Who Were Last Year’s Highest Paid Actresses?
It is difficult to bemoan the injustice some actresses suffer when collecting their paycheck, seeing that it would solve the economic crisis facing an entire school district in most cities.
Choosing a Joyful Acting Career
Not knowing the future is our human condition; we only have this moment during this day and that exactly is what we have to work with!
David Strathairn on acting: “I tend to think there has to be a baseline of confidence in order to be an actor. Otherwise it’s too scary”
He loves to act because with each new role he feels he is forever learning something new.
How To Leave Your Agent Early
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How Did Hayley Atwell Get Her Part in “Captain America”? Plus, she dishes on AMC’s “The Prisoner”
Though she reveals some humorous anecdotes — including stealing a robe and being scared of Captain America co-star Tommy Lee Jones — perhaps the most revealing is her explanation of how she got her role in Captain America.
Q & A: Media Reporter Brian Stelter from “Page One: Inside the New York Times”
If you’re in the mood to see a truly wonderful documentary, look no further than the excellent Page One: Inside the New York Times
John C. Reilly Speaks About What He Looks For In a Script
“You pretty much go by instinct when you’re reading a script, whether it grabs you or not,” Reilly explains about choosing his next role.
James Spader Joins “The Office”
James Spader made an appearance in The Office’s eighth season finale as a businessman vying for the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company’s regional manager position left empty by the exit of star Steve Carrell, and he must have had one hell of an interview. He officially joined the cast of
“Bones” John Francis Daley Talks About His Screenwriting Debut With “Horrible Bosses”
“Ever since I was seven years old, I was writing,” recalls Daley of his early days as a scribe. “I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I’d play Nintendo 64 with them after we’d rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.
Emma Watson: “L.A. scares the crap out of me”
“My acting tutor said the hardest thing for me was to get angry. I almost broke down in tears when they tried to get me to be angry.:
Daniel Radcliffe on Alcohol Abuse and Overcoming the “Child Actor” stigma
“If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the ‘child actors’ argument… If I can do it, in the biggest film franchise of all time, no other child actor who comes after will ever have to answer those same bloody questions.”
“Jersey Boys” Swing Katie O’Toole: “You Just Need to Be On”
“You just need to be on,” explained the all-star understudy in a segment for NBC New York’s In the Wings. She took a week to learn each female role in the show, which has become one of the biggest Broadway hits of all-time since opening in 2005.
Broadway Star Salaries: Males Earn More Than Females
It’s often said that women make only three-quarters as much money as their male counterparts get for doing the same job, and according to a recent New York Post story, it’s no different on the Broadway theater scene.
Tom Hanks: “A lot of actors are nuts”
“I sought to be creative without being at the mercy of the phone. Most actors have to wait for permission to go out and do their job. And I didn’t want to be a guy who was sitting in Los Angeles waiting for a call.”
Javier Bardem: “When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you’re really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else”
“When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you’re really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else. And then when you come back to yourself, people that know you well, they ask, ‘Why did you say that?’ or ‘Why are you doing this?’ or ‘Why are you behaving this way?’ But you don’t realize. Because it’s so unconscious, you don’t have control over it,” he said.
Taraji P. Henson Would’ve Played “A Tree or a Rock” to Act Alongside Tom Hanks
In a recent interview with The Huffington Post, actress Taraji P. Henson talked about being cast in the latest Tom Hanks vehicle, Larry Crowne, and what it was like working with the legendary actor.
David Hyde Pierce on his worst theater experience and his new film, “The Perfect Host”
David Hyde Pierce played lovable psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, but you won’t find him cracking too many jokes in his latest project, thriller The Perfect Host.
Taking A Leap Into The Unknown
Anything that you’ve accomplished that has been meaningful has required that you first step into that which is unfamiliar
Peter Facinelli Discusses the Difference Between Acting for Film and Television
Peter Facinelli is currently playing two very different types of doctors; Dr. Fitch ‘Coop’ Cooper on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie and vampire-turned-doctor Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight franchise.
“Transformers” Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: “It was my first-ever audition. I went in completely not knowing what I was doing. I left feeling not confident”
Rose Huntington-Whiteley appears in this week’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon opposite Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel, but there was a time when she thought she had no chance of landing the role of LaBeouf’s character’s new love interest.