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Renee Zellwegei; director Peter Kosminsky and Michelle Pfeiffer on the
"White Oleander" set: "We didn't want to depict [Ingrid] as a two-
dimensional monster;" said Kosminsky.

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her wards to pay for remodeling, and
stripper's trailer in the Tujunga Wash to
a Russian emigre's cluttered house in
the sex scenes between 14-year-old
"Frogtown" between the L.A. River and
Astrid and her first lover (in the movie,
he's a 30ish hunk instead of a 50ish
the Interstate-5 Freeway.
Author and director visited the slight-
Vietnam War veteran).
ly decrepit Hollywood Lanai apartments
"Seeing something so unpleasant
— with dense foliage and
onscreen would have made
balconies — where the pro-
it hard for audiences to
tagonists "lived" before the
engage with the character,"
murder. "Glimpsing these
producer John Wells said.
locations was very helpful in
But for the most part,
defining the light and color
Fitch was very involved
of the film," Kosminsky
with the cinematic trans-
formation of her novel.
said.
The director said Fitch
The filmmakers asked her
was also instrumental in
to review the script and
describing Ingrid's backsto-
the rough-cut of the film.
ry to himself and Pfeiffer.
"Janet's book is gor-
"The character is alluring
geously written but very
Author Janet Fitch:
but
also repugnant, so we
dark, so finding a way to
"They took my big,
wanted
to humanize her as
make it work on screen
messy novel and pared
much
as
possible,"
wasn't immediately appar-
it down to a simple,
Kosminsky
said. "We did-
ent," Wells said of why he
elegant structure."
n't want to depict her as - a
approached Fitch.
two-dimensional monster."
They took her advice
when she warned that the relationship
Fitch — who describes herself as a
between the fictional mother and
"failed screenwriter" — was pleased
with the adaptation. "They took my
daughter was becoming too "cozy."
big, messy novel and pared it down to
The filth's British director, Peter
a simple, elegant structure," she said.
Kosminsky, also sought the novelist's
"I was especially pleased with how
advice immediately upon arriving in
the movie conveys Astrid's journey,
Los Angeles for pre-production in
particularly the chameleon-like quality
2001. He invited Fitch to dinner at
Musso_and Frank's — a location in her foster children assume to adapt to new
environments."
novel — and said he'd scoured four
During the premiere at the Toronto
London shops before finding a copy of
Film Festival in August, she cried off
the book.
all her professionally applied makeup.
"White Oleander isn't well known in
"It was yet another surreal
England because it's perceived as an
moment," she said. "To hear my book
American story," he told her.
come alive in the mouths of fine
When he added that he was unfamil-
iar with the book's L.A. settings, Fitch
actors was unbelievable." EI
drove Kosminsky around town for the
next two days, showing him the loca-
White Oleander, rated PG-13, opens
tions described in her novel. The tour
today in Detroit area theaters.
mirrored Astrid's journey from an ex-

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