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
With a name like Levi, it’s a no brainer that people will assume you’re Jewish. So, it does come as a surprise when Zachary Levi admits he’s not Jewish—he just changed his name once he became an actor. Levi was born with the last name Pugh, which agents suggested he
It’s no easy thing playing one of America’s most well-known presidents. So James Marsden had to do some major prep before portraying John F. Kennedy in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. “It was a week and half, which is not a lot of time to go in and play John Kennedy,”
Vincent Kartheiser, best known for portraying slimy ad exec Pete Campbell on Mad Men, is using his time off the show to tackle another challenging character—Mr. Darcy in a Minneapolis stage production of Pride and Prejudice. Despite the difference in time periods, the actor was able to find common ground
Nicolas Cage wants to make a few things very clear. “There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they call over-the-top performances,” he said in an interview with The Guardian. “Well, this is completely false.
Fans of Doctor Who are still trying to cope with the idea that beloved actor Matt Smith has quit the television show. But it should make devotees feel better that it wasn’t an easy decision for Smith to make. “Sometimes you think, ‘Now is the time.’ To be honest with
Coming on the heels of last week’s announcement by Mary-Louise Parker that she wants to quit acting, Alec Baldwin has echoed those feelings. “I’m 55 years old. I don’t give a shit! I’ve worked all I want to work for the last 33 years. Do I do things I want
Andrew Garfield decided to use his time off from playing Spider-Man to star in the Broadway production of Death of a Salesman. It was a calculated career move from the promising up-and-comer. “I did a play, and that was all I needed to do to cleanse the ol’ palate,” he
Any moviegoer can tell you that a bad accent can ruin a film. So Brit Sally Hawkins was determined to get her American accent perfect in Woody Allen’s new movie, Blue Jasmine. “I had a very clever accent coach, Carla Meyer, who has worked with Cate [Blanchett] before,” she said
Zoe Saldana doesn’t mind that her movie roles tend to take place in space, including Avatar, the Star Trek franchise, and her newest film, Guardians of the Galaxy. In fact, she likes appearing onscreen as multi-colored characters. “Well, the rainbow has a lot of colors,” she said in an interview
Most people would assume that someone who became a household name on Saturday Night Live would be a confident person. But Kristen Wiig is more comfortable hiding behind her characters. “I’m actually not very good at public speaking or talking in a big group—even socially—as myself,” she said in an
Laura Prepon was a little nervous about taking on the lead role in the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black. “When I read it, it was so good but I was like, ‘Wow, [the character] Alex scares me a little bit,’ which is exactly why I needed to
Kristen Wiig can relate to her latest character’s struggles to land a break. In Girl Most Likely, Wiig plays Imogene, a woman who fakes a suicide attempt to get back an ex-boyfriend. While the comedienne hasn’t resulted to those kinds of antics, she does understand waiting for success. “I guess
At this point, Hugh Jackman has proved he’ll undergo any kind of physical torture for a role. For his role as Jean Valjean in last year’s Les Miserables, he basically starved himself. His next part is the sixth film appearance of his X-Men character in The Wolverine. In order to
Mary-Louise Parker has announced she’s going to quit acting. “I’m almost done acting,” she said in an interview with The Herald Sun. “I’m not really that into it anymore. I don’t know how many more movies I wanna do. I wouldn’t mind doing a TV show again, I’d like to
At age 73, James Cromwell has just scored his first leading man role in Still Mine. It doesn’t surprise the actor that it’s taken him this long to break out of supporting roles. “I don’t look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It’s changing a little. For my
Gaby Hoffmann is another one of those child actors that could have become a certified mess, noting that she “started acting at 5 because we had no money, and my mom was like, ‘Put her in a commercial!’” But instead of following down a bad path a la Lindsay Lohan,
Anna Camp usually plays bitchy blonds. But it is a little surprising that she got her start playing a drug dealer—even if it was just in a fourth grade DARE play.
Rob Kazinsky is the newest cast member of the HBO vampire drama, True Blood. The British actor hasn’t had any trouble becoming part of the team, who have worked together for six seasons.
Jesse Eisenberg got his inspiration for acting from a clown—who just happened to be his mom. She worked as a professional clown at children’s parties when Eisenberg was growing up in Queens.
