Title: Sahara actor comments
DirkPitt - October 24, 2004 03:09 AM (GMT)
She's one of Wales's favourite actresses who loves her latest production - her new daughter Tansy. As she returns to work, Rakie Ayola muses with Karen Price about babies, the Bard and mixing with big movie stars
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Earlier this year, while she was five months pregnant, Rakie travelled to Morocco to film some scenes for the forthcoming Hollywood movie Sahara, starring Penelope Cruz and Matthew McConaughey.
Rakie Ayola
She played a pregnant Nigerian woman.
"It was great to go out to Morocco. The cast and crew took over this enormous golf complex but we were filming in a real shanty town.
"My character's house was a mud hut which someone actually lived in. So we went from the luxury of the complex to incredible poverty. It was really strange.
"It was a really good job to do but it made you think, 'God, I'm lucky this is not my life and I can walk away'."
Rakie had a couple of scenes with the star of the show, Hollywood actress Cruz, who actually split up with Tom Cruise while filming Sahara. She later got together with McConaughey.
"Oh that's a bit of showbiz gossip I didn't know," laughs Rakie.
So what was it like working with Cruz?
"She's beautiful but with most big film actors, they don't really invest a lot of energy into talking to other people unless they have to.
"But after a while she said, 'Are you really pregnant?' and after I told her I was we had a nice conversation. "She was actually quite sweet.
"I really like doing film. I've not done enough big films though to really know the difference between film and television.
"Sahara is a really big film but my scenes probably won't even make the final cut."
Full story here
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Earlier this year, while she was five months pregnant, Rakie travelled to Morocco to film some scenes for the forthcoming Hollywood movie Sahara, starring Penelope Cruz and Matthew McConaughey.
Rakie Ayola
She played a pregnant Nigerian woman.
"It was great to go out to Morocco. The cast and crew took over this enormous golf complex but we were filming in a real shanty town.
"My character's house was a mud hut which someone actually lived in. So we went from the luxury of the complex to incredible poverty. It was really strange.
"It was a really good job to do but it made you think, 'God, I'm lucky this is not my life and I can walk away'."
Rakie had a couple of scenes with the star of the show, Hollywood actress Cruz, who actually split up with Tom Cruise while filming Sahara. She later got together with McConaughey.
"Oh that's a bit of showbiz gossip I didn't know," laughs Rakie.
So what was it like working with Cruz?
"She's beautiful but with most big film actors, they don't really invest a lot of energy into talking to other people unless they have to.
"But after a while she said, 'Are you really pregnant?' and after I told her I was we had a nice conversation. "She was actually quite sweet.
"I really like doing film. I've not done enough big films though to really know the difference between film and television.
"Sahara is a really big film but my scenes probably won't even make the final cut."
Full story here
Loren - October 26, 2004 09:43 PM (GMT)
Nice article :)
It's a shame Rakie's scenes probably won't make the final cut.
It's a shame Rakie's scenes probably won't make the final cut.
Helene Noelle - October 30, 2004 12:50 AM (GMT)
Guess we will have to wait and see the movie. Perhaps some of her scenes will survive the cut!