Manila is considering a ban on all movies featuring Hollywood actress Claire Danes because of remarks she made about the city to U.S. magazines.
"She painted a surreal picture of Manila," Manila councilor Kim Atienza said Wednesday.Atienza, the son of Manila's mayor, said councilors had dismissed comments she made in Vogue magazine in April describing Manila as a "ghastly and weird city" as "mere irresponsible statements of youth."
But he said the actress went "overboard" in a recent interview with Premiere magazine by saying Manila "smelled of cockroaches, with rats all over and that there is no sewerage system and the people do not have anything - no arms, no legs, no eyes."
Danes, who appeared in the movies "Romeo and Juliet," "Little Women," and "The Rainmaker," was in Manila for several weeks early this year to shoot scenes for the movie "Brokedown Palace." Most of the sequences shot in Manila were done inside a dilapidated psychiatric hospital.
Jun Juban, a producer of the Philippine portion of "Brokedown Palace," was quoted in a newspaper as saying, "I cannot apologize for Ms. Danes' acerbic tongue. I can only hope she chokes on it."