Music Video Was Like an Acting Workshop?

Given that he’s one of the biggest names in music videos and his latest project featured both Eminem and Rihanna, Joseph Kahn should have had no problem casting the two leads for the “Love the Way You Lie” video. And yet, he considers himself “incredibly lucky” to have landed both Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox for the clip.

“Megan is one of those choices, like, whenever you write a music video, you go, ‘I want a girl like Megan Fox,’ ” Kahn told MTV News. “I guarantee, like, 95 percent of music videos, they write, ‘I would like a girl like Megan Fox.’”

Kahn said Fox is so popular, he didn’t initially consider her participation a possibility. “We were actually looking around for some other actresses, and then, midway through, I just thought, ‘Why don’t I just try this?’ ” he said. “I mean, I have the biggest artist in the world, with the hottest song on the planet, with the hottest female artist … and it’s a meaty role. It’s not like you’re just slipping in there and looking pretty.”

Fortunately for Kahn, Fox is an Eminem fan, and she loved the song and the role. “So, she said ‘yes,’ ” he said. “I was blown away.”

On the other hand, the director said he considered courting Monaghan right away. “I wanted him because he’s an actor who can bury himself [in his roles],” Kahn said. “You can do anything with him, and essentially, he’s a villain through all of [the video], and I think he did a great job.”

So, with two big-name actors on set, and only two days to shoot the entire video, Kahn had his work cut out for him. Monaghan and Fox were going to need to channel conflicting emotions — anger one second, passion the next — and do it quickly. As the director, it was up to Kahn to help them harness all of that — often at a moment’s notice. Luckily for him, he had two of the best to work with.

“I just told them: This is not like a normal film. We have two days on set, and we have to think of it as an acting workshop, because you’re going to have to ramp up into emotions in two seconds, you’re not going to know what the story is, and you’re going to have to trust one another,” he explained. “I’m asking them to go from zero to 100 in two seconds, so they were using all their techniques as actors. Dom would be calling her names, she’d be calling him names … to see them turn it on like that, it was really a fascinating acting study.” (Source)

“Love the Way You Lie” Screen Captures

The highly anticipated music video for Eminem featuring Rihanna’s song, “Love the Way You Lie” was released this week. I have added screen captures of Dominic in the music video. Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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Dominic Calls Megan Fox an “Alright Kisser?”

She may be considered one of the sexiest women on the planet, but Lost star Dominic Monaghan has given Megan Fox a lukewarm appraisal as a kisser. The actor features alongside Fox, 24, in Eminem and Rihanna’s new video for the chart-topping single Love The Way You Lie
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And despite the fact that Dominic gets to make out with the Transformers star in the clip he says it is just ‘work’.

When asked what it is like kissing Megan, the 33-year-old told MTV News: “It’s all right, no I’m just kidding. It’s fine, it’s work. She’s married. I have a lot of respect for marriage.”

Monaghan didn’t want to cross a line with the brunette, who has recently married actor Brian Austin Green. And he said to her: ‘Look, I know that you’re married and I don’t want to do anything inappropriate and she said, “It’s all kind of inappropriate, huh?”‘

The video, which was directed by Joseph Kahn, sees the pair playing a couple going through an abusive relationship.
Describing the storyline, Dominic said:

“It’s the story of Eminem and his ex-wife Kim getting to know each other, and it’s the story of their tumultuous relationship and it’s the story of the breakdown of their relationship. We’re supposed to be desperately in love, like Sid and Nancy, John and Yoko… Eminem and Kim. Though I tried as hard as I could to make her laugh and have fun with her. I think we got on pretty well.”

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“Love the Way You Lie” Music Video Released

The highly anticipated music video for Eminem featuring Rihanna’s song, “Love the Way You Lie” has officially been released. Take a look at Dominic and Megan Fox in action, screen captures coming soon!

MTV “Love the Way You Lie” News Piece

MTC did a small news piece on the upcoming Rihanna and Eminem music video, Love the Way You Lie, take a look below. The music video is reportedly set to premiere sometime this week or next.

Rihanna ft. Eminem – “Love the Way You Lie” On Set

Dominic Monaghan is one lucky fella. As previously reported, Lost actor teamed up with Megan Fox to star in the music video for Eminem and Rihanna’s hit single, “Love the Way You Lie.” The shoot took place late last week on top of a liquor store in Los Angeles…

Sources report that scenes between the former Transformers starlet and Monaghan get pretty steamy. They were spotted being filmed sharing a kiss on the roof of the liquor store in between taking swigs of vodka. Earlier, the video’s director Joseph Kahn twittered, “OK fine. Megan Fox & Dominic Monaghan are in the video. Hard to keep secrets in this town.”

He also twittered that the vid would premiere this week. “My director’s edit of “Love the Way You Lie” is done,” he posted yesterday. “I love this video.”

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Dominic to Appear in Eminem & Rihanna Video

Megan Fox doesn’t need Michael Bay. The former Transformers star has Eminem. The world’s hottest newlywed is thisclose to being in the video for “Love the Way You Lie,” the Detroit rapper’s hit single with Rihanna.

A Lost star has already been cast in the vid … Dominic Monaghan is set to appear. Plans call for some rather steamy sequences between D.M. and Fox. “It gets really intense,” a source says.

Director Joseph Kahn confirmed on Twitter yesterday that he was directing the video. However, he didn’t name names. “Got off a call,” he posted. “Emergency music video. Gonna write and turn in treatment in three hours to shoot asap.” He apparently wrote it in just 45 minutes.

The source said Fox and Monaghan would shoot their scenes later this week in Los Angeles. Kahn directed Eminem’s videos for “Without Me” and “We Made You.” He also directed Rihanna in a Covergirl ad. He most recently helmed the video for Kylie Minogue’s “All the Lovers,” which features dozens of beautiful men and women gyrating and making out in nothing but white undergarments. (Source)