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Meryl Streep & Margo Martindale
Margo Martindale is joining the cast of the Weinstein Company’s upcoming ‘August: Osage County’. Martindale has signed on to play Streep’s sister. They worked together before on ‘Marvin’s Room’, ‘…First Do No Harm’ and ‘The Hours’. -
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"I’m over the moon and definitely honored. I screamed, I cried. This is the culmination of a long career in television and film, and I’m so glad to be in this incredible group of actors. To play [Gus Fring] in such a reserved fashion taught me a lesson in learning to trust myself. When you sit back and just live the character, the character takes over. And Gus definitely took over. I’m a happy-go-lucky guy and he’s so different, but I made choices that allowed me to channel him."Giancarlo Esposito on being nominated for an Emmy (Gustavo Fring from Breaking Bad)
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» Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito on His Emmy Nod and Gus’s Possible Return to the Show
Giancarlo Esposito can’t shake Gus Fring, and he won’t be able to for the next few months. The Breaking Bad actor just received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of the sinister drug kingpin blown to smithereens last season. Now he’s dreaming of his comeback. Esposito called Vulture from the North Carolina set of his new show, Revolution, to talk about his toughest days and how he envisions Gus’s paying Walt back, dead or otherwise.
Congratulations! How did you find out about your nomination?
I found out from my publicist Lee Wallman. Then my children at the same moment were calling, so I knew something was going on. All four of my girls got me on speakerphone to yell, “Congratulations, Papa, we knew you could do it!” None of them watch the show except my eldest, of course.How old is she?
Shayne, she’s 16. I had to make a big decision about allowing her to see the screening in Albuquerque of the fourth season opener, “Box Cutter.” I was nervous about that. But she really took it well. I turned to her before it started and said, “Just remember something, Shayne. The guy you’re looking at right here is your papa. The guy up there is the guy your papa is channeling.” She said to me afterward, “I thought it was okay, but I gotta say, I thought that was agreat kill.”Glad to hear she wasn’t traumatized.
It’s rocked her world. I mean, she wants to be a pathologist! I took her on a visit to the morgue in Albuquerque and we saw cadavers and the whole thing, and it didn’t even move her. She’s really mature.That scene was super bloody. Was it difficult to shoot?
So much blood. We must have done it twenty times. I was so concerned about having the proper footing so I didn’t hurt myself or Jeremiah Bitsui [who played Victor, Gus’s victim], and I didn’t have the right size boots. They were too big, and I was slipping and sliding around in that blood. A wardrobe gal finally brought me Bryan Cranston’s boots and they were the perfect fit. Bryan and I have great chemistry on the show, and certainly we’d be the same shoe size.Another revealing Gus moment was the flashback to when he and his partner were just getting started. What did you think about seeing yourself with fewer wrinkles?
Are you kidding me? It’s very, very weird. They darkened my hair a bit, made it sort of a small Afro, and they tried to pull my skin back to make me look younger. They tried. It was very, very strange. I had also been used to being in command, and a couple of things overtook me, one being that I had to speak fluent Spanish. I’m not Spanish — I’m half-Italian, half black — and I was faced with five Spanish speakers, all fluent. So, yeah, that began my journey into the world of being vulnerable. I certainly had to feel small that day in character, but it was weird to not be in control. I didn’t like it. I walked away from the set almost in tears. I missed old Gus!Do you think he’ll return before the series ends next year? Being dead didn’t prevent us from seeing more of Jane. Have you talked to Vince about it?
It’s always a possibility. I know he and the writers are full of ideas. It’s in the ether that it’s a possibility. I would love to go back and truly miss this particular group of filmmakers. And I also miss Gustavo. But there’s part of me that doesn’t even know if I could do it — I’m an actor. That run had such depth and such grace and charisma that I would be challenged to fit into his skin again. It takes a lot of deep breathing, some really deep yoga breathing. I really have to let myself go when I channel Gustavo. He takes me over. In fact, I was in New York after the fourth season was finished, walking down the street in Manhattan, and some guys yelled at me, “We love you, Gus!” and as I walked away from them, I noticed how I was walking and how my stature changed. I started laughing. I thought, Get away from me, Gus. Leave me alone. I was turning into him again.He’s haunting you.
It happens that way. It really does.Could Walt surpass Gus’s evilness? He was pretty creepy with Skyler in the season premiere.
I would hope so. In my fondest dreams, I would hope Gus comes back in Walt’s dreams and instructs him on how to go about things as he did in the beginning of the show. “A man provides.” I love that line. I think the gloves are off already. I think Walt has gone all the way to the other side, and I’d love to see him become far more sinister than Gus. I’d like Gus to be present in his nightmares and struggles and that he becomes so Gus-like that it haunts his every pore. I curse him with that! -
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The Best of TV 2011|New & Old (alphabetical order)
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“The world is about to end and we’re standing around talking!” -
02 - Justified
The truth is…I don’t know if you can trust Boyd to have your back, but…well he has tried to kill me, and I have shot him, and imprisoned him. I wouldn’t be surprised if our paths again crossed in such a manner. He has had my back on two occasions. Once was the last day I was in the mine, and the other not so long ago.
Is there a show that is better at portraying the so called bad guys as well as Justified does? The series draws us into the low life of Harlan county so incredibly well that even though the majority of them can be nasty pieces of work you can’t help but want to spend time with them.
Mags Bennett is one of the most terrifying characters on screen this year and yet I would genuinely love to hang out with her (just staying well away from her infamous apple pie moonshine) because she is so damn fascinating. Her need for a new beginning, for a second chance with Loretta is so compelling and heartbreaking, she made tough (often unwise decisions) for her family and for while there she came out top until everything crumbled away.
Then we have Dickie Bennett with his constant mistakes and fatal fuck ups but the things he does are motivated both out of revenge and bitterness towards Raylan and a deep desperate need to prove himself to his family and especially his mother.
The incredible journey of Boyd Crowder continued in this season, nothing makes me happier than wondering what he will do next, his storyline took some surprising twists especially in regards with Ava and it all worked so well.
I love the continued connection with Raylan, even when they are on opposite sides of the law their lives keep on interweaving with each other, that old bond from their youth still there even if they try to deny it.
The overall quality of the show is marvellous, the dialogue, the performances, the direction but also I love the black comedy that pops up now and again it is a lot like earlier season of Breaking Bad in that respect.
The three feuding families of the Givens, Bennetts and Crowders show us not only the complexities of family and loyalty but also the wider sense of community Harlan has.
Roll on S3.
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