By: MrDisgusting

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While shooting in Los Angeles, CA, Bloody-Disgusting's BC caught up with Jessica Alba and Alessandro Nivola, stars of Lionsgate's The Eye, a remake of the classic Thai film that helped kick-start the Asian horror revolution. Inside you'll find word from both these fabulous actors from the set; watch for a full report soon.


Being that over the last few years we’ve had THE RING and THE GRUDGE and all these other movies that have come here and done very well - what makes THE EYE so special? Alessandro Nivola tells Bloody-Disgusting that "The challenge anytime you’re making a movie and trying to test the genre is to bring something that feels different. I think, from what I can tell, they’ve set out to make a movie that has some kind of feeling of reality. Increasingly, the horror movies that I’ve seen just dispense with any kind of attempt to create a reality in the world of film, and it’s just one kind of ghoulish moment after another, he explains, "I think this was a perfect movie for Jessica to do also because she has ambitions to be taken really seriously as an actress and she hasn’t had the opportunity until now to do a role that enabled her to play a real character, and to behave in ways that didn’t involve action and comic book heroes and all that kind of thing."

In the film Jessica Alba plays Sydney, a young, blind violinist is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death itself capturing the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney must discover whose eyes she has inherited, and what secret visions they have held.

Alba talked to B-D a bit about what it was like playing someone who was blind, "It was weird; losing your sight is very daunting. I would walk around my house, and I walked with a cane and shades on in complete darkness. You get really claustrophobic, she explains. Even the most remedial tasks become difficult and certain experiences opened her eyes to the life-style, "Even just drinking water and anything, it just feels very claustrophobic. There have been a few little panic attacks and nightmares about being blind. It’s a really different reality. Now I look for Braille everywhere. There are no menus in Braille. So if someone is not sighted and they go to restaurant, they just have to trust whoever is reading the menu to them. There are just things that I never would even think about."

But what really inspired her was a 25-year-old in Mexico, "I always thought it was always such a handicap that you couldn’t really do what everyone else does, and they do everything. This woman that we met in New Mexico, who they found, she’s 25 years old. She’s a classical musician, she’s a singer and she’s a vocalist. She travels by herself all the time. She doesn’t need anybody to get around. And, she competes with people who are sighted for concerts. She’s really inspiring, and she’s kind of my inspiration for the movie, for sure."

Source: BC

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