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Heming way at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Woody Allen’s latest, Irrational Man, about a philosophy professor who begins a relationship with one of his students, screens out of competition this year.
In 1979, Woody Allen’s Manhattan, about a 42-year-old comedy writer played by Allen who falls for a 17-year-old high school student played by Mariel Hemingway, screened out of competition at Cannes. Hemingway remembers the film’s frenzied reception.
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was the cast. I was the only one representing the film. I think I was just 17. For me, it was just like this was an adventure. I’d never even really had a boyfriend. So for me to play somebody with a boyfriend who was in his 40s was pretty absurd, but I loved the sort of fantasy of it. I loved the fact that I could pretend that it was me. I think men of a certain age love youth. They get energy from young women; they feel looked up to. There’s a sense of “I can be young
again.” I think that’s a subject that Woody may forever want to explore. But I wasn’t uncomfortable. Woody was always very respectful of me, and it was an amazing film to work on. [Later that year, as Hemingway details in her memoir Out Came the Sun, Allen developed a crush on her and tried to take her on a trip to Paris; she declined.] One of the most daunting things I’ve ever done was go up those red-carpet stairs. And the thousands, or it felt like thousands, of photographers who just yell your name: “Mariel, Mariel, Mariel, Mariel!” I was overwhelmed. I probably looked like a deer in the headlights, trying to smile while looking for my dad [Jack Hemingway] for help. We got into the theater, the movie started, and my heart was beating. I had never seen the movie, either. So I was scared. In the middle of the film, I started to have a total panic attack. I realized, “Oh no,
I have to go back out and all those photographers are gonna be there again! What will I do?” So I freaked. I told my dad that I’d gotten sick and I didn’t know what was going on. My dad was great. He was just like, “You’re OK. I think you’re just panicking.” The doctor came and they took me out the side entrance. So I never went through those people again. I realized that everybody on Manhattan had thrown me to the wolves. They knew what that was going to be about! But I was just so young. It was great, but it was really scary for me. — MARIEL HEMINGWAY, AS TOLD TO SHELBY WAX
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‘I Freaked’: In ’79, Mariel Hemingway Brought Manhattan to Cannes
Heming way at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Woody Allen’s latest, Irrational Man, about a philosophy professor who begins a relationship with one of his students, screens out of competition this year.
In 1979, Woody Allen’s Manhattan, about a 42-year-old comedy writer played by Allen who falls for a 17-year-old high school student played by Mariel Hemingway, screened out of competition at Cannes. Hemingway remembers the film’s frenzied reception.
W
OODY WA SN’ T T H ER E , NOR
was the cast. I was the only one representing the film. I think I was just 17. For me, it was just like this was an adventure. I’d never even really had a boyfriend. So for me to play somebody with a boyfriend who was in his 40s was pretty absurd, but I loved the sort of fantasy of it. I loved the fact that I could pretend that it was me. I think men of a certain age love youth. They get energy from young women; they feel looked up to. There’s a sense of “I can be young
again.” I think that’s a subject that Woody may forever want to explore. But I wasn’t uncomfortable. Woody was always very respectful of me, and it was an amazing film to work on. [Later that year, as Hemingway details in her memoir Out Came the Sun, Allen developed a crush on her and tried to take her on a trip to Paris; she declined.] One of the most daunting things I’ve ever done was go up those red-carpet stairs. And the thousands, or it felt like thousands, of photographers who just yell your name: “Mariel, Mariel, Mariel, Mariel!” I was overwhelmed. I probably looked like a deer in the headlights, trying to smile while looking for my dad [Jack Hemingway] for help. We got into the theater, the movie started, and my heart was beating. I had never seen the movie, either. So I was scared. In the middle of the film, I started to have a total panic attack. I realized, “Oh no,
I have to go back out and all those photographers are gonna be there again! What will I do?” So I freaked. I told my dad that I’d gotten sick and I didn’t know what was going on. My dad was great. He was just like, “You’re OK. I think you’re just panicking.” The doctor came and they took me out the side entrance. So I never went through those people again. I realized that everybody on Manhattan had thrown me to the wolves. They knew what that was going to be about! But I was just so young. It was great, but it was really scary for me. — MARIEL HEMINGWAY, AS TOLD TO SHELBY WAX
The Hollywood Reporter, Vol. CDXXI, No. 15 (ISSN 0018-3660; USPS 247-580) is published weekly except for combined issues in the 2nd and 3rd week of March, the 3rd and 4th week of April, the last week of June, the first 2 weeks of July, the first 2 weeks of Sept., the last week of Oct., the 1st week of Nov. and the last 2 weeks of Dec., with 13 special issues: Feb (1), June (3), Aug. (3), Oct. (1), Nov. (3), and Dec. (2) by Prometheus Global Media LLC, 5700 Wilshire Blvd., 5th floor, Los Angeles CA 90036. Subscription rates: Weekly print only, $199; weekly print and online, including daily edition PDF only, $249; online only, $199; digital replica of weekly print, $199. Single copies, $5.99. Periodical Postage paid at Los Angeles, CA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send all UAA to CFS. Non-Postal and Military Facilities send address changes to The Hollywood Reporter, P.O. Box 125, Congers, NY 10920-0125. Under Canadian Publication Mail Agreement No. 41450540 return undeliverable Canadian addresses to MSI, PO BOX 2600, Mississauga, On L4T OA8. Direct all other correspondence to The Hollywood Reporter, 5700 Wilshire Blvd., 5th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Prometheus Global Media, LLC: Vice President, Human Resources: Rob Schoorl. Advertising/Editorial Reprints: Reprints of editorial or ads can be used as effective marketing tools. For details, please contact Wright’s Media: (877) 652-5295 or e-mail at [email protected]. Permission: Looking for a one-time use of our content, as a full article, excerpt or chart? Please contact Wright’s Media, (877) 652-5295; [email protected]. Subscription inquiries: U.S. call toll-free (866) 525-2150. Outside the U.S., call (845) 267-4192, or e-mail [email protected]. Copyright ©2015 Prometheus Global Media, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the publisher. THR.com PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
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‘I Freaked’: In ’79, Mariel Hemingway Brought Manhattan to Cannes
