Ben Affleck has had the most famously rollercoaster career of any Hollywood A-lister of this era. He’s been equally known for successes like Good Will

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Ben Affleck has had the most famously rollercoaster career of any Hollywood A-lister of this era. He’s been equally known for successes like Good Will Hunting (which he also co-wrote, garnering him a Best Original Screenplay Oscar), Armageddon, The Sum Of All Fears, Hollywoodland, Smokin’ Aces, and He’s Just Not That Into You as well as some notorious stinkers like Pearl Harbor, Daredevil, Gigli and Surving Christmas.

However, one of Affleck’s biggest success was not a film he acted, but directed with the critically-acclaimed Gone Baby Gone. Now the 38 year-old hopes to succeed both as an actor and director with his sophomore directorial project The Town and he believes the transition to both actor and director was a creative necessity and acting and directing this film suits this need on both ends.

“It’s really just a function of wanting to take a step toward directing, a step toward doing more unusual stuff, Hollywoodland, and then Gone Baby Gone, and then after that, State Of Play, and movies like that,” Ben believes, “And this movie, which I was kind of interested in on creative merits and I felt ready to try being an actor and a director, so it really wasn’t any meta-planning stuff. It was just creative instincts.”

Ben reveals how he was given authority over first pick during casting, starting with Chris Cooper, who plays the father of his character Doug MacRay, the leader of a bank robbing team.

“I was fortunate in that I was able to get all the first choices that I have for this movie,” Affleck reveals, “I knew I wanted Chris Cooper back when I was doing Company Men right before this.”

“I was buttering Chris up, like, ‘Can I get you a cup of coffee, Chris? A Danish, Chris? Tire flat, Chris? Be right back!’” he adds, “Just endlessly trying to be just sycophancy as a way of getting him in. And ultimately, we shot near his house and sort of just twisted his arm.”

Next was Jeremy Renner, who plays fellow team member Jem Coughlin.

“And I got Jeremy as my first choice,” he says, “I knew him from [The Assassination Of] Jesse James and just said, this guy is a genius, a genius actor, and won’t give you a fals... Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Blake Lively Interview for The Town - Celebrity Interviews

"The Town's 'Girl'"

The transition from TV star to film star is often tricky for a lot of actors, but Blake Lively proves to be handling the transition almost seamlessly. A closer look would reveal that this can be mainly because of her strong beginnings in film in movies like The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants films and Accepted.

Lively is still best known for her role as conflicted rich girl Serena van der Woodsen on the hit CW drama Gossip Girl, though her film career continues to flourish because of her critically acclaimed roles in indie films like Elvis And Annabelle and The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee. Now the 27 year-old actress hopes to heighten her profile as a film actress with a role as Krista Coughlin, the sister of a bank robber, in The Town.

The film is Ben Affleck’s sophomore film as director and as Blake can attest to, being directed by an actor, much less a major one in Hollywood, was no walk in the park.

“Well, for me, I got to experience Ben more as a director in the pre-production before we started shooting because he did so much work in finding all these wonderful resources for us,” Lively recalls, “From the women that we got to spend time with to the places that these people go around, just references, magazine clippings. He had this well of knowledge for us to tap into, if we wanted, at all of these resources.”

“He was so hardworking beforehand and really militant about getting the character down and the accent down, really understanding the people, the roots, where they come from,” she adds, “And also just their attitude was just such an important thing, how a detective would respond versus one of their friends. And then, when we were on set, it was just such a comfortable that was there that we were just able to step into and lose ourselves and that was more when I got to experience Ben as an actor and I never felt like he was there directing me or judging me, but rather we were just creating this together.”

Lively also adds that her being the star of one of the biggest TV dramas with the 18 to 30 year-old crowd did no... read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Jon Hamm Interview for The Town - Celebrity Interviews

While Jon Hamm started out with a film background in movies like Kissing Jessica Stein and We Were Soldiers, it was television that gave him his big break, first on the Lifetime series The Division and then more prominently, on the AMC drama Mad Men as Don Draper.

The role has garnered Hamm three Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe Award win for Best TV Drama Actor. After success in the hit remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still and a memorable, Emmy-nominated guest stint on the NBC comedy 30 Rock as Liz Lemon’s neighbor and love interest Drew Baird, the 39 year-old actor hopes to parlay his TV acclaim firmly into film with a role as Adam Frawley, an FBI agent pursuing a group of bank robbers, in the crime thriller The Town.

He talks about how he chooses his film roles, now that he’s established himself as a TV star.

“I don’t have any sort of calculus to choosing film roles,” Hamm believes, “I just responded to the story of this and really wanted to play the character. I read a very, very, very early version of this script when another director and another package was attached to it and didn’t necessarily respond to the story then.”

“Once Ben signed on, then I became much more interested as a fan of his first film and a massive fan of this one,” he adds, “No, I just try to pick parts that somehow inspire me creatively and I want to work with people whose work I respect and admire and in both of those cases, both of those boxes were checked for this project.”

Hamm succinctly described for us the experience of working with second-time director and co-star Ben Affleck

“I mostly take notes with whatever Ben says,” Jon states.

Jon also commented on a question posed to fellow TV-based co-star Blake Lively, who is best known for playing Serena van der Woodsen on the hit CW TV drama Gossip Girl about whether she was betting with show co-star Penn Badgeley. This being that Badgeley also has a film role in The Town’s competing film coming out, the teen comedy Easy A about who’s film will be more successful.

“I have a bet with Penn Badgeley on who’s movies will ope... Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Katie Holmes Interview for The Romantics - Celebrity Interviews

Katie Holmes

Began her film career with a small role in Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm before her propelling into teen stardom by the hit TV drama Dawson’s Creek brought the young actress big roles in films like Disturbing Behavior, Teaching Mrs. Tingle and The Gift.

Before her career became overshadowed by her personal role as the wife of Tom Cruise, Holmes had made inroads in her post-Dawson’s-Creek career with roles in Phone Booth, Batman Begins, and Thank You For Smoking. Now after a stint on Broadway, the 31 year-old returns to film with her latest role as Laura in the new romantic comedy

The Romantics.

In the film, Katie plays Laura, a maid of honor whose former flame is the groom of the wedding, played by Josh Duhamel. She says it’s the film’s “love triangle” that first attracted her to the role.

“Well, I think that the love triangle of this film is really one of the things that I found wonderful about the movie,” Holmes says, “And these conflicts are something I think many people go through and it makes for a good film.”

Holmes elaborated with us on what attracted her to the role.

“I was signed to play Laura from the start,” she says, “I really loved this when I read it and I loved the feeling and to me, it felt a lot like The Big Chill and St. Elmo’s Fire, I thought, and also, a little bit of a John Hughes feeling and I always loved those movies growing up.”

“And then, I met with [director] Galt [Niederhoffer] and I thought she was really so smart,” Katie adds, “And the cast started coming together and it was something that was really exciting, just the feel of it and the look of it and the people that were involved in it was really exciting. The look of the movie is very French in a way.”

We asked Katie if she had to draw upon any personal experiences to deal with the situation of the characters in this film.

“Hopefully not as bad, but yes,” she replies, “I think, that’s the beauty of friendships and that’s what you see in this film. When you have real friends, you can be all of those things and people lov... Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Will Ferrell Interview for The Other Guys - Celebrity Interviews

Will Ferrell is this era’s Hollywood comedy king. With a string of hits under his belt from A Night At The Roxbury to Old School to Elf to Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy to Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby to Step Brothers. While he’s dodged his fair share of bullets and bombs like 2008’s Land Of The Lost, the 43 year-old comic is poised to get right back on the horse as Hollywood’s reigning comedy king as Detective Allen Gamble in the comedy The Other Guys.

The film deals with a more humorous construction of the classic buddy cop subgenre. It was only fitting to begin with whether or not Ferrell ever had any desire to actually be one.

