Rosario Dawson plays June Bailey, a drug addict and mother to Vanessa Hudgens’ character, Apple, in her new film Gimme Shelter. Dawson and Hudgens get into some serious physical altercations. "I went back, pretty much every day of filming — I’d go home with a lot of bruises just because when you’re hitting against things, you know, like I remember in the very first scene where I’m kind of attacking her through a phone booth and you’re trying to be careful not to break the glass and you’re hitting against the other side but it’s just a weird thing, you get really caught up in the motion and energy of it and even when you’re trying not to hit full force and trying to be gentle, it doesn’t matter, just doing it, take after take after take, after a while you’re just going to bruise.
- 1/27/2014
- Uinterview
The story, Gimme Shelter centers on Agnes “Apple” Bailey played by Vanessa Hudgens. The film is based on the true-life story of a sixteen year old living with her drug addict/prostitute mother June Bailey (Rosario Dawson). Apple grows up never knowing her father, moving from foster home to foster home, in and out of the system, dependent upon a mother that cannot keep it together. She holds onto her one and only letter from her rich, Wall Street father Tom Fitzpatrick (Brendan Fraser). Where he refers to his daughter as the apple of his eye, hence she chooses to be called Apple.
Gimme Shelter begins with the audience hearing Apple talking to herself, stating that she is not afraid, she is not scared. She is mustering up the courage to leave her deadbeat mother and is determined to find a better life. She starts this out with an incredible hacking off of her hair.
Gimme Shelter begins with the audience hearing Apple talking to herself, stating that she is not afraid, she is not scared. She is mustering up the courage to leave her deadbeat mother and is determined to find a better life. She starts this out with an incredible hacking off of her hair.
- 1/25/2014
- by Betsy Russo
- CinemaNerdz
In 1981, Kathy Difiore took in her first pregnant teen. In the three decades that have followed, she's overcome daunting odds to form Several Sources Shelters, a charity organization designed to aid young mothers in need. Gimme Shelter , which hits theaters in a limited release this Friday, serves as writer/director Ron Krauss' tribute to Difiore and her work, bringing to the screen the story of fictionalized (but based on fact) Agnes "Apple" Bailey. Stepping into Apple's shoes is Vanessa Hudgens with Apple's mother, June Bailey, played by Rosario Dawson. ComingSoon.net sat down with Hudgens, Dawson, Krauss and Difiore to talk about the road leading to Gimme Shelter and the complete transformation that both actresses went through to play such severly underprivileged...
- 1/23/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Rosario Dawson gives one of her best performances to date as June Bailey in Gimme Shelter. Written and directed by Ronald Krauss, it tells the story of Apple Bailey (played by Vanessa Hudgens), a young girl who runs away from June, her abusive and drug addicted mother, to find her biological father and escape the hellish world she has been growing up in.
Upon finding her father, a Wall Street banker named Tom Fitzpatrick (played by Brendan Fraser), Apple discovers she is pregnant and Tom encourages her to get an abortion. Instead, she runs away, again, and struggles to survive on the streets until she finds her way into a shelter for pregnant young women. Soon, she finds herself bonding with the other girls there. Unfortunately, it’s not long before June comes back into the picture, determined not to let her daughter get away from her ever again.
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Upon finding her father, a Wall Street banker named Tom Fitzpatrick (played by Brendan Fraser), Apple discovers she is pregnant and Tom encourages her to get an abortion. Instead, she runs away, again, and struggles to survive on the streets until she finds her way into a shelter for pregnant young women. Soon, she finds herself bonding with the other girls there. Unfortunately, it’s not long before June comes back into the picture, determined not to let her daughter get away from her ever again.
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- 1/22/2014
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
Every once in a while a former teen star, especially those from the Disney stable, likes to push their image into new territory and prove they can do more than be jolly or jump around singing. Vanessa Hudgens started a while ago, and briefly went even further with this year’s Spring Breakers. Now, for Gimme Shelter (no, not a weird remake of the Rolling Stones doc), she’s trying something a little less gonzo and a little more uplifting amongst the grit. The first trailer is now online. Based on a true story, Gimme Shelter finds Hudgens as Agnes “Apple” Bailey, a young woman who has never had an easy life. Her mother, June Bailey (Rosario Dawson), is an addict and prostitute, is verbally and physically abusive, and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets, alleys and motels like the back of her hand,...
- 11/25/2013
- EmpireOnline
In what were the most eagerly-awaited casting announcements to have come out of Hollywood for years, the couple to play Christian and Ana in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie were finally revealed on Monday (September 2).
After months and months of speculation, author El James took merely a few minutes to confirm that Charlie Hunnam is Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson is Anastasia Steele.
Now we've only got a one-year wait till release day! But first, Digital Spy rounds up a selection of the online reactions below...
> 50 Shades: Are Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam good choices?
> 50 Shades of Grey: Everything you need to know
Digital Spy
"Dakota doesn't look young and innocent enough for me especially as her features are so emphasised in the books, as for Christian I think Robert pattinson would have been better in my view. The guy they picked looks how I imagine Elliot to look like not Christian.
After months and months of speculation, author El James took merely a few minutes to confirm that Charlie Hunnam is Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson is Anastasia Steele.
Now we've only got a one-year wait till release day! But first, Digital Spy rounds up a selection of the online reactions below...
> 50 Shades: Are Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam good choices?
> 50 Shades of Grey: Everything you need to know
Digital Spy
"Dakota doesn't look young and innocent enough for me especially as her features are so emphasised in the books, as for Christian I think Robert pattinson would have been better in my view. The guy they picked looks how I imagine Elliot to look like not Christian.
- 9/2/2013
- Digital Spy
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