Despite starring in one of the biggest movie franchises of all time, the success doesn’t seem to have gone to Daniel Radcliffe’s head. After playing Harry Potter, the British actor still insisted on auditioning for his role as Allen Ginsburg in the film Kill Your Darlings.
Jemima Kirke is getting used to facing her critics head on. As one of the main characters in Lena Dunham’s Girls, the actress is slowly becoming more comfortable with lots of attention.
It would be easy to assume that men don’t get as many juicy storylines as the women on HBO’s Girls. But one only has to tune in to Alex Karpovsky’s character Ray to see that there is plenty of action to go around.
Rob Corddry actually had to do quite a lot of preparation for his role as a zombie in the new film, Warm Bodies. In order to properly portray the walking dead, Corddry first got some advice from his wife, a speech therapist.
Nicholas Hoult might need to rethink how much of a celebrity he is. After starring in Warm Bodies, the actor is probably not going to stay under the radar for much longer.
Miles Teller is the first one to admit that he’s not sure how he landed the much-coveted role in the indie The Spectacular Now. The actor, who stars alongside Brie Larson and Shailene Woodley, recalls completely bombing his first audition.
Not many actors would actually request to have their characters killed off a hit TV show. But Dean Norris, who stars as DEA agent Hank Schrader on AMC’s Breaking Bad, desperately wanted to be written off the show in the first half of the series’ last season.
Keri Russell was ready to take on a more risqué role than Felicity. In her new project, FX’s The Americans, Russell portrays a KGB agent posing as part of a happy American couple. Her character is first seen in a more compromising position than Felicity ever would have been caught in.
It’s always difficult when an actor portrays a real person — Josh Gad is seeing that up close and personal with his depiction of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in the new biopic jOBS. In fact, the real Wozniak has already deemed the film ‘atrocious.’
Hamish Linklater isn’t the only one who describes producing art as a physically draining process. But Linklater does describe it a little more graphically.
With his role as a zombie in love in Warm Bodies, Nicholas Hoult might finally be able to prove he’s not just another child actor hoping to be taken seriously as an adult.
Ashton Kutcher is another actor who has made the news recently for risking his health for a film role (ie: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables and Matthew McConaughey for The Dallas Buyers Club.) In order to play Apple genius Steve Jobs, Kutcher adopted Jobs’ fruitarian diet.
Michael Cera decided to go Method on his new film Crystal Fairy by doing the same drugs his character does.
Rebecca Hall has tried to stay away from blockbuster movies, preferring smaller fare like The Town and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. But, in a departure, she’ll be appearing in Iron Man 3 in May.
Emmy Rossum admits that she wishes her show, Showtime’s Shameless, would get the same attention the network’s other hit, Homeland, gets. “They are a strong drama. We were entered [in the Emmys] as a drama, because we’re an hour long,” she said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Jessica Chastain is currently queen of the box office, after two of her movies led ticket sales this past weekend. Her horror flick, Mama, and the Oscar-nominated, Zero Dark Thirty, offered moviegoers completely different fare, but cemented the fact that Chastain is a force to be reckoned with.
Even though Les Miserables is enjoying Oscar buzz, the road to making the film wasn’t as glamorous. All of the auditions were conducted in rundown studios.
Don’t think Denzel Washington’s daughter is going to get any free passes in Hollywood—the actor made her audition for him so he could tell if she had real talent!
After working nonstop the past several years, Leonardo DiCaprio is in dire need of some time off.
Tennesse Williams’ character, Big Daddy, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, is one of the most quintessential American characters. So the Irish actor Ciaran Hinds was more surprised than anyone when he landed the role in the new Broadway revival of the play.
