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Patrick Dempsey on Enchanted
By Fred Topel | Image property of Walt Disney Pictures.
Most of the actors in Enchanted got to play both animated characters and live-action ones. Patrick Dempsey was stuck in the real world. He's the guy Giselle (Amy Adams) meets when transported to modern day New York from the animated Andalasia.
Dempsey Sticks to Live-Action for Enchanted
"I’m hoping it does well enough so there’s a sequel and we go back to Andalasia," said Dempsey. "We can call it Disenchanted. She gives birth to a child and doesn’t like it, then she’s like, ‘I want to go back to the cartoon world.’"
Dempsey actually had the tough job on the fantasy comedy. "The hard part is everybody’s having a great time over acting and being brilliant, and I had to kind of just drive the narrative, which was challenging. That was the most difficult part, but I just wanted to be a part of it because it’s hard to find stories that are original and different, but yet there was something about this that was timeless and familiar as well, so it felt like it was entertaining on a lot of levels. As a parent, it’s a nice family film, but also it’s a good date movie as well and something you can go and find entertaining, and I think the symbolism in it, and the archetypes are really fascinating. It was different, and at the time I thought it was the right move to make, and still do."
He does take a few choice pratfalls, including a bird flying right smack into his face. "That was just that one take. It kind of just happened perfectly. The big thing was like that was the first two scenes were the ones with the rats and the birds, and it was like, ‘Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into?’ because I never felt completely comfortable in the movie, quite honestly, and maybe that works for the character."
Enchanted
Enchanted
Enchanted
Sequences like that, and a dance number in the middle of Central Park, kept Dempsey feeling uneasy. "Because everybody’s so larger-than-life that you’re trying to figure out do you have the right tone, are you hitting the right beats emotionally and comedically without going over the edge? The more you’re, I think, honest, the better it is for people to come in and then sort of see the world through Robert’s eyes. I think that’s how people start to react, and that was really challenging. And certainly with Amy, [it was just] unbelievable to watch her, it made my job a lot easier, all I had to do was just listen and watch her and react to what she was giving me, but I never felt comfortable, it was always sort of kind of strange stylistically."
Enchanted opens to theatres on November 21st.
For stills, posters, the trailer and more movie info, go to the
Enchanted
Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Walt Disney Pictures.
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