Blair Underwood—who most recently made his Broadway debut in the role of Stanley in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire — will star in the title role of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Othello, the first show of San Diego’s Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Festival. Joining him and also making their Globe
Samuel L. Jackson stopped by Good Morning America earlier this week to talk about Captain America: The Winter Soldier – which is terrific, by the way – and he told Robin Roberts that for the first Cap film, he had trouble learning his lines. “I sat at home and I
Rob: “I’ll always remember getting that email from the casting director saying it’s looking good, dates permitting, with Sir Ben”
Shana: “When an actor walks into a room, you see their potential. At least I do”
Matthew McConaughey talks about finding his characters inner monologue, being in the moment, entrances and exits in a scene, tapping into a characters obsessions and more. Every minute of this is terrific.
Hugh Jackman is always game for anything. Watch him perform ‘Who Am I?’ from the Wolverine: The Musical on BBC Radio’s The Matt Edmondson Show. If it were a real musical, I’d definitely see it. It’s gotta be better than Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.
Backstage at The Tonight Show, Tina Fey talks about her worst audition ever. It doesn’t sound so bad to me… I’ve had worse. Way worse.
Listening to Tom Hanks give advice is always a plus in my book. BAFTA Guru on YouTube posted this video a while back and I don’t care how old it is, it’s great. From the description: “Being an actor is “a never-ending process of examining where you are in life”
James: “You know when a role’s yours”
Alex on his feature directing debut: “It’s a long time coming”
John on auditioning: “It’s terrible. It’s just the worst”
Patrick: “I’ve now done more movies than I’ve done theatre and that’s sort of in a weird way sad”
The two also talk about creating your own opportunities!
The cast talk finding time to write, tennis lessons and more!
Emilia Clarke stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to talk about her Game of Thrones audition.
A movie about four 15-year old high school students searching for an extinct duck just became one of my (so far) favorite movies of the year. A Birder’s Guide to Everything is a delightfully charming (and sometimes sad) story of David Portnoy (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a young bird watcher. I mean
Roger Michell was the director of one of my favorite movies, Notting Hill. And before you can say it yourself, I’ll say it for you: Yes, I’m a big girl. Notting Hill is one of the best romantic comedies ever and because of that, I’ll watch anything Michell directs. His
Christian on his audition: “I left feeling like, “Hey, at least I did a good job”
Josh: “And acting is such… it’s such a muscle”
If Robert Duvall is wearing a cowboy hat in a film, I’ll be the first one in line for the screening. Actually, if he’s in any film, I’ll be there. But when he’s got the hat on, man, I just eat it up because no one plays a cantankerous old
