Jun 02, 2010 Filed Under: Paper Man,Videos Comments (2)

I’ve added 6 PaperMan related interviews.

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PaperMan Interview #1
PaperMan Interview #2
PaperMan Interview #3
PaperMan Interview #4
PaperMan Interview #5
PaperMan Interview #6

Jun 02, 2010 Filed Under: Films,Gallery,Paper Man,Powder Blue Comments (0)

Movie stills from PaperMan and Powder Blue has been added to the gallery.

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May 07, 2010 Filed Under: Interviews,Paper Man,Web Therapy,Who Do You Think You Are? Comments (0)

Lisa guested NPR “Talk of the Nation” yesterday for a talk about her busy career. Listen to the interview below.

Apr 23, 2010 Filed Under: News & Rumors,Paper Man,Who Do You Think You Are? Comments (0)

Actress Lisa Kudrow says she was never really cut out to play naive young women.

Luckily, she hasn’t had to in a busy post “Friends” career that has seen her become a viable force as an actress and producer in television, Internet and independent film.

“Let’s face it, I was never a great ingenue to begin with,” said Kudrow, now 46. “I always knew I’d have to do either my own stuff or play interesting character roles.”

Kudrow gained fame playing ditzy blonde Phoebe on “Friends” for 10 years. By the time the show ended in 2004, the cast was earning a $1 million dollars each per episode.

This paycheck made Kudrow and her co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox not only the highest paid TV actresses of all time but gave them the luxury of choice in the future.

“That show did nothing but afford us opportunity forever after,” says a grateful Kudrow.

Kudrow’s latest movie is alongside Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds and Emma Stone in the independent movie “Paper Man,” which opens in U.S. movie theaters on Friday.

Kudrow plays the surgeon wife to her failed novelist husband (Daniels). While she’s off working, her husband develops a friendship with a teenage girl (Stone). At the same time, he also gets advice from an imaginary childhood superhero (Reynolds).

“This was a better version of the (traditional) wife character,” says Kudrow. “I liked the idea of how one girl’s charming guy is a wife’s huge burden.”

GIVING BACK TO TELEVISION

Film work is just one facet of Kudrow’s busy professional life.

She recently executive produced and appeared in the genealogy TV reality series “Who Do You Think You Are?“. The NBC network has already picked it up for a second season.

It is based on the long running British documentary series of the same name where celebrities journey to trace his or her family tree.

“I’m really proud to have brought the show to the U.S. and that it’s my contribution to television,” says the actress, whose own episode was not without trepidation.

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Apr 22, 2010 Filed Under: Interviews,Paper Man,Who Do You Think You Are? Comments (0)

Lisa Kudrow puts up with a lot in Paper Man. She plays a heart surgeon married to a failing writer played by Jeff Daniels who pushes his friendship with a teenage girl to the limit.

Kudrow is also busy as executive producer of NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, a show in which celebs explore their ancestry. Kudrow told Parade.com‘s Jeanne Wolf that she understands what it takes to keep a relationship together.

Women don’t give up easily.
“When you love someone and when you’re committed, you put up with a lot of things. I think women have a tremendous capacity for patience when they commit to something. The trick with women is when you’ve run all that patience out; they’re done and it’s hard to get them back.”

But guys are winning the age game.
“I know we all want everything to be equal, but it’s just not. Men age well and they are capable of being attractive to women that are a lot younger and it just doesn’t work the other way most of the time. There are exceptions obviously, but you know, in general it’s just not the way it happens.”

Almost following in her dad’s footsteps.
“It was funny to play a surgeon. Originally, I was gonna go to medical school and become a doctor like my father and he said, ‘That’s great.’ Then I said, ‘No, not medical school. I’m just gonna do research.’ And he said, ‘That’s fantastic.’ And then I said, ‘Instead of all that, I’m just gonna go for acting.’ He said, ‘Good for you.’ So he’s like the kind of dad any girl would want — whatever makes you happy.”

How science has made her a better performer.
“The scientific method done correctly doesn’t allow any judgment, no opinions. You can’t have it crowded by too much bias. I approach acting the same way. What you learn about your characters is just information, and you’re not allowed to judge them.”

Remembering the advice she’d like to forget.
“I was told by a teacher, ‘You’re funny, and people either get you or they don’t. So the question is, will you work or not? Who knows? I think there are maybe very few people who get what you’re doing, and those people might employ you. And the rest of the world, I think they’re just going to think you’re f—d up.’ I sometimes wonder how she felt when she saw me on Friends.”

The world isn’t always funny.
“I don’t think I’m always looking for the humor in everything. I used to. There was a point when I was at The Groundlings and I was looking for what’s funny. Usually, I found it was the mean stuff. You had to look for the mean take on things, and the angry take. I didn’t want to live my life like that.”

Rediscovering her past on Who Do You Think You Are?
“The producers sort of made me the guinea pig because they decided I had a good story to tell. There were some things that my father didn’t know and that I didn’t know about. For me, it became a holocaust story uncovering things that relatives suffered that were brutal and also surprising. That’s kind of the key to the show: What we can learn from uncovering our past. I think almost everyone who’s seen it has tried to find out more about their own family tree. They just log onto Ancestry.com and immediately start looking things up.”

Keeping history alive.
“It’s the intimate details of these stories that personalize history and that adds to the impact. I used to feel bad about holding on to things from my past like my Day Runners from the ’80s, and faxes and stuff. I’m not going to feel bad about that anymore because those are all, at some point, potentially important family documents about what I was thinking or feeling at the time. It turns out that everything is a clue when you’re trying to piece together a life from a few hundred years ago.” 

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Apr 21, 2010 Filed Under: News & Rumors,Paper Man,Who Do You Think You Are? Comments (0)

Actress and producer Lisa Kudrow will appear tomorrow on PBS’ “Tavis Smiley” to discuss her latest projects, a starring role in the film “Paper Man” and her role as executive producer of the genetics-based series, “Who Do You Think You Are?” on NBC. Check your local listings for air times.

During the interview, Kudrow shares how researching her own family history, particularly around the Holocaust, on an episode of “Who Do You Think You Are?” helped her to gain insight into her family dynamics:

“There’s also that aspect of, ‘oh, now I know why my grandmother was the way she was.’ Which was, just a little bit bitter. There had just been so much tragedy in so many areas of her life. Not to mention this really terrifying – this horror that her entire family was just wiped out like that. You know, and that’s who raised my father, and his response to that. And you can see how all these events however far you go back, it really informed how the next generation behaved or experienced the world.”

Kudrow also discusses her pride at broadening the scope of network television with the introduction of the history-focused series:

“It’s something I’ve been afraid to sort of say out loud, but part of it was this secret fantasy that if it’s possible to bring this kind of show to network television which seemed, I have to say, it seemed almost like an impossibility. Then it would be such a, to me, such a huge accomplishment because it’s really, I think it’s enriching, you know? I mean it can’t go all the way over to a documentary series like it is in the UK because after all, it is on a network during primetime, but boy, I think it’s taken what that is on network television a little further along and it makes me proud.”

Source: Tavis Smiley

Apr 17, 2010 Filed Under: Paper Man,Videos Comments (1)

The official movie trailer for “Paper Man” has been added to the video archive. The movie will be in American cinemas April 23rd, 2010.