HitFix.com have recently posted an interview with The Pacific star James Badge Dale, and he mentions Isabel briefly:

HitFix: In the same way, the battle episodes seem important, but it seems like the Australia shore-leave hour may be equally important in terms of emphasizing the humanity of the characters. Were there different challenges to those scenes?

JBD: You know the pressure of Episode Three? It was working with women again. We’d been doing that for three months, marching around the jungle and none of us had really worked with a woman or seen a woman for a while. We got down to Melbourne and that’s when we shot Episode Three. We were like kids in a candy store. We were all over the place. The table read was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. You’ve never seen so many nervous men in your life. Suddenly you had Claire Van Der Boom and Isabel Lucas, all of these beautiful women around the table and guys are just sweating and moving funny. That was the difficulty in Episode Three, just sitting down and breaking down scene-work and working with beautiful women. That’s not to say that I don’t mind working with all of these dirty guys. That’s easy, too. But Episode Three was an absolute pleasure to shoot.

Bottom Line: As sensitive and realistic a portrait of American combat in the Pacific as you ever will see.

Having created “Band of Brothers,” the masterful 2001 miniseries that followed Easy Company from its training in Georgia through the D-Day invasion and until the end of the war, exec producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg decided to balance the equation with a mini set in the Pacific theater.

The result is “The Pacific,” also 10 parts but in some ways as different in its approach to the material as the jungle warfare of the Pacific was from the more conventional fighting in Europe. Both miniseries are infused with raw, powerful stories of personal triumph and adversity, but “Pacific” feels more random and more contained. Each episode is so completely built on discrete incidents that a strong case can be made for calling this a limited series.

But call it what you will, it is a gem of a production and would be a highlight of any TV season. “Pacific,” in its totality, conveys a sense of the combat experience that is as complete and realistic as any work of film could be. From the harrowing nighttime battles with a deadly but invisible enemy to the sheer misery of the punishing jungle climate to the macho posturing of the young American fighters, “Pacific” omits nothing.

Isabel’s upcoming TV mini-series The Pacific is gearing up for a release, and with that comes new photos and information! To start with, a new still has been added to our Gallery – it’s from the same scene as the other still we have and doesn’t really show us much, although it is pretty.

We also have some news on a UK air date – The Pacific will premiere in the UK on Monday 5th April, at 9pm on Sky Movies Premiere/HD. There are some new ‘official’ links to promote the UK broadcast – Sky Movies’ The Pacific Site &
@ThePacificOnSky on Twitter. Keep checking both not just for UK related stuff, but for interviews, photos and videos etc.

Back over the Atlantic, we know that the series will premiere on HBO in the US on Sunday 14th March. Wikipedia has a list of other known international broadcast dates.

Visit the official mini-series site at hbo.com/the-pacific, and go back through our The Pacific news category for trailers and other info.

Beneath the cut (Click here to read more…) is a synopsis/short critics comment from the Sky Movies promotion.

The Pacific is featured in the new Sky subscriber’s magazine, with an article/interview on the upcoming series. No mention of Isabel, but still an interesting read:

The Pacific: “It’s about the cost of war on a human being”

From the makers of the brilliant Band Of Brothers, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, The Pacific is an epic 10-part series exploding exclusively onto Sky Movies Premiere in stunning HD from 5 April. Sky Movies Magazine talks exclusively to Hanks and his team to find out what it takes to produce the television event of the year…

The Path To War

The Pacific 05Based on the real-life memoirs of two Marines – Robert Leckie and Eugene Sledge – who fought against Japan as part of the 1st Marine Division during WW2, The Pacific has taken more than three years to make. But it’s been a labour of love for Tom Hanks and his fellow executive producers Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman…

GARY GOETZMAN: Steven had felt, while making Band Of Brothers, that if that show turned out how we hoped, it would be great to represent the war in the Pacific. We didn’t really think about the timing, we just kept chugging along.

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HBO MINISERIES PRESENTS THE PACIFIC, AN EPIC TEN-PART EVENT, A PLAYTONE AND DREAMWORKS PRODUCTION, EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY TOM HANKS, STEVEN SPIELBERG AND GARY GOETZMAN, AND STARRING JAMES BADGE DALE, JOE MAZZELLO AND JON SEDA

THE STORY OF U.S. MARINES IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF WORLD WAR II DEBUTS MARCH 14 ON HBO

Directed By Carl Franklin, David Nutter, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To, Tim Van Patten And Graham Yost; Written By Laurence Andries, Michelle Ashford, Bruce C. McKenna, George Pelecanos, Robert Schenkkan And Graham Yost.

“It is not a history, and it is not my story alone. I have attempted, rather, to be the spokesman for my comrades, who were swept with me into the abyss of war.” Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed

The epic ten-part miniseries event THE PACIFIC debuts with Part One on SUNDAY, MARCH 14 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), followed by other parts debuting on consecutive Sundays at the same time through May 16.

The HBO Miniseries presentation of a Playtone and DreamWorks production is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the producing team behind the Emmy(R) Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning 2001 HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers.” Hanks and Goetzman also executive produced the HBO miniseries “John Adams,” which won a record-breaking 13 Emmys(R) in 2008.

The very first still of Isabel in her upcoming TV project The Pacific has been released, and you can view it exclusively in our Gallery! Isabel looks gorgeous as Gwen, and I can’t wait to see more from this project in the next few months. It airs on HBO in the US in March.

• The Pacific > Stills x1

PacificFans.com have posted a new trailer for the upcoming TV mini-series The Pacific. I can’t see Isabel in there, but it’s still a good watch if you’re interested in the series itself.

I added loads of new pictures to the Gallery last night! Isabel attended a screening of The Cove a few days ago, and pictures from that have been added. There are couple of of tiny shots of Izzy in the trailer for The Pacific (posted further below) so caps from that can be seen in the Gallery (can’t wait for this series, it looks pretty great!). And I added over 650 screencaps from recent interviews Izzy has done – she looks especially gorgeous in the The Vine interview. The 20 Minuten Online is also pretty special because she speaks Swiss in it and she’s more animated than in some other interviews. I’ll start working on a Video section pronto

Thanks so much to those of you that commented in the previous post! It’s really appreciated <3 Comments are always open, so feel free to post one (or two!) at any time!

• The Cove Special Screening x18
• The Pacific: Trailer #1 Screencaptures x4
• The Vine (Aus) – June 19th 2009 x138
• Sunrise (Aus) – June 2008 x49
• Cinefantastico – June 2009 x159
• 20 Minuten Online (Switz) – June 24th 2009 x323

Whilst searching for information for the site, I came across the official trailer for The Pacific, a WWII TV mini-series co-starring Izzy. The series is set to air in the US, UK and Australia early in 2010.