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Advertisement actors can say they have a catchphrase all their own? For Isiah Whitlock Jr., his one of a kind, distinctive, drawn-out reading of the word, “sheeeeeeeeeit” (that’s nine “e’s,” for those counting) has followed him from multiple film roles to an all-time-great television series, all the way to the canals of Venice, Italy. He’s even made it into a lucrative side business, selling talking bobbleheads with his likeness. The actor has no problem being branded as “the �...

” A.V. Club: You’ve been playing Ed for quite a number of years at this point. How do you feel that Ed has evolved over the run of Last Man Standing? Hector Elizondo: The thing about Ed that’s interesting is that when they need to fill up a hole, they have Ed. [Laughs.] He can be the generous guy or the stingy guy. The hard-ass guy or the easy-going guy. The soft-hearted guy or not. At first I said, “No, there’s no arc there for me!” But I got accustomed to that, and that’s a lot...

Advertisement In the mid-’90s, British actor Julia Ormond become a cinematic It Girl, frequently cast in movies where at least two men were vying for her love ( First Knight), sometimes within the same family ( Sabrina). But Ormond’s career took an unusual turn after her heyday; after playing the title role in 1997’s Smilla’s Sense Of Snow, she veered into more colorful supporting roles. She also became a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and has founded her own nonprofit to combat h...

Advertisement 30 Rock’s show-within-a-show TGS welcomed Danny Baker to its cast, a Canadian performer literally picked off the street—Danny was a robot impersonator that Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy took a liking to because he was unafraid to shake Jack’s bedbug-infested hand. Not unlike Danny, the actor Cheyenne Jackson was green to the world of television when he joined Tina Fey’s hit comedy (though, unlike Danny, Jackson was not Canadian, nor was he a robot street artist). “There...

Advertisement For over a decade, Michaela Watkins has been one of film and television’s most reliable comedy knockouts, making hay out even the smallest walk-on role. Her dedication to the craft—ensuring that every single syllable, every facial tic counts—stems from a foundation in sketch and improv, as well as years in the service industry, which Watkins used as fodder for her own well-observed character work at LA’s famed The Groundlings theater. In 2008, Watkins earned sketch comedy�...

and yourself—are in a lot of scenes together. Did you spend a lot of time together? Was there offset bonding that went on? Advertisement HG: We did. I mean, I was 18 and they were all probably, I guess, in their 20s, older than me, and I was basically straight out of suburbia, never really had such a cool group. So I was definitely the young, inexperienced person. And they were the older, cool people that I looked up to. AVC: You must have been so excited with the response that that movie g...