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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.
Actress Anapola Mushkadiz created quite a stir in her first ever role in
Battle in Heaven: that's what an opening scene featuring actual sex can do. Mushkadiz talks to Chris Neumer about why America needs to get over on-screen blowjobs, why and why acting is so surprisingly easy.
Bai Ling talks almost entirely in metaphor. No one will ever mention this to you, but she does. Chris Neumer attempts to make sense of this and gets into why it's occasionally necessary to eat maggots and when 'not thinking' is the best approach to something.
Brian Herzlinger is the most upbeat filmmaker in the world. He took his winnings from the gameshow
Taboo, bought a video camera at Circuit City and spent 30 days filming his attempts to land a date with Drew Barrymore. Now his warm, delightful film is getting a nationwide theatrical release. Chris Neumer talks to Herzlinger about life, love and happiness.
Actor Charlie Hunnam knows what he wants and is doing his best to get it on his terms. Steering away from what he calls the 'disposable shit' and fighting for the projects that interest him, Hunnam's already ahead of the normal Hollywood learning curve.
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.
Writer/director Duncan Jones' feature debut was the stunning, sci-fi tale,
Moon. Jones chats with Chris Neumer to talk up Sam Rockwell, get into why studying philosophy can make you miserable and how certain types of acting are like jazz.
Virtually no actor had a better breakout year in 2003 than Queens, New York native, Franky G (it stands for Gonzales... don't ask). The seventh letter of the alphabet starred in
Manito, The Italian Job, Wonderland and
Confidence. From here, the sky is the limit.
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Haylie Duff to get the full story on creating her own unique brand. Together, the two touch on the pain of (audition) rejection, why casting directors can't see passed your last role and how to cry on command.
Jena Malone is one of Hollywood’s most promising young actors. With solid turns in
Life as a House,
Donnie Darko and
The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys to her credit, Malone is charging into the public conscience. Chris Neumer spoke to Malone about her co-starring role in
Donnie Darko as part of
Stumped’s exclusive look into writer/director Richard Kelly's provocative and thought-provoking debut.
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Jennifer Hall to find out how she is handling the pitfalls of Hollywood. Hall lets Neumer in on the secret of why she paints spoons, how important the catering is to a party and how you play 'beautiful'.
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.
Jesse Jane is one of the adult film world's biggest stars. So big, in fact, her movies are now being stripped of sex and released as R-rated movies. Chris Neumer talks to Jane here.
Letters to Cleo singer Kay Hanley had one of the biggest aural impacts of 2001, singing the lead vocals for Josie in the grossly misunderstood film,
Josie and the Pussycats. Chris Neumer talks to Hanley about hair metal, learning under fire and, once, even manages to get serenaded.
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Laura Ramsey to get the inside scoop into her rise to fame and path in the future. Together, the two discuss spring break, the casting couch and losing out on roles because you're too good looking.
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Lauren Bittner to get the full story on how she is navigating through the Hollywood mine fields. Together, the two discuss arguing with your parents over roles, being cast as "Babe #1" and what it's like to have your ass show up on Letterman.
You might know Marko Jaric by his official title: the luckiest man on the planet. Jaric earns $8 million a year at his dreamjob, point guard in the NBA. He is also married to the hottest woman on earth, Adriana Lima. Chris Neumer speaks to Jaric to talk about life, basketball and how annoying Rajon Rondo is.
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead about life in Hollywood. The two touch why being mobbed on the street is bad, being vulnerable is good and why Winstead occasionally finds it necessary to think about her family being killed.
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Meagan Good to get the full story on how she is parsing out her career. Together, the two discuss what it's like to land your first lead role, what it's like being black in Hollywood and why the media blows everything out of proportion... including getting a kiss from Jamie Foxx.
Writer/director Michael Wilson is in a very unusual place: he is in the midst of a heated bidding war for his first film... and he isn't close to being done with it yet. These are the benefits of making a documentary called
Michael Moore Hates America. Chris Neumer talks to the not-quite-yet rookie filmmaker to get this one-of-a-kind story.
CHRIS NEUMER: I assume you are getting ready for an assload of talk about the movie that doesn’t even have a name yet. Possibly Cloverfield.
MIKE VOGEL: (laughs) Yeah, I’d tell you that name if I knew it. It’s …
Being an actress is a most unusual job. Chris Neumer speaks to up-and-coming actress Nora Zehetner to get the skinny on her career path. Neumer and Zehetner get into the awful nature of auditioning, why reporters shouldn't wear sweatpants and whether Natalie Portman looks hot with very short hair.
Writer/director Richard Kelly tapped into the zeitgeist of American culture in his debut project
Donnie Darko. Critically acclaimed and almost universally loved, Kelly talks to Chris Neumer about the stresses of being an extremely young director, why Drew Barrymore is a life-saver and the challenges of marketing one of the most unusual films in recent memory.
Shia LaBeouf is Hollywood's fastest rising male star. His films
Transformers and
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen have been some of the biggest hits of the last decade. We talk to him about life in the fast lane, why he feels that Michelle Trachtenberg is the female Garry Shandling and which leading actor is nicknamed "Glass Dick".