks." Justin Timberlake and Alden Ehrenreich are considered the top contenders for the role. "I don't have any say in who it should be, but there's an incredible array of actors to choose from," Jones said. "There are some really talented people out there, so we shall see."

Source: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/felicity-jones-talks-warren-beattys-howard-hughes-movie-hysteria-more-after-like-crazy-gotham-award-win

Startling discoveries

When Felicity Jones read the outline for "Like Crazy," she knew right away she had to be part of it.

"It was something in just the first few lines," says Jones of the role that won her a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. "I understood this character and the type of relationship she was having."

Even if the story and the character were all there for Jones, one thing was not -- dialogue. The lines in "Like Crazy" were all improvised, based on the outline from helmer Drake Doremus.
"I love working with Drake because he's willing to go to those places in a relationship that make people uncomfortable but resonate with so much truth," says Jones.

The British-born thesp -- who last year tackled Shakespeare and turned heads as Miranda in Julie Taymor's "The Tempest" -- was clearly ready for this kind of creative challenge. Though she's just 28, the actress came to the part with more than 15 years of experience.

Jones will be seen in Doremus' next film, which co-stars Guy Pearce and also deals with relationship themes.

"And I think people like watching these kinds of movies," says Jones, "because we're all curious about each other's relationships in a way."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118045880/

Felicity Jones on the Late Show with David Letterman 11-11-11

Felicity at UK Like Crazy premiere

Like Crazy has had its UK premeire at the London Film Festival. See zimbio For photos.

Like Crazy updates

Instyle Anton Yelchin & Felicity Jones photoshoot


http://andreassjodin.se/wordpress/2011/instyle-anton-yelchin-felicity-jones/


Q&A with Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones
http://www.statepress.com/2011/10/02/qa-with-anton-yelchin-and-felicity-jones/

'Like Crazy' actors discuss critically acclaimed film
http://www.azfamily.com/good-morning-arizona/inside/Like-Crazy-actors-discuss-critically-acclaimed-film-130856148.html


Actors Talk 'Like Crazy,' Movie Featured at Film Festiva

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Like Crazy Interview and Breaking Dawn Newshttp://www.reelz.com/trailer-clips/53729/like-crazy-interview-and-breaking-dawn-news/

Felicity wins New Hollywood Award

The 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, will honor Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) with its New Hollywood Award.

The award winners will be present to collect a statuette at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony, which will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 24, 2011.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/hollywood-film-awards-honorees-announced-239844

Felicity Jones: The Breakout Star of Like Crazy

Many young actresses take their work too seriously, but not Felicity Jones. A recent starring role in the 18th-century tragedy Luise Miller on London's West End required the 27-year-old Brit to die a terrible death each night, but in one performance she opted to keel over with a big smile on her face. "A cast member dared me to," she explains. "Everyone thinks we're solemn, but there were a lot of jokes going on."

That sense of spontaneity proved useful to Jones, who has been acting since she was 11, in her American big break, Like Crazy, a largely improvised tale of college sweethearts struggling to maintain a transatlantic relationship. "The first few days of shooting were incredibly frightening," she says of the Sundance hit, in theaters this month. "There's no script. But after a few takes, you find the right words."

Director Drake Doremus was so impressed by Jones that he cast her in his next film, a drama about a coquette who tempts her teacher (Guy Pearce). But up first is the comedy Hysteria. "It's about the invention of the vibrator," Jones says with a laugh. "There's a scene in which my character decides to give the machine a go. Doing that in front of the entire crew was . . . interesting." Talk about an actress with buzz.

Felicity Jones: The Breakout Star of Like Crazy

Like Crazy Press Conference Highlights

Here is a video of the Like Crazy Press Conference Highlights

http://www.twitvid.com/39GNO

Thanks to Enrique for the link.

Felicity Jones on Like Crazy video

Here's a little clip of Fliss being interviewed (on the red carpet?) about Like Crazy.

All this attention is 'quite intimidating' for Felicity Jones

Here's a piece about Felicity on the USA Today website...

British actress Felicity Jones has emerged as one of this year's breakouts, thanks to her heartbreaking performance in the Sundance winner Like Crazy. And she's still adjusting to doing nonstop interviews in Toronto to promote her long-distance romance, which opens in October.

"It is quite intimidating. I think the best thing is to enjoy the ride while it's happening," says Jones on Tuesday during a chat the Fairmont Royal York hotel.

She flew in to Toronto four hours after wrapping her as-yet untitled film, also directed by Crazy's Drake Doremus. And sure, she's a little knackered, but it's all good.

"It's not very often when you make something and you love making it and the product is something you can be really proud of. I'm really pleased to be talking about this film," she says. "I understood what it felt like to be different people in different places."

Interesting to note that she has completed yet another movie!

Source: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/livefrom/post/2011/09/all-this-attention-is-quite-intimidating-for-felicity-jones-/1

The Felicity Jones phenomenon continues in Luise Miller

Another Luise Miller article...

