Ridley Scott ‘Baffled’ by Alien Offer

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Ridley Scott was "baffled" when he was first asked to direct a sci-fi movie.

The 74-year-old director was surprised when he was offered the chance to take charge of 1979 movie Alien as his only previous work of note was 1977 historical drama The Duellists.

"Blade Runner and Alien were more by accident than plan. I had done a film called The Duellists, so I was baffled why some bright spark would ask me to do a science-fiction movie. The Duellists won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. But the idea of science-fiction came out of the blue. I'd seen Star Wars and that had knocked me sideways with all my plans."

Despite his surprise at landing the director position, Ridley was equally as shocked to be 20th Century Fox's fifth choice behind the late Robert Altman, who was known for creating mainly naturalistic movies:

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Hugh Grant ‘Finished’ with Acting

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Hugh Grant is "pretty much finished" with acting. The 51-year-old star doesn't take on many film projects anymore and says he doesn't like the process of appearing in front of the camera anymore.

"I'm pretty much finished. Occasionally something tickles my fancy, otherwise I'm fine. I'm still not very keen on acting. I don't do much work, but I like aspects of it. I like the camaraderie with people you are working with. But actually standing in front of a camera, no I don't love that."

The British star also says he tries to give realistic advice to people who ask him about acting.

"I get a lot of cousins and friends asking me for advice, saying, 'I want to be an actor.' It's this disease that some people get, it's weird. Sometimes they are incredibly talented, and sometimes, they have no talent whatsoever, and I don't know what to tell them or their parents. The saddest thing in the world is to see someone going on in their late thirties or forties still struggling to play a carrot on a TV commercial. For some people, they have to do it, they are so stage struck."

Taylor Kitsch’s Risky Film Choices

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Taylor Kitsch wants to be "scared" by his career choices.

The John Carter actor says it's important for him to take risks with his jobs and take on different characters as he doesn't want to be typecast: "I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something. I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories."

As well as concentrating on his career, the former personal trainer says he wants to live a "normal" life in Austin, Texas, after buying a house there.

"When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life. When you get out, you just kind of reacquaint yourselves with family and friends. You try and forget and just try and remember what reality feels like."

Kevin Smith Bored of Action Films

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Kevin Smith thinks shooting action films is "f**king boring."

The director - who has previously made Red State and Cop Out - claims he is now bored of creating the dramatic films and would rather spend his life chatting.

"I'd rather waste time sitting around talking to people than waste time on a movie set. Well, it's not a waste because you're eventually getting a product, but you shoot two weeks for a 30-second action sequence. Life's too short. Shooting action is just painstakingly f**king boring."

Kevin plans to retire from making movies after his next project because he feels he has nothing left to add to the world of cinema: "After 20 years of doing it, it feels like, 'Let me try something else for 20 years.' I don't have anything left to say in movies now. I'm just spinning wheels."

The 41 year-old claims he never regrets any of the work he has done or hasn't done.

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Hugh Grant Too Old for Rom-Coms?

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Hugh Grant thinks he is "too old" to star in romantic comedies any more.

The 51-year-old actor - who is famed for roles in films including Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill - is unsure if he can take on any more parts in the genre because he is no longer young enough.

"Well, I'm too old for romantic comedies, let's face it. I never really chose romantic comedies. They chose me," he said.

The British star claims he has never been keen on his profession, and would now rather take on smaller parts: "I've never been the world's keenest actor. I don't miss it at all. I do occasional things that are odd."

However, directing and writing is something Hugh might consider. "I would love to direct. And after all, I've worked with lots of very good directors now, really good directors, and that really does interest me. I would love to write. But I've been saying it for years and I've never got around to it."

Jon Hamm Wants George Clooney’s Career

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Jon Hamm wants to be the next George Clooney.

The Mad Men actor - who has long-been compared to the Hollywood hunk - confesses he would “love to emulate” the Men Who Stare At Goats star’s career because of the variation of his work.

