European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 9 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 faces if sail Goode keep a Lookout for this rising Star by Betsy Pickle Scripps Howard news service British actor mat thew Goode turned Heads with his portray als of handsome Boyish characters in match Point imagine me you and chasing lib erty Hes More Likely to have viewers scratch ing their Heads trying to remember where they have seen him before with the Lookout Goode goes bad in the Lookout he plays an aspiring Bank robber who pressures former schoolmate Joseph Gordon Levitt who struggles daily with the effects of a traumatic brain injury into helping with a heist Goodes Gary is charming but intense with close cropped hair and a wiry hungry look some of Goodes previous roles earned comparisons to Hugh Grant but Gary most resembles Goode All my friends from Home Are like if s so Good to see you How you normally look says Goode All the Guys i went to University with whenever we see you with Long hair and coiffure were like who the Heck is that Guy playing an american want a stretch for Goode who studied theater and drama at Birmingham University and trained at London Webber Douglas Academy of perform ing arts weve All watched a huge amount of movies and those things get into your brain until youre aware of american Cul Ture he says by phone from los Angeles i spent a couple of months out there in the states even though it was Only in new York just talking to peo ple getting a flavor of things Goode says Scott Frank the Oscar nominated screenwriter of who made his directing debut with the look out after 10 years of trying to get it into production with other directors gave the cast Struc Ture and Freedom that whats great about Scott Franks writing Goode says Hes very aware of the end of the film but what happens be tween Here and there Hes not saying right i need a plot twist about 50 pages in and then i need another plot twist and another plot twist he writes character and he writes three dimensional people he leads you Down a path Straightaway of what this person is about but then there Are also these wonderful Gray areas of How they interact with other people Goode was impressed also with Gordon Levitt who has made the transition from talented Young sitcom Star Rock from the to dynamic indie film actor mysterious skin latter without a lot of hoopla Allen phase Miramar Matthew Goode stars in the Lookout but Goode did find him intense Joe is quite method not really hugely method he Doest live in the character Between takes Goode says but it was a really hard role for him and he knew it was a great role and an important one for his career to a certain extent filming in the Bleak outlying areas of Winnipeg Manitoba which stands in for Kansas helped Goode get into the proper mindset i was there for the entire filming and costars Jeff Daniels and Isla Fisher were flying Back and Forth and Joe one really knows anything was on set every Day so there want really anyone to hang out about me or knows a huge with he says so you got a lot of time to reflect on character and rehearse things in your head and get in touch with the loneliness of the character which is something that All the characters share i think Goode who turned 29 on april 3 Hast acted in a year by Choice that was one of the things about the Lookout he says when you work in something that Good Why would you want to go Back and make a shabby romantic comedy the actor wants to be careful in choosing roles but Hes very Happy with the Way his career has gone what s great As far Asim concerned is Ive been really Lucky but yet no one really knows anything about me or knows a huge amount of my work he says that Means Ive been Able to grow up essentially and also because it didst happen to me Early i didst get my you can Call it a Hollywood Job chasing Liberty until 26 Goode next stars in a film adaptation of Evelyn laughs novel brides head revisited which begins shooting around the end of May amount of my work that Means Ive been Able to grow up essentially and also because it didst happen to me Early i didst get my first if you can Call it a Hollywood Job chasing Liberty until 26w Matthew Goode Ferrell Ferrell working on a new sports comedy shooting for a new will Ferrell sports comedy begins in Michigan later this month Crews plan location shots this Spring for semipro a comedy that stars Ferrell As player coach and owner of a Flint based team in the 1970s american basketball association who is trying to get into the Aba the Crew has been shooting in los Angeles since mid february and plans to move to Michigan for the last week of april and first week of May the filmmakers Are looking to hire 500 extras for the shoot said Wendy Washbrook extras casting director for the Michigan locations Ferrell Blades of glory opened at no 1 at the Box of fice last weekend Jackie Chan launches chinese to show Jackie Chan on saturday launched a chinese to com petition aimed at scouting out new action movie Talent saying More than 100000 people have already signed up for a shot at Kung fun stardom a lot of actors Are Good at fighting but their style is not Beautiful the chinese Star and stunt Man who turned 53 saturday said in Beijing if you can incorporate dance with an ability to per form Kung fun that would be better Chan told an Audi ence that included a selected 20 of the shows contestants and some chinese celebrities the to show whose English title is the disciple is jointly produced by Chan and Beijing to station known asst a the show will run from March to october with 10 win ners appearing in a movie to be produced by Chan organizers said the movie will be released before the 2008 Bering olympics Chan said Rachael Ray serves up prom in Alabama Rachael Ray made sure the students who lost eight classmates and their school in a Tornado got a senior prom the celebrity chef planned the menu and helped prepare dinner at Enterprise High schools prom according to a statement thursday from publicist Georgianna Dente the Star of the syndicated Rachael Ray coordinated donations for the dance which was shot for an episode to air stateside april 30 publicist Charlie Dougiello said Mandy Moore performed three songs at the end of the prom earlier in the Day Ray appeared with gov Bob Riley and Enterprise mayor Kenneth Boswell to Greet students at an Assembly Trump to Seli condos on the apprentice7 Donald Trump is using his assistant grooming reality show to sell units in his second Las vegas condominium Tower for a on hour episode of the apprentice scheduled to air sunday contestants were tasked with devising a marketing plan for Trump Tower e which like its predecessor will be 64 stories of Gold Glass just off the Las vegas strip developers said the Challenge is formidable Las vegas Condo Market has cooled in the past year leaving dozens of projects stalled in blueprint stages and Many Condo buyers wanting out both towers include about 1300 luxury condominium units with a hotel rental option at prices ranging from to s7 million Tower i is expected to Cost million and be completed in Early 2008 Tower n targeted for comple Tion two years later is estimated to Cost s700 million Gross sales on the towers Are projected to reach s25 billion making it Trumps largest project to Date said Jack Wishna a Deal maker involved in the project regardless of the plans contestants devise the apprentice episode is itself a shrewd piece of marketing Wishna said it probably would Cost us million if we were to advertise for a full hour on primetime to he said stories and photos from the associated press Trump