Virginia Madsen plays the skeptical wife in The Number 23, telling her obsessive husband to snap out of it, that anything adding up to 23 is just a coincidence. In real life, Madsen is a believer.
Virginia Madsen on The Number 23
“Yes, because I think all that stuff is really fun, the shows on the Discovery Channel about ghosts and the yeti and UFOs, which I totally believe in,” she said. “So I’d heard about it but I didn’t know how vast it was until really the first day of production. On the table there was this book about this thick with all the fun facts about the number 23, just in case you’re a doubter. So I was like, ‘Oh my God.’”
Madsen plays a dual role in the film. As Walter (Jim Carrey) reads a book about the number 23, he pictures himself as the hard boiled detective and his wife as the femme fatale. Madsen plays both Agatha the housewife and Fabrizia the dame.
“What I never realized, that when we were Fingerling and Fabrizia, we didn’t really talked to one another very much. Whereas when we were Agatha and Walter we were always hanging out and we were all telling stories and it was like we were really affectionate, but then we were really separate, but then we’d be like ‘Rah, rah, rah.’”
The Number 23
The Number 23
The Number 23
Carrey wasn’t the only one who took the role playing seriously. “But also, many people wouldn’t talk to me and I would sort of walk on, it was like I had to give my permission to do that. All of a sudden, all the women would have something they had to do. And all the men would be like, ‘Uhhh.’ So after a few hours, I got really lonely when I was her. Because I was so isolated and I hate that more than anything to be isolated.”
Some of Carrey’s method acting won Madsen over. “I came in and there were these beautiful, beautiful roses from Jim, with this romantic note, ‘To my beautiful wife.’ I was so gullible I was like, ‘Oh, I love him now.’ That’s all it takes.”
So, which one is the real Madsen? “Well, definitely Agatha, but all of us have a dark side and all of us have an even darker side to our sexuality, and it was nice to tap into that. Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me, being able to unlock that little door and show that. This movie was great because I just got to show a lot of different sides.”
The Number 23 opens to theatres February 23rd.
For the trailer, poster, more interviews and additional movie info, go to The
Number 23 Movie Page.
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