- It’s the summer of Michael Shannon: The Man of Steel actor has a high-profile Chicago play and the hit series Boardwalk Empire on his plate – Chicago Tribune – The problem, said writer-director David Koepp, who cast Shannon as a sweaty loser of a villain in the thriller “Premium Rush,” is “an actor who makes a mainstream bad guy believable will be asked to do that a lot.”
- ’Notes on Comedy, My Own and Others’, Pedro Almodóvar – Timing in comedy is not like rational time. When the actor gives his reply, he hasn’t had the physical or mental time to assimilate the previous line, but he has to deliver his reply at full speed. No one is going to wonder if he’s understood what was being said to him. If the audience does wonder, it’s a bad sign.
- How ’The Thing’ became John Carpenter’s ’The Thing’ –