Not only does John Cusack have the pressure of playing the famous writer in the upcoming mystery film The Raven, but he had to deal with the difficultly of coping with Poe’s notoriously turbulent mental state.
While the titular sisters of Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters aren’t particularly humorous, the cast of the current production by The Seeing Place at the Sargent Theater does a remarkable job of playing up the humor in even the play’s most tragic elements.
Though Andrew Garfield is best known for his film roles — after all, he’s going to be splashed across multiplexes in red and blue tights later this year in The Amazing Spider-Man — he maintains a passion for theater, pointing out, “There’s something pure about working on a play, in my experience.”
While John Carter may have performed well below Disney’s expectations during its opening weekend, many fans of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series singled out Taylor Kitsch for praise for his portrayal of the titular Martian adventurer.
Now that There Will Be Blood and My Little Sunshine star Paul Dano has appeared in perhaps his most significant role so far in Being Flynn, the adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir.
While there has been plenty of opinions on both sides of the IMDb “ageism” lawsuit, the 40 year-old B-movie actress who is behind the lawsuit, Junie Hoang, has benefited from the old axiom that no press is ever bad press.
Taylor Kitsch, who stars as the titular hero, has definitely made a name for himself and sure seems like he had a lot of fun shooting the movie. In particular, he opens up about the most enjoyable aspects of the production and what it was like acting a movie that involved so many digital effects.
You can look for Willem Dafoe in Disney’s sci-fi action/adventure film John Carter, but you’ll only hear his distinctive voice coming out of the mouth of Tar Tarkas, the nine-foot-tall, four-armed green Martian who leads his people, the Tharks.
The classic 1978 college comedy classic, which is to be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw with music by late 1990s pop-rock band Barenaked Ladies, with Michael Mitnick writing the libretto.
He disguised himself with heavy makeup and spent a day in the Boston homeless shelter where Nick Flynn, who wrote the novel Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which the film was adapted from, worked.
How do you give advice on advancing an acting career if you feel like you mostly achieved success by pure luck?
Ciaran Hinds. The name probably doesn’t ring a bell, but you’ve doubtlessly seen the Northern Irish actor in There Will Be Blood, Road to Perdition, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, and the upcoming John Carter, among dozens of other films.
Ferrell stars in Casa de Mi Padre, a Spanish-language comedy that places him in totally new territory.
Paul Dano talks about acting in such an emotional film and how he manages to maintain his personal life during a long production process.
One of the few plays that is universally recognized as a masterpiece, Arthur Miller‘s Death of a Salesman has had numerous Broadway productions, starring iconic actors like Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott, Dustin Hoffman, and Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman. The latest production stars another acting luminary, Philip Seymour
An actor appearing in the West End production of Three Days in May, when he was rejected after he attempted countersigning his daughter’s boyfriend’s passport application.
He is currently utilizing his more dramatic skills in the role of the drug dealer Sporting Life in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, which is now on Broadway.
Though she gained rave reviews in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival release Martha Marcy May Marlene, Elizabeth Olsen also starred in another film that debuted at Sundance 2011, the horror film Silent House, which is finally being released this month.
You’ve heard all the jokes about acting — like how it’s just another word for being a waiter or waitress — but it seems like the one thing people just happen to ignore when they’re making fun of actors is memorization. After all, most of us have so much trouble
Brazilian Identity Thief Arrested for Using ID With Jack Nicholson’s Picture
