Travis Van Winkle and Marissa Neitling Talk ‘The Last Ship’ and How They Prepare for a Day On-Set
Van Winkle and Neitling were at WonderCon to talk about the upcoming season, relating to their characters and how they get prepared for a day on-set.
Adam Baldwin Talks ‘The Last Ship’ and Robert Duvall’s Advice on Exposition
“Roles tend to choose the actor more than the actor chooses the roles these days” – Adam Baldwin
Bridget Regan on ‘The Last Ship’, ‘Agent Carter’ and What She Loves About the Call Sheet
“I have a lot of fun playing Dottie, if I didn’t I think I have to quit being an actor” – Bridget Regan on Her ‘Agent Carter’ Character
Jocko Sims Talks Season 3 of ‘The Last Ship’: “It’s really exciting. You don’t know what’s gonna happen”
Jocko Sims and co-creator Hank Steinberg, talk about the upcoming season, season arcs and how it’s determined what character is getting the axe!
WonderCon: Claudia Black on Her Audition for The CW’s ‘Containment’
“A lot of my work is done by sort of gut and instinct. I just feel into it and I know what they want me to bring to the canvas” – Claudia Black
WonderCon: George Young on ‘Containment’ and Saying Medical Jargon Like He Means It
“It’s not just memorizing and it’s not like a memory test, you have to actually say as if you mean it and understand it” – Containment’s George Young
Christina Marie Moses Talks ‘Containment’ and Getting to “Play in the Audition Room”
“We got to play in the audition room, in the testing room, which takes a lot of the pressure out of things and you can have a good time and hope for the best” – Christina Marie Moses
WonderCon: Hanna Mangan Lawrence on ‘Containment’ and Audition Nerves
“They’re always very nerve-racking but I just tried to control my nerves and make it look like it was easy. But it wasn’t.” – Hanna Mangan Lawrence on auditions
The CW’s ‘Containment’ Executive Producer on Casting the Show and Writing for “Trained” Actors
“[David Gyasi] walked into our room just to read at the last minute and blew us away so much that we changed everything about how we were gonna put this cast together”
WonderCon: Trevor St. John on ‘Containment’, Playing Drunk and the Waiting Game of Auditions
“The worst part is waiting. In fact, it’s far worse to wait to find out if you got a job then it is to find out you didn’t get a job.” – Trevor St. John
WonderCon: Kristen Gutoskie Talks The CW’s ‘Containment’ and Her Audition for the Show
“That’s what we want to do as actors, discover what it’s like to be a human being” – Kristen Gutoskie
Jenny Jules on Her Broadway Debut in ‘The Crucible’, Working with the Cast and Keeping Her Voice in Shape
“The first preview for me is a really special performance because nobody else has seen it. And in comes the character that’s been missing from your production the whole time, which is the audience.” – Jenny Jules
Paul Alexander Nolan Talks Steve Martin’s ‘Bright Star’ and How to Have a Normal Life While Working on Broadway
“It takes time to get stuff in your blood and to a place where you feel like you’re not just in a room surviving and trying to remember lines” – Paul Alexander Nolan on auditioning
Morris Chestnut on ‘Rosewood’, How He Got the Role and Maintaining a Long Career
“I try to be prepared. But I think first and foremost, is I always try to get better. I still see acting coaches. I still go to acting classes” – Morris Chestnut
Lenny Platt on ‘Quantico’, the “Amazing Education” He Got Working on a Soap and Pushing Forward When Faced with Adversity
“The faster I can get those words and commit them to memory, the sooner I can really start thinking about what my intention is, what the subtext is and what my character is trying to achieve by saying these things” – Lenny Platt
Jen Rudolph from The Actor’s Green Room on the Importance of Working with a Mentor
AGR is designed to help actors find and play to their strengths in this very competitive industry.
James Wolk Talks ‘This is Happening’, His Worst Audition and Coming to Set Prepared
“By the time the camera rolls, that’s my time. I want to be prepared for that time.” – James Wolk
Sam Trammell on His New Film, ‘All Mistakes Buried’, Co-Writing the Script and the Challenges of Playing an Addict
“You feel total ownership over the character. There’s nobody that knows the character in any way better than you do.” – Sam Trammell on acting and writing
Susan Heyward Talks ‘Powers’, Martin Scorsese’s ‘Vinyl’, Auditioning and More!
“I think audiences want to watch characters go through something, so it’s kind of okay to leave things a little messy, a little undone, if we can be truthful to that.” – Susan Heyward on rehearsing
Eddie Yaroch Talks Moxie’s ‘The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence’ and His 2014 Craig Noel Award
Yaroch talks about ‘Watson Intelligence’, winning the Craig Noel award, San Diego theatre and more!