“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.
“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.”
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Actor Matthew Rhys, who played lawyer Kevin Walker on the ABC drama, reports that he’s “back on the audition trail” now that the show’s five-season run has come to an end.
The biggest challenge was not in the filming process, but in the preceding six-month preparation process. Hanks continued, “That’s when it’s hard to go back and forth between being a director who wants to tell a story with a specific sort of sound and look to it, as opposed to the actor just saying, ‘And what am I going to say here exactly and why am I saying it?…That’s where the battle between being a director and an actor is really fought.”
“There’s an obsession with famous people who, oftentimes, are not worthy of a million people knowing who they are and what they think.”
“I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that’s more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They’re very powerful figures in my life.”
In a recent interview on Good Day New York, TV and theater actor Robert Sean Leonard talked about commuting between Los Angeles and New York City for roles on Fox medical drama House and in Broadway production Born Yesterday.
As acting legend Christopher Plummer tells it, love for his work is what’s keeping him alive.
James desire to snag the trophy from the icon is fierce, “She has two, she can share the wealth,” laughs the actress.
“Glee had been the longest job I’d ever done in front of the camera, and I really enjoyed it,” commented Groff. “It felt like it was time to take a risk and move out here to L.A., try and get some film and television going. I’m still keeping my place in New York because I couldn’t bear to give it up, and I love doing theater.”
“We obviously were optimistic, but you never know how these things are going to play out, so I think we were all cautiously optimistic, but this is fantastic,” said an excited Rannells.
During rehearsals for his Broadway play “The Book of Mormon”, Andrew Rannells decided to go “method” and pay a visit to the Latter-day Saints New York visitors’ center and meet some real-life missionaries.
“I’m happy I have a job. I’m happy that people like what I’m doing. I’m happy that the show is doing good, but I always like to be doing something else.”
“Doing it solidly for two years at that time was definitely enough. And I mostly just wanted to do something else.”
“It worked out because the Tuesday after I didn’t get “Spartacus,” I got a call to get on the plane to Georgia for “Vampire Diaries.”
“I’ve had people ask me, back in the day, why don’t you audition for Idol? No interest at all.”
