Praise for Hilary Duff in “War, Inc”

John Cusack has been giving high praise to Hilary Duff ever since the filming of War, Inc. was completed. And he continues to say great things about Hilary in his interviews, now being scheduled regularly to promote the release of the film.

In an article for the Canadian Press, which is a great article about War, Inc, Hilary Duff’s character Yonica Babyyeah is described as a Mideast version of a Britney Spears-type being exploited by the US corporation in Turaqistan. And here is what John has to say of Hilary in the film:

"She’s a great actress, and she’s a real movie star, too," Cusack says, marvelling at how Duff often stole scenes from experienced actors like himself, Tomei and his sister, Joan, who also appears in the film.

"I’ve been around a lot of terrific actresses and you know when you’re in the presence of someone who’s sort of got it. She has an intelligence onscreen and then this kind of transparency where no matter what she does, you feel for her and you care about her.

"And she has a face that sucks up any sleeves that we put around her. We tried to make her as slutty as we could, but you put the camera on her and you couldn’t see anything but that soul and those eyes."

You can tell that John has a great admiration for Hilary as a person, a friend and an actress. In particular, I love this quote of John’s about the movie - as this exact quality is getting a lot of praise from movie critics:

"What is this film? I’m not even sure. What happens is we shift from soap opera to surrealism to absurdism to real dark bleakness, but we don’t give anybody any warning and we just keep doing it."

The image shown is the DVD art for War, Inc. which comes out on July 1.

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