NYGossipGirl Exclusive Interview: Lee Pace, Michael Angarano, Max Winkler

NYGossipGirl recently had the pleasure of chatting with the cast and director of Ceremony.

The film, which is out in theaters, follows Sam Davis (Michael Angarano) who convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker (Lee Pace).

However, it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with the filmmaker’s fiancee, Zoe (Uma Thurman), and that his true intention is to thwart their impending nuptials. As Sam’s plan begins to unravel, he is forced to realize how complicated love and friendship can be.

Max Winkler directs the film.

During the video interview, Pace and Angarano talked about their roles and what it was like working with Winkler. Pace also dished about his upcoming Twilight role.

Check out the exclusive interview below!

Edited: April 15th, 2011

NYGossipGirl Exclusive Interview: Michael Fassbender

NYGossipGirl recently caught up with X-Men star Michael Fassbender at the New York premiere of his new film Jane Eyre. The 33-year-old actor talked about his role as Rochester and what we can expect from X-Men: First Class.

NYGG – Talk a little about playing Rochester.

Fassbender – You know I like Rochester. I mean he does some questionable things, like locking your wife up in the attic [laughs] and it gives you an idea of what was considered crazy back in those days, but I think he is a good guy. He’s a complicated character.

NYGG – When are you going to play a good guy?

Fassbender – They’re all good [laughs]. There’s good and bad in everyone.

NYGG – What was it like working with Mia [Wasikowska] and Cary [Fukunaga]?

Fassbender – Mia was amazing. She’s brilliant and such a pleasure to work with and Cary is amazing, especially his direction on the film.

NYGG – What was it like filming X-Men? What can we expect?

Fassbender – It was really good. It’s going to come out soon, so I’m excited. It was hard work and it was a long shoot. There was a lot of great people involved and I worked with a really great cast. I have a lot of respect for [director] Matthew Vaughn as well. I’m really interested to see what his take on it is going to be. He’s an intelligent director and hopefully the fans are going to be happy because there’s so many die hard fans that we don’t want to let down.

NYGG – What do you have coming up?

Fassbender – Just X-Men and Jane Eyre. Also, I have Dangerous Method and Shame.

Edited: March 11th, 2011

NYGossipGirl Exclusive Interview: Mia Wasikowska

NYGossipGirl had the pleasure of chatting with Mia Wasikowska at the New York City premiere of her new film Jane Eyre.

The 21-year-old actress, who looked gorgeous in an Elie Saab dress, dished about preparing for the role and what it was like working on a period piece. Here’s what she shared:

NYGG – So you were reading Jane Eyre when you called your agent to see if there were any screenplays in the works. How did you feel when you got the role?

Wasikowska – I was excited, even now. The chances of that happening are really small and I still kind of pinch myself when that happens.

NYGG – You did Alice in Wonderland and The Kids Are Alright and this is more of a period piece. What was that like?

Wasikowska – It was great. It was different and challenging in many ways. It’s a different style with different characters and I was really excited to do that.

Continue reading NYGossipGirl’s exclusive interview with Mia Wasikowska after the jump!

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Edited: March 11th, 2011

NYGossipGirl Q&A with Jane Lynch

Everybody’s getting excited about the upcoming Glee Superbowl episode.

NYGossipGirl recently chatted with Jane Lynch during a conference call and the actress dished about what we can expect!

Check out the interview below.

The Super Bowl is such an iconic masculine thing and then Glee gets kind of thrown in there with its very gay-centric limits, what do you think of this world we live in when these two things can actually come together and work?
Well that’s funny, I never looked it that way, but you’re absolutely right.  It all remains to be seen, but I think it’s wonderful that the Super Bowl, football is very masculine and basically, to me, anyway, a metaphor for war.  You’ve got your air game and your ground game.  And then you’ve got these “light in your loafers” guys, and I’m talking about even the straight guys, singing and dancing.  I think it’s a terrific world we live in and I love seeing these two things come together.

