Tag: Daniel Day-Lewis
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Acting with An Accent: British
Some actors are really really good at accents: Daniel Day-Lewis, Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Kate Winslet, Hugh Laurie, Gwenyth Paltrow, & Johnny Depp–just to name a few. One of the most basic accents that we learn in acting school is the British accent and its many forms: RP (received pronunciation: think the BBC version of…
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Join The Family Business: Acting with Your Relatives–Marcia Gay Harden & Daughter, Eulala Scheel in “Home” (I) (2008)
Joining the family business. For most people, it means working for your father in his small business in town or tagging along during board meetings in an office building. For children of actors, they have another option: act with their parents (and/or relatives in the business.) Did you know that Blythe Danner and Gwenyth Paltrow…
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Reward Rewind: Oscars 2013
Anne Hathaway showed too much nipple; Jennifer Lawrence didn’t show any; And Oscar host Seth MacFarlane sang a song about it all. Oh, and Daniel Day-Lewis won. Surprise! <—We DID see Jennifer Lawrence trip on her way up to accepting the Best Actress award for her work in Silver Linings Playbook and the internet went…