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“Hughie redefines the role. He brings this sexy creature to the front, but he also has this childlike persona that could break down like a five-year-old at any moment. He’s breathtaking.” - Stephen Buntrock on Hugh Panaro as The Phantom

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When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?

Retta, on the roles she would be offered in Hollywood.

“Casting directors, who don’t necessarily know me — all they get are pictures. So they see your face, and they’re like, ‘Oh, we can place her in this or that.’ “

Check out NPR’s story on actors of color navigating stereotypes in Hollywood.

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Jan 12

offbeatorbit:

tollboothmartyr replied to your post: I mean the best is when people write a bunch of…

i remember seeing this one post about Benedict Cumberbatch that was like OMG HE’S AN ACTOR PLAYING A CHARACTER WHO HAS TO ACT AS SOMEONE ELSE SO DEEP AND INTRICATE

LOL IT’S LIKE THESE PEOPLE HAD NO IDEA WHAT ACTING WAS UNTIL THEY SAW BBC SHERLOCK.

I enjoyed that show too but JESUS CHRIST IT’S NOT LIKE EVERY OTHER PIECE OF MEDIA WAS AMATEUR HOUR BEFORE THIS.

Thank you

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Dec 04

Richard Armitage talks about working with Martin Freeman

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Nov 16

pheebshalliwellturner:

Rob & Allen @ Downton Abbey Q&A at the Apple Store in London – A Best Of?

* On being a sex symbol: Rob: “As an actor you focus on the scene. No one’s bigger than the show.”

Allen: “Are you asking if we get more sex?”

Rob: “You’re only as good as your last job.”

* Branson was originally supposed to be a Yorkshire man! But when @Allenleech auditioned he became Irish.

Rob on Thomas’ injury in WW1: him putting his hand up (to be shot) after 2 years on the Somme was actually “incredibly brave”.

* @Allenleech says there is a “bromance” on screen with Tom and Matthew, offscreen it is with him and Rob.

Q: @boydhilton asks: since today’s Halloween, what would you be at a #Downton Abbey party?

A: Rob: I’d dress up as Dame Maggie Smith. I’ve not shaved my legs for nothing!

A: @allenleech: Can I go for Maggie’s walking stick?

Q: What’s your favorite thing about life on the set of @DowntonAbbey?

A: Rob: Free food.

@Allenleech: Rob James-Collier.

Q: @DowntonAbbey is set in the ‘20s, are you happy in 2012 or would you prefer ⁰life back then?

A: Rob: Given the opportunities for social mobility, it’d be 2012.

Q : Which is better: Upstairs with the Crawleys or downstairs with the servants?

A: @allenleech: Life was easier for Tom downstairs.

Q: Is there something under appreciated about Branson?

A: @allenleech: His passion can be misconstrued as something more sinister.

Q: Rob - Your character has been described as ‘the evil one’. What is Thomas really like?

A: Rob: ‘Misunderstood’.

Q: If you could write one scene for your character, what would it be about?

A: Rob: Thomas Barrow opens the first Edwardian gay bar.

Q: What’s the most fun scene you had to shoot?

A: @allenleech : Any scene driving the car -#broken

Q: What has been your favorite line so far?

A: Rob: Matthew “Touch wood.” Lord Grantham “I never stop touching wood.”

Q: Out of everyone in the cast, who would have the longest blooper reel?

A: Siobhan Finneran!

Q: @boydhilton: How did you get into acting?

A: Rob: I was working in an office as a Marketing Assistant and “The Office” was on, and I thought this is my office… I hated where I was and chose to do something to express myself. In my first acting class I felt like I had come home.

Q: Has your personal life changed being on a hit show?

A: @Allenleech: Walking down the street on a Monday after the episode people say hello.

A: Rob: If I’m out and about I’m usually running as I’m invariably late.

A: Allen: Going out on the Tube is a bit of a day out!

A: Rob: In terms of opportunity I’ve been to South Africa and dived with Great White Sharks, the Olympics - amazing events!

Q: In honour of Halloween, what’s your favorite horror movie & what’s your favorite sweet?

A: @allenleech: The Chucky movies - I was a kid and shouldn’t have been watching them.

Rob: “Halloween”.

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Nov 10

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racebending:

And then there is, of course, the pressure of being an Asian American actor when roles with some heft are few and far between and the backlash from a community starved for humanizing portrayals can be harsh. Early in his career, Yeun turned down an acting gig in Chicago because, as he put it, “they wanted me to play Long Duk Dong.” But, for actors that do play stereotypes, Yeun reserves his judgment.

“Honestly, if you could make that fun, and you can do it and you can make that your own and have fun doing it, then, God, by all means do it,” says Yeun. “I don’t personally want that character to represent us in terms of the fact that we’re American. We speak English. We pay taxes. We grew up in Michigan. So for me, it’s just I couldn’t do that honestly.”

Luckily for him, he’s landed a role that doesn’t compromise his principles, and he’s not about to squander it. “I just hope to kind of do right, you know? If it definitely forwards, you know, kind of like helps the Asian American male to really permeate throughout Hollywood, then I don’t know if I can take that torch, but I’d love to do anything I can to help that.” But in terms of his own career, says Yeun: “My biggest struggle is to never become that guy that got hired because they needed to cast this role Asian American. I don’t want to be that guy that got added just because he had to fill the look rather than the actual abilities.”

Read the full interview at KoreAM magazine!

Yeah dude. You just pretty much summed up acting. Thank youuuu

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Aug 03

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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Barbara Sher (via creatingaquietmind)

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Jul 15

Neil Gaiman how great are you?

Jun 11

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and remember

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Feb 16

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mouth-taped-shut:

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is in theaters NOW in the US, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Visit dragontattoo.com for tickets and show times. The film opens next week in the UK and Ireland. Check IMDb for release dates in other countries.

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