BROTHERS GRIMM

COVER STORY JENNIFER CONNELLY
CONNELLY
MAKES A
COMEDY?
believe how many years
GET OUT.You won’t
Jennifer Connelly needed a break.
After winning the 2001 Supporting Actress Oscar for
the psychodrama A Beautiful Mind, the New Yorker had
appeared in a series of emotionally searing films — House of
Sand and Fog, Little Children, Blood Diamond. Her venture
into horror, Dark Water, was seriously grim when most of its ilk are
escapist scary. And even Connelly’s sci-fi entertainments demanded
more than the usual sit-back-and-let-the-CGI-do-the-work approach;
2003’s Hulk was directed by Brokeback Mountain’s Ang Lee, of all
people; and in the recent remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still,
Connelly’s character had to save the very planet by locating, and
touching, the deep inner humanity of…Keanu Reeves.
38 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2009
it’s been since Jennifer Connelly
made her last funny movie. But
the solemn actor finally goes
for laughs with the ensemble
rom-com He’s Just Not That Into You
✒ BY BOB STRAUSS
The girl needed to lighten up, big time. So it’s no wonder she
was eager to make He’s Just Not That Into You, her first comedy
since Career Opportunities way back in 1991.
“It’s entirely lighthearted, so it’s a complete departure for me,”
acknowledges the 38-year-old actor, looking skinny in a floral-print
sundress on a warm December day in Los Angeles. “The last job
I’d done before that was Reservation Road, which was the most
harrowing subject matter [she played a grieving mother]. I was just,
‘I…can’t…do…it…again! Frankly, I don’t want to see myself do it,
I’m sick of that, it’s just time to do something entirely different.’”
Adapted from Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo’s best-selling advice
book, the film’s studded with stars — Jennifer Aniston, continued
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