Julia Louis-Dreyfus Talks About Playing the Vice President on ‘Veep’
Louis-Dreyfus talks about the inherent comedy in the position.
Alison Brie on Her ‘Five-Year Engagement’ Accent and How She’s Handling Problems on the ‘Community’ Set
Community and Mad Men star Alison Brie has her most high-profile movie role so far in The Five-Year Engagement as the sister of lead actress Emily Blunt.
John Lithgow: “Acting on stage is a batting average game, if you bat 300, you’re doing extremely well”
There isn’t many sentences you can say in New York’s Theatre District that will elicit more smiles than, “John Lithgow is in a new show.” The popular Third Rock from the Sun TV star has been appearing regularly on the New York stage after he returned for Sweet Smell of
‘Matilda’ Star Mara Wilson on Why She Quit Acting in Films: “Film acting is not very fun”
Some child actors grow up to become adult stars, some fall off the wagon, and some, like Drew Barrymore, go through a combination of both. Then there are others who just, well, disappear into obscurity.
James Franco: “Don’t do a movie you wouldn’t see or don’t believe in, because movies can be hell to make”
James Franco is an interesting nut to crack. He’s alternately wonderful (127 Hours) and infuriating (his stint as Oscars host, Your Highness, allegedly not really earning all the college degrees he seems to get every other month) to observe, and it’s hard to decide whether I respect him as an artist or shrug off his efforts to become a pretentious renaissance man.
John Cusack Speaks About Playing Edgar Allan Poe in ‘The Raven’: “It was a pretty trippy headspace to stay in”
John Cusack — a man Roger Ebert once said “isn’t found in bad films” — stars as one of the most iconic American writers, Edgar Allan Poe, in The Raven, a fictionalized mystery that casts Poe as a detective.
Mark Ruffalo Talks About Playing The Hulk: “I was channeling my 10-year-old son”
At The Avengers premiere, Ruffalo talked about how he managed stepping into the Hulk’s purple pants.
Cast of Tribeca Film ‘First Winter’ Illegally Killed Deer During Production
The writer/director Benjamin Dickinson and his actors will potentially face legal ramifications for killing two deer during the shoot in upstate New York, which appears in the film
Broadway Continues to Turn to Movies For New Musicals
It used to be that a Broadway show would be a hit on stage, then be made as a movie.
Peter Dinklage: “I hate that word — ‘lucky.’ It cheapens a lot of hard work”
A large part of the phenomenon of Game of Thrones, the fantasy series on HBO, can be credited to Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion, one of the series’ major characters, a role for which Dinklage was awarded an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Christian Borle on Juggling his Roles in Broadway’s ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ and ‘Smash’
Borle admits that he is aware that Smash is a bit unrealistic, and actually counts himself among the critics of the show
Chris Evans on His Early Acting Days, Theater and Doing His Own Stunts
Chris Evans might have built his career on comic book movies — both Fantastic Four movies, The Losers, Captain America: The First Avenger, and the soon-to-be blockbuster The Avengers — but Evans is more than just muscles.
Tug Coker Talks About Playing Larry Bird in Broadway’s ‘Magic/Bird’
For Coker, who grew up a Boston Celtics fan, playing Bird on stage is pretty close to his dream come true. He says, “I never thought people would pay to come and see me play basketball.”
Eric McCormack on Challenging Audience Expectations: “I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase ‘TV actor'”
One thing that bothers McCormack is when he’s labeled a television actor, since the label is both inaccurate and seemingly puts him in a box.
Matthew Broderick on Broadway Musicals: “It’s still very exciting to me, and a little bizarre, that I’m actually up there”
Believe it or not, there was a time when Matthew Broderick wasn’t appearing in a Broadway play every other year. Actually, he is starring in Nice Work If You Can Get It after a nearly three-year absence from appearing on the New York stage which is Broderick’s first Broadway musical in over ten years (since the box office smash The Producers).
Brian d’Arcy James on Acting on ‘Smash’ versus his Stage Work: “[It’s] significant in terms of technique, but how one goes about achieving the goal is the same, to tell the truth”
James says that while we’ll see Frank again this season, he doesn’t know if the character will return for season two, but confesses, “I sure hope so! I honestly don’t have any idea, but I’m lobbying hard for that to be the case. What’s a good Broadway show without a Chemistry teacher?”
Fran Kranz on Landing His Role in ‘Death of a Salesman’
Playing Bernard, the initially nebbish son of Loman’s neighbor Charley who grows into a successful lawyer, is Fran Kranz, best known for starring in most of Joss Whedon’s projects, including the upcoming The Cabin in the Woods.
Jason Alexander to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from the Actors Fund
The Actors Fund, an organization which provides health and social services to actors, has selected Seinfeld star Jason Alexander as this year’s recipient of the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement award.
Eugene Levy on the ‘American Pie Presents’ DVD’s and Finally Sharing a Scene with Stifler’s Mom
Eugene Levy might have been appearing in comedy films since the early 1970s, but he really hit fame since the late 1990s starring as Jim’s Dad in the American Pie series.
Chris Klein: “In the movies that I’ve been a part of, I’ve kind of scratched and fought and kicked to be a part of”
When Chris Klein didn’t appear as Oz in the third American Pie movie, American Wedding, many assumed that he didn’t want to continue in the franchise.