Claire Danes to fall in love
Source: Daily Telegraph ()
CLAIRE Danes is thinking and talking about the nature of true love.
"I remember before I had ever fallen in love, when I was very, very young, I was desperate to have that experience,'’ the beautiful young American actor says.
"I had a boyfriend. I was like 14 or something and I said: `Maybe, maybe this is love. Maybe my love is just so searing; it’s so hot that I can’t even feel it’.
"I really convinced myself of that for a while.'’
Her first kiss, she says, was “at one of those make-out parties'’ when she was "like 12′’ — and she concedes she didn’t even know the lucky boy involved.
"I didn’t know any of these people — and that’s the kinkiest I’ve ever been. But he was cute. His name was Peter. He was from Sweden. Not a bad way to start.'’
Danes, who has been linked to actors Stephen Dorff, Matt Damon, Billy Crudup, Hugh Dancy and Australian singer/songwriter Ben Lee, says she is now in love — but she is not saying with whom.
The subject of love is very much at the heart of her new fantasy film, Stardust, based on the graphic novel of the same name by UK writer Neil Gaiman.
Filmed on the Isle of Skye, off northwest Scotland, it tells the story of a young man, Tristran (Charlie Cox), who promises his cold but stunning girlfriend (Sienna Miller) he will retrieve a fallen star for her.
The star transforms into a woman named Yvaine (Danes), who is also pursued by the living and dead sons of a king (Peter O’Toole), and an evil witch (Michelle Pfeiffer) who needs the star to make her young again.
Along his journey to capture the star and discover the true meaning of love, Tristran battles a pirate named Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro.) The high-octane trans-Atlantic cast also includes David Walliams, Rupert Everett, Ricky Gervais and Ian McKellen as the narrator.
"It takes a lot of the pressure off, you know, because people won’t be paying such close …