What has Marisa Tomei talked about in reference to her Wrestler movie coming out?”
Last month I had the opportunity to sit down with Marisa Tomei and talk about her latest film, The Wrestler. Tomei’s performance was awarded Best Actress by the San Francisco Critics Circle yesterday. The interview was conducted in a two person roundtable with Jeff Anderson. /Film: I had one question, and I’m hoping it’s not a dumb one or one that you’ve been asked too many times, but say you’re in the middle of shooting The Wrestler, and you’re walking around and people are like “Hey Marisa, what are you working on right now?” What do you tell them? Do you tell them “I’m playing an exotic dancer,” and what kind of reaction does that get? Or do you say “I’m working with Darren Aronofsky.” Marisa Tomei: It depends who it is. It depends who asks me. It depends what I want to tell them and what kind of reaction I want to elicit. /Film: Because exotic dancer is a strange thing. There’s this sort of– there’s a lot of them. Some of them win Oscars and some of them– so I don’t know– there’s a
Both Marisa Tomei and Mickey Rourke are receiving rave reviews for their performances in the dramatic film The Wrestler directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain). The Wrestler picked up the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, earned a spot on the National Board of Review’s Top 10 Films of 2008 list, and is being hailed as the movie that’ll resurrect Rourke’s career. And Tomei’s supporting turn as a stripper who befriends an aging wrestler (played by Rourke) is being heralded as one of the best performances of her Oscar-winning career. Marisa Tomei Interview How much does the fact the character is a stripper weigh into the decision to take on a role? Did the part interest you and it didn’t matter what she did for a living? Marisa Tomei: “Well it’s all of it – it’s the director, it’s the writing, and the particular challenges of whatever part it is going to be. And usually it’s the location and the weather too, but I had to scrap that for this one.” How heavily does that usually w
