Piper Perabo “had reservations” about starring in talking animals movie ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’.
The actress – who previously starred in ‘Coyote Ugly’ and ‘The Prestige’ – was unsure whether appearing in a movie with dogs who can speak would harm her career.
She said: “I do think there’s a concern. You know, if you haven’t seen how the animation’s going to look – obviously, I’ve done other animated films, and I know that it can be tricky.
“So until I saw the final film, even, I had reservations about that. You don’t really know until you see – hopefully Disney knows what they’re doing, though, do you know what I mean?”
Piper also revealed the reason she finally agreed to do the film was because she has always been a huge fan of Disney films.
She added: “When I was a kid, ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’ and ‘Lady and the Tramp’ were all films that were really important to me. And – even before I knew I wanted to be an actor, I really enjoyed these films. So as a grown-up, to sort of get an opportunity to be in one, it seemed sort of fitting!”
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Piper Perabo’s animal worries
Reasons to be Pretty at Broadway!
Reasons to be Pretty will be moving on to Broadway. The play will get his Broadway debut next winter when Reasons to be Pretty transfers to the Great White Way. Performances will begin on February 13, 2009, at a theater to be announced.
Also, the site Broadway.com has a cool Q&A with Piper, talking about her debut at stage (she hadn’t done a play since her graduation, 10 years ago) and her impressions about Reasons to be Pretty. It worth a read… Read More
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Piper Perabo on ‘Reasons to Be Pretty,’ E-mailing Neil LaBute, and Living at the Y
It’s been eight years since Piper Perabo shimmied onto the radar with her breakout performance in Coyote Ugly, and since then, her career has focused on romantic comedies (Because I Said So, Cheaper by the Dozen, Imagine You & Me). Earlier this month, she signed on to an ABC pilot, The Prince of Motor City, but before she moves from big screen to small, she’s taking a brief break from the cameras. In Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty, opening tonight from MCC Theater, Perabo makes her New York stage debut as a graveyard-shift security guard dealing with relationship issues (her own and her friends’). She spoke with Vulture about LaBute, her new TV show, and her (decidedly un-barfly-ish) new cropped do. Read More
A fun but eminently forgettable film.
One of those formulaic romantic comedies designed for the Mother’s Day season, this
is so predictable you can tell from the opening what the final scene will be.
A bubbly Diane Keaton plays partnerless mum to a gaggle of feisty adult daughters played by singer Mandy Moore, Gilmore Girls’s Lauren Graham and Coyote Ugly’s Piper Perabo. She likes sticking her nose into their love lives, which they see as a symptom of loneliness, which is perfectly true. Enter love interest Stephen Collins and the rest of the film dutifully follows the rom-com route to a pleasing finale designed to put smiles all around.
Director Michael Lehmann ( 40 Days and 40 Nights) extracts a reasonable quota of
laughs once Keaton starts trying to match Mandy with what she thinks is the perfect
man. A fun but eminently forgettable film.
Source: The Age
