SAG and AFTRA ‘Deplore Age Discrimination Facilitated by IMDb’
The Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA just issued a joint press release about the lawsuit brought on by the actress suing IMDb and Amazon for displaying her age on the widely used site.
Nazanin Boniadi Talks Neil Patrick Harris, General Hospital and Leaving Med School for Acting
General Hospital actress turned How I Met Your Mother star, Nazanin Boniadi, says that appearing alongside Neil Patrick Harris in the long running hit comedy series puts her at “ease”.
Q & A: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson on Improv, Line Delivery and the Evolution of ‘Sweet Dee’
Kaitlin: “I think it’s really important on our show to have either a natural improvising ability or an improv background”
Carey Mulligan: Singing ‘New York, New York’ in the film ‘Shame’ “was probably more nerve-racking than nudity”
Carey Mulligan, who is catching alot of attention these days for her role in the Steve McQueen directed movie Shame with Michael Fassbender, recently shared that baring it all on the big screen wasn’t such a big deal.
‘In Time’ Casting: Most of the actors “had to have something ancient about them”
With director Andrew Niccol’s new film In Time about to arrive in theaters on Friday, it isn’t surprising to see that most are curious about Niccol’s out of the ordinary casting.
What You ‘Get Out’ Is What You Put In
In an artistic career, we choose to quit not because we aren’t having fun or aren’t being challenged, but because we allow definitions of “success” determine our self-worth
Interview: Martha Marcy May Marlene’s Elizabeth Olsen and Sean Durkin on How She Was Cast, Her Training and the Odd Title
Elizabeth: “I’m really interested in trying to create a long career for my entire life”
Michael Sheen: “The whole fame thing, it’s a bit like a pinball machine… I bounce back and forth between wanting that, and not wanting that”
Michael Sheen — the often praised star of Frost/Nixon and Midnight in Paris, and also known as the best Tony Blair out there (he’s appeared as Blair three times, including in The Queen) — is one of those actors who has a long list of impressive credits but is far from a household name.
Rhys Ifans: “Shakespeare is kind of a bastion for an actor. Until you get Shakespeare, especially in England, you’re not a real actor”
Ifans confesses that not only did he not expect to get the part, but he didn’t even like Shakespeare’s work at first!
Q & A: Sons of Anarchy’s Christopher Douglas Reed: “I’ve been very fortunate because this was my first job in television”
Christopher talks about his audition for the show, working with the cast and how he crashed on Charlie Hunnam’s place because he hadn’t moved to LA yet!
Acting Workshops with Casting Directors: Some Things to Consider Before Signing Up
Will attending workshops be worth your while? And if so, how to prepare for them?
Michael Shannon Talks About “My First Exposure to the Wonderful World of Dramatic Arts”
As Shannon prepares for his upcoming role as General Zod in Man of Steel, he sat down to talk about his early years as a struggling actor.
Kal Penn: Perhaps the Most Eclectic Resume Around
“I think there’s always a risk that goes with taking time off,” Penn said. But “no actor in their right mind moves to either L.A. or New York … because you think you’re going to have job or financial security. That’s just stupid. This amazing opportunity came along, and what are you going to say — ‘No’?”
Actors Launch Writing Careers on the New York Stage
What’s the easiest way to get the play you’ve written staged in a New York City theater?
Footloose’s Kenny Wormald: “I was working with my acting coach, sometimes twice a day, right before the audition”
Footlose star Kenny Wormald, says when he first heard that director Craig Brewer wanted to find someone who wasn’t “already a celebrity” for the role of Ren McCormack, he “bee-lined” for the role.
The Guild’s Felicia Day: “Sustaining an Audience with a Web Series is an Impossible Task”
Felicia Day may make it look easy with her popular Web series, online gaming comedy The Guild, but as she explained in a recent interview, there’s a lot more than being funny that goes into the equation of running a successful online series.
Joel Edgerton on Success: “The Moment I Get Swept Up, It Can Come Crashing Down”
“I’ve been banging the drum for so long, I figure at some point it would all culminate into something, except that ironically it sort of feels like the opposite, in a way,” he said.
American Horror Story’s Alexandra Breckenridge on her character: She has “this overt sexuality that I’ve never had the opportunity to explore as an actor”
“Even when I got the audition, which was only a page, it was just a character that I’ve never played before. It’s this overt sexuality that I’ve never had the opportunity to explore as an actor, so that was what I was really excited about. And then I read the script and I about sh-t myself.”
John Hawkes: “If something is written pretty strong you can play the opposite of it to interesting effect”
Playing a character fueled by his own cult of personality and mostly using his chilling voice as his weapon of choice is a definite stretch for most actors, but Hawkes elaborated on how he managed to create his portrayal of Patrick.
Ryan Gosling on Working with George Clooney and His Worst Audition Ever
Gosling recently talked about his experience working both for and with Clooney and the stellar cast of The Ides of March as well as his worst audition story ever in the video below.