IT'S a warm evening and from this multi-million-dollar Manhattan apartment, the sun setting over Central Park and the New York skyline is magnificent.
The interior has exquisite furnishings and the walk-in wardrobe is filled with Chanel, Gucci and other designer clothes, shoes and handbags.
Thing is, it's not an apartment, but a set on TV drama Ringer, the twist-and-turn-laden drama starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as two characters - Siobhan and recovering addict twin Bridget Kelly.
The apartment is not in Manhattan. It's a set in Stage 3 on Los Angeles' landmark Culver Studios.
To make the balcony view realistic, a 24m x 6m canvas print of the sunset over the city skyline and Central Park was erected.
"I think we've done a pretty amazing job," Gellar says. "I mean, I'm a born and raised New Yorker and it's important to me that we keep not just the look of New York City but the feel of it."
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Ringer marked Gellar's return to starring in a TV series.
After her seven-year run on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended in 2003, she concentrated on films, but that changed in September 2009, with the birth of daughter Charlotte.
When the 34-year-old, married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr, was offered the roles of Siobhan and Bridget, and the opportunity to executive produce Ringer, she signed up.
With the series shot in LA, she could work and always be close to Charlotte.
"I realised, 'I can be somewhere the entire year. I can take my child for the first day of school'," she says.
"Two weeks ago my daughter was very sick and I got to go home and be with her."
Gellar created a creche on the Culver Studio lot so the actors and crew could bring their children to work.
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2012年2月13日星期一
Ringer perfect for Gellar's new life
It is a warm evening and from the balcony of the multi-million dollar upper-east side Manhattan apartment the sun can be seen setting over Central Park and the New York skyline.
It is a magnificent sight.
The apartment's interior is also easy on the eye, with wall-to-wall affluence making it any New Yorker's dream abode.
The furnishings are exquisite and the walk-in closet in the master bedroom is filled with Chanel, Gucci, Elie Tahari and other designer clothes, shoes and handbags.
The lucky inhabitants are Andrew and Siobhan Martin.
Well, not really.
Mr and Ms Martin don't live in the apartment. Mr and Ms Martin don't exist. It is not an actual apartment.
The apartment is a set and Mr and Ms Martin are characters in the TV series Ringer, the twist-and-turn laden drama starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays two characters - Siobhan and her recovering addict identical twin sister Bridget Kelly.
Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd plays Andrew Martin.
The apartment is not located on Manhattan's upper-east side, but is a set in Stage 3 on Los Angeles' landmark Culver Studios, a 94-year-old complex where film classics including Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca were made.
The magic continues with Ringer, with great detail invested in the apartment and other sets by production designers and set decorators.
To make the Martins' balcony view realistic, a 24 metre by six metre canvas print of the sunset over the city skyline and Central Park was erected.
"I think we've done a pretty amazing job," Gellar said in a recent interview on the studio lot.
"I mean, I'm a born and raised New Yorker and it's important to me that we keep not just the look of New York City, but the feel of it."
Ringer marked the return of Gellar to a starring role in a TV series.
After her seven-year run on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended in 2003, she concentrated on film projects, but that changed in September, 2009, with the birth of daughter, Charlotte.
The 34-year-old, who is married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr, found the jet-setting needed to work on movies did not fit her philosophy in raising Charlotte, so when the opportunity to star as twins Siobhan and Bridget, and executive produce Ringer, was offered she signed up.
"That was the first time pretty much in my entire life that I had taken time off and I couldn't believe how happy I was and how satisfied that I was, being at home and sort of experiencing the other side of life that I hadn't for so long," Gellar said of her almost two-year hiatus raising Charlotte.
With the series shot in LA, she could work and always be close to her daughter.
"I realised, 'Wait a second. I can be somewhere the entire year. I can take my child for the first day of school'.
"Two weeks ago my daughter was very sick and I got to go home and be with her and we were able to work around it so that I could be there when she needed me.
"As soon as she was getting better I could come back and that's just not a lifestyle that's really offered anywhere else.
"Then you combine that with the lack of female roles in films, it just seemed like the perfect time and then it's just a matter of finding the right project."
