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Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuarón on casting an actress over 40 in "Gravity" and re-discovering his love of cinema.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenAlfonso Cuarón talks about managing the studio's anxieties over the many years it took to make Gravity. He addresses why Angelina Jolie -- who was first attached in the lead role-- didn't do the movie, and that the studio wanted him to consider younger actresses or change the sex. Also, he looks back at the career low then ultimately led to him re-discover his love for cinema.
Banner image: Director Alfonso Cuarón on the set of Warner Bros Pictures' dramatic thriller, Gravity. Photo by Julio Hardy
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Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is a bona fide hit -- having grossed close to $700 million worldwide and garnered ten Oscar nominations. But he tells Kim Masters that for years he had to manage the studio's anxieties over this cinematically ambitious but ultimately small story of woman alone with her adversities.
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