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Emmy plays: Christine Daae
Additional Cast: Gerard Butler, Patrick Wilson, Minnie Driver
Director: Joel Schumacher
Written by: Joel Schumacher & Andrew Llyod Webber
Runtime: 143 minutes
Release Date: January 21, 2005
Genre: Musical, Romance, Drama
Rated: PG-13

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Synopsis
An architect and designer, a composer and magician. He's a genius who must hide his facial disfigurement behind a mask and in the catacombs beneath Paris's Opera Populaire, known only as the Phantom of the Opera or Opera Ghost. His one companion is his young singing prot�g�, a soprano named Christine Daae who is drawn to and mystified but at the same time terrified of her Angel of Music whose rapturous voice sings songs in her head while she sleeps and whispers in her ear during day. Everyone at the opera house is used to the Phantom's deadly pranks when his demands are not met but when a canopy falls on top of her, nearly crushing her, the opera's leading diva: Carllota resigns. With no understudy, the mangers turn to Christine, who at the time was no more than a chorus girl. The show casts her into immediate fame. But when Christine, whom the Phantom has fallen in love with, accepts a marriage proposal from her childhood sweetheart Viscount Raoul de Changy, the Phantom's heart is broken. His despair quickly turns to furious, jealous rage and is willing to do anything to win her, even if it means raising the stakes to the ultimate level in Christine's choice between her love for Raoul and her strange attraction to the Phantom.

Emmy's Character
Christine Daa� is a chrous girl and ballet dancer at Paris's world renouned Opera Populaire. Her father dies when she was just seven years old, leaving her with a heart full of greif and mourning. She gets brought to the Opera Populaire by a family friend of her father's, Madame Giry, and takes up ballet and singing there. She soon discovers her "Angel of Music", whom gives her singing lessons through the walls of the opera house. When she finds out her childhood sweetheart, Raoul, is the new patrion, she quickly jumps at the chance to be reunited with him. She finally gets to see her "Angel of Music", and gets cativated by his lulling voice. At first, she treats him with love and curiousity, but then realizes he has a dark side when he threatens to kill those she's grown to love and forces her to choose between him and the love of her life.

Trivia
  • Had to shoot the kiss between her and Patrick Wilson (Raoul), during All I Ask of You, for 3 days - in which she had to ice her lips in between takes to keep them from swelling up

  • Emmy didn't see the musical prior to filming the movie

  • When Emmy auditioned, she was out in full costume and makeup in front of a mini-set

  • Sang Think of Me and Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again at her audition for the movie

  • Emmy almost didn't audition for the role of Christine due to conflicts with a family reunion

  • Went to the actual Opera Populaire, where she took a tour of the elaborate building

  • The manequin of Christine in the Phantom's lair is actually Emmy with waxy looking makeup - the actual manequin looked unrealistic so she offered to do it

  • Emmy's first scene filmed with Gerard Butler was the Point of No Return scene, which took 3 days to shoot - 5 weeks into production

  • In preparation for the role of Christine, she attended a s�ance at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britian - where a medium talked to her about her late grandmother


    • links
    The Phantom of the Opera @ IMDB
    Images of Emmy in The Phantom of the Opera
    Clips of Emmy in The Phantom of the Opera