Marcia Gay Harden worked with Zac Efron before he went to rehab earlier this year, but says the 25-year-old was a joy to work with and very professional on set.
Marcia and Zac co-star in "Parkland," which tells the story of Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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"He was definitely together," the 54-year-old actress, who plays nurse Doris Nelson in the drama, told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Wednesday's Access Hollywood Live.
"We got along super well. He was prepared," she said ...
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Marcia and Zac co-star in "Parkland," which tells the story of Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Photos: Celebs Who Have Been In Rehab
"He was definitely together," the 54-year-old actress, who plays nurse Doris Nelson in the drama, told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Wednesday's Access Hollywood Live.
"We got along super well. He was prepared," she said ...
Copyright 2013 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 10/9/2013
- by access.hollywood@nbcuni.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Chicago – It’s been close to 50 years since 11/22/1963, the day when a certain American innocence was lost with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In time for that anniversary, is the excellent film overview entitled “Parkland.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Parkland” is also the name of the hospital in Dallas, Texas, that Kennedy was taken to after an assassin’s bullet severed half his skull. The film focuses on that hospital’s emergency staff, the president’s bodyguards, the brother of accused gunman Lee Harvey Oswald and dressmaker Abraham Zapruder – an innocent home moviemaker who captured the most crucial eight seconds of the assassination, including the fatal headshot. The film, written and directed by Peter Landesman and produced by Tom Hank’s Playtone Company, is a precisely and reverently done history lesson as to the events and chaos that surrounded the street shooting of a modern president. The cast is up to the challenge of the re-creation,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Parkland” is also the name of the hospital in Dallas, Texas, that Kennedy was taken to after an assassin’s bullet severed half his skull. The film focuses on that hospital’s emergency staff, the president’s bodyguards, the brother of accused gunman Lee Harvey Oswald and dressmaker Abraham Zapruder – an innocent home moviemaker who captured the most crucial eight seconds of the assassination, including the fatal headshot. The film, written and directed by Peter Landesman and produced by Tom Hank’s Playtone Company, is a precisely and reverently done history lesson as to the events and chaos that surrounded the street shooting of a modern president. The cast is up to the challenge of the re-creation,...
- 10/4/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Some stories are just too big to tell in 90 minutes; one of them is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
This is the fundamental problem with Parkland, a well-intentioned attempt to take an intimate look at the Kennedy assassination from an unusual perspective. Parkland sets out to capture the chaos and emotional turmoil of November 22, 1963 and the three days thereafter, focusing on ordinary people -- Parkland Hospital staffers, FBI agents, and so on -- in extraordinary circumstances. But the film misses its target because the target is far too large.
Parkland wastes no time bringing us into the story. The movie opens only an hour or so before Kennedy is shot, and within minutes we're in a chaotic and bloody Parkland emergency room, where young surgical resident Jim Carrico (Zac Efron) frantically tries to save Kennedy. Assisting him is nurse Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden). Carrico's efforts to revive...
This is the fundamental problem with Parkland, a well-intentioned attempt to take an intimate look at the Kennedy assassination from an unusual perspective. Parkland sets out to capture the chaos and emotional turmoil of November 22, 1963 and the three days thereafter, focusing on ordinary people -- Parkland Hospital staffers, FBI agents, and so on -- in extraordinary circumstances. But the film misses its target because the target is far too large.
Parkland wastes no time bringing us into the story. The movie opens only an hour or so before Kennedy is shot, and within minutes we're in a chaotic and bloody Parkland emergency room, where young surgical resident Jim Carrico (Zac Efron) frantically tries to save Kennedy. Assisting him is nurse Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden). Carrico's efforts to revive...
- 10/3/2013
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
History hasn't let us think about the blood.
It was all over Jackie Kennedy, the Secret Service Agents and especially the doctors and nurses crowded into that emergency room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
"Parkland" is a fascinating insider's view of those fateful two days in November 1963, when a president was murdered, his assassin was gunned down in custody and generations of conspiracies were born.
Journalist-turned-filmmaker Peter Landesman and a cast of character actors get across the chaos, confusion, the "rush to judgment" and the fearful but determined people who were on the front lines, eyewitnesses to and participants in history.
