Though Matthew McConaughey has increased his earned plenty of respect since he started taking on more substantive movie roles in the last few years (with Dallas Buyers Club even earning him an Oscar for Best Actor), one director that always has been a fan of McConaughey is Richard Linklater. Linklater
New York theatergoers are undoubtedly excited that Hugh Jackman will be back on Broadway with The River, which begins previews tonight. Even though the Tony Award-winner won’t be singing and dancing in the Jez Butterworth play, Jackman always commands top ticket prices. While most of that has to do with
Though moviegoers can see Daniel Radcliffe in the fantasy film Horns, which opens today, Broadway fans will have to wait a bit longer. Radcliffe is an unapologetic fan of Broadway — he has starred in Equus, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and The Cripple of Inishmaan —
The actresses also speak candidly about how they feel about their characters in the series and why its important for TV to feature series with strong female leads.Check out the conversation above!
Few actresses have the kind of rise as Cristin Milioti has had in the last few years. A virtual unknown in 2011, she became a bona fide Broadway star in the 2012 hit Once, appeared in a supporting role in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, and was
Keanu Reeves holds the distinction of being the star of both one of the highest grossing films of all time, The Matrix, and the star of one the biggest box office bombs of all time, 47 Ronin. But as you probably know, Hollywood executives can be just as fickle as
During a recent Reddit AMA chat with Jason Schwartzman to promote his new film Listen Up Philip, Schwartzman was asked about his experience working on I <3 Huckabees. He went on to recall his pride about working with director David O. Russell, but also advice he received from Dustin Hoffman
Though the AMC television series Mad Men might not carry the same cultural weight that it did a few years ago (splitting your final season over two years might do that to you), the second half of the show’s final season is expected to be full of powerful performances from
Considering the body of work she has created in the last four years, it’s hard to remember that Jessica Chastain is a relatively fresh face (in fact, Sean Penn doesn’t realize she’s two decades younger than him). In the last few months of 2014 alone she stars in four anticipated
J.K. Simmons has primarily stuck to humorous roles in recent years — including his ongoing TV commercial gig with Farmers Insurance — so perhaps that is why his role as a dictatorial music teacher in the film festival hit Whiplash is getting so much attention. However, in an interview with
Ron Perlman is a prolific actor, and he has also lent his distinctive voice to a number of projects in film and television — including the new animated film The Book of Life. One of the reasons that Perlman works so hard is not only because he loves being an
When director Alejandro González Iñárritu announced that Michael Keaton would star in his film Birdman about a former superhero actor attempting to revive his career with a Broadway play, many assumed that it would be a self-parody of Keaton’s career. After all, Keaton starred as the title character in 1989’s
Actress Stefanie O’Connell, who is behind The Broke and the Beautiful, a website that is devoted to how to live on an actor’s salary, recently wrote an article delving on what it’s like to earn a living as an actor for Business Insider… or to be more accurate, what it’s
Though 83 year-old acting legend Robert Duvall has no plans to ever retire, he doesn’t have as many high-profile roles as he had during his peak in the 1970s. So when Duvall stars in a studio film like The Judge alongside current star Robert Downey Jr., it is yet another
Considering that Keira Knightley‘s most popular year at the movies was eleven years ago with her dual hits of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Love Actually in 2003, it’s hard to believe she is still a few months shy of turning 30. The gorgeous
Though Breaking Bad was obviously a career highpoint for every actor involved, they all must move on to their next projects (except for the few who are involved in the Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul). This includes Anna Gunn, who portrayed Walter White’s wife Skyler on the award-winning series
Both Maggie Q and Dylan McDermott are TV veterans, with Q recently starring in Nikita and McDermott recently starring in both American Horror Story and Hostages. This season both star as the leads of Stalker, a drama series on CBS about LAPD detectives who specialize in crimes that have to
Cusack doesn’t hold back from speaking about what he believes are the inequalities in Hollywood regarding age and gender.
Fifty-nine years ago (September 30, 1955), Hollywood legend James Dean was killed in a car accident. Along with the memorable performances in the three films that he starred in, his death at only age 24 quickly pushed him to an eternal iconic status of cool. He is the only actor
Joe Mantello received an Emmy nomination for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart, and what makes that particularly extraordinary is that it was Mantello’s first TV role since a 1998 appearance on Law & Order. In fact, besides appearing in the Broadway production of The Normal Heart in 2011,
