Mike Myers Shows Kevin Kline the Proper Way to Hold an Oscar

Here is another promo for the Oscars, this time featuring Mike Myers and Academy Award Winner Kevin Kline.

In the video, Myers plays British Oscar expert Sir Cecil Worthington who teaches Kline the proper way to hold his statuette.

I like both of these guys, particularly Kline, but man… this isn’t funny at all.

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Greg Kinnear on ‘Thin Ice’ with Co-Star Alan Arkin: “I just basically steal from great actors like Alan”

It’s hard to believe that actor Greg Kinnear, who is best known for his roles in Little Miss Sunshine and As Good As It Gets, has never had any type of professional training when it comes to acting, but that’s what the forty-eight year old recently stated when talking to NBC New York.

Discussing his reunion with Alan Arkin in the upcoming movie Thin Ice, where Kinnear plays a sneaky Wisconsin insurance agent, Kinnear shared that he was a Journalism major before becoming an actor. 

“Not really any formal training to speak of. I started in college as a drama major and I had a few drama classes, but no, most of it has been real-time experience. That makes it sound better!,” he said.  Read more

For Michelle Williams, the best part of being nominated for an Oscar is “getting to ask advice of other actresses”

Michelle Williams talked with Access Hollywood about what it’s like being nominated for an Oscar – her third, this time for My Week with Marilyn.

“Probably getting to ask advice of other actresses,” she said. Her main source of advice is Meryl Streep. “Whatever Meryl does, that’s what you want to do.” 

She also talks about all the auditions she didn’t get, the one’s she “cried over” and when was the last time she was starstruck.

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Denzel Washington Was Actually Waterboarded During Filming of ‘Safe House’

We’re all aware that our favorite actors don’t usually do their own stunts — not always because of a lack of desire, but because of insurance purposes.  Still, I doubt many A-list Hollywood actors would be willing to be actually waterboarded to prove their macho cred. 

Nonetheless, New York Magazine reveals that during the filming of Safe House Denzel Washington stepped up to the plate and agreed to be waterboarded for the film.

Waterboarding — for those of you that haven’t watched a minute of news in the last few years — is either a form of torture or an “advanced interrogation technique” (depending on your political point-of-view, that is) which involves strapping someone down to a board and pouring water over his or her covered face to simulate the horrifying experience of drowning. It has also been used as a training exercise as a form of advanced survival training in the military.  Overall, it’s regarded as a very unpleasant experience to say the least. Read more

Penelope Ann Miller Talks ‘The Artist’ and the Reason She Took the Part When Others Turned It Down

Penelope Ann Miller, who plays the wife of George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) in the Academy Award nominated film The Artist, talks about why she took the part when others turned it down, the film and the lure of old Hollywood. 

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Raquel Welch Thinks Mae West Was a Man: “She resembled a dock worker in drag”

Actress Raquel Welch has revealed some interesting news you don’t hear a lot. 

Welch believes that her former co-star, Mae West, from 1970′s film Myra Breckinridge was a man. 

West, who was not only an actress and a screen writer, but a sex symbol in her time, gave Welch the feeling she was a man after losing a fingernail, as confirmed by SeattlePi.  “She never worked before 5 p.m. and … she also never moved by herself, so the limo that took her to the studio, to her dressing room, also brought her onto the set. So they had to open the huge door where they load in scenery. She was kind of like a piece of scenery!  When I went over to say hello to her (one day) I said, ‘Hi, it’s Raquel, remember?’ She sort of extended her hand to me and I went to kiss the ring and one false fingernail painted silver fell to the floor. I looked at the hand and I thought, ‘Oh, I’m getting a vibe.’ I really think she’s a man!  At this point in her life all bets are off and you’re not going to be able to doll it up that much. I would say it’s pretty accurate that she resembled a dock worker in drag.” Read more

Paul Dano on How He Prepared to Play Author Nick Flynn in ‘Being Flynn’

Paul Dano has a lot of expectations tied to his latest big movie role, Being Flynn, the adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. 

