News

On Wednesday, FX released the official trailer for “Grotesquerie,” its latest horror drama series from Ryan Murphy. Lead actor Niecy Nash-Betts is featured prominently in the video in the role of Detective Lois Tryon, who’s trying to uncover the truth behind some horrific murders in a small town. Its fronted by a brief, cheeky introduction from Travis Kelce. The celebrated tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs and three-time Super Bowl champion as well as Taylor Swift’s leading squeeze will appear on the series in an as-yet unspecified role. Watch the two-and-a-half-minute trailer above.

Joining Nash-Betts and Kelce are the following cast members: Primetime Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance (“The People v. O.J. Simpson”) as Marshall Tryon; Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread”) as Nurse Redd; Tony nominee Micaela Diamond (“Parade”) as Sister Megan; Daytime Emmy winner Nicholas Alexander Chavez (“General Hospital”) as Father Charlie, and Spirit...

On Thursday, FX released the first teaser for “Grotesquerie,” its latest horror drama series from Ryan Murphy. While lead actor Niecy Nash-Betts is featured prominently in the video in the role of Detective Lois Tryon, who’s trying to uncover the truth behind some horrific murders in a small town, viewers also get their first look at football star-turned-actor Travis Kelce. The three-time Super Bowl champion, who’s currently dating Taylor Swift, will appear on the program in an undisclosed role — see the screenshot above.

Watch the official teaser video below. “Grotesquerie” premieres on Wednesday, September 25 on FX and streams the next day on Hulu.

See ‘American Horror Story’: 25 famous actors you forgot appeared on ‘AHS,’ including Lena Dunham, Adam Levine …

The teaser begins with an ominous warning for “Mature Content,” as a car drives past several utility poles that bear striking resemblances to religious crosses. “I don’t know how it started,...

Fresh off of her Emmy win for “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” Niecy Nash-Betts is re-teaming with uber-producer Ryan Murphy on his new horror drama, “Grotesquerie.” The FX series chronicles the investigation into several horrific crimes in a small town, with Nash-Betts taking on the lead role of Detective Lois Tryon. Three-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce will also appear in an undisclosed role. “Grotesquerie” premieres on Wednesday, September 25 on FX and streams the next day on Hulu — see the key art below.

Joining Nash-Betts and Kelce are the following cast members: Primetime Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance (“The People v. O.J. Simpson”) as Marshall Tryon, Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread”) as Nurse Redd, Tony nominee Micaela Diamond (“Parade”) as Sister Megan, Daytime Emmy winner Nicholas Alexander Chavez (“General Hospital”) as Father Charlie, and Spirit nominee Raven Goodwin (“Lovely & Amazing”) as Merritt Tryon.

Murphy has a long...

When it was released in January of 2001, Richard Kelly's bleak time-travel psychological drama "Donnie Darko" caused a notable stir. The title character, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, is a teen struggling with schizophrenia in 1988, a time when Reagan's great Conservative revolution was drawing to a close and adults clung to suburban conformity as it crumbled under them. Donnie is obsessed with time-travel and regularly hallucinates a vicious, strange anthropomorphic rabbit monster named Frank (all while attempting to socialize at school and foster a romance with a classmate played by Jena Malone). Patrick Swayze appears as a cheesy self-self guru, Drew Barrymore plays one of Donnie's teachers, and Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Donnie's sister.

By turns psychedelic and weirdly moving (in a Goth sort of way), "Donnie Darko" quickly became a cult hit and rotated directly into the local midnight movie circuit, attracting a wide swath of misfits and night people.

Mubi have announced two exclusive collections running during the month of February, In The Mood For Love and Cut to Black: Celebrating Black Cinema. In a couple of weeks Valentine's Day will have come and gone and you'd have celebrated it with your loved ones or, like me, you will lament that the two week build-up of jealousy and snarkiness about the day could not go on for the remaining two weeks of the month. For those of you looking to keep that feeling going Mubi will have their film collection In The Mood For Love which will be available to stream starting February 14th. This collection of cinematic romances features Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely & Amazing (2001) starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Aki Kaurismäki’s Golden Globe...

