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International Film Festival in Marrakech
Actress Sigourney Weaver arrives at the Marrakech School for Visual Arts during the Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech on November 16, 2008. Weaver visited the school to speak to the students as well as for the opening of a photo exhibition featuring the work of Francois-Maire Banier. (UPI Photo/David Silpa)

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Weaver, Reilly head to 'Cedar Rapids'
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“ We had a long talk about what he had not been doing and what he had been doing and how he really wanted me to do this character, ”
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“ I think at the time when Anne Nelson wrote the play ('The Guys' was based on,) we sort of tried to get it out to the people right away, ”
Interview of the week: Sigourney Weaver
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“ I think it's a daunting idea to do something about Sept. 11 that doesn't do it in some cheesy way. I think people are still in shock. I think that we felt comfortable making this film because it was based on true experience. We had had so much support from the fire department, police department, so many people who had been involved. ”
Interview of the week: Sigourney Weaver
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“ She has her own curse on her family where she has to find this wretched treasure that might be nothing, and she has sort of devoted her life to that and hasn't had (a childhood) either and it's turned her into this sort of a desert creature -- very hard and very soft at the same time. So, to me, it was a very interesting arc. At the end, I think she's quite childlike, ”
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“ I think it's a daunting idea to do something about Sept. 11 that doesn't do it in some cheesy way. I think people are still in shock. I think that we felt comfortable making this film because it was based on true experience. We had had so much support from the fire dept, police dept, so many people who had been involved. ”
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