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Top Moments: Horror Story’s Bloody Reveal and Live with Kelly & Michael’s Snake Scare
Lost Alum Rebecca Mader Lands on 30 Rock
Extra Scoop: Kris and Bruce Jenner Divorce Rumor Is ‘All Rubbish’
‘Now Playing’ — ‘Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part 2′ Live Movie Review
Bloody Face Speaks: ‘Not Everybody Can Stick Around Till The Very, Very End’
‘Vampire Diaries’ Star: Katherine Returns At The Worst Time Possible

Top Moments: Horror Story’s Bloody Reveal and Live with Kelly & Michael’s Snake Scare

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 07:03 PM PST

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Extra Scoop: Kris and Bruce Jenner Divorce Rumor Is ‘All Rubbish’

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 05:13 PM PST

Divorce Rumors Debunked

Speculation that Kris and Bruce Jenner are getting a divorce is entirely untrue, a family source exclusively told E! News. “They’re not getting divorced,” the source said. “It is all rubbish.” Read more at E! Online.
Vanessa Hudgens’ Onscreen Threesome Sex Scene

In the upcoming movie “Spring Breakers,” actress Vanessa Hudgens had to do her first sex scene, a threesome with actors James Franco and Ashley Benson. Read what she had to say about it at The Daily Mail.
Brad Pitt Back on the Set of ‘World War Z’

Actor Brad Pitt was snapped filming reshoots of his zombie apocalypse flick “World War Z.” See pics at JustJared.com.

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‘Now Playing’ — ‘Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part 2′ Live Movie Review

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 05:00 PM PST

“Extra” correspondent Ben Lyons and ExtraTV.com Senior Writer Kit Bowen will host a live chat Friday, November 16 at 10AM PT/1PM ET to preview what’s opening at the box office.

Join the live chat as Ben and Kit discuss “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2″ featuring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, plus “Anna Karenina” with Keira Knightley, and more!

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Bloody Face Speaks: ‘Not Everybody Can Stick Around Till The Very, Very End’

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 04:43 PM PST

After five weeks of naughty nuns, electroshock therapy, aliens, severed limbs, Nazis and a serial killer in question, Bloody Face was finally revealed on “American Horror Story: Asylum” (Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on FX) … and it’s not Kit Walker (Evan Peters).

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Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto), who was assigned to Kit’s case, helped Lana (Sarah Paulson) escape, which was obviously too good to be true. When they got to his “Mad Men” meets “Hannibal” home, Lana figures out that he’s Bloody Face and now, she’s chained to his basement floor next to he frosty body of her dead girlfriend Wendy (Clea DuVall). But why Lana?

Quinto took the time to talk to HuffPost TV via phone following the shocking episode about playing Bloody Face, why Thredson targeted Lana to tell his story, that brutal aversion therapy scene and how he manages to not let the dark twists and turns of “American Horror Story: Asylum” take over his mind at the end of the day.

I have to say I was surprised by the reveal that Dr. Thredson is Bloody Face. I heard that Ryan Murphy told you right off the bat. How did that affect how you wanted to play the character up until Episode 5?
It put me in a position to be able to build a character that people could, at the very least, not question and then maybe on the other side of the spectrum actually trust. And that’s fun, to know that he was withholding and manipulating the situation and serving ulterior motives and keeping secrets. That’s always fun stuff to do as an actor, so for me it was really great to go in with that inclination.

Yeah, and it makes viewers want to go back and reassess certain things that they saw, like when Thredson and Lana were leaving Briarcliff, he says to Frank, the guard, “I don’t work here anymore … as a matter of fact, I never did.” There are so many ways to read that — could it be that he’s not really a psychiatrist?
No, he’s really a psychiatrist and has definitely been medically trained and has those credentials. I think he means more that he wasn’t serving the asylum. He wasn’t serving anybody’s agenda but his own, and he got what he wanted and now he’s going to take it and leave. His allegiance is only to his own twisted agenda, and to no one else.

When he told Lana before the reveal that he wanted her to tell his story, what do you think he meant by that exactly?
Well, in the next couple of weeks, you really get to know more about what drives him and what led him to this place, and I think he feels like he wants some conduit for that story, some outlet for it, somewhere for it to land. He sees Lana as that in different ways — in very literally ways, in terms of her as a journalist and her ability to actually tell a story, and also in the role that he needs someone to play in order for him to feel fulfilled and in order for this appetite somewhere to be satiated.

Ryan Murphy hinted that Lana and Thredson had been in the same room before meeting her at Briarcliff. Did he target her specifically because she was a journalist or is there more to it?
No, there’s more to that that you’ll find out about at the same time — I think that’s all in next week’s episode. Things will be clearer, and motives will crystallize.

