My last big studio picture was Mission To Mars. Every film gets put together a different way. They are constantly selling territories and making deals with companies to pick up part of the financing. So we made the mask that’s basically of Rachel’s face.ĭe Palma: Well, even the studios are internationally financed now. She’s in love with herself, she’s in love with her twin. Then the question was who is the mask of? That’s when I came up with the twin sister idea. So I set that up in beginning where she’s masked and her lover is wearing a mask. I had to put a mask on Noomi later on, so I had to establish that Christine uses masks in her sex play. What was the inspiration there?ĭe Palma: Well, the mask kind of evolved. Again, very perversely amusing and true to you. You want to do something original.” I said, “But, I love Inception.” They said, “yeah, we love it too, try to find something else.” So that’s when I started to look around the internet for phone commercials and stumbled onto this.Īnother touch that I found really amusing and wanted to ask about was the mask that Rachel McAdams’ character has of herself that she makes other people put on during sex. But, my director friends who read the script said, “no, no, no you don’t want to do Inception. Had you discovered that before Passion and wanted to use it in something?ĭe Palma: No, my first idea was to make a very elaborate commercial based on Inception which goes through three dream levels to finally open a safe and find the phone. When my producer asked me, “what do you think about Rachel McAdams for the other part?” I said, “Are you kidding me? I would be overjoyed.” They’re both represented by the same manager, so it came together almost immediately. Fortunately she had just worked with Rachel on Sherlock Holmes 2 and they wanted to work together again. So I had my producer get in touch with her and she read the script and she wanted to do it. She’s very mysterious and potentially dangerous. I saw them all and I said, “wow, this one is something.” She’s an extremely good actress. I was in New York and ran into another director friend of mine who was talking to Noomi about doing a film for him and he had all of her Swedish movies that she had made before the Millenium series. I was trying to cast an older and younger woman and I couldn’t get an older woman to play this kind of very dark, manipulative she-devil, basically. What was it about Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace that made you think they would be right for those parts?ĭe Palma: Well that was basically serendipity and good luck. So I knew there were some ways that I could change the movie to make it more exciting. Then it ends with the assistant saying, “I know what happened.” That didn’t seem to me to be very dramatic. You basically see how she confesses and then leaves a lot of clues that the police pick up on and then ultimately find out are phony clues, which gets her out of it. In the original version you see Isabelle kill Christine and once you know that she’s done it there’s not much mystery in the second half of the film. There’s the leader of the company and then the ideas person who Noomi plays. I made them the same age and they are very competitive. So what was it about that film that made you want to remake it?īrian De Palma: Well, I thought there were many good ideas and character relationships in the original film, but it was sort of a younger woman and a more experienced woman in the Corneau version. Collider: I haven’t seen Alain Corneau’s Love Crime which Passion is based on, but from what I’ve read the set up is at least identical.
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