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Interview With Diane Lane
Aired September 25, 2003 - 10:49 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DIANE LANE, ACTRESS: I have inherited 10,000 bottles, one grape, and assorted previous tenants.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A nice way you can meet your new neighbors. That was a scene we were watching from "Under the Tuscan Sun," a new movie out this Friday starring Academy Award nominee Diane Lane, and she's in New York joining us to tell us more about the movie.
Good morning.
LANE: Good morning, thank you.
KAGAN: Quite a year for you, an Oscar nomination for "Unfaithful," this hot new movie, love, a wedding of your own on the way. A good one, yes?
LANE: Very wonderful year.
KAGAN: All your stars are aligning.
Let's talk about this new movie. This is very different from "Unfaithful."
LANE: Well, I would say it's almost as opposite as one can get in the sense that it has comedy and a lightness of spirit, and I think generally a message of hope and believing in yourself after losing one's faith that you'll ever find love again.
KAGAN: And that's a chord there a lot of people can understand.
This is the basic plot before we look at another clip. This woman has been dumped by her husband?
LANE: That's how it opens. We witness her rather traumatic and shocking divorce. You know, it's a growing statistic, and it hits home with a lot of audience members. It even did for myself when I read the script, because it's hard to regain your sense of self-after investing like that and having it not pan out, as it were. So, you know, it's a good starting place for a movie.
KAGAN: It is. And we are going to see another clip. This is after your character goes to Italy. She goes on a tour, and makes a decision to buy this tiny villa. Let's take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LANE: Love is blind. We have that saying, too.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Everybody has that saying, because it is true everywhere.
LANE: I don't want to be blind anymore. This house has three bedrooms. What if there's never anyone to sleep in them, and the kitchen, what if there's never anyone to cook for. I do, I wake up in the middle of the night thinking, you idiot, you are the stupidest woman in a world. You bought a house for a life you don't even have.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Very, very tender moment there with a woman definitely getting in touch with some of her innermost fears. But the movie, I read something that is kind of interesting, it's different from a lot of what you call chick flicks, because it's not about a woman getting a man, it's about a woman getting a life.
LANE: Getting a life and being need bid other people. People need to be needed, you know, and she starts out very needy herself and, in fact, winds up being needed by the people she's met. So belonging.
And many different versions of what we refer to as love are dealt with in this movie, and it's the courage to love again and fight for it, if you have to.
KAGAN: Let me ask you something from inside Hollywood, and I can tell you why I know I'll go see this movie and a lot of my friends will go see this movie, there aren't a lot of what you call chick flicks out there. If it's not action and kaboom and explosion...
LANE: It's a good date movie.
KAGAN: Are there not movies -- when you see all these kind of scripts and things, why aren't there more movies made like this?
LANE: Well, I think we have to show up and make them financially successful. It is show business, not show appreciation. That's what it boils down to.
KAGAN: There you go. So if you really want to support movies like this, go out and see this, "Under the Tuscan Sun."
Now let's get to the real life moment.
LANE: Yes.
KAGAN: You are engaged to Josh Brolin. LANE: Yes, ma'am.
KAGAN: And do you want to share any little wedding details with us, or anything like that?
LANE: Oh sure. The 31st of April, in Tasmania.
KAGAN: You hope we can all make it.
LANE: We have three children to coordinate, so it's quite involved.
KAGAN: So this time around, it's not just about, can you get the place, you have to coordinate and check with your children's schedules.
LANE: Absolutely. You know how that is.
KAGAN: Well, let's just assume it happens sometime in the next calendar year, good luck with that.
LANE: Thank you.
KAGAN: And perhaps we will see you on the red carpet again real soon.
LANE: Thank you very much.
KAGAN: Good luck. "Under the Tuscan Sun," Diane Lane. Great to talk to you once again.
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Aired September 25, 2003 - 10:49 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DIANE LANE, ACTRESS: I have inherited 10,000 bottles, one grape, and assorted previous tenants.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A nice way you can meet your new neighbors. That was a scene we were watching from "Under the Tuscan Sun," a new movie out this Friday starring Academy Award nominee Diane Lane, and she's in New York joining us to tell us more about the movie.
Good morning.
LANE: Good morning, thank you.
KAGAN: Quite a year for you, an Oscar nomination for "Unfaithful," this hot new movie, love, a wedding of your own on the way. A good one, yes?
LANE: Very wonderful year.
KAGAN: All your stars are aligning.
Let's talk about this new movie. This is very different from "Unfaithful."
LANE: Well, I would say it's almost as opposite as one can get in the sense that it has comedy and a lightness of spirit, and I think generally a message of hope and believing in yourself after losing one's faith that you'll ever find love again.
KAGAN: And that's a chord there a lot of people can understand.
This is the basic plot before we look at another clip. This woman has been dumped by her husband?
LANE: That's how it opens. We witness her rather traumatic and shocking divorce. You know, it's a growing statistic, and it hits home with a lot of audience members. It even did for myself when I read the script, because it's hard to regain your sense of self-after investing like that and having it not pan out, as it were. So, you know, it's a good starting place for a movie.
KAGAN: It is. And we are going to see another clip. This is after your character goes to Italy. She goes on a tour, and makes a decision to buy this tiny villa. Let's take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LANE: Love is blind. We have that saying, too.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Everybody has that saying, because it is true everywhere.
LANE: I don't want to be blind anymore. This house has three bedrooms. What if there's never anyone to sleep in them, and the kitchen, what if there's never anyone to cook for. I do, I wake up in the middle of the night thinking, you idiot, you are the stupidest woman in a world. You bought a house for a life you don't even have.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Very, very tender moment there with a woman definitely getting in touch with some of her innermost fears. But the movie, I read something that is kind of interesting, it's different from a lot of what you call chick flicks, because it's not about a woman getting a man, it's about a woman getting a life.
LANE: Getting a life and being need bid other people. People need to be needed, you know, and she starts out very needy herself and, in fact, winds up being needed by the people she's met. So belonging.
And many different versions of what we refer to as love are dealt with in this movie, and it's the courage to love again and fight for it, if you have to.
KAGAN: Let me ask you something from inside Hollywood, and I can tell you why I know I'll go see this movie and a lot of my friends will go see this movie, there aren't a lot of what you call chick flicks out there. If it's not action and kaboom and explosion...
LANE: It's a good date movie.
KAGAN: Are there not movies -- when you see all these kind of scripts and things, why aren't there more movies made like this?
LANE: Well, I think we have to show up and make them financially successful. It is show business, not show appreciation. That's what it boils down to.
KAGAN: There you go. So if you really want to support movies like this, go out and see this, "Under the Tuscan Sun."
Now let's get to the real life moment.
LANE: Yes.
KAGAN: You are engaged to Josh Brolin. LANE: Yes, ma'am.
KAGAN: And do you want to share any little wedding details with us, or anything like that?
LANE: Oh sure. The 31st of April, in Tasmania.
KAGAN: You hope we can all make it.
LANE: We have three children to coordinate, so it's quite involved.
KAGAN: So this time around, it's not just about, can you get the place, you have to coordinate and check with your children's schedules.
LANE: Absolutely. You know how that is.
KAGAN: Well, let's just assume it happens sometime in the next calendar year, good luck with that.
LANE: Thank you.
KAGAN: And perhaps we will see you on the red carpet again real soon.
LANE: Thank you very much.
KAGAN: Good luck. "Under the Tuscan Sun," Diane Lane. Great to talk to you once again.
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