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The Cast of NINE at the SAG Awards (01/23)

Penelope Cruz laughes off her love making scenes

Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz finds shooting love scenes in films "strange" so she makes her co-stars laugh to help relieve the tension.

The Spanish beauty appears as Daniel Day-Lewis' mistress in movie musical 'Nine' and filmed a series of intimate clips with him, Contactmusic reported.

But Cruz did not quite enjoy the experience and turned to humour to get through the testing shots.

"It's always a very strange thing. I mean, we had the best director and I was in the best possible company, but it's always something strange... We laughed a lot together, because you have to bring humour to those situations," the actress was quoted telling US host Larry King.

The actress will seen in 'Nine' portraying a seductress Carla Albanese, who tries to charm the character of Daniel Day-Lewis'.

'Nine' boasts of star studded cast, Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren, Judy Dench, Kate Hudson, Fergie along with Cruz.

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In the Making of NINE [10/10]

The production also headed an hour south to the seaside town of Anzio—the scene of the Allied Landings during WWII—where they shot in a former casino recalling the grandeur of the past, with spectacular terraces overlooking the sea. The building provided several important locations forNINE: it was the Roman baths for a scene between Guido Contini and a Cardinal; it was the busy location production office for ITALIA; it was the terrace restaurant where a complicated dinner party was filmed; and it was the entrance and lobby of the hotel spa where Guido seeks refuge to no avail.

Filming concluded in the hilltop village of Sutri, an hour outside Rome, where two long, cold night shoots with Daniel Day-Lewis and Nicole Kidman completed a sequence that started with the song “Unusual Way” performed on H Stage at Shepperton Studios back in England.

With production completed, much of the film’s most intense work still lay ahead as Rob Marshall collaborated with the editing team of Oscar® winner Claire Simpson (PLATOON, THE READER) and Emmy-nominated Wyatt Smith (TONY BENNETT: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC) in post production.

Suddenly, all the film’s many artistic elements came together as one seamless fabric. Sums up producer Platt: “Rob demands the best from everyone around him. He’s so meticulous and has an eye for every single detail. That same is true for John De Luca in the choreography, for Dion Beebe in his cinematography, for John Myhre’s sets, Colleen Atwood’s costumes and Simpson and Smith’s editing. And of course that feeling permeated the cast. Throughout, there was this symbiotic relationship where all of our colleagues were demanded to their best, wanted to do their best and did do their best because the level of the story was that good. As Guido Contini says, you never know what a film will become. The cameras, the actors, the designers, the editors all do their thing, but the magic really happens when you put it in front of an audience.”

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Rob Marshall's Nine to receive birthday screening at Berlin

Rob Marshall’s Nineand new films by Doris Dorrie, Matti Geschonneck and Jo Baier will be screened as part of the Berlinale’s Special programme this year.

Musical Nine will have a 60^th birthday special screening at the Friedrichstadtpalast musical theatre a week before it is released through Senator Film in Germany. The theatre will also host the world premiere of the reconstructed original version of Fritz Lang’sMetropolis, which will have live musical accompaniment by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

The BAFTA awards nominees

The Nominations were announced, and unfortunatly, NINE is just nominated once for Make up and Hair.

The BAFTA Awards will take place in London’s Royal Opera House on February 21.