Evan Rachel Wood & Chris Evans ELLE video shoot screencaps + YouTube version!

I'm sure you haven't forgotten this very awesome video of Evan Rachel Wood's ELLE video shoot with her handsome Gucci Guilty co-star Chris Evans. Good news is, the video is now available on YouTube, and I just made some screencaps along with a couple of GIFs from it. See them all below:

Evan's New York Magazine interview

ETA: Added a single scan of the cover for this interview after the cut, thanks to Evan Rachel Wood Best!

Here is another interview Evan did earlier this month! Compared to her Esquire one, this one looks lighter and fun, where she admitted that she is a big fan of Justin Bieber! She also talked a bit about "Mildred Pierce" and "The Conspirator". Too bad we only get a single photo from this very gorgeous shoot -- hopefully more photos will be released soon! Read the article below:

At Evan Rachel Wood’s first meeting with Robert Redford, who was looking to cast her as a Confederate daughter in his Lincoln-­assassination drama, The Conspirator (out April 15), the actress fixed her gaze on him intently enough that Redford later told her, “?‘You were so intimidating, I had no idea what you were thinking.’?” Wood exults at the memory. “I was, like, Yeeessss!” she says, performing a reverse elbow-jack to the torso. “I got Redford.”

The director had been following Wood’s career since her scalding 2003 breakout in Thirteen, in which she played a Southern California high-schooler on the fast track to oblivion. Most actresses, given an angry scene, deliver a single bleat on the self-pity blowhorn, but Wood—loosing arias of rage upon the head of her mother (Holly Hunter)—uncovered all manner of fear and heartbreak and doubt. “She has this music inside of her that allows her to hit different variants on a note,” says Redford. “It’s almost like she’s willing herself to go further but at the same time be on guard. It creates a great tension and gives everything she does bite.”

Eight years after her public debut, Wood remains unsettling. As she sits in a penthouse suite at the London hotel in midtown, a hair-and-makeup team flits around her in preparation for the red-carpet premiere of the HBO series Mildred Pierce, in which she also stars. She exudes an enameled poise, dressed in a mauve Gucci dress and boots, her azure eyes staring you down with coltish defiance. As a kid, she used to delight in freaking out her parents’ theater friends in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her unblinking impersonations of Liz Taylor and Katharine Hepburn (“I just loved watching the look on people’s faces. They would be, like, ‘What just happened?’?”), and now, at 23, she’s already gone head-to-head with Hunter, Kate Winslet (Pierce), and Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler). Her first rule of acting: Show no fear.


It’s her backstory as much as her stare that throws people, of course. As every tabloid reader knows, Wood—having led the already peculiar life of a child actor—spent nearly four years, off and on, involved with the bucket-of-blood rocker Marilyn Manson, starting when she was 19 and he was 38. Their relation­ship sent the media into classic ­clucking-hen mode, airing all manner of speculation that he was controlling her, choosing her clothes and her film roles and forcing her into assorted acts of necromancy. Early last year, they announced their engagement; late last year, they ended it.

The morning after that breakup, Wood went in to work on Mildred Pierce, then shooting on Long Island. She immediately broke the news to her director, Todd Haynes, who could see that she was having a tough time. “I know that they had really tried to make a go of that relationship,” he says, “and yet she brought this incredible calmness and focus to the set regardless of what was happening. Ed Lachman—the ­D.P.—and I would sit back in awe at how she photographs. There’s something beyond just her physical presence that the camera just adores. It’s incandescent.”

That particular day, she had to perform a scene in which her character, Veda Pierce, has her dreams of piano-prodigy stardom smashed; she then throws what Haynes calls “a classic teenage tantrum” at her mother, played by ­Winslet. “It was really hard,” says Wood. “Being in her head space that whole time messes with you. Kate helped with that. She said, ‘You’ve got to rise above it, you’ve got to rise above it.’ Luckily Veda’s a pretty dark character, so I didn’t have to come in and shine.” Maybe not shine, but glint, for Veda is a dark ruby of a part: all of her mother’s hopes and dreams smelted into one ferocious snob who is ultimately the engine of her destruction. In the 1945 film starring Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth, Veda was portrayed, much to author James M. Cain’s horror, as a “cheap little tart.” Haynes, who has called the drama an unrequited love story between mother and daughter, has restored the character to full luster as a coloratura soprano. “It’s the hardest role I’ve ever had to do, ever, absolutely,” says Wood, who—even though she wasn’t doing her own singing—trained for months with an opera coach, just to get the breathing and gestures right. Guy Pearce, who shared a trailer with Wood, could hear her practicing her vocals daily. “All I wanted to do was stick my head in and say, Do you mind if I watch?” he says. When they reviewed footage, he says, “Kate and I were looking at each other, and Todd and Kate were looking at one another, going, ‘Oh, wow.’?”

Together with Thirteen and The ­Conspirator—in which Wood plays the daughter of a wrongfully convicted Robin Wright, and Wood gets one great eruption of grief in a courtroom—that makes three major projects in which she has laid bare the close, tight vines of the mother-daughter relationship. Wood’s own mother was an actress who, upon divorcing her husband when Evan was 9, moved to L.A. and quit acting to become a drama coach and concentrate on her daughter’s career. During the filming of Thirteen, Wood had to banish her from the set in order to shoot some of the R-rated scenes, and when she was 18, she moved to New York to put some physical distance between them.

“We had a bad breakup,” she says. “We hadn’t been apart for more than a week my whole life. We shared a room, we shared a bed. She was constantly by my side, all the time, until the minute I turned 18. I hopped on ­[Marilyn Manson’s] tour bus, and was like, I’m going to have an adolescence.” As mother-estrangement maneuvers go, appearing in a rock video in which you are doused in gore while making out with your goth boyfriend is hard to beat.

