Margaret

Writer/Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Cast: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, J. Smith-Cameron, Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno

In Theaters: September 30th, 2011

“I’d had it with L.A.,” he told Details magazine. “And I really had it with the business side of acting, the machinery of it all.  You’re an artist, but then all of a sudden you’re a product at the same time, and there’s this company that’s sprung up around you.  I got depressed.  I was losing my love for it. So I said, ‘I’m done.’ I fired everybody and moved my family to Callicoon, NY. I had to make a radical move. “The Kids Are All Right” was my swan song.  I didn’t know what I was doing next.”

Ruffalo says it is far from easy to make it in the acting business. “It was brutal.  The years are stripping away, but when you talk to anyone from home, you’re saying something like ‘Well, I’m just working on my craft right now, when the truth is that I can’t get a f***ing job because no one will hire me. It was humiliating.”

The draw to acting is a strong one, Ruffalo says, and while sitting in the audience at Sundance, watching “The Kids Are All Right” make its debut he says, “watching everyone’s jaded, super cool Hollywood identities melt into the communal experience of filmmaking and storytelling.  It reminded me: I’m an actor, and my whole life has been geared towards being an actor.”

Ruffalo also shares his thoughts on motion-capture acting:  “It’s the absolute perfect marriage because it relies on your imagination, your ability to project outside of yourself, to be the watcher and the watched.  A stage actor has to be able to do that, because you’re telling the story with your body as much as your face and voice.”

via details.com

Speakeasy talked with the actor about his acting style and how he’s going to handle the next month.

Your gave a very low-key performance in “The Kids Are All Right.” Are those harder to do than big showy roles?

They’re certainly harder to be seen for, you know. I’m pleasantly surprised that I was included in the list. My work tends to be a little more low-key. I don’t see myself as an Oscar contender generally because of that. I’m completely blown away and so grateful that I am being considered and people have taken notice of it.

What’s the key to handling awards season hoopla?

I don’t know. One thing I know is I’ve been doing this for 20 years and it’s taken me 20 to get here. In another 20, I may be dead. I’ve been really trying to enjoy it and soak it up and really be grateful for it. It’s easy to be cynical about these things. But I’ve been in the trenches long enough and on the outside long enough that you have to enjoy it when it comes along.

For the full interview, click here

If you were only to watch 2, I recommend watching the Colin Firth video followed by James Franco. Franco chides Meredith Vieira for almost telling Colin Firth that he was going to win Best Actor. Pretty funny!

Colin Firth – Best Actor nominee for The King’s Speech

James Franco – Best Actor nominee for 127 Hours

Jeremy Renner – Best Supporting Actor nominee for The Town

Hailee Steinfeld – Best Supporting Actress nominee for True Grit

Mark Ruffalo, Best Supporting Actor nominee for The Kids Are All Right
“I had no idea they were announcing today, I swear! I was totally taken by surprise. I just dropped the kids off at carpool. I was about five minutes from the school with a car full of kids. With so many kids, I didn’t even realize it was today. I’m glad I forgot about it. It’s made it all the more, I don’t know, just sweet and poignant and unexpected, you know?” via Entertainment Weekly

Geoffrey Rush, Best Supporting Actor nominee for The King’s Speech
“As an Australian, I’m as excited to be recognized and honored by the Academy as my character must have been when his London speech-therapy business flourished when the future king of England happened to pop by one day.” via AP

Natalie Portman, Best Actress nominee for Black Swan
“I am so honored and grateful to the Academy for this recognition. It is a wonderful culmination of the 10-year journey with Darren to make this film. Making ‘Black Swan’ is already the most meaningful experience of my career, and the passion shown for the film has completed the process of communication between artists and audience. I am so thankful for the support we have received and I share this honor with the entire cast and crew of the film, especially Darren Aronofsky.”

Nicole Kidman, Best Actress nominee for Rabbit Hole
“What an extraordinary journey this film has taken me on! `Rabbit Hole’ has been a labor of love and I’m so thankful to John Cameron Mitchell, David Lindsay-Abaire and the brilliant cast. This nomination reflects all of the heart and soul that these people have put into it and I can’t thank them enough.” via AP

Here are the actual announcement of the nominations

James Franco, Ryan Gosling, Colin Firth, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg and Robert Duvall talk about their careers, how they got stared in acting and so many more things. There are 3 clips but you really should watch the whole video (at the end of this post). It’s over an hour-long but I promise you, you’ll love every minute of it.

In this clip, Jesse Eisenberg talks about how he would do 50 takes on for a scene in The Social Network and only like 2 of them. And keep an eye on Duvall in the beginning. He’s totally not paying attention. But then he takes over the clip and rocks, basically saying that 50 takes is ridiculous.

Mark Ruffalo tells a great story about working with David Fincher while Duvall talks about how he once walked off a set and reveals that he turned down a part in Fincher’s Seven.

Ryan Gosling discusses what happened and why he was fired from Peter Jackson‘s The Lovely Bones.  He reveals that he was drinking melted Hagen-Daz when he got hungry because he wanted his character to be overweight. Apparently, it didn’t sit well with Jackson and the producers.

Here’s the full video. It’s a little over an hour long but if you have the time, you really should watch this! So much good stuff!

Sure you do!

Click here for the script

Director: Lisa Cholodenko

Cast: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson

The video is only 26 minutes long so if you’re interested in the film, play it in the background if you have some time (especially if you’re at work!).

They talk about how the movie started, casting of the film, their characters and more.

I’ve heard excellent things about this film!

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Click here to watch it online

Sure you do!

Click here for the script

Thanks to scriptcollector

Synopsis: Two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress—like hospital for the criminally insane.

Synopsis: The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they’ve decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

Starring: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo & Robbie Coltrane

Click below for the trailer!

The movie, “What Doesn’t Kill You,” is a gritty, semi-autobiographical look at his life as a hood. Goodman was on the street at age 12, sold drugs to survive and has been shot several times in deals gone bad.

Hm… Anyone want to knock off a couple of 7-11′s with me?

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