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Diane Lane Finds Happiness in "Must Love Dogs"
Lane on Internet Dating, Dogs, and Her "Must Love Dogs" Co-Star John Cusack
Rebecca Murray (movies.about.com)
"Must Love Dogs" - The Story: Diane Lane stars as teacher Sarah Nolan in Warner Bros Pictures' romantic comedy, "Must Love Dogs."
Divorced for eight months, Sarah's family thinks it's time she get back on the horse. But since Sarah's not ready, her sisters and dad decide to take matters into their own hands and launch her back into the dating scene via an Internet dating service.
On the Audience Having to Accept Diane Lane Can’t Get a Date: It’s hard to believe Diane Lane would have any trouble getting a man. Lane said, “That’s what I tried to tell them but they wouldn’t listen to me. Well, suspend [belief] for two hours in the dark (laughing). Thank you for the compliment.
I don’t know what to say. Hopefully I was playing a character that was different enough from myself.
I wouldn’t have the nerve to do what she did, which is to reach out and try to get a date, or even allow myself to be forced into it. I would not be so nice with my sister. No. I don’t think so. But it was an intervention so that’s the whole point of intervention is it’s not your will anymore. It’s the will of everybody around you.”
Diane Lane on How “Must Love Dogs’” Might Affect the Stigma of Internet Dating: “I think it will limber it up a bit. It sounds like a great idea. Of course it’s great fodder for comedy. But I think it’s a great idea to at least eliminate some of the potential mishaps or minimize them. You don’t want to find out after a massive investment and falling head over heels on a superficial level, that there’s some beliefs or things that… You know what I mean? It could be really disappointing and I think that would keep people from dating. And this is going to encourage people to take a step forward.”
Ever Consider Internet Dating?: “Absolutely not. I was terrified. No. Actually it never even entered my mind because I was single by choice. I wasn’t trying to date. I was very busy, being a single working mom.”
Diane Lane on Being in Every Scene in “Must Love Dogs:” “It was... Let’s put it this way, I napped every lunch and writer/director Gary David Goldberg] didn’t. You burn a lot of energy being number one on the call sheet. …I would not have wanted to have that much responsibility before because you need your strength and you need stamina and you have to pace yourself. And there’s a lot of apologizing to your family because you’re exhausted.”
Diane Lane on John Cusack and What He Brings to the Romantic Comedy Genre: “Well, a lot of rewrites. (Laughs) He contributed a lot to his character and his character’s dialogue and a freedom and a levity and a sense of confidence about what works for him, which is a huge gift. It’s a great gift to our movie because Gary trusted him as a comedian. He’s got such a wonderful sense of timing and he’s just confident on camera in that way.
I remember talking with him and he’s going, ‘Come on, Lane. You take that line and I’ll do this.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Nope. It’s not scripted. I’m not saying it.’ I don’t feel that confidence. I start blushing profusely and I get all sweaty and, I don’t know. Old school. I could never. Even on ‘Saturday Night Live’ I’d be one of those people who’s always looking at the words.”
Diane Lane and the Dog: Lane said she got along with Molly and Mable, the dogs who play ‘Mother Theresa’ in the film. Lane explained, “Like with kids, they prefer hiring twins. I have a dog now. I got a dog since the movie. I had to get a dog. I couldn’t make any more excuses to my daughter. I’ve been the mom in ‘My Dog Skip’ and this experience with the dogs…
On Her Criteria for Choosing a Part: “Well I think, selfishly, I’m affected by what I have done last. I want it to be something different than I’ve done recently. That’s the main dictation for me, selfishly. It really has to do with who I’m working with I think, mostly these days.
The first question I ask is, ‘Where?’ Honestly. ‘Where is the shoot?’ If it’s Bulgaria, I can’t go. ‘Sorry.’ I’ve got two step kids and my own daughter and a husband and we’re lighting the yard and we’re getting chickens. It’s a big life. So I don’t want to lose too much of it or leave it for too long. So in that way I’m choosy. And if it were going to be in Bulgaria, I’d have a lot of explaining to do and it better be a damn good movie.”
Any Regrets About Growing Up in the Entertainment Business? “That comes up and then it goes away, kind of like a cloud, you know? The sun’s always shining though. It’s just a question of if I start to look at it and get analytical I could say, ‘Oh, I didn’t go to summer camp,’ and various things like that. But I’m an adult a lot longer than I’m a kid and I’ve gotten to keep my childhood alive a lot longer than most adults. Do you know what I mean? Especially in my line of work, my level of maturity.
