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just got back from Fashion Week in NYC
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i will be traveling to Dallas some time this week to have a Blockbuster event for STUCK-that should be exciting! i love getting together again with our producers/director/writer
they are such amazing people-we had a great time working on that movie and it should be a fun event Continue Reading…

Mena Suvari assures that fans of Ernest Hemingway will not be disappointed with her upcoming big-screen adaptation of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s “Garden of Eden.” “There’s a lot of preparation in bringing a book into a movie, and I feel like we did a really good job of it,” says the actress, who costars in the film with British actor Jack Huston and Matthew Modine.

“It’s a wonderful Hemingway novel all about transformations and relationships, published posthumously and very close to Hemingway’s own life. It was pretty much a personal account, which not a lot of people know. What we shot was really close to it.”

Suvari also admits that “Garden of Eden” was a “very emotional piece to tackle. It’s a very sexual film about a woman who starts to question herself and her marriage.”

The “American Beauty” actress, who is currently on the big screen playing a young woman who waits for her accident victim to die in “Stuck,” continues to prove she’s not one to shy away from those intense roles. Up next for her is the Lifetime original movie called “‘Sex and Lies in Sin City.’ It’s based on the book ‘Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss,’ about the Ted Binion murder,” she says. “I play Sandy Murphy, his girlfriend.” That would be the notorious girlfriend who in 1998, conspired with her new lover, Rick Tabish, to murder Binion.

Thanks to The National Ledger

Mena sent me this note about her new film, Garden of Eden -

i am in Spain working on Garden Of Eden and we are in our rehearsal period and just having the best time! everyone is so lovely and Spain is just exquisite! i am so excited about playing the role of Catherine and can’t even begin to tell you how utterly honored i am. Garden Of Eden is one of my favorite books, and i am just so thrilled to be part of turning this book into a film.

BackStage.com reports that Mena Suvari will topline the indie drama “The Garden of Eden” opposite her “Factory Girl” co-star Jack Huston. John Irvin will helm the film, which is being produced and financed by U.K. company Berwick Street Prods.

Caterina Murino and Richard E. Grant round out the cast.

Based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel, which was published posthumously, the story is set in the Jazz Age years before the Great Depression and follows a successful young American writer, David Bourne (Huston), and his beautiful wife, Catherine (Suvari), on their extended honeymoon in Europe. Catherine soon becomes restless and starts to test her husband’s devotion, pushing him to the limits of her imagination.

Murino (”Casino Royale”) has been cast as Marita, an Italian temptress who join the Bournes’ erotic honeymoon adventures, and Grant (”Gosford Park”) will play the eccentric but quick-witted colonel.

Principal photography began this week, with filming taking place at the Ciudad de la Luz studios in Alicante, Spain, and on locations around Costa Blanca and Valencia.

Cinematical posted this a few days ago which reveals information on Mena’s new film.

At yesterday’s Brooklyn Rules press junket, Mena Suvari, who plays the uptown girl who falls in love with Freddie Prinze Jr’s Brooklyn tough guy in the film, was eager to talk up her upcoming projects, including Day of the Dead. I asked her if she gets to turn into a zombie in the film, to which she replied: “No, I play a corporal in the Army and I save the day!” She also said that she worked six day weeks on gun training and did all her own stunts. She also told me that she will be in director John Irvin’s (Hamburger Hill, Next of Kin) upcoming adaptation of the Hemingway novel, The Garden of Eden. Set in Spain, the story is about an expat American and his wife who both fall in love with a beautiful young woman named Marita — the part Suvari will presumably play. “It’s very deep. It’s a Hemingway story, it’s one of his last stories and its a very complicated piece,” Suvari said. “We’re shooting in Spain and it takes place in Spain and the south of France. I’m very excited about that.”

I also asked Suvari about her very, very brief part as Richie Berlin in Factory Girl, and whether it was all that was left of something more substantial: “They took a couple things out, but there were so many cameos in that movie that were taken fully out … they weren’t in the movie,” Suvari said. “They had me come in and shoot some extra footage that didn’t go in there. Richie Berlin wasn’t a huge fan of Andy Warhol, so she wasn’t so much in the Factory. And I didn’t really know what they were doing with it and with the character. Richie never really wanted to talk to me … I had to dig to do my research. But she talked about how she felt like she was the only one who really cared about Edie, so they tried to play that up in the film and add a couple of things, and then they did a different route with Edie, making it more of a narrative, like when she’s talking about it in the hospital, all of that was added later. They just went a different route.”

Exciting times! Look out Spain! We look forward to hearing more about the film.
Thanks to Virginia for letting me know!