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- Kaitlyn Dever: Massively skilled
- Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' headed for TV
- Second bowl of shark spin soup
| Kaitlyn Dever: Massively skilled Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST Kaitlyn Dever has a booming career – at just 17. FOR Kaitlyn Dever, time is passing too quickly. She turned 17 in December, for Pete's sake. "I'm the opposite of all my friends," says the little scene stealer from Tim Allen's comedy Last Man Standing. "They can't wait to be 18 and driving and heading off to college. I'm kind of panicking. I wanted to be 16 a little longer." If your career were booming like hers, you might want to stop and smell the residuals, too. In addition to Last Man Standing, on which she plays flinty youngest daughter Eve, she reprised her role recently as the dangerously resourceful teen Loretta McCready on Justified. Loretta is the firecracker who dared shoot Mags Bennet (Margo Martindale), the kid who keeps drawing the protective instinct out of Raylan (Timothy Olyphant). At the moment, Dever is backstage on the Last Man Standing soundstage, waiting for a table read. She's sitting in what serves as the classroom for her and Flynn Morrison, eight, who plays Boyd on the show. "I'm a junior learning Algebra 2," she says, "and I'm in with a third grader." Lately, she has been playing hooky a lot. But she has a note from her agent.  Dever as Loretta McCready in Justified Dever has been splitting her time between the sitcom and the set of Men, Women & Children, an Ivan Reitman comedy with Emma Thompson, Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner, now filming in Texas. It's one of five films she has done in the last two years, including the forthcoming Laggies with Keira Knightley. It's unusual for a network to give a series contract player so much latitude, but ABC realises what they have in Dever and makes every effort to accommodate her. "She's a massively skilled actress," says Last Man Standing's executive producer Tim Boyle. "It may get to the point where she's at a Jennifer Lawrence level, where we can't hold onto her, but we want it to last as long as possible." The fact that Last Man Standing runs with clockwork efficiency affords Dever more away time. The lead, Allen, is a seasoned pro, and he brought over an old hand from Home Improvement, director John Pasquin, who stresses rehearsal. The result is quick tapings. "It's great for the (studio) audience," Dever says. "It keeps them happy and awake. If you have to do multiple takes, they tend to fade." It would be easy to call Kaitlyn precocious, except she has had her eyes on this particular prize since she was a child in Dallas, Texas. "I've always been good at doing impersonations," she says. "When I see a person on TV, within three minutes, I can do all their mannerisms and their voice. Acting has always come naturally to me. "I kept begging my parents to let me take acting classes," she says. "I came home from the first day of classes and said, 'Mum, that was the best day of my life!'" Dever was spotted by a talent agent who was convinced the kid would take Hollywood by storm. Thus started another long siege campaign of her parents. The Devers were ice skating coaches in Phoenix until Kaitlyn's father, Tim, won a nationwide cattlecall to become the voice of Barney, the purple dinosaur. (He would later go on to voice another popular children's character, Bob the Builder.) Tim's voice work took the Devers to Dallas. But uprooting the whole family (Kaitlyn is the oldest of three sisters) for something as iffy as a child actor's chances? On the other hand, Kaitlyn was incredibly persistent. So they compromised: Mum Kathy would take Kaitlyn out to Los Angeles so the nine-year-old could see what a discouraging job acting was. Then duly chastened, Kaitlyn would buckle down in Dallas. That was the idea anyway. "I booked the first thing my agent sent me out on," says Dever. "For a while, we'd go back to Dallas every summer. But I kept booking more and more things, so three years ago, we all moved out." Before we lose you to the table read, Kaitlyn, what would you say is your best impersonation? "I got it from The Best Of Will Ferrell collection. I put on a wig and giant glasses and act like Harry Caray." OK, did not see that one coming. "I want to host Saturday Night Live. And I want to be on Jimmy Fallon's show," Dever gushes. "He was on SNL, and he's the funniest guy." — The Philadelphia Inquirer/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
| Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' headed for TV Posted: 04 Feb 2014 07:05 PM PST Author will be involved in adaptation as a producer. NEIL Gaiman's fantasy novel will be made into a TV series, according to the North American division of FremantleMedia, which has just acquired the rights to the book. Published in 2001, the British author's American Gods is a fantasy adventure novel that draws its references from both ancient mythology and modern-day American pop culture. In particular, the story focuses on Shadow, a man who has lost his wife and his best friend in a car accident. Fresh out of prison, the protagonist is hired as a bodyguard by a mysterious character, Wednesday, who turns out to be an incarnation of the ancient Nordic god Odin. Engaged in a battle against America's modern-day divinities, such as the media and drugs, Odin makes a cross-country trek to rally support from other ancient gods and mythical creatures. Neil Gaiman will take part in the adaptation as a producer. In 2011, HBO expressed interest in the project, with Tom Hanks on the production team. FremantleMedia is currently developing a US remake of the French zombie series The Returned (Les Revenants) for A&E. – AFP Relaxnews |
| Second bowl of shark spin soup Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST It's the follow-up to Sharknado. IAN Ziering and Tara Reid will once again live through a freak storm of sharks in the follow-up to Sharknado, the campy Syfy TV-movie that gained an unexpected following thanks to Twitter. Former Beverly Hills 90210 star Ziering and American Pie star Reid have both agreed to reprise their roles as Finn and April, former husband and wife, in Sharknado 2: The Second One. Expected to air in July, the sequel will be based on the same premise as the original: a tornado pulls sharks into the air and then rains them down on the city, leading to massive mayhem. After the first movie set in Los Angeles, the sequel will take place in New York, where filming will begin from Feb 13. Sharknado became one of Syfy's most commented-on productions when it aired last July. As many as 5,000 tweets per minute mentioned the movie during the peak of Sharknado fever. – AFP Relaxnews |
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