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
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With Hurricane Sandy’s after-effects still lingering in the New York area, Broadway is back to its regularly scheduled performances.
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Jonny on getting the part: “I’m incredibly, incredibly fortunate and honored”
Forbes has released its annual list of highest paid television actors, and topping this year’s list again is a star from ABC’s Two and a Half Men. Of course, this time it isn’t Charlie Sheen… it’s his replacement, Ashton Kutcher.
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Acting is one of the only careers where people try to skip ahead to the end of the line before even one iota of preparation
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Many actors have no business getting an agent. It could do more harm than good.
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Emma Watson has grown up and she’s ready to take on more challenging roles, like her recent project, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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I can’t help it — even though it was over twenty years ago now since the release of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, whenever I see Robert Patrick on screen I end up thinking of him as the T-1000. Though I don’t think he minds that one bit, Patrick has had a lot of great roles since then, and he is his usual stoic self as the General Manager for the Atlanta Braves in Trouble with the Curve, which stars Clint Eastwood.
There has already been quite a bit of controversy surrounding Andrew Rannells’ new show, The New Normal. Ryan Murphy’s (American Horror Story, Glee) NBC comedy is about a gay couple who decide to have a baby via a surrogate mother. A Utah syndicate already decided to ban the show from airing because of the content. So Rannells feels a certain responsibility to represent the show’s positive qualities.
I definitely respect when the child of someone famous in entertainment uses a different name in order to avoid any expectations (good or bad) audiences might have of your work. But it’s a bit more difficult to get away with it these days when anyone can Google your name.
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