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.
Paul Dano: “Acting is a very strange thing – your life kinda goes on hold. You disappear, you don’t see your friends, you work such long days”
Paul Dano talks about acting in such an emotional film and how he manages to maintain his personal life during a long production process.
Mike Nichols: “I’ve learned, over the years, to be honest with actors. If you don’t know something, tell them. Don’t fake it”
One of the few plays that is universally recognized as a masterpiece, Arthur Miller‘s Death of a Salesman has had numerous Broadway productions, starring iconic actors like Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott, Dustin Hoffman, and Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman. The latest production stars another acting luminary, Philip Seymour
UK Passport Office Claims Acting is ‘Not a Proper Job’
An actor appearing in the West End production of Three Days in May, when he was rejected after he attempted countersigning his daughter’s boyfriend’s passport application.
David Alan Grier: “I never wanted to be a comic. I wanted to be a leading man — the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman”
He is currently utilizing his more dramatic skills in the role of the drug dealer Sporting Life in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, which is now on Broadway.
Elizabeth Olsen on ‘Silent House’: “Because there was not much dialogue, the only arc to create was the journey of fear”
Though she gained rave reviews in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival release Martha Marcy May Marlene, Elizabeth Olsen also starred in another film that debuted at Sundance 2011, the horror film Silent House, which is finally being released this month.
Study Shows How Actors Make Memorizing Lines Look Easy: Themes, Motivation and Blocking
You’ve heard all the jokes about acting — like how it’s just another word for being a waiter or waitress — but it seems like the one thing people just happen to ignore when they’re making fun of actors is memorization. After all, most of us have so much trouble
Brazilian Identity Thief Arrested for Using ID With Jack Nicholson’s Picture
Brazilian Identity Thief Arrested for Using ID With Jack Nicholson’s Picture
Jim Parsons on Returning to Theater: “Let the universe know what you want, and you just may get it”
Parsons spoke about his reasons for his recent return to theater and why he chose Harvey
Denzel Washington on His Action-Oriented Roles and How the Industry Has Changed Around Him
Washington talks about how he has seen changes in both his roles and the film industry as a whole over his acting career, and what ambitions he has left.
Paul Rudd on ‘Wanderlust’ Nudity: “Everyone was professional and no one wanted to stare, but I think we all kind of caught each other at different points staring”
Opening this weekend is the comedy Wanderlust, starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, about a couple who decides to join a free love commune.
‘Shame’ Director Claims Academy Snubbed Michael Fassbender Because of America is “Too Scared of Sex”
One notable filmmaker speaking out is Steve McQueen (not the macho icon who himself was nominated for an Oscar), the British writer/director of Shame, who has a theory why his film’s lead actor, Michael Fassbender, was not nominated for Best Actor.