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Morgan Freeman took some time to talk to us about his role in the upcoming Antoine Fuqua thriller Olympus Has Fallen. After meeting him in person, I could see why he’s one of Hollywood most sacred treasures. The Academy Award winner wasted no time charming the room as he talked about his approach to his role in the film, which you can read for yourself in the interview below.
Olympus Has Fallen is a film about the White House being taken over by a terrorist mastermind. | Full Story
Olympus Has Fallen hits theaters March 22, 2013 and while this film may look like it’s going to be awesome, before going to the movies you might want to get an inside look courtesy of director Antoine Fuqua himself. We got a chance to talk to the Training Day director about his latest action thriller and Fuqua opened up about some of what went into the making of the movie.
If you didn’t know already, Olympus Has Fallen is about the White House being taken over by a terrorist mastermind. | Full Story
The Weinstein Company presents The Sapphires, which opens in U.S. theaters March 22. After watching the film, Whogottherole.com got a chance to sit down with director Wayne Blair and lead actress Jessica Mauboy to talk about why this sleeper film from Australia is getting so much international acclaim.
The Sapphires follow four aboriginals girls from rural Australia in the 1960s whose dream is to sing for a brighter future for their family, but have to face the racism and discrimination that’s gripping the nation. | Full Story
The world knows the famous Boy Meets World couple as ‘Cory and Topanga,’ but their family and friends know them as Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel. The real-life friends sat down with Entertainment Weekly to give their thoughts on the new Disney spin-off, Girl Meets World.
Savage and Fishel will recycle their old roles from Boy Meets World, playing a married couple, raising two children. The duo answered all Entertainment Weekly questions, and even explained why they really do feel like a married couple. | Full Story
Tonight, American Idol goes to Hollywood. The two-week “Hollywood Round” will see smiles and tears, but more disappointment than joy. “The minute we hit Hollywood, we go, ‘God, we’ve got 300 kids here,” executive producer Ken Warwick told Entertainment Weekly in the midst of shooting Hollywood Round footage. “So the whole mental thing changes to ‘Who can we cut, and why?”
In the beginning seasons of American Idol, Simon, Randy and Paula were fun, but they were also serious about their job, only letting through approximately 50 people. | Full Story
Michael Jacobs, the creative mind behind the beloved 90′s show, Boy Meets World, and now the Disney spin-off Girl Meets World, sat down with Entertainment Weekly to give insight into the new highly talked about coming-of-age show.
Months of speculation swirled around talk of a Boy Meets World reboot, but fans hoped to hear the confirmed news that Disney would be airing the show. Once the rumors were confirmed for the Girl Meets World spin-off, casting directors went to work, finding their perfect lead: Cory and Topanga’s daughter, Riley. | Full Story
Every actor has their way of getting into character for a film, and apparently for Shia LaBeuf, taking hard core drugs isn’t off the table. In his new film Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, LaBeouf plays a character who trips on acid. The actor told MTV at the Sundance Film Festival he was so “scared” to play a character who trips on acid because he’d “never done acid before.” So, he decided trying it out for real and filming it would help him conquer his role. | Full Story
For anyone who has seen the trailers for A Haunted House and the fifth installment of the Scary Movie franchise, you may have noticed a few similarities. Since the Scary Movie series was created by none other than Marlon Wayans, the creator of A Haunted House, it begs the question, why not just return to the series he started? But as Marlon put it in our recent interview with him, “When a marriage is over, it’s over. | Full Story
Matt Damon recently sat down in a interview to talk about he and John Krasinski’s latest film Promised Land. During the questioning, on whether or not he will reprise his Jason Bourne character, it seem to have struck a cord with the star. Damon was grilled about a statement he recently made which created some buzz in the industry.
After some very public beef between Damon and Universal(the studio behind the Bourne franchise), they decided to go with Jeremy Renner as a spin off character for The Bourne Legacy. | Full Story
WHOGOTTHEROLE.COM recently had a chance to sit down with Dolph Lundgren and John Hyams, the star and director of Universal Solider: Day of Reckoning to discuss the new action thriller due out November 21, 2012.
For those unfamiliar with the franchise, Universal Solider is a four-part movie franchise based on soldiers reanimated from the dead to be near perfect genetically enhanced fighting machines. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning stars the original UniSol’s Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) and Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), along with a newer UniSol John (Scott Adkins). | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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