THANDIE Newton knew she would be facing challenges when she signed up to be part of the epic end-of-the-world adventure 2012 but never thought she would long for a new set of clothes and a good night’s sleep.

“I spent a lot of time incredibly wet, absolutely soaking wet – trousers, sweater, my shoes, everything. It was miserable and I’m such a little girl about that sort of thing. I didn’t complain about it but inside I was thinking ‘oh no, not again!’” revealed Newton in an interview recently.

One of the hardest sequences for her in Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic involved the aftermath of heavy flooding, which in the film, has left much of the world submerged under water. For Newton and some of her co-stars, it meant several days filming in deep water.

“There’s one sequence where the waves are coming in and I have to scoop up this little girl and save her. Which is all great, but inside I was thinking ‘****** hell. I hoped that this would be it!” she revealed. “And the little girl was having a great time. In between scenes I’d wrap myself in a towel and she was swimming around and loving it.

“Bless the crew, because they’d even made the water warm for us, which is amazing, but after a long day doing that you really look forward to some dry clothes and a good night’s sleep.”

The 37-year-old actress plays Laura Wilson, the First Daughter in 2012. The movie is an epic adventure
about global cataclysm that brings the end to the world and the heroic struggles endured by its survivors.

The film is based on the Mayan calendar that is set to reach the end of its 13th cycle on Dec 21, 2012 and nothing after that. This “action movie role” follows her portrayal of Condoleeza Rice in Oliver Stone’s W. It a bit of a jump. W was a bio-pic (a Stone specialty) of sorts, while 2012 is a full-blown action blockbuster.

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Coming to the cinemas soon is the mega disaster film, 2012. This apocalyptic thriller starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Thadie Newton is being tipped as one of the year’s biggest visual spectacles along with James Cameron’s Avatar. Here is an excerpt from Rajeev Masand’s interview with Thandie Newton who has also starred in popular films such as Mission Impossible and Crash.

Today, November 6th, is Taryn’s 37th birthday! On behalf of all of her fans from around the world, I would love to wish her an amazing day filled with all her favorite people and things!

Feel free to leave your birthday wishes in the “comments” section of this post…

Thandie is gracing the cover of InStyle magazine in the UK for the December 2009 issue! You can see some photos from the magazine by clicking on the preview above and don’t forget to grab your copy if you’re in the UK! You can find out more about the issue and where to get the magazine at www.instyle.co.uk.

In the right wedges, you can do anything!” says Thandie Newton

Let’s face it, Thandie making a fashion faux pas is about as likely asseeing Posh in a tracksuit.

You might be a 37-year-old mum of two, but you’ve still got a ballet dancer’s figure…
“That’s genetic! And I’m a Jivamukti yoga freak – it’s food for my soul. When I’m not working, I’ll drop Rip off at school and Nico at nursery, then I go to yoga. I also have an amazing personal trainer, who I see whenever I can.”

You’ve co-starred with quite a few dishy men. Did any of them make you think, ‘Ooh, if I wasn’t married…’
[Laughs] “Listen to you! I’ve never dated an actor, just had the odd fling. Isn’t that weird? I don’t flirt with people – a long time ago, I stopped using my sexuality to have a relationship with people. I don’t think you really get a sense of me, sexually, and that’s why I have really great relationships with straight men.”

The full interview is in this month’s InStyle

I will be working on obtaining a copy to scan for the site, since I’m in the US, it takes about a month longer to get the issue… So I hope the previews are alright!

We’ve already explored the history of 2012 here on Cinematical and what you need to know to see the movie (hint: the world might blow up!), but here’s what 2012 stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson and director Roland Emmerich have to say about the end of the world. Do they believe the world will end with a whimper or a bang, T. S. Eliot-style? Will we go out in fire or in ice? Do they even believe the world will end in 2012? Let’s find out.

Thandie Newton: You know, I think that there are dire ecological problems that we are more aware of than we’ve ever been through the media and so on, but there are also problems of a more profound nature – human rights issues, which for me, signify the end of the world. What’s going on in the Congo, what’s happening in the Middle East, where… the law of human rights just don’t seem to exist. And I feel like, in a way, that’s more complex and more painful and more destructive than a tidal wave… I think that at some time it was believed that 2012 was the year that things were going to happen, but the prediction has been disproved. I mean, I don’t know the details of it, I’m afraid. I’m sure it’s in your press pack. [laughs] But that’s my personal opinion. I want to focus more on the things that can be dealt with, the disasters that human beings are responsible for… It’s more problematic and more complex and terrifying the way people treat people.

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