Category: Interview

Chris Hemsworth| Hero Worship

Posted July 12, 2012

They are waiting for Thor. It’s a few days before the U.S. premiere of The Avengers, which will zoom to a staggering $200 million opening weekend, and outside a downtown New York hotel, fans cluster, hoping for an autograph, an iPhone pic, a glimpse of the brawny 28-year-old Australian actor. He is Chris Hemsworth, not yet a household name but a confident bet to be one—still new enough to movies that he’s not weary of this fuss or the global promotional haul that has shipped him and his blond ­ponytail from Los Angeles to France to Russia, then Germany and […]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The End is Near

Posted June 16, 2012

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint open up about their decade in the spotlight Of course they knew it was coming. Yet it wasn’t until the final day of filming that the three Harry Potter stars fully understood that the most significant chapter of their lives so far was ending. “Somehow, I wasn’t prepared for how emotional it was,” says Rupert Grint, who has played Ron Weasley for almost half his life. “It hit home how much it all meant to us.” After the trio finished their last scenes for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this past summer, […]

Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre

Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre

Posted May 1, 2012

Geeks love Joss Whedon. In his TV shows and movies he gives them not necessarily what they want, but definitely what they need. His characters are smart and self-aware. He’s steeped in pop culture and has a clever way with the twists and turns of science fiction tropes. And he infuses the potential clichés of genre writing with emotion and heart. Not many writer/directors get to see their names go adjectival, but we all know what we mean when we say something is “whedonesque.” Another thing that makes Whedon so lovable is his willingness to talk. In interviews Whedon is […]

Kevin Feige Tells How Marvel Whips Up Its Cinematic Super Sauce

Kevin Feige Tells How Marvel Whips Up Its Cinematic Super Sauce

Posted May 1, 2012

As a movie producer, Kevin Feige has been involved with almost every movie involving a Marvel character for the last decade and a half. From the highs of X-Men and Spider-Man 2 to the, um, other things, like Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Feige has been behind the scenes. He is also the guy perhaps most responsible for the crazy notion of crossing over a half-dozen major superhero movies into one continuous universe, culminating in The Avengers. Feige is also at least partly responsible for the unusual line-up of directors who have taken on Marvel movies. After Joss […]

Joss Whedon| The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth

Posted May 1, 2012

Have you heard of Twilight? Are you acquainted with the undead? How about werewolves? Vampires? Angsty adolescent superheroes? This is our culture right now, and it’s no exaggeration to say that it all began with one man: Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and arguably the most inventive pop storyteller of his generation. So how come Whedon never became as famous as so much of the derivative trash he inspired? Better question: Now that his summer blockbuster, The Avengers, is about to arrive, isn’t this the part of the story where the overlooked hero rises to meet […]

Crawl inside Joss Whedon’s head as he makes The Avengers

Posted April 13, 2012

It’s a sweltering day in June last year. Inside the rusting hulk of an abandoned train depot on the edge of downtown, The Avengers has turned the empty space into a New York City battlescape. Flames and smoke rise from heaps of rubble along a strip made to look like a Manhattan street. Smashed cars are wheeled around on forklifts, and guys in alien motion-capture suits strut in to rehearse an attack on Captain America. Scarlett Johansson has just finished a scene where wires swing her through the air, and Mark Ruffalo is in a far corner looking at digital […]

Joss Whedon| Cabin in the Woods Q&A

Joss Whedon| Cabin in the Woods Q&A

Posted April 5, 2012

Collider: I was curious if you could talk about your writing process. A lot of writers I’ve talked to have a golden period where they’ll write when they wake up in the morning for three or four hours, and then they sort of burn out and do other things. Could you sort of talk about your process?JOSS WHEDON: You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes. I feel […]

Joss Whedon| Avengers Set Interview

Posted April 2, 2012

Question: So everyone that we have spoken with has been talking about how great the script is.Joss Whedon: And now it’s my turn. Even Downey has said it’s not tinkering, or maybe not tinkering much.There’s not tinkering and then there’s “not tinkering.” Yeah, no everybody seems to be on board. I’m still working on it. I hope to finish it sometime before the DVD release. (Laughs) It’s been very fluid, but it always is with a movie anyway and especially a movie where the perspective changes nine times every scene. I swore I would never make Serenity again and here […]

Welcome to Your Cosmo Years, Dakota

Welcome to Your Cosmo Years, Dakota

Posted February 24, 2012

Now turning 18, Dakota Fanning has a career that’s on fire, she’s settling into her first apartment, and she’s looking for love. On a bright, unseasonably warm morning in New York, Dakota Fanning strides into a SoHo café for breakfast. At 5 feet 4, she’s taller than you’d expect. Her blonde hair is drawn into a tight ponytail, and as she approaches the table, she goes for a firm handshake-a total pro. Dakota will turn 18 at the end of February but has always seemed older than she actually is. Perhaps that’s because she was a working actress from such […]

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt

Posted February 1, 2012

Which movie has made you cry?I’m not much of a crier at films, but there was one… I was coming back from Cabo on my way to Montreal, and I got hit with Montezuma’s revenge. I could not keep anything down. I was stuck in a hotel room with no windows and was just doing what you do when you’re sick. On day two of this extremely painful episode, I watched a film called Life as a House. Kevin Kline is an architect and learns he has terminal cancer. He’s estranged from his teenage son and decides they’re going to […]