Matt Damon is already a successful actor, and now the star of The Informant! is trying his hand at writing in an attempt to get more people involved in charitable causes. Matt’s original article on the importance of giving will appear in next Sunday’s Parade, as part of their 2009 America’s Giving Challenge kick-off. Read more »
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October 9th, 2009 / Author: Nicole EggenbergerBrad Pitt Opens Up About… Basically Everything
August 5th, 2009 / Author: Mary Beth Quirk
Unless you’re asking touchy questions about exes, Brad Pitt doesn’t seem to mind opening up about practically anything in a new Parade interview — including exactly why he and “soul mate” Angelina Jolie won’t be getting hitched, his kids and family life, and even “smoking grass” in the early years of his career. Read on for even more Brad Pitt!
Cameron Diaz: Not a Man-Hater
May 28th, 2009
While Cameron Diaz most likely has her fair share of men ready to grovel at her feet, she’s just as enamored with the opposite sex.
"Men are wonderful," she tells Parade.com in a new interview. I don’t think my feeling about that is ever going to change. I’m never going to feel differently about men. I’m not a man-hater. It’s just not in my nature. I think guys are amazing. I love the dichotomy, the differences in men and women. I think it’s wonderful. It keeps things interesting. We can’t walk in each other’s shoes. We don’t know what it’s really like, but we certainly can make an effort to know each other a little bit better."
Cam’s had a few past loves, notably Justin Timberlake, and she views each relationship as an essential experience in her life.
"I think that what I’ve found, in my experience, is that you always find the person who you’re meant to be with at that time in your life. And what I’ve also found is that you have to move on from those people at certain times, because that’s the way it happens," she reveals. "For me personally, there’s nothing wrong with that. A lot of people find themselves trapped in something that they’ve outgrown and are unhappy. And they don’t know how to get out of it because they think that they’re supposed to make it happen."
Others might be counting the ticks on her biological clock, but Cameron is just as breezy and go-with-the-flow about having children as she is with everything else in life, it seems, saying that it doesn’t bother her when people ask where the kids are or when she’ll settle down with a family.
"I think that it’s normal for people to ask that, especially of someone my age, because it seems like the obvious thing: ‘Why haven’t you done it?’ It doesn’t bother me. It’s not the cross I bear. I’m not somebody who is going to declare either way if I’m absolutely going to or I’m absolutely not going to have children. I have no idea," she confesses.
"I’m still young. I have an unbelievable life."
And unlike other women in Hollywood who obsess over every single wrinkle, line and spot, Cam is ready and willing to age naturally.
"I don’t have a problem with growing older. I really don’t. I have no problem with it. It’s wonderful," she admits. "Thank God we get older because if we’re not getting older, we’re dead. This is a much better option, to be getting older. And if we’re not going forward, then we’re stagnant, and we’re stuck. And I’ve been stuck before. And I don’t like it. It’s not fun."
Matt Damon: Oscars Can Be Wrong
March 12th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff
When it comes to his view on the Oscars, Matt Damon treads a fine line in a new interview with Parade.com, saying he’s not sure the Academy knows what they’re doing.
"I think that the best way to judge movies is, like, 10 years after they’re released. I think they should actually do the awards that way," he says. "I think they should have done the Academy Awards this year for movies from 1998. I think it’s better to look at a movie and then step back and look at it again."
Odd, since he and pal Ben Affleck won the award for Best Original Screenplay in 1998. So maybe he shouldn’t have gotten his nod?
"I don’t think that the awards necessarily get it right. I think they get it wrong more often than they get it right."
Dakota Fanning Might Bare Fangs in Twilight
February 2nd, 2009
For Twilight fans, it seems speculating on who will star in the next movie, New Moon, is almost as exciting as reading the books or seeing the movie itself.
The latest in vampire-related gossip is that Dakota Fanning will play Jane, a terrifying bloodsucker who can use her mind to torture others. And now even the sweet-faced 14-year-old is starting to chat about the possibility herself.
"It’s definitely being discussed but it’s not set in stone," she tells Parade in a new interview. "It would be really cool to be a part of Twilight if it works out. I’m a big fan. I saw the first movie but I haven’t read all of the books yet, I’m working on it."
The Push star says baring her proverbial fangs in the role would serve to diversify her career, something she’s been working on since starting to grow out of her adorable child star days.
"I would be a vampire, which could really prove that I can be sweet, little Dakota Fanning and then I can be something different on the screen," she says, adding, "I can no longer do Lucy in I Am Sam. You have to grow up and I am doing it through films."
