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[–]Innisfree[S] 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Oh that project has a long history, as anything in Hollywood.

The first draft Ellen wrote with Julliane Moore and it was called "The Burning Bush" - a reference to literal burning bushes, but also to female desire and independence suffering under patriarchy throughout the ages (the vagina monologues kind of bush :)).

The play is about Mother Earth (Miriam Margolyes - a lesbian icon) awakening and avenging the sufference of women through bush fires and other climate disasters. A group of female tutant minge-a turtles led by Ellen Page try to bring peace between humanity and crazed Mother Earth through the media of cappuccinos, world travel and documentaries.

But they had to abandon this idea because of the pivotal scene where Mother Earth's bush (masses of long curly hair sown onto the pelvic area of a pink onesie) literally catches fire. The prop department messed up one day and Miriam almost joined the real goddesses in the beyond. :)

I haven't seen the second and final version of the play. Perhaps other people here can enlighten us both. ;)

PS: What I want to know, is what did André do in Barcelona in 1999?

[–]FlanJam 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

lmao, somehow i can imagine ellen page doing something like that 😂