Actors Launch Writing Careers on the New York Stage
What’s the easiest way to get the play you’ve written staged in a New York City theater?
John Hawkes: “If something is written pretty strong you can play the opposite of it to interesting effect”
Playing a character fueled by his own cult of personality and mostly using his chilling voice as his weapon of choice is a definite stretch for most actors, but Hawkes elaborated on how he managed to create his portrayal of Patrick.
Ryan Gosling on Working with George Clooney and His Worst Audition Ever
Gosling recently talked about his experience working both for and with Clooney and the stellar cast of The Ides of March as well as his worst audition story ever in the video below.
Rachel Griffiths: “I never thought I would do television, but what I quickly realized is that television is really similar to the theater”
Like nearly every actor, Griffiths confesses that she’s always had Broadway dreams, but it was difficult to choose where to begin and how to handle the workload.
Matthew Lillard: “Somehow, someway, I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent”
So what’s Lillard up to these days? Surprisingly to most, including Lillard himself, he has a small but key role in Alexander Payne’s The Descendents.
Actress Sues Internet Movie Database for Revealing Her True Age
An unnamed actress is suing Amazon, the owner of the second most popular movie website on the web (after Daily Actor, of course… right?) the Internet Movie Database for $1 million.
Zachary Quinto on ‘Margin Call,’ Iconic Characters and the Most Challenging Thing He’s Done as an Actor
“If another villainous character comes along that has dimensions, I certainly wouldn’t pass up the opportunity just because I’ve done it in a different context.”
Samuel L. Jackson on His Prolific Career and Becoming Martin Luther King, Jr. in ‘The Mountaintop’
Jackson is thankful that his salary from his blockbuster films allows him to explore smaller, more challenging work like The Mountaintop, a Broadway play in which Jackson appears as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jessica Chastain On How She Managed to Appear in Eight Films in 2011
Pick a movie currently playing in theaters. Chances are Jessica Chastain is in it.
Willem Dafoe on His Love of New York and the Importance of Acting on Stage
With his next film, 4:44 Last Day on Earth making its United States debut at the New York Film Festival, Dafoe has a lot to say about the city that he calls half-home (he lives the part of the year in Italy).
Frank Langella: “You really just need the platform and the actor, another piece of humanity, sharing his humanity with the audience”
Frank Langella won a Tony for playing a very unappealing Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon, but that wasn’t his only run as the “bad guy” of a play. In fact, Langella is currently starring in a revival of Terrence Rattigan‘s 1963 play Man and Boy with the Roundabout Theatre Company at
John C. Reilly on How to Impress Your Co-Stars: “Just pretend like you belong there and maybe you’ll rise to the occasion”
A friend of mine in acting school said, ‘Fake it ’til you make it.'” He adds a summary of that good advice: “Just pretend like you belong there and maybe you’ll rise to the occasion.”
Hugh Jackman on the Stage Versus the Screen: “Acting is acting. It’s the same thing”
Jackman took a momentary break from his busy schedule to talk about his approach to acting on both the screen and the stage and on the intimidation of his next big role.
Jerry O’Connell Makes the Ultimate Sacrifice for his Broadway Debut: Living with Mom and Dad Again!
Television star O’Connell is returning to his native Manhattan to star in his first Broadway show, Seminar.
‘Real Steel’ Director Sean Levy Explains How He Gets His Actors Crying
Crying on cue for a movie can be hard enough for an adult actor, and is often next to impossible for a child actor. But Shawn Levy, director of Real Steel, has a secret to getting the waterworks going: music.
Hugh Jackman: “There’s something magical about Broadway”
Though Jackman did a similar show at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco earlier this year, naturally the musical-loving Jackman prefers to do the show on The Great White Way.
Hank Azaria Begs His Twitter Followers to Watch ‘Free Agents’, But It Doesn’t Help
Hank Azaria must be having a tough week. Not only do ongoing pay disputes threaten the cancellation (or at the very least will leave him with a significant salary reduction) of The Simpsons, which Azaria has been a cast member of since the show’s inception, but Azaria’s new NBC sitcom, Free Agents, has been canceled by NBC because of low ratings.
¡Ay Caramba! Salary Negotiations Between ‘The Simpsons’ Voice Actors and Fox Stumble
Every few years the core Simpsons voice actors find themselves in the middle of often tense negotiations for their next contract for the long-running animated series.
Johnny Depp Now Prefers Compliments Over Money
Johnny Depp — the highest-paid actor in Hollywood today — doesn’t think he’s worth the money he’s earned.
Zach Galifianakis: “I just find actors so shitty, I just hate them”
Galifianakis isn’t the type of actor to fit in any sort of category, especially since he himself hates actors. Huh?