Lauren Holly is in no hurry to start her next movie, The Lady Takes an Ace. Says the bride of Jim Carrey, “I’ve really grown to like being a location wife. I enjoy having my husband go off to work in the morning while I stay home and watch TV, read, or go to the beach. People told me I’d be bored, but I’m getting addicted to it.”
In fact, Lauren says, she had to be pried away from Jim’s Florida location of The Truman Show to do promotional chores for her MGM Turbulence serial-killer-on-an-airplane thriller with Ray Liotta. As far as Lady Takes an Ace, “We’ll start sometime in the spring,” Lauren says. “I’m keeping those people at bay a little bit. I keep pretending I didn’t get their calls.”
She sounds like one happy newlywed, that’s for sure. Not long ago, the actress “wouldn’t even think about having a baby. Now, we are thinking about it, yes. It’ll happen. At some point. I like trying. I’m not so sure about childbirth.”
As far as working with her man, Holly says, “We’ll probably do it sometime, because we had so much fun making ‘Dumb and Dumber’ together. But not in the near future. There are too many examples of audiences not wanting to see real-life couples on screen unless they’re bickering.
“Jim’s not really aware of this, but what I want is for him to direct me some day. He’s been working so hard, he’s not even thinking about putting directing on his plate, but I know _ and a lot of other people agree _ that he could be a wonderful director. He’s a genius. I’m always telling him that.” We don’t doubt it.
* The English Patient writer/director, Anthony Minghella, is thrilled the picture is being touted as a favorite in the Oscar race. He’s obviously less than thrilled that he’s recently begun being accused of glorifying a real-life Nazi collaborator.
He responds to the charges by pointing out that he based his fictional film on a fictional book about real-life Hungarian archeologist Count Laszlo de Almasy, about whom, he says, “very little is actually known. Certainly not enough is known about the real biographical character to call him a Nazi.”
He adds, “It’s dispiriting when people think they can learn history from films instead of history books. My job was to make a fiction film that was relevant to those years, and I don’t understand how anyone can charge we made the character a hero.”
