Monday, October 10, 2011 4:21PM - By Damon Houx
For many, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje will always be known as Mr. Eko from Lost, but the versatile actor turned that run into a strong film career, which has led him to work with Robert De Niro (in Killer Elite) and was one of the stars of G.I. Joe. In The Thing, the 2011 prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film of the same name he plays Derrick Jameson, who is partnered with Joel Edgerton’s character as a helicopter pilot. We got a chance to talk with him about the role and playing in horror films. Check it out…
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Monday, October 10, 2011 1:00PM - By Damon Houx
Craig Brewer is – from all accounts – one of the biggest fans of Footloose in the world. So in that way he seems like safe hands for the remake of the Kevin Bacon teen favorite from 1984. But for those who’ve seen his previous films (Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moan) you might think he’d take it to darker places. And what’s surprising about his take is that it’s very faithful and PG in its approach. We talked to Brewer about the film. his film, and Kevin Bacon. Check it out.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 1:00PM - By Damon Houx
Anthony Mackie has had a long road to real success, and he was open to talk about that journey when promoting Real Steel. Mackie got his big break in Spike Lee‘s She Hate Me, which was under-seen and did little for his career. But Mackie kept working, and it was one of those pictures, The Hurt Locker, that really brought Mackie to the fore. We talked about the system, Real Steel, his goals, Ryan Gosling, his future projects and more. Check it out….
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:00PM - By Damon Houx
Grant Heslov met George Clooney in the early eights and a friendship was born. Both were struggling actors, and while Heslov had a number of key supporting roles throughout the 1990′s (including True Lies and Dante’s Peak), his friend George’s career grew to superstardom. Their friendship stuck, and the two have been writing and producing partners for nearly a decade. The two reworked the play Ides of March for the big screen, and Heslov talked about their working process and the film.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:00PM - By Damon Houx
Hugh Jackman was – at first – the replacement Wolverine. Stepping in for the contractually tied-up Dougray Scott, Jackman got the key role in the X-Men franchise that would come to define his career. Now with Real Steel, Jackman’s star-charisma is being used outside of Wolverine for a feel-good robot-boxing movie, that is an against-the-odds winner of a movie. Jackman has a repuation of being a class act, and he couldn’t have been more gracious in our interview, as he talked about the film, his continuing role in the X-Men franchise, and more. Check it out…
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 3:00PM - By Damon Houx
Shawn Levy has made a number of commercial successful films, all leading to this point in his career. He’s taken the seemingly ridiculous idea of robots fighting each other, and turned it into a rousing, Rocky-fied night at the movies, and uses Hugh Jackman‘s star power at its highest wattage. Levy sees this movie as a turning point in his career, and he talks about the advice given to him by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis in our interview. Check it out…
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 1:00PM - By Damon Houx
If it feels like Ryan Gosling has descended on Hollywood, it’s because he has – Gosling has had no less than three leading roles in films over the last three months. Each showed different sides of his talent. In Crazy, Stupid Love he proved his comedic and romantic chops, in Drive he exhibited his action coolness, and now in Ides of March he plays lead in an ensemble stacked with some of the greatest actors working today. We talked about working with George Clooney, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti and more in our interview. Check it out…
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Monday, October 3, 2011 1:55PM - By Damon Houx
Evan Rachel Wood started playing a rebellious young girl in Thirteen, and that role has lingered over her for much of her career. Wood talks about having some “crazy” years, but now she’s in George Clooney’s Ides of March, and she feels like she’s on track again. We talked about her work in the movie, Clooney and Ryan Gosling, her work on True Blood and Justin Bieber. Check it out…
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Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:21PM - By Mali Elfman
It’s never a bad day when you get to sit down with Harry Connick Jr., there is quite possibly not a more humble, sweet and charming actor to interview. We had the privilege of being able to pick Mr. Connick’s brain on his upcoming release Dolphin Tale and a number of other topics such as his up and coming role on Broadway and his greatest fears. Connick comes off like an open book, ready to talk about everything from the joy of working on a film with a happy ending to the hard times in his career when he was searching for answers in the never-ending struggle as an artist…
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