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Jodie Foster is playing Sarah Jessica Parker in Uma Thurman‘s new movie.
Sorta.
Katherine Dieckmann, director of Thurman’s upcoming comedy Motherhood, tells me that a cameo by Foster in the flick was inspired by the Sex and the City star. In the scene, the double Oscar winner is being hounded in a New York City playground by overzealous paparazzi.
“I would go to that playground all the time and poor Sarah Jessica Parker would come with her son and she would be harassed!” Dieckmann said. “She literally could not push her kid on the swing set without a picture being taken. I just saw a picture of [pregnant] Heidi Klum…at that park. They come here and stalk people.”
And it was no different when Dieckmann was shooting in the same neighborhood with Thurman and her costar Minnie Driver, who was pregnant at the time.
How’d they get the pesky shutterbugs off their backs? Read on to find out…
“One day, Minnie was queasy, it was hot out and these guys would not leave her alone,” Dieckmann said. “She was so hormonal and started screaming at them and then they starting snapping her. I stepped between her and the paparazzi and go, ‘She’s pregnant!…Like f–king be a human being for one second. They all left except for one guy, who was like, ‘I just have to get my shot, man!’ ”
So Dieckmann struck a deal with him: “We actually let him be in that scene with Foster to leave Uma and Minnie alone.”
It worked.
“And then the night before [Foster's shoot], Jodie says to me, ‘You know, if you want to write me a line, you can write me a line,’ ” Dieckmann remembered with a laugh. “I was like, ‘OK, I will write you a line.’ So I wrote her, ‘Go work in a soup kitchen, you f–king parasites!’ “
Freestyle Releasing will distribute “Motherhood,” starring Uma Thurman, Minnie Driver and Anthony Edwards. The comedy opens in October in theaters nationwide.
Written and directed by Katherine Dieckman, the film follows Thurman through one day as she prepares for her daughter’s 6th birthday party. Edwards plays her husband and Driver her best friend.
Shot in New York’s West Village, “Motherhood” was produced by Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon for Killer Films and Jana Edelbaum and Rachel Cohen for the iDeal Partners Film Fund.
“From the outset, ‘Motherhood’ has been a labor of love for us,” the producing quartet said. “As a collection of female filmmakers, we immediately took to the humor and honesty of the project.”
An assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts, Dieckman began her career making music videos for such bands as R.E.M. and Wilco. Her film credits include “A Good Baby” and “Diggers.”
“Motherhood” had its world premiere in January at Sundance.
More pictures from Sundance has been added.
GALLERY LINKS:
- 2009 Appereances: 2009 Park City – “Motherhood” Premiere After Party At St. Ives Spa And Gallery
Minnie showed her pretty face more than once at Sundance Film Festival yesterday and pictures has been added:
GALLERY LINKS:
- 2009 Appereances: “Motherhood” – 2009 Sundance Premiere
- 2009 Appereances: 2009 Park City – “Motherhood” Pre-Party
- 2009 Appereances: 2009 Park City – LiveStyle Film Center Media Lounge – Day 6
- Photoshoots: Set #049
The annual Sundance Film Festival kicks off Jan. 15 in Park City, Utah. But if you can’t make it, don’t fret. EW.com has this exclusive look at one of the dozens of films premiering at the festival this year. Motherhood stars Uma Thurman as a frenzied mom being hassled and tested at every turn over the course of one very harrowing day in Manhattan. Among the many people she encounters over the course of the day are Minnie Driver and Anthony Edwards. The film, directed by Katherine Dieckmann, premieres at Sundance on Jan 21. But you get to see a sneak peek here:
