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June 6, 2018
Janelle Monáe on Performing at Skywalker Ranch “George Lucas didn’t even know that I was coming … I also got to meet Steven Spielberg, who was there.”
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Aug. 5, 2013
Josh Schwartz on The O.C., Casting George Lucas, and the Onslaught of Emo The creator of The O.C. looks back at the self-referential Fox teen soap a decade after its debut.
Johnny Marr on Going Solo, Turning 50, and Fond Memories of the Smiths “To be alternative in a field full of English snobs was quite a feat.”
Fun.’s Jack Antonoff Gets Fancy for the Grammys “Got a couple of suits. It’s time to clean up.”
Jason Schwartzman Loves Girls , Parks and Rec It took him “years” to finally get his guest role.
Chris Cornell on Soundgarden, Axl Rose He “seemed to complicate what was the most ideal situation.”
Parks and Rec ’s Donna Is Addicted to Homeland Showtime sent her the whole first season — free!
Elisabeth Shue on Today’s ‘Savvy’ Starlets “I came into this business a little more innocently. I didn’t get a publicist until after, like, Cocktail .”
Breaking Bad ’s Jonathan Banks on the Thing That Happened Sunday Night“You’re talking to a journeyman character actor who knows that sometimes it’s good. And sometimes it’s really hard.”
Yeasayer’s Chris Keating Has a Problem With Yoga “I did yoga and got bummed out by a lot of that chakra talk. I just wanted to do some great stretches.”
Akiva Schaffer Didn’t Watch Much TV As a Kid His mom once threw their television out the window.
Breaking Bad ’s Anna Gunn on Skyler’s Power Trip“It does start to bring out the darker corners of her personality.”
Samantha Urbani on the New Friends Album, Mental Illness, and Free Sex “I’ve been in an on-and-off open relationship for the last year and a half.”
Rye Rye and Channing Tatum Bonded Over Dancing They compared notes on the set of 21 Jump Street.
Santigold on Beyoncé As a Backup Dancer “She’s like the warmest, real down-to-earth Southern girl. “
Game of Thrones , Broken Down Into Chart FormNaked body parts per episodes, Dothraki phrases ranked from “macho” to “benign”…
season 2 is coming
Mar. 29, 2012
A Game of Thrones Refresher Course for Past Fans and Newbies After eleven months, it helps to be reminded of just where and how bloodied we left the five major clans.
Caveman Debuts Its First-Ever Music Video and Talks CoCo Beware , Scotch, and Video Games Matthew Iwanusa: “I grew up playing all the Nintendo games … I just feel like every one of our songs has some element that sounds like it.” Stefan Marolachakis: “Every song?”
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum on Rebooting 21 Jump Street , Cop Uniforms, and Kids These Days Tatum: “I don’t get how you can take a test. ’Cause can’t you just take out your iPhone and Wikipedia it?”
Fort Lean’s Keenan Mitchell and Zach Fried On Big Hair, Tricked Out Vans, and Waiting on John Legend’s Table “I watched John Legend lick the grossest, trashiest bimbo’s face while I was standing there in a samurai costume with a menu, being like, ‘Do you guys want to order … ?’”
The Delightfully Precocious Chloë Moretz on Hugo , Her British Accent, and ‘Marty’ Scorsese “He was like, ‘Call me Marty, kid!’ So after that, I was like, ‘Hey, Marty. Hi, Marty. Hey, Marty!’”
Oct. 21, 2011
King of the Hill Again: Mike Judge Making smartness seem incredibly stupid has become Mike Judge’s enduring cultural contribution. In the fourteen years since his Beavis and Butt- […]
The Walking Dead ’s Norman Reedus on His Halloween Costume, Lady Gaga, and Everyone on the Show Getting Buff“It’s like the CDC just exploded, and they rounded the corner — and all of a sudden everyone’s fit! That’s one of those vain-actor things.”
True Blood ’s Carrie Preston on Ghosts, Her Favorite TV Redhead, and Being Married to Lost ’s Ben Linus“The first time he played a really diabolically horrible character who murdered women … I turned to him and said, ‘Don’t you ever look at me like that.’”
True Blood ’s Deborah Ann Woll on Vampire Tears, Jason Stackhouse, and Her Real-Life Teen Rebellion“I was bullied a lot and really didn’t feel attractive … so I started dying my hair red when I was about 14.”
True Blood ’s Joe Manganiello On An Alcide-Sookie Hook-Up, Werenudity, and Working Out“There’s been a couple of moments where I wanna throw something at the mirror in the gym, smash the walls.”
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