Guy Pearce Taking Acting Break

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Guy Pearce is taking a break from acting.

The 44-year-old actor - who has starred in The King's Speech, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and The Hurt Locker in recent years - admits he has been struggling to read scripts in the last few months and has decided to quit acting for a while.

"I'm taking six months off, yeah. I've worked way too much in the last two years and I'm just sort of blank. I read scripts and glaze over them at the moment. I need to just kind of go and be me for a while," he said.

The Australian star - who also has a part in Ridley Scott's much anticipated Alien prequel Prometheus - thinks he has run out of energy to take on new parts: "You just get to a point where you become vacuous. I just don't have any energy to be anyone else other than me. So yeah it's really important. People sort of say, but just read this one script. I'm like no, there's no point in me reading this script, because I'll resent it."

Mila Kunis Was Comfortable With Naked Justin

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Mila Kunis had "no problem" with Justin Timberlake taking his clothes off for their new film.

The pair - who are rumored to be dating - star together in new comedy Friends with Benefits, and while the actress admits some of their sex scenes were "uncomfortable," she says the friendship she has with her co-star helped put her at ease.

"I didn't have any problem with Justin taking his clothes off. But I'm incredibly insecure about my figure in my private life, let alone in front of 50 crew members. There was a lot of insecurity. There were awkward moments, but the great thing was that Justin and I were friends, so at least I was with someone I knew who was also uncomfortable."

Angelina Jolie Wanted Mr. and Mrs. Smith Sequel

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Angelina Jolie wanted to star in a Mr. & Mrs. Smith sequel, but there was no original plot idea. The actress, who met Brad Pitt on the set of the 2005 movie, admits she and the actor had considered reprising their roles as married assassins but were not happy with any of the potential storylines they were presented with.

“People have tried to come up with a sequel. And it’s strange: do we have kids in the movie? We’ve thought about that, but it becomes personal now that we actually have kids. And if we work on it, we pull from our own life, which is funny to us, but you feel strange sharing too much. We did ask somebody to look into Mr. & Mrs. to see if they could crack a sequel, but there wasn’t anything original. It was just, Well, they’re going to get married, or they’ve got kids, or they get separated. Never great.”

The Salt star, however, admitted she would love to work with Brad again, but doesn’t think people would want to see them play a couple:

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Quote of the Day: Robert Pattinson’s Reaction to Watching Twilight

Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Adaptation, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip,

“I just saw Twilight on TV for the first time a few days ago… Even when I was watching [it] the other day, now that I’ve seen it, you do need to read the book to get it. I was like ‘What?!’ and I’m in it!”

- The Twilight Saga star Robert Pattinson reveals his reaction to watching the cultural phenomenon for the first time.

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Leonard Nimoy Bids Good-Bye to Acting

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Paramount, Science Fiction, Celebrity Gossip, Rumors, Videos,

Leonard Nimoy recently made an appearance at the Hero Complex Film Festival, where he confirmed what many people were hoping wasn’t true: he’s retiring from the acting game. From now on, the man best known as Mr. Spock will concentrate on photography, collecting art and spending time with his family. In the video above, you can hear some of Nimoy’s comments from the event.

Well, I hope Paramount is happy with their poorly-penned Star Trek relaunch. After decades of donning the Vulcan ears, Nimoy’s been driven out of the franchise - likely because he was so disappointed with the terrible, terrible plot of Trek 11. How do you define cop-out? Being unable to come up with a continuous, sensible storyline for a forty-four year franchise - and &%!!ing all over it instead.

It’s no wonder Spock has decided to wash his hands of the whole Hollywood business.

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Sarah Jessica Parker Game For Sex and the City Prequel

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Sarah Jessica Parker wants to play Carrie Bradshaw in a possible Sex and the City prequel.

The 45-year-old actress insists advances in video technology would make it possible to play the journalist as a teenager, as depicted in creator Candace Bushnell’s latest book The Carrie Diaries.

“Who do I want to play teenage Carrie? I don’t know. Maybe they should use old footage of me. And in this new age of Avatar, what about a new 17-year-old S.J.?”

In the early 80s, Sarah Jessica was starring as Patty Greene in TV series Square Pegs and insists the character was a good representative of the early Carrie. “That might have been Carrie in high school,” she joked.

The actress - who has seven-year-old son James Wilkie and 11-month-old twins Marion and Tabitha with husband Matthew Broderick - recently admitted she plans to take her eldest child to see Sex and the City 2, but will take him out of the cinema during the raunchier moments.

“If I can manage to take him out for popcorn for two certain moments, I think he’s ready for it. He has too many questions, and he’s too clever for us to keep it from him. I wouldn’t say this movie is for seven-year-olds, but we’ll find a way of figuring it out.”

Anthony Hopkins Set for Arabian Nights

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Sir Anthony Hopkins is set to play a villainous sorcerer in Chuck Russell’s Arabian Nights.

The screen legend is apparently in the final stages of negotiations to portray sorcerer Pharotu in the upcoming period epic, which follows a young commander who teams up with Sinbad, Ali Baba and a Genie when his king is murdered. Liam Hemsworth is due to play the young leader as the group battle to rescue his queen, Scheherazade.

However, the movie will see Anthony’s evil alter-ego kill Sinbad’s mermaid lover and search for more magic and power of his own. Shooting on the movie is expected to start at the end of the summer. Production will be overseen by Bill Johnson from Inferno and Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray from Mayhem Pictures. The storyline has been penned by director Chuck and Barry P. Ambrose.

It will be the second action thriller for 72-year-old Anthony, who next year will be seen in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor - which is based on the Marvel comic book series.

Quote of the Day: Emma Watson on Her Acting

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“I think actually I’m the worst in the class.”

- Harry Potter actress Emma Watson on taking acting classes at Brown University.

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Jennifer Lopez Says Her New Film Has No Message

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Here’s some shocking news: Jennifer Lopez‘s new film does not have a profound message.

The 40-year-old singer and actress admits The Back-Up Plan - which tells the tale of a single woman who becomes artificially inseminated the same day she finds the love of her life - says the movie is a romantic comedy many will be able to associate with:

“It’s not a message movie.  It’s a romantic comedy.  It definitely deals with modern issues, which I love.  When I read it, that’s one of the things I really liked about it, it had a very modern voice.  It seemed very up to date. I think that’s very important for romantic comedies - that they do deal with issues.  It doesn’t feel like it’s a story from 20 years ago, which some romantic comedies can be like.  So, that was one of the things that really attracted me to it.”

The mother-of-two also admits the movie imitated her own life because of her pregnancy with twins Max and Emme, two. “So many things in this movie were art imitating life for me because I had just gone through the pregnancy.  It was just fresh in my mind.  When Kate Angelo wrote the script, she had just gone through a pregnancy as well. She came up to me and I had just signed on to the movie.  I was really excited about it.”

The Back-Up Plan comes out tomorrow, April 23.

Quote of the Day: Miley Cyrus on Filming in Georgia

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“In L.A., I had so many security blankets, people helping me with everything. I tried to book my friend a flight, and I didn’t know how because I was used to someone doing it for me. I didn’t want a babysitter anymore. I came to Tybee Island crying harder than I had ever cried in my life—and I left with the biggest smile on my face.”

- The Last Song actress Miley Cyrus on filming away from home (and finally growing up?).

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