Sometimes an actor is faced with the decision of whether to choose a role for the popularity it will bring or to stick with more fulfilling projects. British actress Anna Friel ended up choosing to star in a new production of Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya.
Glenn Howerton and Rob McElhenney talk about coming up with plot ideas, if it’s easier for them to act in something they’ve written and more!
Many of us walk around asking everyone what to do about their acting careers when in fact they know exactly what to do
Portraying a real person is nothing new to Toby Jones. He starred as Truman Capote in Infamous (2006), super-agent Swifty Lazar in Frost/Nixon (2008) and Karl Rove in W (also 2008). Now, he’s starring as Alfred Hitchcock in HBO’s The Girl, a job that, he told Collider, was “unturndownable.”
An article in Advertising Age asks a question worthy of debate: Can an actor be in too many ads? Most little-known actors would see nothing wrong with a steady stream of paying commercial gigs. But if an actor becomes a familiar face by appearing in commercials for too many products,
It’s nearly impossible after decades of a successful career to imagine Susan Sarandon as a fledging actress, but the 66-year-old was once the victim of those infamous casting couch sessions.
Thomas Sadoski’s connections to the world of theater helped him land the role of Don Keefer on HBO’s The Newsroom.
Rockmond on acting: “If you’re creative, if you love doing it, then act like it. Do it because you love it”
Ashley: “I always want to grow as an actress and this was definitely out of my comfort zone”
A long-running New York City fall theater tradition since the 1990s, 24 Hour Plays on Broadway involves professional actors and members of the Urban Arts Partnership collaborating answer the challenge of the title: they must create six ten-minute plays in the span of twenty-four hours and then perform them for a live audience.
