Liesje
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A few stills from the first 5 minutes
Where I live it's now in the theaters but films are usually released very late here.
She laughs again: "In my family I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me that doesn't look like a happy existence -- it's just not who I am."
Has anyone noticed on eve's twitter the following keeps going off you have to press following all the time?
I like "Sunny Day" as well, it's sweet
And I really don't think that Eve's parents deny her access to their appartment or money if she needs any. In fact I think Bono's money must have been quite helpful for her to start her own life in New York years ago since I don't believe she was able to live of her own money that quickly. I think her parents might be a bit careful about her bringing friends to their house to hang out there and maybe associate themselves with her family, which I can understand, but surely not about Eve spending time with her family. She seems to be with her mom, dad and her siblings a lot but doesn't talk about it publicly.
I like her attitude, especially what she says about not feeling comfortable about just leaning back and enjoying being rich without working. That's something I can relate to. I think here parents' concerns have less to do with the acting itself than with the fact that she will get in touch with showbiz, which they know out of their own experience. I think, as a parent, I'd be concerned as well.
She laughs again: "In my family I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me that doesn't look like a happy existence -- it's just not who I am."
An article from Irish Times this Saturday. On the Eve of stardom - The Irish Times - Sat, Mar 24, 2012
Can I scold Eve for calling Minaj a "stupid ho"? Unnecessary, missy.
Uh, the name of Nicki Minaj's song is called "Stupid Hoe" - so Eve was just referencing the song (with a bit of a pun).
There's a very low quality scan of the article also posted on Eve's twitter page. I'd love to read it. Does anyone have the magazine and can post a scan? Eve looks great in the pictures, you can see as much Ali in her as Bono.
The sweetest thing
She grew up in a house that welcomed everyone from Bill Clinton to Robbie Williams, so it’s no surprise Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson has ambition
Chrissy Iley Published: 1 April 2012
I first met Eve Hewson a few years back. Or, at least, she slunk past me when I was having dinner at her parents Bono and Ali Hewson’s home in Dalkey, south Dublin. It was a high-spirited affair, and we were around a big table in the kitchen. Eve came in the back door and disappeared straight to her bedroom. Ali announced, deadpan: “She wants to be an actress. We’re very worried.”
The next time I see her, it’s on-screen, as a full-on, punkish goth girl in This Must Be the Place. She plays the loyal friend of an eccentric older goth and former rock star, played by Sean Penn. His performance is a little bit Robert Smith from the Cure, a little bit Andy Warhol. Hewson’s character is knowing and nonjudgmental, her performance subtle, and it’s already gaining praise. We meet in a cool Japanese restaurant in Studio City, Los Angeles. Hewson is staying there with her long-standing American boyfriend, the One Tree Hill star James Lafferty, en route to the Sundance Film Festival. The rest of the time she is in New York, studying theatre and child psychology.
Interesting mix. Children of the famous are often troubled. Perhaps they feel they’ll never be as good as their parents, or perhaps they are doomed because they feel overentitled. Hewson, 20, has none of that. She is straight up, focused, shy, but ready to go for it.
“I had an amazing childhood,” she says, as we order spicy tuna on crispy fried rice. She has a pale-pink Irish-rose complexion, with full, pillowy lips and huge, expressive eyes that seem to miss nothing. She looks more like her mother than her father. Her parents insist they have never spoilt their children, as they were always too aware of the pitfalls. “I had a really solid upbringing,” Hewson says. “My childhood friends were nuts. We ran around in costumes making crazy home videos. We lived a fairy tale.”
Her parents are still slightly worried, she says, and didn’t push for this career choice, but her being in a movie with Penn has certainly helped. “My mum was so excited when I got the part. That was the breakthrough: a movie with Sean Penn — things might work out.”
Before this, she was in a music video about an Irish girl pining for home (the Script’s For the First Time) and a movie, The 27 Club, shot in South Carolina. It was about a grieving, messed-up rock star who goes on a trans-American trip. “It was a road movie and I played a hitch-hiker. That’s when I thought, ‘My God, I never want to stop doing this.’ I just love it. I think I’m an introverted extrovert. I only like attention when I don’t deserve it. On birthdays, I used to cry. There is such a pressure to enjoy your birthday that I would always be hiding in my room, crying.”
Bono and his wife Ali Hewson Still, growing up, there must have been famous actors popping by? “Yeah, there were a few,” she says. “I also remember Robbie Williams coming to stay, because that was a really big deal and I was eight and obsessed with him.” He was staying in an annexe to the house, called the Folly. “I had to tell him that lunch was ready. I was so excited, I ran so fast down the steps that I didn’t see him coming. I ran smack into his crotch. I thought it was so funny, I told everyone for a year that I ran into Robbie Williams’s family jewels.”
The Folly has hosted the world’s luminaries, and everyone who stays there signs the bathroom wall; I remember seeing Bill Clinton’s signature. “I used to have sleepovers when I was about 10. My friends would sign the wall with hearts and stars and little drawings.” Presidents and schoolgirls elevated alike.
How does she think her parents have influenced her? “My parents have kept their childhood friends. I want to keep my friends. My roommate in New York has been my friend since I was four. My sister, Jordan, is also in New York, studying French and politics at Columbia. We are Yin and Yang — she’s the uptown girl, I’m the downtown girl.”
Does having parents as famous as hers open doors, or is it a double-edged sword? “I’d never complain. Opportunities wouldn’t come as easily for me if I weren’t in this position, but I’ve way more to prove, which is fine. I’ll work hard and it will all be okay. It does box you in, and I don’t want to be in a box. Sometimes casting directors don’t care and sometimes it’s the only thing they care about. It’s the same with friends. Sometimes it’s easier to make friends, but you can soon tell if they’re friends with you because of who your parents are or whether they are just your friends. It’s easy to tell the difference.”
Does she dread being asked over and over again what it is like having Bono as your dad? “It’s an awful question, because I don’t know any other dad. It’s not going to define who I am for the rest of my life. So what? Who cares?”
Hewson met Lafferty when they were both filming The 27 Club. I’ve read that it is a stormy relationship; that they have broken up and got back together many times. “No. All lies. I think people at magazines get bored and make things up.” In fact, she has been with him solidly for three and a half years.
She smiles brightly at the sound of his name. But she is only 20, so shouldn’t she be having lots of boyfriends? “I don’t want to. My parents met when they were 12 and started dating at 15, so I don’t see anything wrong with being with someone your entire life.”
Until she finishes college, she will stay in New York and get home to Ireland as much as she can. Does she think her parents will stop worrying? “They’re parents. They’ll be fine. Sometimes parents can be too supportive and convince a child they’re the next best thing. That can screw with a person’s head, because they’ll think that everything is going to work out for them — and it won’t. Mine have given me a sense of reality, thank God.”