Gina Wilhelm Actress – A New Twist on the Period Drama Jessica Biel has done several action roles, notably “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Cellular.” So when she got her role in the period piece “Easy Virtue,” she had to study, mainly watching Katharine Hepburn and Jean Harlow. Even with the study, she was still nervous going into the film. She was the only American in the movie, which also stars Colin Firth and Kristin
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Jane Lynch Breaks All the Rules Jane Lynch ran away from her first acting job. “I was so afraid of failing that I just walked away from it and joined the tennis team.” Now she regularly does the sort of work that many actors would find daunting. A veteran of the Chicago’s Second City touring improvisational group, she frequently stars in projects that are partially or largely improvised. These projects include
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Amy Adams has Range Amy Adams is having a big year. Within the last 12 months, she’s been a nun, a crime-scene cleaner, she’s soon to be in a Julia Child biopic, and next week she’ll be playing Amelia Earhart. Better yet, her coworkers can’t say enough good things about her. Shawn Levy, who directed her performance as Earhart in “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” says he doesn’t
Gina Wilhelm Actress – A Little Monkey Business Being a 5-year-old is hard. There are rapid shifts in mood, a blossoming awareness of what’s going on around you. And then, you have to deal with the arrival of a new “dumb baby.” It’s even harder to be an adult playing a 5-year-old. It could descend into a bunch of tics and condescension. But not when Bethany Anne Lind plays Junie B. Jones at Synchronicity Performance
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Cady Huffman, Pirate WenchCady Huffman is used to playing big, athletic, sexy women. Now she’s in Boston playing Ruth in “Pirates! (Or, Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d).” The show is a re-imagining of “The Pirates of Penzance.” She likens this version of Ruth, a pirate wench, to herself. She’s a loud, funny tomboy. She calls the show “raucous and sexy.” It takes place in the Caribbean and centers on a group of
