Norbert Leo Butz is one of my favorite performers. Broadway, Film, TV – he can do it all and he does it at such a high level. I just love the guy. In this NY Times ‘In Performance’ video, he performs an acoustic version of ‘Fight the Dragons’ from the
Orlando Bloom performs a monologue from the new Broadway production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The show marks Bloom’s Broadway debut. Check it out below!
Here’s a marketing video, called ‘Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise’, put together by Sony for the upcoming film, Carrie. It’s awesome! The studio set-up hidden cameras, a fake wall, remote controlled tables and chairs and other insane stunts and props inside a coffee shop in New York City. They hired actors
Bryan Cranston will make his Broadway debut as Lyndon B. Johnson in the play All the Way. The play will finish its run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts this Saturday. Synopsis: 1963. An assassin’s bullet catapults Lyndon B. Johnson into the presidency. A Shakespearean figure of towering
Dallas has 3 suggestions on how to take charge of your career!
Colin on Acting: “If you can’t listen and respond, you’re sort of done”
Harrison talks about the movie, auditioning and working with the cast
Glenn: “If I were to teach a college course it would probably be in how to make acting more authentic”
Sean: “If you love anything, you’re in it for the long haul”
We’ve posted some of Bryan Cranston‘s advice to actors before and it was, as expected, pure gold. Now, we’ve got some more awesomeness to chew on in the video below. Taken from last years Academy Awards new member reception, he drops some more awesome advice: “Know what your job is,”
Director Alfonso Cuarón‘s visually stunning film, Gravity, opens this weekend and it’s definitely something you should watch on the big screen; you should see in both IMAX and 3D. And I hate 3D. In this New York Times Anatomy of a Scene video, Cuarón narrates a scene from the film
Tom Hanks and Director Paul Greengrass‘ Captain Phillips looks like it’s going to be one of many award-worthy films that are coming out this fall. I’m really looking forward to catching it. In the video below, Hanks and star Barkhad Abdi talk about the filming, how Abdi got the part
Katey on Gemma: “I don’t see her as evil at all. I rather like her”
Here’s another video in the great New York Times series, In Performance. This time, we get Joe Manganiello as Stanley Kowalski. He’s currently starring as Kowalski in the Yale Repertory Theater’s revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1947 drama, A Streetcar Named Desire. In the scene below, Stanley talks to his wife
Our friend and occasional writer here at Daily Actor, Christian Meoli, is behind a new project called, The Character Project. Originally a documentary, which was a work in progress for years, the producers set out to interview some of the best character actors working today. The DVD featured Dabney Coleman,
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Neil Johnson and his acting demo reel. At over 7 minutes long, the demo features sex acts, various cowboy hats, the murder and dismemberment of a homeless person and sex toys. And it’s hilarious. But, that’s the thing, I don’t think it’s meant
Riley: “Nerves that come on the first day of set are usually good nerves”
Listen to that voice and that command he has while reading. Recorded at Air Studios in London, Tom Hiddleston reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ from The Love Book app. The Love Book interactive app has a selection of poems, quotes, short stories and
Megan: “I probably gave one of the better auditions of my career [for the show]”
