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Colin Farrell has revealed he specially designed his own communist tattoos for his character in new film The Way Back.
The Irish actor, has some real tattoos of his own, but said he felt the tattoos his character Valka had in Peter Weir's new film about soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940 were much more meaningful.
Colin said:
"There's an incredible significance to every single drop of ink that appears on these men's bodies, much more so than the couple of drunk markings that I have of various nights in the last 15 years on my body".
"But each single tattoo referenced either a crime committed, an amount of time done, a particular status one held within the criminal infrastructure so it was fun".
"Again it was something that was very foreign to me, it was very exotic, as was the accent and language so it was just another conduit into Valka".
"Peter gave me a couple of books that had a lot of the tattoos that were used, some photographs, some drawings, reams, hundreds, 800 tattoos, 1,000 tattoos and I went through them and kind of just designed Valka's torso."
Colin stars alongside Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris and Saoirse Ronan in The Way Back, in cinemas now.
MYSTERY SURROUNDING "THE WAY BACK"...
Some feel The Way Back can’t possibly be true, others are convinced it took place.
“Controversy does surround the question of whether the man who wrote the book was on the whole walk,” says director Peter Weir, the man behind Master And Commander, Witness and Gallipoli.
“He was certainly a prisoner, so I decided to fictionalise it, change the title, re-name the characters and then draw on the experiences of others who’d been in the gulags.”
The book first appeared in 1956 and no one has since found information to prove or disprove whether the author, Slavomir Rawicz's account really happened.
Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and 16-year-old Saoirse Ronan also star in the film which highlights Stalin's brutal prison regime.
“It’s good to have a female presence in the group and bring a certain kind of energy to the group,” says Ronan, who plays an orphan who the prisoners stumble across.
“Before that it was all just blokes! I only shot in Bulgaria and Morocco – these guys shot in India as well which looks amazing by the way, it was very beautiful.”
“Controversy does surround the question of whether the man who wrote the book was on the whole walk,” says director Peter Weir, the man behind Master And Commander, Witness and Gallipoli.
“He was certainly a prisoner, so I decided to fictionalise it, change the title, re-name the characters and then draw on the experiences of others who’d been in the gulags.”
The book first appeared in 1956 and no one has since found information to prove or disprove whether the author, Slavomir Rawicz's account really happened.
Getting out of the camp wasn’t difficult at all, but it was surviving in the terrain that came after those walls that kept everyone together, no-one dared make a run for it, it almost seemed impossible.
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Director Peter Weir says the author was definitely a prisoner
Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and 16-year-old Saoirse Ronan also star in the film which highlights Stalin's brutal prison regime.
“It’s good to have a female presence in the group and bring a certain kind of energy to the group,” says Ronan, who plays an orphan who the prisoners stumble across.
“Before that it was all just blokes! I only shot in Bulgaria and Morocco – these guys shot in India as well which looks amazing by the way, it was very beautiful.”
Aishwarya heading south for greener pasture!
We have had South Indian stars doing Bollywood films and vice versa. Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Bachchan is reportedly planning to do a couple of Kollywood films. The stunner is no stranger to Tamil having debuted in Mani Ratnam’s Iruvar in 1997. She was raw debutant then. Today, she is a sophisticated star and one of the Bollywood's top heroines.
The actress has come full circle since those times. After almost a decade, two of Aishwarya’s upcoming projects will have Tamil versions. Raavan and Robot will be dubbed in Tamil as Ravana and Endhiran respectively. These are her most ambitious Kollywood ventures so far, though she has done films like Jeans and Kandukondain Kandukondain.
In Raavan, she teams up with hubby Abhishek and mentor Ratnam while in Robot, she will be seen with Rajinikanth. A Tamil coach tutored her on the language and diction for Raavan. She wooed everyone by dubbing for her own lines. She also got the tone and accent right! For Robot, it was Rajini himself who gave her lessons. A source revealed that Ash is a fast learner. Though she found it difficult at first, she was able to rattle off lengthy dialogues with ease!
This has made the diva more confident about doing Tamil projects. She loves Tamil films as they are technically and script-wise very rich. When asked about it, she stated that she has to understand the dialogues before delivering them. She dislikes mugging dialogues without knowing what she is saying. So she made special efforts to learn the nuances of Tamil before embarking on these projects. The results are there for everyone to see! Vannakam anyone?
The actress has come full circle since those times. After almost a decade, two of Aishwarya’s upcoming projects will have Tamil versions. Raavan and Robot will be dubbed in Tamil as Ravana and Endhiran respectively. These are her most ambitious Kollywood ventures so far, though she has done films like Jeans and Kandukondain Kandukondain.
In Raavan, she teams up with hubby Abhishek and mentor Ratnam while in Robot, she will be seen with Rajinikanth. A Tamil coach tutored her on the language and diction for Raavan. She wooed everyone by dubbing for her own lines. She also got the tone and accent right! For Robot, it was Rajini himself who gave her lessons. A source revealed that Ash is a fast learner. Though she found it difficult at first, she was able to rattle off lengthy dialogues with ease!
This has made the diva more confident about doing Tamil projects. She loves Tamil films as they are technically and script-wise very rich. When asked about it, she stated that she has to understand the dialogues before delivering them. She dislikes mugging dialogues without knowing what she is saying. So she made special efforts to learn the nuances of Tamil before embarking on these projects. The results are there for everyone to see! Vannakam anyone?
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