Mister Foe released on DVD

Sophia Myles film, Mister Foe, has been released on DVD! It is the role for which she won the BAFTA as Best Actress (the movie is known as Hallam Foe in Europe). The film had a limited theatrical release in the US, so most of us did not get to see it on the big screen. *pout* Reviews have been glowing! Here's a link in case you wanna order your own copy of the DVD......


Photograph ~ Kate Breck (Sophia Myles) and Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) in a scene from the film, Mister Foe.

Parade Magazine interviews Sophia Myles

Jeanne Wolf, from Parade Magazine, recently interviewed Sophia Myles while she was on her press tour promoting the US release of the new movie, Mister Foe. Moonlight fans are mentioned in the first paragraph of the article!

Sophia Myles On Her First On-Screen Kiss
by Jeanne Wolf

Scottish beauty Sophia Myles makes the transition to Hollywood as she branches out into more rebellious and edgy roles. She received a cult following in the vampire series Moonlight — fans unsuccessfully petitioned for its return after it was canceled in May.

And she’s out to capitalize on her high-profile big screen romance with James Franco in Tristan and Isolde. She has a juicy role in the dark drama Mister Foe in which she co-stars with Jamie Bell. Then she joins Jim Caviezel in the sci-fi epic Outlander playing a Viking princess.

Q: In Mister Foe you have some pretty sexually explicit scenes. Was that uncomfortable for you?

Sophia Myles : I’ve always been very, very particular about nudity and sex in the movies I do because I think a lot of the time it’s very gratuitous, especially when a female is involved. So I’ve been very strict. I think the scenes in this film are of a sexual nature but they are not sexy at all. Actually, I quite enjoy keeping my clothes on. I don’t even like looking at my naked bottom in a mirror.

Q: Ever feel a little silly?

Sophia Myles : I did in Tristan and Isolde when another actress and I had to take off our clothes and hug a naked James Franco to thaw him out after he nearly froze to death. We found it so funny we couldn’t stop laughing. I think we did about 60 takes.

Q: Do you remember your first on-screen kiss?

Sophia Myles : I think Johnny Deep was one of the first. People think that it’s all so glamorous and sexy, but actually it’s so different than how it is in real life. You’re not doing it for real. It’s all fake. And most of the time you’re just conscious of the camera and hoping that you don’t look like you have a double chin or something.

Q: You were in a very high profile relationship with David Tennant who is famous as Dr. Who. How has it been since that ended?

Sophia Myles : I think when I was younger I was kind of looking for somebody to come along to complete me. And I’ve realized now that I have to basically be complete — I have to complete myself. And then the right thing will come. I’m enjoying the single life. I’m enjoying taking this time for myself because I think it’s important.

Q: Could you call that growing up?

Sophia Myles : As I’ve gotten older, the more I learn about myself and the more work on myself I’ve done. I’m more conscious of my needs and wants. And I’ll probably be more vocal now than I would’ve been. People pleasing, I guess, is one of my character defects, but I’m trying to not do that so much because it’s not very good for me.

Q: You’ve been spending a lot of time in L.A. How are you adapting to Hollywood?

Sophia Myles : I’ve had two major waves of homesickness that have lasted for about a month each time. And I understand now why they call it homesickness because you do actually feel quite ill. L.A. can be quite an isolating place because of the car culture. The one thing I miss about Europe is being able to just walk everywhere. And so I find that your world can become quite small when you’r e in your car.

Q: Was it fun to be a Viking princess in Outlander?

Sophia Myles : It was great to go back in time again after Tristan and Isolde because this time I get to kick some butt. I did loads of sword fighting and I had to get very fit. It’s set in 709 AD but on page two of the script, an alien ship crash lands so it’s kind of a mixture of old period drama meets science fiction.

http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-parade/archive/pc_0236.html

Photograph ~ Kate Breck (Sophia Myles) and Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) in a scene from Mister Foe film

Video of Sophia Myles' appearance on Craig Ferguson's show

The great Absolutely Sophia has provided a video of Sophia Myles' new interview from the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. She is supposed to be there to promote the release of her movie, Mister Foe, in the States. However, they don't really talk that much about the film... which usually happens on Craig's show. He is so funny. A brief preview clip of our girl being seductive, in Mister Foe, is shown.

