'PHANTOM'S' CHRISTINE'S UNMASKS HER EMOTIONS.Byline: - Glenn Whipp Emmy Rossum was born on Sept. 12, 1986, 27 days before Andrew Lloyd Webber's pop-classical musical ``The Phantom of the Opera'' premiered in London. Needless to say, Rossum wasn't there. In fact, she's never seen the lavish musical, which is one reason she ended up being cast as the emotionally tortured heroine, Christine, in Joel Schumacher's film version of ``Phantom.'' ``I think Andrew was happy I'd be coming to the character fresh and bring a different interpretation her,'' Rossum says. Rossum didn't just fall off the turnip turnip, garden vegetable of the same genus of the family Cruciferae (mustard family) as the cabbage; native to Europe, where it has been long cultivated. The two principal kinds are the white (Brassica rapa) and the yellow (B. truck. Trained as a singer, she landed a gig with New York's Metropolitan Opera at the age of 7, and spent five years with the group. Last year, she made a big impression playing Sean Penn's wild-child daughter in Clint Eastwood's ``Mystic River For other uses, see Mystic River (disambiguation) The Mystic River is the name of a short river in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Its name derives from the Native American word "Missi-Tuk", which translates to "great tidal river", and it lies to the .'' Nothing in Rossum's past, though, could have prepared her for the ``Phantom'' audition audition /au·di·tion/ (aw-dish´un) hearing. chromatic audition color hearing. au·di·tion n. The sense, ability, or power of hearing. , much less the movie itself. ``The audition was totally old Hollywood,'' Rossum says. ``I spent two hours in hair and makeup and then walk out to find a full crew, a costume, candelabra, piano, a sweeping crane, guys with boom mikes, everything. It was like we were making the movie. I just remember thinking, 'Whoa.' '' The musical isn't exactly a work of subtlety sub·tle·ty n. pl. sub·tle·ties 1. The quality or state of being subtle. 2. Something subtle, especially a nicety of thought or a fine distinction. , but Rossum says she approached Christine the same way she would any other character. And given that the Phantom's love interest goes through an emotional wringer wring·er n. One that wrings, especially a device in which laundry is pressed between rollers to extract water. Idiom: put (someone) through the wringer Slang To subject to a severe trial or ordeal. , that didn't make it easy for the adolescent actress. ``I'm a pretty happy person, pretty rational, and this is a girl who feels very lonely, very abandoned and very fragile,'' Rossum says. ``It was such a rush, feeling all these intense emotions that were new. It was hard to disconnect disconnect - SCSI reconnect from the whole thing.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: ``Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera'' Dec. 22 (Emmy Rossum) |
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