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The working-class milieu (Dillon and his clique are electrical workers) is atypical too.
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Whereas in Britain still, rightly or wrongly, when we go to see Alan Rickman in a film, we're not necessarily expecting him to recreate a series of characteristics we've come to like. There's pressure on those actors to remain themselves rather than to play a character. But, much more, there is a sense of audiences following actors through projects, expecting them to look good, investing in them for their appearance and public personalities. Whereas I could have a cup of coffee with Juliet and it would be perfectly normal. You can't say, 'I'll meet you in a cafe at 9.00am' and expect that to be a straightforward transaction. 'It's very hard, if you're William Hurt or Matt Dillon, to lead a normal life. Although it sounds very cranky and demanding from a distance, it becomes much easier to understand when you see the sort of scrutiny they come under. 'There's much more baggage accompanying an American actor - literally, in the sense that they bring more people and things with them. In Mr Wonderful, as with all Minghella's work, casting was critical, but a more delicate and complicated business. Truly was written with Stevenson in view. Whereas my stories are more about the circumstances of talking and the inability or refusal to say what we want to say.' 'There's always the assumption that what makes screenplays good or bad is what people say to each other. And naturally, Minghella says, the question this time on everyone's lips is: 'Where are you on Sleepless in Seattle?' It has an American setting (Brooklyn's blue-collar Italian community), American stars (Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, William Hurt), a high budget and a neat concept (man tries to find a new mate for his ex-wife, but finds his own love for her re-kindling). Now Minghella has just made his second film, a bittersweet romantic comedy called Mr Wonderful.
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But no: none of the above sufficed for the wonderful world of movie promotion, and when Anthony Minghella's first film, Truly, Madly, Deeply, began to attract attention, it was pitched, almost inevitably, as the thinking person's Ghost. It should be enough, too, to be a respected writer in a range of media, for theatre (Made in Bangkok), television (What If It's Raining? Inspector Morse) and radio (Hang Up Coffee and Cigarettes). YOU'D think it was enough to make a highly regarded film, one which won awards and proved its commercial mettle on both sides of the Atlantic.