Happy Birthday: Ryan Reynolds

ryanreynolds.jpgRyan Reynolds

Born: October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Married to: Blake Lively (9 September 2012 – present) (1 child)
Scarlett Johansson (27 September 2008 – 1 July 2011) (divorced)

As an actor, you’re always kind of cognizant that you’ll never work again. You always have this lizard-brain fear, always, just under the surface, that this is it. Because you see it. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a 23-year career so far. I’ve watched people come and go and vanish. I’ve watched really talented people never get that invaluable foothold into the industry. So you’re always walking that tightrope of being very grateful that you’re in this position.

Smokin Aces
2006
dir. Joe Carnahan
starring
Reynolds
Ray Liotta
green lanternGREEN LANTERN
dir. Martin Campbell
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Blake Lively
X-MEN WOLVERINEX-Men Origins: Wolverine
2009
dir. Gavin Hood
also starring
Hugh Jackman
Liev Schreiber
MOVIE POSTERTHE CHANGE UP
dir. David Dobkin
Stars:
Jason Bateman
Ryan Reynolds
ADVENTURELANDAdventureland
2009
dir. Greg Mottola
also starring
Jesse Eisenberg
Kristen Stewart
movie posterJUST FRIENDS
2005
dir. Roger Kumble
Starring:
Ryan Reynolds
Amy Smart
THE PROPOSALThe Proposal
2009
dir. Anne Fletcher
also starring
Sandra Bullock
Mary Steenburgen
MOVIE POSTERSAFE HOUSE
dir. Daniel Espinosa
Stars:
Denzel Washington
Ryan Reynolds
MOVIE POSTERR.I.P.D.
2013
dir. Robert Schwentke
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Jeff Bridges
MOVIE POSTERTHE CROODS
2013
dir. Kirk De Micco
Chris Sanders
Stars:
Nicolas Cage
Ryan Reynolds
MOVIE POSTERTHE CAPTIVE
2014
dir. Atom Egoyan
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Scott Speedman
MOVIE POSTERTURBO
2013
dir. David Soren
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Paul Giamatti

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Happy Birthday: Emilia Clarke

emiliaclarke.jpgEmilia Clarke

Born: October 23, 1986 in London, England, UK

[on her Game of Thrones (2011) character] I felt for Daenerys. I felt for her situation as a woman. Being in such a male-dominated society, where she was being abused by the men around her–it was that sort of sympathy, I suppose it started off as that. But then as you track her story, the problems that she overcomes and the way that she deals with them with such grace and the way that she deals with them when she has no training. The only thing that she has is herself and her iron will–that’s just a fabulous, incredible side to her character, really. And the fact that you watch her fall in love. You know, she meets the man that she loves more than anything else. She goes through painful events but she is still this strong, independent woman. And I think that, as a female, is what I really connected with.

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MOVIE POSTERDOM HEMINGWAY
2014
dir. Richard Shepard
Stars:
Emilia Clarke
Jude Law
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2013
Created by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
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Happy Birthday: Joan Fontaine (1917–2013)

joanfontaineJoan Fontaine (1917–2013)

Born: October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: December 15, 2013 (age 96) in Carmel, California, USA

[on working with Orson Welles on Jane Eyre (1943)] You can not battle an elephant. Orson was such a big man in every way that no one could stand up to him. On the first day at 4 o’clock, he strode in followed by his agent, a dwarf, his valet and a whole entourage. Approaching us, he proclaimed, “All right, everybody turn to page eight.” And we did it, though he was not the director.

 

The Women
1939
dir. George Cukor
Starring
Norma Shearer
Joan Crawford
Rosalind Russell
SuspicionSuspicion
1942
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
starring
Cary Grant
Fontaine
RebeccaRebecca
1940
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring
Laurence Olivier
Fontaine
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Happy Birthday: Spike Jonze

spikejonze.jpgSpike Jonze

Born: October 22, 1969 in Rockville, Maryland, USA

As a feature film director you got to be a guarding dog of the whole production. You got to be able to hold 100 script pages in the head at the same time. If you miss a detail it’s wasted. I don’t know how the music video generation can affect the movie business, but I’m curious what feature films the English Chris Cunningham and the Swedish guy Jonas Åkerlund are going to make.

[on the origins of Her (2013) from his long-ago encounter with an artificial-intelligence computer program] For the first 30 seconds, I had that buzz, like, It’s responding to me! Then it quickly fell apart and you realize, Here are the tricks, here’s how this works. But what if I could sustain that forever? What would that be like? I wanted to take that idea as far as I could possibly imagine and feel.

