![]() films including Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter,” Doug Liman’s “Go” and the 2004 remake of “Dawn of the Dead.” ![]() Throughout her career, she’s worked consistently in both Canadian and U.S. She first appeared in Disney film “One Magic Christmas” and quickly moved on to more prominent roles in films like “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” and the television series “Road to Avonlea.” Polley began acting in her hometown Toronto, Canada, at the tender age of four. Slideshow ( 2 images ) CHILD STAR, ACTRESS, DIRECTOR In “Splice,” Polley takes the part of Elsa, who teams with another scientist, played by Adrien Brody, to splice human DNA and create a being that is both human and beast. “It was great to abdicate control over everything,” she told Reuters in a recent interview. It is her first major movie acting role since the success of low-budget Alzheimer’s drama “Away From Her.” And working on the film was a chance for Polley to take a break and follow someone else’s lead, she said, before returning to directing. On Friday, she stars in sci-fi horror thriller “Splice,” portraying a scientist in a human engineering experiment run amok. With that kind of success, one might think the former child star, now 31 years-old, would give up life in front of the camera and take a permanent seat in a director’s chair, but Polley has a mind of her own. On Friday, she stars in sci-fi horror thriller "Splice," portraying a scientist in a human engineering experiment run amok. A few years ago, actress Sarah Polley became a bonafide filmmaker, walking Oscars' red carpet with her 2006 directing debut "Away From Her," which earned her a best adapted screenplay nomination. ![]() It deals with the divide between hard science and marketable science.Actress Sarah Polley who stars in the upcoming movie "Splice" poses for a portrait in Hollywood, California May 22, 2010. It opens the controversy over the claims of some corporations to patent the genes of life. It questions what “human” means, and suggests it's defined more by mind than body. She doesn't look quite human, but as she grows to teenage size she could possibly be the offspring of Jake and Neytiri, although not blue.īrody and Polley are smart actors, and the director, Vincenzo Natali, is smart, too do you remember his “The Cube” (1997), with subjects trapped in a nightmarish experimental maze? This film, written by Natali with Antoinette Terry Bryant and Douglas Taylor, has the beginnings of a lot of ideas, including the love that observably exists between humans and some animals. She also evolves more attractive features, based on the Spielberg discovery in “E.T.” that wide-set eyes are attractive. ![]() They lock her in the barn, which seems harsh treatment for the most important achievement of modern biological science.ĭren is all special effects in early scenes, and then quickly grows into a form played by Abigail Chu when small and Delphine Chaneac when larger. This feeling doesn't extend so far as to allow her to live with them in the house. The researchers keep Dren a secret, both because they ignored orders by creating her, and because, though Elsa didn't want children, they begin to feel like Dren's parents. She's sweet when she gets a dolly to play with, but don't get her frustrated. She has the ability common to small monkeys and CGI effects of being able to leap at dizzying speeds around a room. As the blob grows more humanoid, they become its default parents, and she names it Dren, which is nerd spelled backward, so don't name your kid that.ĭren has a tail and wings of unspecific animal origin, and hands with three fingers, suggesting a few sloth genes, although Dren is hyperactive. This creature grows at an astonishing rate, gets smart in a hurry and is soon spelling out words on a Scrabble board without apparently having paused at the intermediate steps of learning to read and write.Ĭlive thinks they should terminate it. What results is a new form of life, part animal, part human, looking at first like a rounded SpongeBob and then later like a cute kid on Pandora, but shorter and not blue. Elsa rebels and slips some human DNA into their lab work.
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