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

Mubi has unveiled their February 2024 lineup, featuring Roy Andersson’s little-seen 1991 short World of Glory, Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely & Amazing starring Catherine Keener with an early Jake Gyllenhaal performance, and special Black History Month selections: Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer, Kasi Lemmon’s Eve’s Bayou, Carl Franklin’s One False Move, and more.

Check out the lineup below, including recently added January titles, and get 30 days free here.

Just-Added

American Movie, directed by Christopher Smith | Festival Focus: Sundance

Pieces of April, directed by Peter Hedges | Festival Focus: Sundance

The Blair Witch Project, directed by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Festival Focus: Sundance

But I’m a Cheerleader, directed by Jamie Babbit | Festival Focus: Sundance

Secretary, directed by Steven Shainberg | Festival Focus: Sundance

Medicine for Melancholy directed by Barry Jenkins | First Films First

Antiviral, directed by Brandon Cronenberg | First Films First

Shithouse, directed by Cooper Raiff | First Films First

Age of Panic,...

You Hurt My Feelings is one of those delightful films in which you could honestly envision a whole movie about each character, and would want to watch it. Even tangential characters, like the couple who want a refund for years of unsuccessful therapy (a hilarious David Cross and Amber Tambyln) are interesting and fun enough, in their own way. But it's the main four characters of Nicole Holofcener's new instant classic that obviously stand out the most here. They're delightful company in one of the best films of the year.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Beth, a writer whose new literary efforts are frequently rejected by her publisher. Her husband, Don (Tobias Menzies), is a therapist who is beginning to doubt that he's actually effective or good at his job. Beth's sister, Sarah (Michaela Watkins) is an interior designer for the frequently indecisive and picky upper echelon clientele of New York.

For decades now, indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener has been delivering sharply observed, bitingly hilarious, empathic, complex comedies about the human condition, family, and life’s ordinary struggles. Often compared to Albert Brooks, Woody Allen, and Walt Stillman, filmmakers of somewhat similar urbane comedies, Holofcener’s always had a tenderness and humanity that maybe seemed a little too far out of reach of those dudes, and yet, never dulling her comedic blade.

Continue reading ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Trailer: Nicole Holofcener’s New A24 Comedy With Julia Louis-Dreyfus Arrives May 26 at The Playlist.

When the writer-director Nicole Holofcener is on her game, in movies like “Lovely and Amazing” and “Enough Said,” the snap and sparkle of her dialogue is like neurotic champagne. It gives you a lift; the conflicts percolate around in it like bubbles. That snarky humane effervescence is a Holofcener signature, and so is her commitment to making adult comedies about the things that people think and talk about that almost never make it into movies — like, for instance, the squirmy intimacy of the upwardly mobile competitiveness she caught in “Friends with Money.”

Her new movie, “You Hurt My Feelings,” hooks us from the opening scene, where two people in the miserable thick of a couples’ therapy session berate each other, and the therapist too, with such sharp-elbowed hostility that we can’t help about wonder: Is the therapist doing something wrong? It turns out he is. He’s too passive and polite,...

The Pursuit of Love just wouldn’t leave Emily Mortimer alone. Much like its protagonist, the doggedly romantic yet free-spirited Linda Radlett, the novel followed Mortimer across time and space, waiting half a lifetime after their first meeting to present itself again, extend a hand, and ask her to go on a rousing adventure. Mortimer initially encountered the book as a teenager, “as a lot of girls in England do,” she says, projecting just above the Sunday-morning din of an espresso maker and chatter at a restaurant near her Brooklyn brownstone.

The actor and screenwriter on her dog, her neediness and pinching a policeman’s bottom

Born in London, Emily Mortimer, 48, studied at Oxford University. She co-wrote and starred in the television series Doll & Em and her films include Lovely & Amazing, Shutter Island and Mary Poppins Returns. Relic, her latest, has just been released. She lives in New York with her husband, Alessandro Nivola, and their two children.

What is your greatest fear?

Shouting out something inappropriate in a theatre – as an audience member or an actor.

