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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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Quote of the Day: When Ryan Gosling Will Retire From Films
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Action, Independent, Romance, Thrillers, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, New Releases
"I'd like to be making babies but I'm not, so I'm making movies... When someone comes along, I don't think I'll be able to do both and I'm fine with that. I'll make movies until I make babies."
- Drive actor Ryan Gosling on when he'll stop making movies.
Read More | E! Online
Jon Hamm Wants George Clooney’s Career
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Casting, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip
Jon Hamm wants to be the next George Clooney.
The Mad Men actor - who has long-been compared to the Hollywood hunk - confesses he would “love to emulate” the Men Who Stare At Goats star’s career because of the variation of his work.
“We already have a perfectly serviceable George Clooney, but that’s certainly someone whose career I would love to emulate because he’s been able to work in various genres and walk the line between drama and comedy. He also got started very late in life because ER came when he was well into his thirties, so he bounced around, not unlike me, from show to show and failed pilot to failed pilot, and then ER happened and he blew up.”
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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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Hugh Grant’s Limited Range
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip
Hugh Grant thinks he’s a “very limited” actor.
The Did You Hear About The Morgans? star - whose known for playing suave English men in romantic comedy films - doesn’t work on as many movies as his peers by choice.
“I’m very picky but also very limited as an actor. There’s not much I can do,” he claimed. “I’ve always said that if you give me an Ibsen script, I can get away with it. But there are a lot of people who can do it better. I think that’s right. And if you’re going to put all this effort and heartache… if you put a year of your life into this, it’s only worth it if you think you have something to offer in this area.”
The 49-year-old star also spoke about the crippling panic attacks he suffered while filming 2007 comedy Music and Lyrics and admitted he almost quit acting as a result.
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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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Danny Dyer Fears Typecasting
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Action, Casting, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip
Danny Dyer was asked to appear in a film called Cockneys vs. Zombies.
The London-born actor admits he tired of being offered the same type of roles - as a British hardman - and singled out the horror movie as the biggest low point he reached.
“I turned down a movie recently called Cockneys vs. Zombies. I thought ‘F**k me, for f**k’s sake’. That’s the final nail in the coffin for me. The fact they even had the front to use that title. I didn’t even turn the first page of the script.”
The Human Traffic star says rejecting the script was a relatively new thing for him because he used to accept anything he was offered out of a fear of rejection:
“So I’m learning, like I said, when you struggle as an actor for so long, and being an actor is about rejection, being told no all the time, so when you get on a run, and people start writing parts for you, you can get a bit carried away with that and say yes to everything. And I’ve had a bit of a spell of going, ‘Yeah, OK, I feel privileged that you want me in your film’. You’ve got to rein that in and say ‘No, it’s not going to test me, it’s not going to challenge me, it’s nothing new.”
Dyer’s Football Foul-Ups DVD is available to buy now.
Robert Pattinson Fears Non-Twilight Films
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Casting, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Rumors, Upcoming Releases
Despite already landing roles outside of the vampire series, Robert Pattinson finds taking on work outside of the Twilight franchise “scary.”
The actor, who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the hit movie series, says that it is more difficult to take on new roles now that he is so famous because there are so many things to consider.
“You get offered stuff that you would never dream of getting offered before, but that’s also scary. You don’t have to audition for anything. But I don’t want to do a movie just so it gets made. You have to question yourself a lot more. Before Twilight, I did any movie that I got offered, and you’d try and make the best of it afterwards. But now, you’re expected to come into the movie and provide not only economic viability, but also a performance as well. You can’t just mess around. People are like, ‘We’re employing you to be here, as a star and an actor.’ It’s difficult, and it’s scary.”
After recently working on the third Twilight movie, Eclipse, Robert is looking forward to taking on some radically different projects before getting to work on fourth installment Breaking Dawn.
“I think the tentative time for Breaking Dawn is fall next year. Depending on how things go, I’m doing a movie called Bel Ami in February, an adaptation to a Guy de Maupassant novel. And I’m doing - I hope - a Western with Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman called Unbound Captives sometime around there as well. They’ve got to try and juggle things around until everybody’s schedules work.”
Quote of the Day: Rupert Everett Advises Gay Actors to Stay Closeted
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Controversy
“The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn’t work and you’re going to hit a brick wall at some point. You’re going to manage to make it roll for a certain amount of time, but at the first sign of failure they’ll cut you right off. And I’m sick of saying, ‘Yes, it’s probably my own fault.’ Because I’ve always tried to make it work and when it stops working somewhere, I try to make it work somewhere else. But the fact of the matter is, and I don’t care who disagrees, it doesn’t work if you’re gay… It’s not that advisable to be honest. It’s not very easy. And, honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.”
-Openly gay actor Rupert Everett (Shrek the Third) giving career advice to other gay stars.
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Robert Downey Jr. Will Do Sequels Until Forcibly Retired
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Paramount, Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Casting, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases
Robert Downey Jr. would happily only star in Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man movies for the rest of his career.
The actor loved his experiences on the set of both films so much, he wants to keep returning for new installments until he is forced to quit.
“I’d be happy to bounce back and forth between Sherlock and Tony Stark until I’m forcibly retired. And fortunately, not unlike Iron Man, there is a way to continue along the lines of Sherlock and not become embarrassed by my graying hair and more ropey muscles.”
Robert’s Sherlock Holmes co-star Jude Law also revealed he is hoping to get cast in a sequel to the detective adventure: “We would love the audience to fall in love with it as much as we have so we can tell a whole bunch more.”
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