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Mandy Patinkin on Acting

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Patinkin explains that in the case of Wonder he had been actively seeking more lighthearted material than what he has being doing on Homeland. He says, “I read the story and I go, ‘Do I like this story? Does it speak to me? Do I connect with it as a normal fellow?’ And if the answer is yes then I give it to my wife to tell me if I’m crazy or not. And if she likes it then I usually go. But right now because Homeland has been such a dark tale that we’ve been telling I’m really looking for the balance to that. I’m literally telling everyone, everywhere I go, ‘Please, I want to do a comedy.’ I want to make myself laugh and I want to make other people laugh and I want to have fun.”

Of course, Patinkin takes his job very seriously — for example, for his role on Chicago Hope he did extensive research. He reveals, “I love doing research for any part that I do. That’s one of the most fun parts of being an actor to me. So I scrubbed in on 18 open-heart surgeries to research this. On one of them one of the doctors let me assist and then the head operating nurse almost had him disbarred. I was told to hold the heart while he was doing the bypass and I did what I was told. It was amazing. The other thing that blew me away is that we are all identical inside once you get through the layers of fat. I realized if I was told I couldn’t act anymore or I couldn’t sing anymore I would go back to school and become a physician’s assistant. To this day I hold that in my back pocket.”

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Denzel Washington on Why He Keeps Coming Back to Broadway

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While many big-name actors still challenge themselves by doing Broadway from time to time, Washington seems like he is almost a regular on the Great White Way since playing Brutus in the 2005 production of Julius Caesar. He’s set to return in the 2018 production of The Iceman Cometh. As for why Washington keeps coming back, he says, “I think a part of it is that I do three things. I don’t just act in movies…I keep trying to get better. I’m just growing as an actor, and you come to a place in life where you go, ‘Well, you know, I don’t know how many days I got left, but there’s only so many roles.’ I’m interested in different challenges, and challenging myself and just trying to get better.”

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[ News ] Tina Turner Musical to Hold Open Auditions for West End Production

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Open auditions are being held for the role of young Tina Turner in a new West End musical about the music icon’s life.

Auditions will take place at the National Youth Theatre rehearsal rooms in London on Saturday January 13, with registration at 10.30am.

The company of Tina is looking for black and mixed race girls aged 9 to 12 to portray Anna Mae, the 11-year-old Tina Turner.

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Benedict Cumberbatch on “Failing” as an Actor

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When Yorke asks Cumberbatch if he ever feels “out of depth” after taking on a role. He responds, “Lots of times. But if you can’t fail, you can never get better. And these weren’t total failures, these enterprises, but there was a lot that wasn’t right about them. One of the first roles I had on stage was with a brilliant director in a brilliant play with a brilliant cast, but I just couldn’t find my way into the heart of the character. I found myself straining a lot.”

Cumberbatch continues by providing a specific example of when he felt lost at the start of working on a character. He says, “I felt lost. That was [the Eugène Ionesco play] Rhinoceros. I don’t mind saying the name, because I’ve talked about it. It was partly because of where my head was at, and it was a big leap of discipline. I don’t think I was prepared for that. I don’t think I had the full tool kit to do it justice. It’s a very difficult play, it’s an extraordinarily difficult part, and I never felt I really got it right. Far from it. To a degree, Hamlet was the same. But not to do with the production or anything else—the challenge of doing that night after night was just the most extraordinary.”

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Jodie Foster Recalls How She Got Her Role in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’

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Foster reveals that there was a sizeable chance that she would not have played Starling even though she desperately wanted the role. She reveals, “I had just won an Oscar so I thought I’ve got a shot. It was going to be directed by Gene Hackman, who was going to play Crawford and he read the first draft [but] said that it was too violent and he dropped out. I thought I’d be considered to direct but the studio said that the next director was going to be Jonathan Demme and he’s not interested in you. I was devastated. So, I got on a plane and I said to him I want to be your second choice and eventually got the role.”

Though the interplay between Lecter and Starling is one of the most memorable aspects of the movie, Foster admits that the two actually didn’t work much with each other on set. She says, “I did the whole first part of the movie without him; he went off [after rehearsal] to go and shoot another movie. He only shot for 7 or 10 days or maybe even less. I never saw him until halfway through the movie. Much of the dialogue is straight to camera, a Hitchcock technique so some days I never even saw him. It was the last day of shooting and I was eating a tuna fish sandwich and I said ‘I was a little scared of you’ and he said ‘I was scared of you’ and then we had a big hug.”

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