“We’re going to hit a golden age of new voices who are given free rein to explore their vision.”

Veteran producer Ted Hope has said the growing prevalence of streaming platforms could lead to the collapse of the international sales model, the lynchpin of the independent film business.

Speaking during a TIFF Masterclass session on Friday (September 11), Hope said, “We do run a real risk when you look at that move towards global streaming and full finance, alongside what could happen with Covid and the collapse of exhibition.

“It won’t go away, I’m not saying that, but...

“We’re going to hit a golden age of new voices who are given free rein to explore their vision.”

Veteran producer Ted Hope has said the growing prevalence of streaming platforms could lead to the collapse of the international sales model, the lynchpin of the independent film business.

Speaking during a TIFF Masterclass session on Friday (September 11) Hope said, ”We do run a real risk when you look at that move towards global streaming and full finance, “alongside what could happen with Covid and the collapse of exhibition – it won’t go away, I’m not saying that, but...

I once posited there’s no Greta Gerwig and “Ladybird” without writer/director Nicole Holofcener, and I still believe that to be true. For three decades, Holofcener, the indie filmmaker behind cult feminist comedic indies like 1996’s breakthrough film “Walking And Talking,” 2001’s “Lovely & Amazing, 2006’s “Friends With Money”—featuring a semi-rare indie acting turn for Jennifer Aniston— and many more, has been delivering sharply observed, bitingly hilarious, empathic, complex comedies about the human condition, family, and life’s ordinary struggles.

Continue reading Nicole Holofcener Talks The Struggle Of Selfishness Vs. Selflessness In Her Hilarious, Humane Comedies [Interview] at The Playlist.

Producer deal to start on June 2.

Ted Hope is stepping down as Amazon Studios movies co-head and has signed a multi-year, first-look producing deal with the streaming giant.

Hope will consult on several films planned for release in 2020 and produce select projects on the upcoming development slate. His producing deal starts on June 2.

Matt Newman and Julie Rapaport expand their roles as co-heads of the Original Movies team, reporting to head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, who said the group would be “in good hands as they continue their collaborative leadership.”

The division’s recent films include Late Night, Brittany Runs A Marathon,...

Producer deal to start on June 2.

Ted Hope is stepping down as Amazon Studios movies co-head and has signed a multi-year, first-look producing deal with the streaming giant.

Hope will consult on several films planned for release in 2020 and produce select projects on the upcoming development slate. His producing deal starts on June 2.

Matt Newman and Julie Rapaport expand their roles as co-heads of the Original Movies team, reporting to head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, who said the group would be “in good hands as they continue their collaborative leadership.”

The division’s recent films include Late Night, Brittany Runs A Marathon,...

The tone of this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards was set early, when host Aubrey Plaza kicked off the annual awards ceremony with a girl-powered pre-taped show opener, which featured Hollywood heavyweights like Marcia Gay Harden, Rosanna Arquette, Christina Ricci, Sharon Stone, and Marisa Tomei playing at summoning indie film-fueled power in literal witch garb. Putting the focus on women and their impact on the industry isn’t exactly groundbreaking these days, but the Spirits weren’t just going for cheap gags in service of a laugh or two.

Unlike other awards season to-do’s, the Spirits nominated plenty of women, including in the Best Director category, a space that still doesn’t typically find room to recognize the work of creators who happen to be female. Plaza’s opening monologue pointed out that 60 percent of the ceremony’s nominated directors were women, and though she admitted that really...

“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” stunned us all with a Writers Guild of America Awards win for Best Adapted Screenplay on Sunday. Can it pull off another shocker this weekend — not at the Oscars, but at the Independent Spirit Awards?

The Spirits only has one screenplay category that combines original and adapted scripts. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, is in second place in our combined odds behind Paul Schrader‘s “First Reformed,” and ahead of “Private Life” (Tamara Jenkins), “Sorry to Bother You” (Boots Riley) and “Collette”. “First Reformed” is the safe pick, as the film got a co-leading four nominations, including Best Picture unlike “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, and it’s a chance to honor Schrader, the scribe behind classics like “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull.”

