| • | "One aspect of the role that Ella did not find difficult was the chain-smoking part. 'I am a smoker,' she admits, noting that her British-Australian descent gives her a less jaundiced view of tobacco than she might have gotten in America. 'It's always hard because I was on the constant nicotine fix. Funnily enough, I love smoke on film. I know they don't use it as much anymore but it gives a fantastic effect. Especially the 1940s black-and-white films. It just gave an awesome effect.'", Femme Fatales, Jul./Aug. '03 |