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MacGruber Interview At the SXSW IFC House

March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Here is the MacGruber interview I sat in on at the IFC House at SXSW.

14 Acting Tips From Jeffrey Tambor’s SXSW Workshop

March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment

Jeffrey Tambor gave his annual Acting Workshop at SXSW this year and no matter what, I was not going to miss it.

I arrived an hour early and was the 5th person in line. When Tambor got on stage, he brought out  the stars of Bryan Poyser’s Lovers of Hate – Chris Doubek and Heather Kafka. The idea was to have them do a scene from the film and he would direct it.

Over the next 90 minutes, he would have them act the scene in different accents, make Doubek act like a child, sing their lines and finally do the scene as an opera.

And it made the scene better once was all said and done. His idea is to destroy the scene before you can build it.

Tambor has acting classes in Santa Monica and from what I saw, his style totally inspired me. Watching him is one of my SXSW highlights. I highly recommend taking his class. Click here for the website.

I took a massive amount of notes and below are the best of the best.

1. “In Meet Joe Black, they gave me size 13 shoes. I’m a size 12. I was on my way to do a scene with Anthony Hopkins and I was walking to the set from my trailer. Walking and I just started to sway a little bit. I had been working on the role for a couple of months. On that, maybe, 1 minute walk, he became a lush. And by the time I hit the set, I said to Marty [Brest - the director], “Lets make him about 5 drinks into this, shall we? [Pretending to be the Director, he puts his thumb and gives the 'OK'] That came, literally, from some kinetic thing that I learned to listen to.”

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Nathane Lane and BeBe Neuwirth talk ‘Addams Family’

March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment

South By Southwest: The Good, The Great

March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I’m back from South By Southwest (SXSW) and let me tell you, it was an experience! If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know what I mean.

In five days, I saw 10 movies and interviewed 19 actors and directors.

And now, I’m exhausted!

I interviewed:
Edward Norton and Tim Blake Nelson for their fun and incredibly entertaining film, Leaves Of Grass.

Kyle Gallner and Brittney Robertson for coming of age story, Cherry.

Jon Foster and Director Will Canon from the great film, Brotherhood. How good was it? Well, it won the SXSW Award for Narrative Feature.

Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloe Sevigny and Director Chris D’Arienzo for the hilarious, Barry Munday.

John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill and directors Jay and Mark Duplass for the also hilarious, Cyrus.

Lee Turgensen, Paul Fitzgerald and director Joe Infantolino for the incredibly acted, Helena From The Wedding.

Ashley Green and Shiloh Fernandez from Skateland. I loved this move… what more can I say?

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Headed to SXSW and some site updates

March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Hey guys,

I’m headed to SXSW tomorrow for the Film portion of the festival. I’ll be interviewing some fantastic actors (huge names!), directors and casting directors. I can’t wait to tell you who they are (follow me on Twitter or join the Facebook group if you want to know at the time I’m doing them).

If you’re going to be there, let me know. I’d love to meetup with you!

Site Updates:

The Photographers page is done! I’m sure I haven’t included all the headshot photographers but I think I’m off to a great start. If you have time, take a look and see if your favorite is in the list. If its not, let me know and I’ll add them.

Also, I’m making some changes to the Casting Director portion of the site. I had been taking the notes of workshops I was attending and put them up for everyone to read.  I was contacted by one of the casting directors and was asked to take it down.

I immediately did and after thinking, I took them all down. I should not have put up this information with out prior permission.

But, don’t worry. When I get back, I have some great casting directors that I’m going to interview!

Thanks for reading!

Lance