To
no-one's surprise, Gwyneth Paltrow was as lovely as ever,
but if Jude Law looked a little ragged round the edges
at the press conference, he could hardly be blamed. He's
starring as a sniper in Jean-Jacques Annaud's Enemies
At The Gate, currently shooting here in Berlin. "I was
blown up six times this week," Law explained.
Why
cast a clean-living, golden boy like Matt Damon as the
sinister Mr Ripley? "I'm interested in a fiction which
is made with compassion and identifies what's human in
people rather than what's monstrous... when I met him
[Matt], I felt he was an actor you want to be with. You're
happy to spend time in his company."
Anthony
Minghella's next project is to be... based on a novel.
Minghella vowed during the shooting of The Talented
Mr Ripley that he'd never make another literary
adaptation, but he now plans to bring Charles Frazier's
"Cold Mountain" to the screen. "The fact that
I am doing it shows what an extraordinary book it is..."
Once
he has climbed "Cold Mountain", Minghella may
well tackle another book, Bernhard Schlink's "The
Reader.' "But it takes me so long to make a film that
the idea of knowing what I'm doing in seven or eight years
time is too daunting to be any more firm about it."
