It’s true Javier Bardem makes a killer villain, pun intended. Just check out his past Oscar-winning role in No Country for Old Men. In the new James Bond film, Skyfall, Bardem brings his acting chops to a role that has some surprisingly funny moments.
Indie queen Catherine Keener is no stranger to taking on difficult roles.
With all the success Jane Lynch has been having, it’s a little shocking to hear her describe how she once thought of hanging it up.
Did you know that the average person has more than 50,000 thoughts per day? The large majority of these thoughts occur as negative questions.
Here is the first photo of the cast of Last Vegas, the new film starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. The film comes out Christmas 2013.
Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck’s new play starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and Katie Holmes, starts previews tonight at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre. The show opens on November 29th.
Being somewhat of a real-life cartoon character himself and having a distinctive voice, John C. Reilly seems like he is a perfect fit for an animated film.
Though Jack McBrayer has a major role in the animated film Wreck-It Ralph, the regular role that brought him to his highest point of recognition is coming to an end with 30 Rock in its final season.
Melissa Leo, Oscar winner for her role in 2011’s The Fighter, is used to being cast in gritty parts. “The gritty roles are not something I choose,” the actress told The Los Angeles Times. “It’s more to do with what gets offered me. For me, acting is not really about
Audiobook actors are often forgotten about when people look at various acting jobs. But voice actors are once again getting some attention, partly due to the successful adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.
When you do it all, it’s hard to find balance. Just ask Zoe Kazan, who wrote and starred in the recent indie Ruby Sparks.
Some considered it a risky move for director Ang Lee to cast an unknown in his adaptation of the celebrated novel, Life of Pi but Suraj Sharma is already winning rave reviews as an Indian boy who is stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger for more than 200 days.
With Hurricane Sandy’s after-effects still lingering in the New York area, Broadway is back to its regularly scheduled performances.
More changes may be in store for Hollywood’s actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA. Following an overwhelming member vote to merge SAG and AFTRA earlier this year, SAG-AFTRA officials voted to cut the amount of local offices from 33 to 25. Richard Verrier with LATimes explained more about the vote. “The reduction is
It’s not often that such an acclaimed actor as Javier Bardem stars as the villain in a James Bond movie, which is perhaps one of the reasons why Skyfall is the most critically praised 007 films in the series’ fifty-year history.
Few actors have the career trajectory of Bryan Cranston, who, after decades of supporting roles has suddenly, in his mid-fifties, found himself the star of a critically acclaimed television series, Breaking Bad, and roles in several high-profile movies, including Drive and Argo. In a lengthy interview with The Guardian, Cranston talks about the affect Breaking Bad has had on his career and how he looks at his current success.
Not many actors have to step into a role that was at one time played by an actor in seventeen films previously, so perhaps it’s fair to say that Ben Whishaw has it more difficult than most young actors by appearing as James Bond’s personal armorer Q in Skyfall.
For most television shows a major change is adding or cutting a primary character. Most television shows don’t make a major production change in format, especially in the way the show is shot. But NBC’s Up All Night, which stars Christina Applegate and Will Arnett, is making a rare switch from its current single camera format to a multicamera format.
Mindy: “There’s a tendency in this business to make it your entire life, which I don’t want to do”
Matthew on what he looks for in a character: “You kind of look for people that you can relate to”