Not only is Dano cast as author Nick Flynn himself, but he is acting opposite Robert De Niro, who plays his con artist father, who Flynn encountered while working at a homeless shelter in Boston.  After being “moved by the script,” Dano explains the preparation he underwent in order to play Flynn in the movie.

After reading the script, Dano’s next step before meeting Flynn was to purchase Flynn’s memoir.  However, he found himself confronted but what could only be called a set-up.  He recalls, “I went to my local bookstore to buy it, and the people at the bookstore said, ‘Oh, no, we have a different copy for you.’ They brought me out a copy – with a note written in it to me from Nick. I was spooked; how did he know what bookstore I’d visit to buy the book?  Turns out he lives in my neighborhood.” Read more

Woody Harrelson Turned to Jack Nicholson to Learn How to Smoke Cigarettes for ‘Rampart’

In Rampart, his second film with director Oren Moverman, Woody Harrelson again appears as an authority figure, something that Harrelson is never completely comfortable with. 

After receiving an Oscar nominated for his role as an Army captain in his first film with Moverman (The Messenger), Harrelson plays Dave Brown, a corrupt Los Angeles police officer.  However, as he tells the Wall Street Journal, it wasn’t easy for Harrelson to get in the mindset of a cop… and he even had to turn to a three-time Academy Award winner to learn the finer points of smoking cigarettes!

It certainly is quite a stretch for the laid-back, drug legalization advocate, peace activist Harrelson to be playing a cop.  He admits, “I had to really focus because it’s hard to imagine myself as a cop. It really is, I am a happy hippy from Hawaii and here I am. I had to spend a lot of time with the cops and just try to saturate myself in that mentality for a while.” Read more

Michael Caine on Why He Continues to Maintain A Busy Schedule on Making ‘Journey 2′ for His Grandchildren

Sir Michael Caine, now in his late seventies, is rather famous for not turning roles down, even if the role is, well, terrible. 

In fact, one of his most infamous roles is the lead in Jaws IV: The Revenge (he would later reportedly remark, “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!”). 

So while his appearance in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island won’t win him his third Oscar, Caine explains to the Chicago Sun-Times that he took the role not only because he simply loves acting, but also so his grandchildren could finally know what their grandfather does for a living.

Caine has one reason for his constant appearances in movies: he loves to act.  He explains that his amateur roots paved the way for feeling like he has spent decades in his dream job, saying, “I’m lucky that I started out as an amateur actor. Amateur means you do something because you love it. I’ve been doing something and getting well paid for it for decades, and it’s something I used to do for pleasure.”  Showing his wit, he adds, “Wait, I’m making myself sound like a hooker.” Read more

Amanda Seyfried on Playing Cosette in ‘Les Miz’: “It’s like a dream”

Now that the screen version of the blockbuster musical Les Miserables has finally finished the casting process, actress Amanda Seyfried is psyched to talk about her new role.  In an interview with Access Hollywood, Seyfried said, “It’s like a dream.  I can’t even believe I’m playing Cosette!”

Although Seyfried reached mainstream audiences singing in Mamma Mia, she recognizes that some critics might think she’s not suitable for the challenging role.  She said, “I trained for four months before I got [the role.]  It’s classical music, it’s completely a different animal [than pop music.]  It’s really hard.  You can’t just take any pop star and turn them into a classical singer.  Luckily, I had that foundation as a teenager.  I studied opera.  I’m not the greatest singer, but I’m trying!”

It’s true that Seyfried has a special connection the musical, which will also star Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter.  “This is my all-time favorite musical, hand down.  I fell in love with it when I was 11 and first saw it.  I know every lyric, I know every song.  I was Eponine from 11 to 15 in my head.  When I was 15, I got into classical music and I was playing Cosette in recitals.” Read more

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