Emily Blunt Explains Why She Wanted Her ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ Role
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Ewan McGregor on His ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ Character and Learning How to Fish
Ewan McGregor plays “Britain’s leading fisheries expert,” and he explains how he created his persona for the very scientific character.
To Play Emily Blunt’s Sister in ‘The Five Year Engagement’, Alison Brie Got a Vocal Coach: Emily Blunt
Los Angeles native Alison Brie plays the sister of Emily Blunt’s character in the upcoming comedy The Five-Year Engagement. While the funny Brie makes a great addition to the cast, there was a significant problem that Brie had to face: London-born Blunt’s British accent.
Ed Helms: “I like the challenge of playing someone who’s really unattractive in a lot of ways”
Helms talks about starring in the film, directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, and about his character.
Jason Segel on ‘Jeff, Who Lives at Home’: “When I read the script, I felt a little bit scared as to whether or not I’d be capable of acting it”
Falling firmly in the Duplass’ “mumblecore” style (who came up with that term, anyway?), Segel stars as 30 year-old Jeff, who as you might guess, still lives at home.
John Cusack on Becoming Edgar Allan Poe: “You have to see yourself in these great people if they represent the shadow part of you”
Not only does John Cusack have the pressure of playing the famous writer in the upcoming mystery film The Raven, but he had to deal with the difficultly of coping with Poe’s notoriously turbulent mental state.
Jennifer Lawrence: “I can’t stand it when actors complain”
Lawrence said, “I gave myself three days. I knew from reading the books that I loved The Hunger Games, I just didn’t know if it was worth changing my life for. I’m at a peaceful place right now…Nobody’s staked outside my house. I wanted to make sure that when I said yes I wouldn’t regret it. And I don’t regret it.”
Andrew Garfield: “You just have to just keep your head down and work as hard as you can on whatever you’re working on”
Though Andrew Garfield is best known for his film roles — after all, he’s going to be splashed across multiplexes in red and blue tights later this year in The Amazing Spider-Man — he maintains a passion for theater, pointing out, “There’s something pure about working on a play, in my experience.”
Taylor Kitsch on the Physical Demands of the ‘John Carter’ Shoot
While John Carter may have performed well below Disney’s expectations during its opening weekend, many fans of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series singled out Taylor Kitsch for praise for his portrayal of the titular Martian adventurer.
Paul Dano Talks About Acting Drunk in ‘Being Flynn’
Now that There Will Be Blood and My Little Sunshine star Paul Dano has appeared in perhaps his most significant role so far in Being Flynn, the adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir.
Jon Hamm on His ‘Friends with Kids’ Director (and Girlfriend): “Fortunately I didn’t have to sleep with the director to get this role”
It’s probably not hard for Jon Hamm to get cast. But in the case of his new movie, Friends with Kids, he had an even better shot.
Taylor Kitsch on ‘John Carter’ Special Effects: Director put “performance before technicality”
Taylor Kitsch, who stars as the titular hero, has definitely made a name for himself and sure seems like he had a lot of fun shooting the movie. In particular, he opens up about the most enjoyable aspects of the production and what it was like acting a movie that involved so many digital effects.
First Look at ‘The Lone Ranger’ Starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer
Curious to see what Johnny Depp will look like as Tonto, The Lone Ranger’s faithful sidekick?
Willem Dafoe on Becoming a Nine-Foot-Tall, Four-Armed Martian for ‘John Carter’
You can look for Willem Dafoe in Disney’s sci-fi action/adventure film John Carter, but you’ll only hear his distinctive voice coming out of the mouth of Tar Tarkas, the nine-foot-tall, four-armed green Martian who leads his people, the Tharks.
Adam Scott on Starring in ‘Friends with Kids’: “I was like, ‘Just have Jon Hamm play the part’”
Just because Friends with Kids arrives in theaters Friday doesn’t mean that star Adam Scott thinks he was deserving of leading-man status in director Jennifer Westfeldt’s film, which is centered around a group of thirty-something couples who decide to have children and then date other people.
Robert De Niro Researched ‘Being Flynn’ Role by Posing as a Homeless Man
He disguised himself with heavy makeup and spent a day in the Boston homeless shelter where Nick Flynn, who wrote the novel Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which the film was adapted from, worked.
Ciaran Hinds on Becoming an Actor During The Troubles in Northen Ireland
Ciaran Hinds. The name probably doesn’t ring a bell, but you’ve doubtlessly seen the Northern Irish actor in There Will Be Blood, Road to Perdition, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, and the upcoming John Carter, among dozens of other films.
Will Ferrell on His Spanish-Language ‘Casa de Mi Padre’: “There was a moment of: ‘What did I get myself into?’ It’s the exhilarating part of what we get to do”
Ferrell stars in Casa de Mi Padre, a Spanish-language comedy that places him in totally new territory.
Paul Dano: “Acting is a very strange thing – your life kinda goes on hold. You disappear, you don’t see your friends, you work such long days”
Paul Dano talks about acting in such an emotional film and how he manages to maintain his personal life during a long production process.
Project X’s Jonathan Daniel Brown Started in… Adult Film
It’s an unusual way to get your start in the world of acting but some performers do what they can to break into the business. Case in point, Jonathan Daniel Brown of director Todd Phillips Project X.