Teri Hatcher Coraline Interview

CORALINE

Cast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders,
Rating: PG
Genre: Children

A whimsical fantasy too weird for words, Coraline offers a delicious world of twisted imagination and spooky thrills that will be sure to enthral and entertain everyone that sees it. From Henry Selick, the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and based on Neil Gaiman's bestseller, Coraline is available on DVD and Blu-ray from December9th.

Coraline Jones is an adventurous young girl who finds herself bored in her new homethat is until she finds a secret door that leads her into a world that's just like herown... but better! But when this fantastical adventure turns dangerous and her 'other 'Mother tries to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness andbravery to get home.

Escape into a magical wonderland with Coraline, the world?s first stop-motion movie tobe specifically filmed in 3D. With the vocal talent of Dakota Fanning Teri Hatcher JohnHodgeman Ian McShane Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Coraline is a visualextravaganza that will provide spooky thrills for the whole family!

For a limited time only, Coraline is available in a special edition single-disc that offersviewers the opportunity to view Coraline in both 2D and 3D formats! Special Editionsingle disc comes with a pair of 3D glasses.

Terrifying and beautiful, believable and fantastical, this is one of the bestchildren?s films in years and Selick?s finest - Empire (USA)!

Coraline
Available on DVD & Blu-ray now.

RRP: Special Edition Single disc: $39.95
Blu-ray disc: $44.95

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CORALINE Interview with Teri Hatcher

Q. You get to play three kinds of mothers in this, not all very nice though. Did you relate to any aspects of this,being a mother? Hopefully the real mother perhaps.

Teri Hatcher Coraline Interview: I don?t think any of the mums are necessarily an extension of me, personally. Which was great andwhat acting is all about. I do certainly understand the real mums place where she?s overworked andexhausted. That?s something that, I think, we see in our society and especially in the economic timeswhere both parents are working and struggling and its that sort of tension in the household, and contendto isolate the child from the difficulties that the parents are really experiencing, and leave that child opento the dangers of be lured off to something that seems like its going to be better. Where that ?othermother? that I get to play takes over and at first just seems to be perfect. For me I kind of had a higher liltin her voice and just a little bit of ?everything?s going to be perfect?, but ultimately knowing that is toogood to be true and that the consequence behind that is that shes going to be very angry when shedoesn?t get what she wants, which ultimately leads to that evil mother.


Q. Exactly. How was that to voice, that evil mother?

Teri Hatcher Coraline Interview: I was hoarse for quite a few days afterwards. We had to make sure that we got all the high voices out,which is most of the other mother stuff, before we did any of the evil mother. Once I blasted out that evilmother I wasn?t doing any voice work for a couple of days.


Q. We hear a little bit of singing. Had you done any singing before?

Teri Hatcher Coraline Interview: Yes a little bit of singing, its coming along. I do sing with a band for charity and I did cabaret for eightmonths and I?ve sung on certain shows here and there. I do definitely sing. But that high range of thatlullabye is as high as I go. That was something we worked on to get to that. More naturally, I?m a little bitlower.


Q. Your daughter came on set and actually ended up voicing your character, tell me about that.

Teri Hatcher Coraline Interview: She came up to Portland and we got to get a tour of the animation studios which were just amazing: allof the artists carving all the little sculptures, all the characters, all the sets where they shoot every shotand even the wardrobe departments were knitting Coraline?s little sweaters. It was just amazing. Andthen I needed to do some more recording there and Henry let my daughter go in the studio to record afew lines and then they made it into the movie. She?s thrilled.


Q. Are these stories important for your daughter? I mean, is there DVDs that you?ve made sure she?s seen asshe?s been growing up, stories that you?ve really wanted her to see?

Teri Hatcher Coraline Interview: I don?t know that I would think about it quite that way. When she was growing up we did not watch alot of television. We still don?t watch a lot of television. I?m pretty conservative that way in our viewing ofanything. But she?s eleven now so that?s certainly starting to open up now. She loved this film and all herfriends loved this film. She grew up for her first five years in New York, and we would go to the ballet andwe would go to Broadway musicals - she loves Singin? In the Rain. We love movies just nothingspecifically is coming to mind.


Q. I thought there was a theme in this film that I thought you could relate to. Sometimes people who pay you a lotof attention don?t necessarily have your best interests at heart. As a celebrity, you would probably be able torelate that.

Teri Hatcher Coraline Interview: Oh, I hadn?t really thought of that, but that could be true. You could be right about that, that?s true.There are things where that kind of attention isn?t necessarily real. One of things that?s great abouthaving Ben in the business a long time is you don?t buy in to that, because you certainly know that thereare ups and downs. And you?re not going to believe your own press. That whole thing where ?If you?regoing to embrace the highs you?ve got to embrace the lows?, so it would be better to just be even.