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Hollywood Beat / CSN - Movie Review: -- 'Come Early
Morning' /Portrait of a woman forlorn. Written and
Directed by Joey Lauren Adams--
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November - 2006 / Before Joey Lauren Adams became a
Film actress/director, the charmer, just 19 years
old, was the featured background singer/dancer on
the Troy Cory Show performing in China at the
Shanghai TV-Film Festival. CLICK
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STORY.
•••
"After the show was over," said Troy, "the last
time I saw Joey and the other three performers was
waving goodbye at the San Francisco Airport in
1988.
•••
It wasn't until 10 years later, in 1997, that I saw
her once again. She was on the silver screen
playing the role as Alyssa Jones in the 1997 film
Chasing Amy, opposite Ben Affleck, which brought
her a lot of attention for her portrayal of a
lesbian who falls for a man. Director Kevin Smith
wrote and directed the film, which was largely
inspired by his friendship with lesbian
actress/writer/director Guinevere Turner.
•••
It seems inspiration was what brought on the story
of Lucy, played by Ashley Judd, a hardworking woman
who keeps finding herself waking up in the beds of
strange men after a night of imbibing. Over the
course of Adams' directorial debut, we learn a bit
more about why Lucy does these things, even after
she meets Cal (Jeffrey Donovan), who may be the
perfect guy for her.
••• It
was during a recent press conference in New York,
where Adams told the CSN press about how she wanted
to approach this Southern-based film.
Part
02
/ Quotes from Adams and Judd
•••
ADAMS: "I noticed that most of my favorite Southern
films have been directed by foreign directors,
which I found interesting.
•••
I spent a lot of time thinking about that before I
went to direct this. It was really important to me
to do an authentic, real, honest portrayal. It's
like doing a documentary, you have to go in
unbiased.
•••
I actually talked to John Travolta, because I think
'Urban Cowboy' is a great movie in that way. He
said that they were never commenting on the
characters, and I think that's what we tried to
do."
••• "I
was biased about getting Southern actors," she
continued. "You see something like 'Cold Mountain,'
they don't shoot in America and the actors are
foreign, not that they're not amazing.
•••
We didn't have a lot of rehearsal or time to sit
down and explain to an Australian actor what the
South is like and work with the dialect coach. We
couldn't afford all that. We had no rehearsals
actually, so there was something nice in having
actors that just got it."
•••
JUDD: "When I read the script, the sense of place
was very clear, the tone was very present on the
first page, and the writing, while very simple,
expressed a profound understanding of the place,"
Judd added when asked about her decision to take on
the role of Lucy in Adams' low-budget drama.
•••
"I was on board at that point. Not only was there
an understanding of what the South historically has
been, but what it is now, and that to me is very
good writing, where with so few words so much can
be expressed."
•••
ADAMS: "Seeing Rick (Linklater) and Kevin (Smith),
they're so laid-back," Adams said about taking on
the directing role for the film. "I guess I always
thought as a director as the older man with a ball
cap or the khaki pants and the boots and the little
eyepiece thing.
•••
Seeing someone like Kevin (Smith) or Rick
(Linklater) direct and make it look so easy, I
think that instilled a confidence in me that I
probably wasn't even aware of at the time going
into it. When we were going through everything and
it looked like we were going to start shooting, I
definitely called Rick a lot."
•••
Judd told us what gave her the confidence in Joey
as a director after reading the script.
•••
JUDD:"It was very clear and very simple and maybe
if she hadn't written the script, maybe I would
have wanted more information or our lunch would
have included more of why this was important to
you? how do you want to shoot?
•••
Or things like that? But you read the script and
meet the woman and it's just very clear. There's
such a non-story story about our relationship and
how we made the movie."
•••
ADAMS: "I think now in retrospect, there was so
many different ways I was trying to make this
work," Adams admitted when asked about their
relationship. "At one point, I was going to act, I
was going to direct, I was going to do both or just
act.
•••
We had this actor attached, a very famous actor,
and I went to this seminar about how to get an
independent film made and the first thing the first
producer said was to get an actor attached, and he
mentioned the name of the actor we had attached,
and we still couldn't get the
money!
•••
We walked out. I was trying too hard to make these
pieces fit that didn't fit that once I let go and
said I was just going to direct and make this
movie, how quickly it all just fell perfectly. I
was really nervous when I heard Ashley liked the
script.
•••
We were going to meet for lunch, but once we got
there, I don't think we even discussed the script
that much. There was just a knowing that this was
going to happen and an immediate ease and trust.
"
•••
Judd had some thoughts on the character of Lucy and
why she related to her so much.
