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South African model-turned actress Tanit Phoenix may not have landed the role of love-interest in Michael Bay’s upcoming Transformers 3 movie (she sent in a video audition ala Heidi Montag), but she did score the lead in the straight-to-DVD-bargain-bin sequel Lost Boys: The Thirst.
The 29-year-old, 5-foot-9 looker plays a vampire-romance novelist who bites off a little more than she can chew. (UPDATE: TANIT IS UP TO PLAY WONDER WOMAN/ WILL STAR IN HBO’S ‘FEMME FATALES’)
Peep the trailer:
Phoenix, who was reportedly one-of-four actresses considered to replace Megan Fox in Transformers 3, is putting on a happy face and doing her best to pump up Corey Feldman’s bi-yearly payday.
She lies to tells Moviehole:
I went up against some interesting American actresses, but Warner Bros and the producers loved my audition – and the director, Dario Piana and I got on so well – that they decided on me for the lead.
What I found very interesting about the Lost Boys script was that it showcases Vampires how they really are, blood sucking and evil, which somewhat dances around the fact that Twilight made their Vampires seem beautiful, but they really are not. I wanted to play a bad girl, and I finally got my chance.
The original Lost Boys makes the cut in Clatto’s 15 Vampire Movies That Won’t Make You Gay.
Phoenix can next be seen as an ex-military-sniper-turned-race-car-driver in Universal Pictures Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives.
How could Tanit ‘Lie’ about The Lost Boys when she is in the film? She plays lead in the film, Get your story straight..
I’m implying that she’s embellishing about being up against “interesting American actresses” and that the script is any good.
But, hey, work is work.
Being South African and booking an American film from South Africa is a major thing, for most americans, all films mostly have american actors, a few english, maybe an australian.. but South African actors are far and few between.. Tanit is an amazing actress.. to quote Charlize Theron… ‘I would have taken any job when I first started working..’
To get noticed as an actress is one thing but from South Africa its even harder.. Dont be an ass by writing nasties about actors that are not american. International actors are not spoon fed, they have to work harder to earn a visa to get to the states to book those big roles… here’s to Tanit booking that role over whatever americans were going for it… Keep shining Tanit, your future is beautiful, we support you 100%
Great post, A.
The dig, however, was aimed at actor Corey Feldman and his film. Taking shots at Feldman is an American pastime.
That said, the actresses Phoenix was up against for Lost Boys: The Thirst weren’t near the same caliber she was up against for Transformers 3. I’m sure she knows that, but is being practical and professional by doing her part to promote Lost Boys, just like any actor would.