“I really love Liam – that was a big factor in my doing it,” she says. “We’ve worked together before and we also have a mutual friend in Ralph Fiennes. Also, it reminded me a lot of disaster movies that I’d loved as a child – films like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.”
It must have helped too that Joel Silver, a producer on the film and one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, practically got down on his knees and begged her to do it.
“Well, it’s true he was very keen. I was walking down the street in New York City when he called. I’d been working a lot at the time and I felt like a break, but Joel kept saying, ‘I really want you to do this,’ and in the end I said yes.”
Haha i know a girl who uses essay-speak/formal vocabulary in every day convos and its so hilarious to hear.
''...No sooner had she...than...''
''...in tandem with...''
''...blatant disregard for the rule of law...''
Some of those phrases don't work outside of Literature/Congress/Pitches, lol.
Essay speakers sound so unnatural. There's like no emotion in those types of phrases, they're just copied and pasted from "good transition phases" google searches.
