Every few months we run a story here at Daily Actor which I think sets a new low in lack of theater etiquette. There was that time someone in the balcony threw up onto the audience below. There was that time that an audience member refused to stop using her
Here’s a couple videos featuring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto talking about their new film, Dallas Buyers Club. I am really looking forward to this. McConaughey is on a spectacular roll the past couple of years and this will only add to it. In the first video, McConaughey, Leto and
Sharon Stone has done a brave thing for an actress—she’s made herself look older for a film role. In the new biopic, Lovelace, Stone portrays Linda Lovelace’s aged mother. “We had pictures of Dorothy Boreman, so we lent ourselves to not trying to duplicate her but trying to capture the
Ageism and Hollywood is a tale as old as time. However, what happens if the actor gets older, but the characters they play stay the same age? That’s exactly what is happening with Bianca Lawson‘s career. The 34-year-old has been in the business since she was a teen. Many viewers
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Kenneth Branagh is generally regarded as one of the top Shakespearean actors in recent decades. But is it possible that Branagh can get a little too much into his latest Shakespearean stage role about a certain murderous Scottish king? According to an audience member, an unnamed actor was accidentally injured
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It’s almost a throwback to the days of the radio drama: actors who primarily act with their voice in audiobooks. And now that audiobook sales are booming, an actor can actually now make a steady income by reading aloud. The New York Times recently profiled New York City actress Gabra
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It’s incredibly hard for actors on a long-running television series to find success in other roles — mainly because audiences want to keep seeing them as the character that the actor became famous for in the first place. As a result, it’s likely John Krasinski will have a difficult time being seen as anyone else as the affable Jim from The Office for the next few years… at least
Such is the case with playwright Neil LaBute and a recent review of his play Reasons to be Happy, which is now running off-Broadway at the MCC Theatre and stars The Office‘s Jenna Fischer and Crossing Jordan’s Leslie Bibb.
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Scott: “My job as an actor is to find the real moments of the characters”
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It’s been a while since Michael Douglas really had a role he could get into. With Behind the Candelabra, in which he portrays Liberace, Douglas might have his best role in over a dozen years.
