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Role Recall: Al Pacino Looks Back at the 'Godfather' Films, 'Scent of a Woman,' and More
The eight-time Oscar nominee (and one-time winner) sat down with Yahoo Movies to share stories from the sets of seven of his classics, including where exactly his Scent of a Woman lieutenant colonel’s penchant for yelling “Hoo-wah!” came from.
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‘Resident Evil’ Role Recall: Milla Jovovich Gives Us the Zombie Dirt From All 6 Movies
Milla Jovovich has spent the majority of her adult life alternating in and out of Zombieland. The Ukraine-born, Los Angeles-raised actress was only 24 when she began work on 2002’s Resident Evil, headlining the video game adaptation as Alice, the fleet-footed, gun-toting warrior who battles the undead with a ferocity that’s made her one of the action genre’s most beloved heroines. Fifteen years and five movies later, Jovovich, now 41, brings the popular series to a close this weekend with Resi
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Jonathan Lipnicki Revisits 'Jerry Maguire' 20 Years Later, From Swapping F-Bombs With Tom Cruise to Fact-Checking Weight of a Human Head
Jonathan Lipnicki was one confident 5-year-old kid — and this was before he became a movie star. After auditioning for the role of the precocious Ray in Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire, Lipnicki insisted to his mother that the job was his. “And then they cast another kid,” the now-26-year-old Westlake Village, Calif., native told us when he stopped by Yahoo Studios (watch above) to promote the film’s 20th anniversary Blu-ray release.
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Role Recall: Annette Bening on Chain-Smoking in 'Bugsy,' Slapping Herself Silly in 'American Beauty,' and More
'20th Century Women' and 'Rules Don't Apply' star looks back at her acclaimed, eclectic career
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Role Recall: Kevin Pollak on His Mom Hitting on Jack Nicholson, Goofing Off on 'Usual Suspects,' and More
'The Late Bloomer' director tells tales of 'Willow,' (his dad visited the set and told George Lucas, “I loved E.T.”); 'A Few Good Men'; and more
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Role Recall: Parker Posey on 'Dazed' Breakout, How 'Coneheads' Linked Her With Christopher Guest, and More
Parker Posey says it was “terrifying” doing her first Christopher Guest-directed films, Waiting for Guffman (1996) and Best in Show (2000), since the mostly improvised mockumentaries barely contained any written dialogue for the actors. Such a statement is surprising to hear given that Parker has played so many characters oozing with confidence, no matter how flighty, artsy, or stuffy they otherwise were.
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Role Recall: Anthony Michael Hall Remembers 'Breakfast Club,' 'Sixteen Candles,' and More
You’d be hard-pressed to find an actor with a more impressive run of four consecutive movies than Anthony Michael Hall’s from 1983 to 1985: National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Weird Science (1985). In recent years, Hall has worked consistently on screens both big (2008’s The Dark Knight) and small (his popular sci-fi series The Dead Zone, which ran on FX from 2002 to 2007). Hall plays Mr. Stevenson, a security guard on the frontlines when
