“We Need to Talk About Kevin” star Ezra Miller is set to play Mia Wasikowska’s love interest in Occupant Entertainment’s “Madame Bovary,” for which Radiant Films Intl. has come on to handle international rights.

Sophie Barthes (“Cold Souls”) is directing from a script by Rose Barreneche, adapted from Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel.

Period drama, which co-stars Paul Giamatti, is being produced by Occupant’s Joe Neurauter and Felipe Marino.

Production will start this fall in Europe, and WME will handle domestic rights.

Miller will soon be seen alongside Emma Watson in Lionsgate/Summit’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

“Madame Bovary is one of the most passionate, tragic and intriguing stories we have come to love,” said Radiant Films prexy-CEO Mimi Steinbauer, who negotiated the rights deal with Neurauter and Marino. “The producers have assembled an enviable team of actors and filmmakers.” {}

Ezra was photographed for the My Body of Water Campaign by Alexey Yurenev, and I’ve also added 13 great High Quality photoshoot pics of Ezra for a We Need to Talk About Kevin Photocall at Cannes. EDIT: I’ve also added L’uomo Vogue outtakes, and a new provocative shoot by Adam Weiss (note: mature audiences only)!

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MEDIA > Photoshoots and Portraits > 040 – Bjorn Ioss

MEDIA > Photoshoots and Portraits > 039 – Adam Weiss

Ezra is featured in the My Body of Water Public Service Announcement, a campaign to keep drinking water safe. You can find out more about the campaign at IHeartH2O.org. The PSA also includes other celebs including Adrien Garnier, Leighton Meester, and Zoe Kravitz, Ezra’s Beware the Gonzo co-star and former girlfriend.

“We derive our power from bear meat.”

Ezra Miller is very elusive, despite the success of his much talked about filmWe Need to Talk About Kevin. Luckily for us, we discovered that he is in a band — a pretty good one at that — and that one of our contributors went to school with one of his bandmates. Meet Sons of an Illustrious Father: Lilah Larson, Sofia Albam, Jake Generalli, Josh Aubin and Ezra Miller.Steff Yotka: I noticed that there are a tonne of teen-girl fansites about you, Ezra.
Ezra Miller: I don’t want to talk about it.No?
Miller: Uh-uh.

Because it makes you feel weird?
Miller: I feel very uncomfortable [laughs]. I’m scared.
Lilah Larson: A fun note, though, is that most of our fans — as a band — are pre-teen girls. A lot of them tell us very interesting things.

What kind of “interesting things”?
Larson: Someone asked us to send her samples of our pubic hair to attach to a giant sculpture of an unfolded skull.

Did you do it?
Miller: No! No way! You don’t want somebody being able to, you know, clone you.

That would be ‘Sons of Sons of an Illustrious Father’.
Miller: Brilliant, but terrifying [laughs]. We don’t want anybody cloning our pubes. No pubic cloning! No! No! No!

How did you land on the band name? 
Sofia Albam: I was reading a really bad translation of Plato’s Republic, and someone was mentioned as a “son of an illustrious father”. It was born out of a poorly translated philosophical text. It’s pretty apt.

If you could trade places with any band, which would it be?
Larson: The Band.
Miller: They are literally the band.
Larson: There’s already a The Band cover band called The ‘The Band’ Band, so we’d have to be something else.

‘The Band Band’ Band?
Miller: The ‘The The Band Band’ Band would be better.
Larson: Ezra would be Levon Helm, Jake’s Robbie Robertson, and I’m Rick Danko, because he died young and fat. No, wait — he was old, but still fat [laughs].

If you were given the opportunity to have a superhuman power but you had to give up your musical ability, would you do it?
Miller: Whoa! I don’t know.
Larson: For flying, maybe. I’m not sure. That’s too difficult.
Miller: Could I learn how to play drums again, or would I be completely tone-deaf and musically incompetent?

I guess you could teach yourself how to play drums, but you’d have to start from the absolute beginning.
Miller: Then maybe.
Larson: No. It’s not worth it.
Miller: But flying… I don’t know. Next question.

