What do you eat to stay at optimal health when you are crazy busy or stressed out? I had a fun phone call earlier with my insanely comical actress friend Kathryn Vento. We gab about food all the time, and today was no different. Though because our schedule’s have been so hectic lately, today’s conversation …
by Locke Peterseim, RedBlog, June 15th 2010 A darkly lyrical indie film starring Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, Red Eye, Sunshine), Susan Sarandon and Ellen Page (Juno), Peacock is set in ‘50s Nebraska (but filmed in my beloved Iowa). It’s a low-key psychological thriller about the secrets of identity and control that are unearthed when a …
Paul Cram performs briefly alongside Golden Globe nominee Cillian Murphy in thetwisted thriller Peacock being released by Lionsgate to DVD April 20, 2010. The filmalso stars Academy Award nominee Ellen Paige, & Academy Award Winner Susan Sarandon. The movie follows John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in Peacock, Nebraska, who lives a life of solitude. …
“I can be forty,” I say to myself while furrowing my eyebrows in my bathroom mirror. I don’t stop creasing my forehead and repeating my four word mantra as I drive to the Warehouse district of Minneapolis. It’s only when I walk into the casting director’s waiting room that I stop the creasing. Quickly I …
Article: Chicago’s Screen Magazine. 1. Get Contracts Signed Before the First Day of Filming. Besides legal protection, contracts spell out your on-set expectations of the cast and crew. Actor’s contracts are available to download on sites like SagIndie. Not only will you look like a pro with these, but if you opt to follow SAG guidelines you’ll …
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Filmed my role of KENNY in the movie “Peacock” with actor Cillian Murphy in a tiny town down past Des Moines, Iowa. While on-set Cillian and I discovered we have the same build as we were trying on zip-up sweaters. It’s rare for me to come across someone that I can toss sweaters to across …
Feels like I’ve been hammering away for a long time at learning my lines for the play “Everywhere Signs Fall.”I’ve chatted with the actors and realize I am not the only one doing double time to get a grasp of the text. It is beautifully written, the cadence is great, but therein lies a little …
Am currently in rehearsals every night for the play. It’s opening performance is April 18th at the Loading Dock theater in St. Paul. It’s nice to be working with a small cast. Tracey Maloney and John Middleton are great so far. 🙂 Gotta go though- more lines to memorize!
“Don’t show me your point of view. Have one.” ~Uta Hagen
~Agatha Christie at her typewriter.I am reminded of the great “queen of crime” Agatha Christie. A great example to me of writing about murder, death, and crime- all while maintaining the innate value we each posses by living. I’ll have to reread a few of her stories as I don’t know off-hand the title of …