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  • Helen Hunt Wrote, Directed, and Stars in ‘Ride’

    Helen Hunt of Mad About You and As Good As It Gets fame wrote, directed, and stars in a new film called Ride.

    In the film, that also stars Australian actor Brenton Thwaites, Helen Hunt plays a single mom who is completely devoted to her college-aged son. When he drops out of school and moves cross country to surf, she follows along and takes up surfing, too. As she does so, she starts a redo of her own identity.

    There was no question in Helen Hunt’s mind that she would portray the mom in Ride. She didn’t believe anyone else would “put up with what I put up with. I was in the ocean for nine hours at a stretch.”

    She loves the ocean in real life, too.

    “There is nothing that right-sizes you more than that beautiful, big body of water,” she said during a recent interview with the Associated Press.

    In addition to Ride, Helen Hunt is writing her third film and plotting her return to TV. She and Paul Reiser starred for seven years in the TV comedy Mad About You.

    “I’m developing a show with my partner (Matthew Carnahan) that is wild and weird and I hope we get a chance to make it. I’m smart enough to not have any prejudice about the size of the screen. It’s the part and the writing and the story,” she said.

    Ride, starring Helen Hunt and Brendon Thwaites is now in theaters.

  • Helen Hunt Says Her Preferred Fashion Style Is More Sweats Than Haute-Couture

    Helen Hunt is always glamorous whenever she steps out on the red carpet. However, the Ride actress says she much more comfortable in sweats than haute-couture.

    “The people I work with beg me to put on something other than sweatpants, like, ‘Please, please don’t go out in another pair,’” Helen Hunt told People magazine.

    That doesn’t mean she doesn’t enjoy getting all dolled up from time to time. In fact, Helen Hunt says she considers those high-glam events, like Tuesday’s premier of her surfing film, Ride, the perfect “prom” moment.

    “I didn’t go to my high school prom, so I try to turn those events into a prom moment.”

    In Ride, Hunt plays Jackie, “an editor from The New Yorker who follows her son (Brenton Thwaites) to L.A. after he drops out of college to surf and find himself, ultimately leading Jackie on her own road to self-discovery,” as reported by Entertainment Tonight.

    At 51, Helen Hunt looks fabulous, healthy and glowing. She says she doesn’t spend a lot of time on her beauty apart from working out with a combination of biking, hiking and yoga — “you [have to] do a little bit of everything.”

    Helen Hunt shared one beauty secret with People.

    “Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. That’s kind of the aspiration that I hope I will achieve at least by the time I get to my death bed,” said Hunt, who conceded she is very protective of her 10-year-old daughter Makena. “We watch very little in the way of television and commercials. I don’t want her head there, I want her head in what she’s painting, thinking, singing or learning on the violin as long as I possibly can.”

  • Helen Hunt to Direct and Star in “Ride”

    Helen Hunt to Direct and Star in “Ride”

    Helen Hunt has finally received the funding to direct her second film, Ride.

    The Academy Award winner will also be starring in the picture as a magazine-editor mother who chooses to follow her son to Los Angeles after he drops out of college to start a life as a surfer. While in the City of Angels, they both take their own journeys to find themselves.

    The romantic comedy first gained some traction in 2011 in Cannes, with Michael Roiff and his Night & Day Pictures producing with Hunt, Matthew Carnahan and Moon Blauner. Now, the film will be produced by Hunt, Lizzie Friedman, Gregg Little’s Sandbar Productions, and Moon Blauner, with Matthew Carnahan as executive producer.

    Ride will also star Luke Wilson, Dexter‘s David Zayas, Mike White, Richard Kind, Leonor Varela, Elizabeth Jayne and Brenton Thwaites. Thwaites will play Hunt’s son who goes to Los Angeles after dropping out of New York University to enjoy the surfing lifestyle, while unbeknownst to him, his mother isn’t far behind. Deadline says, “There, he pursues his dream and she pursues him. Along the way she meets a surf teacher (Wilson) who brings her to life in every way. Both mother and son find their own version of love, sex and an unexpected state of grace in a most unlikely place.”

    Production of the film begins in Los Angeles in August and is scheduled to move to New York in October.

    After directing five episodes of Mad About You, the sitcom that shot Hunt to fame, she had her feature film directorial debut with Then She Found Me. Since the release of Then She Found Me in 2007, she has directed an episode of the Showtime series Californication and an episode of ABC’s Revenge.

    Most recently, Hunt received an Oscar nomination for her work as Cheryl, a professional sex surrogate in the film, The Sessions. She can next be seen on the big screen in Decoding Annie Parker, based on a true story of the “almost discovery of a cure for cancer.”