You just recorded your second album, One Body, in pretty unusual conditions, right?
Miller: It was suicidal and perilous.

Why do you say that?
Larson: We wanted to record an album with this guy Oliver Ignatius.
Miller: I met him on a trampoline on Halloween, and he was like, “Hey, man. Are you in a band? I have a studio.” I said, “I think you’re going to record us.” Then Jake showed up.
Jake Generalli: And then we were like, “We’re all on acid!”
Larson: But his studio was filled with talking birds, so Ezra’s mother graciously let us record at her dance studio during the winter.
Miller: It’s a small house and a massive uninsulated barn on a mountain in Vermont.

Did you ever think that recording in an uninsulated barn in the winter was not such a good idea?
Larson: Well, there was one day when the handyman called us to say, “You can’t go outside today or your eyeballs will freeze.”
Miller: Essentially we put ourselves in this survival scenario. To an outer ear it might sound like a bad idea, but there was something in the struggle of fighting the cold that gave us drive. We gave birth to the necessity that then mothered our invention.
Larson: Which then was sort of a Rosemary’s Baby–type situation [laughs].
Miller: Yeah, but a baby nonetheless.

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This is an excerpt. For the full interview, pick up a copy of Oyster #98, out now!

Interview and Sittings Editor: Steff Yotka
Photography: Stef Mitchell
Production: Georgina Koren
Sons of an Illustrious Father wear all vintage from Amarcord, Fabulous Fanny’s, Resurrection, Screaming Mimi’s and Stella Dallas, except where otherwise noted.

I’ve made 200+ HD screencaps of Ezra in Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in the 2009 episode titled “Crush”, where he plays high school drama star Ethan Morse. The episode is about an abused girl and trying to figure out who her perpetrator is, good stuff.

PRODUCTIONS > TELEVISION > LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT (2009) > HD SCREENCAPS – S10E20 “CRUSH”

I’ve captured Ezra in Season 1 and 2 of “Royal Pains”, in which he was in some episodes in 2009 and 2010. Ezra plays Tucker Bryant, a rich teen with a distant father and a type A girlfriend. Ezra’s role is really funny, and the whole show is really well written. Oh, and he looks pretty cute too, even as a hemophiliac EDIT: All episodes added!!

PRODUCTIONS > Television > Royal Pains (2009-2010) > HD Screencaps – 1.01 “Pilot”

PRODUCTIONS > Television > Royal Pains (2009-2010) > HD Screencaps – 1.02 “There Will Be Food”

PRODUCTIONS > Television > Royal Pains (2009-2010) > HD Screencaps – 1.06 “If I Were a Sick Man”

PRODUCTIONS > Television > Royal Pains (2009-2010) > HD Screencaps – 1.10 “Am I Blue”

PRODUCTIONS > Television > Royal Pains (2009-2010) > HD Screencaps – 2.06 “If I Were a Sick Man”

Some adorable MQ outtakes of Ezra’s shoot with Terry Richardson from the recent GQ Style issue have been released via Terry’s tumblr:

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Even his underarm hair is perfect, haha.

I’ve updated the Ezra Miller Online Media Archive with Ezra’s behind the scenes video for Lu’omo Vogue, shot by Bjorn Iooss (caution: may cause extreme swooning :p) I’ve also added screencaps which you can view in the gallery:

MEDIA > Screencaptures > Photoshoots > L’Uomo Vogue – April 2012

Ezra is also featured in L’uomo Vogue March 2012 edition, shot by famed fashion photographer Bjorn Iooss. Beyond beautiful is really the only expression to describe Ezra in this shoot. Day-umm ! HQ scans can be found in our gallery, the interview is in Italian but it can be read in English below. There is also a behind the scenes of the shootvideo at the Vogue.it website. Caps coming soon!