Do you think he had a problem with Lana being gay, like Sister Jude did? Or was that just a reason for him to get close to her?
Oh I don’t think he has a problem with it. In a lot of ways — as barbaric as it seems now — the therapy that he executed with Lana in Episode 4 was actually reflective of pretty forward-thinking at the time — that something could be done to really condition someone against what we now accept, for the most part, as a very primitive part of genetic composition. What he was doing was ultimately more complicated and sinister, in terms of gaining her trust by trying to help her, knowing that it would likely not work. I see him not necessarily believing in that kind of therapy or that kind of conditioning, but it did represent, at the time, a progressive way of thinking. It certainly beat electro-shock therapy or lobotomization or any of the other horrific tactics that were used to treat different ailments at the time. But ultimately, he was trying to gain her trust because then he could take one step further and be more radical about breaking her out of the asylum, and he was more likely to have her complicity and her trust, which ultimately he did get in the end. He’s incredibly calculating and incredibly smart and has thought five steps ahead of pretty much everyone else around him. I think that was an example of that more than any reflection of his tolerance or ability to condone homosexuality.

What was it like filming that aversion therapy scene? Because it was one of the more difficult scenes to watch, as a viewer.
Yeah, it was one of the more difficult scenes to film. I was so grateful to film it with Sarah Paulson, who’s a really great friend of mine who I’ve known for a long time and have a profound respect for as an actress and a real ease of rapport and connection [with] … it made it a lot easier to go into it with somebody that I trust. We just had to make sure that we were there for each other and everyone had what they needed. There was a respect and everybody knew what we were a part of, including our crew. It was all really well-handled. There’s a lot of professionalism on the set, and everybody’s bringing a lot of experience and a lot of respect to what they do, so it’s never an issue to have to go to those places, which all of us have to go to at a certain point in our experience on our show.

Do you all have moments of levity to snap out of the dark storylines while shooting the show?
Oh yeah. I think the more awkward or difficult the situation that we find ourselves in on set, the more we do what we need to to combat it. There’s laughter for sure, and then there’s other outlets too … I’ve spent a lot of time on set this year with my banjo. I’ve been learning how to play the banjo [laughs], so I’ve taken to bringing it to work with me. There’s actually something about the tone and quality of the sound of that instrument that I think naturally lightens the mood. It is brutal storytelling, and that’s kind of really exciting once it’s on the air, but to get it there takes a lot of work … everybody’s working hard to do that, and that’s always the best kind of environment to be in.

We know that the next episode focuses on Thredson, and how he came to be who he is, and also on Arden and the Monsignor and someone becomes evil. Is there any connection between Thredson, Arden and the Monsignor?
Not really, no, other than they have different paths … the episode is called “The Origins of Monstrosity,” so it is just examining everybody’s own journey to that in their own way. But the stories don’t particularly overlap — they’re self-contained and running parallel, which is always disappointing for the actors who I never get to work with — Joe Fiennes or James Cromwell. I would’ve loved to have had more to do with those guys, obviously. And Lily Rabe, who’s another good friend of mine, who I think is doing great work on the show. That’s the sort of disadvantage on our end, but obviously, for the audience, it allows more stories to be told. You’re following multiple characters at one time — that’s part of the structure of it. So they don’t really overlap, but you get more of a sense of all of our paths that led us to the points we’re at in the show now.

You knew you were Bloody Face, but were you also told who modern-day Bloody Face is?
We’re almost finishing up this season now, so a lot of those answers are being presented in the scripts that they’re writing now. So I may have an inkling or two, but we’ll let it all unfold as they intend for it to. But yeah, things are starting to come into clearer focus, and I think people will find that this season drives forward through the story in a really powerful way as the season goes on. It’s really cool to see how all the stories come together and move toward some kind of resolution, for better or for worse.

What scene has been the most difficult for you to film? Or have we not seen that yet?
You haven’t seen what that one is yet, but they’re definitely coming up, so stay tuned. [Laughs.]

The cast keeps saying it just gets worse and worse, and I’m terrified.
Yeah, it gets pretty brutal.

The audience has been so focused on the identity of Bloody Face and now that we know, is there another big reveal coming up that you’re excited for?
Yeah, there’s a bunch coming up actually in the later parts of the installment. There are, for sure [some] that I’m excited about people getting clued into. I just read the latest script last night [for Episode 11] and that’s a huge one for reveals. It’s “American Horror Story,” so not everybody can stick around till the very, very end … getting to that is going to be really fun for the audience, I think.

