Note to directors who work with Tom Hardy: you better know what you’re doing or you’re going to have a bad time. Hardy is receiving considerable praise for his role in Locke, in which Hardy is the only actor on screen for the entire 85 minute movie. However, in an
When people talk about how much actors get paid, they tend to either talk aboutthe actors who make millions of dollars per movie or the actors who make most of their money by waiting tables or bartending. While the huge salaries that some movie stars made in the 1990s are
AMC’s newest period drama, Turn, is based on the real-life Culper Spy Ring that was vital to America’s victory in the Revolutionary War. Considering that, for star Jamie Bell, who plays spy Abraham Woodhull, and the rest of the cast it probably feels like they’re working at Colonial Williamsburg (in
What a difference a month makes in the mind of a Broadway performer. Though in earlier interviews Michelle Williams sounded rather bleak and nervous about her Broadway debut in the revival of Cabaret, the Associated Press obviously met with a very different Williams after the opening night performance. At the
New York theater audiences haven’t always been on their best behavior in recent years. There was the audience member in the balcony of Grace who threw up on the audience members in the orchestra below. Then during a play further downtown theater critic Kevin Williamson tossed the phone of a
While New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley may not have loved the current production of Of Mice and Men as a whole (just ask James Franco about that), most critics have given considerable praise to Chris O’Dowd for his portrayal of Lennie. In a conversation with NPR, O’Dowd spoke
According to James Franco, everything associated with his Broadway production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is awesome… except, apparently, New York Times critic Ben Brantley’s review. Brantley gave the play a tepid review, calling Franco and co-star Chris O’Dowd “undeniably talented” but saying the production itself “feels about
Big-name brands spend millions of dollars a year on advertising. But when it comes to promoting a Broadway show, two old actors in bowler hats taking funny photos creates the type of publicity that money can’t buy. Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen masterfully used social media to promote
Acting legend Harrison Ford isn’t known for being candid in interviews, so it was a big surprise that during his Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit this past weekend to promote the Showtime documentary series Years of Living Dangerously Ford was remarkably open about his career. He even cracked
Though James Franco is obviously the main draw for Of Mice and Men on Broadway, his co-star, Chris O’Dowd, is also making his Broadway debut. As an actor, O’Dowd has appeared in films as varied as Bridesmaids and Thor: The Dark World. Though he is an inexperienced stage actor, he
Though Chadwick Boseman is happy that he is co-starring with Kevin Costner in the Ivan Reitman football movie Draft Day, he is probably thrilled that his next movie, Get on Up (in which he stars as “The Godfather of Soul” James Brown), has nothing to do with sports. That’s because
James Franco was already an easy target for jokes even before he recently made headlines for trying to pick up a 17 year old girl on Instagram regarding his various non-acting pursuits. In the eyes of many, his side-careers as a writer, painter, and student with the desire to earn
Jude Law is receiving considerable praise for playing against type in Dom Hemingway, a film about a roughneck, hard-drinking, womanizing safe-cracker. It’s certainly not the type of role Law would have played in the late 1990s and seems to be the culmination of the more grotesque roles that he has
Robert Duvall has worked as an actor for over sixty years and has appeared in television and movies for over fifty. While he might be 83 years old, he has absolutely no plans of going anywhere — he still appears in about two to three movies a year. His longevity
In December 2012, an actress identified only as “Anne G” filed a lawsuit against Time Warner, HBO, Cinemax and the production company True Crime LLC claiming that she was “bullied” into appearing nude and performing simulated sex on an episode of the Cinemax series Femme Fatale. In a surprising twist,
Nina Arianda isn’t a name that might necessarily be familiar to most Daily Actor readers, but she is a Tony Award-winning actress for her role in David Ives’ Venus in Fur, which was only her second Broadway role. She has also appeared in films including Midnight in Paris and Tower
If you haven’t seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier yet, you might not want to read this post just yet. Readers of the Captain America comic book over the last several years already knew the identity of the Winter Soldier in this month’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. However, even
As an increasing number of Oscar winners — including Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Redford, and Russell Crowe, just to name a few — turn toward supporting roles in superhero films, it’s important to note that there are younger actors who are also in supporting roles and are hoping that the
While it’s undeniable that Veep is definitely Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘s show (she has her third and fourth Emmy to prove it), she has a stellar supporting cast to count on to make the show really great. However, one of those cast members, Timothy Simons, who plays the awful presidential liaison Jonah
I don’t think many superhero movie fans will be disappointed when they pack theaters to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier this weekend. Part of that is because the movie features the debut Captain America’s sidekick of sorts, Sam Wilson AKA The Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie. Mackie’s Falcon is