I don’t know. It’s an inevitable thing to notice, that there’s a level of self-consciousness that most kids get to postpone as long as possible, which, when you’re performing, you don’t."
Diane Lane on Married Life: “It’s nice to be married to a younger man – according to the magazine cover I read recently. I said, ‘Do you know what that makes me? Don’t answer that.’ I don’t know. I figure if you go to high school together it’s not an issue. If you could have gone to high school together. I love it. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I feel like we’ve been married either 10 minutes or 10 years, we can’t tell. Which I take as a good sign.”
Diane Lane on the Importance of Her Roles in “A Walk on the Moon,” “Unfaithful” and “The Perfect Storm:” “They each [were important] for different reasons. I mean, ‘Unfaithful’ was just out of the ballpark.
That was crazy. I never expected to be nominated in my life. It’s a dream that you don’t admit you dream.
“A Walk on the Moon” was wonderful because it turned out to be such a great movie, and it’s a first time director. He was brilliant and the script was great and every character was fleshed out in that movie, which I think is critical. And ‘The Perfect Storm,’ it’s as though my career began then because a whole other thing happened. I was in a blockbuster, or whatever that title means. ‘Made 10 Million Dollars in 8 minutes.’ When that kind of thing happens to you, you’re the girl in ‘Perfect Storm.’
That can happen to you at any moment, I figured out. Because you’re in a movie that everybody’s seen and it’s a very different experience for me. I made lots of movies. People sometimes didn’t even realize I was still working because I’d just enjoy working and take the jobs I was handed and be grateful to be working, because being an actor is very nervous. You’re always nervous about the next job. So that’s what changed it for me was being in a summer blockbuster and then I was ‘the girl in…’”
On Being Where She Currently is in Her Career: “It’s a glass of water, you kidding? If you’re really thirsty, you guzzle it but at the same time, I take it with a grain of salt because I’d hate to become attached. You know what I mean?”
If She’d Achieved This Success 10 Years, Would It Have Changed Her Outlook?: “I don't know. I think - wow, that’s an interesting question. It’s hard to say. Any level of maturity or wisdom that I can gain is a huge help to dealing and coping with success. What are all these theories that go around? Fear of success and yada yada yada… And people were tired of asking me questions and I was tired of dealing with the questions and coming up with all the answers. So now I can just say, ‘Yes, thank you, and please,’ and get on with it. ‘What’s your next one?’ That kind of thing because I felt like there was a stigma, there was more expected of me and I was quite content to just be working. I felt this pressure. So after ‘Perfect Storm,’ then there was that to live up to. Oh, that’s a different thing.”
Diane Lane on Her Character in “Truth, Justice, and the American Way:” “Her name is Toni Mannix and that is such a great name. I just can’t believe it wasn’t fictitious. It was a real woman named Toni Mannix and she was the paramour of George [Reeves]. She was the wife of the general manager of MGM, but in the ‘50s they found a way to make arrangements. George and she were a couple for nearly a decade. Quite a while, eight years.”
On Ben Affleck as George Reeves: “He’s great. It was interesting because it was right in that moment prior to he and Jennifer [Garner] getting married. He’s just so charming and so in love and so happy. I was just really happy for him because it’s a great role.
He had a really good time. I know he had a really good time delving into this character. The truth is stranger than fiction so we’re making this quasi-nonfiction movie. We’re telling the various possible scenarios of what occurred there. This guy had three autopsies performed on him so that’s why it behooves a movie to be made about his story.”
Does “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” Solve the Mystery of Reeves’ Death?: “I think it’s left up to the audience to form [an opinion], which I think is much more interesting. Even us as actors were going, ‘Do you really think she arranged for him to be killed? I mean, come on.’ So and so saying this and various people, some saying he did kill himself but then why would he arrange his life in such a way right before doing it? It doesn’t seem like an off the cuff decision.”
Ben Affleck and Reeves-isms: “He’d always say ‘faster than a speeding bullet’ and I wanted to tell him, ‘That wasn’t his character talking. That was the announcer talking.’ But he loved the sound of it. He’d say it all the time and he’d crack us all up. We just would crack up. We had a great time.”
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