Five Favorite Films with Michelle Monaghan
SummaryIn Duncan Jones' time-twisting sci-fi thriller Source Code, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a soldier sent into a space of eight minutes aboard a train bound for disaster; a temporal pocket he must inhabit over and over until he unravels either the identity of a bomber -- or his own. Fortunately he gets to relive those same eight minutes with his delightful co-star Michelle Monaghan, who plays a passenger on the train in possession of a possible key to Jake's future. Or past. No, wait, is it the future? Yep, it's one of those cyclical narratives that revels in its sometimes confounding paradoxes. For Monaghan, who Jones cast having liked her in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, it meant playing the same scene, and character, on endless loop; adjusting her performance ever so slightly in reaction to the changing trajectory of Gyllenhaal's time-tripper. We caught up with the actress and asked her to name her Five Favorite Films. "That's really hard," Monaghan laughs, "but I'm sure everybody tells you how hard it is." Indeed. Read on for the full list. Back to Article
