Kristen Wiig Talks Improv and Her Audition for ‘SNL’

Most people would assume that someone who became a household name on Saturday Night Live would be a confident person.  But Kristen Wiig is more comfortable hiding behind her characters. “I’m actually not very good at public speaking or talking in a big group—even socially—as myself,” she said in an

Kristen Wiig Thinks Her Biggest Break Was…

Kristen Wiig can relate to her latest character’s struggles to land a break.  In Girl Most Likely, Wiig plays Imogene, a woman who fakes a suicide attempt to get back an ex-boyfriend.  While the comedienne hasn’t resulted to those kinds of antics, she does understand waiting for success. “I guess

Forbes Names Robert Downey Jr. as Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Actor

Earlier this week news floated out that Robert Downey Jr.‘s long in the works Pinocchio movie might get an odd twist — Downey could end up playing both Geppetto and the famous puppet.  While that might sound like the most terrible idea since Roberto Benigni decided to play the wooden

Mary-Louise Parker Wants to Quit Acting

Mary-Louise Parker has announced she’s going to quit acting. “I’m almost done acting,” she said in an interview with The Herald Sun.  “I’m not really that into it anymore.  I don’t know how many more movies I wanna do.  I wouldn’t mind doing a TV show again, I’d like to

Tom Cruise is a Surprise Acting School Graduation Speaker

And the only person who spoke at my college graduation was some annoying Senator who gives the same speech every single year… The sixty graduating students at the Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown Studio in Santa Monica definitely got a much bigger surprise when their commencement speaker last Sunday turned out to

The Rise of the Actor-Writer

It seems that nowadays everyone is a hyphenate but there’s also one that’s starting to creep up more and more: Actor-Writer.

Shia LaBeouf and Producers of ‘Orphans’ Reach Settlement Over Firing

The story that never stopped giving earlier this year was Shia LaBeouf‘s very public exit from what was intended to be his Broadway debut, Orphans.  Though LaBeouf’s removal from the show was officially blamed on “creative differences,” reports of unprofessional behavior during rehearsals arose during the following days and his

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