Claire thankful to designer Rodriguez for fashion advice - 2007-10-30
Claire Danes credits fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez for advising her to cover up for the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony because the outfit Claire had chosen herself was inappropriate. The actress, who was invited to the ceremony in 1997 after starring in Romeo + Juliet, had first picked out a revealing dress, while Rodriguez chose for her a stylish cashmere top and skirt instead. Claire admitted, “At 17, girls are so confused about sex. Maybe they’ve just started to have it, and they think full exposure is what they’re supposed to aim for, and, of course, it’s not. So I wanted to be sexy for the Oscars!” She added, “And Narciso said: ‘No, you’re a girl. You should look age-appropriate.’ It seems pretty fundamental, but it was important for me to hear that at the time.”
Claire’s accent challege - 2007-09-13
Claire Danes is gearing up for her Broadway debut this October when she portrays Eliza Doolittle in a two-month run of Shaw's Pygmalion. The actress confessed she has neither seen the play, last staged on Broadway in 1987 with Amanda Plummer and Peter O'Toole, nor the musical version with Audrey Hepburn."My Fair Lady," "I feel like the only person on the planet who hasn't seen 'My Fair Lady,' " says Danes from her hotel, full of foreign journalists ready to talkk about her current movies "Stardust" and "Evening." "It actually worked out well for me, because when I first read 'Pygmalion,' I had no expectations or associations. I found myself incredibly caught up in it. I was so involved and moved by the play." Danes, a New Yorker, adds how challenging is to perform a Cockney accent, because she’s already practised a standard British accent in "Stage Beauty" and "Stardust,. "The accent is something I'm going to have to take very seriously," says Danes, who was born and raised in Manhattan's Soho district, where she still lives. "Even English people can get a Cockney accent wrong. But it is handy for me that Hugh's British."
Claire will make her debut in a Broadway - 2007-07-26
Claire Danes has been tapped to star in a Broadway musical later this year, portraying Eliza Doolittle in a play inspired by the award-winning "My Fair Lady”. Danes will star in George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" alongside Tony Award-winning actor Jefferson Mays as Henry Higgins. Danes will play the character of the screen legend Audrey Hepburn in 1964.
Claire Danes couldn't fulfil a childhood fantasy! - 2007-05-03
Claire Danes felt saddened when her unicorn's horn kept falling off during the shooting of her latest fantasy movie 'Stardust'. The blonde actress was unhappy because the mythical unicorn that rescues her charater was under her expectations. In an interview with New York Daily News newspaper, Claire said, "The horn kept falling off. I was so ecstatic to fulfil my six-year-old's fantasy and ride a goddamn unicorn! And when I mounted it, the horn fell off!"
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