•••
JUDD:"The way I describe Lucy is that I'm doing the
same thing over and over again and expecting
different results, and I'm increasingly baffled and
enraged that the results aren't different.
•••
So my attitude is that I'll just do it more and
harder and more often and that will induce the long
sought after result. I've done that plenty in my
life with a lot of different things. I know that in
my acting I learned the stuff myself years ago.
•••
If I was trying to do things a certain way or with
a certain intention, I would try that again and
again and again without realizing that I could
back-up and go in a whole different direction, and
that's really where directors have been helpful to
me in my career.
•••
They'll bring me back out to the intersection and
say, 'You have all these different roads you can
try.' I'll just try to bang myself through that
dead-end brick wall. I related to that so much in
Lucy; I identify with that significantly, and maybe
that's why it was so easy.
•••
When Joey would say, 'In this scene, you're taking
responsibility for yourself,' and I very much
understood what that meant. Another actor might
have killed her."
•••
CSN: And what about the rest of the casting?
•••
ADAMS:"I'd like to take complete credit for it, but
I can't," Adams said modestly. "Literally, we were
three days from shooting and I had two actors cast.
•••
I had Ashley and Dianne Ladd, and we didn't have
the location for Nana's [the bar] yet, so I
had nothing to shoot on Monday and it was a week
before shooting. So I called Jon Favreau, and said,
'Should I pull out?' and he said, 'No, it will come
together.'
•••
Julie Yorn just had these connections, she said,
'Tim Blake Nelson' and I said, 'Can we? Would he?'
Billy Bob and Tim Blake Nelson have a running joke
that Tim gets all of Billy Bob's leftovers.
•••
He was attached for years and years to play that
role, but once we were finally shooting, he was in
L.A. shooting something and couldn't do it. That
was Julie Yorn, one of our producers' ideas.
•••
I'll take credit for Ashley and for Cal. Jeffrey
Donovan came in and read and I fought really hard
to get him. Ray McKinnon was my choice. I didn't
want you to go into Nana's and have Shirley
MacLaine and Ned Beatty sitting there, because the
story is so small. If you didn't believe that these
characters are still in that house bickering, it
wasn't going to work."
•••
When Come Early Morning debuted at the Sundance
Film Festival earlier this year, it had a bit of
thematic company in Laurie Collyer's Sherrybaby, a
similar indie&emdash;also the directorial debut by
a woman&emdash;starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a lost
woman trying to find herself.
•••
Adams liked the film but said she was glad her
movie was different.
•••
ADAMS: "I really wanted to make a movie and see a
female character who is not a heroin addict, who is
not molested by her father, who is not being beaten
up by her boyfriend.
•••
I don't know a lot of people like that; that's not
my experience. I wanted to see that film. I've
never had a huge thing that's changed my life
forever. For me, my growth has been so incremental.
These little baby steps and you work so hard just
for a slight shift in your perspective and you just
have to keep on going and that's what I wanted to
make the movie about."
Part
03 / Joey Lauren Adams, The Director
•
•
Avowedly mining bits of her
own Arkansas background for inspiration, Adams has
crafted a fully realized portrait of a woman in
transition. Her dialogue feels sharp and authentic,
its rhythm and cadence faintly echoing Kevin Smith,
who directed Adams in her best-known film, 1997's
"Chasing Amy." Like "Amy" it raises salient
questions about gender roles and female
promiscuity.)
•
• Adams,
frustrated over the dearth of good female roles,
originally wrote the film as an acting vehicle for
herself. Having opted to direct instead, she found
a fitting actress in Judd. It's a part that calls
to mind Judd's screen debut as another woman
searching for her identity in 1993's "Ruby in
Paradise." The supporting players are equally
strong, especially Tim Blake Nelson as Lucy's uncle
and Diane Ladd as her stoic grandmother.
•
•
Cinematographer Tim Orr has shot the North
Little Rock locations with such attention to detail
and texture that it's a shame Adams couldn't have
resisted the temptation for cheap and easy
metaphors, like the wounded stray Lucy takes in
(after having been hurt herself in a bar fight). To
its credit, the film doesn't end as tidily as it
might have, implying instead that Lucy's journey
toward self-discovery will be ongoing.
•
• A
Roadside Attractions release. Writer-director Joey
Lauren Adams. Producers Julie Yorn, Holly Wiersma.
Cinematographer Tim Orr. Editor Meg Reticker. Music
Alan Brewer. Production design Max Biscoe. Costume
design Lee Hunsaker. Running time 1 hour, 37
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