In his new movie, Everybody Has a Plan, Mortensen had to portray a character that carries the movie without a lot of dialogue. “When I prepare, I ask a simple question: ‘What happened between the character’s birth and page one of the script?’ And right there you can find most of the answers, even before […]
“In order to succeed in Hollywood, you honestly do have to get yourself an MBA in marketing. The truth is you will probably spend 99 percent of your time pounding the pavement and 1 percent of your time doing what it is that you were born to do. If this is indeed the environment in […]
“Starving Artist” – is not a term that should be taken literally, or taken advantage of. In the acting world, starving artists are those who are willing to forgo the stability of corporate paychecks, and certain material luxuries, in order to focus on their craft. The term refers to a hunger for pursuing excellence in […]
This is old, from 2002, just stumbled upon it. In practice, this seminar/showcase horseshit is corruption, unethical, a scam, what have you, but it’s also common practice nowadays and obv. not going away. Probably better for the Attorney General to tackle it then some in one ear and out the other news mag. In the […]
Not my cat, or Scar Jo, though, and I’m sorry, she sucks. She’s hot though, or used to be, I’ll give her that. She’s no Liz Taylor though, and I didn’t know Liz Taylor. All yucks aside, you can read this hilarious n’ timely Gawker article here. Tweet
Met and spoke some with John Hawkes recently, he’s a super nice guy, very genuine. Seems he’s had his own very unique road to success as well. He shares some of his thoughts on keeping a good head in this unruly business here. Tweet
Met her at a premiere a few years back, she was checking me out. Irascible, more than slightly inebriated, a fun quote about Cruise (and really all modern overpaid, overrated actors – he’s the “example”). Wish I knew her back in the day. Most sultry. Woman. Ever. Tweet
More on the stewing post mortem of the Shia Where’s LaBeouf trying-to-do-Theater fiasco here. Tweet
You’re not gonna find THE secret here in this short Backstage article, but Todd speaks well. Tweet
Ok, you’re not gonna understand any mystery from this article, that’s for sure. It basically serves up a few selected quotes from actors (Lady Gaga?), almost none of them good (reactionary Right Wing nutter/good actor Gary Oldman’s is alright), but all put together they’re worthwhile in that good acting, or a good actor, is hard […]