Ringer began with Bridget six months sober. Her life, however, was turned upside down when she witnessed a professional hit by mobsters. Authorities placed her in federal protection for her own safety, but frightened, she fled to New York where she met up with twin, Siobahn.
When Siobahn went missing, Bridget took her sister's identity and discovered Siobahn's marriage was on the rocks and she had been having an affair with her best friend's husband.
"It's really interesting because there I am playing these two characters when I sort of feel like for the first time in my life I'm leading two lives," Gellar said of her new dual role of actress and mother.
Gellar created a creche on the Culver Studio lot so the actors and crew could bring their children to work, something Gruffudd took advantage of with his daughter Ella, just 13 days older than Charlotte.
"Sarah has erected a beautiful little playroom for them to all play together whenever they're here," Gruffudd said.
Shooting a series in LA that is set in New York had plenty of hurdles, but Gellar said downtown LA and the Paramount studio lot successfully filled in for the urban landscape of Manhattan. Although, LA's heat caused problems when shooting an outside New York winter scene.
"Downtown LA is pretty spectacular these days and we're very careful with the taxi cabs and making sure there are no buses and getting the trees out and really sticking true to what that is, even if it means that we're sweating in downtown LA in coats and hats and gloves while it's ninety degrees (32 degrees Celsius) in Los Angeles," she said.
It is a magnificent sight.
The apartment's interior is also easy on the eye, with wall-to-wall affluence making it any New Yorker's dream abode.
The furnishings are exquisite and the walk-in closet in the master bedroom is filled with Chanel, Gucci, Elie Tahari and other designer clothes, shoes and handbags.
The lucky inhabitants are Andrew and Siobhan Martin.
Well, not really.
Mr and Ms Martin don't live in the apartment. Mr and Ms Martin don't exist. It is not an actual apartment.
The apartment is a set and Mr and Ms Martin are characters in the TV series Ringer, the twist-and-turn laden drama starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays two characters - Siobhan and her recovering addict identical twin sister Bridget Kelly.
Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd plays Andrew Martin.
The apartment is not located on Manhattan's upper-east side, but is a set in Stage 3 on Los Angeles' landmark Culver Studios, a 94-year-old complex where film classics including Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca were made.
The magic continues with Ringer, with great detail invested in the apartment and other sets by production designers and set decorators.
To make the Martins' balcony view realistic, a 24 metre by six metre canvas print of the sunset over the city skyline and Central Park was erected.
"I think we've done a pretty amazing job," Gellar said in a recent interview on the studio lot.
"I mean, I'm a born and raised New Yorker and it's important to me that we keep not just the look of New York City, but the feel of it."
Ringer marked the return of Gellar to a starring role in a TV series.
After her seven-year run on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended in 2003, she concentrated on film projects, but that changed in September, 2009, with the birth of daughter, Charlotte.
The 34-year-old, who is married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr, found the jet-setting needed to work on movies did not fit her philosophy in raising Charlotte, so when the opportunity to star as twins Siobhan and Bridget, and executive produce Ringer, was offered she signed up.
"That was the first time pretty much in my entire life that I had taken time off and I couldn't believe how happy I was and how satisfied that I was, being at home and sort of experiencing the other side of life that I hadn't for so long," Gellar said of her almost two-year hiatus raising Charlotte.
With the series shot in LA, she could work and always be close to her daughter.
"I realised, 'Wait a second. I can be somewhere the entire year. I can take my child for the first day of school'.
"Two weeks ago my daughter was very sick and I got to go home and be with her and we were able to work around it so that I could be there when she needed me.
"As soon as she was getting better I could come back and that's just not a lifestyle that's really offered anywhere else.
"Then you combine that with the lack of female roles in films, it just seemed like the perfect time and then it's just a matter of finding the right project."
Ringer began with Bridget six months sober. Her life, however, was turned upside down when she witnessed a professional hit by mobsters. Authorities placed her in federal protection for her own safety, but frightened, she fled to New York where she met up with twin, Siobahn.
When Siobahn went missing, Bridget took her sister's identity and discovered Siobahn's marriage was on the rocks and she had been having an affair with her best friend's husband.
