Drew Barrymore: I’m Not a “Good” Actress
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Celeb News, Filmmaking,
Drew Barrymore doesn't think she's a very good actress.
The 39-year-old star - who has starred in countless films since the age of six - doesn't rate her dramatic ability because she prefers to become the character, rather than imitate them. "I don't think I'm a good actress. I feel like it's fake and yucky and it doesn't ring true. But if you research and you study and make it personal, you just become that person, and it's your truth and everything else around you falls away. Then you're telling the truth, it's not lying, it's not fake," she explained.
The blonde beauty credits her godfather Steven Spielberg for giving her the best advice, which has stuck with her for 33 years: "Steven told me, 'Don't act your characters. Be your characters.' At [the age of] six, I guess I was comfortable and more humorous than I would have remembered now. But once I got older and kept continuing acting, I don't know if I would have succeeded without that advice, because that's the thing that saved me. I'm not an actor, I'm a pretender."
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Quote of the Day: Jennifer Lawrence on Acting
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Celebrity Gossip,
"Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid... Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies. It’s stupid."
- Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence compares her career choice with other, less "stupid" ones.
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Hugh Grant ‘Finished’ with Acting
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Celeb News, Filmmaking,
Hugh Grant is "pretty much finished" with acting. The 51-year-old star doesn't take on many film projects anymore and says he doesn't like the process of appearing in front of the camera anymore.
"I'm pretty much finished. Occasionally something tickles my fancy, otherwise I'm fine. I'm still not very keen on acting. I don't do much work, but I like aspects of it. I like the camaraderie with people you are working with. But actually standing in front of a camera, no I don't love that."
The British star also says he tries to give realistic advice to people who ask him about acting.
"I get a lot of cousins and friends asking me for advice, saying, 'I want to be an actor.' It's this disease that some people get, it's weird. Sometimes they are incredibly talented, and sometimes, they have no talent whatsoever, and I don't know what to tell them or their parents. The saddest thing in the world is to see someone going on in their late thirties or forties still struggling to play a carrot on a TV commercial. For some people, they have to do it, they are so stage struck."
Quote of the Day: Tilda Swinton on Acting
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip,
"I'm not really interested in acting. I've given up waiting for an epiphany of interest to strike. Acting is a red herring and a major mistake and I'm still trying to get back on track. Every time I'm in a film I'm determined it's the last I'm in then I'll fall into a conversation with someone and we'll cook up a new scheme. Basically it's gone on for 20 years but I'm hoping to pull it to a close shortly."
-- Michael Clayton actress Tilda Swinton on her opinion of acting.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Received Addiction Tips from Robert Downey, Jr.
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Music, Casting, Celebrity Gossip, Upcoming Releases,
Gwyneth Paltrow ran into some obstacles while trying to identify with her character in Country Song.
"I just couldn't understand how you could be so drunk that you could wreck people's lives and then wake up the next day and pretend everything was fine," she said.
Gwyneth revealed how she prepped for the film in a recent interview.
Paltrow wanted real insight into addiction, and how it affects the user as well as those around them. So, she went to someone with real life experience: Iron Man co-star Robert Downey, Jr.
“He was really articulate about addiction and the psychology behind it. He really helped me a lot.”
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Megan Fox Shot Jonah Hex in 5 Days
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Period, Celeb News, Filmmaking, New Releases,
Action starlet Megan Fox shot her scenes for Jonah Hex in five days.
The 24-year-old star - who plays love interest Lilah in the western movie - only spent five days on the set of the film and confesses it was one of the hardest she has worked on.
“It’s the toughest movie I’ve ever done. The stunts and the make-up… a lot of pain… f**king horrible. I don’t know if I’d do it again. I only worked on this for five days in Louisiana. And we would shoot all day. So we worked really hard for those five days, and then they wrapped me.”
However, the screen beauty did admit she has worked on more “difficult” projects in the past: “It was an intense process, to cram all of that into such a short amount of time. It was difficult. It’s not the most difficult thing I’ve done or survived.”
Megan recently confessed she had problems on the set of the movie as her small hands prevented her from being able to hold a gun correctly. “Actually there was one gunfight scene that the stunt team had been choreographing for, I think, a couple of weeks, and I showed up and I had a minute to get it down and rehearse it and it was really difficult for me to shoot the old-style gunslinger guns because I have tiny little baby hands. The guns are really large and really heavy, so just the physicality of actually having to pull that off was really difficult. This was more action-heavy for me.”
Clint Eastwood Tired of Himself
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip,
Clint Eastwood has no interest in seeing himself on film.
The Oscar-winning director prefers to stay behind the camera allowing others to take center stage, but insists he has no plans to quit acting altogether.
“I leave that to younger actors now. I’m not a prize fighter who has to capture another victory. Since I worked as a director for the first time on Play Misty for Me in 1970, I’ve become tired of seeing myself on the big screen,” the 80-year-old said. “That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop acting, though.”
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Quote of the Day: Ryan Phillippe on Filming MacGruber
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: MGM, Action, Satire, Comedy, Thrillers, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases,
“I would inflict pain upon myself. I would dig my fingernail into my thumb, or I’d bite the inside of my cheek. That was really the only way because the guy’s [Will Forte] a maniac in the best possible way.”
- Ryan Phillippe, on working with SNL comedian Will Forte for action-comedy MacGruber.
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Quote of the Day: Emma Watson on Her Acting
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip,
“I think actually I’m the worst in the class.”
- Harry Potter actress Emma Watson on taking acting classes at Brown University.
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Quote of the Day: Kristen Stewart on Pole Dancing
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Drama, Independent, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Rumors, Upcoming Releases,
“I did some pole dancing… I got bruises all over my legs. I tore myself up doing it. It sucked… The more I saw it, the more I wanted it. It was like a weird self-hating kind of thing.”
- Kristen Stewart on what it took to portray a stripper in her new film, Welcome to the Rileys.
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Read More | E! Online
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