Q & A: ‘Happy Endings’ stars Eliza Coupe and Damon Wayans Jr. on prime-time frustrations and if dramatic roles are in their future
Damon: “When you become an actor, you just get more and more insecure”
Frank Langella: “You really just need the platform and the actor, another piece of humanity, sharing his humanity with the audience”
Frank Langella won a Tony for playing a very unappealing Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon, but that wasn’t his only run as the “bad guy” of a play. In fact, Langella is currently starring in a revival of Terrence Rattigan‘s 1963 play Man and Boy with the Roundabout Theatre Company at
Q & A: Kathy Bates on ‘Harry’s Law’ and the surprises of being a lead in a network show
Kathy’s biggest challenge: “absorbing the lines and digesting them so that the lines disappear and Harry takes their place”
John C. Reilly on How to Impress Your Co-Stars: “Just pretend like you belong there and maybe you’ll rise to the occasion”
A friend of mine in acting school said, ‘Fake it ’til you make it.'” He adds a summary of that good advice: “Just pretend like you belong there and maybe you’ll rise to the occasion.”
How to Bring Your Best Acting Skills to an Audition
Every actor is faced with the challenge of being as mentally and physically present as possible during their audition in order to show themselves at their best.
Hugh Jackman on the Stage Versus the Screen: “Acting is acting. It’s the same thing”
Jackman took a momentary break from his busy schedule to talk about his approach to acting on both the screen and the stage and on the intimidation of his next big role.
Interview: ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ stars Barrett Foa and Renee Felice Smith talk job security and auditioning
Barrett Foa and Renee Felice Smith talk auditioning and if they feel like they have job security even though they are on a top-rated show
‘Revenge’ star Emily VanCamp: “I’ve never really had to build a character from the ground up”
With a new character, a person that is completely opposite of her, the actress had to find inspiration and create the personality of Thorne from the “ground up.”
Interview: Sons of Anarchy’s Winter Ave Zoli and Kristen Renton on how they got their roles, lack of wardrobe and more!
Kristen: “I love playing the bad girl. I think she’s a lot more fun to play”
Jerry O’Connell Makes the Ultimate Sacrifice for his Broadway Debut: Living with Mom and Dad Again!
Television star O’Connell is returning to his native Manhattan to star in his first Broadway show, Seminar.
Claire Danes Talks About Her “Nutty” Parents and the After-Math of Playing Temple Grandin
Claire Danes didn’t hold back about Homeland, her parents and the aftermath of portraying the great Temple Grandin.
Hugh Dancy on the 2 Character Broadway Play ‘Venus in Fur’: “It leaves me with nowhere to run”
Hugh Dancy is currently in rehearsal for the Broadway premiere of Venus in Fur as playwright/director, Thomas, alongside Nina Arianda. The show, which closed off-Broadway two years ago, features only 2 characters and “it leaves me with nowhere to run,” Dancy said.
‘Real Steel’ Director Sean Levy Explains How He Gets His Actors Crying
Crying on cue for a movie can be hard enough for an adult actor, and is often next to impossible for a child actor. But Shawn Levy, director of Real Steel, has a secret to getting the waterworks going: music.
Ryan Gosling: “I Don’t Want to Act Much Longer”
On one hand, it seems extremely early for 30-year-old actor Ryan Gosling to retire from Hollywood. On the other, he has been in front of the camera since age 12, when he starred on children’s variety show The Mickey Mouse Club, along with future headline-grabbers Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and
Casey Wilson “Hoped Against Hope” for “Happy Endings to Come Back
As Happy Endings star Casey Wilson explained in a recent interview, the ABC comedy almost didn’t have such a satisfying conclusion. Unable to blow the network brass with its first season ratings, the show hung in the balance for much of its initial run, but was eventually picked up for a second season last May.
Hugh Jackman: “There’s something magical about Broadway”
Though Jackman did a similar show at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco earlier this year, naturally the musical-loving Jackman prefers to do the show on The Great White Way.
Do We Ever Graduate From High School?
When actors go into an audition room, they incorrectly think they’re the only ones who feel insecure.
Hank Azaria Begs His Twitter Followers to Watch ‘Free Agents’, But It Doesn’t Help
Hank Azaria must be having a tough week. Not only do ongoing pay disputes threaten the cancellation (or at the very least will leave him with a significant salary reduction) of The Simpsons, which Azaria has been a cast member of since the show’s inception, but Azaria’s new NBC sitcom, Free Agents, has been canceled by NBC because of low ratings.
Michelle Williams channels Marilyn Monroe in ‘My Week With Marilyn’
“As soon as I finished the script, I knew that I wanted to do it, and then I spent six months trying to talk myself out of it,” she says. “But I always knew that I never really had a choice. I’ve started to believe that you get the piece of material that you were ready for.”
¡Ay Caramba! Salary Negotiations Between ‘The Simpsons’ Voice Actors and Fox Stumble
Every few years the core Simpsons voice actors find themselves in the middle of often tense negotiations for their next contract for the long-running animated series.