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Once a movie villain, always a villain.
Mark Hamill described his Sundance offbeat comedy “Brigsby Bear,” in which he plays an unsympathetic character, as both comedic and poignant.
“There were elements in it, especially with my character and Jane Adams’ — my wife — that I thought, ‘Boy it’s going to be really tricky to remain sympathetic when they find out what we’ve done,'” he said. “I thought ‘I like playing villains, anyway.'”
Director Dave McCary and stars Matt Walsh, Kyle Mooney, and Michaela Watkins also discussed the film at the Variety Studio presented by Orville Redenbacher’s, at the Sundance Film Festival.
The day before the Oscars, all your favorite indie stars along with a slew of Oscar nominees stopped by the Variety Portrait Studio presented by AT&T at the Independent Spirit Awards. Get an inside look at the portrait sessions in this exclusive video and see all the gorgeous portraits of Tilda Swinton, Sterling K. Brown, [...]
Although Debra Eisenstadt was on the set of her own film, “Imaginary Order,” the director said she was still “battling a lot of sexism.” The filmmaker revealed that the crew questioned her direction, forcing her to fire an assistant director due to his behavior. “The AD’s talking over me or having separate conversations and I [...]
“Eighth Grade” writer/director Bo Burnham and star Elsie Fisher discussed portraying the ambivalence of the internet in their new film. “This is a good portrayal of what the internet is. It’s not always smiles or obsessing on emojis. It’s its own thing. It’s not bad or good; it’s both,” Fisher said at the Variety Studio [...]
Screen Actors Guild Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio stopped by the Variety platform to talk about his own early days as an actor. Including a time where he channeled fellow nominee Joaquin Phoenix during one of his earlier auditions. Phoenix would go on to win the SAG award that night for actor, and namecheck DiCaprio as the […]
SAG Award winner Jennifer Aniston didn’t always get every job she auditioned for, “I wanted to be a waitress at the saloon restaurant in New York City,” Aniston told Variety. “You had to be in roller skates. It was a really horrible audition.” The recent Instagram convert, Aniston was hesitant to lavish too much praise […]
SAG Foundation president and award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance doesn’t understand why last week’s Oscar nominations were so white (again). “I don’t know why because I know the projects are there,” he told Variety’s Marc Malkin at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, referring to the amount of films directed and starring people of color in 2019. Only two of […]
