Josh Brolin speaks his mind
January 6, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
He called Russell Crowe and “asshole.”
He better shut the hell up or he’ll get a phone thrown at him.
Rip Torn: Best Mugshot of the Year
January 6, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Rip Torn pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts stemming from a Dec. 14 drunken driving arrest.
The 77-year-old was rung up on charges of illegal operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence and failure to drive in the proper lane after cops caught him cruising the breakdown lane of Route 44 with a Christmas tree tied to the roof of his Subaru. Torn lives in Salisbury, Conn., near the New York border.
Broadcast Networks Face Identity Crisis
January 5, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Evidence is mounting that at least one broadcast network may have to find a new way of operating in the not-too-distant future. Already, many of the broadcasters are cutting back on the time they would otherwise have to fill with costlier fare. NBC is gambling on a new five-day-a-week Jay Leno prime-time talk show for the 2009-10 TV season; the move would cut costs and reduce scripted prime-time programming. Fox recently agreed to drop four hours of Saturday-morning kiddie content in favor of giving two hours back to affiliates and running infomercials in the other half. The CW tried, unsuccessfully, to give up programming its Sunday nights in order to focus on making better shows for Monday through Friday.
Location Shooting Become Scarce on Los Angeles Streets
January 5, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Movie shoots on the streets of Los Angeles may have hit a contemporary low last year. A closely watched count of film permits for outdoor shoots in the Los Angeles area shows that feature film shooting days totaled just 1,181 in the third quarter of 2008, down 38 percent from the year before, according to FilmLA, the nonprofit organization that coordinates permits for location shooting in the area.
Josh Brolin on tonight’s ‘Inside The Actors Studio’
January 5, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Interview with Casting Director Sheila Jaffee
January 5, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Q. So your input really influences the director.
A. Absolutely. I get an idea of the director’s sensibilities. I research his films and what type of person he likes to work with. The director and actor have to get along on so many levels. And here’s a little thing actors should be aware of: I might be bringing in a 30-year-old character, and you may not think you’re right for that, but you also don’t know what’s happening in my talks with the director. Maybe there’s another role. Actors should always go ahead with an audition.
The trailer for ‘Taken’
January 5, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Liam Neeson stars in this action-packed international thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. When his estranged daughter is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and rescue his daughter.
Bill Nighy: Love, Actually made his career
January 4, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
For most of his working life, Bill Nighy has been a journeyman actor.
He was a familiar face and voice in his native England, where he worked regularly in theater, TV and radio.
But famous? Never.
And then, just five years ago, he was cast as a drunken boor of an aging rock star in director Richard Curtis‘ “Love, Actually.” And suddenly, Bill Nighy was in demand.
“I owe Richard Curtis endless dinners,” Nighy said. “Richard changed the way I work,” Nighy said. “‘Love, Actually‘ gave me a profile in America, and it meant that I no longer had to sing for my supper. After that movie I was invited to go to work. That’s a big change in an actor’s life.”
Character Actor Pat Hingle is gone
January 4, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Pat Hingle, a veteran actor whose career included a recurring role as Commissioner Gordon in several Batman movies in the 1990s, has died after battling blood cancer. He was 84.
His career in movies and television spanned six decades, and he was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1958. Hingle’s last movie was “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” which was released in 2006.
Ralph Fiennes characters aren’t evil… just confused.
January 4, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
“Every part,” Fiennes says, involves fitting himself “into someone else’s head and body, and that’s hard. Once you dig into any character, it always costs you something, as a person. You carry around their shadows, their scars, and try and really work your imagination so that you feel those things.”
Leonardo DiCaprio making the publicity rounds
January 4, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
He’s out doing publicity for “Revolutionary Road” so there are a ton of articles coming out. I’m looking at them all and if there is anything new or interesting, I’ll put them up.
The following article is a pretty good one.
Advice To Young Actors: “People are always asking me what advice I would give to young actors — which makes me feel incredibly old. The only thing I’d say is we all know there will be a new piece of meat. The one thing you can count on is that the spotlight of attention will fade away,” he said. “The only thing that’s gonna make you survive and have a career and not make you go do something else is concentrating on doing the best work you possibly can when you’re given the opportunity, because that opportunity will go away.”
