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

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 12:30pm

I'm like, embarrassed for them for thinking it was a good idea to put that on the Internet.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 12:40pm

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

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 12:43pm

Probably because it's italicized. It's the same link I posted yesterday; she's just quoting my post.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 1:06pm

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!

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 5/24/09 at 10:53pm

Only slightly sorta but barely on the same page as Raul-I just got back from my first trip to Miami. HOLY CRAP, that place is amazing! Hot and humid, but amazing!

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 5/28/09 at 9:36pm

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

[wonkit]

Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:19pm

Nice!

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 7:46pm

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!

[wonkit]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 7:51pm

Thanks for the totally OT clip - this is just about the only movie I am anxious to see this summer! I definitely have to re-read the book before the movie comes out.

Looking forward to the TONYs - and looking forward to TWELFTH NIGHT, although I still haven't figured out how/when I am going to get tickets.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 8:52pm

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.

[insertclevernamehere]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 8:55pm

Raul did a Q&A with Broadway.com where he talks about 12th Night, losing for Company and Pivengate
http://www.broadway.com/Ra-l-Esparza/broadway_news/5028469

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 8:57pm

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

[Hest882]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 9:43pm

Thanks insertclevernamehere. That's the best interview with him I've read in a long time.

Esparza, who'll play romantically torn Orsino in the classic, pushes back a fedora and continues the task at hand: conquering the Times crossword puzzle.

A *fedora*?! Okay, one of you MUST have a picture of him in a fedora to show me!
Updated On: 6/1/09 at 09:43 PM

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 10:23pm

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.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 10:30pm

Lovely interview. I just think he is too graceful. I would NEVER call Elizabeth Moss a natural.

It's so funny about his blood and gore fascination. I honestly never would have thought that! Boys will be boys!

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 10:35pm

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

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 10:45am

A delightful comment from a reviewer looking back at the Broadway season, reminiscing about the shows he'd seen:

"Better Piven had departed under fishy circumstances than Mr. Esparza, who, I suppose, may be capable of giving a performance that is less than brilliant. I only say "may" because his most recent performances haven't provided any evidence to that effect. On the heels of his triumphs in Company and The Homecoming, the protean star of plays and musicals delivered yet another galvanizing star turn, one which went for the jugular, and hit its target like a guided missile."

Updated On: 6/2/09 at 10:45 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 11:30am

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.

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

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 3:09pm

I think Elizabeth Moss was just out of her league when it came to Raul. Her scene with Pivert was one of the dullest things I've ever watched on stage. When I saw the show again it was with Norbs, but he was still on book. I did think she was slightly more alert with him. All though I didn't care for her that much, she still isn't my least favorite of Raul's female co-stars. That award goes to Mrs. Erin Dilly.

[wonkit]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 4:23pm

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.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 5:48pm

I thought she was best with Macy, too. When he came in, she gave Karen a confidence that I hadn't seen her really bring to it before, and I thought it really worked. Macy shifted the play in a lot of ways, and while I missed the dynamic between Raul and Norbert playing Bobby and Charlie, I definitely liked her best with Macy, and I saw all four of them.

[Hest882]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 6:31pm

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."

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 7:53pm

Oh oh, sexual confusion, oh oh, flutter your eyes. It's the language of lust, it's a world of disguise.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:04pm

"Is this the only bed?"

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:44pm

Maybe that should have been on his playlist!