[andrew r]

A short interview talking about Penelope:

Movie Q & A: Christina Ricci, Penelope

Feb 1 2008 Daily Record

Christina Ricci Penelope

Q DID you wear the pig's nose off set?

A I WOULD go in my trailer and sometimes I'd be about to walk out to the Sock Shop and then realise I had my nose on and I wasn't allowed to leave.

Q HOW did you like wearing it?

A I GOT used to it but I had this rule that I couldn't touch it or acknowledge it until four in the afternoon, or three hours before wrap. Because if I started at the beginning of the day, I would just be irritated by it all day but if I waited until then, it was only three hours of me being like, oh, get this thing off of me.

Q WHAT was the make-up process like?

A INITIALLY, they did a face cast. And then Scott, who did the prosthetic, started building and working on the noses and prosthetics and had to make them look seamless. He does that work while I'm not around and I just come to set and they do one. They just glue it on your face. I fell asleep a lot. We had a couple different noses they tested. Mark and Scott had this really hideous, awfully unattractive snout they wanted. And then there was this really cute Miss Piggy snout. All the girls were like, oh no, we should have that one. And so we ended up meeting somewhere in the middle.

Q WHAT was it like working with James McAvoy?

A JAMES is great. He's amazing. He's such a good actor and very dedicated. When you work with a really great actor, you sort of have this feeling of being like partners in crime and he certainly gave that sense of trust and being a team-mate.

Q WHAT was Reese Witherspoon like as a producer?

A SHE was there all the time. It was in the middle of the awards season, when she won her Academy Award. We were on a Vespa riding through London and she'd just won the Academy Award and everyone was just screaming at her, yelling, "that's Reese Witherspoon".