Sandra Bullock says that while she shot Gravity mostly alone inside a box, her only connection on set was the sound mixer and Alfonso Cuarón, and the mixer played her music to get her into each moment "I was literally within the box" "The only relationship I had was to our sound mixer and Alfonso" "I learned how to disconnect the head from the body" "that's my performance" Gravity won seven Oscars, and the performance in the middle of it came from a black stage, a dot she had to treat as George Clooney, and a playlist run by the sound guy. That's the part of acting nobody sees on the poster

Acting in a language you just learned is brutal, because you have to sound natural while thinking about every word. Most actors would get through it with a coach and some phonetic lines. She's this far into her career and still picked the harder road. I'm curious how Spanish audiences hear her in it.

That's a pretty honest thing to admit after a Razzie. It worked out, too. Writing his own movies gave us A Real Pain, which won Kieran Culkin an Oscar. Getting shut out of studio parts might be the best thing that happened to his career. I'd take another movie he wrote over him playing another villain any day.

Yorgos Lanthimos says his first day on an English film set shocked him, because the assistant director gave him two minutes to finish a take "I'm going to go to England. I'm going to make films. It's going to be amazing" "You have two minutes to finish this thing" "I need four minutes. Is that OK?" "they were lending me their clothes, their cars, their houses" back in Greece, friends handed over their homes to get a film made. In England the money was real and somebody was counting his minutes. He still made The Favourite and Poor Things inside that system, which is the part young directors should study ft: @BFI BFI on youtube

Michael Douglas says he had to tell his father, Kirk Douglas, that he was too old to play McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the movie Michael was producing "Kirk's too old" "I had to go to my dad and say, Dad, it ain't gonna happen" "if you get four good parts in your entire career, four really great parts, you're lucky" "I give you half of my producing deal for giving me this opportunity" Kirk had bought the book and still lost the part to Jack Nicholson. The movie won Best Picture, and years later, after a couple of drinks, Kirk still told his son he could have done it ft: @joerogan The Joe Rogan Experience on youtube

Here's the clip. Kate Winslet explains in her own words why she chose small parts after Titanic, even when it seemed like the world was on offer.

Hugh Jackman says he's promoting his new movie door to door, in places like Milwaukee and Muncie, because now studios have to convince people to go to the movies at all "like this is door to door" "let's just not do New York and LA, let's get out there" "in a way, the stars of the movie, folk heroes from Milwaukee" "do the stuff that other people don't do" he credits Ryan Reynolds with teaching him to do the unexpected. twenty years ago the fight was over which movie you picked, and a movie star turning up in Muncie, Indiana is a pretty good answer to the new one ft: @sternshow The Howard Stern Show on youtube