On the set of an Amy Poehler pilot with Rita Moreno, Greta Lee received unsolicited phone-usage feedback from the Hollywood legend — and says she thinks about it to this day, even though she barely considers herself phone-addicted.
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Amy brings up the Old Soul pilot — a project with Natasha Lyonne and a stacked cast including Fred Willard, Rita Moreno, Alan Arkin, Marla Gibbs, and Richard Benjamin — that never got picked up. Greta's clearest memory: Rita Moreno pulling her aside to say she was on her phone too much. She still thinks about it, even though she considers herself far from addicted. From there, Amy and Greta excavate the Sisters shoot: a sinkhole set that was built indoors with real plants that began to decompose and smell, and tiny plywood 'doghouse' boxes where supporting players like Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, John Glaser, and Greta would sit and wait for weeks. Amy jokes that she spent her time angling to get her character written out of the sinkhole entirely.
Greta Lee performed La Bête on the West End alongside Mark Rylance. The play was in iambic pentameter, set in 16th-century France, and her character could only speak words that rhymed with 'blue.' This is an actual thing that happened.
In the West End play La Bête with Mark Rylance, set in 16th-century France in iambic pentameter, Greta Lee's character could only speak words that rhymed with 'blue.'
During the Sisters shoot, supporting cast members — including Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, and Greta Lee — were housed in tiny plywood boxes on a soundstage built around a fake sinkhole that began to smell and decompose. Nobody asked them to do anything for weeks.
Greta Lee spent roughly five years working the Momofuku restaurant floor while bouncing in and out of acting jobs. That extreme multitasking — being 'in the weeds' every night — is exactly what performing on set demands, just with a different kind of chaos.
The entire plot of the original Terminator film depends on the phone book. The Terminator looks up 'Sarah Connor,' finds multiple listings, and starts killing them one by one. No phone book, no movie.
Rico has already appeared in Den of Thieves, Den of Thieves 2, and Roadhouse alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Dave Bautista. Jason Statham is developing a specific role for him. Working alongside elite actors taught Rico something about himself: the emotional suppression that makes him a great fighter is exactly the material that makes great acting — if he learns to stop pushing it away.
Trump joked that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally ran over, butchered, and delivered the evening's beef tenderloin to the dinner — then topped it with a punchline about RFK wanting to serve raccoon roadkill as an appetizer. The crowd's laughter at jokes targeting his own administration signaled a rare night of good-natured self-deprecation from Trump.
Jimmy Tatro is playing the nemesis-son to Will Ferrell's washed-up golfer in The Hawk, his fifth project with Ferrell and Ferrell's first lead TV series. The real highlight: Molly Shannon, playing his on-screen mother, drove off set on the last day with Chief Keef blasting from her subwoofers.
Alan Ritchson walked into a Thor audition with his sides still in his hand, half-assed it on a spotlight-lit stage before two silhouettes in a dark theater, and bombed so completely that the casting director broke protocol to call his team. The feedback? He had no craft. That one sentence sent him to acting school — and changed the trajectory of everything.
Alan Ritchson walked out of his Titans audition so sure he'd booked the lead that he called his wife and told her he was going to buy a Tesla. She said he hadn't booked it. He went and bought the car anyway. His instincts were right — he was offered the role — just not the one he wanted.
Reacher drew 56 million global viewers in a single week of Season 2. Alan Ritchson points out what makes it unusual: unlike ensemble shows, almost all of that visibility lands on one person. It's an anthology with a rotating cast built around a single titular character — and the scale of it is something even he calls unprecedented.
Motor City has no spoken dialogue. Every major leading man in Hollywood — Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Gerard Butler, Adrian Brody — was attached at some point. It was greenlit nine times. The concept was simple: Greg Silverman wanted a film everyone in the world could watch with the exact same experience, regardless of language. Alan Ritchson read the script and called it a masterpiece.
Working with Arnold Schwarzenegger showed Alan Ritchson what 100% recognition looks like. People feel Schwarzenegger before they see him — like a meteor approaching. Alan's wife wants a strict no-photos policy around family. Arnold stops for everyone. The contrast was a master class in how gratitude should manifest when fame is inescapable.
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