“No, I can’t say,” Will replies, “I mean I did as a kid. I would walk around with a pair of nun chucks on my side, which is not really law enforcement related. They were rolling pins. They were nunchucks made out of rolling pins. I guess like a martial arts thing. I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time. I guess I was like a vigilante, justice. Yeah, like a guardian angel type thing. I was six years old. Six to nine. Those three years.”

Will had this to say regarding the notion of teamwork.

“I feel like it’s more important to be really cutthroat on a set and not look out for each other,” Ferrell jokes, “That provides a certain tension. It makes for a horrible work environment, but boy does it pop on screen. In the end result, it works right? There’s no insurance.”

Ferrell was asked what was his personal favorite buddy cop films was.

“Turner & Hooch,” Will names, “Serpico is good.”

Ferrell says that compared to most comedies, he says the film, because of its buddy cop theme has more of a substance to it.

“This probably is the most plot-driven movie I’ve done, I would say,” Will says.

Directing and co-writing the film is Adam McKay, who founded the popular comedy website Funny Or Die with Will. Will was asked how Funny Or Die helps fuel their comedic creative juices to do feature films.

“That’s just really a sandbox for disposable fun ideas that we get to.... Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Eva Mendes Interview for The Other Guys - Celebrity Interviews

Eva Mendes has done many a gritty cop drama from Exit Wounds to Training Day to We Own The Night to Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. She’s also done many comedies including Stuck On You, Hitch, and The Women.

Now the 36 year-old actress gets the chance to parlay the two styles of film together in her latest role as Sheila Ramos Gamble in the buddy cop comedy The Other Guys. In the film, Mendes’s character is the wife of Will Ferrell’s character, Allen, a forensic accountant who becomes a detective and teams up with a trigger-happy partner, played by Mark Wahlberg.

Eva was asked to comment on a remark Ferrell had made about being cutthroat with everyone on set in order to work as a team.

“I had the least lines, yeah,” Mendes claims, “I lost on that one.”

She was also asked whether or not Ferrell’s remarks were true that she, him, and the rest of the cast had a “party trailer” in-between filming.

“We burned it down,” Eva jokes.

Much of Mendes’s scenes in the film with Ferrell deal with how the people around them view her looks. When asked about how she feels about how the way men react to her in real life, she was surprisingly rather taken aback.

“Wow, I don’t know,” Eva replies, “I wish that people would know that, I don’t know, Help me. That doesn’t really happen. Oh, god. I’m going to sound like an asshole for saying this. But the truth is that the fame walks in the door before you do, if you guys know what I mean by that.”

“Please help me out,” she adds, “So you no longer know how men really react to you, they just react to ‘Dude, there’s that famous girl from Training Day in the other room”, you know? Kind of. No? But its like I just don’t feel like I get that genuine response anymore.”

As Eva continued, she brought up an incident that occurred with her former co-star Will Smith while they were promoting the 2005 romantic comedy hit Hitch together.

“I’ll tell you a little story actually,” Mendes recalls, “Went around the world promoting the film. And he calls me Reva. So one day we were in Rio, we were doing press..... Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Mark Wahlberg Interview for The Other Guys - Celebrity Interviews

When he’s not known for making the ladies swoon, Hollywood’s real-life Vincent Chase, Mark Wahlberg, has developed a reputation for kicking some serious butt in films like The Big Hit, The Corruptor, Three Kings, The Italian Job, The Departed, The Departed, Shooter, We Own The Night, and Max Payne.

Now the 39 year-old hopes to take his action persona into the realm of comedy with the buddy cop film The Other Guys. Wahlberg, being a veteran of cop films, says getting him to do the film was a slam dunk.

“I didn’t even want to read the script,” Mark recalls, “I didn’t care. They said would you be interested in doing a movie and I said yeah. They said would you like to hear the idea first, and I said if you want to tell me… If not we could just order dinner and drink more wine. Literally I’ve always wanted to do a comedy and get an opportunity to work with these guys. So it was just a dream come true.”

