Lessons of Life from a Merchant of Death
David chats with his friend, a funeral director, and learns a bit about life and acting
David chats with his friend, a funeral director, and learns a bit about life and acting
Seth Rogen can no longer be known for only playing comedic man-child parts.
The comic actor took on a dramatic role in Sarah Polley’s new indie film Take This Waltz and in an interview with Yahoo! News, said, “It’s probably closer to what I am in real life. I think I’m one of those people that when fans meet, they’re often very disappointed because I’m kind of quiet and shy. I think they expect me to have one of those hats with two beer cans strapped to my head and strippers on either side of me. So it was nice to do something where I didn’t have to be really funny all the time.”
Matthew McConaughey is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after leading men whose films have grossed more than a billion dollars at the box office.
Rosemarie Dewitt has had her share of playing the more normal sister—with Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married and Toni Collette in The United States of Tara but in the new indie, Your Sister’s Sister, she finally gets the chance to play the screwed up sibling.
Ray Winstone’s most memorable film credits include Scum, Quadrophenia, Sexy Beast and Nil by Mouth, for which he won a British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by a British Actor in an Independent Film and was nominated for a BAFTA.
Though it was a big hit across the pond, One Man Two Guvnors still seemed to come out of nowhere to become a critical hit on Broadway.
Tom Hardy is about to appear in a role that will most likely solidify him as a major star, Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.
Matthew McConaughey is one of Hollywood’s most sought after leading men whose films have grossed over a billion dollars at the box office. He is a Texas native who, while attending the University of Texas in Austin, planned to be a lawyer. When he discovered an inspirational Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World before one of his final exams, he suddenly knew that he had to change his major from law to film.
Alan Cumming is currently in Scotland rehearsing a one-man version of Macbeth in which he stars as Shakespeare’s tragic King of Scotland and also… all the other roles in the play.
Bill Nighy might be currently seen at the movies in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, but in an interview he’s dropped some interesting points about his role as Davy Jones in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies.