Playing a character fueled by his own cult of personality and mostly using his chilling voice as his weapon of choice is a definite stretch for most actors, but Hawkes elaborated on how he managed to create his portrayal of Patrick.
Gosling recently talked about his experience working both for and with Clooney and the stellar cast of The Ides of March as well as his worst audition story ever in the video below.
Like nearly every actor, Griffiths confesses that she’s always had Broadway dreams, but it was difficult to choose where to begin and how to handle the workload.
So what’s Lillard up to these days? Surprisingly to most, including Lillard himself, he has a small but key role in Alexander Payne’s The Descendents.
An unnamed actress is suing Amazon, the owner of the second most popular movie website on the web (after Daily Actor, of course… right?) the Internet Movie Database for $1 million.
“If another villainous character comes along that has dimensions, I certainly wouldn’t pass up the opportunity just because I’ve done it in a different context.”
Jackson is thankful that his salary from his blockbuster films allows him to explore smaller, more challenging work like The Mountaintop, a Broadway play in which Jackson appears as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pick a movie currently playing in theaters. Chances are Jessica Chastain is in it.
With his next film, 4:44 Last Day on Earth making its United States debut at the New York Film Festival, Dafoe has a lot to say about the city that he calls half-home (he lives the part of the year in Italy).
Frank Langella won a Tony for playing a very unappealing Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon, but that wasn’t his only run as the “bad guy” of a play. In fact, Langella is currently starring in a revival of Terrence Rattigan‘s 1963 play Man and Boy with the Roundabout Theatre Company at
A friend of mine in acting school said, ‘Fake it ’til you make it.'” He adds a summary of that good advice: “Just pretend like you belong there and maybe you’ll rise to the occasion.”
Jackman took a momentary break from his busy schedule to talk about his approach to acting on both the screen and the stage and on the intimidation of his next big role.
Television star O’Connell is returning to his native Manhattan to star in his first Broadway show, Seminar.
Crying on cue for a movie can be hard enough for an adult actor, and is often next to impossible for a child actor. But Shawn Levy, director of Real Steel, has a secret to getting the waterworks going: music.
Though Jackman did a similar show at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco earlier this year, naturally the musical-loving Jackman prefers to do the show on The Great White Way.
Hank Azaria must be having a tough week. Not only do ongoing pay disputes threaten the cancellation (or at the very least will leave him with a significant salary reduction) of The Simpsons, which Azaria has been a cast member of since the show’s inception, but Azaria’s new NBC sitcom, Free Agents, has been canceled by NBC because of low ratings.
Every few years the core Simpsons voice actors find themselves in the middle of often tense negotiations for their next contract for the long-running animated series.
Johnny Depp — the highest-paid actor in Hollywood today — doesn’t think he’s worth the money he’s earned.
Galifianakis isn’t the type of actor to fit in any sort of category, especially since he himself hates actors. Huh?
Michael Shannon might be the perfect example of an actor gaining more and more exposure as he climbs himself to the top.