“I was going to have a lot of fun making this movie,” he continues, “I certainly felt very comfortable when it came to anything cop-ish or action. But with all the other stuff, I just basically wanted to follow their lead. I basically just did whatever they told me. I learned the lines. I’d show up. And I’d say the lines and then if they wanted me to try anything else, I’d certainly be willing to try anything. I’m killing it right now.”

In the film, Wahlberg plays trigger-happy detective Terry Holtz, who is assigned to teaming up a forensic accountant, played by co-star Will Ferrell, after he accidentally shoots New York Yankee captain Derek Jeter, who plays himself in a cameo. He was asked whether he had any input in having his character shoot the legendary Yankee slugger.

“No, but I was certainly thrilled,” Mark replies, “I felt bad though because he’s such a nice guy.”

Mark shared with us his most favorite scene in the film, a scene where Detective Holtz is beating up a character played by co-star Rob Riggle.

“I choked the shit out of that big motherfucker,” Wahlberg says of it, “I choked the shit out of Will, too.”

Mentioned was his co-star Will Ferrell’s favorite..... Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Josh Hutcherson Interview for the kids are all right

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In the last decade, Mark Ruffalo has considerably heightened his profile in the world of Hollywood film having appeared in everything from romantic comedies like 13 Going On 30, Just Like Heaven, and Rumor Has…
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Julianne Moore Interview for the kids are all right

In the last decade, more films centered on gay people have been made now than ever before. Many of those films, like Far From Heaven , A Single Man or Chloe have the unlikely correlation of featuring actress Julianne Moore , however, she plays it all up as entirely unplanned. Read the complete Julianne Moore Interview for the kids are all right here celebrity interviews

Nicola Peltz interview for the last airbender

You never know when the next child star will come and Nicola Peltz is every bit the next potential one. She scored roles in the independent comedy Harold as well as in more high-profile films like the Christmas comedy Deck The Halls and the crime thriller Righteous Kill. Now the 15 year-old has landed what is her biggest role to date as waterbender Katara in M. Night Shymalan’s film adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series, The Last Airbender. Read more about Nicola Peltz interview here celebrity interviews

Taylor Lautner Interview for twilight saga eclipse

Taylor Lautner was a mostly virtually unknown child star whose biggest claim to fame was playing the male title character in Robert Rodriguez’s 3D children’s fantasy The Adventures Of Sharkboy And Lavagirl. However, all that changed when he became the face of carefree, yet highly intense Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga... Read more about Taylor Lautner interview here celebrity interviews

Kristen Stewart Interview

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robert pattinson interview

In 2008, Robert Pattinson was just your everyday British acting talent. But all that changed overnight when he became the face of the perfectly coiffed and pale, brooding vampire Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga.

In the wake of Twilight and its sequel New Moon’s enormous success, it has turned the Londoner into easily the most internationally sought-after pin-up idol to come out of England since George Michael. While Pattinson has continued to build his career with independent films like From Ashes and Remember Me, the 24 year-old returns as Edward in the latest film in the series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Robert first discussed how he feels Edward has evolved with the latest Twilight film. “In the first two movies, he feels desolation from reality,” he believes, “So when he finds one thing to hold onto, that’s where the possessiveness comes from. I think, as the series goes on, he accepts more of the contemporary world.”

“All the things that were deemed to be flawed before start fading away, and that’s how I’m trying to play him,” Pattinson adds, “He’s coming out of his shell a little bit in Eclipse, so hopefully, by the end of Breaking Dawn, he’ll be a normal 17-year-old guy, who’s just a little bit pale.”

Pattinson remarks that there is one subtle ingredient that he uses to truly embody the character of Edward.

“Probably the contact lenses,” Robert says, “They make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That’s what creates the pouting and brooding character.”

Robert shared what he felt he had to learn that was new for Edward this time around. “I guess I had to learn how to run properly,” he claims, “In the last two, I ran in a limp slash-skip, and I had to look like I could run more solidly this time. So, I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.”

Pattinson says that one thing he does share in common with Edward is his belief that everyone has a soul.

“I can’t remember who said it, but a soul and a heaven must exist because good people aren’t rewarded enough on Earth,” he believes, “I always liked that....