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Archive for April, 2007

Artistic confidence – Rex Lee likes being strange

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Rex Lee plays assistant Lloyd to a “rabid boss” – agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) on HBO’s hit series “Entourage.”
In an article on Lee [Memoirs of a Gaysian, by Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times April 12, 2007] the author notes “Lloyd has become something of a pop icon — thanks in large part to the [...]

Actor training – Rebecca Brooksher on her experience at Juilliard

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Rebecca Brooksher plays Kelly in Dying City, at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. In a Backstage.com interview [by Simi Horwitz, April 04, 2007] she talks about her decision to apply to Juilliard: “I’m not one of those people who finds the idea of [being] a starving artist acceptable. I felt that if I did [...]

Building identity – Claire Danes on taking time to discover and become herself

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Looking back at her earlier career and the fame of her 1994 show My So-Called Life, Claire Danes admitted in an interview that she always took herself very seriously. “I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate…grown up.
“When I was 18, I went [...]

Building identity – Rashida Jones on the creative value of her mixed ethnicity

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Rashida Jones plays Karen Filipelli on NBC’s The Office. The daughter of actor Peggy Lipton and musician Quincy Jones, she is biracial and also Jewish.
A recent magazine article noted she is “Constantly told she looks too light to play African American, and rarely cast in period pieces” because, she explains, “people like me didn’t exist.” [...]

Artistic confidence – Melora Hardin on social reactions

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Melora Hardin [Jan Levinson in NBC's "The Office"] is also a musician, and in our interview several years ago, she talked about how actors and artists – especially women – are responded to and labeled.
“I have never ever felt when I walked into a room as a brunette that anybody was testing my intelligence. But [...]

Keeping your integrity – Zooey Deschanel: being unique and not a babe

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

“I don’t think I’m very much like anyone else, really. I’m sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don’t see anybody else and go, ‘Damn, they stole my thing.’ I’m me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.” …
“I don’t want to be a [...]