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THE FILM STRIP: Will T.I. be ‘King’ at the box office this week and will Sharon Stone’s risky behavior bring in the buck?
T.I. has both a movie and album coming out this week and they will no fuel one another. Debuting in the film, “ATL,” T.I. proves that the good guy does get the girl. Seventeen-year-old Rashad (Tip Harris aka T.I.) became the man of the house when his parents were killed in a car accident. His role as surrogate father is tested when “little” brother Ant (Evan Ross) is swayed by the bling and easy money into dealing drugs.
With a fledging career in film and well entrenched in his music, the Film Strip wanted to know the pros and cons dealing with the two? “The demands and expectations are just totally, totally different,” he explained. “For the music industry the pros for me are like responding to the people individually, like at shows and just being in and out of hoods, and in and out of cities across the nation, seeing the reactions from the people, seeing them respond to my music and hearing their opinions, and you know, just a lot of things. Of course the money is great, too.
“In the film industry, the pros are the exposure, and the amount of money that is invested into the project that you have to put out here. Of course the press is the most intense and widely publicized, noteworthy amount of press you can have. Also, I mean the food on set is great. Plus, you’re around a bunch of people all the time so you’re just gonna be entertained all day. At least on this that’s how it was.”
T.I., who tried out for “Drumline” and a role in “Barbershop,” says he chose to do “ATL” because, “It was the most honest representation of my culture and my city to be put onscreen and the largest production to ever be filmed in Atlanta.”
It’s fourteen years later and Sharon Stone is back as the crazed Catherine Tramell in “Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction.” She told The Film Strip her character “over time has become so much more observational and so much more dangerous because of her need and desire to be loved [has reached desperate proportions].”
Much is being said about the nudity in “Basic Instinct 2,” and Stone says the scenes are appropriate for her character. “It's one of her ways that she chooses to be incredibly irritating. She uses sex and nudity as a weapon. She's not a gunslinger. She's a sex-slinger.”
A glow comes over Stone’s face when she speaks about her co-star David Morrissey:
“Do you know what's really interesting is that they like to talk about who turned down the part. I'd like to thank the thirteen women who turned down 'Basic Instinct I' because I was the fourteenth choice. And they want to say that so and so turned down being in 'Basic Instinct II.' I'd like to thank each and everyone of them for turning it down so that I got to have David Morrissey.
“There isn't anyone who could play that part better. There isn't anyone who is more handsome and sexy and talented and interesting. There isn't anyone that would have caused me to be more challenged and more on my toes and more on my game than David Morrissey. That guy is a giant star. He is super talented and super smart and witty, interesting and fabulous. Even more, he's a spectacular human being and I loved working with him.”
When told all of this, a modest Morrissey said, “I just loved working with Sharon. Although currently starring in “Stoned,” this film will put him in an entirely different playing field. When I asked if he was prepared for the celebrity that will come with it, he laughed. “That's interesting, that question and I've been asked that a few times. It's sort of so out of my realm of control. As an actor what you do is you go to work and you create characters. What happens afterwards I don't have that much control over. I guess the answer for that is no, I'm not prepared for that because I haven't thought about that.”
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