Comedian Jenny Slate wore a badge of dishonor for years after she was fired after her first season of Saturday Night Live for uttering the word “f**k” during her first episode in 2009. She punished herself for years after that incident. She said, “I wasn’t strong enough to tell myself
The Hollywood Reporter got Tony Award nominees Sutton Foster (Violet), Idina Menzel (If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Story) and Kelli O’Hara (The Bridges of Madison County) and best actress in a play nominees Tyne Daly (Mothers and Sons) and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun) to
The Hollywood Reporter got Tony Award nominees Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Andy Karl (Rocky) and Jefferson Mays (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), best featured actor in a musical nominee James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin) and best actor in a play nominees Chris O’Dowd (Of
Maleficent had a huge box office opening the first weekend raking in over $70 million. For 16-year-old Elle Fanning, who has been in the entertainment industry since she was two years old, this was certainly the most impressive set she has worked on in her career. Fanning shared, “This is
Though debate continues on non-disabled actors being cast in roles of disabled characters when there are many disabled actors looking for work, many roles that portray disabled characters are not always ones that actors are able to sink their teeth into. For example, there’s often little opportunity for actors with
There is nothing better than some good ole’ bad audition stories, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Bradley Whitford have a couple of great ones. Ferguson talked about auditioning for Band of Brothers and Whitford tells a great story about going in for Oliver Stone and Billy Hopkins for Born on
Because Michael C. Hall isn’t planning on doing another television series so soon after Dexter ended, he seems to be doing just about everything he can do in acting other than appear on the small screen. His fans can currently see him on Broadway starring in The Realistic Joneses through
Though she made a short move away from Broadway to star in the ABC Family series Bunheads (which, frankly, always sounded to me like an insult that came out of Biff Tannen’s mouth rather than the name of a show about dancers), Sutton Foster is a Broadway star. She has
The SAG Foundation hosted some working actors for one of their ‘Conversation’ series. Included in the panel were Curtis Armstrong (American Dad, Revenge of the Nerds, Moonlighting), William Mapother (Another Earth, The Mentalist, Lost), Beth Grant (The Mindy Project, No County for Old Men) and Richard Lawson (The Days and
Robert Pattinson has been more famous for his former relationship with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart than he’s been for his acting career. The 28-year-old actor is trying to change all of that. He recently shared with the Associated Press, “I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and
The Normal Heart premiered on HBO on May 26 to rave reviews and a look back at a time period when AIDS was wiping out an entire generation of young men. Matt Bomer stars in the adaptation of Larry Kramer‘s play of a closeted New York Times reporter who becomes
After shooting 24 episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles a season, most actors would take a break once production has wrapped. A few might do a small movie role or a commercial, but nothing that would take up too much into their off-time. Not many would do what Barrett Foa is
X-Men: Days of Future Past had a huge Memorial Day weekend at the box office. One of the big draws for the film is Hugh Jackman who has played Wolverine for the franchise of films. The actor talked to Vulture about how he keeps the job fresh after all of
Robin Wright is someone who has always done Hollywood her own way. In the June/July issue of Town & Country, the 48-year-old actress explained why she forged her own path versus following a stereotypical starlet career. She said, “Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity. So I opted
No director has ever offered teenager actors such well-written parts in movies as John Hughes, who is best remembered for writing and directing the “Brat Pack” films Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, as well as writing Pretty in Pink. Nonetheless, though known for writing substantial roles
As the Cannes Film Festival heats up in France, an entry in last year’s festival is finally seeing the light of day. The Immigrant, starring Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix, follows the story of a Polish woman who immigrates to New York only to be sucked into prostitution. Much of
The summer blockbuster season is here and one of the most eagerly anticipated films is X-Men: Days of Future Past. James McAvoy, who plays the young version of Professor Xavier, talked about what it is like to be a part of a huge franchise and to share a role with
Everyone is talking about the latest Louis C.K. episode which dove deep into the hypocrisy behind overweight men versus overweight women and the stigma attached to females and their figures. Sarah Baker played the waitress, Vanessa, who schools Louie on the double standards in a six-minute long monologue that was
Nick Cordero is an unusual figure in the Broadway musical theatre community. Standing at a striking 6 feet, 5 inches tall, the actor is currently playing a mafioso named Cheech in Woody Allen‘s Bullets Over Broadway. Even though he’s had successful runs in Rock of Ages and The Toxic Avenger,
Christina Hendricks might have been on a summer break from Mad Men when she shot the film God’s Pocket, but she didn’t take a break from one of her co-stars. John Slattery directed the Sundance-premiered indie film that also starred the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hendricks reminisced with Vulture about the
