I’m filming the next two installments of the ‘Fifty Shades’ movies back-to-back.
DJ Envy’s definitely talk about me, but I’m one of many. I was under the assumption that he had kids but wasn’t actually married. I found out around the time that I started filming ‘Love & Hip Hop.’ After I found out, I was still in shock because we were together for so long.
I like to Instagram my dogs! I also get excited to post behind-the-scenes photos from when I was filming something.
I worked so hard for so long, filming literally 20 hours a day nonstop for several months. It was so tough – it really broke me psychologically.
I think about the movie ‘Jaws.’ They had this state-of-the-art animatronic shark, but it kept breaking down, which kept delaying the filming. So, they had to use it very sparingly, but it became why the film was so good because you never saw the shark. You only heard about it, and it was suggested.
I love doing TV. It’s such a breakneck pace, you know. It’s kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names.
Those of you that think filming is all glamour, you’re so wrong! Really, only the premieres are the glitzy bits.
I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you’d do the same thing.
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I’m all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It’s just day by day.
Filming in India was very special. The chaos, the noise, and the sensory overload was all really wonderful. It was a new world to me, and being able to capture that was incredible.
Within a few weeks of coming back from filming ‘Lemonade Mouth,’ I got these scripts, and ‘Terra Nova’ was the one that stuck out. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh’.
With ‘True Detective,’ you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it… it’s like you’re filming a theater piece.
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
It’s really weird, people love filming, they love being on camera.
Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you’ve created, wherever you are filming. It doesn’t matter where the location is, the world doesn’t exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.
I’ve filmed a lot of my videos in Compton, but filming a movie, we really can’t do it because the police will come and shut you down.
When I’m not filming, I do rock n’ roll; when I’m not doing rock n’ roll, I do filming.
A lot of people don’t understand how hard the girls on ‘Total Divas’ work. They’re on the road, the same as the rest of us, and then when they get home, they’ve got to be filming this whole time.
The trick is after a workout you’re supposed to have gummy bears or some candy to get your veins to stick out. Of course, it’s all about protein, too, but right before you’re filming a shirtless scene, you have a little bit of sugar to pop the veins.
It feels like you are in your own little bubble when you film ‘Bake Off.’ There is no noise, the outside world doesn’t exist when we are filming. It’s us, the tent and the bakers.
I see my filming career as an opportunity to get the message of conservation out to an even greater audience.
There is anxiety, but it comes after you’ve finished filming because it’s out of your hands; people are editing it, they’re cutting it, marketing it. And it’s… part your career sort of rides on that. But when you’re actually filming it’s a team thing and it really feels good there for me.
I only get home two or three weeks a year. I’m always on the road filming.
There have been moments where I’m like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to survive and pay next month’s rent.’ And the next month I’m filming a movie in New York City.
When I was filming ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.
Sometimes, I’d stop the car on the way home after filming ‘Millionaire’, and fish for a while in the dark.
To be home for story time is brilliant. Even if after 14 hours of filming you’re exhausted and just want to fall into bed.
When I’m filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.
Acting in ‘Command & Conquer 3’ called for me to interact with the player and to look directly into the camera, which is a big no no when filming for TV or film.
I do enjoy filming, but I do consider myself still to be a bit of a novice, and I learn a bit every time I do a film job, and I am very admiring of film actors.
The ‘Jamestown’ set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned up, we were knee-high in mud. There were pigs and goats everywhere, too, which meant the whole place smelled pretty ripe. It definitely helped us enter the ‘Jamestown’ world immediately.
I’m away so much I’ve had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.
During the course of filming ‘Top Chef,’ I gain 15 lbs., so I’m used to needing two dress sizes.
‘Hatching Pete’ was so much fun. Mitchel Musso and Jason Dolley, as well as Josie Loren, who was also in ’17 Again’ with Sterling and Zac Efron and Matthew Perry are in it. We just had a blast filming.
I came home for a week after I finished filming ‘Rambo’ because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.
No matter how long you’d been in the country, if you weren’t in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 – when I was particularly busy filming overseas – you can’t become a citizen.
‘Ten Year’ was probably – I might say ‘Ten Year’ was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from ‘Moneyball’ in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.
But Jackie Chan is that guy who would pick up glasses and bottles lying on the road or that guy who would help in picking up tents once the filming production is over. He doesn’t act like a star.
The strongest moments in my life are when I’m filming. It’s an adventure. As an actor I try to seduce someone, try to share something. The rest of my time is spent exploring experiences with women.
The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day’s shooting, but you always know that you’re all going to be coming back for the premiere.
After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don’t really socialize with the other actors.
I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.
I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.
You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He’s fantastic.
Larry Kasdan wanted us all there, all the time, even if we weren’t filming.
The thing with TV and filming is the timing is all faked anyway. You do it so many times, from so many different angles. You never really do it all in one go anyway, so they just fix it all in the edit.
I wish that when we weren’t filming, we could have full privacy. I wish I could live in a bubble and just be with my family.
I just don’t like filming scenes where it’s like, that’s not how people talk. People aren’t saying a joke every five seconds.
While filming ‘The Matrix,’ we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in a more dynamic way.
I was asked to be in the last two ‘Harry Potter’ films and I couldn’t do it because I was busy filming ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’
‘Southcliffe’ is extremely dark. It’s an extremely depressing, intense story, but the shoot was like being at Disneyland. It was unbelievably different from what we were filming.
I’ll always take Scrabble and chess if I’m going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
I didn’t get to go to prom; I was filming a death scene on my prom night. But I got to go to all the homecomings, and even the winter formals I got to go to, but the only thing I missed was the prom, but everything else was great.
When you’re filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what’s going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.
When we’re away filming, Si’s the one who’s more likely to find a club and go dancing.
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for ‘Wedding Crashers,’ and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