Three Kings
1999
dir. David O. Russell
Starring
George Clooney
Mark Wahlberg
Ice Cube
Being John MalkovichBeing John Malkovich
1999
dir. Jonze
starring
John Cusask
John Malkovich
Where the Wild Things Are
dir. Jonze
Stars:
Max Records
Catherine O’Hara
Forest Whitaker
MOVIE POSTERJACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA
2013
dir. Jeff Tremaine
Stars:
Johnny Knoxville
Jackson Nicoll
MOVIE POSTERTHE WOLF OF WALL STREET
2013
dir. Martin Scorsese
Stars:
Leonardo DiCaprio
PJ Byrne
MOVIE POSTERHER
2013
dir. Spike Jonze
Stars:
Joaquin Phoenix
Amy Adams
Adaptation
2002
dir. Jonze
Starring
Nicholas Cage
Meryl Streep
Chris Cooper
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Happy Birthday: Kyle Gallner

kylegallner.jpgKyle Gallner

Born: October 22, 1986 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Married to: Tara Ferguson (12 December 2015 – present) (2 children)

In TV, kid roles are like this: You’re either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody’s kid, or you get in these procedurals where you’re crying or you’re playing a witness or you’re playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there’s a formula to those TV shows.

 

MOVIE POSTERBEAUTIFUL CREATURES
2013
dir. Richard LaGravenese
Stars:
Alice Englert
Viola Davis

 

The Haunting in Connecticut
2009
dir. Peter Cornwell
Starring
Madsen
Elias Koteas
JENNIFER'S BODY Movie PosterJennifer’s Body
dir. Karyn Kusama
Starring
Megan Fox
Amanda Seyfried
Adam Brody
TV POSTERTHE WALKING DEAD SEASON 4
2013
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Movie PosterA Nightmare on Elm Street
dir. Samuel Bayer
Stars
Jackie Earle Haley
Rooney Mara
MOVIE POSTERRED STATE
dir. Kevin Smith
Stars:
Michael Parks
Melissa Leo
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Happy Birthday: Christopher Lloyd

christopherlloyd.jpgChristopher Lloyd

Born: October 22, 1938 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA

[2012, on landing Back to the Future (1985)] I was shooting a film in Mexico City that I’m not sure ever came out. But it was shooting in Mexico City, and I was kind of implanted there, focusing on that, when my agent sent me the script for Back to the Future (1985). I scanned it, but I wasn’t terribly impressed, mostly because I’d been offered the chance to go back East and do a play at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven. I’d be playing Hans Christian Andersen – I grew up with Danny Kaye. And Colleen Dewhurst, an amazing, wonderful actress, was going to be my mother in it, and I just thought, “I need to go back to my roots.” So I just dismissed the Back to the Future (1985) script. And then a friend who was with me at the time said, “My mantra has always been to never leave any stone unturned.” In other words, whenever someone has an interest in you, whatever it is, at least check it out. So based on that, I flew back to Los Angeles, met Bob Zemeckis, and the rest is history.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
1975
dir. by Milos Foreman
starring
Jack Nicholson
Louise Fletcher
THE SEARCH FOR SPOCKThe Search for Spock: Star Trek III
1984
dir. Leonard Nimoy
Starring
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
CLUEClue
1985
dir. Jonathan Lynn
starring
Tim Curry
Madeline Kahn
Back to the FutureBack to the Future
1985
dir. Robert Zemeckis
starring
Michael J. Fox
Lloyd
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
dir. Robert Zemeckis
Starring
Bob Hoskins
Joanna Cassidy
Back to the FutureBack to the Future II
1989
dir. Robert Zemeckis
starring
Michael J. Fox
Lloyd
ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD
1994
dir. William Dear
Stars:
Danny Glover
Brenda Fricker
MOVIE POSTEREIGHT MEN OUT
1988
dir. John Sayles
Stars:
John Cusack
Clifton James
MOVIE POSTERA MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST
2014
dir. Seth MacFarlane
Stars:
Charlize Theron
Liam Neeson
BACK TO THE FUTURE IIIBack to the Future III
1990
dir. Robert Zemeckis
starring
Michael J Fox
Lloyd
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUXThe Tale of Despereaux
2008
dir. Sam Fell
Robert Stevenhagen
Voices by
Matthew Broderick
Dustin Hoffman
movie posterADMISSIONS
2004
dir. Melissa Painter
Starring
Lauren Ambrose
Amy Madigan
MOVIE POSTERPIRANHA 3DD
dir. John Gulager
Stars:
Danielle Panabaker
Katrina Bowden
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Happy Birthday: Ken Watanabe

kenwatanabe.jpgKen Watanabe

Born: October 21, 1959 in Uonuma, Japan

I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that’s the case, then I guess I’m happy to hear it.

