Justin Long Interview for Going the Distance - Celebrity Interviews

Despite being in a wide variety of films, Justin Long’s perennial home has been consistently in the world of comedy in films such as Galaxy Quest, Dodgeball, Accepted, and Zack And Miri Make A Porno. His latest role is as Garrett, who play one half of a couple with co-star Drew Barrymore dealing with a long-distance relationship, in the romantic comedy Going The Distance.

The 32 year-old says the experience of doing a film with such a talented and funny supporting cast like Charlie Day, Jason Sudekis, and Christina Applegate proved to be more hard work than one would think.

“I always pride myself on being able to hold it together and kind of stable and kind of keep it together and take it,” Long says, “I’ve never had a harder time keeping a straight face and working these guys in. Rob Riggle and Kristen Shaal, you’re just so lucky to be surrounded by these people.”

Long shared with us the most challenging scene he had to do in the film.

“I would say some of the naked stuff was a little uncomfortable,” Justin reveals, “But I think the most challenging was trying to keep a straight face around my clown co-stars. I think just a lot of the intimate sexual stuff around a room full of 30-40 grown men, that was a challenge.”

And Justin says the kiss scene between he and co-star Drew Barrymore was hardly any less so.

“It was like a necessary evil, OK, here we go,” he says, “No, the first kiss in for us in the movie was, it was sloppy, we were stoned and so, it was easy to do. It was so comfortable. I like to think about my grandmother just because she’s always been an inspiration to me in my life.”

“No, I think you’re invested in the scene hopefully and sometimes it can be a surprise that you’ve never kissed anyone before that you met recently and people like different ways of kissing,” Long adds, “And sometimes, it can be very jarringly uncomfortable. It can be very little movement involved and it could be a quick sudden movement of the tongue that you don’t expect. She’s a great kisser, by the way.”

Going The Distance’s dinner date scene between Garrett and Drew…. Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Julia Roberts Interview for Eat Pray Love - Celebrity Interviews

From her Oscar-nominated role as Best Supporting Actress in Steel Magnolias in 1989, Julia Roberts has managed to have much of her roles be the finger on the pulse into the psyche of the everyday American woman. This has proven true from her Best Actress Oscar-nominated role in Pretty Woman to Sleeping With The Enemy to Notting Hill to Runaway Bride to Notting Hill to her Best Actress Oscar-winning role in Erin Brokovich to Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve and countless others.

Now the 42 year-old actress hopes to work her magic with women once again with her role as author Elizabeth Gilbert in a film adaptation of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Roberts says the decision of playing Elizabeth in a film version of the book was a no-brainer for her as she was a huge fan of the book

“I read the book before it became hugely popular,” Julia claims, “And I was glad about that because I am very suggestible. So I’ll be swayed. I’ll be determined to not like something, or I’ll be determined to like it better than four million other people.”

“So I had read it before it became so wildly popular,” she continues, “And thought it was so terrific, that thirty pages into it, got on Amazon.com and sent one to my best friend in Chicago and said, “Let’s read this in tandem, because I think it’s going to get real good real fast.”

Julia also says the opportunity of traveling to Naples in Italy, Bali in Indonesia, and Pataudi in India was too good to pass up doing.”

“[Deciding to do it] was weeks, because it’s not just committing to a job,” she says, “You’re committing to so much travel and so much time away from home. And it is working every day. And it’s just a lot of stuff. A lot more math goes into a decision like this, than just, ‘I don’t want to drive to Sony three days a week for a couple months.’

“It’s funny. [Co-star]Richard [Jenkins] said something very witty in Mexico about becoming an actor to see the world,” Roberts adds, “And I think that’s one of the things that was hugely interesting and ultimately gratifying for all of us was to really make those efforts… Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Christina Applegate Interview for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Celebrity Interviews

Christina Applegate is best known for her work in TV, as airhead Kelly Bundy on the sitcom Married…With Children, as well as Samantha Newly on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? But Applegate has also done many films, including comedies like Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, The Big Hit, The Sweetest Thing, and Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy.

Now the 38 year-old actress continues her voice work in the family film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore. Christina gave us the 411 on her character.

“I play Catherine, who is the agent from Meows,” she describes, “She’s an incredibly sophisticated, smart agent – spy-like, if you will – and she begrudgingly has to be teamed up with these dogs in order for her to stop Kitty Galore, who is about to destroy her universe as well. I love her. I think she’s a really wonderful, rich cat.”

