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Agnes on 'Blood & Chocolate' (Mentions Agnes-Bruckner.net!)

The traditional story of Romeo and Juliet takes a lycanthropic twist in Blood and Chocolate, the tale of a lupine shapeshifter named Vivian (Agnes Bruckner) who falls in love with a human (Hugh Dancy) despite being betrothed to Gabriel (Olivier Martinez), the strict and stringent alpha male of the pack who puts his species' long-standing laws above all else. Outraged by Vivian's straying from their rules and risking the pack to exposure to mankind, Gabriel moves to eliminate her new romantic interest. Agnes Bruckner has starred in several films of the horror/thriller persuasion, including Venom, The Woods, Last Resort, and Murder by Numbers. In this extensive, exclusive "get to know you" interview, she speaks with us about Blood and Chocolate, as well as her career and some of her personal inclinations--from her favorite character in The Craft to her addiction to artificial sweets, she generously opens up about herself. continue reading...

Movie Babe of the Day: Agnes Bruckner

January 23, 2007 - It's official... Blood & Chocolate star Agnes Bruckner is pretty much the hottest werewolf ever. Bruckner stars in the forthcoming flick as Vivian, a member of a werewolf pack that has always preserved their secret at all costs, including the killing of any human that discovers them. Marriage between humans is, as you might imagine, discouraged. And Vivian risks her life and the survival of her pack when she falls for human. continue reading...

Neither thrilling nor all that romantic

By day, Vivian (Agnes Bruckner) works in a chocolate shop in Bucharest, but by night she runs through the woods, howling at the moon. That's because she's a werewolf. When she meets werewolf-researcher Aiden (Hugh Dancy), she realizes that she's in danger of becoming the next bride of a shape-shifting werewolf pack leader (Olivier Martinez). That means the chase is on in this romantic thriller, one that's neither thrilling nor all that romantic. Like most werewolf plot lines, what's really happening is an utterly conventional story of good versus evil, of a woman being forced to choose between a bad boy and Mr. Right. And in the movies, the wild life rarely wins when the sun comes up in the final act. continue reading...

The oh-so-hip supernatural flick and the cheesy, clichéd romance flick

You can’t always judge a movie by its title. Unfortunately, this film is what you would expect. Blood and Chocolate is strung together with atrocious dialogue, laughable special effects and scene after scene of teenagers jumping off of things. It’s not stated, but I believe that the filmmakers wanted us to know that werewolves would become extinct if they didn’t jump around every two minutes. continue reading...

Blood & Chocolate is too spicy for children, yet not spicy enough for adults

The title of Blood & Chocolate comes from Hermann Hesse (via Elvis Costello), which shows that director Katja von Garnier has some ambition. Working from a set-in-West Virginia young adult's novel by Annette Curtis Klause, Garnier takes her cameras to Bucharest, Romania, and does a superb job proving the local fancy that the city is the Paris of the Balkans. And von Garnier brings a woman's sensibility to this horror romance; she's more fascinated with a 19-year-old girl's fear of doing something animalistic than she is with the thrill of a pack of werewolves helping themselves to a human. Cheating the gorehounds, von Garnier tries to tease out the emotional meanings of a story of werewolfism. Agnes Bruckner plays Vivian, an expatriate American working at a small chocolate shop. She lives in the home of her Aunt Astrid (Katja Riemann) and does what she can to forget how her whole family was wiped out back in the United States. We learn, rather quickly, that Vivian is the intended of Gabriel (Olivier Martinez), the leader of a pack of werewolves, who must change his mate every seven years in accordance with the ancient law of their tribe. For werewolves, they have very organized lives. The pack members hold down day jobs at Gabriel's absinthe distillery; they pick and choose when to transform. All gather for a group hunt in which they take out one human per month (not much provender for a pack of 40 wolves). For this monthly hunt, they always are served someone who deserves to be killed, such as a drug dealer who sells to children. continue reading...