Zac Efron is the tired and overawed resident on duty when JFK is frantically wheeled in. Colin Hanks (father Tom Hanks' company produced the film) is the chief surgeon, Dr. Malcolm Perry, summoned from a meeting to join him.
"What is that, a trach?" Dr. Perry says, pointing...
It was all over Jackie Kennedy, the Secret Service Agents and especially the doctors and nurses crowded into that emergency room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
"Parkland" is a fascinating insider's view of those fateful two days in November 1963, when a president was murdered, his assassin was gunned down in custody and generations of conspiracies were born.
Journalist-turned-filmmaker Peter Landesman and a cast of character actors get across the chaos, confusion, the "rush to judgment" and the fearful but determined people who were on the front lines, eyewitnesses to and participants in history.
Zac Efron is the tired and overawed resident on duty when JFK is frantically wheeled in. Colin Hanks (father Tom Hanks' company produced the film) is the chief surgeon, Dr. Malcolm Perry, summoned from a meeting to join him.
"What is that, a trach?" Dr. Perry says, pointing...
- 10/3/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
One upcoming awards-bait picture We Got This Covered has been bringing you extensive coverage of is Parkland, a star-studded drama about the immediate aftermath of the JFK assassination.
The film, set largely at the Parkland hospital where the President was rushed after the fatal shot, features a pretty incredible line-up of stars, led by Zac Efron (of High School Musical and The Paperboy fame) as the young Dr. Charles Carrico, who is suddenly confronted with the grievously wounded John F. Kennedy and, in the below clip, doesn’t take it too well.
Though brief, this scene from the film is incredibly tense, focusing on Efron’s horrified reaction to Kennedy’s prone body and the chaos throughout the hospital. Mark Duplass shows up as a secret service agent, and Marcia Gay Harden also appears as Head Nurse Doris Nelson. If this clip is an indicator of the amount of suspense...
The film, set largely at the Parkland hospital where the President was rushed after the fatal shot, features a pretty incredible line-up of stars, led by Zac Efron (of High School Musical and The Paperboy fame) as the young Dr. Charles Carrico, who is suddenly confronted with the grievously wounded John F. Kennedy and, in the below clip, doesn’t take it too well.
Though brief, this scene from the film is incredibly tense, focusing on Efron’s horrified reaction to Kennedy’s prone body and the chaos throughout the hospital. Mark Duplass shows up as a secret service agent, and Marcia Gay Harden also appears as Head Nurse Doris Nelson. If this clip is an indicator of the amount of suspense...
- 9/11/2013
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Parkland is the umpteenth telling of the days surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The action takes place from the day of the shooting until the day of Kennedy’s funeral and focuses on some of the lesser-known figures who played an enormous role in that Texan tragedy.
The film begins at Parkland Hospital, Dallas, with dishy resident, Dr Jim Carrico (Zac Ephron), doing the rounds and flirting with his favourite staff nurse. He is watched over by the more experienced Nurse Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden), who adjusts her cap in readiness for the President’s visit; she is about to see more of Kennedy than she could have wished for. We then cut to a local tailor Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who chooses a prime spot from which to view the cavalcade. It is his Super 8 footage that we have viewed ever since, those grainy colour...
The film begins at Parkland Hospital, Dallas, with dishy resident, Dr Jim Carrico (Zac Ephron), doing the rounds and flirting with his favourite staff nurse. He is watched over by the more experienced Nurse Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden), who adjusts her cap in readiness for the President’s visit; she is about to see more of Kennedy than she could have wished for. We then cut to a local tailor Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who chooses a prime spot from which to view the cavalcade. It is his Super 8 footage that we have viewed ever since, those grainy colour...
- 9/2/2013
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is one of those days that will forever remain in the minds of the American people. And though everyone knows the story of what happened when JFK was shot (unless you’re a conspiracy theorist), many aren’t aware of what happened immediately after the president’s brutal murder. Enter Parkland, which promises on its poster a portrayal of “the JFK assassination as you’ve never seen it before.” The film centers on the events at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy was taken after being shot, and is based on the book “Four Days in November” by Vincent Bugliosi. These stills, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies, depict some of the principal characters tasked with taking care of the dying president — and even the one responsible. Paul Giamatti steps behind a camera as Abraham Zapruder, the cameraman who captured the only known footage of the assassination, while...
- 8/13/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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