Emily Blunt Explains Why She Wanted Her ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ Role
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Ewan McGregor on His ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ Character and Learning How to Fish
Ewan McGregor plays “Britain’s leading fisheries expert,” and he explains how he created his persona for the very scientific character.
‘Carrie’ Star Molly Ranson Explains why the 2012 Off-Broadway Revival is More Successful Than the 1988 Broadway Original
The current off-Broadway revival of the infamous Carrie — based on the Stephen King novel and subsequent classic film –has already ran longer than the sixteen previews and five performances that the 1988 Broadway production ran, so the new production at the Lucille Lortel Theatre can already take that success into account.
To Play Emily Blunt’s Sister in ‘The Five Year Engagement’, Alison Brie Got a Vocal Coach: Emily Blunt
Los Angeles native Alison Brie plays the sister of Emily Blunt’s character in the upcoming comedy The Five-Year Engagement. While the funny Brie makes a great addition to the cast, there was a significant problem that Brie had to face: London-born Blunt’s British accent.
Ed Helms: “I like the challenge of playing someone who’s really unattractive in a lot of ways”
Helms talks about starring in the film, directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, and about his character.
Jason Segel on ‘Jeff, Who Lives at Home’: “When I read the script, I felt a little bit scared as to whether or not I’d be capable of acting it”
Falling firmly in the Duplass’ “mumblecore” style (who came up with that term, anyway?), Segel stars as 30 year-old Jeff, who as you might guess, still lives at home.
Cristin Milioti on Broadway’s ‘Once’: “Legit musicals are not quite my forte. It’s really a happy accident that the way I sing just worked for this”
In the lead female role as the show makes the move to Broadway is Cristin Milioti, an off-Broadway regular who talks about how she ended up in a musical even though she doesn’t fit the typical perception of a Broadway star.
John Cusack on Becoming Edgar Allan Poe: “You have to see yourself in these great people if they represent the shadow part of you”
Not only does John Cusack have the pressure of playing the famous writer in the upcoming mystery film The Raven, but he had to deal with the difficultly of coping with Poe’s notoriously turbulent mental state.
Review: ‘Three Sisters’ at the Sargent Theater (NYC)
While the titular sisters of Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters aren’t particularly humorous, the cast of the current production by The Seeing Place at the Sargent Theater does a remarkable job of playing up the humor in even the play’s most tragic elements.
Andrew Garfield: “You just have to just keep your head down and work as hard as you can on whatever you’re working on”
Though Andrew Garfield is best known for his film roles — after all, he’s going to be splashed across multiplexes in red and blue tights later this year in The Amazing Spider-Man — he maintains a passion for theater, pointing out, “There’s something pure about working on a play, in my experience.”
Taylor Kitsch on the Physical Demands of the ‘John Carter’ Shoot
While John Carter may have performed well below Disney’s expectations during its opening weekend, many fans of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series singled out Taylor Kitsch for praise for his portrayal of the titular Martian adventurer.
Paul Dano Talks About Acting Drunk in ‘Being Flynn’
Now that There Will Be Blood and My Little Sunshine star Paul Dano has appeared in perhaps his most significant role so far in Being Flynn, the adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir.
Actress Junie Hoang ‘Currently Shooting a Pilot’ While Her Lawsuit Against IMDb Proceeds
While there has been plenty of opinions on both sides of the IMDb “ageism” lawsuit, the 40 year-old B-movie actress who is behind the lawsuit, Junie Hoang, has benefited from the old axiom that no press is ever bad press.
Taylor Kitsch on ‘John Carter’ Special Effects: Director put “performance before technicality”
Taylor Kitsch, who stars as the titular hero, has definitely made a name for himself and sure seems like he had a lot of fun shooting the movie. In particular, he opens up about the most enjoyable aspects of the production and what it was like acting a movie that involved so many digital effects.
Willem Dafoe on Becoming a Nine-Foot-Tall, Four-Armed Martian for ‘John Carter’
You can look for Willem Dafoe in Disney’s sci-fi action/adventure film John Carter, but you’ll only hear his distinctive voice coming out of the mouth of Tar Tarkas, the nine-foot-tall, four-armed green Martian who leads his people, the Tharks.
Musical Based on 1970s Classic Comedy Movie ‘Animal House’ in the Works
The classic 1978 college comedy classic, which is to be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw with music by late 1990s pop-rock band Barenaked Ladies, with Michael Mitnick writing the libretto.
Robert De Niro Researched ‘Being Flynn’ Role by Posing as a Homeless Man
He disguised himself with heavy makeup and spent a day in the Boston homeless shelter where Nick Flynn, who wrote the novel Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which the film was adapted from, worked.
Jason Alexander: “If I tried to engineer the right choices in my career, I would not have been able to do it”
How do you give advice on advancing an acting career if you feel like you mostly achieved success by pure luck?
Ciaran Hinds on Becoming an Actor During The Troubles in Northen Ireland
Ciaran Hinds. The name probably doesn’t ring a bell, but you’ve doubtlessly seen the Northern Irish actor in There Will Be Blood, Road to Perdition, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, and the upcoming John Carter, among dozens of other films.
Will Ferrell on His Spanish-Language ‘Casa de Mi Padre’: “There was a moment of: ‘What did I get myself into?’ It’s the exhilarating part of what we get to do”
Ferrell stars in Casa de Mi Padre, a Spanish-language comedy that places him in totally new territory.