GOODE SLAMS LEAP YEAR
MATTHEW GOODE has slammed his new movie LEAP YEAR as "turgid" - insisting= the AMY ADAMS movie will be labelled "the worst film of 2010." The Brit plays the Enchanted star’s love interest in the new romantic c= omedy, which tells the story of an American woman travelling to Dublin, I= reland to propose to her boyfriend on 29 February during a leap year.
But Goode insists he only took the role because the shoot was filming o= n location close to his home in Britain.
He says, "It’s turgid. I just know that there are a lot of people who w= ill say it is the worst film of 2010.
"(The location) was the main reason I took it - so that I could come ho= me at the weekends. It wasn’t because of the script, trust me. I was told= it was going to be like The Quiet Man with a Vaughan Williams soundtrack= , but in the end it turned out to have pop music all over it. Do I feel I= let myself down? No. Was it a bad job? Yes, it was. But, you know, I had= a nice time and I got paid." And Goode doesn’t regret speaking out against the film - he is adamant = actors should be free to tell the truth about their work.
He adds, "Because of the way my repartee comes out, people tend to thin= k that I don’t care. Actually, it’s often just a result of my being in a = situation where I’m embarrassed about having to talk about a film which I= don’t think is that brilliant - but obviously I can’t say that. I do thi= nk that it’s important that one should be able to speak out without worry= ing about causing offence, or whatever. And it saddens me that the romant= icism has been ripped out of being an actor. It wasn’t like that in Peter= O’Toole’s time, was it?"
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