And growing up she is – in Push Dakota plays a sassy 14-year-old who swears, gets drunk and carries a gun.
"Most people haven’t seen me maybe as grown up as they will in Push," she admits. "But eventually I’m probably going to play the person that you hate. I think that’s the fun part about acting."
Clint Eastwood: Not Going Anywhere
December 4th, 2008
At an age when most people have retired from their careers and are focused on just relaxing after yaers of hard work, at 78, Clint Eastwood says he’s not done making movies yet. In fact, he’s ready to take even more risks.
“When you’re young, you’re very reckless,” he tells Parade.com. “Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.”
In recent years Clint has moved from leading man on screen to playing tougher roles, as well as taking on the new job of director, a shift that has him far from ready to stop.
“I just ran into a guy a little younger than me,” he reveals. “He says, ‘I’m going to retire.’ I say, ‘Wait for me. Keep going.’ Everybody in my generation, once you get in the seventh decade, they go, ‘Well, what the hell. I’m on bonus time. Let me retire. ‘ "
As for getting older on screen, Clint is the last to shy away from his age, instead, he’s embracing it, with roles like his latest part as a racist Korean war vet in Gran Torino, which he also directed.
“I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing,” he explains. “I liked showing the vulnerability of age.”
And even if his fans might be upset by this latest character, or any he chooses to portray, Clint’s not too worried.
“I’m going to touch a chord, or they’re going to run me out of town,” he says. After all, as The Changeling director says, “What can they do to you after 70?”
Sean Penn’s Intense Career
December 1st, 2008
Sean Penn has always been an intense actor, and since he’s added directing to his bag of talents, with films like last year’s Into the Wild, it seems that intensity has only increased.
"I think I’d have a relative death without creating something," he confesses to Parade.com about his chosen craft. "It’s a hunger from deep inside that propels a will. You can apply it to anything in the world."
No matter what he’s working on, from playing surfer dude Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High to the iconic gay politician Harvey Milk in Milk, Sean says he’s totally devoted to filmmaking.
"Good movie or bad movie, I don’t care," he admits. "I just want you to feel that the person who made it cared."
Kate Winslet is Happy to Get Older
November 25th, 2008
Kate Winslet has come a long way from that fresh-faced young woman who garnered instant fame with massive hit Titanic, and she’s happy to be growing older and wiser.
“I’m like, ‘Yes, damn it! Look at those foreheads move!’” she tells Parade of seeing herself and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio reunite in December’s Revolutionary Road. “I mean, he has this amazing furrow here, which wasn’t as prominent then," as she points to a spot between her brows, "and this is much more prominent in me now," she adds, pointing to a wrinkle on her own forehead.
"I just love seeing those things," she says. "I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn’t as well-oiled as it was.”
But along with the occasional wrinkle, Kate has also received five Oscar nominations and a whole lot of perspective since those early days in her career.
“I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner,” she says. “It was a difficult balance to find. Now I feel I’ve got that. I’ve actually had it for a while, I think. That’s mainly to do with my incredible husband [director Sam Mendes].”
The busy star, who also has The Reader premiering along with Revolutionary Road in December, reveals that it’s the simplicity of her family life, including kids Sam and Mia, that brings her joy these days.
“We were having lunch, and I was having a glass of wine and eating bread and putting butter on the bread, and I turned to Sam and said, ‘I am just so happy!’ ”
Miley: I Love Challenges
November 21st, 2008
Although she’s not quite 16, Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus seems to be taking her mega stardom, and the media frenzy that accompanies it, like an adult.
"It’s what I’ve grown up with – being around my father [Billy Ray Cyrus] who’s gone through the same thing. But when you have it happen to yourself, it’s finally like, ‘Oh, my gosh. Now I really understand what this is business is all about,’ " she tells Parade.com. "It’s like the biggest blessing ever because it’s so much fun. But it’s not only about the perks, it’s about the challenges. I just love the challenges."
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In her new animated movie Bolt, Miley lends her voice as the owner of a dog who plays an action-hero on screen, and really believes he’s got the same powers in real life. Not surprisingly, the tween phenom says she can relate to that experience.
"He believes that he really is the character he plays and I can understand how that can happen. I think it’s really easy to fall into that trap in Hollywood – to believe that you’re almost like an alter ego of your onscreen persona," she reveals. "For me, that would be like this very glam kind of rocker chick."
So does Miley want to spend her days as her onscreen character? Don’t hold your breath!
"You have to learn how to turn that off when you go home and just sit around and hang out with your friends," she explains. "So I think it’s a good way to show that you have to learn how to turn that off every once in a while and just go home and be a normal kid."
