Adam Brody on ‘F—ing Boring’ Method Acting and His Failed ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Audition: ‘I Wanted That One’

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Rewind 35 years ago to 1988 and this trio of words were hot on the lips of movie fans everywhere thanks to the summer release of the hit comedy-horror film with the same namesake. We all remember the iconic scenes and the emotions they stirred, from the creepy shrunken head and witch doctor in the waiting room and the hilarious Day-O (Banana Boat song) dining room dance scene, to the shocking first glimpses of Beetlejuice and the hideous sandworm that still haunts us to this day.

Meryl Streep, with the Icon Award, given to «an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact.»At the Oct. 14 event, Oprah Winfrey will be presented with the Pillar Award, «which acknowledges exemplary leadership and support for the Academy Museum.»Michael B.

Sonja Morgan doesn’t hold anything back — especially when she’s at home.

The 75th Annual Emmy Awards will not take place in September 2023 as originally planned — but the show will go on!

Jamie Dornan and Robert Pattinson have been friends for years, but the “Fifty Shades” admitted he was once a bit jealous of his fellow actor.

Andrew Garfield.The actor, who starred opposite Garfield in 2018’s Under The Silver Lake, recalled the “stressful” experience during an interview with Vanity Fair.“I was in the makeup trailer and I was eating a granola bar or something, and I was about to shoot a scene where I have to kiss Andrew,” Keough said. “And the makeup lady was like, ‘Are there peanuts in that?’”After Keough said she wasn’t sure, the makeup artist “ran away” to flag down a producer.

“Guardians of the Galaxy” could have looked a lot different if things had gone another direction when it came to casting.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Jamie Lee Curtis doesn’t pretend to know when she thinks the SAG-AFTRA strike will end. “I have no idea,” the Oscar winner told me Thursday morning at Project Angel Food’s groundbreaking ceremony for The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation Campus in Los Angeles. However, Curtis says she remains “hopeful” that the actors union and AMPTP can find common ground.” “I’m hopeful that we can all see all sides.

Just for Variety” podcast, Adam Brody revealed to host Marc Malkin “there have been many” roles he didn’t land that he really wanted.“The O.C.” star went through a list of his less successful auditions, from Justin Bartha’s role in Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s “Gigli” to a younger version of Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) in the 2003 “Dumb and Dumber” prequel.However, the recent role he was most torn up about was the role of Peter Quill/Star-Lord in “Guardians of the Galaxy.” Chris Pratt ultimately got the part of the earthly leader in charge of a dangerous group of misfits attempting to save the universe in the 2014 Marvel movie directed by James Gunn. Pratt portrayed the character for two sequels and a holiday special.“I wanted that one,” Brody said, admitting that he agrees that Pratt was a “better” fit for the space adventurer.He added, “But tonally, I really dug it.”Brody and Pratt were brief co-stars on “The O.C.” when the latter played the activist Ché Cook, aka Winchester Cook, in the teen drama’s fourth season.According to the Hollywood Reporter, over 200 actors auditioned for the part, including Brody’s “Shazam!” co-star Zachary Levi and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star Glenn Howerton, who was ultimately Gunn’s second choice.

The O.C.‘s Adam Brody has revealed the major Marvel role he once lost out on.The actor – who stars in new film River Wild, a reimagining of the 1994 thriller starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and David Strathairn – shared in a new interview that he once had a shot at the potentially career-changing role.Speaking to Variety, Brody said that he read for the role of Peter Quill aka Star-Lord in Guardians Of The Galaxy, which ended up going to Chris Pratt.“I wanted that one,” he said, but agreed that Pratt was a “better” fit. “He is bigger, stronger, but tonally, I really dug it,” he said.Brody rose to fame for his role as Seth Cohen in the teen drama series The O.C., which ran from 2003 to 2007.Elsewhere in the interview, the actor reflected on some other unsuccessful auditions, including for the 2003 romantic comedy crime film Gigli starring Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.“I remember liking the script,” Brody said, having auditioned for the role that went to Justin Bartha.“I remember in the end, [Affleck] died in a way that it still stays with me.

Andrew Garfield got in a swim this week while hanging out on a yacht in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Positano, Italy.

could have looked a lot different if things had gone another direction when it came to casting.Recently, Adam Brody sat down for a chat with the podcast, and opened up about the time he read for the role of Peter Quill — a.k.a. Star-Lord — in James Gunn's cosmic adventure installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.«I wanted that one,» Brody said of the role, which eventually went to Chris Pratt, whom the OC alum admitted was a «better fit» for the part, ultimately.«He is bigger, stronger, but tonally, I really dug it,» Brody lamented.Pratt starred as the space-faring smuggler and thief who stole fans' hearts when the first film hit theaters in 2014.He went on to reprise the role in, and finally, which came out earlier this year.Before Pratt was cast in the role — which he was offered a chance to read for but initially declined — several other actors, apart from Brody, were considered for the smart-talking, handsome, affable space pirate with a heart of gold.Joel Edgerton, Jack Houston, Eddie Redmayne, Michael Rosenbaum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zachary Levi, Glenn Howerton, Jim Sturgess, John Gallagher Jr.