Is it hard not to take this show home with you?
No, it’s really important for me to not to take it home with me, actually. I find the joy of what I do is I get to go to work and really dive into something and immerse myself, and then leave it there. Every actor is different, but I’m also running a company and producing stuff … [laughs] I need to be able to be sane and articulate and grounded throughout my days, so I’ve found ways to leave even the most brutal stuff behind … for the most part.

What scares you most about this show?
Some of the brutality of what happened in that asylum is really horrifying. When you think about actual places like that that existed and the ruins of those places … what gets left behind, energy-wise and spiritually. I think that stuff is really tremendously frightening and something that we’re diving into, headlong, in this show. That’s one thing that does freak me out.

Fans loved you as Sylar on “Heroes,” and now there’s this … do you like playing these killers?[Laughs.] I just never would’ve anticipated that that would be such an instrumental part of my creative or professional journey. But I enjoy complicated, dimensional characters, and they certainly are both that. From this point moving forward, it’s informed me, I’ve learned a lot, I’ve grown up. I certainly have the desire to do other kinds of work, and that’s one of the great things about “American Horror Story” — I know I’m not going to be playing the same character for six seasons. If I do go back to the show at all, then, by the nature of it, I know it’ll be in a totally different capacity. It was a different decision than if it was a more traditional television structure. I don’t know that I would’ve been so open to or willing to immerse myself if it had the potential of continuing in an ongoing way. That’s the kind of other luxury of this amazing world that Ryan’s created — the diversity of it and the ephemeral nature of each installment. Then it becomes something else, and that’s really exciting.

The show just got renewed for a third season, and they’ve already announced that Jessica Lange will return. I know you probably can’t or won’t say if you’ll return or not, but if you do, I think Ryan owes you and Sarah an easier season.
[Laughs.] Well certainly Sarah! The poor thing … I can’t. Once people look back on everything that Lana goes through this season, I think it’s going to be a pretty shocking journey. But I know Ryan well enough to know that he has very specific ideas and visions and a very vivid imagination. Now that it’s official, I’m sure that it’s cooking in his brain, and if it involves me then I’ll know that at some point and we’ll figure that out. I’m just excited that the show’s doing so well, and I’m so glad to be part of it as more and more people are watching it, and that it’s expanding and growing. That’s always exciting — that doesn’t happen all the time.

“American Horror Story: Asylum” airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on FX.

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‘Vampire Diaries’ Star: Katherine Returns At The Worst Time Possible

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 04:33 PM PST

On this week’s episode of “The Vampire Diaries” (Thurs., Nov. 15, 8 p.m. ET on The CW), Katherine returns after a long hiatus, Caroline and Hayley try to work together and Elena continues to go a little mad after killing Connor, the hunter, in last week’s installment.

Candice Accola, who plays Caroline on the series, took the time to talk to HuffPost TV via phone about what to expect in the Caroline-Tyler-Hayley love(ish) triangle, Caroline’s feelings for Klaus and Katherine’s ability to “pop up at the worst time possible.” She also dished about working with Gabby Douglas and why she was particularly shocked that Joseph Gordon-Levitt wasn’t named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”

Going into this week’s episode, will Tyler, Caroline and Hayley be working as a team now to try to pull one over on Klaus and help the hybrids break their sire bonds?
Tyler, Caroline and Hayley are all on the same team for the same cause … [Laughs.] They ultimately have the same want, which is to get all of these hybrids un-sired so that they can move forward with their big plan.

Last week, it was great to see Caroline and Hayley interact. Will the tension build for those two, or now that Tyler said nothing happened between him and Hayley, does that dissipate? Hayley did say she “hate[s] teen drama.”
There will always be tension between Caroline and Hayley. I mean, it’s impossible for two young girls in that circumstance not to have tension between them, but they’re at least all rooting for the same thing. Caroline just wants to support Tyler so she’s not going to be playing any tricks. She’s just there to support Tyler and probably [to] keep an eye on everything.

Since Tyler’s pretending to give in to Klaus’ attempt at blackmail, will he and Caroline be faux broken up? Is she going to be flirting with Klaus to keep him distracted?
From the very beginning of finding out that Klaus took an interest in Caroline, she’s definitely been using that to manipulate him, as has the rest of the group. They’ve kind of thrown Caroline under the bus to try to use her to woo Klaus so they could accomplish their goals. I don’t think that’s necessarily going to go away. We’re definitely going to see Caroline using her power to get Klaus’ attention to distract him.

