On a cold, drizzly day (somewhat
suitable, one might say) at the Claridge's Hotel, there was a feeling of
excitement in the air that you could cut with a knife as the cast and creative team of the highly-anticipated new movie-musical Sweeney Todd crowded a press junket in London.
In a very special BroadwayWorld exclusive, London reporter Nick Hutson provides a very special Q/A series with the likes of Johnny Depp, renown composer Stephen Sondheim; plus stars Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, and director Tim Burton and the stars
of tomorrow Ed Sanders, Jayne Weisner and Jamie Campbell Bower.
Stay Tuned as BroadwayWorld brings you even more exclusive content and features on Sweeney Todd! In theatres for limited national release December 21, 2007 and wide
January 11, 2008.
JAYNE WEISNER (JOHANNA)
AND JAMIE CAMPBELL-BOWER (ANTHONY)
Two newcomers to film
play the films two young lovers. We were
discussing the different life styles between the US
and the UK and what they
like best about the US.
Jayne Weisner: I
tell you…I really like the sweets…well, apart from their chocolate! I like the accent, I like the lifestyle, I
don't know. I like my lifestyle too, I
like the British lifestyle.
I asked if London has become similar to New York City.
Jayne Weisner &
Jamie Campbell-Bower: No.
Jamie Campbell-Bower:
Just shoot you down…I mean London's
kind of where it all began, really.
Jayne Weisner: London's an incredible
place.
The grass is always
greener, as they say.
Jamie Campbell-Bower:
I can't live in Hollywood. I can't leave London.
Jayne Weisner:
It's too good.
Jamie Campbell-Bower:
Yeah…I think LA's kind of fake.
Obviously it is…you've got to play the game but I wouldn't want to play
the game 24/7.
ED SANDERS
(TOBIAS)
Ed Sanders is
fourteen years old and plays the complex and dark character of Tobias. Not only
does acting this role involve an understanding of a vastly complex and
disturbed character, but he also gets to sing arguably one of the most famous
and beautiful songs in Sondheim's repertoire.
What does this singing this song feel like to him?
Ed Sanders: It's
an amazing feeling…yeah, it's quite scary but I'm very happy with how it came
out in the end. Definitely the musical
side film, I think is definitely having its time at the moment. I think it will be very good.
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DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Presents a
Parkes/MacDonald and Zanuck Company Production, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Tim
Burton. Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Walter Parkes, Laurie
MacDonald and John Logan; Executive Producer Patrick McCormick.
