Acting legend Harrison Ford isn’t known for being candid in interviews, so it was a big surprise that during his Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit this past weekend to promote the Showtime documentary series Years of Living Dangerously Ford was remarkably open about his career. He even cracked […]
Blair Underwood—who most recently made his Broadway debut in the role of Stanley in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire — will star in the title role of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Othello, the first show of San Diego’s Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Festival. Joining him and also making their Globe
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In December 2012, an actress identified only as “Anne G” filed a lawsuit against Time Warner, HBO, Cinemax and the production company True Crime LLC claiming that she was “bullied” into appearing nude and performing simulated sex on an episode of the Cinemax series Femme Fatale. In a surprising twist,
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Now that actor Max Greenfield is in his fourth season of New Girl on FOX, he knows how to bring his character, Schmidt, to life. He talked with The Daily Orange about his character, life on set and how rowdy their improv sessions get. Greenfield said, “The first season is
If you haven’t seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier yet, you might not want to read this post just yet. Readers of the Captain America comic book over the last several years already knew the identity of the Winter Soldier in this month’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. However, even
Samuel L. Jackson stopped by Good Morning America earlier this week to talk about Captain America: The Winter Soldier – which is terrific, by the way – and he told Robin Roberts that for the first Cap film, he had trouble learning his lines. “I sat at home and I
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As an increasing number of Oscar winners — including Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Redford, and Russell Crowe, just to name a few — turn toward supporting roles in superhero films, it’s important to note that there are younger actors who are also in supporting roles and are hoping that the
While Chris Messina has been busy this season with the coupling of Mindy and Danny on The Mindy Project, there’s one other show fans can still catch him on, The Newsroom. The HBO show is coming back for a third and final season. Messina shared his thoughts to Vulture about
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Michaela Watkins is enjoying success this season on ABC’s Trophy Wife as Bradley Whitford‘s second of three wives. She’s finally experiencing the perks of a steady gig after years of bouncing around different projects. The 42-year-old actress talked to Vulture about what that change has meant to her career. She explained,
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Oscar-winner Denzel Washington is familiar to audiences for his incredible work on the big screen in movies like The Hurricane, Glory and Flight. However, the actor is back on Broadway to dazzle the crowds in an American classic, A Raisin in the Sun. He spoke with the Associated Press about his
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It’s been three years since Emma Watson hung up her Hogwarts hat and headed to more indie fare in movies like My Week with Marilyn and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. However, she’s returned to her big blockbuster roots on March 28 by playing Ila in Darren Aronofsky‘s Noah.
Kate Winslet is known for her critically acclaimed work in movies like The Reader, Labor Day and Little Children. This year, she is departing from typical Oscar fare to dive into a big budget box office hit — Divergent. She spoke with Hero Complex about why she chose such radically
Is there anyone hotter than Idina Menzel at the moment? She had a starring role in Disney’s Frozen, which is the second highest-grossing animated movie worldwide (and still has a chance of overtaking Toy Story 3 to become #1), her new musical on Broadway, If/Then, is set to open on
Los Angeles talks a lot about runaway production and the latest statistics show that the issue is a serious one. Film L.A. released statistics that in 2013 Louisiana became the top state for filming. With 108 major-studio movies released in 2013, 18 were primarily shot in the Southern state. Some
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Actors and other entertainment industry professionals have a love/hate relationship with Amazon’s Internet Movie Database. While IMDb remains an invaluable tool for both information and networking, actors have expressed concern that it contains too much private information (such as the famous lawsuit filed by Huong “Junie” Hoang over IMDb posting her
If you’ve noticed lately, geeks are hot in Hollywood. Many of those geeks have one woman to thank, casting director Allison Jones, who has helped comedians and actors with a nerdy edge take over the big and small screen. Jones has discovered talents like Superbad‘s Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Veep‘s Timothy
Though almost everyone remembers the classic 1998 episode of Seinfeld “The Burning” in which Kramer and his friend Mickey get jobs acting out symptoms of diseases for training sessions for students in medical school, many actors know that this is actually a real gig that medical schools have found increasingly
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The Hollywood Reporter does a fantastic job with their roundtable interviews and this video with casting directors absolutely falls into the ‘fantastic’ category. I think this is the first time THR has done a roundtable with casting directors. Hopefully it’s not the last! Featuring Juliet Taylor, Ellen Lewis, Patricia DiCerto,
by Theresa Pickett Iranian actor Alain Washnevsky moved to Europe when he was 2. After growing up in Vienna Austria, Alain started working in a real estate agency when he was 18 and at 20, he became a partner. As a world traveler, Alain is fluent in German, Farsi (Persian),
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Up and coming actors often take survival jobs in the restaurant industry, temping at an office or even babysitting kids. The latest trend in New York City is in an entirely different field and it’s quite lucrative for the actresses that participate. There are egg “agents” who are looking for
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