Adam Brody is getting candid about his audition lows.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Seth MacFarlane has donated $1 million to The Entertainment Community Fund to help provide financial assistance for industry workers during the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. The organization, formerly known as The Actors Fund, also exclusively tells me that recent donors include The Katie McGrath & JJ Abrams Family Foundation, Stacey Abrams, Annette Bening, Tom Bergeron, Greg Berlanti, Rachel Bloom, Rosanne Cash in memory of Johnny Cash, Suzanne Collins and Cap Pryor, Vince Gilligan, Lynn Nottage, Michelle Pfeiffer and David E.

Netflix UK this August, including a few horror staples.A list of all the titles departing the platform next month has emerged (via What’s On Netflix), with fans not having long to catch the likes of Cloverfield and Jigsaw.Also set to depart the streamer are Margot Robbie’s I, Tonya, Matt Damon’s Elysium and Denzel Washington’s Glory.The 1999 psychological drama Girl, Interrupted, which stars Angelina Jolie, and 2011’s The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep, will also disappear from the platform next month.The Little Prince, which was actually one of Netflix’s first animated originals, has also been confirmed to be leaving, having departed from the US site in 2021.In other Netflix news, the streamer recently axed its cheapest ad-free plan in the US and UK.

Marta Balaga Starring Deva Cassel, Laura Luchetti’s “The Beautiful Summer” (“La Bella Estate”) has bowed sales and a trailer, ahead of its world premiere at this week’s Locarno Festival. In a first deal to go down for sales agent True Colours, Palace Films has swooped on distribution rights to Australia and New Zealand. Xenix Filmdistribution will release in Switzerland “The Beautiful Summer,” which is loosely based on Cesare Pavese’s novel.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Bethenny Frankel has enlisted two of the most high-profile attorneys in Hollywood to help in her self-proclaimed fight to help protect reality stars from what she says is exploitation by networks and studios. Power players Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos are now working alongside Frankel to investigate the treatment of reality stars. Freedman tells me that he has heard from roughly 50 reality show cast members from various docuseries and competition shows who believe that they were “used and unfairly” treated by television networks and streamers.

Only Murders In The Building has been shared.Season 3 is set to drop on Hulu/Disney+ on August 8 and will feature an all star cast including Meryl Streep, Paul Rudd, Ashley Park and Matthew Broderick, alongside the true crime fanatic trio Charles (Steve Martin), Mabel (Selena Gomez) and Oliver (Martin Short).Yet again a murder is carried out in the comedy drama which the trio must get to the bottom of. You can view the trailer below.The show returned for a second season last summer.

is bending their titular rules a little bit in season 3 — to try and solve a murder in a theater!Hulu shared the trailer for the lauded mystery-comedy's upcoming third season on Wednesday, giving fans a look at how the show's central trio — Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) — is set to tackle the shocking death of Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd), the star of Oliver's triumphant directorial return to Broadway.«Well, you know, who are we without a homicide?» Mabel wonders in the trailer.The trio make the «corny» decision to start their murder podcast back up in order to investigate Ben's castmates, who include series newcomers Meryl Streep as Loretta Durkin, an aging actress who is «bad at table reads,» and Ashley Park as Kimber, a «Tik Tok-obsessed» social media star.«Theater is is all about choices,» Loretta says ominously in the clip. «What you share, and what you hide.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer There’s an old joke used in show business when events and gatherings lack major celebrity attendance: “Somebody punch me in the face so I can see some stars.” But it’s no joke when it comes to the picket lines of the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes, according to some of the protesters on the ground and select industry players who spoke to Variety. There’s been a “palpable” lack of headliners, said one prominent SAG-AFTRA member, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “If our stars were all out there in force advocating for us, we’d know it,” they added. Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence and Rami Malek all signed a June letter telling union leadership they were prepared to strike, but none of them have surfaced holding signs or chanting at studio gates. Leonardo DiCaprio posted an Instagram story saying he stood “in solidarity with my guild,” but has yet to stand for any in-person protest. On day one of the actor’s strike in mid-July, one protester straddled a median at the drive-on gate at Netflix headquarters holding a sign that read, “Where the fuck is Ben Affleck?” So far, no one’s seen him on the front lines.