1. Newspapers wrote about this film: 'Fresh, trembling, exciting — this is Romeo and Juliet as you've never seen it before.' Shakespeare's* classic story has been updated (модернизирована) for the big screen.
Here are the questions and the answers from the interview with Ciaire Danes, the actress who played Juliet. They are mixed. Restore the interview. Begin with the question number 3. (reading for detail/sequencing)
1. — Leonardo is impressive as Romeo — but what is he like in real life?
2. — Juliet deals with love and death and pushes herself to extremes. Was that a challenge (вызов)?
3. — What attracted you to the role of Juliet?
4. — What was it like being one of the only girls of the set? How did you feel about it?
5. — What was the most difficult scene to shoot?
A. — The story is about gangs so there were a lot of boys around. I was definitely excluded (исключать) from that. It was like the Wild, Wild West, with 15 crazy boys running around in Mexico (where the film was shot). Things got a little out of control. Thank goodness I had Monica, my best friend, who was also working on the movie. We formed our own little girlie club.
B. — Juliet is remarkable because she is so determined and mature. At the same time, she has an innocence to her, she's young and fresh. She also makes her own decisions and takes fate into her own hands. For a woman, this was totally unheard of in Shakespeare's time.
C. — He's brilliant. Really smart, really talented and extremely tunny. He does great impressions and had me rolling around with laughter. That was important, especially when the scenes were intense. No, we didn't fall in love! It wasn't meant to be.
D. — The ending. I was really scared to go through with that scene. I'll never forget the feeling of being in that empty church and feeling like I'd lost everything. It's pretty frightening to play someone who's facing such a terrible end. Both Leo (Leo DiCaprio) and I wanted to shoot an alternative ending, just so we would know it existed. We couldn't bear the fact that they were actually dying. It's just so tragic.
E. — It was difficult at times. Baz (the director) and I used to joke about it; we'd talk about an imaginary scene we were going to shoot where Juliet is in a coffee shop, complaining to her best friend about a maths class being such a bore! Juliet's life is never 'normal' like that. She is falling in love or defying (пренебрегать) her parents or taking a sleeping portion or dying. Everything about her is real; it's just heightened and very dramatic. The trick is never to hide. It was hard, sometimes, but it was a real treat to play.
Young Telegraph March 29, 1997
Here are the questions and the answers from the interview with Ciaire Danes, the actress who played Juliet. They are mixed. Restore the interview. Begin with the question number 3. (reading for detail/sequencing)
1. — Leonardo is impressive as Romeo — but what is he like in real life?
2. — Juliet deals with love and death and pushes herself to extremes. Was that a challenge (вызов)?
3. — What attracted you to the role of Juliet?
4. — What was it like being one of the only girls of the set? How did you feel about it?
5. — What was the most difficult scene to shoot?
A. — The story is about gangs so there were a lot of boys around. I was definitely excluded (исключать) from that. It was like the Wild, Wild West, with 15 crazy boys running around in Mexico (where the film was shot). Things got a little out of control. Thank goodness I had Monica, my best friend, who was also working on the movie. We formed our own little girlie club.
B. — Juliet is remarkable because she is so determined and mature. At the same time, she has an innocence to her, she's young and fresh. She also makes her own decisions and takes fate into her own hands. For a woman, this was totally unheard of in Shakespeare's time.
C. — He's brilliant. Really smart, really talented and extremely tunny. He does great impressions and had me rolling around with laughter. That was important, especially when the scenes were intense. No, we didn't fall in love! It wasn't meant to be.
D. — The ending. I was really scared to go through with that scene. I'll never forget the feeling of being in that empty church and feeling like I'd lost everything. It's pretty frightening to play someone who's facing such a terrible end. Both Leo (Leo DiCaprio) and I wanted to shoot an alternative ending, just so we would know it existed. We couldn't bear the fact that they were actually dying. It's just so tragic.
E. — It was difficult at times. Baz (the director) and I used to joke about it; we'd talk about an imaginary scene we were going to shoot where Juliet is in a coffee shop, complaining to her best friend about a maths class being such a bore! Juliet's life is never 'normal' like that. She is falling in love or defying (пренебрегать) her parents or taking a sleeping portion or dying. Everything about her is real; it's just heightened and very dramatic. The trick is never to hide. It was hard, sometimes, but it was a real treat to play.
Young Telegraph March 29, 1997