(28 Apr 2014) ZOE SALDANA STARS IN 'ROSEMARY'S BABY' REMAKE
If you want sympathy on a film set - don a prosthetic belly!
That's the advice of American actress Zoe Saldana who plays the title character in an adaptation of psychological horror, "Rosemary's Baby."
"Every time I wear the really big ones, it breaks everybody's heart whenever we're doing all those stressful scenes so I am milking that, I am really milking that," Saldana quipped in March as she sat in a hospital room in the Issy-Les-Moulineaux area of Paris, which was used as a filming location.
Saldana plays Rosemary Woodhouse in the two-episode TV version of Ira Levin's 1967 book, which director Roman Polankski turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 1968.
The four-hour mini-series, which also stars Patrick J. Adams, Jason Isaacs and Carole Bouquet, was directed by Agnieszka Holland. It will air in America on NBC on May 11 - Mother's Day in the U.S., for anyone not keeping track - and May 15.
Saldana and Adams play a young American couple who settle in Paris and become acquainted with their posh French neighbors, Margaux and Roman Castevet, played by Bouquet and Isaacs.
The newly pregnant Rosemary begins to worry that the Castevets have malevolent plans for her baby.
Holland, a Polish director known for her work on "The Wire" and "Treme," says the plot of "Rosemary's Baby" follows Levin's book closely, despite the action moving from New York to Paris.
"The storyline is pretty much the same," said Holland, a three-time Oscar nominee. "It has more adventures, it has more blood, it has more gore because it is, you know, (a) contemporary American TV series so you need some meat inside."
According to Adams, a Canadian actor famous for playing Mike Ross, an up-and-coming New York lawyer in the series "Suits," moving the story from America to France serves to further isolate the two lead characters.
"We've taken two people out of New York, out of their home, away from people that they know and love, away from their families, put them in a completely brand new setting," he explained. "That can be exciting - the way that we know this as tourists when we come and we love it - but that unknown and the sense of being alone in a place can be so terrifying. And I think it really ends up putting Guy and Rosemary in a difficult position because they don't know anybody."
There are a few other tweaks in Holland's version, including a change of career for Adams' character - Rosemary's husband, Guy.
"Guy is, for example, a writer in this version and he was an actor in the other and I think that has a different effect," said Adams. "I think it makes him a very different person. It makes him someone in control of his own fate to some extent because he is a writer - he can go home and write as opposed to an actor that always depends on someone else. So that alone is going to say something a little bit different about the Guy Woodhouse in our take of it."
One thing which has remained the same is Rosemary's trusting, open-hearted nature, which sees her easily manipulated by her creepy neighbors.
"She is a very kind-hearted, light-hearted individual who's very trusting of people and is naturally polite at first," revealed Saldana. "So that is a characteristic of a personality, you know?"
Bouquet, a French film star and former Bond girl, plays devilish neighbor Margaux Castevet - a role which won Ruth Gordon an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Polanki's big-screen version.
"Rosemary's Baby" will air in America on NBC on May 11 and May 15.
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