The Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part Four — Page 85

Um, it may be me, but I get "malformed video id" when I click on that. Anybody else?

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OK, yeah,I just looked at the link and there's "
But yes, that takes the prize as the creepiest, most bizarre "press" video ever!

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From Backstage magazine online:

"Raúl Esparza is now one of only two actors (Boyd Gaines is the other) to earn Tony nominations in all four acting categories: leading actor in a play (Speed-the-Plow), featured actor in a play (The Homecoming), leading actor in a musical (Company), and featured actor in a musical (Taboo). Though award nominations are not necessarily an indicator of range or depth, Esparza has displayed both since taking the role of an '80s nightclub impresario in Taboo in 2003. Since then he has played ambivalent romantic, filial malcontent, and now, in a revival of David Mamet's acidic look at Hollywood, rapacious studio executive. As with most of Mamet's work, the profanity-laced patter can be a siren song for actors, but Esparza recognized the words for what they are?a means to acquire power?and made his own enchanting music from them. He also performed under less-than-ideal circumstances, having to work with three different Bobby Goulds after co-star Jeremy Piven left because of illness, which reinforces the notion that Esparza can handle anything that's thrown his way."



A Salute to the Tonys

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Okay, I know this is completely and totally 100% off-topic, and that I hardly ever post on this thread any more (sadly), but I simply had to share my love for this clip with SOMEBODY! It absolutely cracks me up and I cannot wait for this movie to come out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMpx1E2BBEk


Also, the TONYs are in less than a week!

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ROFL!!! Thank you for that, I hadn't seen that clip! I can't wait, especially since it was SUPPOSED to be out last November and I was going to take a friend to see it for their birthday (would have been opening day) and all that (and adjacent plans) fell through when they postponed the opening. I was really bummed.

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Aww, I can't wait. Are those the same pj's Ron always wears? I could swear they are.

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Well, after reading that interview, I think we have an explanation as to why he did 25/8 - it seems he has the love-of-horror gene. I would not be surprised if he met Wes Craven at some random event and begged to be in one of his movies.

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He's such a guy.

And if anyone is curious, he was RIGHT about the crossword clues, BOTH of them. But they did something I absolutely HATE in crosswords, they used an obscure variation of the spelling of "enmesh" so it had to be put down as "immesh". ARGH!!
New York Times Crossword Puzzle May 19, 2009

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1. As much as Elisabeth Moss seemed to struggle early on, I have to say that as the run continued, her performance really became something to admire, IMO.

2. I've seen Raul in a fedora. As much as I love him, I could live without seeing that again.

3. Yaaay Tonys.

4. Double yay for Harry Potter.

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Updated On: 6/2/09 at 11:30 AM

Moss finally mastered that long second scene with Macy. I don't know whether it was the age difference that gave her a greater sense of her power, or Macy's general sense of bewilderment. When he said he was lost, he meant it. The one thing that changed the most in her performance (and I like to imagine that she learned it from working with Raul and later with Macy) was the ability to bring a different color to her delivery. Early on, she spoke the role; later she spoke, purred, shouted, wheedled, whispered.

Twelfth Night small mention in June issue of Vogue.

"As Viola, Anne Hathaway in boys' clothes chases Orsino (Raul Esparza), who's in love with Olivia (Audra McDonald), who's in love with the strapping young Cesariio, who is really Viola in male drag. Then things get complicated. As the mildly deranged Orsino, Esparza is forced to confront, he says, "some serious gender issues" as he struggles with a growing attraction to his boyish aide-de-camp (it's Hathaway, remember). "He's got this ideal of love that is neat and tidy and lofty and poetic but doesn't really exist," Esparza says. "The real thing turns out to be a little bit messier."

"Is this the only bed?"

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