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Posted on: August 25, 2010 by Christine |
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Joseph Kahn says Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan didn’t have an easy job on ‘Love the Way You Lie’ set.
Given that he’s one of the biggest names in music videos and his latest project featured both Eminem and Rihanna, Joseph Kahn should have had no problem casting the two leads for the “Love the Way You Lie” video. And yet, he considers himself “incredibly lucky” to have landed both Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox for the clip.
“Megan is one of those choices, like, whenever you write a music video, you go, ‘I want a girl like Megan Fox,’ ” Kahn told MTV News. “I guarantee, like, 95 percent of music videos, they write, ‘I would like a girl like Megan Fox.
Kahn said Fox is so popular, he didn’t initially consider her participation a possibility. “We were actually looking around for some other actresses, and then, midway through, I just thought, ‘Why don’t I just try this?’ ” he said. “I mean, I have the biggest artist in the world, with the hottest song on the planet, with the hottest female artist … and it’s a meaty role. It’s not like you’re just slipping in there and looking pretty.”
Fortunately for Kahn, Fox is an Eminem fan, and she loved the song and the role. “So, she said ‘yes,’ ” he said. “I was blown away.”
On the other hand, the director said he considered courting Monaghan right away. “I wanted him because he’s an actor who can bury himself [in his roles],” Kahn said. “You can do anything with him, and essentially, he’s a villain through all of [the video], and I think he did a great job.”
So, with two big-name actors on set, and only two days to shoot the entire video, Kahn had his work cut out for him. Monaghan and Fox were going to need to channel conflicting emotions — anger one second, passion the next — and do it quickly. As the director, it was up to Kahn to help them harness all of that — often at a moment’s notice. Luckily for him, he had two of the best to work with.
“I just told them: This is not like a normal film. We have two days on set, and we have to think of it as an acting workshop, because you’re going to have to ramp up into emotions in two seconds, you’re not going to know what the story is, and you’re going to have to trust one another,” he explained. “I’m asking them to go from zero to 100 in two seconds, so they were using all their techniques as actors. Dom would be calling her names, she’d be calling him names … to see them turn it on like that, it was really a fascinating acting study.”
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Posted on: August 11, 2010 by Christine |
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The controversial video to Eminem and Rihanna’s collaboration, Love The Way You Lie, has broken records as it racked up over 6.6million YouTube views in the first 24 hours of its release.
The video, which glamourises domestic violence by constantly showing it as a precursor to sex with Transformers star Megan Fox, has provoked debate from bloggers, pop critics and broadsheet journalists alike.
The promo also stars Lord of The Rings and Lost star Dominic Monaghan, who isn’t only punching walls, but sincerely above his weight, again. Not only does he date Evangeline Lilly but he gets paid to snog Megan Fox?!
Joseph Khan, who directed the video, told MTV: “There are definitely things in both Rihanna and Eminem’s [lives] that we have to be very sensitive about when we were making this video, [but] it’s not a story about Eminem or Rihanna.
“It’s a specific thing that I created for Dominic and Megan to play two people with very specific story lines to each other. These are fictional characters in my head but obviously based on real human beings.”
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Posted on: August 8, 2010 by Christine |
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DOMINIC MONAGHAN provoked MEGAN FOX while filming EMINEM’s LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE music video – because he was determined for the beauty to “get angry” and “smack” him.
The couple portray Eminem and his ex-wife Kim Mathers during their tumultuous and violent relationship and the British actor reveals he was so dedicated to the shoot, he shaved his head to play the rapper and asked Fox to call him Slim – the hip-hop star’s nickname.
And he admits he was more focused on taunting his co-star than their steamy clinches.
Monaghan tells EOnline.com, “You try to make it as real as possible. I tried as hard as I can to find things that would press her buttons and use those to get her angry. I wanted her to be on me and smack the hell out of me, which she proceeded to do.
“I busted myself up punching the walls, punching the mirror and all that kind of stuff. You come home at night and you’re tired. You don’t go home at night feeling all stoked that you got to make out with some cute girl.
“It’s work. You have to understand that cameras are being pointed at you and they’re in your face and people are telling you to move this way or move that way. It’s not terrible work, but it is work.”
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Posted on: August 5, 2010 by Christine |
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Megan and her husband Brian Austin Green were spotted out in Los Angeles yesterday (Aug. 4) leaving the gym and getting some tacos at Pinches.
Megan Fox appeared alongside Dominic Monaghan in Eminem’s music video ‘Love The Way You Lie’ featuring Rihanna, but she didn’t want the paycheck from it.
Instead, Fox decided to donate her fee to Sojourn House, a shelter for abused women. The music video premieres tonight at 9pm on MTV.
  
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Posted on: August 4, 2010 by Christine |
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“Love The Way You Lie,” featuring Rihanna, will premiere on MTV and VEVO.com on Thursday, August 5th at 9:00 PM EDT. Shot in Los Angeles, the video was directed by Joseph Kahn. Rihanna appears in the video, which also features Megan Fox (Transformers) and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings, Lost) playing a couple going through the extremes of an abusive relationship.
Megan Fox donated her fee for her video appearance to Sojourn House, a shelter for abused women. Sojourn provides battered women and their children a safe space to regroup, rebuild, and reestablish their self-esteem and lives. For more information on Sojourn House please visit http://www.opcc.net/
Come back tomorrow night for pictures and the video!
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