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Flying under the tabloids' radar, Alison Lohman is a star for the new millennium: she is focused on her work, not her image. Chris Neumer sits down to chat with her and quickly gets inside the ins-and-outs of good co-stars and why Lohman believes that everything she does is hard.
Andy Serkis is the least recognized actor with major roles in The Lord of the Rings series, King Kong and The Rise of the Planet of Apes. Playing Gollum, King Kong and Cesar, Serkis' countenance has been shrouded in a mask of pixels, but this doesn't bother him a bit. For him, it's all about the character.
Actor Damien Nguyen turns in one of the summer's finest performances in his first feature,
The Beautiful Country. Nguyen (pronounced 'win') sits down with Chris Neumer to go over de-learning English, why you shouldn't get drunk and do press and the irony of a tragic movie with a very light-hearted and silly set.
Holmes Osborne is one of those character actors who you’ve seen many times, but whose name you don't know. I spoke to him about his role as Donnie Darko’s father, Eddie, in director Richard Kelly’s first movie
Donnie Darko. The role provided Osborne with some interesting acting moments, including the opportunity to spend an entire afternoon crying in front of teamsters.
Actress/screenwriter, Jennifer Westfeldt, was one of the major driving forces behind the delightful indie,
Kissing Jessica Stein/. Chris Neumer chats with Westfeldt about frat boys watching lesbian romantic comedies, creating a female Alvy Singer and why happy endings aren't always the best way to go.
Chris Neumer sat down to watch director Steven Spielberg's iconic film,
Raiders of the Lost Ark and took notes. Get inside what made Marion Ravenswood drinking contest win so damn impressive, why the film doesn't have a bad guy, one of the best stunts of all time and just how strange of a dude Rene Belloq is in this running commentary.
Actor Scott Cohen plays the token male character in
Kissing Jessica Stein, a role he relishes immensely. Cohen talks to Chris Neumer about the energy of New York City, playing dark characters and why you should never get arrested early in the morning after a late night of shooting.
The artistry of author Michael Crichton’s fiction was the level of almost insane detail he included in it. It wasn’t just that he would come up with interesting plot lines, but he’d then research them down to the finest detail …