Just this year, Eric Stonestreet has gone from a Kansas-born actor best known for a minor role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to an Emmy nominee on this year's most well-accepted -- and arguably, best -- comedy on television. As Cameron Tucker, the most flamboyant member of Modern Family, Stonestreet is often responsible for delivering the show's biggest laugh lines, a fact not lost on the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. When Movieline bumped into the actor earlier this week at the Beverly Hilton, he was quick to cite his plan for the night which includes meeting his favorite actress and delivering an award-worthy losing performance.
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What if I told you that the best 3D I've seen since Avatar -- as well as the most fun I've had in a theater this year -- came from an innocuous little dance flick called Step Up 3D? While other directors use 3D to enhance special effects, director Jon Chu shows how eye-popping it can be when those cutting-edge cameras are pointed at real people (albeit people with superhuman dance talents). I talked to Chu about how he pulled it off, how many cameras he broke, and the movie's terrific, one-take showstopper.
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Within the past two years, Ellie Kemper has gone from a regular UCB performer to a series regular on The Office with a book deal and feature film roles in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere and the Kristen Wiig-penned Bridesmaids. It has been a meteoric rise Kemper was happy to modestly recount with Movieline this week at NBC's TCA event -- before diving into those Steve Carell replacement rumors and revealing the sisterly bond she shares with one of The Office's writers.
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Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from legendary Argentine movie star Isabel Sarli, the subject of a new documentary having its U.S. premiere this weekend in New York.
It's not every day you see a retrospective honoring Isabel "Coca" Sarli, the Argentine siren whose work with director (and eventual husband) Armando Bo resulted in one of the most prolific, searing and sensational partnerships of the 1960s and '70s. In fact, it's not really ever that you see such an event in the U.S. -- at least not until now.
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It's safe to say that Sam Rockwell and Jon Favreau enjoy a very good working relationship. Favreau gave the actor an uncredited role in his directorial debut Made, considered him to play Tony Stark in the original Iron Man, then let Rockwell do the bulk of Iron Man 2's scene stealing as Stark's rival Justin Hammer. At Comic-Con, Movieline spoke to Rockwell for a little while about their newest collaboration: Favreau's sci-fi western Cowboys and Aliens.
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Jon Voight's new turn on the Fox drama Lone Star as the oil tycoon father of a young con-man (James Wolk) will likely establish him as a TV mainstay, substantiating a streak that began with his recent stint on 24. We caught up with the 71-year-old legend at Fox's "All-Star" party in Santa Monica to discuss the new series, his daughter Angelina's new film, and his favorite film scene of all time.
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It was less than two years ago that most American filmgoers became familiar with Gemma Arterton, the 24-year old British actress whose all-too-brief tenure in Quantum of Solace ended in... well, oily fashion. Arterton has been more than a little busy (and conspicuous) in the time since, with another pair of blockbuster appearances culminating in this week's new indie thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed -- in which her title character puts up much more of a fight than her doomed Bond girl.
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As a roller coaster careened overhead at the Santa Monica Pier during this week's Fox press tour party, I met up with Glee's brightest star Lea Michele for a lightening round of Movieline mainstay My Favorite Scene. Who would have guessed that her favorite film moment of all time is probably the same one that her Glee character would have chosen?
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The Rachel Zoe Project is the best reality series on Bravo, supplanting longtime champ Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. While the flighty mega-stylist Rachel Zoe fronts the proceedings with Starbucks in one hand and a fistful of accessories in the other, her assistant Brag Goreski is his own kind of harried spectacle: an articulate, knowledgeable gent who keeps his appointments as straight as his suspenders. We caught up with Brad to discuss the new season (which premieres tonight), his communication with Rachel's departed assistant Taylor, and the reasons the show rules.
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Wilmer Valderrama spent almost a decade of his life hitting precise comic beats on That 70's Show, but in Ryan Piers Williams' returning-soldier drama The Dry Land, he's a revelation as an easy, unaffected actor. The role was an especially personal one for the 30-year-old, who's spent years visiting troops as part of the USO, where That 70's Show is an unexpected phenomenon. He told Movieline all about it, and dropped a little bit of information about his hush-hush new film with Tom Hanks as well.
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If you haven't yet caught on, Movieline is completely fascinated with Andy Cohen, the senior vice president of production at Bravo who also hosts a late-night talk show for the cable network and recently posted a blog entry on the network's site called We're All Going to Die. So when I spotted the exec and star during a Top Chef demonstration at this week's TCA Press Tour, I cornered him to ask about his dream talk show guest, his attraction to controversy, and the guest who indulged a little too much in the Watch What Happens Live open bar.
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Ilene Chaiken broke new ground when she created The L Word, but since that show's six-season run, most of TV's gay representation has come from the reality TV genre. It's only fitting, then, that Chaiken's latest project is The Real L Word, a reality spin on her original series that's currently winding down its first season on Showtime. Chaiken talked to Movieline about how surprised she was that Showtime wanted the show, how they shoot those sex scenes, and how LA lesbians might need a breather soon.
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Chris Harrison is The Bachelor(ette)'s consummate good guy, a host who officiates each rose ceremony with palpable sympathy. Movieline caught up with him on the eve of tonight's Bachelorette finale and grilled him about Jake Pavelka, his emotional connection with the contestants, and whether he prefers The Bachelor or The Bachelorette.
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How does a relatively unknown actor get cast opposite America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Melissa Leo as the lead in Ryan Piers Williams' drama The Dry Land? As Ryan O'Nan told Movieline, it's all thanks to one very fortuitous poker game.
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Although Gilmore Girls lives on at ABC Family and in the hearts of mothers and daughters around the world, Lauren Graham has moved on. After starring in a few films and trying her hand at television production, Graham returned to primetime last fall in NBC's ensemble drama Parenthood as Sarah Braverman, another character navigating the pitfalls of single motherhood in suburbia. This week, Movieline was among those meeting with Graham at Universal Studios to find out what project she'd like to tackle next, what confuses her about Gilmore Girls fandom, and what she considers to be a television success.
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