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LARA JEAN CHOROSTECKI CHATS WITH ADDICTED By Emer Schlosser | Poasted May 19 http://www.weraddicted.com/lara-‐jean-‐chorostecki-‐chats-‐with-‐addicted/
Addicted gets insight into the star of Please Kill Mr Know It All, Lara Jean Chorostecki. The Brampton-‐born beauty talks about the film, her character, and in what fans can look forward to seeing her in. What drew you to this script? I really liked how quirky and unique it was on first read. I had never come across a rom-‐com script like it before. But mostly, I loved the character of Sally. I felt like she was real and relatable, wonderfully neurotic, and would be fun to play! I like to think of her as a cross between Diane Keaton in Annie Halland Meg Ryan ala 90ʹ′s rom-‐coms. Were you able to relate to your character? I can definitely keep up with her verbosity, and if you let me, will ramble on at times like she does. We share very realistic views on life, although Sally’s views are a tad more pessimistic
at the start of the film: I like to think I can manage a touch more optimism. I also have a cleaner apartment. Do you have any personal superstitions like your character’s fear of making wishes? My grandmother taught me to always lift my feet driving over railroad tracks. Something about a ghost train running through you if you don’t. I’m not sure I would call it a personal superstition, but it has become a force of habit. Have you ever written in to an advice personality? No! I always wanted to. My girlfriends and I would read advice columns a lot in our teens, but we never actually had the courage to write into one. I love reading them now in the local papers. Whether you agree with the advice or not, it’s always a great read, and fun insight into human behaviour. If you had a job like your characters, what advice would you give to someone who wrote in with the dilemma that they fell in love with someone who wants to kill them? GET OUT!!!! Run the other way as fast as you can! Seriously examine why you might love this person, ’cause if they want to kill you, they sure don’t love you… And maybe call the police….. What’s it like being on Hannibal? Hannibal is such an honour and pleasure to be a part of. I feel like a grew a lot working with the calibre of talent we had in front and behind the camera. Anyone who has seen both Please Kill Mr Know It Alland Freddie in Hannibal will know how different those two ladies are, and I feel blessed in my career to be able to exercise my acting muscles in such a versatile way. What can we look forward to seeing you in next? I just finished reprising my character Sybil O’Brien in BBC America’s Copper for a few midseason episodes; another different, yet feisty lady! Fans of the show will be blown away by season two. They have raised the bar this year, and I’m very excited to watch
Interviewed Actor Al Sapienza Saturday May 18 for the evening news – No archive available online
Please Kill Mr. Know It All Interviewed Director Sandra Feldman, actors Al Sapienza and Jefferson Brown – aired Saturday May 18 https://soundcloud.com/gatpr-‐1/newstalk-‐1010-‐please-‐kill-‐mr
BEHIND-‐THE-‐SCENES WITH LARA JEAN http://www.toromagazine.com/toro-‐woman/toro-‐tv/01ab5178-‐c28f-‐1484-‐6d53-‐ 8529b14721c5 POSTED BY: David Martirosyan May 8, 2013 | Comments Bio | More from this contributor Meet Lara Jean Chorostecki, who plays tabloid blogger Freddie Lounds on the NBC series Hannibal and stars in the upcoming romantic comedy Please Kill Mr. Know It All. We got to know the lovely Canadian actor during her TORO Woman photo shoot at Toronto's Shangri-‐La Hotel. And you can too in this behind-‐the-‐scenes video interview.
Writers, killers and dullards By JASON ANDERSON | May 16 2013 http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2013/05/16/writers_killers_and_dullards.h tml
Lara Jean Chorostecki and Jefferson Brown in Please Kill Mr. Know It All.
PLEASE KILL MR. KNOW-‐IT-‐ALL: You’d think a newspaper advice columnist has enough to worry about, what with the imminent demise of print media. Instead, the high-‐strung heroine of Please Kill Mr. Know It All is in danger of being whacked by a professional hitman. She accidentally incurs his wrath when she uses a sketch of his face to accompany the popular advice column she’s been secretly writing. The fact that he’s also the handsome stranger who’s been wooing her makes for a suitably wacky situation in this comedy directed by the Toronto team of Colin Carter and Sandra Feldman. Lara Jean Chorostecki and Jefferson Brown star as the writer and her increasingly conflicted paramour, with Colin Mochrie providing additional funny in the role of a celebrity talk-‐show host. Please Kill Mr. Know-‐It-‐Allplays the Royal May 17-‐19.