Craig kept talking about Vampires before Sophia comes out. I knew that meant he would ask her about our show. When he wonders why Moonlight was canceled, she simply replies "I don't know."

We find out that Sophia's work visa expires next June, and she plans to stay at least until then. Often, she has said how much she is loving California. In this chat, she admits that she wouldn't mind becoming a US citizen.

Sophia's wallet was stolen! URGH! On top of that, she didn't even like the movie she was seeing at the time. For those who haven't heard of it, she is talking about Don Cheadle's new action/spy flick, Traitor.

I've received lots of mail from those asking who Sophia Myles is dating. Now you have your answer. According to what she told Craig, she does not currently have a boyfriend.

Hmmmmmm..... she also says that she doesn't have a pet. Around Christmas of last year, she got a puppy named Jackson. What happened to him? :(

Do they not use the "shame on you" sign in the UK? Cute that Sophia had never heard of it.

Sophia Myles returns to chat with Craig Ferguson

Programming Note : Sophia Myles will continue promoting her film, Mister Foe, with a new appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. You can see her interview Tuesday morning (September 9th, 2008) @ 12:05 AM Central Time on CBS. Check your local listings. Neil Patrick Harris is also scheduled to appear.

Photograph ~ Beth Turner (Sophia Myles) in Moonlight TV Show

Sophia Myles compliments Moonlight fans in Mister Foe interview

Our girl, Sophia Myles, is out doing press for her film, Mister Foe (known as Hallam Foe in the UK). In this interview, she is asked about Moonlight's cancelation. Sophia's comment about Moonlight fans being "the most rewarding part, because it was so wonderful having an actual relationship with your audience" is very sweet :)

Sophia Myles on ‘Mister Foe,’ ‘Outlander,’ and Her Unsexy Sex Scenes
By: Brent Simon ~ New York Magazine ~ Entertainment Vulture

For English beauty Sophia Myles, 2006 represented a sort of coming-out party, with the period-piece romance Tristan & Isolde and the vampire-and-werewolf action sequel Underworld: Evolution, plus a plum role in Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential five months later. Her latest film is David Mackenzie's Mister Foe, in which she stars opposite Jamie Bell as Kate Breck, a middle-management hotel employee who enters into a warped relationship with a lusty kid, Hallam, who starts spying on her because she reminds him of his dead mother. Myles spoke with Vulture about working with a pervy, adult Billy Elliot, Mackenzie's deft touch with sex, and fan reaction to the recently canceled, much-beloved CBS vampire drama Moonlight.

NYM : A lot of American audiences still most associate Jamie with Billy Elliot, and here you see him … a lot more grown-up.

Sophia Myles : And he's a bit of a pervert, right!? Well, it's the same thing with me — I associated Jamie with Billy Elliot. I think most of the British public does. Jamie, as far as I'm concerned, is a national treasure. I would say he's right up there at the top of my favorite co-stars, because in any scene between him and I, he's so good and moving that all I had to do was just react to whatever he was doing. He's made this seamless transition from child star to adult star without any of the rehab and all the nonsense.

NYM : Mister Foe shares some similarities with a lot of David's other work, Young Adam and a couple of his short films, in that there are messy romances and passion and inappropriate sexual relationships.

Sophia Myles : What I love about David Mackenzie is that he doesn't do “happily ever after.” I think his films deal with reality, not fantasy, and that's what I loved about Mister Foe. The other thing that David does well is sex. I think he portrays it in a very realistic, non-gratuitous way — the rawness and often unsexiness of it. The scenes in this film aren't sensual by any means. I don't think, other than maybe for a few weirdos out there in the world, people are going to be turned on watching them.

