
It's like, 'In this world no one gets me, but you get me.' I wanted to capture that." "I loved the script and wanted to capture the quirkiness of these outsiders, who are crazy, but in a good way. "This was a particularly hard project," Warren says. Six-time Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warrenhas written hits for Beyonce, Aerosmith and Cher, but she still had a tough time keeping intact her vision for "Silver Lining Playbook's" theme song. Jessie J became songwriter's ' Silver Lining' To honor Wong and his legacy, filmmaker Pamela Tom is seeking contributions for "Tyrus Wong: Brushstrokes in Hollywood" through Tuesday on, a fundraising website. The concept artist who helped deliver "Bambi" to moviegoers in 1942 is alive and well - and soon to be starring in a documentary now in production.īesides his Disney animation work, Tyrus Wong, 102, contributed storyboard and production design to such American classics as "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956) and "The Wild Bunch" (1969). "I understand totally that movies are nothing like theater, but when it comes to living the life of a character, I go through the same kind of prep." At 102, artist Wong is still in the picture "I bring the same game to everything I do," she says. Shortly before making "Jack Reacher," Pike starred in a British stage production of " Hedda Gabler," followed by a role as Greek goddess Andromeda in the Hollywood spectacle "Wrath of the Titans."


Tom and I knew all of our scenes by heart before we shot a single one of them, which, in movies, is really unusual." We'd pick out a couple of scenes and really work them in detail. I'd do all the female roles, Tom played Reacher, and Chris did all the other male roles.

To nail down the repartee, Pike recalls, "Tom, Chris and I would sit in a hotel room in Pittsburgh maybe three times a week. "The patter, the wit, the quickness of the dialogue is only really achievable through rehearsal," Pike says. To ensure that their dialogue-driven scenes matched the intensity of the film's action sequences, the actors rehearsed on their own time during the shoot in Pennsylvania. Taking her cues from writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, Pike says that she and Cruise "wanted this incredibly sort of chemical thing between a man and a woman where they might have had a love affair, but they're never going to because the plot keeps getting in the way."
