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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig on Making Frances Ha, the Film's Fashion Choices, and the Best Dish on the Menu at Bar Pitti
After establishing herself in mumblecore films like Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) and Nights and Weekends (2008) and Jay and Mark Duplass' Baghead (2008), Greta Gerwig significantly broadened her fanbase with her roles in Woody Allen's To Rome With Love (2012) and Greenberg (2010), director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to Margot at the Wedding (2007). As Gerwig and Baumbach's professional relationship took a turn for the personal (they're dating), the pair collaborated on a new venture, Frances Ha (in theaters May 17), which tells the story of a twentysomething aspiring modern dancer who vacillates between half-hearted dalliances and
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Movies + TV
Breakout Actor James Badge Dale on Iron Man 3, The Lone Ranger, and Wild Horses
You may be seeing a lot of James Badge Dale this summer. In addition to playing one of the villains in this summer's blockbuster action movie Iron Man 3, he's starring opposite Brad Pitt in the zombie-apocalypse film World War Z, and in July he will play the Lone Ranger's older brother opposite Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp. Not bad company to share. Dale, 34, has spent most of his life living in Manhattan, where he cultivated a love of hockey before turning to acting. DETAILS spoke with him about why a film like Iron Man 3 is his own
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Kate Mara on House of Cards, Working With Kevin Spacey, and Why Cory Booker Is the Real Deal
Sure, Kevin Spacey is mesmerizing as the cutthroat congressman Frank Underwood in Netflix's critically acclaimed political drama House of Cards. But he gets some help from his equally captivating costar Kate Mara, who plays Zoe Barnes, a journalist hell-bent on making her mark in the White House by breaking influential stories that compromise journalistic ethics. She's smart, cunning, and scene-stealing. Mara, who was raised with her famous younger sister Rooney in the house the New York Giants built (her great-grandparents founded the team), is currently preparing to shoot the second season of House of Cards as well as Transcendence, alongside
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Mick Fleetwood on the New Tour, the Sexiest Fleetwood Mac Song, and How Restaurants Are Like Bands
As an original member of one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, Mick Fleetwood has anchored Fleetwood Mac far beyond the drum kit, serving as the band's namesake, de facto manager during its late-seventies reign atop the charts, chief mediator between warring factions during the turbulent Rumors recording sessions, and biggest cheerleader after the members went their own ways in the eighties. And he has been straightforward about the notorious excesses of the era, happily admitting that, when they traveled, they did everything "first class, all the way." Most famously, Fleetwood discovered Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie
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Max Irons and Jake Abel (of The Host) Discuss Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Follow Up, Men's Style, and Acting Advice
If The Host, based on Stephenie Meyer's novel, is really the new Twilight, then Max Irons (Red Riding Hood) and Jake Abel (I Am Number Four, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief) are the new Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner—two young, emerging actors whose characters are both pining after the same heroine. In this sci-fi soap opera, leading lady Melanie Stryder (Saorsie Ronan) proves more complex than Twilight's Bella Swan, as her dueling beaus are courting both her and the alien life form she's carrying. The heady premise called for young stars who could play lovestruck hunks in
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Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany on Playing Multiple Roles, Talking to Tennis Balls, and One Wild Sex Scene
Tomorrow night, sci-fi nerds are going to fall in love with Tatiana Maslany. And then they're going to fall in love all over again. And again. And again. In BBC America's mindbending new thriller Orphan Black, Maslany plays Sarah, a British swindler who sees her well-manicured doppelgänger jump in front of a train and then quickly endeavors to steal her identity and empty her substantial bank account. Oh, and sleep with her boyfriend. The perfect crime—if only it didn't lead Sarah down a rabbit hole that reveals she's one of a group of clones. What follows is one heck
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Twitter Star Kelly Oxford on Life as a Hollywood Screenwriter, Her New Memoir, and Why Men Don't Like Oprah
Since she joined Twitter in 2009, Kelly Oxford, the 35-year-old hot mom-of-three, has earned over 450,000 followers (among them celebrity admirers including Roger Ebert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Diablo Cody) with her switchblade-sharp observations—"If your kids have pubic hair, you don't get to pre-board the plane." And if all the retweets from her Hollywood followers weren't enough to convince you of Oxford's comedy chops, in the past few years she's developed pilots for CBS and NBC, sold a script on spec to Warner Bros., and on April 2, she releases her memoir, Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar, in the
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Girls' Christopher Abbott on How to Be a Leading Man, His SXSW Success, and Not Overthinking Roles
As one of the boys on HBO's Girls, Christopher Abbott's depiction of the emotionally immature Charlie has been one of the show's breakout performances. But as audiences discovered at SXSW, it's only a hint of what the actor is capable of. In Burma, his latest project, he plays Christian, an aspiring tortured novelist with an unusually complicated family life and the chemical refuges that self-destructive writers in their twenties are often drawn to. On the heels of the film's Special Jury Recognition award for its ensemble cast, Details caught up with the 27-year-old actor to talk about his experience at
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Selena Gomez on Terrifying Scenes With James Franco, Bad-Girl Behavior, and Leaving Disney Behind With Spring Breakers
If you don't know Selena Gomez, the former star of Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place and ex-flame of Justin Bieber, you know her type: the child star who makes a deliberate attempt to shed her good-girl image to signal some sort of actor-ly maturation. And so we arrive at Spring Breakers, the Harmony Korine–directed, sexually provocative party flick out this week in which Gomez plays Faith, a quiet, religious girl who goes buck-wild at the beach along with her fellow wide-eyed costars, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine.
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Matthew Goode on Playing a Sociopath in Stoker, Kissing Nicole Kidman, and Picking Out a Killer Wardrobe
In Stoker, the gorgeous new psycho-thriller from Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook, British actor Matthew Goode plays Uncle Charlie, the estranged, sociopathic brother of Richard (Dermot Mulroney), whose death leaves his wife (Nicole Kidman) and daughter (Mia Wasikowska) with a tragic void to fill. Details caught up with Goode, 34, at the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo. The actor—a veteran of films like Watchmen, A Single Man, and Match Point—eased back in a cushioned chair, flashed his half-devilish smile, and divulged his childhood crushes, what it's like to kiss Kidman, and what's so good about playing bad.
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