Interview: Filmmakers Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris on ‘Ruby Sparks’ and How They Work with the Actors On-Set
They also chat about acting out scenes themselves before giving it to the actors.
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Jodie Foster Planning on Developing Projects for Cable: “Because I do make personal films, they’re hard to get off the ground, especially nowadays”
Jodie Foster is best known for her long acting career, but the actress has always seen herself in the director’s chair. But after directing three theatrically films — Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays, and The Beaver — Foster has been looking at her fellow big-name actors and actresses who have done shows on cable television and believes her future work belongs there.
Rashida Jones on Writing Her First Script and Getting to the Serious Side of Andy Samberg in ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’
It’s becoming increasingly common for actors to write their own film scripts, particularly for smaller, independent projects that actors do in between the big-budget studio films. Add Rashinda Jones to the list, as the former The Office star co-wrote Celeste and Jesse Forever with fellow actor Will McCormack, and the pair also star in the film alongside Andy Samberg. Jones spoke to the Huffington Post about writing the film, the challenges associated with performing a character after creating her, and whether funnyman Samberg was able to handle the film’s serious elements.
Chris Rock on ‘2 Days in New York’ and Going Back to Broadway
Chris Rock might have seemed like an odd choice to star in Julie Delpy’s indie romantic comedy 2 Days in New York, but that’s only if you haven’t been paying attention to Rock’s recent career. Sure, he might have starred in Pootie Tang years ago, but in the last several years Rock has manged to branch out not only as a writer, director, and producer, but also as an actor.
Ashley Greene on Typecasting and Keeping Her Day Job After Getting Cast in ‘Twilight’
Ashley Greene should be used to fame by now, after starring as Alice Cullen in the Twilight series. But the 25-year-old still has to find ways to get past the oppressive Hollywood system.
Interview: Aisha Tyler talks Voice Work and ‘Archer’ (video)
Aisha: “This has been the most immersive experience for sure”
Paul Dano on ‘Ruby Sparks’: “Once we were filming, it was all [my character] for me”
Actor Paul Dano found himself surrounded by familiar faces during the production of his latest film, Ruby Sparks. He co-stars with his real-life girlfriend Zoe Kazan, who also wrote the script, and the movie is directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, the husband-and-wife team who directed Dano in his breakthrough role in Little Miss Sunshine.
Matthew McConaughey on ‘Killer Joe’: “I remember throwing the script in the trash and saying I don’t want to be any part of that world”
Those that know me well know that my all-time most hated movie is The Wedding Planner. I was stuck seeing that movie on two separate dates before I learned it’s perfectly acceptable to tell a girl “no, I’d prefer not to see a Jennifer Lopez movie.” As much as I dislike the movie, I hold no ire toward Lopez’s co-star Matthew McConaughey, although I never thought much of him as an actor because of his tendency to star in romantic comedies and awful action movies (though he is awesome in Dazed & Confused, one of my favorite films).
Ellen Page on Her Experience Doing Motion Capture: “It’s like being six years old. You have to imagine everything”
Go back one hundred years and the only options actors had to display their craft were the theater and the still-in-its-infancy movies. Radio and television opened up more opportunities in the following decades, and more recently the internet has allowed actors to show their work instantly on a worldwide scale.
Interview: Felicia Boswell on Auditioning for ‘Memphis’, Touring and Making a Role Your Own
Felicia: “There’s no secret process to how I approach it, it’s just, I honestly and genuinely love what I do”