Malin Akerman attended three events at the Toronto International Film Festival recently and I have just added 200+ photos of her at these events!
If it wasn’t going to be nerve-wracking enough for Malin Akerman to watch her performance in “The Bang Bang Club” during the premiere at TIFF tonight, she also has to worry about what her friends and family are going to think.
“I haven’t seen the film so it’s one of those, I hope I don’t have to walk the walk of shame on the way out,” admits the actress during a round table interview Wednesday afternoon.
“I have some of my closest girlfriends from high school who are coming, my brother, my mother, my step dad, it’s just going to be great to see everyone. It’s really special you know.
“The Bang Bang Club, ” which also stars Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch, chronicles the true story of four young photographers in South Africa who risked their lives to document the final bloody days of apartheid. Akerman plays a photo editor at the local paper who pushes to get their photos published, despite pressure from the government to censor them.
Born in Sweden, Akerman was raised in Niagara on the Lake and attended high school in St. Catherine’s, Ont., and Toronto. She also studied psychology at York University.
“I lived here for 22 years and always watched the Toronto film fest from the outside and I always wanted to be a part of it and now I finally get to go.”
Now living in L.A., Akerman says she never attended TIFF while she lived in Toronto because she was always busy with school and the film industry wasn’t on her radar. That all changed when she started doing some commercials and landed some guest roles on TV shows .
“I did that here for about a year to two years before I ended up going to L.A. and that’s when I decided, ‘Oh this is fun. It’s kind of like psychology but more selfish. I’ll give it a shot and then go help others later,’” she recounts with a laugh.
According to Toronto Life, Malin Akerman is confirmed to be in attendance at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival!
Of course, you will be able to find photos of Malin during the festival here! The festival runs September 9th through September 19th!
The Toronto International Film Festival announced 50 films that movie fans can expect to see this year including 15 Gala Presentations and 35 films to be shown as part of the Special Presentations programme. Some of the movies we’ve been following for a while now include Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, The Town with Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner, Buried with Ryan Reynolds, Easy A with Emma Stone, Never Let Me Go with Cary Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley and Stone with Robert De Niro and Edward Norton. And those are just to name a few.
Some Canadian films we’re looking forward to covering at the Festival include The Bang Bang Club with Ryan Phillippe and Malin Akerman, Barney’s Version with Paul Giamatti and Casino Jack with Kevin Spacey. Continue reading for a complete list of the films announced today and be sure to check back as our TIFF 2010 coverage continues.
Galas
The Bang Bang Club (dir. Steven Silver) Canada/South Africa (World Premiere)
The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise of apartheid. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men – and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures. The film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach.
From Empire Movies