Emma Stone on dropping out of High School: “Had I graduated I would’ve missed [Superbad], and had I missed that opportunity I wouldn’t be here right now”

In the next two months, Emma Stone will appear in a whopping three films: Friends with Benefits (July 22), Crazy Stupid Love (July 29) and The Help (August 12). It’s hard to believe that she only got her start at age 18 with Superbad in 2007.

To get to where she is today, Emma dropped out of High School and made the move to Los Angeles.

She told Vanity Fair, “I did Superbad in what would’ve been my senior year… I was playing a senior, and had I graduated I would’ve missed that opportunity, and had I missed that opportunity I wouldn’t be here right now.”

That doesn’t mean things were easy for her. In fact, she said that she hit “rock bottom” after auditioning for Claire on NBC’s Heroes. “I could hear that, in the other room, a girl had just gone in and they were saying, ‘You are our pick … On a scale of 1 to 10 you’re an 11.” That’s when Hayden Panettiere, who played the part, walked out of the room. “I went home and just had this meltdown,” she says.

Robert Knepper, from ‘Prison Break’ to ‘Heroes’

From Canada.com:

Robert Knepper, a career actor who cut his teeth on the theatrical stage in his hometown of Fremont, Ohio before majoring in drama at Chicago’s Northwestern University, is often typecast as a villain, but he approaches each new role as if he were playing the sweetest person in the world.

Lessons from Prison Break:
“Prison Break taught me that the writers have to break the story. They ponder it, they wrestle with it and all of a sudden they figure it out. What I realized, week after week after week of doing Prison Break, is that you do the same thing as an actor. You break the story from that character’s point of view. You break that scene down and go, `Ah-a, I get it.’ It’s kind of like a slow- moving river that’s coming to a waterfall, and all of a sudden the water starts to flow. You can’t just memorize a scene without knowing what the scene’s about. If the writing’s not good, I can’t memorize it at all. I’m like, `Damn, why won’t these words stick in my head?’ Once I break the scene, like the writers do, then it flows.”

On Heroes:
“I have a good vibe for Heroes, because I’m pulling my hair out trying to discover that character. The difference between now and Prison Break is that Prison Break put me on the map. With Heroes – it’s weird, but I haven’t talked about this before – it’s almost as if I feel the audience will be watching me develop the character as I’m developing it. I haven’t got it all developed ahead of time. I’m still fiddling with it. We’ll get to see what happens with it from one week to the next. For the audience, it’s like the theatre. It’s like watching a live performance unfold that happens to be on film.”
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House & Heroes!

MONDAY Cory Blevins House Co-Star as State Trooper 8pm on FOX April 13th

MONDAY William Charlton HEROES 9pm on NBC April 13th

Heroes, Cold Case, 90210 and much more!

Michael Castle booked a Guest Star on CASTLE	Hissoni Johnson booked a Lead in the Feature Film THE RIOT, which shoots in Seattle	Suzette Tomlinson booked a Starring Role in the Feature Film OCEAN FRONT PROPERTY
May Wang booked a Co-Star in 90210 and a Lead in the Film NO RETURN	Jason Kelley booked a Co-Star in COLD CASE and a Co-Star in HEROES	Nic Haas booked a Supporting Role in the Feature Film FORTUNE 500
Annette LeSure booked a Co-Star in SAMANTHA WHO?	Phillip Jordan booked a Supporting Role in the Feature Film COUPLES RETREAT with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau	Jim Titus booked WITHOUT A TRACE.
Thomas O’Leary booked a Starring Role in the Film SOFT TOUCH	Brittany Peltier booked a Supporting Role in the Feature Film OCEAN FRONT PROPERTY

Heroes, Bold & The Beautiful and Criminal Minds

Roger Bridges booked Heroes & The Bold And The Beautiful

David O’Hara booked Criminal Minds

One thing NBC doesn't suck at – Webisodes!

NBC has given us 15 episodes a week of “Deal or No Deal” and is about to kill 5 hours of scripted programming with the Jay Leno show… but one thing it does give us is Webisodes. They’re the only network who consistently deliver true online stories.

With mini-episodes of “The Office“, “Chuck” and the “Heroes” webisode “The Recruit“, NBC has gone farther than any other network in trying to keep viewers with an out-reach to the internet.

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