Entertainment Weekly has 12 Firt Look Previews
January 4, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Among them are Public Enemies, Wolverine and Harry Potter.
Will Smith 2008’s top money-making movie star
January 4, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Good thing this was decided on before his awful new movie “Seven Pounds.”
He was voted the top money-making movie star of 2008, dethroning Johnny Depp in an annual poll released on Friday of movie theater owners and film buyers.
Smith, 40, is only the second African-American actor to win the Quigley poll in its 76 year history. Sidney Poitier was placed first in 1968.
SAG E-Mail: Know the facts Pt 2
January 3, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Know the Facts!
How can we be asked to authorize the National board to call a TV/Theatrical strike in this time of economic crisis?
There is no good time to consider a strike. Strikes are called only when management’s bargaining positions are intolerable and then only by a vote of the elected actors on the National Board, if authorized by a membership referendum. But, tough economic times are when it is most necessary to be unified to resist the studios and networks effort to obliterate contract provisions in our future work. The AMPTP’s contract proposal in new media creates a business model with no minimums, no residuals and the right to produce non-union whenever they want.
A profile on Kate Winslet
January 2, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
On her character in ‘The Reader’: “I didn’t try to make her sympathetic. I knew that would be a mistake — I knew it would be wrong to demand the sympathy of an audience. I’m playing a woman who is an SS guard. We’re not supposed to sympathize with SS guards. . . . But I knew that I had to understand her. I had to really understand her, to come to her in very profound and complicated ways and develop my own relationship with her.”
How to make foreign actors sound American
January 2, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
They’re coming to take Americans acting jobs… might as well post an article on how to sound like us.
SAG moderates want to boot out negotiating commitee
January 2, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Adding to the drama that has engulfed contract talks between actors and Hollywood studios, moderates on the Screen Actors Guild board are expected to push for the ouster of the union’s negotiators.
The move, which is designed to break the six-month-long deadlock, could undermine the guild’s current leadership, which some fear is bringing Hollywood to the brink of another strike.
Such a move, however, would be a major blow to SAG leaders, who’ve argued that a strike authorization from members is needed to give them leverage with studios in what they view as landmark negotiations that could determine how actors are paid in the digital era.
A Profile of Amy Adams
January 2, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
On coming to Hollywood: “I thought maybe I could get on a soap opera, maybe get to do some commercials. When I moved out here, I must have, somewhere in my heart, believed in abundance — meaning that the work of acting in film and television is not meant for special people. There’s not an exclusive amount of it that only goes to the most beautiful, the most talented, the most special people in the world.”
On learning on the job: “I had trouble being open when I first started acting on film,” she says. “I felt extremely vulnerable. Maybe it was the nature of the work, the microscope that’s on you on a set. I never went to a conservatory and didn’t study anywhere; I went straight into doing musical theater and dinner theater, so I’d come up with what worked for me. But it didn’t work for every situation, so I had to study with a coach who helped me get over myself, essentially, and not worry about feeling exposed.”
The British are coming! With some Aussie’s too!
January 2, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
An increasing number of British and Australian actors are adopting the American tongue for starring roles here in America.
Why the recent influx?
“I think one of the reasons has to do with the collapse of the British film industry,” says Marc Hirschfeld, executive vice president of casting at NBC Universal Television. “The fact that there isn’t as much in the work in the U.K. as there has been in the past has opened things up a bit for them. The talent pool … is stretched incredibly tight,” Hirschfeld says.
“I’m sure working actors don’t like to hear that, but it is indeed the case. To find the depth of experience that we usually require in those leads, the U.K. and Australia are great places to go.”
“Australia” another letdown for Nicole Kidman
January 2, 2009 by Daily Actor · Leave a Comment
Did you see “Australia“? I the movie and I really liked it. Maybe it’s cause I’ve been to Australia? Or I have a man-crush on Hugh Jackman?
Whatever the reason, the public didn’t want to see it… and it looks like Nicole Kidman is getting the blame.
Despite winning an Oscar in 2003 for “The Hours,” Kidman is not a big box office draw. The 41-year-old actress has never headlined a movie that grossed more than $100 million in North America. Her recent flops include “The Invasion” and “Fur.” Forbes magazine reported in September that she was Hollywood’s most overpaid celebrity.
