Puri acted in about 220 Bollywood movies after his 1971 debut in the Hindi film "Reshma Aur Shera." Some of his best-known movies were "Naseeb" (Fate), "Ardh Satya" (Half Truth), "Andha Kanoon" (Blind Law), "Shakti" (Strength), "Coolie" and "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" (The Big-Hearted Will Walk Away With the Bride). 28 after falling at his residence a day earlier. Puri, who suffered from myelodysplastic syndrome, a bone marrow disease, was admitted to the hospital Dec. Posted by ldh3111 at 9:23 AM 3 comments Wednesday, January 12, 2005Īmrish Puri, 72, an actor who became a leading villain in Bollywood films, died Jan. "But honestly, I do not need them to go see it." "Maybe with this new government, half the country would not want to see it.
It is more important that bombings stop in Iraq, that United States respect the Kyoto Accord, or that international observers be allowed to Guantanamo."ĭoes he expect American audiences to embrace "The Sea Inside" like those in Spain? It was very hard on him."Īlthough he is the only Spanish actor ever nominated for an Oscar, Bardem says winning an Academy Award "is not important for me. They are even more tolerant than the (Roman Catholic) Church, because they understand someone in that situation could wish to die."Īmenabar said Bardem sank so deeply into his role, sometimes "it was really difficult to talk to Bardem right after we cut, because he still was more Sampedro" than himself.Īmenabar also said Bardem "had a very hard time physically and emotionally shooting the last sequence - the last one we shot - because he was saying goodbye to the character. "All of them fought in the opposite direction, they wanted to live, but curiously they were very tolerant with Sampedro's wish. "None of them agreed with Ramon Sampedro's decision," he said. "But I did not worry too much with all this because it helped me understand the character."īefore shooting began, Bardem read two books written by Sampedro and stayed for a month with four quadriplegics at a specialized hospital in Spain. You feel your body change, it gets a different gravity, a weight," Bardem said. "I spent three months in bed, because the shooting took 10 hours and then I went to sleep to my own bed. In order to make the 35-year-old Bardem look like the 55-year-old Sampedro, British makeup artist Jo Allen ("The Hours," "Gladiator") shaved him bald and held daily makeup sessions of up to five hours each. He did his best not to appear bored during an exhausting day of back-to-back interviews, maintaining eye contact and smiling throughout. Last year, he appeared with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx as drug lord Felix in the thriller "Collateral," and he's set to play Pablo Escobar in the upcoming "Killing Pablo."ĭuring the interview, which was conducted in Spanish, a relaxed Bardem sat on a hotel sofa, informally dressed in a blue shirt and jeans.
His breakout role came in 2000, when he received an Oscar nomination for his role as the persecuted Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in "Before Night Falls."
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The cast also includes well-known actresses such as Lola Duenas - the nurse in Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her" - and TV celebrity Belen Rueda in her first big-screen role.īardem, who comes from a family of Spanish actors, appeared in his first movie at age 6. Sampedro is paralyzed in a diving accident and fights for his right to die for the next 30 years.īardem and "The Sea Inside" - written, directed and produced by Alejandro Amenabar ("The Others," 2001) - are getting Oscar buzz after being nominated for Golden Globe awards for best actor and best foreign movie. "The Sea Inside" is based on the true story of Ramon Sampedro, a ship mechanic from Spain, which is also Bardem's homeland. Due to how (the character) talks and behaves, there is something that moves while the body remains motionless, it is like a kind of balance between energies," he said. "I also wanted to achieve a feeling of dynamism inside the static. "I tried to calm myself and forget the anxiety you get due to the fact you must be motionless, so I could bring up the energy to the right place," he told The Associated Press during a recent interview. NEW YORK (AP) - To portray a real-life quadriplegic in "The Sea Inside," Javier Bardem decided to focus on "the voice and the eyes." Tuesday, JanuPosted: 1:24 PM EST (1824 GMT) Javier Bardem and the challenges of 'The Sea Inside'
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