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Anna goes Wild
Kiwi star loses her innocence to Hollywood Cute Kiwi child actress and Oscar-winner Anna Paquin has joined the
high-profile cast of the movie HurlyBurly, and in her first adult role
takes on Hollywood sleazeballs, '80s drug dens and group sex!
In the role she hopes will make her the next Jodie Foster, teenage Anna
goes from beguiling child to saucy teen, playing off some of Hollywood's
most talented and outrageous players including Sean Penn, his fiesty wife
Robin Wright, Meg Ryan, Kevin Spacey and Garry Shandling.
"After a peek at the script, it's pretty clear there is no turning back
for Anna after this movie," says an informant working on the HurlyBurly set
in California. "Anna will either show her stuff like Jodie Foster did in
Taxi Driver or turn into Tatum O'Neal."
HurlyBurly is an adaption of the Broadway play by David Rabe about the
underbelly of Hollywood. Set in the country house of powerful producer
Eddie (Sean Penn), it is a sly and brutal comedy that lays Hollywood bare.
Anna plays Donna, a 15-year old drifter who is picked up hitchhiking by
obnoxious Artie (Garry Shandling) and taken to Eddie's retreat.
"Donna discovers sex, does mountains of drugs and goes from sweet young
thing to strung-out seductress after a wild night when she has sex with
Artie, Eddie and yet another Hollywood pal (Kevin Specey) who shows up with
more drugs at just the right moment," reveals the source.
Robin Wright plays Sean's strung-out with wife Darlene, and Meg Ryan is a
pill-popping stripper.
"The movie takes us into the night-marish world of the fast-living,
high-flying '80s. It is full of full-of-themselves Hollywood fast-trackers
and self-serving, money-grubbing Hollywood piranhas. These people are
spoiled rotten brats - cold, heartless, unfaithful creeps.
"Anna's part is the innocent outsider turned into Hollywood vampire,
feeding on the blood and human wreckage of others. She is seduced and
sucked into the system, and she becomes as jaded and cynical as her
abusers." The script also features a lot of bad language and nudity.
"Donna gets to be naked with every guy in the house... and one of the
ladies. She swears like a sailor towards the end, and there are drugs
everywhere.
"There's a particular story Donna has to recount that's sure to shatter
whatever image you had of that innocent young girl from The Piano. The
movie is grotesque, yet strangely riveting."
Anna's other credits include the feel-good bird movie Fly Away Home and
she has a small but vital cameo in Steven Spielberg's slaveship drama
Amistad, which is already getting good press in Hollywood.
New Zealand Woman's Day, December 15, 1997
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