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.

LETTERS FROM IWO JIMALetters from Iwo Jima
2006
dir. Clint Eastwood
Starring
Ken Watanabe
Kazunari Ninomiya
InceptionInception
dir. Christopher Nolan
Stars
Leonardo DiCaprio
Ken Watanabe
MOVIE POSTERTRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
2014
dir. Michael Bay
Stars:
Mark Wahlberg
Stanley Tucci
MOVIE POSTERGODZILLA
2014
dir. Gareth Edwards
Stars:
Aaron Taylor Johnson
Elizabeth Olsen
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Movie PosterCirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
dir. Paul Weitz
Stars:
Chris Massoglia
John C Reilly
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Happy Birthday: Kim Kardashian West

kimkardashian.jpgKim Kardashian West

Born: October 21, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to:
Kanye West (24 May 2014 – present) (2 children)
Kris Humphries (20 August 2011 – 3 June 2013) (divorced)
Damon Thomas (22 January 2000 – 2004) (divorced)

I want to be a Bond Girl and film a love scene with Daniel Craig after he’s rescued me.

I saw a recent poll of the top 10 best Playboy bunnies of all time and I came third, behind Marilyn Monroe [first] and Pamela Anderson – which was so cool.

TYLER PERRY’S TEMPTATION: CONFESSIONS OF A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR
2013
dir. Tyler Perry
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Happy Birthday: Carrie Fisher

carriefisherCarrie Fisher

Born: October 21, 1956 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Describing working with Harrison Ford on the original Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): Mark was 24, I was 19 and he [Harrison] was 33. He was like the big man on campus. You looked at him and you said to yourself, ‘He’s going to be a star.’

Explaining why gaffer’s tape was sometimes used under her Princess Leia costume in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): “As we all know, there is no underwear in space.”

STAR WARSStar Wars
1977
dir. by George Lucas
starring
Harrison Ford
Mark Hamill
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACKThe Empire Strikes Back
1980
dir. Irvin Kershner
Starring
Fisher
Billy Dee Williams
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
dir. Jay Roach
Starring
Myers
Elizabeth Hurley
Scream 3Scream 3
2000
dir. Wes Craven
starring
Neve Campbell
Courteney Cox
David Arquette
The WomenTHE WOMAN
ESSAY on the FILM

dir. Diane English
Starring
Meg Ryan
Annette Bening
FANBOYSFanboys
2009
dir. Kyle Newman
Starring
Sam Huntington
Kristen Bell
MOVIE POSTERTHE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE
1985
dir. Stan Dragoti
Stars:
Tom Hanks
Dabney Coleman
MOVIE POSTERWHEN HARRY MET SALLY
1989
dir. Rob Reiner
Stars
Billy Crystal
Meg Ryan
THE BURBS
1989
dir. Joe Dante
Stars:
Tom Hanks
Bruce Dern
SORORITY ROW Movie PosterSorority Row
dir. Stewart Hendler
Starring
Briana Evigan
Rumer Willis
Carrie Fisher

RETURN OF THE JEDIReturn of the Jedi
1983
dir. Richard Marquand
Starring
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Hannah and her SistersHannah and her Sisters
1986
dir. by Woody Allen
starring
Diane Wiest
Michael Caine

 

 

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Happy Birthday: Catherine Hardwicke

catherinehardwicke.jpgCatherine Hardwicke

Born: October 21, 1955 in Cameron, Texas, USA

[on gender inequality in Hollywood] When I had some tears on Twilight (2000), during a storm and we couldn’t film, I went behind a tree in the forest, I cried for like 30 seconds and I came back and finished the day. (…) I had a $150,000-a-day pressure. Most directors scream. We’ve seen videos of it. They yell. They fire people. They don’t come out of their trailer. Some people drink. Some people bring hookers. Everyone reacts to the extra pressure in different ways. Well, I just thought, “I’ll go over there and cry for a second and come back.” Someone saw, and reported it. I’m suddenly labeled “emotional.” And yet, now I’ve learned of two instances of male directors who cried on set and they got a standing ovation, because they were so sensitive. Of course it’s a double standard. Of course it’s gender bias. I’ve never gone over budget, and my movies have made a ton of money. Still, I get labeled whatever code word they want to label me. I’ve had 20 movies since Thirteen (2003) that I’ve tried to get made. On Red Riding Hood (2011), I had to take a 57 percent pay cut right after I created a $400 million movie and a huge franchise. [2015]

RED RIDING HOOD
dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Stars:
Amanda Seyfried
Lukas Haas
TwilightTwilight
2008
dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Starring
Stewart
Robert Pattinson
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