John C. Reilly Speaks About What He Looks For In a Script
“You pretty much go by instinct when you’re reading a script, whether it grabs you or not,” Reilly explains about choosing his next role.
“Bones” John Francis Daley Talks About His Screenwriting Debut With “Horrible Bosses”
“Ever since I was seven years old, I was writing,” recalls Daley of his early days as a scribe. “I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I’d play Nintendo 64 with them after we’d rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.
Emma Watson: “L.A. scares the crap out of me”
“My acting tutor said the hardest thing for me was to get angry. I almost broke down in tears when they tried to get me to be angry.:
Daniel Radcliffe on Alcohol Abuse and Overcoming the “Child Actor” stigma
“If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the ‘child actors’ argument… If I can do it, in the biggest film franchise of all time, no other child actor who comes after will ever have to answer those same bloody questions.”
Tom Hanks: “A lot of actors are nuts”
“I sought to be creative without being at the mercy of the phone. Most actors have to wait for permission to go out and do their job. And I didn’t want to be a guy who was sitting in Los Angeles waiting for a call.”
David Hyde Pierce on his worst theater experience and his new film, “The Perfect Host”
David Hyde Pierce played lovable psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, but you won’t find him cracking too many jokes in his latest project, thriller The Perfect Host.
Emma Stone on dropping out of High School: “Had I graduated I would’ve missed [Superbad], and had I missed that opportunity I wouldn’t be here right now”
In the next two months, Emma Stone will appear in a whopping three films: Friends with Benefits (July 22), Crazy Stupid Love (July 29) and The Help (August 12).
Shia LaBeouf Talks “Transformers,” Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg
Transformers star Shia LaBeouf talked about working with directors like Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg and growing up in the spotlight.
Emma Watson on life after “Harry Potter”: “I have had no control over my life”
“They found me and picked me for the part, and now I’m desperately trying to find my way through it.”
Emma Stone Uses Acting to “Understand Human Behavior”
“You can’t play a regular person and live only in circumstances where people are only talking about movies,” explained Stone
Screen Actors Guild Production Center and Online Signatory Application Debuts at Produced By Conference
SAG Press release: Los Angeles —Screen Actors Guild National Executive Director David White today publicly previewed SAG’s new online application for producers as part of the Guild’s appearance at the Producers Guild of America’s Third Annual Produced By Conference at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif. The presentation kicked off
Jim Carrey Says “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” is “Best of Both Worlds”
Even with the box-office and critical success of March of the Penguins and Happy Feet, the Jim Carrey camp wasn’t exactly thrilled when the 49-year-old chose Mr. Popper’s Penguins as his latest vehicle.
Blake Lively on her role in “Green Lantern”: “As soon as I got the role, I was quickly humbled about how naïve I was”
“I actually knew nothing about Green Lantern, and I imagined that nobody else in the world knew anything about Green Lantern.”
Mark Strong talks about “Green Lantern,” prosthetics and working with green screens
“You walk on pretending you’ve just been somewhere else, it’s not real it’s about imagination.”
Oscar winner Morgan Freeman says he had no choice about his career: “I always was an actor”
“I didn’t become an actor, this is what I was meant to do.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt Takes Dubious “Worst Actress” Honor
Jennifer Love Hewitt might want to consider changing her middle name, as a Rotten Tomatoes analysis reveals the Garfield and I Know What You Did Last Summer actress as the worst-reviewed leading lady of the last quarter-century.
For nearly a decade Emmy winner Ellen Barkin was too afraid to audition: “The critics completely crushed me”
“At 15, you’re young. You’re not formed. You’re only just finding out who you are barely.”
Academy Award nominee Jennifer Lawrence had doubts about being an actor: “I wondered if this was some sort of fluke and that tomorrow I’d fail.”
“Before they start the movie I’m sitting there terrified. I always pray that I’ll think that I’m good, or think that I’m pretty or that the movie’s great even if it isn’t.”
Josh Duhamel Returning to Roots on “All My Children”
Transformers: Dark of the Moon star Josh Duhamel will be returning to his roots, albeit briefly, on an upcoming episode of ABC soap opera All My Children. The 39-year-old will reprise his role as con artist Leo du Pres on the show, which gave him his first shot high-profile acting gig in 1999.
Lily Collins on Acting: “You Can Never Really Say That You’ve Reached Your Potential”
“I auditioned a lot and got told no a lot,” recalled Collins, who first notable role was as a recurring character on The CW’s 90210 in 2009. “It made that one time I was told yes the first time that much better. I had learned a lot and I had grown.”