By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hailee Steinfeld has worked almost non-stop since she made her debut in Joel and Ethan Coens’ 2010 Western “True Grit,” in which she earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting performance. The native Angeleno has since grown up on screen, and now w [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hailee Steinfeld is on a roll this spring. First, the sequel she stars in “Pitch Perfect 2” debuted at No. 1 in its opening weekend, upsetting the male-targeted actioner “Mad Max: Fury Road.” She then appeared in Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Audiences may know Elizabeth Banks as the color-coordinated and well-coifed chaperone Effie Trinket in “The Hunger Games” films or as Jack Donaghy’s peripatetic wife on the sitcom “30 Rock.” Having directed a few short films and a segment of the 2013 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Whatever you do, don’t call Harrison Ford, the actor who embodied Han Solo and Indiana Jones, an icon. “I don’t know what an icon does except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone’s attention,” he says in his low, gravelly voice. “I like [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Douglas Booth follows a 400-year acting tradition, playing a lovesick Verona boy who’s love for a local girl is verboten thanks to a longstanding family feud. The young lovebirds would rather die than be held apart by their respective families’ hatred [...]