The New Generation of 'The Women' Have Arrived
By Carita Rizzo, Special to Hollywood.com
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Hollywood.com: Did you see the original movie?
Eva Mendes: I’d seen it before because it was a classic, and I’ve got a lot of questions today about what it was like to fill Joan Crawford’s shoes. I’m like "I didn’t even try to fill shoes – please don’t even put that in my head." It’s nerve racking because it’s Joan Crawford – my God. And she killed it as Crystal Allen. But I didn’t allow the original to intimidate because that was it’s own thing and we were kind of doing our own thing. So I just appreciated it.
HW: Were you concerned about remaking a Hollywood classic? Did people dissuaded you? Did you have second thoughts?
Meg Ryan: There’s some observations that I think are kind of interesting in the movie. Sometimes we disagreed about [whether or not] she should stay or go out of the marriage - the X Factor being that she was in love with her husband. I think one thing in reading the script that I appreciated was that Diane [English, writer and director] was trying to make a case for both. I mean, I think this occurs in a woman’s life. It’s an enormous thing to happen, you know, your husband is cheating on you and what do you do and who are your allies and who comes to your aid? And all these things are, I think, relevant and equally true now, so it’s just a different observation, different observations on an age-old trouble.