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Nikita's Lyndsy Fonseca on John Carpenter's The Ward and Hunger Games Auditions

Nikita's Lyndsy Fonseca on John Carpenter's The Ward and Hunger Games Auditions

Twenty four-year-old Lyndsy Fonseca has been familiar to television fans since her days on The Young and the Restless (she also appeared on Boston Public, Big Love, Desperate Housewives, and as Ted Mosby's future daughter on How I Met Your Mother) but she made herself known in fierce fashion last fall as Maggie Q's cunning and loyal protégé, Alex, on The CW's lady spy series Nikita. This week Fonseca adds to her growing film slate with a turn in John Carpenter's The Ward, a '60s-set psychological horror tale also filled with complex female relationships, themes of survival, and endless twists and turns.

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John Carpenter on His Decade Away from Filmmaking, the Problem With Today's Horror, and The Ward

John Carpenter on His Decade Away from Filmmaking, the Problem With Today's Horror, and The Ward

Ten years ago, after completing his 20th film in 27 years, filmmaking legend John Carpenter took a sabbatical from filmmaking. "I was tired," he explained to Movieline, pointing to a decades-long career spent filming one project after the next, including genre classics like Halloween, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, and They Live. "I had given up my personal life and given up my health -- given up a lot of things, because of my love of movies, and I'd stopped loving cinema."

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