Actress Emmy Rossum is keeping fans up to date on the 'Dragonball' movie from her myspace blog. Rossum plays Bulma in the movie. Here are some of her comments, edited for space:
"Today we woke up in Torreon, a pretty big city in Mexico, at about 4:30am. We drove an hour to set, just outside Dunas de Bilbao. Our location is, what I can only describe as, a sand dune desert. I've been riding the motorcycle in 4-foot sand drifts since sunrise to get the shot just right. The wonderful, kind and talented Chow Yun Fat is hanging on for dear life in back. We've been doing about 40mph, and over bumpy sand dunes that is enough to make anyone a little queasey. Chow is so kind, so calm and a bit of a prankster (which I love!) and he hasn't complained once. The sand is pretty deep here, and we've had to dig the bike out a few times when it has stalled in the drifts, but the crew and stunt guys and girls are so helpful.
Back to set, I'm really enjoying getting to know Joon Park. I'm not allowed to spill any secrets, but our characters interact a lot in the film. If you don't know a lot about Joon, in addition to being an actor, he has a massively successful band in Korea (he writes a lot of the music) and is also a great dancer. Not only is Joon very cute and extremely charming, he's gracious and very down to Earth. We've been trading music, giving each other some of our favorite stuff – he happens to love classic rock. Because everyone's taste in music is so personal, I've found music a very good way to get to know someone. (It's something I started doing with Gerard Butler when we were shooting "Phantom of the Opera" in London. He loves Ennio Morricone. In fact, during the filming Gerry and I went to see the great composer in concert at Royal Albert Hall. It's really something special if you ever get the chance to see him live.)
A few days later she posted more behind-the scenes:
We are back in Durango shooting today. I had an hour off last night before bedtime and I found the Durango Walmart Supercenter. ...I've never been much of a video gamer, but I like the adventure games and the shooting games might help my hand/eye coordination for the gun sequences in the film. I picked up a few games not really knowing what I was buying and when I started playing one I realized I had picked up "Stranglehold" starring Chow Yun Fat! Based on the John Woo movie "Hard Boiled," the graphics are incredible, he jumps, flies and shoots in slow-mo, very John Woo, very cool. I feel a little shy to tell him I'm playing him on a video game, to tell him how cool it is!
Speaking of hand/eye coordination I recently had the opportunity to go to a shooting range with some marines who instructed me and let me practice shooting different kinds of guns, pistols, handguns, shotguns (man those slugs kick back!). They were as surprised as I was that I was actually a good shot. The boys jokingly suggested that I take the test and become a marine. I'm such a pacifist and this was my first time ever shooting a gun. I'm keeping the paper targets so I can remember the experience.
Well, back to set, Justin Chatwin is looking over my should as I type and he says "Hi!" ?
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