Does Sue Sylvester get to be meaner than usual on Super Bowl Sunday?
She does.  We’re kind of doing an episode of Glee that is on steroids and writ large.  Sue Sylvester is a little bored with her routine, even though she has kids riding around on BMX bikes and jumping through fire.  And this one routine with Katy Perry’s California Girls she wants to top herself, so she finds out there’s a human cannon in town, she buys it and wants to shoot Britney out of it.  …doesn’t allow it…  And she has a hissy fit.  She has two hissy fits where she just rips two rooms apart.  So it was definitely Sue Sylvester on the war path.

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Edited: February 4th, 2011

NYGossipGirl Exclusive: Matt Bomer on Season 2 of White Collar

We recently had the pleasure of chatting with the ever-so-charming Matt Bomer during a recent Q&A call.

Bomer returns for the second season as Neil Cafferty in USA’s White Collar and dishes that we’re going to see some great guest stars on the show.

“We have Andrew McCarthy,” he said. “Who plays sort of Neal’s mentor from the past who taught him a lot about both creating his persona and he taught him a lot of hard lessons as well.  I’ll leave it at that.

“We have Paul Blackthorne.  We have Billy Dee Williams who is in a really fun episode with Diahann Carroll.  He plays somebody from June’s past who comes back and is sort of  a glimpse into the world Neal would have if he continued on a more crooked path.  Ross McCall is back.  Adam Goldberg is in it.”

Bomer shared that life on the set is always fun, especially with his co-star Tim DeKay.

“I think Tim is inherently a generous person and very generous of spirit and he brings a real sense of play to the work.  I try to do the same.  I know he lifts me up on my off days,’ Bomer shared.

So what can we expect this season?

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Edited: January 19th, 2011

NYGossipGirl Exclusive Interview: Ryan Gosling

NYGossipGirl recently chatted with Blue Valentine’s Ryan Gosling. The 30-year-old actor, who’s nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in the film, opened up about relationships and working with Michelle Williams.

NYGG: What do you think this film says about relationships?

Gosling: What I like about this film is that it asks questions.  It is not pretending to know everything.  It doesn’t have a philosophy about happens in a relationship.  It really wants to know what you think.  Where does love go?  Why does it go away?

NYGG: The amount of prep that you did for this was really interesting, in terms of living in the house and living on the budget that they were living on and what one.  Would you work that way again in terms of that kind of immersion and do you think that there are any dangers to going in so deeply.

Gosling: I would rather not work any other way. I don’t know how to.  There aren’t many filmmakers that work that will work way. Derek is rare in that degree.  On most films you are constantly aware that you are making a film with booms, and booms, and people have sides, and there are trailers, and there are monitors and you are trying to forget that you are trying to make a film all of the time.  But when you work with Derek here you are trying to remember that it is a movie.

NYGG: Do you leave your roles at the end of the day — or do you even want to leave a role like this at the end of the day?

Gosling: I didn’t have to.  Michelle had to and that is what i think is even more incredible about her side of this story.  She would do the same, she was just as committed as I was and yet she would go home at night and be a mom and go back to being Michelle.

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Edited: January 11th, 2011

NYGossipGirl Exclusive Interview: Stephen Dorff

NYGossipGirl caught up with Stephen Dorff at the New York premiere of his new movie Somewhere. The 37-year-old plays Johnny Marco, a Hollywood bad-boy who’s stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont when he unexpectedly gets a visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning). Dorff chatted about his role, working with Fanning and Sophia Coppola.

NYGossipGirl: How did you land this fantastic role?

Dorff: Sophia called me up, I read the script and then I jumped on a plane to Paris and kind of just had a week where we talked and had dinners with some mutual friends. I think she was observing me and at the end of that week I had the role.

NYGossipGirl: I talked with Elle and she said you were practically stalking her before production started, like going to her game and getting into your father-daughter roles.

Dorff: [Laughs] Yeah, we were doing all kinds of fun stuff, going to volleyball games, making pottery. I learned a lot through Elle and we went to a couple of cool spots that I can now take my sisters to. Because I don’t think you would ever picture me in Color Me Mine. I’m happy to have gotten that experience and I loved all the family around this film when we were making it. I loved Sophia there with her kids there and Elle, my friend’s son. Our producer’s about to have a baby. It’s exciting. I’m getting old, I better have a kid soon.

NYGossipGirl: How did you prepare for the role?

