GI Jane

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Jane Movie Notes</b></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="196"><div> <IMG SRC="04d40010.gif" border=0 width="64" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Casting and Training </div> <div> <IMG SRC="04e1f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">While the screenwriters honed the script, the producers and director Scott began selecting the supporting cast. "The whole process was a producer's dream," the filmmakers agree. "I'm afraid it may never happen that way for any of us again." To play the role of Senator Lillian DeHaven, the politician who picks Demi's character for special categories military training, the filmmakers looked to Academy Award(R)-winning actress Anne Bancroft. "We're blessed to have Anne," says director Scott. "She presents a very incisive, smart and elegant professional politician. I didn't want a caricature, and Anne can be sympathetic while on the other hand being very tough. Actually," he continues, "she would be a good politician." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="04f1f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">For Bancroft, the role came at an opportune time. "I'm attracted to a role if I'm ready for it," she explains. "I recently had been playing a lot of women who stay at home, a mother, a great aunt, a grandmother. Here was a glamorous woman with a great sense of herself who is out in the world. It was nice to pull that out of myself." For the role of Master Chief John Urgayle, Ridley Scott wanted "somebody fresh and new." He did not have to look far. "I'd had my eye on Viggo Mortensen since seeing him in 'Indian Runner.' It was a very dark movie, but he was a very interesting presence. Then my brother Tony used him in 'Crimson Tide,'" </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"I just met Ridley and got the job," confirms Mortensen. "It was flattering to be cast without any apparent hesitation on his part in such an important role. I am very grateful to him." Creating his antagonistic, hard-driving character was more of a task. In order to accurately depict the Naval Special Operations training practices, Mortensen went to the Naval Base in Coronado, California where he watched the actual training and talked to as many active and retired SEALs as he could. Describing the character he finally developed, the actors says, "I am the law and all must obey or suffer the dire consequences." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0511f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Casting and training the troops who would realistically portray the background characters was of major importance for the filmmakers. "Ridley Scott and Demi both felt that, in order for this movie to appear realistic, the actors in the film would actually have to go through some of the training exercises on film," notes producer Birnbaum. "They needed to be prepared for their roles both psychologically as well as physically." Extras casting director Billy Dowd began by searching for athletes and military personnel near the film's intended Florida location. To everyone's surprise, he received hundreds of calls from across America. "I had contacted tri-athlete organizations and military bases," explains Dowd, "and the press picked up the story. We ended up with guys who fit the criteria from a dozen states, military men who took leave time, or athletes who took eight weeks off from their jobs." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The criteria included being in perfect physical condition, having the ability to speed run several miles and to run long distances, to swim 400 yards, including 30 yards underwater, and to do hundreds of sit-ups, hundreds of push-ups and hundreds of squat jumps. "Being physically fit was a big part of getting the job," notes stunt coordinator Phil Neilson, himself a former member of the Marine Corps Elite Unit, Force Recon, who assembled a training staff of former Navy SEALs. "We lucked out that the actors and extras were really strong swimmers, and many of them had military backgrounds." In fact, over half of the men, who came to be known as the "Top Forty," were currently or recently in one of the various military branches, including, again, several recently resigned SEALs. The others came from the acting or arts communities. These "few good men" included a student of Juilliard's Acting School, an award winning classical guitarist who just happens to be 6', 218 lbs., and several tri-athletes who, notes Billy Dowd, "had swam around Key West last year, or had ridden a bicycle 500 miles in three days." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In addition to the "Top Forty," director Scott needed to choose eight actors for featured roles. These experienced actors, quickly referred to as the "Great Eight," included David Vadim, Morris Chestnut, Josh Hopkins, Jim Caviezel, Boyd Kestner, Angel David, Stephen Ramsey and Gregg Bello. They, too, had to pass the physical tests Ñ after which everyone began two grueling weeks of military boot camp. "When I met with Ridley," recalls Morris Chestnut, "he said 'Would you mind going down for some training.' I play basketball and all these other sports, so I said, 'Yeah, no problem.' I had no idea what we were in for! I wasn't prepared for running 30 miles in 100 degree weather, so it was definitely a shock to train for this film. And the yelling! They came after us and stayed on us." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"We took a very aggressive stance in the training program," says military technical advisor Harry Humphries. "Phil Neilson and the SEAL staff were the training cadre. We tried to show the harassment of the Special Forces training and the skills, including weapons handling, that are taught in that training. We encapsulated a 17 week course into two weeks, so those actors were harassed to hell." "We got them in the military frame of mind," confirms Phil Neilson. "None of these guys knew each other, and now they're all buddies working together as a team and a unit." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That team included one more member Ñ actress Demi Moore. "Demi is a very impressive lady," notes Harry Humphries. "She certainly had never been put into such physical working conditions. On the first day of training, I saw this young woman out there with the rest of the troops getting muddy doing push-ups and sit-ups and squat-jumps and running around obstacles. I said, 'That's a great stunt double,' so I walked up to her and said, 'You've got a lot of guts.' That night we were introduced, and the person I had perceived to be the stunt double was Demi! I can't say enough about her tenacity and her willpower." Notes producer Birnbaum, "Demi Moore is one of the biggest female stars of our time, and in this movie, she gets beaten up and kicked around and almost drowned. The role that Demi played was extremely demanding, one of the most challenging roles I think any actor Ñ regardless of whether the actor is a man or a woman Ñ has probably had to go through. But she is extraordinary. She put her whole heart and soul into this, and she was there every single moment for this film." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Screenwriter Alexandra concurs saying, "I envisioned Demi in the role and in no way did she ever let me down." Moore actually considered the training a bonus to being in "G.I. JANE." "I could have come in and asked to let the stuntwoman do the obstacle course," Moore says. "But I felt I would have walked away having missed an opportunity experiencing, first-hand, what these people actually go through in training; it's the whole reason for doing this film in the first place. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"I didn't want any special treatment just because of who I am or my position in the film," Moore continues. "It was interesting to step into the real-life experiences of what the SEALs go through." "Demi did it all for real," Phil Neilson says. "She's very athletic, but part of my job became to watch that she didn't walk away with serious bruises." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Among other preparations was the need to give all the actors a Special Forces hairstyle. When they first arrived, many in the group wore long hair and mustaches. After a few days of initial training, Demi herself threw a "Shave Your Dome" party in a nightclub. The producers roped off one side of the club and wrangled the partygoers into the chair. "About 10 percent of them had started with their hair cut short," recalls hair stylist Dorothy Fox. "We needed to cut the rest of them right away so they could get their heads tanned, because we shot in the sun a lot and we couldn't have a bunch of red scalps." The regulation cut was "an eighth of an inch," Fox says, "so we had to re-cut everyone every four days. Counting the Top Forty, the Great Eight, the rest of the actors, the stand-ins, the stunt men and the occasional extras, we did a lot of haircuts over those four months," Fox says. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0591f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Six weeks after the "Dome" party, on a much anticipated date in the shooting schedule, Demi Moore shaved her head to match that of the others. Where some actresses might consider cutting off all their hair for a film a call above and beyond that of duty, Moore was always committed to every facet of the "G.I. JANE" project and was completely prepared for all that was required of her character. "One of the big moments after reading the script was the impact of the scene where Lt. O'Neil cuts off her hair," Moore says. "It's an integral part of the story and reflects her total commitment. I had five or six months before we reached the point of filming that scene and when the time came, I was ready to do it in order to get on with the real down and dirty part of the training." </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0501f0d0.gif" border=0 width="31" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">After the scene was shot, the assembled group of men cheered in approval. "It was interesting," Moore continues," I had more people want to touch me. The funniest responses came from my children who would say to friends, 'Hey, do you want to come look at my Mom's head?' as if I were a show-and-tell item. Even my husband had a laugh." </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="581" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="133"><div> <IMG SRC="04d40010.gif" border=0 width="64" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="441"><div> Notes: ©1997 Hollywood Pictures. All rights reserved.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>