Felicity Jones is in great demand for films but says she has no plans to abandon the West End.

Jones, 27, landed the role of Luise Miller at the Donmar Warehouse having already scooped the special jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival for Like Crazy, Drake Doremus's low-budget movie.

Jones will work on movie projects in New York when her Donmar run ends. A second film with Doremus is also in the pipeline.

But she says more lucrative film work cannot take her away from the theatre. "I absolutely want to keep a balance," she said after Luise Miller opened last night. "I love working with Michael Grandage and once you find you have a really good working relationship with someone, it is vital you continue that.

"It is such an extraordinary challenge that I wouldn't ever be able to leave it. It tests you in a completely different way as an actor that you don't find in films. Why would you ever not want to do both?"

Jones, who lives in east London, said of the Luise Miller cast: "We have put a lot of heart and soul into this play and it has been absolutely brilliant that people liked it as much as they did.

"It is a fine balance between humour and tragedy... we work very hard to maintain the tragedy in the lighter moments."

www.thisislondon.co.uk

Felicity Jones article in The Observer

There's a long interview article about felicity in today's Observer newspaper. Here's an excerpt...

When I arrive at the Soho hotel to interview Felicity Jones, there are two paps, Ian and Perry, lurking outside the entrance. They're after Ed Westwick, Jones's co-star in the new British romcom Chalet Girl who is best known for his role in Gossip Girl, and there's also the prospect of a few leftover celebs from the film's premiere the night before – Bill Nighy, who plays the father, and Brooke Shields, the mother. And what about Felicity Jones?

"Oh, she's such a pretty little thing," says Ian. "Tiny. Gorgeous."

"What's the name of that actress in Breakfast at Tiffany's?" asks Perry.

Audrey Hepburn?

"Exactly, she's got a real Audrey Hepburn look about her."

She has. Even in the baggy snowboarding outfits she wore in Chalet Girl, she has the kind of face that lights up a camera at 100 paces. What's more, you might not know her now, but she's on the cusp of being a major star. Although you probably won't see Ian and Perry's photos of her any time soon.

You can read the whole article at www.guardian.co.uk.

I'll be buying the paper as it has a nice big picture of Felicity on the front of one of the sections.

Felicity Jones: British film's new it-girl?

Time Out has a long article on Felicity that covers Sundance, Like Crazy, Chalet Girl and The Tempest among other things. Here's a taste...

‘I think you’re supposed to get a sort of thing – an obelisk.’ Felicity Jones has yet to receive the gong she won last month at Sundance: the Special Jury Acting Prize for ‘Like Crazy’, a mostly improvised transatlantic indie romance. The 27 year old was the festival’s darling – breathlessly admired as the new Carey Mulligan (Sundance was an early adopter of Mulligan, premiering ‘An Education’ in 2009). Did she find all that festival it-girl stuff a bit mindless? Not a bit, says Jones: ‘I think you’ve just got to enjoy it while it lasts. Next year, it’ll be someone else.’ She had to be back in London to shoot a BBC film with David Hare so missed the ceremony and was in bed at home in Bethnal Green when the call came through at 3am to say she’d won. Is this her first acting prize? She is beaming. ‘Yeah, my first ever. Ever!’

You can read the complete article at www.timeout.com.

The hottest star in Hollywood – who owes it all to Ambridge

Here's a Felicity Jones at Sundance article in today's Independent newspaper. I note that Felicity has been awarded a special jury prize for her part in the movie Like Crazy.

It is a long way from Borchester to Hollywood. But Felicity Jones, who worked her way into the nation's affections playing village tease Emma Grundy in The Archers, is now being touted as the movie industry's hottest young talent.

This weekend the 27-year-old Oxford-educated star of the long-running BBC Radio 4 drama was hailed as the leading light of the Sundance Film Festival when she was awarded a special jury prize for her performance in Like Crazy – an independent film about the joys and strains of a transatlantic love affair.

Having already been snapped up after its world premiere by Paramount Pictures last week, Drake Doremus's quirky long-distance love film was also selected for a prestigious grand jury prize. Presenting the award, Ugly Betty star America Ferrera said: "The 2011 Sundance Film Festival will go down as the year of the actress."

According to the LA Times, Ms Jones and her co-star Anton Yelchin "couldn't be more appealing as they sort through their issues, green card and otherwise". It is heady praise indeed for Ms Jones. As well as being the most talked about performer at Robert Redford's independent film festival in Utah, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, comparisons are also being drawn between her and fellow Briton Carey Mulligan, who similarly took Sundance by storm in 2009 for her role in An Education.

Ms Jones began her acting career at the age of 11 at the Central Junior Television Workshop in her native Birmingham and has been talked about as the heir apparent to Keira Knightley for some time. But while British audiences may know her best as serial heartbreaker Emma Grundy, success looks certain to lead to a deluge of offers for starring roles in 2011.