Applegate was also asked about whether she was a cat or dog person.

“I am a both-person,” Christina describes, “I love all the animals. All shapes, colors, sizes, and species.”

Christina described the process of doing voice work for the film, which she says was quickly revealed to her is not the easy payday it appears to be on the surface.

“It took me a minute to figure out exactly what was going on,” Applegate recalls, “My first session with them, I had worked on Samantha Who? until 9:00 in the morning and then I had to be there at 11:00, so I wasn’t in the best possible condition to start doing this kind of voice. But director Brad [Peyton] kept saying, “More energy, more energy.” I think, with a lot of other animated movies, they can animate thought in the eyes of the character and they can animate physicality and all of these things, but for this, these are real dogs and cats, with our characters, at least, there was very little that was enhanced.”

“So it really was a cat sitting there,” she adds, “So what we really had to do is convey so much through the voice, and I think that’s when I finally understood when he said, “More energy.” It wasn’t ‘Louder, bigger’, it needed to be so full because that cat is not going to swerv....

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Bette Midler Interview for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Bette Midler is a legendary triple threat, a singer, actor, and comedian. She started out in theater, before her larger-than-life stage presence expanded into pop stardom in the 1970’s. By the 1980’s and 1990’s, it expanded into films like The Rose, Beaches, Stella, Hocus Pocus, The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives.

Now at age 64, Midler translates her legendary talents to a whole new medium, voice work, with the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore. The still-Divine Miss M gave us the 411 on her character.

“I’m a cat,” Bette describes of it, “I play Kitty Galore. Kitty Galore is an Egyptian sphinx cat. She’s hairless except for a little hair on her tail. She’s very cranky because she’s been rejected by her beloved human family and she’s determined to rule the world.”

“I came in for a number of sessions and it was really curious because, when I first started, it was just a sketch,” she continues, “As time went on, the backgrounds of the other characters got more and more filled in. That was very exciting to watch. I’ve never experienced that before.”

Bette was also asked about whether she was a cat or dog person.

“In real life, my pet passed,” Midler replies, “I’m a non-pet person at this point.

Midler described the process of doing voice work for the film.

“ It’s not just isolating,” she reveals, “it’s a little bit lonely because it’s just you in a dark room with a sketch of a character or sometimes a filled-in scene, but still you don’t work with the other actors,” It’s like one long looping session. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, ADR for days.’ The real thrill, I think, comes from seeing the finished product. The fact that [director] Brad [Peyton] could keep all these balls in the air and make all these that would form into one movie, it was absolutely staggering to me. I couldn’t imagine how you did it, because he was working with live actors, he was working with animals.”

“There’s nothing harder than working with animals,” Bette adds, “Those animals really looked like they knew what they were doing, but honestly, they’re animals. ‘Stay, stay, stay.’ I worked with animals before and it’s like, ‘Oh God.’ So the.....

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America Ferrera Interview for The Dry Land

After making her breakthrough role in the HBO film Real Men Have Curves, America Ferrera shot to TV glory with her role as geeky main character Betty Suarez on the ABC TV series Ugly Betty, while also achieving success in film with roles in The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants movies, Lords Of Dogtown, and How To Train Your Dragon.

With Ugly Betty having now ended this past season, the 26 year-old plays what is inarguably her most dramatic role yet as Sarah, the wife of a traumatized Iraq War veteran, in the drama The Dry Land. Ferrera was asked whether Sarah is indeed the most emotionally-challenging role by far in her career.

“I don’t think I can really compare it to anything else that I’ve done,” America says, “I feel like every role that I take on, I take on because it’s a challenge to me. I would say that this is probably the most grown-up role that I’ve gotten to play, which is exciting for me, and clearly the most presently important and serious role that I’ve gotten to play that has such an immediate resonance to what’s happening in our society right now. But it was challenging and it had its challenges, but in some ways, I feel like I could relate to Sarah more than to some other characters that I’ve played.”

“I think that because I’m not a woman who has a husband at war, I really did connect to this character on a human level that, as a woman, I could understand what her journey was outside of the military complex,” she adds, “It’s a woman who had a partner in life, a best friend, a husband, someone to share her life with, who then is inaccessible behind his eyes. How do you get him back? How do you find that person that was supposed to be there forever? And that felt like an easier thing to relate to than how would I feel if my husband went to war. I don’t think I could go there. I went to the easier place to go to, which is how somebody I cared about so much got lost behind their eyes and all I wanted to do was just see them back behin....

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