'Blood and Chocolate' a unique love story

A slightly different twist to the classic forbidden-love clichèõill offer werewolves and Agnes Bruckner in what she described as the best shape of her life. The new horror-romance thriller, "Blood and Chocolate," which is based on Annette Curtis Klause's novel, appeared in theaters Friday. Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Oliver MartinezBruckner, who also played in the hit television series "24" and the 2006 horror movie "The Woods," said in a conference call that the movie "has everything." continue reading...

Agnes Bruckner is Sweet and Scary in Blood and Chocolate

Actress talks about making the film, playing the role of Vivian, and her next project Last Resort. At the age of of 21 Agnes Bruckner has already amassed a solid amount of work behind her. With a bevy of roles in both TV shows and movies, this young actress seems poised to break big in Katja von Garnier's Blood and Chocolate. In the starring role of Vivian, Bruckner brings a complexity and depth to this character who has been living with a startling secret. continue reading...

Agnes Bruckner Talks Blood & Chocolate, Last Resort

In addition the the Halloween rumor, we asked Agnes about her role in the upcoming horror film Last Resort, which sounds extremely cool. "I just finished working on that, Chris Moore is directing. It’s a thriller but its EXTREMELY gory," She elaborates on the story, "Me and the other characters, we go to this house and get trapped there, and there’s this killer who’s... kind of sick in the head! He lets them know that they have until 6 am to have only one person left alive in the house. So whether they kill each other or kill themselves or what, but there can only be one person left in the house." continue reading...

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Road Test: An actress since 10, the L.A. native won the role over hundreds of ingénues. Says director Karen Moncrieff: "She had this vulnerability and fragility that grabbed my heart." Mirror Check: During production, recalls Bruckner, "When the makeup lady tried to cover up one pimple I had, [Moncrieff] said, 'No, take the makeup off.'" That's a switch from her former gig as a young runaway model on TV's Bold and the Beautiful. In the soap, she says "I looked like a Gap model living on the streets." Hazardous Conditions: For her sex scene with Statharin, "we in this hotel where the carpets were crunchy and the bed was disgusting," says Bruckner, who lives with her actor friend Francis Capra and his family in La Crescenta, Calif. (Her parents, Joszef, a businessman in his native Hungary and Nina, an L.A. homemaker, are divorced.) "It was very creepy, which turned out great for the movie." continue reading...

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Unknown Clipping This Daughter of a Russian mother and Hungarian father isn't lacking in the looks department. In fact, 16-year-old Agnes Bruckner got her start in show business as a model. But the Oregon native played ugly on purpose in the drama Blue Car, a hit from last year's Sundance, which opens in theaters May 2. "They wanted an awkward girl," says the 11th-grader, who plays a lonely teen poet in love with her English teacher. "I let all my pimples show." continue reading...

Vanity Fair - March 2003

Bruckner got her start at the age of 11 on The Bold and the Beautiful. Of the soap, she says, "It was a really good experience...I'm shooting a movie in North Carolina right now called Stateside with Val Kilmer, Rachael Leigh Cook and Joe Mantegna, and Carrie Fisher. And I just finished doing a movie in Russia called The Long Sunset, with Anne Archer and Gérard Depardieu." in a few years everyone will be speaking Hungarian: "we shot The Long Sunset in St. Petersburg. I grew up in L.A. but my mom is Russian, so I’ve been there before-it's beautiful. And I speak Russian. And Hungarian ... my father lives in Hungary." continue reading...

Teen Vogue - Young Hollywood

As soon as critics caught Agnes Bruckner's powerful turn as a vulnerable, gone-wrong teen in this year's Blue Car, the Hollywood native had director's clamoring for their share of the former Bold and the Beautiful star, booking Agnes in three films. But she's not just another teen, as complex parts in Rick (with Aaron Stanford), Stateside (Opposite Rachael Leigh Cook), and this month's Home Room, alongside Erika Christensen, prove. "I'm not a fan of the whole teen genre," she says "Or rather, the role has to have depth. I hate simple characters." continue reading...

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