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Vanity Fair Shows Mira Nair's Flair for Novelty and "Outsiderism" |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: Scott Galupo |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 857 Words, 5,222 Characters |
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When Mira Nair landed in her native India for a quick, two-day shoot on Vanity Fair, that's when star Reese Witherspoon went from being merely impressed to awestruck. Seemingly in no time, Nair had marshaled a crew of 200 people speaking in three different languages and--why not?--four elephants.
"She's just a very special person," Witherspoon says, lamenting that there aren't more like her in Hollywood.
James Purefoy--one of several British actors cast in the movie, which was filmed primarily in Bath, England--was impressed by that same organizational brio, in this case her encouragement of actors to join her for early-morning yoga sessi...
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...'ve gotta give you your money's worth,' " she says.
Asked to look back on her success, Nair answers with self-assurance. "I don't sit around looking over my shoulder hoping they won't catch me," she says. "I think it's the other way around. I think that I have something to say ... I'd like to open your eyes to the part of the world that I come from."
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