Melissa George plays Laura in the HBO series In Treatment: “An attractive young anesthesiologist in the midst of a relationship crisis” seeking the help of a psychoanalyst, played by Gabriel Byrne.
HBO: Did you have any personal experience with therapy or was this a completely new world to you?
Melissa George: A completely new world, but I [...]

Liev Schreiber on emotional isolation
“Acting kind of insulates you from the world. Ironically you go into this job that you think is going to allow you to be expressive to people and to connect to the world.”
Liev Schreiber continued, “And the more successful you are in a strange way, the less emotionally connected you are [...]

Comfortable being alone
In an interview about “Tristan and Isolde,” James Franco commented about how acting relates to being someone who is more comfortable being alone.
Question: You talked about being a loner when you were at school. How hard is it going from being a loner to putting that aside an being an actor cause it [...]

“I’ve always felt more comfortable [with comedy] because I was scared of drama. I didn’t really know how to access my emotional side without wounding my own person.
“Once I learned how to do that it opened up all these doors to me and I realized, You know what? Real life contains moments of laughter followed [...]

High drug use in Hollywood
“It’s so obvious that this is a population that has a huge appetite for drugs.” Drew Pinsky, MD
The death of Heath Ledger – considered an accidental overdose of prescription medications – is another indication of how much drug use there is in the entertainment community. He also reportedly had a long [...]