Conor Oberst has revealed that he auditioned for the lead role in Inside Llewyn Davis.
Although the Coen Brothers eventually cast actor Oscar Isaac as the
film's titular folk singer, Oberst was apparently one of several
professional musicians the directors considered for the part.
"I
know I told you this when we met, but I tried out for your role in
Inside Llewyn Davis," Oberst told Isaac as part of an article for Interview magazine. "Thank god for everyone that I didn't get it."
According to an earlier article with the Wall Street Journal,
Joel and Ethan Coen initially hoped to cast "a musician who could act"
as the singer Llewyn Davis. "They auditioned a lot of musicians and
actors for this part," Oberst confirmed, "to the point where I heard the
Coen Brothers and [music supervisor] T Bone Burnett say that they had
more or less given up on the idea of finding someone. And then you
appeared."
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It’s clobbering time, at least for a certain section of Fantastic Four fandom.
Acting Auditions has posted an announcement about Los Angeles auditions being held for Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot, directed by Josh Trank. Along with the call comes a plot synopsis that’s sure to raise a few eyebrows:
The Fantastic Four will tell the tale of two
very young friends, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm. After an event
transforms the boys, they find themselves empowered with bizarre new
abilities. Reed becomes a scientific genius who can stretch, twist and
re-shape his body to inhuman proportions. Ben becomes a monstrous,
craggy humanoid with orange, rock-like skin and super-strength. However,
the two end up being owned by the government and used as weapons. But
after they mature, two others with powers come into the picture – Sue
Storm “The Invisible Girl” and Johnny Storm “The Human Torch.”
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How did Carey Mulligan prep to audition for her latest flick Inside Llewyn Davis?
It
turns out the 28-year-old actress got a "bit tipsy" so that she could
perfect her American accent before taping herself in anticipation of
nabbing the role!
"I was so excited so I did the audition after a
dinner where I had had a few drinks," the Brit beauty recently revealed
during a taping of The Graham Norton Show. "My American accent is better after a few drinks and then I decided to eat something—it works for Brad Pitt, who eats all the time in films. It was a really drunk audition."
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JJ Abrams has confirmed that the script for his Star Wars film is ready,
and that shooting will begin in May in the UK. "We're working really
hard and we've got our script and we're in deep prep," he said following
a Television Critics Association event.
As well being set to direct, Abrams wrote the script with Lawrence
Kasdan, who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He
also told USA Today that casting news would come "soon, and I look forward to that so that we can get past it and we can get on with it".
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Sacha Baron Cohen is in early talks to join the cast of Disney’s sequel to “Alice in Wonderland,” “Through the Looking Glass.”
Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska will return for the “Alice” sequel, which will be directed by “The Muppets” helmer James Bobin.
Plot details are being kept underwraps. Pic will bow on May 27, 2016.
Baron Cohen will play the villain, although details behind the character are unknown.
Baron Cohen has been developing a handful of projects, including the
Louis Leterrier-directed “Grimsby” that he will shoot in early summer
and will then segway into the “Through the Looking Glass” shoot.
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MARGOT Robbie might have left Neighbours just three short years ago,
but that didn't stop her telling Leonardo DiCaprio he was in her light,
during an intimate scene for a new Martin Scorsese movie.
"They were trying to figure out how to get the shadow off
my face and I knew it was being created by his head – so I moved it,"
says the beautiful blonde Australian who plays DiCaprio's trophy wife in
the darkly comic The Wolf Of Wall Street.
No doubt it's been a while since someone said that to DiCaprio.
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For his first movie since 2012's Django Unchained, the director is going back to the Western genre with a script called The Hateful Eight, which he hopes to direct this summer, according to sources. (Another source said there is no timetable at this stage.)
The title suggests Tarantino could be upping the ante, playing off the title of John Sturges' 1960 film The Magnificent Seven, which in turn was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Seven Samurai.
No one has been cast yet, but Tarantino has reached out to veteran casting director Victoria Thomas, who worked on Django, to work with him on casting the movie, say several insiders. A part has been written for Christoph Waltz, who starred in Tarantino's Django and Inglourious Basterds.
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