But two of our Experts, Kevin Polowy (Yahoo) and Gold Derby’s own Tom O’Neil,...

Nicole Holofcener is a master at making audiences care about people who are behaving badly. Anders Hill, the protagonist of Holofcener’s latest film, “The Land of Steady Habits,” does unforgivable things. He leaves his family, quits his job, falls behind in the mortgage payments, and, most deplorably, mentors a drug addicted teenager in unorthodox ways that help lead to tragic results. Yet because Holofcener is such a humanist as a writer and a director and because the film’s star Ben Mendelsohn plays Anders so deftly, you still care what happens to him. You even kind of like him. The film begins streaming on Netflix on Sept. 14.

“The Land of Steady Habits” premieres at this year’s Toronto Intl. Film Festival, where Holofcener is also represented by “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” a Melissa McCarthy dramedy that she helped script. Holofcener, whose previous credits include “Enough Said” and “Lovely & Amazing,...

Emily Mortimer is perhaps best known for her role as MacKenzie McHale in Aaron Sorkin’s beloved HBO series The Newsroom. Some of her other memorable performances are in Woody Allen’s Match Point, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and Hugo and, as Phoebe, Jack Donaghy’s love interest, on the NBC series 30 Rock. In this hour she talks extensively about one particular, powerful scene in her breakout film, Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely & Amazing (which earned her an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress), and about what it was like to play a character named “Emily Mortimer” in her HBO series Doll […]...

Emily Mortimer is perhaps best known for her role as MacKenzie McHale in Aaron Sorkin’s beloved HBO series The Newsroom. Some of her other memorable performances are in Woody Allen’s Match Point, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and Hugo and, as Phoebe, Jack Donaghy’s love interest, on the NBC series 30 Rock. In this hour she talks extensively about one particular, powerful scene in her breakout film, Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely & Amazing (which earned her an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress), and about what it was like to play a character named “Emily Mortimer” in her HBO series Doll […]...

You’ll often hear directors say that each movie is really three movies: The one on the page, the one you shoot, and the one you end up with in the final cut. That gives you three chances to get it right or mess it up even more, but nothing beats a solid foundation and well-crafted blueprint. At least with a great screenplay, you know it will be a lot harder to mess up the other two phases.

Any consideration of the best movies of the past 18 years takes on new context when considered exclusively in terms of their screenplays. There are some obvious masters of the form, such as Charlie Kaufman and Kenneth Lonergan, not to mention the clockwork-like precision of the Pixar story factory, which is why they all have two films on this list. Many of the films here were robbed of Oscar nominations, including from David Fincher...

As made evident earlier this week, the Sundance Film Festival can be a significant launching pad for Oscar nominees. This year’s nominations included two for best picture – “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” and “An Education” – that had debuted at last year’s festival, while a myriad of other nominations did the same, including four from the acting categories, nearly half the screenplay nominees, and two of the best documentary contenders. While 2009 was definitely a standout year for Sundance films, it is probably not likely to replicate that record, though this year’s festival – which closed out this past weekend – had at least a few 2011 Oscar hopefuls in its mix.

It’s obviously way too soon to know anything (though most of us were calling Mo’Nique around this time a year ago), but here is a rundown of some possibilities from films that premiered at last month...

Emily Mortimer has signed with ICM for representation. The actress, who was repped by WMA, recently completed work on David Mamet's Redbelt, stars opposite Ryan Gosling and Patricia Clarkson in Lars and the Real Girl, and is shooting The Pink Panther 2. Mortimer won an Independent Spirit Award in 2003 for her role in Lovely & Amazing.. Her other film credits include Match Point, Dear Frankie, Young Adam and Bright Young Things.. On TV, she played the recurring role of Phoebe, Alec Baldwin's love interest, last season on NBC 30 Rock.. Mortimer is managed by Aleen Keshishian and Todd Diener of Brillstein Entertainment Partners and repped by Kate Buckley and Sally Long-Innes at Independent Talent in the U.K.

