Not many actors would actually request to have their characters killed off a hit TV show. But Dean Norris, who stars as DEA agent Hank Schrader on AMC’s Breaking Bad, desperately wanted to be written off the show in the first half of the series’ last season.
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Ciarán Hinds has had a long career of impressive roles in film, television, and theater, and will likely earn some new fans in his new role on the next season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. However, at the moment Hinds has returned to Broadway to star as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Phenomenal actor Michael Shannon will be appearing in his first sure-to-be blockbuster this year as the villainous General Zod in the newest Superman film, Man of Steel. But fans of acting have already known of Shannon from his roles in films like Take Shelter and in his role on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.
In the case of Emma Fitzpatrick, she’s only teasing Anne Hathaway because she likes her.
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It’s an interesting question because much of the cast and crew behind the inconsistent first season — including creator Theresa Rebeck — have not returned for the show’s second season.
Keri Russell was ready to take on a more risqué role than Felicity. In her new project, FX’s The Americans, Russell portrays a KGB agent posing as part of a happy American couple. Her character is first seen in a more compromising position than Felicity ever would have been caught in.
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It’s always difficult when an actor portrays a real person — Josh Gad is seeing that up close and personal with his depiction of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in the new biopic jOBS. In fact, the real Wozniak has already deemed the film ‘atrocious.’
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Al Pacino might not have appeared in as many comedies as Robert De Niro or Robert Duvall, but his latest film, Stand Up Guys, has Pacino making a rare clownish turn.
With his role as a zombie in love in Warm Bodies, Nicholas Hoult might finally be able to prove he’s not just another child actor hoping to be taken seriously as an adult.
While there’s no doubt that the big star of the current Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is Scarlett Johnasson, who plays Maggie, Johansson’s co-star is Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson star Benjamin Walker.
Ashton Kutcher is another actor who has made the news recently for risking his health for a film role (ie: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables and Matthew McConaughey for The Dallas Buyers Club.) In order to play Apple genius Steve Jobs, Kutcher adopted Jobs’ fruitarian diet.
Jodie Foster tends to be the actress people turn to with questions about child actors. After all, Foster began acting at the age of 3 and was nominated for an Oscar for her role as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver, a role she performed when she was twelve.
Australian actress Clare Bowen was starring in the Australian production of Spring Awakening when one of the show’s producers — none other than Cate Blanchett — told her that she really needed to bring her talent to America.
I’ve been particularly impressed by William H. Macy’s performance as Frank Gallagher on Showtime’s Shameless, mostly because it’s so much different from roles Macy usually plays.
Actor Stephen McKinsley Henderson has followed up his Tony-nominated role opposite Denzel Washington in the 2010 production of August Wilson’s Fences and long-running recurring role as judge on Law & Order with recent appearances in episodes of The Newsroom and a role in the highest profile film of his career, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln.
It’s odd to see Daniel Day-Lewis so chatty during awards season to promote Lincoln because he isn’t known for doing many interviews in his career. But Day-Lewis has also been participating in various revealing Q&A sessions, including the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to receive the festival’s Montecito Award for his career achievements.
You’ll see just about everything of actor Rafe Spall in the upcoming comedy I Give it a Year.
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In an interview with NPR promoting his directorial debut Quartet, acting legend Dustin Hoffman talked about getting his start in acting. Famously, Hoffman beat out other actors for his breakthrough role of Benjamin in The Graduate like Robert Redford, who far more resembled the character in the original novel.
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Victor Garber has appeared on and off Broadway and in dozens of films and television series dating back to the early 1970s, but now has a major role in the NBC series Deception.
Michael Cera decided to go Method on his new film Crystal Fairy by doing the same drugs his character does.
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