Anna Chlumsky makes a fashionable appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night (February 3) in Los Angeles.
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Jason Bateman is one of the rare child actors to transition to even greater success as an adult, but he’s admitting it wasn’t as easy as it may have appeared.
In a new interview with the Guardian, Bateman explains he didn’t do that much acting during the 1990s because he was trying to make up for the childhood he felt like he lost while also doing some serious partying.
“It was a combination,” said Batemen.
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“Me stopping everything on purpose, to catch up with all these inabilities I had as a kid, because I was always working,” he added. “I wanted to get the wiggles out.”
However, when he was finally ready to get back to work, Hollywood was no longer all that interested.
“Having thought, ‘This is really fun,’ and staying at the party a little bit too long, I’d lost my place in line in the business; it was a case of trying to claw that back towards the end of the ’90s, and not getting a lot of great responses,” he said.
Of course, everything changed when he was cast as Michael Bluth in “Arrested Development” in 2003, which was followed by a string of successful projects including “Juno”, the “Horrible Bosses” films and his award-winning work in Netflix’s “Ozark”.
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“I will always respect the access and relevance that that show gave me, and try not to take that for granted again, and do everything I can to earn this place in the business that I love,” he said of “Arrested Development. “It created an environment; I loved going there every single day.”
Anna Chlumsky makes a fashionable appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night (February 3) in Los Angeles.
Jason Bateman has some fun during the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year 2022 ceremony on Thursday (February 3) in Cambridge, Mass.
“Ozark” actor Jason Bateman was honoured Thursday as Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals in Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- “Ozark” actor Jason Bateman is being feted as 2022 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.Thursday evening's festivities will mark the first time the award has been presented since the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020.The “Arrested Development” star also produced and directed “Ozark,” a popular Netflix series.
Channing Tatum loves a good costume. Just watch “Magic Mike” or “G.I. Joe” (or his Instagram account).
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Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Party Down” revival at Starz has added Jennifer Garner, Zoë Chao, and Tyrel Jackson Williams as series regulars, Variety has learned. James Marsden will also appear in the series in a recurring guest star role.The new cast members join previously announced returning original series cast members Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Jane Lynch, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen, and Megan Mullaly.Garner (“Alias,” “Dallas Buyers Club”) will play Evie, a successful producer of studio franchise movies, who, in the wake of a breakup, is reconsidering her life choices.
Starz has set the new cast additions for its upcoming Party Down revival. Jennifer Garner (Yes Day), Tyrel Jackson Williams (Brockmire) and Zoë Chao (The Afterparty) have been tapped as series regulars and James Marsden (Dead to Me) has signed on for a key recurring role in the new iteration of the cult comedy.
Michelle Keegan is one of the hardest working actresses on the UK television scene. From getting her break in Coronation Street, to Our Girl and Brassic, she's been part of some huge shows over the years. Her filming schedule has taken her all over the world.
The second part of A&E’s two-night docuseries saw Janet Jackson looking back on the most infamous moment in her career, the breast-baring Super Bowl halftime performance with Justin Timberlake in 2004.
Randy Jackson is a music icon. Now 60, Randy rose to fame as a member of the famed Jackson 5 (later just The Jacksons) alongside brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and the late Michael Jackson. He is also an older brother to legendary sister Janet Jackson, 55, who is the subject of a highly anticipated documentary series set to air on Lifetime and A&E. Learn more about Randy ahead of the premiere here.
the new documentary “Janet Jackson.” — which premieres on Lifetime and A&E over Friday and Saturday nights — reveals that one celebrity guest once showed up with his own party favors.“I remember one of the parties that we had, [David] Bowie came,” says Jackson. “And I guess to get away from everyone, he was looking for a little room.”As the late rock legend went in search of a private spot to indulge, he found two of Jackson’s brothers.“Michael and I are sitting in one of the other rooms away from the party,” recalls Randy Jackson.
Ozark actor and director explained in a new interview that he used the time to catch up on what he called “inabilities” that stemmed from missing out on normal parts of growing up, thanks to his early stint as a child actor in Little House On The Prairie.“It was a combination,” he told The Guardian about the factors in his decision to trade acting for hedonism.
Gallery: 'My son would love it!' These actors all want to be superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (BANG Showbiz)Previously, the former ‘the Little House on the Prairie ’ star revealed that his wife Amanda Anka - with he has two daughters Francesca and Maple - pushed him to get sober via Alcoholics Anonymous. Jason can be heard giving snippets of what it is like to live life without drugs or alcohol on the podcast ‘Smartless’, a joint effort between him, his ‘Arrested Development’ co-star Will Arnett - who is also in recovery - and ‘Will & Grace’ star Sean Hayes. About its creation, he told The Guardian: “Will started everything by saying, ‘Who’s gonna listen to some boring thing about sobriety?’ And I said, ‘At least let me be on it, so we can talk about sobriety and “the journey”.