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How Chris Hemsworth Helped Tom Holland Land Spider-Man Role
Tom Holland had a friend in a high place when it came to auditioning for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2013, Holland bonded with Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, as the pair endured the shared experience of suffering through 500-calorie-per-day diets to play shipwrecked whalers in Ron Howard’s 2015 historical drama In the Heart of the Sea. “I sent him an email while auditioning, sort of like, ‘Hey, Chris, so I’m auditioning for Spider-Man. Can you let them know that I’m amazing or something?
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Actors Who Have Radically Reshaped for Roles
As Chris Hemsworth’s shockingly slimmed-down physique takes center stage in the seafaring survivalist tale In the Heart of the Sea — in theaters Friday — we gathered together other actors who dramatically transformed their bodies for a movie role. Click through to see the results.
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New Spider-Man Star Tom Holland Explains How He Got the Role, and What He Knows About ‘Civil War’
Sure, his first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe will come in this spring’s epic Captain America: Civil War, but don’t bother asking new Spider-Man star Tom Holland what he’s doing there or what happens in the film. “I don’t even know what Civil War is about,” Holland, who first earned attention in the 2012 disaster film The Impossible, told Entertainment Weekly on its weekly SiriusXM radio show. "I was only working on it for a week or two weeks or something.
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Low Calories, Superheroes, and Killer Whales: On the London Set of 'In the Heart of the Sea'
It only took Chris Hemsworth a four-day span — and a flight halfway across the globe — to experience both the glamorous highs and gloomy lows of being a major action star. “It’s not ideal,” Hemsworth told press visiting Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in southeastern London, where he stood among about 350 extras dressed in colonial New England garb and in front of a giant water-tank that housed the film’s iconic (and ill-fated) ship, the Essex, about the “schizophrenic” nature of promoting one
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Review: 'In the Heart of the Sea' Is Whale-Made But Not Totally See-Worthy
A sort of maritime Donner Party, In the Heart of the Sea is a rugged but underwhelming true-life drama of a cursed 19th century whaling voyage. The hook here is that the journey of the Essex from Nantucket to the South Pacific in 1820 helped inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick thirty years later; this is, however, only partially the case and hardly seems enough upon which to base a tragic tale driven partly by hubris and insecurity but mostly by very bad luck. ...
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We Ranked All 23 Ron Howard Movies, from Worst to First
Ron Howard began his career as a child actor on The Andy Griffith Show, and then hit it even bigger as a teen star in American Graffiti and TV’s Happy Days. Yet it’s behind the camera that the has made his most indelible mark. Over the past three decades, Howard’s been behind a string of beloved critical and commercial hits that span a wide range to winning ends, from biopics (A Beautiful Mind) to sentimental fantasies (Splash, Cocoon) to grown-up comedies (Parenthood) to rugged Westerns (The Mi
