Moore Doesn’t Mind Working With Ex-Flame Estevez
Posted September 15, 2006 12:00 pm.
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Capote was one of the big stories at last year’s Oscars, as the independent film received five nominations in major categories and netted Philip Seymour Hoffman a best lead actor trophy.
That film’s theme – author Truman Capote’s life-altering experience investigating and then writing about the Clutter murders of Holcomb, Kansas – is the subject of another movie that just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Infamous stars British actor Toby Jones – known mainly for his supporting roles up to this point – as Capote and Sandra Bullock as his friend from childhood and confidant Harper Lee.
Bullock and another of the film’s co-stars, Sigourney Weaver, showed up at the Roy Thomson Hall premiere Thursday night. Whether it’ll earn similar attention and Oscar buzz when it hits movie screens in October remains to be seen.
It was Weaver’s second premiere of the festival – she also starred in the Canadian-made movie Snow Cake.
Earlier on Thursday Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and her partner Ashton Kutcher walked the red carpet for the premiere of Bobby. Directed by Moore’s former flame Emilio Estevez, the story centres around the night Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968.
Moore said she had a great time working on the film and didn’t feel awkward working with Estevez.
“It’s fantastic because he’s one of the loveliest people I’ve ever known,” the actress enthused. “To have this opportunity was just a gift.”
In Bobby, Moore plays a fading nightclub star battling alcoholism.
Friday’s premieres are for Chinese film The Banquet, starring Ziyi Zhang, at 6:30pm, followed by the Danish movie After the Wedding.