Please Kill Mr. Know It All: And while you’re at it, maybe kill this movie too By GEOFF PEVERE | May. 17 2013 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/film-‐reviews/please-‐kill-‐mr-‐know-‐it-‐all-‐and-‐ while-‐youre-‐at-‐it-‐maybe-‐kill-‐this-‐movie-‐too/article11940884/
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Directed by Colin Carter, Sandra Feldman ·∙ Written by Sandra Feldman ·∙ Starring Lara Jean Chorostecki, Jefferson Brown ·∙ Classification 14A ·∙ Year 2012 ·∙ Country Canada ·∙ Language English Sally (Lara Jean Chorostecki) writes a Toronto newspaper column called “Mr. Know It All,” in which she answers all and sundry questions put to her by readers. One thing her readers haven’t asked is whether Mr. is really a Ms., so when a celebrity endorsement renders Mr. Know It All a rather curiously incomprehensible media sensation, Sally has to find a public male face for the column to keep up appearances. She spots a handsome guy named Albert (Jefferson Brown) in a movie theatre and decides his face will do. Problem is, Albert is a hit man, and once his face appears above Sally’s column, his cover is
blown. So Albert, left apparently with no other choice, tracks down Sally intending to kill her, but – a brief pause here for suspense – falls in love with her instead. The generic context of Colin Carter and Sandra Feldman’s Please Kill Mr. Know It All is romantic comedy, so I blow nothing by informing you of the preceding point: If Albert did actually kill Sally, or if Sally actually turned the tables and killed Albert, we’d be in darkest film-‐noir territory, which is where characters go to die for their transgressions, fears and bad choices. In romantic comedies they fall in love and get married. If both genres involve a degree of predestination – one customarily involving death and the other marriage – at least noir trades in finding circuitous routes to the inevitable. Very rarely are such detours permitted in the romcom, which programs the old narrative GPS for Happily-‐Ever-‐Afterville as soon as its ostensibly ill-‐matched couple lock googly eyes on each other. So when Albert meets Sally, the jig is up. You know where they’re headed. The ride gets bumpy almost immediately, however, and the scenery is as familiar as what you might see driving to a job you’ve had for more years than you care to remember. When we meet Sally, she’s sharing memories of how her childhood spoiled her for romantic love, and those memories, along with her glasses, indicate that she’ll be divested of both cynicism and eyewear by the time we get to the final vows. Love makes one happy, but also corrects one’s vision. Yet if Sally’s having problems seeing clearly – at least before she meets Albert – you won’t struggle seeing the problems with this film, such as the fact that the very reason why Sally has to find a bogus male cover for her column never quite makes any dramatic sense, or that Albert may be the most handsome and well-‐dressed hit man since Alain Delon or Pierce Brosnan plied the trade. Add to this the fact that both of our young lovers are hitched to wisecracking sidekick characters who feel as authentic as the beard Albert’s wearing when we first meet him, or that all the so-‐called mob characters speak in Soprano-‐esque “Joisey” accents even in the shadow of the CN Tower, or that Sally actually says things like: “My name’s Sally by the way … well, not Sally By-‐the-‐Way … just Sally …” (to which Albert replies, “Hello Just-‐Sally …”) – and you might find yourself wanting to put this film out of its misery.
Bad Guy Advice Please Kill Mr. Know It All http://epaper.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx By Chris Knight | May 17 A shaggy dog story without so much as a shaggy dog in it, Please Kill Mr. Know It All feels like an unaired pilot for a TV show that never got picked up. The title character (really more of a Ms. Know It All) is Sally, played by Lara Jean Chorostecki. She’s an advice columnist whose burgeoning fame has readers clamouring to know the man behind the advice. But they want a Mister. So Sally sketches Albert (Jefferson Brown), an anonymous, bearded guy she sees in a movie theatre, and he becomes the face of the column. But wouldn’t you know, the guy turns out to be an assassin. And now that he’s being recognized as Mr. Know It All, it’s hard for him to pursue his life as Mr. Kill Them All. So he decides to kill the columnist, which leads him to Sally, who also happens to be looking for someone to play Mr. Know It All in a promotional video. What follows is part romcom and part mob-‐com, as Albert runs afoul of an ineffectual mafia boss and his two dim henchmen, all the while falling for Sally. In an old movie trick (not recommended by optometrists) she loses her glasses and is suddenly half as geeky and twice as gorgeous. The slim cast is rounded out by Kristina Pesic as Sally’s colleague, and Cliff Saunders as Albert’s buddy, Bud. There’s also an odd cameo by Colin Mochrie as a talk-‐show host, in a prologue that doesn’t really connect to the main story. By Chris Knight Please Kill Mr. Know It All opens May 17 at the Royal cinema in Toronto. National Post cknight@nationalpost.com Twitter.com/chrisknightfilm
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By NORMAN WILNER | May 16-‐23, 2013 http://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=192570 Things get sketchy for Lara Jean Chorostecki and her furry pal. MOVIE REVIEW Please Kill Mr. Know It All BY NORMAN WILNER PLEASE KILL MR. KNOW IT ALL (Colin Carter, Sandra Feldman). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (May 17). For venues and times, see listings. Please Kill Mr. Know It All starts out with a great premise – I’ll give it that. Bookish advice columnist Sally (Lara Jean Chorostecki) needs to come up with a face to accompany her masculine byline, so she gives her editors a sketch of a man she saw at a movie theatre. Unfortunately, that’s Albert (Jefferson Brown), a professional assassin whose livelihood – and life – depends on anonymity. And now he’s known to everyone – but for the wrong reasons. The notion of a ruthless killer being constantly approached in the street for relationship advice is kind of genius – and would make a killer sketch or short film. But screenwriter Sandra Feldman (who co-‐directed with Colin Carter) sticks to the rom-‐com playbook, making the misidentification just the first in a series of wacky misunderstandings that bring Sally and Albert together. But the characters aren’t that interesting, and the movie’s modest ambition prevents anything interesting from happening to them.