"It's really interesting because there I am playing these two characters when I sort of feel like for the first time in my life I'm leading two lives," Gellar said of her new dual role of actress and mother.
Gellar created a creche on the Culver Studio lot so the actors and crew could bring their children to work, something Gruffudd took advantage of with his daughter Ella, just 13 days older than Charlotte.
"Sarah has erected a beautiful little playroom for them to all play together whenever they're here," Gruffudd said.
Shooting a series in LA that is set in New York had plenty of hurdles, but Gellar said downtown LA and the Paramount studio lot successfully filled in for the urban landscape of Manhattan. Although, LA's heat caused problems when shooting an outside New York winter scene.
"Downtown LA is pretty spectacular these days and we're very careful with the taxi cabs and making sure there are no buses and getting the trees out and really sticking true to what that is, even if it means that we're sweating in downtown LA in coats and hats and gloves while it's ninety degrees (32 degrees Celsius) in Los Angeles," she said.
2012年2月6日星期一
A style full of Grace
FOR next month's Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition, Bendigo Art Gallery director Karen Quinlan wanted most to conjure the woman "to get a clear view of this ordinary person". Quinlan knew the refined, chaste elegance of Kelly's dresses and suits, sunglasses, shoes, handbags and gloves on the way to the gallery from London's Victoria and Albert Museum would convey volumes about her public persona but Quinlan wanted even more intimacy for her visitors. She wanted more "food for thought about this amazing woman who pre-dates all we know about celebrity today".
Quinlan saw Kelly's absence (Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco died in a car crash in 1982 at the age of 52) like a pressing item on her "to do" list, a vacuum that had to be filled.
Bendigo's tribute to Kelly consequently has more photos and filmed fragments from her public persona and private life, more evidence of her real body language and the way she looked when she thought no one was looking. There are more triggers, in other words, to nut out just how the language of Kelly's wardrobe worked for her and in its wider social, historic and cultural contexts.
"It's usually the hardest thing about displaying fashion: that absence," Quinlan says. "And remember here, we're dealing with the absence of a very special, real person."
Most of the mannequins to be dressed in about 40 of Kelly's gowns and outfits - which date from 1954 to the year before her death - for the Bendigo exhibition are headless to minimise distraction, to enable a kind of Brechtian "suspension of disbelief". We can mentally conjure Kelly in that suit or this gown on that day without a replica of her head adding to our sensory confusion. Or, so the theory goes.
"You'll be looking at those garments and you'll be imagining her there," Quinlan says.
Beyond the whimsical spectre of Kelly herself, there is also a doctorate's worth of data to deduce from her clothes. The exhibition traces her sartorial timeline from lean teen collegiate to elegant royal matron in garments from American and Parisian high-fashion collections including some by Madame Gres, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Chanel, Hermes and Oleg Cassini.
Quinlan saw Kelly's absence (Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco died in a car crash in 1982 at the age of 52) like a pressing item on her "to do" list, a vacuum that had to be filled.
Bendigo's tribute to Kelly consequently has more photos and filmed fragments from her public persona and private life, more evidence of her real body language and the way she looked when she thought no one was looking. There are more triggers, in other words, to nut out just how the language of Kelly's wardrobe worked for her and in its wider social, historic and cultural contexts.
"It's usually the hardest thing about displaying fashion: that absence," Quinlan says. "And remember here, we're dealing with the absence of a very special, real person."
Most of the mannequins to be dressed in about 40 of Kelly's gowns and outfits - which date from 1954 to the year before her death - for the Bendigo exhibition are headless to minimise distraction, to enable a kind of Brechtian "suspension of disbelief". We can mentally conjure Kelly in that suit or this gown on that day without a replica of her head adding to our sensory confusion. Or, so the theory goes.
"You'll be looking at those garments and you'll be imagining her there," Quinlan says.
Beyond the whimsical spectre of Kelly herself, there is also a doctorate's worth of data to deduce from her clothes. The exhibition traces her sartorial timeline from lean teen collegiate to elegant royal matron in garments from American and Parisian high-fashion collections including some by Madame Gres, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Chanel, Hermes and Oleg Cassini.
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