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...offer to play the role because he couldn't get out of his Remington Steele TV contract. But he was ready to take the part when asked again in 1994. After Roger Moore's ironic, almost geriatric Bond, and then Timothy Dalton's leaden, I'm-really-a-serious-actor Bond, the debonair Irishman has reinvigorated the old spy and started to make the character his own. Although he delivers Bond-mots with requisite panache, Brosnan plays the part straighter and steelier than Moore did, and he's plainly more comfortable in 007's skin than Dalton...
...collaborations with professionals have been some of my most rewarding as an actor,” Knapp said, “and we need to give actors that opportunity...
...1970s also saw Kentridge becoming heavily involved with theater as a set designer, actor, writer and director. In 1975, he helped found the Junction Avenue Theatre Company, based in Johannesburg and Soweto. Kentridge’s interest in theater then led him briefly away from Johannesburg to study mime and theatre at the Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France, from 1981 to 1982. In more recent years, he has collaborated with the Handspring Puppet Company, creating multimedia theater combining animation, puppets and live actors. In 1998, the Company staged a multimedia version of the opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse...
...first-time movie actor was playing a character based loosely on himself—an American-born half-Iranian, half-Latino young man, who travels to Iran to find his roots. His character attempts suicide after a confrontation with his father. Rossoukh, who did all his own stunts, had to jump into a deep pool of water with a rock tied to his ankle by a rope in a slipknot. Though he had practiced untying it, during the actual filming, while resting on the bottom of the pool and acting as if he were drowning, Rossoukh had trouble releasing...
...Reich ’03, the eponymous Highwayman and a friend of Jarcho’s since childhood, messes up a line in a particularly odd way, he and Jarcho burst out laughing. After about thirty seconds, the rest of the cast looks at each other mystified. Finally, one actor admits “I don’t get it” and the rest of the casts nods in agreement. Later, Reich says that its not unusual for he and Jarcho to be the only two laughing. He says, “It comes from being someone...