First off, Happy belated 2008 everyone! We hope you all had good Holidays! Riikka has returned from her trip and I have sorted out my computer problems so we’re ready to resume with the updates at Abbie Cornish Online. News wise Abbie-land is still quiet. But I do have an amazing update for you today! Riikka scanned some new articles a few weeks ago, and we also received some scans from Hannah (thanks!) so we have tons of new Abbie material for this update.

Recently Abbie was featured on the cover of two mags – Sunday Life (Australia) from November 4, 2007 – everything here was totally new! How about that for some great news! We get a new (gorgeous) photoshoot and fantastic article. Also a cover story; Sunday Times Style (UK) from October 28, 2007. Now while the pictures are used from the recent T Style spread the brief article was a new find, and last but not least she made the “best of the year” list on Who (Australia) in December. Check out all of this in the gallery, and happy reading!

GALLERY LINKS:
Magazine Scans: Clippings from 2008
Magazine Scans: Who (Australia) – December 2007
Magazine Scans: Sunday Life (Australia) – November 4, 2007
Photoshoots: Sunday Life (2007)
Magazine Scans: Sunday Times Style (UK) – October 28, 2007

Compiled by the Abbie Cornish Online staff. Please feel free to post your own choices here.

Best news:
Riikka says: The announcement of Abbie starring in Jane Campion’s Bright Star and Abbie’s work with Animal Club.

Mycah says: Learning Abbie graced the NY Times T Style magazine cover! So exciting to see (and for me, buy) one her first major covers – and man on man, what a shoot!

Worst news:
Both agree: Hands down – all of the Ryan Phillippe gossip and the online flaming that was targeted towards Abbie.

Favorite magazine picture:

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As if having Hollywood at her feet isn’t enough, Australian rising star Abbie Cornish plans to release an album.

“I love to play music,” the Elizabeth: The Golden Age star told Insider.

Cornish spends her down time between films – not that there’s much of that these days – working on music at her family’s farm in the Hunter Valley.

Being able to hold a note will also come in handy when Cornish begins her next film, Last Battle Dreamer, alongside Ryan Phillippe.

“There’s a scene where we recite a poem to each other, and it’s half-singing and half- spoken – it’s very melodic,” she says.

Source: The Daily Telegraph

Rising Aussie star Abbie Cornish has advice for those who question the history of Elizabeth: The Golden Age – go and see a documentary.

Pedants and trainspotters need not apply to see Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

Abbie Cornish’s advice to those who will take inevitable issue with the facts, which have been stretched, tweaked, and in some cases just plain stomped on? Go see a documentary.

“This is a film and in order for it to work certain things have to be compacted and moved and if people want to know exact times and dates and places, they’re quite free to research that,” she says.

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Abbie Cornish finds her characters through divining the smallest of details. For 2004′s Somersault, her acclaimed breakthrough role, it was a matter of figuring out how Heidi, the haltingly hopeful teenage girl she played, would grasp a schooner of beer. But to play Elizabeth “Bess” Throckmorton, the favoured lady-in-waiting of Cate Blanchett’s Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, it was a far more difficult process of discovery.

Shekhar Kapur’s vivid melodrama was the first period piece of the 25-year-old’s short but successful career. The prospect made her nervous. Yet production staff were able to supply information, including a portrait of the real lady-in-waiting, where Cornish saw a dancer’s graceful hand and realised how gentle the character was.

The key revelation came in the first week of shooting in England this year.

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