Denise Di Novi had a (scissor)hand in many of Tim Burton’s early successes, and has a strong history as an established producer. With Unforgettable she moves into the director’s chair for her feature debut. The film follows the likes of Fatal Attraction and The Hand that Rocks the Cradle and finds Katherine Heigl as an ex-wife causing all manner of trouble for her ex-husband’s new fiance, played by Rosario Dawson.
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James Kleinmann sat down with the actress to talk about stepping into a villainous role,
“It was really exciting to dive into somebody like Tessa and her psychosis. There was a weird energy to [her]. She makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. There’s something off…”
She talks about creating the awkward chemistry with her co-star, and how the dynamic was built on screen.
“I loved that with Rosario [Dawson] doesn’t trust her instincts to stay away from this person. [Tessa] is her new fiance’s ex-wife and the mother of his child, so she’s got to be around her. It’s very tense and wrought with uncomfortableness. That was fun to play.
“I had never seen Fatal Attraction, so I sat down with it one night…and I got about twenty minutes in and I said “I can’t watch this at night before bed…”. It was super creepy. She gets you, she’s so powerful in that role. The goal was not to [play the character] like that, but to have the same impact.”
Unforgettable is released in UK cinemas on the on April 21.
Katherine Heigl Interview – Unforgettable
Unforgettable Official Synopsis
Heigl stars as Tessa Connover, who is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her ex-husband, David (Stults), becomes happily engaged to Julia Banks (Dawson)—not only bringing Julia into the home they once shared but also into the life of their daughter, Lilly (Isabella Rice). Trying to settle into her new role as a wife and a stepmother, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her put her own troubled past behind her. But Tessa’s jealousy soon takes a pathological turn until she will stop at nothing to turn Julia’s dream into her ultimate nightmare.
