Posts Tagged ‘eagle eye’

Billy Bob Feels Madonna’s Pain

October 17th, 2008

Last night, as Madonna and Guy Ritchie began divorce proceedings under the whole world’s gaze, OK! talked to another star who knows exactly what they’re going through.

And Billy Bob Thorton, whose break-up with Angelina Jolie made headlines around the globe in 2003, told us that in the middle of a personal crisis, it’s easy to wish you were just an average Joe.

In fact, the actor said that after having his life’s ups and downs scrutinized by the media, he’d love to lose the limelight altogether.

"I always want to be annonymous in every aspect of my life," said Billy Bob at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s All For The Hall benefit in New York, where he was singing with his band, the Boxmasters.

"I’ve been famous for a long time — I’m tired of that s**t. I just want to be in a band."

But the Eagle Eye star, who won an Oscar for Switch Blade, says that once you’ve chosen a life in the spotlight, there’s no going back.

"You can’t not be famous once you are. Once you’ve screwed a bunch of pretty girls and won an Academy Award, you’re screwed," complains Billy Bob.

Ain’t life tough!

Shia La Beouf: I’ve Been Lucky

September 26th, 2008

These days it seems like every action flick to come out is starring Shia LaBeouf, whether he’s battling evil robots in Transformers or fighting the bad guys alongside Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
 
And now in Eagle Eye the omnipresent Shia is up against intangible villains invading his privacy, something he knows about firsthand.
 
"I kind of live in a fishbowl, but what people don’t realize is that I’m not the only one," he tells Parade.com." The irony is they say to me, ‘I don’t know how you can deal with being followed and recorded everywhere you go.’ And while they’re saying that they may be getting recorded."
 
As for the common reaction that worries about privacy invasion are overly paranoid, Shia admits that he’s become a believer when it comes to the idea that we’re being monitored.
 
"I tell you what got my attention," he says. "There was a CIA guy on the set who played back a cell phone conversation I’d had two years ago. It’s a tangible reality that one in five phone conversations you have is recorded, that your ADT security box in your home can be activated and used against you and OnStar in your car could allow somebody to shut your car down on the freeway. Big Brother is invading our lives because we’ve allowed him to and that’s terrifying."
 
While Shia says he didn’t shy away from doing hard physical stunts on the set of Eagle Eye, he may have to be more careful in the future after the car accident he was in in July left him with a hand injury.
 
"I just remember a car coming at me really fast and then my truck flipped twice," he says of the collision. "I had my arm out the window which is how my fingers got crushed. It was pretty bad and I’m due back for a second operation but I think I’ll be fine."
 
Shia’s rapidly rising career hasn’t given him a big head, however –  in fact, the Disturbia actor thinks anyone could be in his place.
 
"I think I’ve just been riding coattails. I mean, come on, Indy Jones was going to be a success whether I was in it or not," he says. "You could have put Freddie Prinze Jr. in my part. Put Frankie Muniz in Transformers and it still would have been a hit. So I realize how lucky I’ve been."
 
Whatever the case, Shia’s been making a name for himself in the business, a name which is pretty unusual at that.
 
"In French, LaBeouf means ‘beef,’ but mine is spelled wrong. It should be ‘LaBoeuf, ‘ " he reveals. "My grandmother was a beatnik lesbian in the ’50s, who hated her family and decided to change the spelling, and it’s been that way ever since. So you go to France and people are like, ‘LaBeouf? You have an illiterate last name.’ "
 
And it’s not only his last name that has the French giving him funny looks!
 
"By the way," he adds, "Shia is a bad four-letter word in French. So the literal translation of my name is ‘S*** the Beef.’  Kind of rock-starry isn’t it?"

Rosario Dawson: Cameras Are Everywhere

September 22nd, 2008

In new action-packed thriller Eagle Eye, Rosario Dawson sheds her pretty girl image to play a government agent, alongside Shia LaBeouf and Billy Bob Thornton, battling against a mysterious, privacy-stealing female foe.

 

And when it comes to her own privacy, Rosario tells Parade in a new interview that she’s always been concerned with keeping her private life under wraps.

 

"It’s freaky, but I was never been able to keep diary as a child because I was always afraid that someone was going to read it. I remember I used to write stuff down that I really thought I should remember," she confesess. "But I would write it in code. And then I’d try to read what I wrote and I couldn’t. I’m going, ‘Oh, this just sucks.’ But I always had this weird feeling that someone could invade my privacy."

 

With the recent eruption in technology, people have more information at their fingertips than ever before, a fact that Rosario say she’s not too comfortable with.

 

"It seems like everything from your e-mails to cell phone calls get recorded and there are video cameras everywhere, she says. "You go online to shop and a web site tells you, ‘This is what you bought last week so this is what you would like this week.’ It’s scary where we’re going." 

 

As for her decision to portray violence onscree in Eagle Eye, the stunning starlet says she’s tired of the helpless roles women often play in movies.

 

"I’m just tired of all the movies like Saw where women are the objects of brutality. We’re at war right now. And it’s really interesting that it seems like such a male-dominant thing," she tells Parade. "But there are a lot of women who are a part of the fight in Iraq, and people don’t ever really think about that."

Michelle Monaghan: Yummy Mummy

September 19th, 2008

At the red carpet premiere for her movie Eagle Eye, a very pregnant Michelle Monaghan radiated as she posed for photographers outside Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

The 32-year-old actress wowed in a black sleeveless dress and sky-high black heels as she made her way down the red carpet. Not present was Michelle’s hubby of three years, Peter White. But that was okay… Monaghan had enough help as co-star Rosario Dawson greeted her and oooed and awed over her growing belly.

At one point, an eyewitness tells OK! that director DJ Caruso had both of his hands on her belly as well as he knelt down closer to it, while her other co-star, Michael Chiklis and Dawson looked on with giant smiles on their faces.

Rosario’s New Man

September 19th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Rosario Dawson has a new man and she doesn’t care who knows it! The 29-year-old actress arrived at the premiere of her new film Eagle Eye with her boyfriend of seven months DJ Mathieu Schreyer, a.k.a. Mr. French, at her side.

Schreyer, who was born in France and is now L.A. based, looked sharp in a suit that complemented Rosario’s green Prada dress. While the two arrived together, Schreyer held back as his lady made her way down the red carpet outside Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

An eyewitness tells OK! that the DJ — who spins at L.A.’s Bar Marmont and Hyde — looked a bit anxious and nervous, adjusting his pants and shirt while Rosario did interviews.  

 

Perhaps he was thinking about her ex, Sex and the City’s Jason Lewis.  Hey, there’s no competing with the Absolut Hunk!

Shia: Crash Was “Terrifying”

September 15th, 2008

After Shia LaBeouf was hospitalized with a hand injury due to a car accident in July, the star of new movie Eagle Eye stayed mum on the incident, which also involved his Transformers co-star Isabel Lucas.

 

But in tonight’s interview with Entertainment Tonight‘s Mark Steines, Shia opens up about the accident, saying it was "eye opening and terrifying."

 

"The car hit me at 70mph," Shia says of the other vehicle. "It was one of the biggest things that’s happened to me, for sure, in my life. I’m grateful to be here."

 

Although the 22-year-old had been drinking and was cited with a misdemeanor for driving under the influence, authorities cleared him of blame for the collision, as the driver of the other car involved ran a red light before hitting Shia’s truck.

 

Catch the rest of Shia’s interview with ET tonight!

 

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