“Open Water” Actress Blanchard Ryan
Summary: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=open%20water%20&linkCode=as2&tag=proudresen-20">“Open Water” </a>actress <a href="https://twitter.com/SBR212">Blanchard Ryan</a> talks about what it was like to swim with actual hungry sharks for a movie about swimming with hungry sharks. No CGI here. Just two actors, bloody chum and scary sharks. The tiny non-union movie became a huge hit at Sundance and Ryan’s life is changed. Blanchard talks about her life changing from a working actress to a struggling movie star and back to a working actress. Ryan and I discuss her getting hit on by Paul Servino on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” being banned from Leno for choosing Conan and watching her nude scene with her parents.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> I’ve been friends with Blanchard (Her real first name is Susan) for almost 15 years. She’s a very smart actress who figured out how to work the system of auditions and booked a ton of commercials. Ryan explains her strategy on the podcast. She was always a working actress way before the little shark movie took on “Blair Witch Project” momentum at Sundance. But like “BWP”, the movie “Open Water” was the star. Susan… I mean Blanchard talks frankly about the entire experience.<br> From IMDB about “Open Water:”<br> This film is inspired by a true story about an American couple, Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went with a scuba group (Outer Edge Dive Company) to an area off the coast of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. They were accidentally left behind due to a faulty head count taken by the dive boat crew. There were 26 other divers and 5 crew members who failed to notice that the couple was not on the boat. It was not until two days later on January 27, 1998, that the pair was found to be missing after a bag containing their passports and belongings was found in the dive boat. A massive air and sea search took place over the following three days, but failed to find them. The couple was never found.<br> <br> <br> Overwatered What was the big success. We went to Sundance.<br> <br> Yeah. It started out. We got into the Hamptons Film Festival which is an amazing film festival if anyone ever gets a chance to go is beautiful.<br> And they were great to us. And but it was a rough cut of the film and variety. We found out that a variety had sent center review.<br> <br> And we thought we were dead because the music wasn’t really done and the ending was a little funky. And our director was like this is going to sink us like this is going to be the end of us.<br> But there was nothing we could do it was like an hour before the screening and it and it happened and the review when she after she wrote it was one of the most glorious reviews I’ve ever seen in variety. We were stunned. She just loved it and I think half of it.<br> Well and I give credit to the wonderful Hamptons the festival and the people there were so warm and they were so good. The reception was so great. The screening was amazing they clapped for five minutes they asked all these wonderful questions it was just a really nice atmosphere and the woman couldn’t have been better to us in her review and Sundance had rejected us.<br> And then when they saw the Variety review they were like oh wait we forgot to tell you.<br> Actually you’re coming to see.<br> <br> So we were thrilled. How did the movie come about.<br> <br> I’m just auditioned for it. It’s interesting because of my weird name. My agent had worked with Chris Countess the director on a previous project of his.<br> <br> And when he came to her to cast this she said I’ve got the perfect girl for you and he said No I’ve already cast the girl.<br>