“We already have a perfectly serviceable George Clooney, but that’s certainly someone whose career I would love to emulate because he’s been able to work in various genres and walk the line between drama and comedy. He also got started very late in life because ER came when he was well into his thirties, so he bounced around, not unlike me, from show to show and failed pilot to failed pilot, and then ER happened and he blew up.”

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Lucky Actress Sarah Harding

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Sarah Harding feels lucky to have been given the chance to act.

The Girls Aloud star, who plays the role of schoolgirl Roxy in St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, says she is living out her dream on the big screen. Speaking at the world premiere of the movie In London’s Leicester Square, Sarah said:

“I’m just enjoying every minute of it at the moment. I’m getting to live out my fantasies. I’ve lived out my dream doing the singing and I never thought I’d get into doing the acting side of it as well, which is amazing. I’m very honored and grateful that they are giving me a chance.”

The 28-year-old star, who braved the cold on a special pink carpet in a stunning cut-out dress, also denied there was any competition between Girls Aloud as each member focuses on individual projects. “We’ve all got very different tastes and I think if were to all do our own solo stuff it would be very different.”

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Danny Dyer Fears Typecasting

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Danny Dyer was asked to appear in a film called Cockneys vs. Zombies.

The London-born actor admits he tired of being offered the same type of roles - as a British hardman - and singled out the horror movie as the biggest low point he reached.

“I turned down a movie recently called Cockneys vs. Zombies. I thought ‘F**k me, for f**k’s sake’. That’s the final nail in the coffin for me. The fact they even had the front to use that title. I didn’t even turn the first page of the script.”

The Human Traffic star says rejecting the script was a relatively new thing for him because he used to accept anything he was offered out of a fear of rejection:

“So I’m learning, like I said, when you struggle as an actor for so long, and being an actor is about rejection, being told no all the time, so when you get on a run, and people start writing parts for you, you can get a bit carried away with that and say yes to everything. And I’ve had a bit of a spell of going, ‘Yeah, OK, I feel privileged that you want me in your film’. You’ve got to rein that in and say ‘No, it’s not going to test me, it’s not going to challenge me, it’s nothing new.”

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Robert Pattinson Fears Non-Twilight Films

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Despite already landing roles outside of the vampire series, Robert Pattinson finds taking on work outside of the Twilight franchise “scary.”

The actor, who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the hit movie series, says that it is more difficult to take on new roles now that he is so famous because there are so many things to consider.

“You get offered stuff that you would never dream of getting offered before, but that’s also scary. You don’t have to audition for anything. But I don’t want to do a movie just so it gets made. You have to question yourself a lot more. Before Twilight, I did any movie that I got offered, and you’d try and make the best of it afterwards. But now, you’re expected to come into the movie and provide not only economic viability, but also a performance as well. You can’t just mess around. People are like, ‘We’re employing you to be here, as a star and an actor.’ It’s difficult, and it’s scary.”

After recently working on the third Twilight movie, Eclipse, Robert is looking forward to taking on some radically different projects before getting to work on fourth installment Breaking Dawn.

“I think the tentative time for Breaking Dawn is fall next year. Depending on how things go, I’m doing a movie called Bel Ami in February, an adaptation to a Guy de Maupassant novel. And I’m doing - I hope - a Western with Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman called Unbound Captives sometime around there as well. They’ve got to try and juggle things around until everybody’s schedules work.”

Robert Downey Jr. Will Do Sequels Until Forcibly Retired

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Robert Downey Jr. would happily only star in Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man movies for the rest of his career.

The actor loved his experiences on the set of both films so much, he wants to keep returning for new installments until he is forced to quit.

“I’d be happy to bounce back and forth between Sherlock and Tony Stark until I’m forcibly retired. And fortunately, not unlike Iron Man, there is a way to continue along the lines of Sherlock and not become embarrassed by my graying hair and more ropey muscles.”

Robert’s Sherlock Holmes co-star Jude Law also revealed he is hoping to get cast in a sequel to the detective adventure: “We would love the audience to fall in love with it as much as we have so we can tell a whole bunch more.”