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5 Facts About Smash Star Jack Davenport

 

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Jack Davenport as Derek Wills

Crushable.com has combined 5 facts that you need to know about the one and only Jack Davenport.

1. As a child, he was sent to the prestigious Dragon School in England, which counts among its alumni Emma Watson, Max Irons, Hugh Dancy, and Hugh Laurie.

2. He got his first job by writing to John Cleese for a spot in his zookeeper comedy Fierce Creatures. The child of actors, Jack wanted instead to get some behind-the-camera experience. He applied to join the film crew as a runner, but Cleese instead forwarded his letter over to casting, which got Jack cast as a young zookeeper.

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Have A Question For Megan Hilty?

Have A Question For Megan Hilty? Megan Hilty Holding a Phone 269x300We are now taking questions for Smash cast member Megan Hilty, also known as Ivy Lynn on Smash.

Megan Hilty has kindly agreed to answer some of your questions while the cast is still filming! So send in anything you may want to know, so long as it isn’t a request for spoilers.  Once all the questions are submitted, I’ll be sending her the best ones, so please have your questions in by11:59pm EST on Friday, February 24th.

You can submit your questions here as a comment below.  Remember to include your first name and optionally your last initial, as well as where you are from. If you would like, you can also include your age. For example, if I were to ask a question, at the end I would say, “Helga O. (92, Los Angeles, CA).”

Also, please use your real email address if you are leaving a comment, because I will be sending out a reminder email to the people whose questions were selected.  We’ll probably be picking around 20 questions, but feel free to submit as many as you’d like. (Note: Try to put your questions in the same comment if possible.)

Good luck, and I can’t wait to read through all your questions!

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Katharine McPhee Covers Self Magazine – March 2012

Katharine McPhee will grace the cover of Self magazine this March 2012.

On her first experience with the NYC subways: “Smash has a set in Brooklyn, and on my first day of work, I said, ‘I’m going to be a real New Yorker, get there on my own and not spend $30 on a cab.’ But I went the wrong way on the subway, and when I asked for directions, the person in the booth was mean to me. So I ended up crying and in a cab anyway. Now the show sends a van for me.”

On how she unwinds after work: “If I’m not too exhausted, my husband [Nick Cokas] and I go out for a nice neighborhood dinner. Or we do leftovers, maybe lentils and turkey burgers, then Pinkberry for peanut butter yogurt.”

On her Smash workouts: “I do a five-hour dance rehearsal. I feel it in my thighs and calves, but it’s so stop-and-go. I miss my real workout … I love my body when I’m in the best shape I can be in. It feels good to be strong.”

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Katharine McPhee Speaks About Previous Movie Roles

With Monday’s premiere of NBC’s heavily promoted Smash, season-five American Idol alum Katharine McPhee finally got to show herself off as a triple threat: singer, dancer, actor.

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Katharine McPhee as Karen Cartwright

While her vocalizing had already helped give her fans something called McPhever, and her acting chops were put on display in the 2008 movie comedy House Bunny, the performer still harbored some pre-Smash regrets for some roles that got away. Specifically, one in the biggest comedy of 2009.

“It was between me and the girl who got it for The Hangover [as] the bride,” McPhee, 27, recently told PEOPLE. After meeting with director Todd Phillips, “I didn’t get it, but I went all the way. I would have loved to play that part.”

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Anjelica Huston On Her Husband’s Death and Smash Character

Jace Lacob of TheDailyBeast.com talks with Anjelica Huston about her husband’s death, her formidable character, and the “cult of murder” on television today.

Anjelica Huston On Her Husbands Death and Smash Character Smash Anjelica Huston Shoot 225x300It is impossible to miss Anjelica Huston when she walks into a room.

In this case, the room was the bar at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, California, a few hours before Huston was set to take the stage before a ballroom of television critics at the TCA Winter Press Tour to answer questions for her new show, the Broadway-set drama Smash, which premieres Monday on NBC.

With her raven Cleopatra cut, an armful of gently clanging bracelets, and her impressive height, Huston is unlikely to get lost in a crowd, but her considerable talents as an actress render that an impossibility. As she slinked into a club chair on a gray January morning, she exuded a sense of serenity and warmth that is deeply at odds with the troubled characters she often plays.

“Were you one of those kids I scared to death?” she asked, when the topic of The Witches arose; Huston starred in the 1990 adaption of Roald Dahl’s novel as The Grand High Witch, Miss Eva Ernst, and terrified a generation of young moviegoers when she removed her face to reveal a grotesque monster beneath the placid façade.

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