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5 Questions With … Guillermo Diaz of “Scandal”

March 11, 2015 Jacqueline Cutler Comments Off

On Scandal, Guillermo Diaz is a badass — and not your run-of-the-mill badass, who might ride a Harley, have a tattoo and deck someone who deserves it. As Huck, he’s a former CIA agent, who has assassinated world leaders and is trained in torture. Let’s not forget that he did pull out Quinn’s teeth because she “could never mind her own business.” Huck has a scowl that projects: “Cross me, and you, too, could find yourself in need of an orthodontic surgeon.” Away from the ABC monster hit, at a network party in Pasadena, Díaz is relaxed and, dare we say it? […]

5 Questions With … Jussie Smollett of FOX’s Empire

March 10, 2015 Kellie Freeze 1

Jussie Smollett is having a moment. The actor is one of the stars on FOX’s mega-smash Empire, and the songs he’s performed on the show are chart toppers. Even though his role as Jamal Lyon may be considered Jussie’s breakthrough role, he’s actually been acting since childhood; appearing projects including 1992’s The Mighty Ducks and recent parts on Revenge and The Mindy Project. The actor comes from a family of talented actors and even starred in a short-lived ABC sitcom On Our Own with his siblings: Jake, Jocqui, Jojo, Jazz and Jurnee (who also had supporting roles on Full House, Friday […]

5 Questions With … Will Estes of CBS’ “Blue Bloods”

March 6, 2015 Jacqueline Cutler 4

Will Estes emanates such an all-American appeal that he’s been getting cast as the sweet boy next door since he was a kid. He was Will in The New Lassie and JJ on American Dreams. For the past five seasons he’s been Jamie Reagan, the youngest son in a family of cops on CBS’ Blue Bloods. His character walks a beat, though his dad and grandfather (Tom Selleck and Len Cariou) worked their way through the ranks to the top spot. One older brother was killed on the job, another (Donnie Wahlberg) is a detective, and his sister (Bridget Moynahan) […]

5 Questions With … Matt Czuchry of “The Good Wife”

March 1, 2015 Jacqueline Cutler Comments Off

Usually when someone is placed in the sort of peril Cary Agos has been in, he’s dangling off the side of a building as his fingers give way from the edge. Matt Czuchry’s character on CBS’ The Good Wife has been having the sort of year that would crush most people. “Cary protected Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) in Season 2, when she was in trouble with the state’s attorney office and now she is protecting him,” Czuchry says. “And, Diane (Christine Baranski) fired Cary in Season 1, and now she is protecting him in Season 6.” As we watch Agos grow […]

Kevin Bacon talks Season 3 of The Following, the pressures to make good TV & Bacon Brothers

February 27, 2015 Jacqueline Cutler Comments Off

The sun sets over the San Gabriel Mountains as Kevin Bacon considers his first starring role in television. He leans back on a couch on a patio at a Pasadena hotel, and analyzes how his character, former FBI agent Ryan Hardy of The Following, has evolved. Season 3 of The Following returns season Mondays on FOX beginning with a two-hour premiere on March 2. “One of the biggest things is I am with a woman I actually should be with,” Bacon says. “Ryan does not have a good picker. I fell in love with the wife of a serial killer. […]

5 Questions With … Diego Klattenhoff of “The Blacklist”

February 26, 2015 Jacqueline Cutler Comments Off

Diego Klattenhoff seems constitutionally incapable of putting on airs. Living in Brooklyn, the self-proclaimed epicenter of hipsters, Klattenhoff relishes poking fun at pretentiousness. He holds tight to the values instilled in him while growing up in a lumberjack family in rural Nova Scotia. Klattenhoff chatted with us about having a blast in his second season of NBC’s The Blacklist, as well as his time on Showtime’s Homeland. You’re at a magazine rack and can only pick three titles. Which ones do you choose? “The Atlantic.” I love “The New Yorker” and why not go with “Vanity Fair,” too. If your […]

5 Questions with Baby Daddy’s Derek Theler

February 13, 2015 Kellie Freeze Comments Off

Derek Theler plays charming hockey player Danny Wheeler on the ABC Family’s comedy, Baby Daddy. In a special two-part crossover event, General Hospital’s Kelly Monaco guest starred on the Feb. 4 episode of Baby Daddy and on Feb. 13, Theler and co-star Melissa Peterman will star on the Valentine’s Day episode of General Hospital. At the end of my chat with Monaco and Theler about the double swap, Theler shared that the soap’s rapid pace was a challenge, but that the experience taught him to be a “smaller” actor. Then he answered our 5 Questions… 1. You’re at a magazine rack and […]

Talking With Reggie Lee of “Grimm”

February 5, 2015 Jacqueline Cutler 1

As Sgt. Wu in NBC’s Grimm, Reggie Lee is usually first on the crime scene and uses his sarcastic wit to deal with the drama’s strange happenings. Drawing from different cultures’ folklore, Grimm introduces viewers to profoundly scary stories. A Filipino legend about the Aswang was one Lee, who lived in the Philippines until he was 5, knew well. The Aswang attack pregnant women and suck out amniotic fluid to maintain their youth. In the episode featuring that legend, Wu had a psychotic break when the Aswang attacked his friend and checked himself into a facility. The changes he experienced […]

5 Questions with … General Hospital’s Kelly Monaco

February 3, 2015 Kellie Freeze 15

Kelly Monaco has starred as Sam McCall on General Hospital since 2003 and wowed audiences in 2005 as Dancing with the Stars‘ Season 1 victor. Now, the brunette bombshell is taking a step away from Port Charles as she appears on ABC Family’s Baby Daddy in the first part of a General Hospital–Baby Daddy swap. (Baby Daddy stars Derek Theler and Melissa Peterman will return the favor when they appear on the Valentine’s Day episode of GH on Feb. 13.) While Monaco and Theler swapped stories from their visits to each other’s sets, Monaco took a few minutes to answer our 5 Questions. 1. You’re […]

“Love, Lust or Run” host Stacy London answers our “7 Questions”

January 21, 2015 Barb Oates 8

Fashion maven Stacy London makes a welcome return to TLC in her new fashion make-under series Love, Lust or Run premiering Friday, Jan. 23 at 9pmET. The former What Not to Wear host is no stranger to giving candid yet constructive critiques to the fashion-challenged; however, in her new series she’s helping women tone down their over-the-top looks. “This is a make-under series in the sense that these women are dressing to an extreme, even more so than we saw on What Not to Wear,” London shares. “They dress this way sometimes aggressively, sometimes defensively, but all are dressing this way […]