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英語と映画

By Benjamin Woodward / ベン ウッドワード

*このセクションでは 話題の映画の記者会見の様子を紹介します。

Vol. 9 : 幸せのレシピ

『幸せのレシピ』の主演、キャサリン・ゼタ=ジョーンズが来日し、9月19日に記者会見を行なった。ゼタ=ジョーンズが演じるのは、マンハッタンで人気の高級レストランで働く、ワーカホリックで完ぺき主義者の料理長ケイト。役作りのためにウエートレスをし、料理の特訓を受けたというゼタ=ジョーンズが、撮影中のエピソードや、美ぼうを保つ秘けつなどについて語った。

Question: Can you relate to Kate?


Answer: I can relate to her in some way, not that I was ever so obsessed with my work and a control freak in my environment as Kate is, but before I had my family, I had nothing else in my life other than my work so my whole focus was on my career. Throughout the film, you see this woman's life change in many ways and the most important thing being that she lets down the wall, she's able to let people in, she's able to receive and give love to a man and also do the same with a young child.

Q: The restaurant is on Bleecker St. Do you go to that area?


A: We have a place in New York so I know that area. The area is a very hot restaurant area. It's hip, it's cool. People travel from uptown all the way downtown just to eat at these restaurants. But the restaurant "22 Bleecker St." is fictitious. There was a funny story. I was doing a scene, the restaurant was packed with extras and actors, and these tourists came off the street and asked for a reservation while the cameras were rolling. The director was like, "CUUUT! Who are those people?"

Q: You're beautiful as ever. What's your secret?


A: Thank you very much, firstly. Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. It sounds like such a cliche, but it is. I think if you are happy within yourself, you exude a confidence and a beauty which I think is very attractive in women. I like myself, not to a great extent, but I do like myself so I think that exudes beauty and happiness. And I also have wonderful hair and makeup people who really help me out. I have to tell the truth, I'm sorry.

Q: You had to practice as a waitress in a real restaurant for this film?


A: It was a new experience for me. It took (the customers) a while to figure out who I was because they weren't looking at me reciting perfectly the specials for the evening, they were looking at the menus and completely dismissive of the person talking behind them. But then, about an hour later, I could feel people were looking and this guy says to me, "Has anyone told you that you look like that actress?" I said, "Yeah, I get that all the time."

Q: What was the pillow fight with Abigail Breslin like?


A: We do the scene and I'm just pretending to really hit her because I think I can't hit the heck out of this little kid because I'm going to get sued. But in the first take, she hit me so hard she nearly knocked my head off. And so I said, "Right, kid. War!" It was so much fun.

Q: Aaron Eckhart cut himself during the film. Did you have any accidents?


A: It's Aaron's own fault that he cut his own finger. We went in the first day of what I called cooking boot camp and I turn up like a fish out of water and I'm just wondering why there are so many knives and what do they all do and do you really need that many knives. Erin comes with his leather satchel and in it there are about 14 different knives that he's purchased and brought along to the first cooking lesson. And I'm standing there, like, "Can I get a spoon?"

I didn't cut myself, I didn't burn myself, and I was convinced that I would, but I must say the very first day of shooting inside the kitchen, with all that smoke and the fumes, I woke up the next morning and my eyes were like puffed out and it looked like I'd had two rounds with Mike Tyson the night before. So it was just my eyes and the heady smell of fish being cooked at seven in the morning. That did me in for a bit.

relate to 〜
〜に共感する

obsessed with 〜
〜で頭がいっぱいになる

control freak
支配欲の強い人

lets down the wall
壁をとっぱらう

fictitious
架空の

was packed with 〜
〜で混んでいた

were rolling
回っていた

(Beauty) is in the eye of the beholder
美は見る人次第

as they say
よく言われるように

attractive
魅力的な

not to a great extent
ものすごくではないが

reciting
並べたてる

get that all the time
よく言われる

pillow fight
枕投げ

Abigail Breslin
子役のアビギエル・ブレスリン

(am) pretending to 〜
〜するふりをする

can't hit the heck out of 〜
〜を本気でたたくわけにはいかない

get sued
訴えられる

nearly knocked my head off
めちゃくちゃにやっつけられそうになった

Aaron Eckhart
共演者のアーロン・エッカート

boot camp
特訓

like a fish out of water
場違いな

leather satchel
皮のかばん

(were) puffed out
腫れていた

(had) had two rounds with 〜
〜と2ラウンド戦った

〜 did me in
〜に参った

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