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‘I came in and I was Mae West for awhile,’ star laughs to MTV News at Cannes about her audition.By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
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CANNES, France — The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival, a.k.a. the world’s most glamorous film fete, tends to attract the biggest and brightest stars working in the business. On Tuesday, we had the pleasure of chatting with “Puss in Boots” stars Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, and on Wednesday (May 11), we caught up with “Kung Fu Panda 2″ A-listers Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.
During a brief sit-down with the funnyman and his leading lady, MTV News asked Jolie to let us in on the secrets behind her audition for the animated flick, specifically addressing a rumor that she spoke in a variety of voices and accents in an effort to get the job.
“I did, I did,” Jolie confirmed. “I’ve never loved my own voice. Like most people, you hear your own voice and you think, ‘Ugh.’ So I came in and I was Mae West for a while,” she said of the saucy screen legend. “I was doing southern, I was doing British, I was doing any accent I could come up with. Finally, they had to give me the talking-to that they’d analyzed my voice and they’d hired me and they were very fine with my [natural voice], ‘So please just stop doing those horrible voices,’ ” she recalled with a laugh.
In the “Kung Fu Panda” sequel, Jolie reprises her role as the feisty fighter Tigress, alongside Dragon Warrior Po (Black). The “awesome” world of the fighters is threatened by the emergence of a new villain who plans to conquer China and destroy kung fu with a secret, unstoppable weapon. Naturally, Po, Tigress and the rest of the Furious Five must spring to action to prevent that from happening.
Stick with MTV News all week for all of the scoop from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Check out everything we’ve got on “Kung Fu Panda 2.”
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‘When I’m not doing this, I wear the same pants and same shirt every day,’ ‘Kung Fu Panda’ co-star Jolie admits.By Christina Garibaldi, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
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CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival brings out the biggest stars, but it has also become one of the most glamorous events of the year, as we witnessed on the first day of the event. So when one has to work the red carpet at the festival, one has to make sure she looks her best, which isn’t a problem for “Kung Fu Panda 2″ star Angelina Jolie.
Jolie, who is known for her classic, elegant style, is used to turning heads. But when we caught up with the actress, we had to ask if she ever feels she has to top herself at Cannes.
“It’s all the same,” Jolie said of the pressure of dressing for a red carpet. “When I’m not doing this, I wear the same pants and same shirt every day. I don’t change.”
Jolie’s funnyman costar Jack Black chimed in, asking, “Don’t you wash them?”
“On occasion, but I have a few of the same things. It’s like a uniform,” Jolie replied.
Well, we can’t say that Black takes the same laid-back approach to fashion. When planning for Cannes, he decided to bring his style to a whole new level.
“I wore my best shirt, favorite jeans and cream-colored pumas,” Black joked. “I’m giving you my A-stuff.”
In the “Kung Fu Panda” sequel, Black and Jolie reprise their roles as Dragon Warrior Po and Tigress, respectively. But the audition for the role wasn’t easy for Jolie, who had to get past her fear of her own voice.
“I was doing Southern, I was doing British, I was doing any accent I could come up with,” Jolie said. “Finally, they had to give me the talking-to that they’d analyzed my voice, they’d hired me and everything was fine.”
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NEW YORK — Often imitated, never duplicated, Janet Jackson’s outbursts of meticulous choreography, sassy exclamations and smoldering gazes into the audience kept them on their feet for the entire two-hour set of her greatest hits at Radio City Music Hall. Monday night marked the last of three sold-out shows at the historic venue on her monumental Number Ones: Up Close and Personal Tour.
Up-and-coming boy band Mindless Behavior opened the show with songs including “#1 Girl,” “Future” and their debut single, “My Girl.” With their Usher-esque dance moves and shouts like “Where the ladies at?” the boys brought the tween girls out of hiding, judging by the shrill screams escaping various corner of the music hall.
At 9:00 sharp, the lights went down and Janet’s fans were on the edge of their seats, watching music videos for “The Best Things in Life Are Free” and “Rhythm Nation” projected on big screens across the venue. A small shadow drifted toward center stage, and when the colorful lights came up, Jackson, wrapped in a shoulder-padded catsuit, complete with slick short hair, blasted into “The Pleasure Principle,” dancing as hard and intensely choreographed as she did when the song first came out in the 1980s.
With barely a spare second between songs, Janet dazzled her way through her biggest hits, including “Miss You Much,” “All for You” and “Nasty,” and more recent hits like 2008′s “Feedback.”
Videos displayed during Jackson’s costume changes included vintage clips from “Diff’rent Strokes,” a funny scene from “Poetic Justice” where Jackson slyly rejects the advances of Tupac Shakur’s character, and a rather heavy scene, as Jackson’s character in “Why Did I Get Married” destroys her husband’s house with a golf club, screaming hysterically.
Considering the tough couple of years the Jackson family has faced, the dark moments in the video seemed fitting, and everyone was beside themselves with bittersweet joy when Michael Jackson’s face popped up on the big screen and she performed their hit single “Scream.”
Janet emerged for her encore in a tight white one-piece disco suit, and performed “Diamonds,” “Make Me” and “Together Again,” which appeared to be the biggest hit of the evening. As Jackson graciously bowed out, her straight face transitioned into a smirk, suggesting that despite the hard times she has experienced recently, we can expect to see this singing and dancing pop legend shine far into the future.
“Its amazing!” Janet fan Elena Mercantini gleamed afterward. “It’s like she’s still 20 years old!”
“She’s hot, she’s amazing and she’s still got it after all these years” added Alison Klinger of Long Island. “Best concert I’ve ever been to!”
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