Catherine Keener, Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack are negotiating to become best friends for Lovely & Amazing helmer Nicole Holofcener in Friends With Money. The film revolves around four best friends and their relationships with one another and their husbands. Only one (Aniston) is not married. Holofcener, who will write and direct the project, is joining with This Is That partners Anthony Bregman, Anne Carey and Ted Hope, who will produce. Bregman and Hope were among the producers of Holofcener's last film Lovely & Amazing. This Is That is currently in discussions with Sony Pictures Classics to release the project.

Catherine Keener, Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack are negotiating to become best friends for Lovely & Amazing helmer Nicole Holofcener in Friends With Money. The film revolves around four best friends and their relationships with one another and their husbands. Only one (Aniston) is not married. Holofcener, who will write and direct the project, is joining with This Is That partners Anthony Bregman, Anne Carey and Ted Hope, who will produce. Bregman and Hope were among the producers of Holofcener's last film Lovely & Amazing. This Is That is currently in discussions with Sony Pictures Classics to release the project.

NEW YORK -- Howard Cohen and Eric d'Arbeloff's indie film banner, Roadside Attractions, has acquired North American rights to Italian helmer Gabriele Muccino's Remember Me, My Love, a family drama toplining Monica Bellucci. The burgeoning Roadside has been active since its October launch, having previously grabbed rights to the Sundance standout Super Size Me and Israeli import Walk on Water, both with Samuel Goldwyn Films. Love, a bittersweet tale about the lives and loves of a modern Italian family whose individual aspirations threaten to pull them apart, screened at the Toronto and Sundance festivals last year and racked up more than $12 million in its homeland release. Said d'Arbeloff: "We were big fans of Gabriele's last film, The Last Kiss, and are very excited to release ('Love'). It's gorgeous, sexy, modern and very Italian." Roadside is a partner in the IDP distribution label, and Love is slated to hit theaters in the summer. A former UTA vet, Cohen was involved in the packaging and selling of more than 50 films, including Girl With a Pearl Earring, Igby Goes Down and The Banger Sisters. D'Arbeloff's producing credits include Lovely & Amazing. The Love deal was brokered for Roadside by Cohen and attorney Ben Feldman of Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz and Weinstein. The film was repped by sales agent the Works.

Howard Cohen, who has led UTA's independent film activity since 1996, is leaving the agency to team with Lovely & Amazing producer Eric d'Arbeloff in launching a U.S. theatrical distribution company called Roadside Attractions. The new company, which is being funded with private equity and will be primarily acquisition-driven, will join Samuel Goldwyn Films as a partner in Independent Distribution Partners. "The time feels right to launch a true independent distributor," Cohen said. "There is more consolidation on the distribution front than ever, and the studio specialized divisions are becoming more focused on production, leaving many great films without distribution. We want to create a company to help filmmakers and their films stand out in the U.S. market.

Julianne Moore enjoyed a pre-Oscar thrill on Saturday night when her movie Far From Heaven swept the board at the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California. The film - about a perfect 1950s housewife dealing with her feelings for a black gardener and a homosexual husband - picked up five awards at the 18th annual prize giving, honoring indie movies. Moore beat Jennifer Aniston and Maggie Gyllenhaal among others to take home the Best Actress prize. The film itself triumphed over The Good Girl, Secretary, Tully and Lovely & Amazing to pick up Best Picture. It also won honors for Best Director for Todd Haynes, Best Male Supporting Lead for Dennis Quaid and Best Cinematography. The evening took on a musical note with Thora Birch, Jennifer Tilly, Illeana Douglas and Lesley Ann Warren agreeing to sing tributes to the Best Picture nominees, and they invited guests to sing along as a bouncing ball followed the words to the comical tunes on a big screen.

Indie film standouts Miguel Arteta and Nicole Holofcener are teaming up for a remake of Lukas Moodysson's Swedish feature Together for Universal specialty arm Focus Features. Holofcener will adapt the project, with Arteta at the helm. The marriage of the two indie filmmakers is a coup for Focus as the duo's most recent releases -- Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing and Arteta's The Good Girl -- are up for a collective 10 IFP Independent Spirit Awards this year. The 1970s-set dramedy -- originally in development at U.K. banner FilmFour -- revolves around a commune of young people who find themselves questioning their social and political beliefs as the world rapidly changes around them.

