When actress Adepero Oduye first nabbed the role of teen lesbian Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay) in the feature film Pariah, she did what any good actress would do – she hit the gay clubs in the name of research. Going into a club in character with her co-star Pernell Walker (who plays her gay friend, Laura) truly helped Oduye get more inside the head of her character but also opened her eyes to a lot about this new environment.
Dressed in boy’s clothes like her character, Oduye said she approached the environment different from Walker who, she recounted, "was dancing with women, getting numbers and I wasn’t butch, I wasn’t femme so I didn’t fit in. I didn’t belong. People didn’t know where to place me and so they just ignored me. And I felt like I was on the outside looking in. I felt invisible...
Dressed in boy’s clothes like her character, Oduye said she approached the environment different from Walker who, she recounted, "was dancing with women, getting numbers and I wasn’t butch, I wasn’t femme so I didn’t fit in. I didn’t belong. People didn’t know where to place me and so they just ignored me. And I felt like I was on the outside looking in. I felt invisible...
- 12/16/2011
- by J. Halterman
- AfterEllen.com
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- 11/24/2010
- backstage.com
Jordana Spiro, who plays the likable, looking-for-love P.J. Franklin on the TBS television series “My Boys,” never thought of herself as a comedic actor. “I always pictured myself in dramatic film roles, which is funny because I do a lot of comedy now,” says Spiro.She certainly does. Besides her leading sitcom role in which she holds her own against male comedy vets such as Jim Gaffigan, she had a hilarious scene-stealing part in the film “Must Love Dogs,” played opposite funny guys Jeremy Piven and Ed Helms in “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard,” and recently shot the romantic-comedy pilot “Love Bites,” which was picked up by NBC.For Spiro, who grew up in Manhattan, there wasn't one defining moment where she knew she wanted to be an actor; it all happened naturally. “I was the kid who would be staging plays in the living room using the...
- 6/29/2010
- backstage.com
"I kind of missed the boat of the whole high school experience, but I'm reliving it now every day when I go to work," says Megan Park. A theater buff since the age of five in her native Canada, Megan landed the choice role of Grace, the über-conservative cheerleader on ABC Family's hit show "The Secret Life of The American Teenager." She's making up for those lost high school years by having a blast in Hollywood, hanging out with her co-stars, listening to gangster rap, and even playing in her own band. Like her character, Megan is rather cheery in person, and seems completely untarnished by the trappings of Tinseltown. Chosen as this week's Girl2Watch, Megan will be featured in a series or articles, fun facts and social media tweets through this week for subscribers of Girl2Watch.com.ACTOR2WATCH: What was your first real break as an actor?...
- 1/22/2010
- backstage.com
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