Emmy Rossum On 'The Phantom Of The Opera'

[Sunday, May 23rd, 2004]
Emmy RossumEmmy Rossum, who plays Christine Daae in Phantom of the Opera, says she liked the part as it let her combine her passion for acting and music. "I got to fulfill my dream of being a big opera star, because I just did it for eight months in a film," Rossum told Sci-Fi Wire. "And, you know, so much of the method came into that that I really felt that I was living that. So it was really wonderful."

"I think it was kind of full circle for me, because I'd always as a kid dreamed of being an opera singer. I never dreamed of being an actress. I kind of fell into this. And it's become so much of a passion of mine. But I never anticipated it happening like this."

Rossum says she was impressed with the work done by director Joel Schumacher. "It's a huge production, and it's got amazing sets and fantastic costumes, and I think that Joel is an amazing choice for a director for this, because he's got such an eye for detail in terms of sets and costumes and the little beading on a bodice, down to the character's complexity and why she's saying what she's saying."

Regarding her character, she said. "The opportunity to sing and act, which are my two passions, within the same film was just fantastic. But the opportunity to play a character who's so complex and, you know, conflicted. ... There's so many opportunities to show such an emotional range, between the fact that she's needy and vulnerable and wounded and manipulated because of that, and loving and sexy and compassionate. I mean, there are so many things to cope with with this character."

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