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Amber and Arielle have a
Grudge
AMBER TAMBLYN AND ARIELLE
KEBBEL HAVE A GRUDGE, TOO WITH DIRECTOR TAKASHI SHIMIZU
As Comic-Con winded down for
its
final day of studio press touring, the cast and director of THE GRUDGE 2
hinted
at what to expect from the horror movie sequel follow-up due in theaters on
October 13.
While Sarah Michelle Gellar
will
only make a cameo (and you can guess how that will end up), JOAN
OF ARCADIA’s Amber
Tamblyn will pick up the
starring role as her sister.
"I’m sort of the
underdog of the family in the sense that Sarah’s character Karen is really
loved by her mother," says Tamblyn. "She’s very close to our Mom
and
I’m not that close to our mother. Karen has gone through what happened in
the
first GRUDGE and my mother basically sends me off to see what
happened.
So it’s about reevaluating and figuring out my relationship with her and
where
that leads us -- if it goes anywhere."
Even though Takashi Shimizu
is
back in the director’s chair essentially doing a qausi- remake to his
Japanese
sequel film
JU-ON, Tamblyn
reveals that the similarities between the two follow-ups are completely
different.
"A lot of people
have
been asking how much this movie is going to mirror the sequel to
JU-ON
and it really barely does," says the actress. "Maybe one plot
does,
but every thing else is completely changed."
Arielle Kebbel, who plays
Allison
in the new film, says it’s part of the fun discovering what’s different and
what’s the same between the two films.
"I think that’s part of
the fun," she admits. "It sticks with Shimizu’s style of all of
his JU-ON
and GRUDGE films which is it’s not in sequential order -- a lot of it
is flashes and images and trying to figure out who is dead, who is alive,
what
is the time sequence that this is all happening and how it’s all related.
The
fun thing about this film is because it’s a sequel, you have all those
things
but they’re doubled, almost tripled because there are really three different
solid story lines and events. And it takes until the last second of the film
to
try and figure out how Jennifer [Beal’s] story line is linking with
Amber’s
story line which is linking to my [Allison] story line."
As for director Shimizu,
speaking
through a translator, he revealed that this may not be the end of THE
GRUDGE franchise
for him – even though he says he has other ideas for other movies he’d like
to make.
"I don’t really know if
there will be a PART 3, but we’ve been talking about it and I don’t
know if I’d be the director as well," says Shimizu. "I’d like to
keep the unique world of JU-ON, but in any event I’d like to be
involved as the producer, the writer or maybe the director. We don’t know
yet,
but I’d like to be part of it."
By: ANNE
MOORE
AND CARL CORTEZ
www.ifmagazine.com
7/25/06
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