Young girs to Jeremy Irons: "Lolita is our favorite movie!"
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Lolita
Harlem_Nights — 9 years ago(December 21, 2016 12:41 PM)
So Irons was on the Nerdist podcast, and when Hardwick asked him which movie from his filmography is the one people talk about the most when they meet him, he revealed two titles: Die Hard 3 and, that's right, Lolita.
Thing is, and Irons mentions how uncomfortable that makes him, most of the people telling him how much they love Lolita are actually, as he says, "attractive young girls". It is indeed kinda weird (or is it, considering today's wild and crazy younger generation) and Irons himself says that it "always throws me a bit".
It's good to know that Lolita 1997 has a fanbase, but unfortunately for Irons the fans of the movie he meets are apparently NOT from the target audience. Still, I'm pretty sure he's quite proud of the movie.
Here's the episode if you want to hear it yourself. It's around the 45 minute mark:
http://nerdist.com/nerdist-podcast-jeremy-irons/"You don't watch Michael Bay films. They happen to you."
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lazarillo — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 10:57 AM)
The term "attractive young girls" when your Iron's age is more likely to mean 20-year-old young women than 14-year-old adolescents. I wouldn't bet most 14-year-old girls today are really that all familiar with "Lolita", either the movies or the book.
I might call Shailene Woodley or Adele Exarchopolous "attractive young girls". But if I were a famous actor who had played Humbert Humbert, and one of them wanted to me to autograph her butt, my only question would be: should I use a pen or a sharpie?
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Harlem_Nights — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 01:07 AM)
The term "attractive young girls" when your Iron's age is more likely to mean 20-year-old young women than 14-year-old adolescents. I wouldn't bet most 14-year-old girls today are really that all familiar with "Lolita", either the movies or the book.
Hmm, good point. Never thought about that. Maybe you're right.
But I have to say, when I went to the Facebook page of both this movie and the older Kubrick version, I discovered that a lot of very young girls have posted comments and reviews. So I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility of 14to18-year-old girls saying to Irons that Lolita is their favorite movie. Especially when you also consider how girls that age act on Instagram for example. You can't go there without stumbling upon a video of a very young girl acting all 'seductive' and 'sexy'. Very Lolita-like.
It's quite disturbing actually."You don't watch Michael Bay films. They happen to you."
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bigbadwolf666 — 4 years ago(August 12, 2021 02:31 AM)
No, Im sure he meant young attractive girls. When your Jeremy Irons your social circle is more likely to be highly sophisticated and wealthy and such people would have more access to all kinds of exquisites educations and they wouldnt be meeting Jeremy Irons if they werent interested in his work. Such classes wouldnt be the type of the run of the mills that like reading animes or playing video games or silly prank games.
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