Fans of ABC Family's Wildfire had better brace themselves for a new arrival from across the pond. Charlotte Salt, a charming up-and-coming British-born actress, is joining the cast for the final three episodes of this season (starting tonight at 8 pm/ET) as Gillian, a wealthy heiress who splits apart one of the on-again-off-again romances on the show. TVGuide.com spoke to the 20-year-old about exactly what kind of "horsing around" she did on the set.
TVGuide.com: How did this Wildfire role come about? Charlotte Salt: I auditioned for the pilot over a year ago and I never heard anything more from them. But then I got a call saying, "Reme
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Question: I know actors improvise their lines all the time in comedies, but recently I learned that Anthony Hopkins improvised many of Hannibal's lines. I also recently learned from the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse that Marlon Brando improvised much of his dialogue in Apocalypse Now. So now I'm curious: How often do actors, outside of comedies, improvise their lines?
Answer: All the time. OK, not all actors all the time, but the practice of ad-libbing or altering lines is an entrenched part of film acting and one of the things that drives screenwriters out of their minds. Especially if they come from the theater: In theater, the script is sacrosanct and no one messes with it except with the express consent of the playwright (assuming someone dares to ask). In film, scripts are usually treated as a kind of outline — not
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Whale Rider's Keisha Castle-Hughes has been cast as Mary in Nativity, a look at the Virgin Mary's life before the birth of Christ.... Universal has optioned the James Sallis novel Drive, about a stuntman by day/getaway-car driver by night, as a starring vehicle (no pun intended) for Hugh Jackman.... The Weinstein Co. has bought the domestic rights to Bobby, writer-director Emilio Estevez's drama about the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The film's cast includes Estevez, Anthony Hopkins, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, William H. Macy, Laurence Fishburne, Christian Slater, Helen Hunt and Martin Sheen.
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Assuming she can still drive herself to the set, Lindsay Lohan will play wife to Elijah Wood in Bobby, an independent film about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination. Directed by Emilio Estevez, Bobby also stars Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore and Sharon Stone. "Lindsay, who you do not think of as an indie film actress, is an inspired choice," says producer Edward Bass, unaware that he didn't need that little "indie film" qualifier.
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Better have your box of Kleenex handy if you watch tonight's episode of ER (10 pm/ET on NBC). Goodfellas star Ray Liotta stops in as boozy no-goodnik Charlie Metcalf, who arrives at County General with a complaint of intestinal woe. He thinks it's merely a stomachache, but in actuality, he's drunk himself into a potentially fatal case of liver failure. Critics who've prescreened the episode already have started up Emmy buzz.
"He did something bad in his life," Liotta hints about Charlie. "He ended up in jail and got mixed up in drugs and alcohol, but at his core, he's a good guy. He's just made a lot of mistakes. As he's lying on his deathbed, he's trying to reconcile and reconnect with his son that he lost contact with."
The 48-year-old actor — who admits he'd never seen an ER episode before they sent him the script — took this TV gig purely for the challenge. "Acting is pretend," he says. "I like doing things where [the ch
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