Emmy rossum phantom of the opera movie#

Emmy rossum phantom of the opera movie#

It was at night, during sunset and I kept getting visceral sense memories, and making them apart of me that made my job a lot easier,' Rossum recalls.Д¬ynics might argue that 18 to 25-year-olds make up the movie audience and that this isn't a film aimed at that audience. I stood on the roof at the very apex, where she stands during 'All I Ask of You,' and I felt the wind. 'I spent some time at the Opera Garnier to kind of get the feeling of what it was like living there. I went about creating the character as I would have any other, from scratch, from the script, the dialogue, from finding experiences in my life that are similar to ones that she goes through and if I can't find one, then I'd go out and have an experience that's similar.' Determined to create a believable 19th century Parisian Christine, Rossum went to Paris. But having never seen the show and electing to never see the show before going into it, it meant that it would come from my heart and soul. 'I was aware of the fact that she's a character that's so identifiable, especially in so many of the Phantom fans' minds, who feel such closeness to her. I have not been eliminated.' I was 16 and I never thought there was a chance that I'd get the part.'Д«ut Rossum indeed won the role over both unknowns and established stars, and set about making Christine her own, a challenge given the character's history with the public. Then they sent back footage to Andrew Lloyd Webber, who called and said I had not been eliminated. Because there wasn't a lot of verbal dialogue in the script, while I was talking to him about what she goes through, I had to express the things that she feels as I was talking about what she was feeling, so it was kind of a strange audition process. 'So he sent me the script, and I kind of got a feel for a take on the character. Joel had been casting for six months, which was the six months I'd been working on The Day After Tomorrow in Montreal, so I came in really at the very tail end of the casting process and in fact, I was the last person he ever saw.' Rossum, who made her operatic debut at New York's renowned Metropolitan Opera at age 7, admits to have never seen any of the stage productions of Phantom prior to reading the screenplay. But she was never a shoe in, or on anyone's initial radar, the actress recalls when describing her audition process. With Rossum's opera training, combined with her acting ability, meant the young actress was the perfect Christine, for this sumptuous screen rendition of the classic tale. Sticking more to the original material, Andrew Lloyd Webber's 15-year old dream to bring his commercial stage hit to the screen, has meant youthening the characters, something impossible to sustain in the theatre. I'm 18, so working with actors that are like that when I'm so young is important to me,' Rossum explains, referring of course to her experience working on Phantom.

Even though she doesn't have a lot of dialogue and the character is not overly emotional, she can express so much just from her face, which I think is extraordinary. To get to work with Miranda Richardson was great because I just got to watch her. It's funny, because fame is nothing I've ever strived for, as I was always just happy to get the job, and a good one at that and I was always just so happy to be working with good people.

Nobody in my family is in the business, I still do my laundry, make my bed and I bring my laundry across the street to the Laundromat.

'Listen, I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little. Joel says that if you read what's written about you ? which sometimes I do and sometimes I don't - and you believe all the good things, then you should believe the bad things, too,' says the actress and former operatic.

'I don't like questions like that because I try not to think about those things too much. While critics and audiences are beginning to take notice of 18-year old Emmy Rossum, star of the eagerly awaited screen adaptation of Phantom of the Opera, the beautiful young actress blushes and turns away with apparent embarrassment when suggested that imminent fame is a very real possibility in the life of Hollywood's latest breakout star. Emmy Rossum/Phantom of the Opera Interview by Paul Fischer in New York. EMMY ROSSUM: HOLLYWOOD'S RELUCTANT NEW STAR.