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Flying under the tabloids' radar, Alison Lohman is a star for the new millennium: she is focused on her work, not her image. Chris Neumer sits down to chat with her and quickly gets inside the ins-and-outs of good co-stars and why Lohman believes that everything she does is hard.
Actress Anapola Mushkadiz created quite a stir in her first ever role in
Battle in Heaven: that's what an opening scene featuring actual sex can do. Mushkadiz talks to Chris Neumer about why America needs to get over on-screen blowjobs, why and why acting is so surprisingly easy.
Bai Ling talks almost entirely in metaphor. No one will ever mention this to you, but she does. Chris Neumer attempts to make sense of this and gets into why it's occasionally necessary to eat maggots and when 'not thinking' is the best approach to something.
Billy Bob Thornton has made a career out of playing what he calls "the asshole". Nobody has done it better than Thornton. From Mr. Woodcock to Bad Santa, what Thornton has, you don't see very often.
When actor Carsten Norgaard was cast in
Alien vs. Predator, he realized his character was going to try to do something that only two men had done previously: fight the Predator and live. Norgaard talks to Chris Neumer about stunt choreography and what it's like to film a fight sequence for two days in a row with broken ribs.
Actor Charlie Hunnam knows what he wants and is doing his best to get it on his terms. Steering away from what he calls the 'disposable shit' and fighting for the projects that interest him, Hunnam's already ahead of the normal Hollywood learning curve.
Curtis Armstrong is one of the seminal actors of the eighties. He not only appeared in
Risky Business and Better Off Dead but left his mark in history as
The Revenge of the Nerds' Booger. Chris Neumer spoke to Armstrong about the preparation necessary for a role, by stand-ups make bad actors and what it's like to (literally) play God.
Actor Damien Nguyen turns in one of the summer's finest performances in his first feature,
The Beautiful Country. Nguyen (pronounced 'win') sits down with Chris Neumer to go over de-learning English, why you shouldn't get drunk and do press and the irony of a tragic movie with a very light-hearted and silly set.
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Haylie Duff to get the full story on creating her own unique brand. Together, the two touch on the pain of (audition) rejection, why casting directors can't see passed your last role and how to cry on command.
Jesse Jane is one of the adult film world's biggest stars. So big, in fact, her movies are now being stripped of sex and released as R-rated movies. Chris Neumer talks to Jane here.
Actor Josh Lucas has anchored the casts of movies both big (Glory Road and Poseidon) and small (Undertow and Little Murder). More impressively, he has done so while making a name for himself as a stylish, intelligent and charismatic on-screen force.
Josh Lucas is one of Hollywood's most talented actors. He can do the role of the psychopath better than anyone, can also do 'sweet', 'wholesome', 'gruff' and 'sexy'. Not only that, he holds his own opposite history in
Glory Road and a boat in Wolfgang Peterson's
Poseidon.
Luis Guzman is one of the most recognizable character actors in Hollywood. He talks to Chris Neumer and gets the trust he needs to have in a director, why having fun on set is imperative and why he will drop everything for Steven Soderbergh.
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Nora Zehetner to get the skinny on her career path. Neumer and Zehetner get into the awful nature of auditioning, why reporters shouldn't wear sweatpants and whether Natalie Portman looks hot with very short hair.
Shia LaBeouf is Hollywood's fastest rising male star. His films
Transformers and
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen have been some of the biggest hits of the last decade. We talk to him about life in the fast lane, why he feels that Michelle Trachtenberg is the female Garry Shandling and which leading actor is nicknamed "Glass Dick".
