"I suspect that Julia is a little shy she'll withhold who she really is for a while," he says. Pollack noticed her reserve - is it British? or just Ormondish? - when he flew to London to meet her in 1994. She's learning how to play the glamour game. So Ormond has put on her mascara and is prepared to talk more about herself than she'd really like to. (Translation from the British: a jumper is a sweater.) "I don't want to feel I can't step out of the house unless I have makeup on that's a terrible state to be in, as a woman."īut reporters from at least three continents are descending on this midtown hotel to talk about the re-created "Sabrina," which opens today. "I like wearing big sloppy jumpers and old jeans," she says. She'd probably prefer to spend this day bumming around Hackney, her slightly seedy London neighborhood, in comfy clothes and a naked face. "I can no longer sit back and say, Oh, there are so few good parts for women' when I've been given this opportunity."Īllure seems somewhat beside the point. Take the female away from the appendix role - the wife, the girlfriend, the one who does the sex scene," she declares. Check out her someone-to-be-reckoned-with style: authoritative pin-stripe pantsuit, no nail polish, no jewelry except for a watch, no asking permission before she lights up a Marlboro in a small hotel room.Ĭheck out, too, the edicts that issue along with the smoke: "It's up to women to develop their own stuff, take the responsibilities and the risks. She's about to sign a deal with Miramax that will allow her to develop, produce or direct movies of her own. Trouble is, Ormond, who's 30, doesn't consider herself either a Hepburnlike pixie or a femme fatale. ![]() Instead, director Sydney Pollack considered 40 or 50 actresses on videotape and met several dozen more in person and decided that the ascendant Ormond had the best shot at helping moviegoers temporarily forget the first Sabrina, the incomparable Audrey Hepburn. ![]() She might be auditioning for a small part in her first film. Five years ago, graduating from a British drama school, she thought that by this point she might have earned a union card and joined a decent theater company for lousy wages. These love triangles just keep befalling her, somehow: Brad Pitt and Aidan Quinn lusted for her in "Legends of the Fall" Sean Connery and Richard Gere did in "First Knight." Now Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear, taking on the Humphrey Bogart and William Holden roles, are at her feet in "Sabrina." "I don't specify to my agent, I'm sorry, but there's only one man after me in this role where's the other one?' " she says with mock penitence. She's starring in the remake of the cherished 1954 celluloid fairy tale "Sabrina." It is the third film in a row in which her primary function is to be intoxicating, so irresistible that at least two leading men duel bitterly for her favor. ![]() Julia Ormond is ravishing, too beautiful to believe.
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