Word: actorly
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...spent many years as a struggling actor. What was that time like for you? -Lars Taner, LondonI get a little too much credit for that struggling actor thing. It wasn't like I was waiting tables for 15 years. There were only about three years of true struggle. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was doing construction work and other odd jobs to make some cash, and I rode a bicycle to auditions that were 15 or 20 miles away. But from that point on, I was making a living. If you are making a living...
...familiar face to contemporary audiences from his roles on TV (Law & Order) and in film (Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks), but the critically acclaimed actor George Grizzard made his name onstage with complex, emotionally demanding roles in plays by Neil Simon, Clifford Odets and, most famously, Edward Albee. As the assaulted Nick in the original 1962 production of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Grizzard, wrote a critic, "shifted from geniality to intensity with shattering rightness." Fittingly, when he took home the Best Actor Tony in 1996, it was for his insightful portrayal of patriarch Tobias...
Ryan Gosling's chemistry with his latest leading lady is palpable. "She showed up at the read-through, and I couldn't take my eyes off her," confesses the Canadian actor of his Lars and the Real Girl co-star, a soulful, half-Danish, half-Brazilian newcomer who goes by simply "Bianca." "I found her endlessly fascinating. She's got beautiful little freckles. I would look forward to our scenes together. I was relaxed when...
...play along and treat Bianca like any other pretty new girl in town. To become Lars, "I had to get rid of all the posturing and ideas of what I think makes me cool or charming and turn up the more vulnerable parts of myself," Gosling says. In another actor's hands, a relationship with a silicone co-star might devolve into a farce or a gross-out comedy. But Gosling infuses Lars with a gentleness and a sense of wonder, and instead the film unfolds as a subversive romance. "Ryan managed to have a relationship with her that didn...
...like 'Wow, you really slummed it on Half Nelson,'" he says. "For two months of work I made way more than my dad would make in a year working at a paper mill. You get all this credit for slumming it in the indie world. It's bullshit. Actors make good money." He seems pretty careful with it too, opting to live in L.A.'s not yet gentrified Skid Row rather than actor-bait neighborhoods like the Hollywood Hills. "I grew up having this thing about money where anybody who had it I didn't like, 'cause I didn...