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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.”
Read More | The Huffington Post
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
Lucky Actress Sarah Harding
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Adventure, Foreign, Comedy, Casting, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Upcoming Releases
Sarah Harding feels lucky to have been given the chance to act.
The Girls Aloud star, who plays the role of schoolgirl Roxy in St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, says she is living out her dream on the big screen. Speaking at the world premiere of the movie In London’s Leicester Square, Sarah said:
“I’m just enjoying every minute of it at the moment. I’m getting to live out my fantasies. I’ve lived out my dream doing the singing and I never thought I’d get into doing the acting side of it as well, which is amazing. I’m very honored and grateful that they are giving me a chance.”
The 28-year-old star, who braved the cold on a special pink carpet in a stunning cut-out dress, also denied there was any competition between Girls Aloud as each member focuses on individual projects. “We’ve all got very different tastes and I think if were to all do our own solo stuff it would be very different.”
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Quote of the Day: George Clooney on His Raw Performance
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Paramount, Drama, Comedy, Casting, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases
“Not only is my performance raw in this film, but through most of the film I am naked from the waist down. So not only am I raw, I’m chafed.”
- Funny man George Clooney agreeing with Up in the Air director Jason Reitman’s belief that this is the actor’s most raw performance.
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Read More | People
Penelope Cruz Discovers Musical Muscles
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Weinstein Company, Adaptation, Drama, Musicals, Period, Romance, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases
Penelope Cruz had to use muscles she hadn’t used since she was a teenager in new movie Nine.
The Spanish actress put in weeks of training for one particular scene in the musical movie - about a film director struggling in his relationships with women, in which Penelope plays the central character’s mistress - where she had to slide down a rope.
Describing the scene, Penelope said, “They mapped it out and showed me how it was done. I said I would never be able to do it but I worked and worked and regained the memory of muscles in my legs I hadn’t used since I was a teenager studying ballet.”
Penelope, 35, was rehearsing for the film’s rope scenes for three months before they were eventually completed, and was left with calluses on her hands and bleeding digits from sliding down the ropes so often.
She added to Britain’s Daily Mail, “I was stretching, running and going to the gym to get my arms strong to support me on the ropes. But with my hands, after a while you don’t feel the pain. I had the wounds dressed and carried on.”
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