NYM : The 16-year-olds who scour the MPAA ratings language and say, “‘Strong sexual content’? I am so there!” are going to be in for a surprise.

Sophia Myles : [Laughs.] Yes, exactly!

NYM : Kate has a line in which she says, “Sometimes I prefer sour, sometimes I prefer sweet.” It gives the sense that she's more than somewhat aware of some of the bad decisions that she's making. Did that appeal to you?

Sophia Myles : Absolutely. Women are often so badly written in movies — they're just completely one-dimensional, in the film to serve the man. Kate’s very confident, comfortable in her own skin, professional, graceful … but in fact take the mask off and behind closed doors she's a mess. She's got demons perched on both shoulders, talking to her in both ears. So often women in movies are just fluff, and that bores me senseless.

NYM : I confess to experiencing this only vicariously, but I had a lot of friends that were quite upset when Moonlight was not renewed.

Sophia Myles : Yeah, well, your friends and 8 million other fans. I had no experience with American television, but the fan following was the most rewarding part, because it was so wonderful having an actual relationship with your audience. And I loved the fact that my office was Warner Bros. I really felt like I'd made it for a second there — to work at a studio in the center of Hollywood, where there's so much history. I thought, Well, if I never work again then at least I did this. There was something magical about it, and we were all very shocked that it got canceled.

NYM : And the last movie you did before Moonlight was Outlander, which still hasn't come out. So…

Sophia Myles : What the fuck, yeah? [Laughs.] That's a crazy situation, and kind of the polar opposite of Mister Foe, which you'll come out of thinking about yourself, and your level of consciousness might be slightly enhanced. Outlander is set in Viking times in Norway, and very early on in the script an alien ship crash-lands on Earth and brings with it, as well as Jim Caviezel, this terrifying dragon. It's taking a while to come out. As always, there's drama, I think, behind the scenes. I'm not entirely sure. No one tells me because I'm just the actress. It will come out, and it's not true that it's going straight to DVD….

NYM : Do you have anything else definitively lined up?

Sophia Myles : No, I'm completely unemployed! [Laughs.] I'm not going to lie: these fucking breaks! I’ve had some exciting meetings, but for now I'm unemployed because they're still waiting to resolve this acting strike. No one is taking a chance and putting anything in production, so I'm just chilling out, getting a tan.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/09/sophia_myles_on_mister_foe_out.html

Photograph ~ Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) & Kate Breck (Sophia Myles) in Mister Foe

New audio interview with Sophia Myles

Sophia Myles is out promoting the release of her film, Mister Foe, here in the US. It was called Hallam Foe in Europe. Sophia plays the role of Kate Breck. This is the movie for which she won the 2007 BAFTA Scotland award for best actress :)

Mister Foe is being distributed in the States by Magnolia Pictures. It will be showing in select cities only..... such as ~ New York, San Diego, Austin, LA, Chicago, Denver, Washington DC, Seattle & Philadelphia. You can check the playdates & locations here :
http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=a2353181-9c5b-452b-beca-e7c541ba6819

Hollywood Outbreak has a brief audio interview with our girl. She talks about being a preacher's daughter and doing sex/nude scenes in the movie. Sophia has such a good sense of humor. Great laugh!

SOPHIA MYLES: PRETTY RACY FOR A VICAR’S DAUGHTER

In DAVID MACKENZIE’S new drama, MISTER FOE, JAMIE BELL (BILLY ELLIOTT, JUMPERS) plays a disturbed young man who becomes involved with an almost equally disturbed young woman played by SOPHIA MAYLES (THUNDERBIRDS).

We caught up with the two young stars to talk about the film, their love scenes and the nudity. SOPHIA didn’t think it was a big deal…JAMIE wasn’t exactly in full agreement.

Click on this link to hear Sophia Myles' interview :
http://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/?p=1266

Photograph ~ Kate Breck (Sophia Myles) and Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) in the film Mister Foe