If you're looking for a fun, fantastical, family-friendly movie to see this weekend, Tarsem's "Mirror Mirror" has you covered. The visually appealing and star-studded film is a new spin on an old classic, featuring an exuberant "man child" of a prince played by Armie Hammer,
Oscar winner Julia Roberts as an unhealthily vain Evil Queen and Lily
Collins as a more independent and self-assured Snow White.
"I think she's deeply misunderstood," Roberts said of her Evil Queen.
"And I think she is correct in her ambition and drive and desire and
focus to annihilate Snow White. And I don't think there's anything wrong
with that. She's clear," she joked. "She's exacting."
Collins explained that her Snow White is not your typical damsel
in distress. "She really becomes a fighter, emotionally and physically,
and turns into this young woman who found out that she can save a prince
as much as a prince can save her," she said. "She really becomes this
fighter, and I got to swordfight and fence and wrestle and do all these
cool things that you don't normally associate with a princess."
Speaking of fighters and swordfights, we couldn't help but ask
for the castmembers' opinions on the fact that another Snow
White-centric film, "Snow White and the Huntsman," will be hot on the
heels of "Mirror Mirror" when it opens June 1 and how it might fare
against their film.
"I'm interested to see what they did," Hammer admitted. "I think
what we did is make a movie that's family-friendly. The parents are
going to go to it and enjoy it almost as much as the kids are. Plus our
movie kicks that movie's ass, let's be honest," he added with a grin. "Yeah.
And we're out first. And we're gonna kick their ass!" he joked, clearly
not concerned with competing against "Huntsman." "We're gonna make so
much more money than they are! Our Rotten Tomatoes score is gonna be so
much higher."
