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    Beyond the physical resemblance, there's a spiritual kinship as well: both Keats and Drake wrote dark, beautiful verse about love, nature and worlds of fevered dreams. "I definitely feel the parallels to people like Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley ... They were poets of a different era." Bright Star, which opened Friday at the Ritz East and the Showcase at the Ritz Center/NJ, is likely to move Cornish to the A-list of actresses in their 20s. Full Article at Philly.com
    I definitely feel the parallels to people like Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley ... They were poets of a different era.
    Abbie Cornish – Abbie Cornish SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
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  1. I felt like every day I really had something to tackle in there ... There were hard things, and you don't want to repeat beats . . . at the same time, the love between Fanny and Keats and their story seemed so clear. I really didn't have to overthink that at all. Even on paper, [the story] describes suc...
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  2. Fear is a great motivator ... and you just don't want to be the American that screws up this gorgeous Australian-English coproduction. If someone that you admire thinks that you can do it, well, you just tend to burn the midnight oil and make sure you don't screw things up.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  3. It's kind of like Jimmy Page getting ahold of one of your little demo tapes and really liking it
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  4. Fanny could hold her own - she was not to be intimidated. You wouldn't really want to mess with her, either.
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  5. It's a fable about a doll that finds a heart and starts to move and falls in love and learns about the world
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  6. So we talked on the phone, and I told Jane that I could definitely play a frustrated artist, a frustrated writer. I mean, I'm a frustrated drummer. I just figured, 'I don't know if I've got the job or not, but I'm going to tell her everything that I think about the role.'
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  7. It's the story of five girls in the '60s who try to escape a psych ward together - that's essentially the story, but it operates on three different levels
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  8. She was on the jury of the Venice Film Festival when she saw The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
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  9. Their story is so striking and so pure and full of love and life that it gets to you and just gets under your skin
    Abbie Cornish – Abbie Cornish SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago

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