“I didn’t really get a normal childhood,” says Wood. “Manson gave me what I felt I’d missed out on, where you get to experiment and cut loose and change and grow. I lived 50 lifetimes in those four years.” All of which now lands Wood in an unusual position: While other actresses attempt to exorcise their time in the Mickey Mouse Club by chasing down their dark sides in gritty indie dramas, Wood, whose outré credentials are unimpeachable—even she admits she’s played one too many teenagers and trash princesses—finds herself tacking toward the light. “I really want to do an adult love story,” she says.

Tomorrow, Wood will travel to ­Cincinnati, where she is shooting George Clooney’s dirty-politics drama, The Ides of March, playing an intern who seduces Ryan Gosling. After that, she plans to move back to New York. “I’m really enjoying being single and concentrating on work right now. That and watching the Food Network and listening to Justin Bieber,” she says, showing off her purple Bieber hat, as sure a sign as any that her Manson years are over. “People honestly think I’m kidding about Bieber,” she says. “My mom is so confused. She’s like, ‘Evan, really?’ I’m like, ‘Go see Never Say Never. You’ll understand.’?”

Evan's Esquire interview + photos (NSFW!)

So happy that I finally get the chance to update with this great interview! Our girl Evan recently did an interview and photoshoot with Esquire magazine. She looked hot as usual, and proudly confessed about her bisexuality (which actually the best thing of the interview, as an Evan fan I'm pretty much proud of her!). Read the interview and the NSFW photos below:

Evan Rachel Wood is twenty-three years old, in fine health, as radiant as her pallor will allow, and newly coiffed like Veronica Lake. She says she doesn’t do drugs, recently quit smoking, and doesn’t drink much. But here on a sunny day in a bar in downtown Manhattan she’d really like to talk about her death. She’s already written a will, she says. And she’s made plans to have her ashes dispersed across the world, including in her native Raleigh — in a field next to the theater run by her father — and Paris’s Luxembourg Gardens, which she used to visit with her onetime boyfriend, the actor Jamie Bell. The song playing at her funeral will be Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.”

She’s consecrated both the Floyd song and the ex-boyfriend in ink, as tattoos: a diamond on her right ankle and a “J” on her left ankle. She has nine tattoos in total. But you can’t see them during her extended, haunting nude scene in HBO’s Mildred Pierce; they’re covered in makeup. It wouldn’t have made narrative sense for her character — a borderline-sociopathic opera singer in the thirties — to have a Shel Silverstein drawing of a candle on her back. Or the word unless, from Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, on her ribs. (The Edgar Allan Poe verse on her back just below her neck was chronologically plausible but covered up anyway.)

Wood must realize she has a reputation, and not merely for being among the most gifted actresses of her generation. “I don’t know!” she says, laughing. “I’m constantly changing, I’m constantly growing. I think I’m a little controversial? … I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can’t really put their finger on it.”

It might be the tattoos. It might be her on-again, off-again, now-off relationship with Marilyn Manson. It might be her filmography — from Thirteen to The Wrestler to Mildred Pierce — which amounts to one long crisis of adolescence. Watch any of her films, including Robert Redford’s historical drama, The Conspirator (out now): They’re all master classes in the art of crying. She dismisses this skill as “part of the job description,” like a basketball player’s ability to sink free throws. When shooting The Life Before Her Eyes, her director once dared her to shed a single tear out of a single eye as soon as he called “Action.” She obliged, on cue. A half-court buzzer-beater.

“I was a teenager in Hollywood with a divorced family — there’s gonna be pain there,” she says. “I’ve got plenty to draw from.”

Halfway between Louis Jordan and Björk in the bar’s post-brunch playlist, “Oh! You Pretty Things” comes on. Don’t you know you’re driving your mamas and papas insane… . “I love this song,” she says. “I grew up in love with David Bowie.” (She has a tattoo on her upper thigh to prove it, a heart with an Aladdin Sane lightning bolt.) “So I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls … I’m into androgyny in general.” She says this helps explain the appeal of her ex Marilyn Manson.

“I think one of the things that freaked people out so much is that we looked so different.” True, that was part of it. But it was more than that. If Evan Rachel Wood represents America’s rebellious teenage daughter, Manson represents the forty-year-old goth in a band down the road she would date just to spite us. They broke off their engagement in August. The inevitable residual tattoos: Behind her right ear, the number “15,” a significant one for the two of them. Behind her left, something that looks like a heart combined with an infinity symbol. “You know, ‘Forever Love,’ ” she explains. “Whatever.”

The end of Wood’s cinematic adolescence will be marked by her first adult role, in George Clooney’s upcoming political film, The Ides of March, due out in the fall. It will also be marked by a move to New York City. She says she’s feeling free and genuinely happy these days. “I’m up for anything. Meet a nice guy, meet a nice girl…”

This is the third such hint in the conversation, after that androgyny comment and saying she’d “marry” her Mildred Pierce costar Kate Winslet if she could.

You date women?

“Yes,” she says proudly, as if she was waiting to be asked.

Do you look for different things in men than in women?

“Yeah, I’m more kind of like the guy when it comes to girls. I’m the dominant one.” It’s with women, she says, that her inner North Carolina gentleman comes out: “I’m opening the doors, I’m buying dinner. Yeah, I’m romantic.”

If you’ve been keeping count, there’s one tattoo left. It’s on the inside of her lip. She says, “No one gets to see it or know what it says.” It’s hard not to imagine what form the concentrated essence of Evan Rachel Wood might take. Is it a song lyric? A doodle? Some Manson-related thing? Her last will and testament? All she’ll say is that it’s there. Which is all you need to know.

Source: Esquire