Daily Archives: March 29, 2012

“Mirror Mirror” — director Tarsem Singh’s fast, stylish and family-friendly re-invention of the Snow White story, with martial-arts dwarves and Julia Roberts as the wicked queen — opens in theaters tomorrow.  At the film’s press conference, though, we were not just in the presence of Roberts — whose very gaze can, as you’ll see below, make journalists and others shudder in their seats — but also Singh, whose refreshing frankness indicates far more time making movies than, say selling them, plus ingénue Lily Collins, who plays Snow White herself. Here’s what we learned at the press conference: 

1) Julia Roberts Does Not Take Questions Lightly

Asked at one point if she got in touch with ‘the fairy queen inside you,” Roberts was, understandably, less than eager to play along: “Well, I’m happy to announce, she is not inside me. Without naming names, I drew from a couple of people I know better than I wish I did, and found it very fun and helpful.” Has Roberts always wanted to do a traditional fairytale? “No, and nor did I have interest in this one really, until Tarsem lured me, in his luring way, and my looking at the script and realizing that there was really something here. Just the one sentence pitch of it on the phone, ‘Hey, they’re doing this “Snow White” adaptation,’ that didn’t grab my attention.”

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