Isabel Lucas is an actress who suffers for her art … up to a point.
The former Home And Away star and Logie winner was in Sydney this week to promote the new Transformers flick in which she stars.
While she’s no Meryl Streep or Cate Blanchett – yet – Lucas, who undertook intense acting classes before she joined the cast of Home And Away, was enthusiastically telling reporters the lengths she had to go to take on her role as a Princeton University student in the sci-fi film.
Hollywood’s a long way from Summer Bay, but the Melbourne-born Home and Away star, Isabel Lucas, has made the trip, and stars in the new blockbuster, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. She was back in her hometown recently, and she took some time out to chat with Citysearch about her transformation from soap star to Hollywood star.
Isabel, congratulations on getting the part of Alice in such a big film. How did it all come about?
I was playing a small role on the miniseries called The Pacific, which is produced by Tom hanks and Steven Spielberg. My agent got a call from Spielberg and asked me to read the role of Alice, because he was also producing Transformers. And I went in auditioned with director Michael Bay. It was surreal, and that’s how I got my foot in the door. It was an unusual audition, because the second half ended up being shot in his car. It was also unusual because when I first arrived, I was wearing a black dress, and he sent me away and told me to go and find a coloured dress, because it was for a summer blockbuster and he didn’t think black was right for the character..
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is now playing in the UK! Worldwide release date, including Australia and the US, is June 24. Be sure to go and check out Isabel Lucas as Alice!
A modeling agent noticed Isabel Lucas in the middle of a Melbourne, Australia, farmer’s market when she was just 12 years old. Though it turned out she had no interest in the catwalk, she did end up winning a part in the long-running Aussie soap opera Home and Away, which also launched the careers of Naomi Watts, Heath Ledger and Guy Pearce. This summer, the 24-year-old Lucas tackles an American accent to play the Princeton astronomy-major girlfriend of Shia LaBeouf in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Here, she discusses the film, out Wednesday, as well as shooting in director Michael Bay’s car and backpacking through Europe.
PROVENANCE: Her dad is Australian and her mom is Swiss — and Lucas speaks French and German as well as English. She divides her time between her native Melbourne and Los Angeles.
She came home to Sydney to promote the new Transformers movie but Isabel Lucas’s over-zealous US publicist meant the trip was largely wasted.
Photographers were not only barred from any interviews she conducted, they were not allowed at Tuesday night’s premiere in Bondi Junction.
It’s understood Lucas was happy to pose – and did for an old paparazzo friend who contacted her directly.
Instead of vivid photos of Lucas at the launch, her US publicist, who flew back to LA with her charge yesterday, issued this bland handout photograph.
While the Westfield cinema complex has held many red carpet affairs, a Paramount spokeswoman yesterday said it was “too small” to stage one. It’s understood while Paramount wanted to open the event to photographers, the unnamed US publicist refused.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think the image is bland! She looks stunning! I just hate we don’t get some images from the Sydney premieres and stuff.
Paramount Pictures has released TV spots 17, 18 and 19 for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which hits conventional and IMAX theaters on June 24th. We’ve also received cool facts about the film which you can read below the spots!
Fandango has announced that Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is outselling J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek and the original Transformers:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen doesn’t open till next week (June 24th), but as of this morning, the film already represents 45% of ticket sales on Fandango, the nation’s leading moviegoer destination.
Pouting and posing in front of a wall of camera lenses at the world premiere of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Isabel Lucas looks every bit the movie star.
The 24-year-old was tanned and statuesque in a white Dior mini and Paspaley Pearl earrings as she mixed with Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel at the red carpet event in Tokyo, Japan on Monday.
But start talking to the former Home and Away beach babe and you discover a softly spoken actress would rather be hiking in the Malibu canyons near her Los Angeles home than getting glammed up for a movie premiere.
It is Lucas’ first one and admits it’s overwhelming.
Teaser (2.16.09):
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Trailer 1 (4.30.09):
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2 Behind-the-Scenes Videos (9.17.08):
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Super Bowl Spot (2.1.09):
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Shia LaBeouf admits he’s the luckiest guy in the world after kissing both US star Megan Fox and Aussie actress Isabel Lucas in the latest Transformers movie.
But the 22-year-old actor wisely opted not to disclose which kiss was better at a news conference for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in Tokyo on Tuesday.
“Oh Christ, thank you, I appreciate that question,” deadpanned LaBeouf, who was flanked on stage by the two beauties.
“It’s incomparable, they are both specimens cut out of stone.
“I’m the luckiest dude in the world clearly. Anything beyond these answers and I start getting in trouble.”
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