Please Kill Mr. Know It All BY: ADAM NAYMAN | WED MAY 15, 2013 http://ec2-‐54-‐234-‐86-‐188.compute-‐1.amazonaws.com/culture/film/please-‐kill-‐mr-‐know-‐it-‐ all/ GRID RATING: 5/10 Starring Lara Jean Chorostecki, Jefferson Brown. Written by Sandra Feldman. Directed by Colin Carter, Sandra Feldman. 14A. 87 min. Opens May 17. When Grosse Pointe Blank unleashed an ethically conflicted contract killer into the lovey-‐dovey milieu of a contemporary romantic comedy, it was a bright idea—a genre mash-‐up that retained some sharp edges. The Canadian-‐made Please Kill Mr. Know It All suffers from its obvious debts to that 1997 film, but also has some pacing and tonal problems all its own. Sally (Lara Jean Chorostecki) is an advice columnist whose pseudonymous newspaper pieces seem to be the only thing that anybody in the film’s world ever reads. For some reason, we’re supposed to believe that the TV-‐news media would run round-‐the-‐clock coverage speculating about the true identity of a print journalist. Afraid to reveal that “Mr. Know It All” is an alias, Sally hatches a plan to throw the broadcast journos off the scent. Hoping to put a faux-‐face to the byline, she scribbles a portrait of a man she spots at a repertory cinema screening—a brooding, bearded guy named Albert (Jefferson Brown) who turns out to be a hitman. The ostensible tension here is in whether Albert will realize that Sally is the real “Mr. Know It All” and silence her with the tools of his brutal trade. But, of course, there’s never any chance that our tousle-‐haired heroine is in any trouble; Please Kill Mr. Know It All is low-‐stakes all the way. Co-‐directors Colin Carter and Sandra Feldman seem content to settle for “cute” at every turn. While the script is intricately structured in terms of set-‐ups and pay-‐offs, the film is too raggedly produced to draw the viewer in for the long haul. Chorostecki is extremely appealing in an underwritten part, but she has better chemistry with Kristina Pesic, who plays her cuckoo-‐brained agent, than Brown, who’s hardly convincing as a hardened killer. Please Kill Mr. Know It All is going for a dark vibe but it’s so lightweight that it barely stays on the screen at all.
http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/Film/please_kill_mr_know_it_all-‐ directed_by_sandra_feldman_colin_carter Please Kill Mr. Know It All Directed by Sandra Feldman & Colin Carter By Scott A. Gray 5 Stunt performer turned filmmaker Sandra Feldman's second feature film is a romantic comedy of errors that toes the waters of slightly satirical, feminized film noir. Think The Truth About Cats and Dogs mixed with Mr. & Mrs. Smith, only minus the '90s angst, chemistry, action and production values, and you're in the right section of Netflix. Please Kill Mr. Know It All is a likeable enough film with a bit of wit, plenty of good intentions and a strong lead performance from Lara Jean Chorostecki; it's mostly just lacking in personality and consistency. The setup, while strongly indebted to the previously mentioned films, is rife with comic potential: an advice columnist becomes romantically entangled with the hit man hired to kill her alter ego. It's actually more complicated and reasonable, if a little too dramatically convenient, than it sounds. Sally (Chorostecki) is an aspiring novelist working as an anonymous advice columnist. When a famous musician (Tom Wilson) credits her nom de plume with changing his life in an interview with Colin Mochrie (the scene is so Canadian you can practically smell the maple syrup slathered beaver and musky hockey pads), Sally is suddenly pressured to put a face to her name. To ensure maximum hijinks, her sassy agent (Kristina Pesic) has led the publisher to believe that Mr. Know It All is a indeed a mister, so Sally plays along, sketching the face of a handsome bearded man she sees at the movie theatre to use as her by-‐line picture. Hilarity is supposed to ensue when the hit man starts being recognized in public and realizes he's been hired to off himself. More yuks are intended to follow when Sally begins to have feelings for our suave killer while running interference between him and her fake self. Quite simply, Jefferson Brown is too bland to keep up with Chorostecki's plucky, slightly neurotic take on a woman afraid to take chances (the reason for her reticence to externalize her desires is the script's most clever idea), and so the sparks between them feel forced, which takes most of the electricity out of the picture. Though it has its moments, Feldman's shot at playing cupid assassin misses the heart and only grazes the funny bone. (Breakthrough Entertainment)
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MARCH 21, 2013 Toronto :: Please Kill Mr.Know It All Jefferson Brown, lead of Please Kill Mr. Know It All, shows up at the toronto premiere of the film .
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