These days, Brad Cooper is a world-famous, preposterously handsome actor nominated for best actor at this Sunday’s Oscars for his work running around in a garbage bag in Silver Linings Playbook. But back in 1999, he was just a fresh-faced, preposterously handsome, 24-year-old with a Hugh Grant haircut studying at the actor’s studio. Sean Penn was in the studio, and young Mr. Cooper even got to ask him a question. A very actor-y question:
“Morgan Freeman narrated his own birth,” and other Morgan Freeman facts. South Park clearly started this, but that’s okay because it was worth piggybacking. Morgan Freeman facts are the new Chuck Norris facts. [via Viral Viral]
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Boy, that escalated quickly |theChive|
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You know how you always suspected that actors all give the same lame, uncreative answers in interviews? Well, you’re going to love this remix of Inside the Actors studio. By the way, “Hate” is not a good word to hate, dummies, it’s concept that you hate. “Inappropriate,” now there‘s a word I hate. [via ScreenWerks]
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Man, today’s movie news is boring. My favorite thing I’ve seen today is this guy named “Fagley Dork.” Anyway, here’s Inside the Actor’s Studio’s James Lipton onstage with Charlie Sheen at his Violent Torpedoes of T-Shirt Slogans tour last night in New York. Charlie brought James Lipton up so that James could ask Charlie his favorite curse word, and James Lipton was like, “F-ck it, I’ll come onstage for three seconds. I ain’t doin nothin.” Charlie’s answer, which he probably had at least a day to come up with was:
“It’s either ‘f*ck’… or ‘Denise!’”
Hahahahahahaha get it? It’s funny because that’s the mother of his children. Oh, Charlie, you rogue. My question is this: is there any situation you could put James Lipton in where his presence would be at all surprising? I swear that guy could be onstage with Gaddafi helping a Ukrainian nurse roast a goat and no one would bat an eye. As for Charlie Sheen, everyone agrees that his show is boring as hell. My favorite account of one of his shows was of a heckler shouting, “THIS IS THE WORST THING I’VE EVER SEEN!” at the top of his lungs. And then seconds later, “THIS IS WORSE THAN CHERNOBYL!” That’s quality heckling right there. They should just combine this with the Spider-Man musical and let the crowd shoot paintballs at them.
[via GotchaMedia]
Franco demonstrates his "witnessing gay sex" face
James Franco takes acting seriously, and being a serious actor requires proving your commitment to the craft by doing things like gaining or losing 60 pounds, shaving off your eyebrows to play a cancer patient, or most importantly, research. People say Jane Goodall started as an actress preparing for a movie about apes who just took things a little too far. Franco was recently on Inside the Actor’s Studio talking about preparing for his role in Sonny, in which he plays a male prostitute. Naturally, he did this by hanging out with a gigolo. The gigolo serviced both men and women, and at one point during Franco’s research, sh*t got pretty real. Franco describes hanging out with the guy in the back of a strip club when the guy suddenly got a call. Get a call, slide down a pole — sounds just like being a fireman.
He says, ‘Oh, you’re playing a male prostitute? You wanna do some real research? Come with me right now.’ And I said, ‘Well I’m not gonna do anything…’ and he said, ‘Aw, this guy’s so coked out of his mind, he won’t even know you’re there. Just sit in the chair in the corner and take your shirt off and it’ll be fine.’”
In related news, that describes every note from a director Channing Tatum has ever received.
