Ed Harris Obsession
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> Talk about obsession. Ed Harris has devoted only the last 10 years of his
life
> to a movie that has left him both exhausted and exhilarated.
>
> The project is "Pollock," a biopic about the tumultuous life of American
> painter Jackson Pollock, in which the 49-year-old Harris makes his
directorial
> debut. He also plays the title role, and those who have seen his work in
the
> film are whispering Oscar.
>
> Yet Harris is nowhere near done.
>
> "Even though I'm going on to other things, I'm still very much involved
with
> the marketing aspect of [the movie]," said Harris after the film was
screened
> last week at the Guggenheim Museum.
>
> "Pollock" will be released in Los Angeles for one week in December for
Academy
> Awards consideration, and also in New York for a week next month, but
audiences
> across the country will have to wait until February for the nationwide
release.
>
> "I just hope it has a nice life out there in the world," Harris said.
>
> The actor-director seems not at all worried that people who have never
heard of
> the master of drip technique might not choose to see the movie.
>
> "I'm hoping that if it gets out a little bit, people will see it's not
just an
> art film," said Harris, who was surrounded at the screening by such
A-listers
> as Robert De Niro, Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe, Chazz Palminteri, Angie
Harmon,
> Joe Pantoliano, David Bowie and Iman, and the movie's co-stars, Marcia Gay
> Harden and Stephanie Seymour.
>
> "There are some universal things going on in terms of struggle,
relationships,
> the desire to create, the battles people fight with themselves," said
Harris.
>
> "So, hopefully, ["Pollock"] has a larger appeal than just to painters."
>
> Harden, who plays Pollock's wife, the artist Lee Krasner, agreed.
>
> "This story is a very classic relationship story, and I think people will
be
> drawn to that," she said.
>
> "And on top of that, [Pollock] is a great American painter."
>
> Harden added that she felt extremely lucky to have been able to work with
> Harris in his first stint as a director.
>
> "It was a labor of passion for him. It was a story that he wanted to tell
and
> needed to tell," she said.
>
> "He dove into the deep end. I felt like he guided me and pulled from me a
> performance that was surprising to me. He took me deeper than I had
thought I
> could - or probably was even ready to - go. I felt safe, though."
>
> Swank, who won the Best Actress Oscar last March for her starring role in
"Boys
> Don't Cry," seemed impressed that Harris managed to pull off the movie
without
> a lot of Hollywood support.
>
> "It's very hard to show both sides of the creative life and the actual
life,"
> she said. "They did it so well and so beautifully. Any movie that's made
with
> very little money - more power to you."
>
> "[Harris] is at the top of his game," added Swank's husband and fellow
actor,
> Lowe. "You can tell his heart and soul, every cell in his body, is devoted
and
> committed to the role. It's very inspiring."
>
> Even though Harris himself wouldn't go that far in praising his film, he
did
> smile and allow himself a small pat on the back.
>
> "I feel good about it," he said. "It's hard to be objective about it, but
I'm
> very proud of the film."
>
>
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