05.30.08 MENA SUVARI IS ALL ABOUT REALISM
So Mena Suvari is in a movie called Stuck, based on the true story of a woman who hit a homeless man with her car, then left the man, still wedged in her windshield to die and later disposed of the body. Naturally it’s a comedy. (red-band trailer after the jump)
Mena Suvari stars as Brandi, a cornrowed retirement-home caregiver who washes asses for a living and has a cheating boyfriend to contend with at home. She suddenly finds herself on top of the world when she is offered a promotion at work, which means she will no longer have to clean up feces for rent and food money. After a hard night of celebrating this new turn in her life, Brandi hits a homeless man and he becomes wedged in the windshield of her car. Afraid to go to the authorities, the girl’s life comes crashing down around her.
Wait, did you say cornrows?
Mena Suvari: The cornrows? That was about establishing Brandi as this girl from a particular society and neighborhood. The real story took place in Fort Worth, Texas. We felt that maybe our story was taking place in Rhode Island. Maybe Providence. So the hair was about establishing her in this particular world.
Seems like the setting would be something you’d know for sure, but… I totally get Rhode Island – after all, that’s the White-people-in-cornrows State.
Suvari: My intent was to make Brandi look realistic [... -Ed.]. She needed to be involved in this particular world. She’s not a model. She’s not an actress or a beauty queen. That was her life. So if she is living in this particular world, and she has this particular boyfriend, and these are her surroundings, then yeah, she would absolutely incorporate a hairstyle like this. Despite the fact that certain people in society wouldn’t find it that attractive. [Source]
Waaait, a second, the story this is based on, it didn’t happen to be a black girl, did it? I think I understand now. Casting the whitest girl on the planet aside from those guys from Nelson and giving her cornrows makes much more sense than casting a black girl. I mean, that would just be retarded. In other news, I hear Tyler Perry’s next movie is about a white chick, played by Angela Bassett in a Blink 182 hoodie.
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MENA SUVARI IS ALL ABOUT REALISM
Did Mena Suvari just say that she basically had to "ugly herself up" to make this role believable?
Liars go to hell Ms. Suvari; liars go to hell…
Tyler Perry’s next movie is about a white chick, played by Angela Bassett in a Blink 182 hoodie.
Madeath Cab for Cutie.
Tyler Perry presents "Madea Goes Muttonchops."
The cornrows? That was about establishing Brandi as this girl from a particular society
The "I’m dating a black guy just to piss off my father" society or the "I’ve got a fat ass, I may as well run with it" society?
i for one would not like to have sexual intercourse with mina suvari
If they had cast Whitney Houston, this could’ve been believable.
KISS MAH ASS!!!
The corn rows gave her character more street cred, but what gave her depth was growing a bulbous click.
…and Jackson’s cousin Herbert Tyrone Cleveland… could these people be any more black?
They should have put her in blackface too and invited Spike Lee to the premiere.
I for two wouldn’t either Mexi-bex.
Alternate Title: "I Know You Di’in’t Do What I Thought You Done Did Last Summer"
"she has this particular boyfriend"
I have lots of particular friends.
I only like Mena Suvari in movies where her character description includes, “blonde hair” and “tries to fuck friend’s dad”.
I take it she gets the promotion after killing the homeless guy. That’s how things work over here.
Damn, one less dude to creepishly ask me fore change.
Brandi: +1 point
Homeless People: still zero points, cocksuckers.
I think its funny how she tried to dance around the race thing. I just find the whole thing not even remotely funny. They took a horrible thing and made it into a comedy, and a racist statement at that.
And that concludes our seriousness for the day.
if i were elija woods brother id peel homeless men off of my windshiled then shoot them then blame my Aw fuck it i dont know where im going with this STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT!!!
FORE !!!!!!!!!!
*golf ball strikes and kills a homless man somewhere in the city*
See, when I hit that hobo with my car, I just bumped him in his big ass duffle bag he was wearing and he tipped over. Brandi gots it all wrong.
Why do I have a feeling that when this film wrapped Mena stayed in character just like Brittany Murphy after 8 Mile?
i realize that made no sense, and I should have seperated the 2. Menas situation is funny, the movie I find icky
Are you saying she had sex with Emimem after filming, Burnsy?
” homless ” man collapses, ” homeless ” people don’t care.
This is why I use Bum-X on my car’s windshield.
I asked a homeless guy fro some change the other day. When he gave me this confused look I said "Pretty fuckin’ annoying aint it?" Then I hot the brakes and he flew out of my windshield.
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