Ewan McGregor on Playing Renton Again in ‘T2 Trainspotting’: “It all felt right”
“I feel being Renton again, he was just waiting inside me to come out.” – Ewan McGregor
David Oyelowo on Staying in Character During Filmming: “Different roles require different things”
“My ambition is to keep the audience guessing…that is my path to a long career.” – David Oyelowo
Guy Pearce on Playing Villains: “The key is to find something they believe in and just run with it”
“It’s difficult to keep an audience engaged unless they see some vulnerability or some weakness.” – Guy Pearce
Patrick Stewart Relates Playing Charles Xavier in ‘Logan’ to His Earliest Days as an Actor
“I loved shifting from character to character, type to type, emotion to emotion.” – Patrick Stewart on His Early Acting Career
How a Failed Audition Started Lucas Hedges’ Career
Hedges reveals how a failed audition jumpstarted his career and how he mastered that tricky Boston accent for the Massachusetts-set film.
Michael Shannon on ‘Nocturnal Animals’: “From Day 1, I felt pretty locked into [the character]. It’s pretty mysterious”
“When you’ve got really great writing, it makes it easy.” – Michael Shannon
Jeff Bridges: “You might magnify those aspects of yourself that work with the character”
“Start with yourself and see what kind of lines up with the character” – Jeff Bridges
Viggo Mortensen on How He Became an Actor
“It didn’t occur to me to try acting it until I was, for an actor, relatively pretty old — 22 or 23.” – Viggo Mortensen
Michael Fassbender on Finding a Character: “If I can make them logical to myself, then I apply them, and that’s really it”
Fassbender talks about his parents’ concern about his action aspirations and why he reject the idea that he is an “intelligent actor.”
Scarlett Johansson on Choosing Roles and “Pushing Your Boundaries”
“Breathing life into a character means celebrating and recognizing the fullness of them…” – Scarlett Johansson
Casey Affleck on Finding a Character: “It’s such an internal and complicated and still mysterious process”
“The fun part for me is endlessly talking about why does he do this, or why does he do that, or why doesn’t he? I really get into that.” – Casey Affleck on Rehearsing
Ben Mendelsohn on His ‘Rogue One’ Villain and Finally Getting Work in America
Mendelsohn spoke about playing one of the Empire’s nefarious villains in the latest Star Wars film.
Andrew Garfield on What He Loves (and Hates) About Acting
“I want to know everything about everything, and that’s not possible and it won’t be possible.” – Andrew Garfield
Ryan Gosling on Improvising and His True Audition Story That Made it into ‘La La Land’
“I do love movies but I love making them more. I’ve never found something professionally that engages me as much as that.” – Ryan Gosling
Aaron Eckhart on Playing a Real-Life Individual: “I was always watching, always talking in his voice.”
“They’re going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people.” – Aaron Eckhart on Playing a Real Person
Adam Driver Talks ‘Patterson’, Preparing for a Role and Second-Guessing His Work
“I love the idea of doing a lot of takes because there’s so many different ways that you can play scenes” – Adam Driver
Natalie Portman: “I think you can’t judge your character when you play her, or else you wouldn’t be able to”
Portman speaks about the challenges with playing the famous First Lady.
Aaron Eckhart: “I have a saying: ‘If you’re sweating, you’re doing it wrong'”
“People ask me, ‘Why aren’t you sweating?’ And I say, ‘Because I am making myself effortless.’ The physical is key.” – Aaron Eckhart
Viola Davis on Returning to ‘Fences’: “It was a chance and an opportunity to fix some things I never got right on stage”
“You know when you’re not getting it right, you know when you’re coasting.” – Viola Davis
Tom Holland Recalls His Spider-Man Audition and How He found Out He was Cast
“When we did the screen tests, there were six of us all in this room waiting to audition. It felt like The Hunger Games.” – Tom Holland on His Spider-Man Audition