Indie film standouts Miguel Arteta and Nicole Holofcener are teaming up for a remake of Lukas Moodysson's Swedish feature Together for Universal specialty arm Focus Features. Holofcener will adapt the project, with Arteta at the helm. The marriage of the two indie filmmakers is a coup for Focus as the duo's most recent releases -- Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing and Arteta's The Good Girl -- are up for a collective 10 IFP Independent Spirit Awards this year. The 1970s-set dramedy -- originally in development at U.K. banner FilmFour -- revolves around a commune of young people who find themselves questioning their social and political beliefs as the world rapidly changes around them.

Catherine Keener will star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in IFC Films' Rose and the Snake for writer-director Rebecca Miller. Production begins in the summer. The project sees Day-Lewis star as a dying, widowed father to a 16-year-old girl named Rose. They live on an abandoned commune, where Rose has been largely sheltered from the world. When the father's new love, a single mom named Kathleen (Keener), and her two teenage boys come to live with them, Rose undergoes a sexual awakening with both liberating and devastating consequences. Initial Entertainment Group is handling foreign distribution on the project, which is being produced by Lemore Syvan. IFC's Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan and Initial's Graham King are executive producing. Keener, repped by the Gersh Agency, was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance in 1999's Being John Malkovich. She was most recently seen in such films as Adaptation, Simone, Full Frontal and Lovely & Amazing.

Catherine Keener will star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in IFC Films' Rose and the Snake for writer-director Rebecca Miller. Production begins in the summer. The project sees Day-Lewis star as a dying, widowed father to a 16-year-old girl named Rose. They live on an abandoned commune, where Rose has been largely sheltered from the world. When the father's new love, a single mom named Kathleen (Keener), and her two teenage boys come to live with them, Rose undergoes a sexual awakening with both liberating and devastating consequences. Initial Entertainment Group is handling foreign distribution on the project, which is being produced by Lemore Syvan. IFC's Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan and Initial's Graham King are executive producing. Keener, repped by the Gersh Agency, was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance in 1999's Being John Malkovich. She was most recently seen in such films as Adaptation, Simone, Full Frontal and Lovely & Amazing.

After capturing the vibrancy of the New York dating scene in Sex and the City, Darren Star has set his sights on the posh West Coast locale of Pacific Palisades for his next series project for HBO. Star has teamed with writer-director Nicole Holofcener to develop the character-driven dramedy said to be in the tone of Holofcener's acclaimed indie features Lovely & Amazing and Walking and Talking. The show follows the lives the upscale families who live in the area and the people who work for them as their lives intermingle. Holofcener is writing the pilot, which she will executive produce with Star. Holofcener also is set to direct the pilot, though it is still undetermined whether the show will be an hour or half-hour.

After capturing the vibrancy of the New York dating scene in Sex and the City, Darren Star has set his sights on the posh West Coast locale of Pacific Palisades for his next series project for HBO. Star has teamed with writer-director Nicole Holofcener to develop the character-driven dramedy said to be in the tone of Holofcener's acclaimed indie features Lovely & Amazing and Walking and Talking. The show follows the lives the upscale families who live in the area and the people who work for them as their lives intermingle. Holofcener is writing the pilot, which she will executive produce with Star. Holofcener also is set to direct the pilot, though it is still undetermined whether the show will be an hour or half-hour.

Emily Mortimer feels like a whore trying to crack Hollywood. The British actress, who boasts a degree from Oxford University, is playing a neurotic Los Angeles' actress in Lovely & Amazing. But she admits Hollywood has a way of making actresses sex up their image for auditions. Mortimer says, "I've definitely been in some absurd outfit with a thousand people staring at you, feeling totally miserable like you want someone to come and collect you and take you home. The whole thing about auditioning and feeling like you've got the job because someone flirted outrageously with you and then you haven't. There are many instances where you kind of feel like a whore."...