MEDIA > Magazine Scans > L’Uomo Vogue – March 2012

Being an actor that is used to reveal himself on camera does not necessarily mean being at ease in front of the camera. The American Ezra Miller, is known for a handful of rough films – from the fourteen year old porno-obsessed boy in Afterschool to the upper-class adolescent addict Another happy day – where he left nothing out. Yet a photo shoot like the one featured in these pages triggers in him “strange associations with the objectification of the person,” he says with a slight embarrassment. “It’s more than anything my own obsessions due to the fact that I’m not used to grooming and styling, it’s strange, in front of a photographer I become shy, and it is not how I normally am. However, in this case, the experience was surprisingly pleasant, at the end of the day I was jumping around shirtless trying all kinds of hats.”

Ezra laughs heartily, with shining eyes and a broad smile, shakes my hands to show his enthusiasm, waddling on his chair. He doesn’t seem at all the controlled and cold teenager who terrified the viewers in We need to talk about Kevin, adaptation of the shocking novel by Lionel Shriver directed by Lynne Ramsay (who had already addressed the subject of a young murderer in Morvern Callar, with Samantha Morton) is about a mother that despite her efforts cannot bring herself to love her son, who already as a baby reacts harshly to her lack of affection, and reaches the point of doing a horrible homicide for a desperate revenge against her. Tilda Swinton earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Eve, the mother who must face every day her sense of guilt for having created a monster. Ezra portrays the main character as a teenager, in the crucial section of the film.

Slim, sharp features, dark eyes and raven hair, full red lips, in the movie he moves slowly like a cat, his is magnetic beauty that recalls the dammed loves of classical literature: Wilde and Rimbaud would have been instantly infatuated by him. Yet it is not his stylish good looks that keep the viewer’s eyes glued on Kevin, but the traces of repressed anger that find an outlet in more than flicks of the eyes or in the way they he eats a fruit or in the few bitter words he addresses to the family. You can feel that he has put all his best efforts in this interpretation: he chased the role for more than two years when production stopped for lack of funds, keeping alive the cohabitation with a character that anyone else would have shunned. During the filming he even refused to have any kind of contact with his mother, even though he loves her dearly and that she raised him in the most affectionate and stimulating way a child could want: he would not have been able otherwise to find the mood to empathize and portray Kevin on the screen in every little facet.

This is “method” at is maximum, even if Ezra has never trained as an actor: son of a modern dancer and a major publisher, he grew up between New Jersey and the family’s studios apartment in Chelsea, he left school when he was 16, after dreaming that Beethoven approached him on the subway, anguished over the poor quality of his early symphonies (moral, according to Ezra: do not waste time on things that do not interest you), he starts working at the age of eight years old, joining the opera cast of Philip Glass The white raven, he sang as a mezzo-soprano in the choir of children of the Metropolitan in NY (also the last Tosca with Luciano Pavarotti) and only changed his voice when he focused on acting. Not for glory but, precisely, for a personal emergency: “I could never have the ingenuity to describe myself in any other way than as a performer: it is definitely what I am.

I think it’s the burning need to externalize everything that in nature would appear as an inner experience. It’s cathartic to be able to express what can not be communicated through words, when you discover that you can also do this using body movements and subtle changes in your facial expressions, it becomes necessary for your survival to find a character in which to impose your feelings. I know that if I had the chance I would lose my mind, talking is not enough, I show what I have inside, turn it into a performance because, like a secret that you attempt to keep a secret, if you do not express it, it will grow mutating in ways that are less than desirable”. Choosing the characters on whom to use this storm of emotions can not be easy. “It is, however,” replies calmly with his deep voice. “When I read a script if I don’t feel a connection with the story I just say ‘no thanks’, or I get carried away and do anything to get the part, a kind of compulsion which forces me to face it and fill it out and it doesn’t leave me alone until I finished filming. Fortunately, the body and head go back to being normal, my own, in a month.” And the heart? “Well, that, as always, it takes much longer.”

L’Uomo Vogue, March 2012 (n. 429)

Photo by Bjorn Iooss

Fashion Editor Michael Philouze

Fashion Assistant Ahnna Lee

Groomer Sarah Sibia@see management

Ezra has a six-page spread in April 2012 issue of GQ Style, with a new shoot by fashion photographer Terry Richardson. Here are some HQ scans of Ezra that might make your heart skip a beat :

MEDIA > Magazine Scans > Gentleman’s Quarterly – April 2012