Jenna Dewan's New 'Magdalena' Interviews from MTV's Splash Page
One of the things that Channing Tatum's longtime girlfriend Jenna Dewan and I talked about when I saw her last was how excited she is about her newly announced role of comic book heroin Magdalena.
It's a dream project for the humble actress who fell in love with the idea of the film quickly and is very hopeful that fans will respond to it well.
To get fans familiar with 'Magdalena' way ahead of time, the film's production team is doing a lot of pre-promotion, even before the script is done. I was excited to see that MTV's Spash Page now has a week long series on Jenna's new film.
Fans can read the first two articles and watch the video interviews below:
‘Magdalena’ Week Begins: Actress Jenna Dewan Finds Religion With Supernatural Hero
Published by Shawn Adler on Tuesday, September 2, 2008Before Wonder Woman, or Red Sonja, before She-Ra or She-Hulk, one female comic book super hero is going to make it to the big-screen to kick butt and take names, to thwart evil and kill the wicked.
And she’s gonna do it all in Jesus’s name (Amen).
You can also CLICK HERE to watch the video.
Well, sort of, laughed recently cast Jenna Dewan, the actress set to fill the giant shoes — and monster lineage — of Patience, the holy warrior protagonist of the upcoming comic flick “Magdalena.”
Wait, who?
Wielder of the mighty Spear of Destiny, the Magdalena refers to any of a number of distant descendents of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene who fight on behalf of the church. Thanks to her bloodline, she possesses preternatural fighting abilities and (quite literally) sacred blood – think “The Da Vinci Code” crossed with “X-Men.”
In the comics, several Magdalenas throughout history are given stories. Conversations between Dewan and producer Gale Anne Hurd, however, have made it clear to the actress that the movie will more or less follow the comic origin of one Magdalena, Patience, the last in the long line of warriors and the current champion of the world.
“They’re going to follow that comic pretty closely,” Dewan said of the planned plotline.
In the comic story, Patience grows up in a nunnery before becoming a homeless runaway on the streets of NYC. When presented with her destiny, she’s initially hesitant, circumspect, rebellious. “She has this streak in her, a free spirit,” Dewan explained. All of which makes her the perfect fit for the film version of Magdalena, the 27-year-old former “Step-Up” star said.
“What’s interesting in the comic is that Patience is the only one that they mention who questions. She doesn’t just instantly go into ‘Oh, the Catholic Church is right and I know what I’m doing.’ She says I’m very strong in what I believe in, I believe people are doing bad things,” Dewan told MTV News. “I want to fight that because I feel like inside of me that’s what I want to do. But she doesn’t attach herself to any symbols or labels or anything like that.”
Avoiding labels is actually a big challenge for the filmmakers, Dewan confessed, given the heavily sacrilegious nature of the character. Solution? While the recently announced movie version of the heroine will certainly honor her heritage, it won’t necessarily focus as much on the religious aspects of the character, Dewan insisted.
“When I started this I said I didn’t want it to be a religious movie - the Catholic Church versus everyone else. I wanted it to be somebody who knows she has something inside bigger [than herself], this spiritual want to help people,” Dewan said. “That’s really what we’re focusing on - fighting the darkness for the light, rather than the Catholic Church and religion. There is that element of it but it’s more about fighting people who are evil in this world.”
‘Magdalena’ Week Continues: Jenna Dewan Takes Us Inside Her Sexy — But Not Skimpy — Superhero Costume
Published by Shawn Adler on Wednesday, September 3, 2008Maybe you hadn’t heard of “Magdalena” before this. Maybe that caused you to look her up elsewhere. Maybe that caused you to find this. It’s a costume that’ll send a million mouths a’drooling. So is the trashy, vampy, very revealing costume going to make its way to the film? Settle down, boys. The answer, unfortunately, is no.
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“I think the goal of this movie – we don’t want to do ‘Catwoman.’ I don’t think I’ll be walking the street in a thong and leather chaps,” Dewan said, laughing. “That’s not gonna happen.”
It’s as if millions of fans cried out in horror, and were suddenly silenced.
But all is not lost, Dewan said. While she won’t be wearing a thong and leather chaps, the costume WILL still be quite sexy, she insisted, telling MTV News that the ultimate version will be some kind of compromise.
“We’ll be making a sort of blend. We want it to be more based in reality, more ‘Matrix’-y. Not necessarily superhero,” Dewan said. “[But] I probably will have a flavor of the comic counterpart. In my personal opinion I like movies that touch on that.”
Congrats again to Jenna on this awesome new role! This world can definitely use another heroine, and I can't wait to see her kicking butt and taking names. Stay tuned to Channing Tatum Unwrapped, and I'll make sure to post the rest of the MTV Splash Page interviews later this week.
2 comments:
i dont think the videos are accessible in my country (canada).. is there any other place where i can watch them?
I'm sorry. MTV is notorious for that. Unless the videos are on MTV's Canadian site, we don't have any other options at this point. Hopefully, someone associated with the film will load it on Youtube. If I find it, I will let everyone know.
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