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Leila Rozario, the actress who filmed an elevator scene yesterday with Noomi Rapace for Passion, tells De Palma a la Mod she thinks that working on a Brian De Palma film is something she had on her bucket list as an actor. "Have you seen Scarface," she asks rhetorically. "Have you seen The Untouchables or Carlitos Way? I mean these are films that stick with you for life." Rozario has a role in the film as one of the people working at the corporation headed by the Rachel McAdams character.For the elevator scene shot yesterday, Rozario had to speak German, "which is always a challenge for me because my native language is English," she says. "Even though I can speak German fluently, its still a whole different way of talking, thinking, body language." And she was very impressed with Rapace. "I loved watching Noomi work," says Rozario, "she always blew everyone on set away with her performance, each take got better and better, and you could really feel what she was putting across. Normally you can only have that when the movie is done."
Leila Rozario, an actress from New Zealand who is part of the cast for Brian De Palma's Passion, posted on Twitter and Facebook today about working with De Palma and Noomi Rapace on the set. The tweets about today's filming started yesterday, when Rozario wrote that she was "Looking forward to shooting an elevator scene with #BrianDePalma and #RachelMcAdams tomorrow." As it turns out, however, McAdams was not involved in the scene after all. Earlier today, Rozario tweeted, "On set with [N]oomy Rapace and Brian De Palma. I love my job." Then about six or seven hours later, Rozario posted the following to her Facebook page: "I always enjoy watching and learning. Like watching Brian De Palma direct Noomi Rapace on the set of Passion today. Its a wrap*." Rozario, who speaks German as well as English, appeared in the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, which, like Passion, was filmed in and around Berlin.
Wenn mich nicht alles täuscht, könnte vllt am Montag Ridley Scott in der Torstraße seinen Film Passion drehen. Türzettel lässt es vermuten
— Janos Matuschewski (@IamNoSuperman) April 13, 2012
The IMDB's page for Brian De Palma's Passion has added Ian T. Dickinson to the cast credits. Dickinson, a British actor who is a well-established figure in the German film/TV/theatre community (he speaks English and German), is portraying the detective in De Palma's film. According to Dickinson's web site, in the early 1980s, he co-founded and managed the independent record label Anxious Records with Dave Stewart. Dickinson has appeared in Wim Wenders' Person To Person, Hal Hartley's Fay Grim, and James McTeigue's V For Vendetta. Last year, an independent film Dickinson appeared in, Alex Ross' Tom Atkins Blues, played in German cinemas for 53 consecutive weeks. That film was shot in 11 days for about $2,500. Dickinson has the lead role in Ross' new film, the Berlin-set Weak Heart Drop.
A new name has been added to the IMDB's cast credits for Brian De Palma's Passion. According to the site, German actor Frank Witter plays the theatre usher in the film. This would undoubtedly be at the movie theatre frequented by Noomi Rapace's character. It will be interesting to see what she chooses to watch there.
Karoline Herfurth posted another Passion-related update to her Facebook page yesterday (Friday, March 30th). Here's what she posted:
A Berliner Morgenpost article about Rachel McAdams getting a beauty salon pampering, followed by a yoga class, mentions that she probably needed the relaxation Saturday afternoon after filming scenes for Brian De Palma's Passion until four o'clock in the morning at the DZ Bank Building, located at Berlin's Pariser Platz. At left is the view of the bank's atrium from the lobby. The building was designed by famed architect Frank Gehry, and appears to offer stunning interiors for the film's scenes.
As filming on Brian De Palma's Passion enters its fourth week tomorrow, the IMDB has added some more names to the project's credits. Pictured at left is German model/actress/stuntwoman Janine Theisen, who, according to the IMDB, is working as a stunt double on Passion. Theisen, who speaks six different languages including English, can also sing and dance, which has come in handy for some of the television commercials she has appeared in. Also recently added to the IMDB's Passion credits is visual effects designer Frederic Moreau, who has worked regularly with Roman Polanski for decades, as well as with Luc Besson. Henning Brehm, a graphic designer who has worked on big Hollywood films such as Mission: Impossible III and The Bourne Ultimatum, has also joined Passion. Like so many others on the Passion crew, Brehm has previously worked on several Wachowski-brothers projects, including V For Vendetta, Speed Racer, and Cloud Atlas, which is currently in post-production. He also did the graphic design for Zettl, which stars Karoline Herfurth and is currently playing in German theaters.
Gestalten, a Berlin-based company that, according to its web site, "specializes in developing content for aficionados of cutting-edge visual culture worldwide," tweeted on Friday that "our books are going to make a cameo appearance in Brian De Palma's film Passion."