Dorff: Just everything, you know. Just checking into that hotel as Johnny Marco and trying to create an iconic movie star.

NYGossipGirl: And you look amazing, who are you wearing?

Dorff: Well this is Tom Ford. He’s been very gracious for making me suits for all the premieres starting with Venice. And you can’t really complain, it’s pretty awesome. When you work with Sophia you get all these fancy clothes too.

Edited: December 23rd, 2010

NYGossipGirl Exclusive Interview: Elle Fanning

NYGossipGirl recently caught up with Elle Fanning at the premiere of her new film Somewhere. The 12-year-old actress dished about her role, balancing school work and what it was like working with co-star Stephen Dorff.

NYGG: So tell me a little about how the role came about?

Fanning: I first sort of just met with her [director Sophia Coppola] and I didn’t know what the movie was about and we talked and I got to know her. Then, a long period of time passed and I’m like ‘Oh, I didn’t get it.’ Later on she called me back to the Chateau Marmont and I read lines win Stephen. After that we started and did the rehearsing process.

NYGG: And Stephen plays your father and you have this father-daughter relationship in the film. Did you meet before shooting to get to know one another?

Fanning: Yeah, he actually came and picked me up from school one day, which is the same school that he went to when he was a kid and after that we went to Pinkberry and got frozen yogurt. We also went to this place called Color Me Mine where you paint pottery. He also came to one of my volleyball games and cheered in the stands. He was acting like a dad and just getting into character.

NYGG: Did your sister Dakota [Fanning] give you any advice?

Fanning: She’s very supportive of me and very proud that I got the role. She comes and visits me on my sets and I come and visit her on hers. I think just because she’s a big sister, I always look up to her, all the choices that she’s made and everything.

Continue reading NYGossipGirl’s exclusive interview with Elle after the jump!

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Edited: December 22nd, 2010

NYGossipGirl Exclusive Interview: Michelle Williams

NYGossipGirl recently caught up with Blue Valentine star Michelle Williams. The 30-year-old actress talked about her new film, relationships and the NC 17 rating. Check out the exclusive interview below!

NYGG: What do you think this film says about relationships?

Williams: I don’t think there’s a message. I don’t think there’s like a slogan or something that you’re supposed to walk away from the movie with. That’s one of the things that I like about it because it reminded me of life. Ryan [Gosling] was talking about the movie in this way, and I should probably let him talk about it, but I just thought that it was so ingenious. Like, if your friend is telling you about a breakup and you’re constantly with her and you’re trying to understand what happened and you’re looking for all the clues and you’re pointing fingers, like, ‘Well, that’s because your mom treated you like such and such,’ or that’s because – you’re always looking, trying to solve the mystery. I think the same thing is true in life that’s true in this movie, that your left with unfortunately a question instead of an answer.

Read the rest of NYGossipGirl’s exclusive interview with Williams after the jump!

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Edited: December 11th, 2010

NYGossipGirl Exclusive: Rachel McAdams Interview

Holding your own next to Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton is not an easy task, but Rachel McAdams was up for the challenge. NYGossipGirl caught up with the 31-year-old actress who opened up about her role.

“I shadowed some executive producers,” said McAdams. “I was  fortunate enough to be invited into the control room of Good Morning America and The Today Show.

“Not a lot of female executive producers,” she said. “It’s very uncommon.  So I think there’s only been a handful, at those bigger shows, which says something about the hours and what it requires.  I’ve realized it’s actually easier to be an actress than an executive producer on a morning television show.  You have a little bit more time to yourself.”

In addition to starring alongside Ford and Keaton, it was the script that attracted her to the role.

“The script really spoke to me,” she said. “You know, she was so well formed.

“And Aline wrote this great character,” McAdams continued. ”It was very easy to step into.  So I didn’t have to do a lot of work, which is nice.  It’s a nice place to start.  And then you just sort of build on it from there.

Her character works with news anchors, so what is McAdams’ news ritual?

“First thing I do is I turn on the radio to CBC in Canada,” said McAdams. ”And I’ve really gotten into podcasts lately, too.  Radio Lab and This American Life.

“So good.  And Moth.  Yeah.  That’s sort of what I’m doing these days,” she said.

Edited: November 12th, 2010