Yet it is unlikely she will have to go to the same lengths for her next part as she did for the last one. Aware that other actresses were chasing the Like Crazy part, she decided to show Mr Doremus exactly what she could do. "There's a scene in the shower with no words, but it conveys so much and I felt it would get the director's attention, so I clambered into my shower and shot the moment. I had a handy assistant to hold the camera and that was it," she said. Having posted the home-shot video to Los Angeles, the rest was sorted out in a series of telephone calls with Mr Doremus.

In Like Crazy she plays Anna, a young British student who falls for an American while studying in Los Angeles. Their love is put to the test courtesy of the US's notoriously bureaucratic immigration system.

Although Hollywood beckons for Ms Jones, she has insisted that The Archers retains a unique place in her affections and even covets a return. She first played the role of Emma Grundy (née Carter) when she was just 15, but gave it up last year, to be replaced by Emerald O'Hanrahan.

Her career as a child star was interrupted by her studies at Oxford, where she read English at Wadham College, though she continued to act. Since then, she has appeared in ITV1's Northanger Abbey and a number of stage plays at the Royal Court Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, where she starred in a revival of The Chalk Garden. Last year she was cast in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Cemetery Junction. Later this year her fans will be able to catch her in romantic comedy Chalet Girl, alongside Bill Nighy.

Ms Jones was unable to collect her award in person as she had to return to the UK to finish filming for David Hare's BBC film Page 8.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-hottest-star-in-hollywood-ndash-who-owes-it-all-to-ambridge-2199000.html

More Like Crazy articles

Sundance Interview: Felicity Jones Pours Herself Into Like Crazy's Romance

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Sundance-Interview-Felicity-Jones-Pours-Herself-Into-Like-Crazy-s-Romance-22869.html

'My sexy shower scene got director all steamed up', admits Felicity Jones

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1351198/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-My-sexy-shower-scene-got-director-steamed-admits-Felicity-Jones.html

Sundance Hit 'Like Crazy' Was Emotionally 'Naked' Shoot, Say Felicity Jones And Anton Yelchin

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/01/26/sundance-hit-like-crazy-was-emotionally-naked-shoot-say-felicity-jones-and-anton-yelchin/

Felicity Jones: New Sundance "It" Girl?

Another article from my inbox this week. Looks like Fliss is making an impact at Sundance. here's an excerpt:

Drake Doremus earned praise at least year’s festival for his debut effort, the dark road comedy “Douchebag,” but the writer-director has returned with a very different film. “Like Crazy” stars Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones as a young couple kept apart by an ocean and some visa troubles. For Jones, this year's festival may be her grand coming out party.

As soon as the screening ended, it seems, Jones found herself in a pitched battle for this year’s “it” girl title with “Martha Marcy May Marlene” star Elizabeth Olsen, if the New York and Los Angeles Times are to be believed.

You can read the whole article here:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/popcornbiz/Like-Crazy-Finds-Felicity-Jones-in-Running-for-Sudnace-It-Girl-Crown--and-Anton-Yelchin-Is-Pretty-Good-Too-114438409.html

Felicity Jones and the shower scene screen test

This story landed in my inbox this week...

British actress Felicity Jones is the talk of the Sundance Festival following a screening of her latest film Like Crazy, which played to a packed theatre in snowy Park City, Utah.

Jones plays a Londoner who falls in love with an American (Star Trek's Anton Yelchin) in Los Angeles. But the couple are soon torn apart by her visa problems.

Jones's acting - much of which is improvised - impressed the assembled movie buffs and prompted comparisons with Carey Mulligan, who similarly won over Sundance with her 2009 part in An Education.

But it was director Drake Doremus who really raised eyebrows when, during a post-screening Q&A session, he revealed how he had discovered the 27-year-old.

Apparently, Jones (above), who has so far enjoyed only bit parts in British productions such as Brideshead Revisited and Doctor Who, got a copy of the script and filmed herself in one of the scenes – in the shower.

Jones, who was living in London, then sent the video to Doremus in Los Angeles, who immediately decided to employ her.

"She put together a tape in her apartment and she did the shower scene. She actually got into the shower and shot herself doing the scene and it was magnificent.

"I saw that scene and cast her right away - well, that's not why... it was fantastic."

Jones will appear next in the all-star BBC spy series Page 8 along with Rachel Weisz and is rumoured to be up for a part in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/74146,people,entertainment,felicity-jones-and-the-breakthrough-shower-scene-like-crazy#ixzz1CAi3XWUp

More Like Crazy links and some photos

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/01/23/anton-yelchin-gets-choked-up-by-felicity-jones-in-mtvs-sundance-celebrity-photo-booth/

DP/30 @ Sundance: Like Crazy, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRYogumzEt8

Chalet girl - interactive trailer
http://chaletgirl.findanyfilm.com/

And now some photos!

Like Crazy links

Like Crazy Q&A at Sundance 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly76tvyVWvc

Like Crazy FIRST LOOK clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS5SzfkRmOc

Sundance Review: Like Crazy a Fantastic Romantic Journey
http://www.film.com/features/story/sundance-review-like-crazy-fantastic/43904830