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than 20 pounds. I’m already like a skinny man. It was tough. It wasn’t easy at all. Even though the movie is what people like to call a dramedy or something like that. My personal experience was much more into the dramatic part. Thank God, I had Jim. He’s such an amazing, creative person and such a gentleman. He was great. It was a great experience.” Speaking of Jim Carrey, Rodrigo Santoro
explains just what he feels Carrey brings to this role as real-life conman extraordinaire Steven Russell. “I think Jim is a genius. I love his work. I think it’s a great combination that he brings to the table in this one. We see him, most of the time in comedy. Now, in this film, it’s a combina- tion of what is truly happening to that character. Everything he’s been doing is for love. After all…it’s a love story. That’s how I like to call this film. Jim is such an amazing actor that I think he was able to combine drama and comedy very precisely. That’s what I like about his performance in the movie.” As Ewan McGregor’s character of Phillip Morris
comes into view midway through the film, Rodrigo Santoro didn’t have any scenes with Ewan, yet shares his take on what McGregor brings to I Love You, Phillip Morris. “What can I say…without being redundant? First of all, he is such a great guy. He’s the guy you want to hang out with. You don’t know him but you meet him for five seconds and that’s enough to really like the guy. That’s the feeling I got from Ewan. We were hanging out the very first week of filming in Miami, when I first got there. We had some table readings with the directors and we went out a little bit. Then…I actually didn’t see him again [as Ewan’s character] was in jail!” Playing a gay man with AIDS in the early 1980s is such a different scope of dealing with the disease as we know it today. Santoro goes deeper into his portrayal and adds, “He knew he was sick and that was a big deal. That’s a big dif- ference when you’re aware of it. At that time, people were like ‘What is going on? How are we going to treat this? What is it?’ It was the beginning of it, so that was a big thing. That’s kind of the understanding or the deeper level of Jimmy…somebody who knew he was going to die soon. But he was in love…absolutely in love. It wasn’t his first love but his first REAL love. What he had with Steve was real and it meant so much for him. I think if I’m not wrong that Steve knew that he was sick and stayed with him and took care of him. He was great to him until the very, very end. Steve is a very passionate character as well as is the story in the film.”
I Love You, Phillip Morris is in theatres in L.A. on December 3 and opens in San Diego on December 17.
“Everything he’s been doing is for love. After all…it’s a love story. That’s how I like to call this film. Jim is such an amaz- ing actor that I think he was able to combine drama and comedy very precisely.”
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RAGE monthly | DECEMBER 2010
STEVEN MEETS PHILLIP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS.
JIM CARREY AS STEVEN RUSSELL IN I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS
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