Do you think there’s a part of her that has feelings for him?
I think that Caroline has been seeing a different side of Klaus and has a different perspective than the rest of the characters do. She still doesn’t trust him. She still doesn’t think highly of him whatsoever, but she does recognize that for some reason, out of anyone, he has feelings for her and he’s chosen to protect her. She’s constantly protected, even when he freed her from Alaric and saved her and let her go — he’s definitely got his eye on her and she feels safe around him, even though no one else does. But she doesn’t really trust that, I don’t think. She’s not sold by any means.

Elena’s in a pretty bad place after killing someone for the first time — even though he was a hunter. She’s starting to lose it. How will Caroline help her?
Caroline will be there for her as much as she’ll allow her to be. I think Stefan said it very clearly when he said it’s too hard to talk to Caroline because she’s too good at being a vampire. She just doesn’t know what it feels like to struggle with those cravings. Caroline’s a perfectionist and I think that applies to her vampirism … Elena’s the type of person who keeps herself poised and she doesn’t screw up a lot. She’s very wise and she usually figures things out very quickly. This is the first time that she’s just lost and erratic and doesn’t know how to keep it together and to be the poster child that she’s so used to being. But it’s a great view of the character that we get to see and re-relate to. I love it. She’s now seeing Caroline as the more put-together one, so she’s sitting there like, “Why is it so easy for her?” When everyone else can do it, why can’t she? So I don’t know if she’s necessarily going to come running to Caroline — she’s just trying to find that strength in herself that she’s always had till that point.

I don’t imagine that Damon and Stefan would tell Elena about the cure for vampirism and why the hunter needed to stay alive considering the state she’s in. Will they keep it to themselves? Will Caroline and others find out?
Yes, they definitely will also figure out that there’s a potential cure for vampirism.

Katherine’s back this episode after a long hiatus. What can you tell us about her return?
I can say that Katherine’s going to pop up at the worst time that Elena can ever imagine possible.

Caroline has really become one of the fan favorites on the show. She’s really done a 180 from this shallow teenager to a multifaceted and compassionate woman. What do you love about playing her?
Honestly, what I love about playing Caroline is that she did start off as just this narcissistic, selfish, insecure, desperate young character and she’s had to grow. She messes up so much and she puts her foot in her mouth all the time and I think it’s just so relatable. You know, I find myself, in the past four years of playing her, growing with her and watching certain storylines relate to how I felt in high school and feeling lost, and feeling insecure, and sometimes just wanting to be loved, and going out with the wrong guy, and then having to stand up for yourself, and having to build confidence, and having the strength to do the right thing even though it’s not easy. That’s what I love about having the opportunity to play Caroline over the past four years — she’s just innately a flawed character and that makes her human. Even in her vampirism, she will always be human.

The next episode is the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant, which Gabby Douglas guest stars in, and you have the most scenes with her. What was it like working with her?
It was so great to have Gabby and her family on set. They were so excited, so gracious. I watched the Olympics and her smile was just so bright — not to mention her talent. You can see how hard she works and how passionate she is and she just nailed it. It was really incredible to see someone who’s dedicated so much to their young life to their passion. She’s the best! It was really inspiring to meet such a beautiful, gracious young woman like that. And she was just so excited to be there. Everyone was beaming that day and her smile was just as beautiful, if not more so, in person than it was on television.

You’ve started this “Flat Joseph Gordon-Levitt” trend on Twitter. How’d that come about? I imagine you were bummed he’s not the Sexiest Man Alive this year.
[Laughs.] Well, I had a week off of work so I’ve been in Los Angeles, staying with my friend Amanda. It was her birthday about a month ago, but when we were driving home from dinner the other night, I noticed an ear sticking out under my seat. I was like, “What is this?!” And it was a face cutout of Joseph Gordon-Levitt on a popsicle stick. And I was like, “Well, this is weird that you have this in your car.” So basically, her coworkers printed them out — they know that she’s been a fan — and they were just so funny and there were three of them in her car. The next day, we were on a hike and we were just laughing — I couldn’t get over the fact there are cutouts of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s face in my friend’s car! — and it reminded me of Flat Stanley so we were bored and being ridiculous and decided that he was the new Flat Stanley. We brought Flat Joseph Gordon-Levitt to coffee and to the flea market and to the grocery store and to a dinner party and, all of sudden, we started getting other pictures from people on Instagram from around the world. So after one or two or maybe three glasses of wine [laughs], we decided to create a Tumblr page and it’s just been hilarious — you can see FJGL from all around the world! I mean, it’s absolutely bizarre and weird and strange, but we just thought it’s the funniest thing. So if you’re bored this weekend with your friends, I recommend it. It’s a hoot.

“The Vampire Diaries” airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.

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