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Prisoners and Acting: An Interview with Melissa Leo
MovieMaker spoke to Melissa Leo, one of 2013’s hardest-working actresses (she turned in performances in six of the year’s releases, including Oblivion and Prisoners), earlier this month at the blustery...
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Things I’ve Learned: Clark Gregg
This Wisdom Wednesday, multi-talented writer/director/star of Trust Me, Clark Gregg, shares the things he’s learned as one of the industry’s most versatile actors. Boston native Clark Gregg may be...
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Dark Horse: Interview with Jesse Eisenberg on Night Moves
As the lead environmental terrorist in Night Moves, Jesse Eisenberg takes it very seriously. John Ralske, MovieMaker Magazine (MM): This seems like a very different type of role for you, playing a...
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Disability and Acting: Hollywood Role Models and The Human Race
As an actor with an amputated leg, Eddie McGee often struggles to find complex and interesting roles to audition for. Here, McGee discusses his unconventional circumstances, his fight against onscreen...
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Three Women Talk In A Basement: Happy Christmas’ Melanie Lynskey On Improv,...
Melanie Lynskey has built a career on genuine, naturalistic portrayals of women in films like Up in the Air, Win Win Hello, I Must Be Going, and, at age 16, Heavenly Creatures. The New Zealand-born...
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Playing Both Sides: Mark Webber Talks Happy Christmas and Directing as an Actor
From roles in fan favorites like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, to writing and directing semi-autobiographical passion projects like The End of Love and this year’s The Ever After, Minneapolis-born Mark...
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Road Warrior: Jason Momoa’s Journey to Paloma
Towering over six feet four inches tall, Hawaiian born actor-director Jason Momoa’s powerful presence on screen is unmistakable. In the HBO series Game of Thrones, he is Khal Drogo, the fearsome...
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Flash Forward: Interview with the Fearless Carla Juri of Wetlands
Swiss actress Carla Juri makes a splash (a putrid, bacteria-laden splash) in the NSFW German film Wetlands, which premiered at Sundance this January, and opens in select U.S. theaters on September 5....
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Intimate Terror: Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway Embody a Fractured...
Leigh Janiak’s psychological thriller Honeymoon brings together actors Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway as a recently married couple under one cabin roof. As one would expect from a story about happy...
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Understanding Actors: Interview with Director Jen McGowan of Kelly & Cal
Actress-turned-director Jen McGowan premiered her feature debut, Kelly & Cal, at South by Southwest this March. The film, about the unusual friendship between a struggling new mom and her...
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Flash Forward: an Interview with Melissa Benoist of Whiplash
Born and raised in Littleton, CO, 26-year-old Melissa Benoist is best known for her role as Marley-Rose on the song-and-dance TV juggernaut Glee. This week, however, her considerable charms are...
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Bing, Bang, Boom: an Interview with J.K. Simmons
You know J.K. Simmons. Even if you don’t know the name, you probably know the face, and you definitely know the voice. That punchy rumble, at once blustering and commanding, has echoed down the...
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Happy Birthday, Robert Duvall: The Screen Legend Lays Down the Law
Robert Duvall turns 84 today! We’re revisiting our most recent interview with the ever-opinionated, hardworking acting legend – still the coolest guy in the room. At SXSW 2014, MovieMaker caught up...
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Flash Forward: Desiree Akhavan is Not Lena Dunham
Desiree Akhavan hates it when she’s compared to Lena Dunham. This is no dis on the creator of HBO’s Girls—indeed, Akhavan goes out of her way to express admiration for the strong, feminist comedic...
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The Last Five Years: Interview with Richard LaGravenese and Jeremy Jordan
The Last Five Years, by director Richard LaGravenese, opens this Valentine’s Day weekend in theaters and VOD, to compete with a certain other romance with a little more sexual voltage. This smaller...
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Flash Forward: Maika Monroe Doesn’t Spook Easily
In 2011, Maika Monroe was ready to hang up on her dreams of becoming an actor. Though she had been involved in a handful of small projects, Hollywood had yet to come calling. At 17 she moved to the...
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The Human Element: Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson Talk Ex Machina
In the cerebral sci-fi potboiler Ex Machina, Domhnall Gleeson plays Caleb, a bright young programmer picked, seemingly at random, to spend a week with the mysterious owner (Nathan, played by Oscar...
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There are No Non-Actors: Garrett Bradley Casts Below Dreams From Real Life
Many independent films, by choice or necessity, are populated by non-professional actors. For some moviemakers, the prospect of working with “amateurs” might be daunting, but in some circumstances a...
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On Directing Actors: An Interview with Tim Blake Nelson
For nearly 20 years, Tim Blake Nelson has shoe-horned in his filmmaking alongside a robust and, as he describes it, “privileged” acting career. It’s a career that has landed him on the sets of some of...
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Art School Confidential: Timothy Spall on Painting the Sublime in Mr. Turner
“Implosive, curious mind… beautiful, grandiloquent language.” That’s Timothy Spall describing Joseph Mallord William Turner, whose mantle the actor takes on in Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh’s new biopic of...
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