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Get ready to see another side of Kristen Wiig.
Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods. A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite. In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), his ex-hustler wife Ginger (Sharon Stone), her con-artist ex Lester Diamond (James Woods) and a handful of corrupt.
Make that, all her sides.
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The funny lady goes full frontal in Welcome to Me, her new dramedy in which she stars as Alice, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who tries to launch her own talk show after winning the lottery.
'It was completely terrifying,' Wiig told me at the movie's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. 'I'm nervous that it's going to be out there in about an hour or two. Everyone's going to see everything.'
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Will Ferrell, a producer on the film, praised his fellow Saturday Night Live alum for stripping down.
'I don't want to come off creepy but that was a bold choice on her behalf,' Ferrell said. 'It was always in the script, but I think it's just another aspect of her amazing performance in this.'
And how bold it was. The scene was shot in casino while it was up and running, but they somehow managed to keep gambling patrons from seeing Wiig in all her nakedness.
While it may sound funny, Wiig said that she and the filmmakers made sure they were not mocking people with mental illness.
'It's definitely got some heavy moments and comedic moments, but we were really careful to see where Alice was coming from and that we were laughing with her,' she said. 'I'm very conscious of the that.'
Directed by Shira Piven, Welcome to Me also stars James Marsden and Mad Men's Linda Cardellini.
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From the iconic scene showing the meeting of Ginger and Sam, to the explosive introductory scene, Casino has a flair for the dramatic. Which is incredibly appropriate in a movie about High Rollers, corruption in Las Vegas and the Mob’s influence. But what might surprise you is that, just like it says at the start of the film, the events of the movie are all based on real events and the three main characters are all inspired by real people. Sam Rothstein is based on Frank Rosenthal who’s said in interviews that he rated the accuracy of Robert De Nero’s performance at about a 7/10. In addition, Ginger is modelled on the real-life Geri McGee who married Rosenthal and Nicky Santoro is based on Anthony Spilotro, who was just as brutal as his on-screen counterpart, and a close friend of Rosenthal before they fell out. It’d be easy to imagine Scorsese took some creative liberties with the story to keep things interesting but what’s impressive is how few and far between these changes are. Like the scene where Sam insists that the cook puts an equal number of blueberries in every muffin. It might look like it’s just to establish Sam’s no-nonsense attitude and attention to detail but it’s something that Rosenthal allegedly insisted on as well, no matter how time-consuming it might have been. Together with Betfair Online Casino, we’ve put together this little slideshow that goes through a selection of the scenes in the movie that happened in real life!