Toronto Watch: Bigelow Talks Hurt Locker

by Anne Thompson
September 10, 2008 8:07 AM
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Bigelowdscn2882Kathryn Bigelow is one of those directors--not unlike Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee and Darren Aronofsky, who also have films in the Toronto Fest-- who has more talent and style and smarts than she does strong commercial sense. But perhaps because she was ready to prove her mettle, she went against the grain and did her own thing with The Hurt Locker, financed independently, and delivered her best and most accessible movie, an Iraq War thriller which could break out tough guy Jeremy Renner as a leading man.

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Here's my Flip-cam talk with her:

[Originally appeared on Variety.com]

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