Interviews

Q&A: Scott Foley talks ‘The Goodwin Games’ and Why He Loves Working in Television Q&A: Scott Foley talks ‘The Goodwin Games’ and Why He Loves Working in Television

Scott: “My job as an actor is to find the real moments of the characters”

Q & A: John Krasinski Talks the End of ‘The Office’, His Audition, Past Commercials and More Q & A: John Krasinski Talks the End of ‘The Office’, His Audition, Past Commercials and More

John on the end of ‘The Office’: “It’s a life-changing event and there’s just no way to describe it”

Interview: Johnny Ray Gill on ‘Rectify’, Booking ‘Harry’s Law’ Right Out of College and Making “Bold Choices” Interview: Johnny Ray Gill on ‘Rectify’, Booking ‘Harry’s Law’ Right Out of College and Making “Bold Choices”

Johnny on auditions: “Each character is a jigsaw puzzle & after I get the call 9from my agent) my quest is to find how all the circumstances fit”

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Acting Advice

Keep the Drama on the Stage: How to Get Along with Your Fellow Actors Keep the Drama on the Stage: How to Get Along with Your Fellow Actors

Ego and competition! 3 Steps to get along with your actor friends

The Actor’s Guide to the Twitter-verse The Actor’s Guide to the Twitter-verse

There’s a right way and a wrong way to tweet. Dallas shares 2 easy tips to help you make the most out of your tweets

4 Steps to Gaining Publicity and Utilizing the Power of Networking 4 Steps to Gaining Publicity and Utilizing the Power of Networking

Publicity is something that everyone in entertainment should be conscious of!

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Latest News

`Mad Men' stars have fun as anxious Pete and Peggy

August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Airing on AMC Sundays at 10 p.m. EDT, the Peabody Award-winning “Mad Men” now is in its second season. Vincent Kartheiser and Elisabeth Moss, who star in the splendid ’60s-era drama talk about the show in a joint interview.

Sean Connery: The story of a brilliant but deeply flawed man

August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

http://rhymeculture.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/sean-connery.jpgRD Laing, a noted celebrity shrink, talks tales of Sean Connery in this new biography.

Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin & Sally Field mount up for SAG fight

August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A group known as Unite for Strength says it has lined up support from several dozen high-profile backers for a slate of candidates who are seeking to fill 11 Hollywood division seats on the national board of the Screen Actors Guild, plus 22 seats for those who serve as alternate board members.

Stiller Says Disability Advocates' Planned Boycott Is Unwarranted

August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/05/23/tropic-thunder-poster.jpg“It’s sort of edgy territory, but we felt that as long as the focus was on the actors who were trying to do something to be taken seriously that’s going too far or wrong, that was where the humor would come from,” Ben Stiller insisted. “[The joke is on] actors reaching for roles in terms of hopefully winning awards.”

Robert Downey Jr.'s risky role in "Tropic Thunder"

August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

http://www.spareroom.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/Robert-Downey-Jr-Tropic-Thu.jpgWhen Robert Downey Jr. put on dark make-up for film comedy “Tropic Thunder,” the actor ventured into the racially charged territory of blackface, an old showbiz convention that is no laughing matter.

Profile On: Morgan Freeman

August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061002/244.freeman.morgan.092806.jpgLife as Freeman currently knows it began on the eve of his 50th birthday when an Oscar nomination for the role of the terrifying pimp Fast Black in the movie Street Smart catapulted him to stardom. Ever since, he’s been feasting on a high-octane diet of thrill-seeking that is a world away from his stock-in-trade fatherly persona on the big screen.

A Starving Actors Guide to NYC

August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Former struggling actor, Chris Messina, was living in New York, on a theater actor’s budget. Landing big parts in small plays (The New Group’s “Good Thing”) and small parts in big plays (“Salome” on Broadway with Al Pacino), the Long Island native fell in love with the city, despite the high cost of living. These days, he’s based in L.A. wrapping up movies directed by Sam Mendes and Nora Ephron.

“I want to move back to New York, work in the theater and buy an apartment but it’s still expensive,” says Messina.  Here are his local picks for the cash-strapped thespian.

Jackson gets schooled by Downey

August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/8/I/O/happynessprem3.jpgYou’ve seen him in ads for the new comedy “Tropic Thunder” as a young black actor who is offended when his costar plays a character in blackface but also thinks that he’s black off-screen.  What Brandon T. Jackson didn’t count on was the way Downey “would not leave character” off-off screen.

‘Thunder’ Boycott is ready to "Get Some"

August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A coalition of disabilities groups is expected as early as Monday to call for a national boycott of the film “Tropic Thunder” because of what the groups consider the movie’s open ridicule of the intellectually disabled.

Bernie Mac Dies at 50

August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is so so sad. We at Daily Actor really liked Bernie Man – he was a true original.

Read about his life here and here.

What is scarcoidosis and how do you die from pneumonia ?

Watch Video of him here.

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