ComingSoon.net is reporting that Lucius Malfoy actor Jason Isaacs will be starring in USA Network’s new six episode show, Dig. The show will shoot in Jerusalem, among other international places. The series will premiere on USA late this year.

It is “an action adventure drama from co-creators and executive producers Tim Kring (“Heroes”) and Gideon Raff (“Homeland”).” He will be playing Peter, an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who, while investigating a murder of a young female archeologist, uncovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making.

Dean Thomas actor Aflie Enoch is set to star in a new pilot for ABC, called How To Get Away With Murder. According to Deadline,  the sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller centers on ambitious law students and their brilliant and mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot.  More information on the show, in which Alfie will be playing a law student, may be read below. Other cast members of the show include Jack Falahee, Karla Souza and Matt McGorry.

Described as a sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller, the project is about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock the entire university and change the course of their lives.

(Originally found at UpandComers)

In a new interview wit Broadway Direct, Daniel Radcliffe talks about returning to New York City to reprise his role in The Cripple of Inishmaan this April, as we reported last month.  The article also mentions his role in the film Tokyo Vice, where he plays an American journalist who gets tangled with the Yakuza, the Japanese crime underworld. Filming begins in July, after the NYC run of Inishmaan.

Of the play Dan says:

“There are a lot of challenges, and I’m just so excited about coming back to work in New York with this play,” says Radcliffe.  “As always, I hope that people who come to see this play get treated to a fantastic story, and hopefully we tell it well. On the surface it’s a very simple story,” notes Radcliffe, “but actually, the intricacies, the twists and turns that Martin creates in these characters’ lives are sometimes shocking, unexpectedly moving or hilarious. It’s such a rare combination to have all those things sitting with each other perfectly, and the tone – the comedy originates in some ways from the cruelty of the characters’ relationship with each other,” the actor explains. “After the first scene, which is quite bruisingly funny in terms of how Billy is treated, I don’t think people will necessarily expect the end of it to be as heart-wrenching as it is.”

[…]“It is never specified in the play exactly what ailment Billy has – you just have clues in the text, which says he has one arm and one leg crippled,” Radcliffe explains. “I arrived, with the help of a friend, at the conclusion that it could be a specific type of cerebral palsy called hemiplegia.  And then I worked with a woman who is a vocal coach but who also has that type of cerebral palsy. We worked together, on and off for about three months before rehearsals started, just learning about the condition and the mechanics of it, and how that affects people in everyday life.  Most people with this type of cerebral palsy often come up with amazing solutions to problems that I would never have thought of, so it was a really fascinating thing to learn about.”

Discussing what he enjoys about acting:

“The fact that I get to do so many different things is one of the parts of my job that make it incredibly fun,” Radcliffe continues. “Maybe the fact of playing one character in one environment for quite a long time built up an energy to want to get out after Potter and grab as many different things as possible; you are constantly learning something new, so you are always in a very receptive state,” he reflects.

He also mentions a quote that keeps him going in his career:

Having deftly avoided the potential pitfalls of early fame and fortune, Radcliffe is well on his way to becoming one of the most versatile actors of his generation. A key to his solid work ethic may perhaps be found in his favorite quote, which comes from Samuel Beckett’s prose piece Worstward Ho!: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” “Somebody I really admire once pointed me in the direction of that quote,” he explains. “To me — who knows if this is what Beckett meant! –it’s about not seeking perfection, but about embarking on a process and trying something. Trying to do something is ultimately just as important as the end result.”

AskMen has released their Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2014 and Emma Watson comes in at number 5. Game of Thrones star, Emilia Clarke, came in at number 1 followed by Alison Brie, Emily Ratajkowski and Jennifer Lawrence.

It’s no secret that Emma Watson is gorgeous. She long ago shed associations to the frizzy-haired Hermione and has emerged from child stardom poised and scandal-free. We couldn’t take our eyes off her in The Bling Ring and will be in theaters when her next flick, the biblical epic Noah, premieres.

In a new opinion piece for The Independent, Harry Potter actress Evanna Lynch discusses the huge amount of hate and cyber-bullying she was subjected to after getting the role of Luna Lovegood.   She also discusses how she joined twitter and all the wonderful comments she got through it, making her ignore the haters even more.  She ends the piece by talking about how you can “love yourself” and be a happier you!  Read the full piece here.

They say we remember a compliment for two weeks and an insult for 14 years. Just as I am about to single out the one troll and prepare to fight venom with venom and fire, I pause and think what kind of person that makes me. Someone who doesn’t care about the dozens of pure, generous souls who offer kindness and support, and instead lavishes time and attention on the one miserable leech? I stop, delete the offending tweet, maybe block the user and focus my attention on the people who remind me to see the beauty in the world and in myself.

I don’t think we’re ever strong enough to read the hateful stuff and let it roll off our backs. It’s all very well for the self-help books and bespectacled psychiatrists to dole out the very grand advice to simply “love ourselves”. What the hell does that mean to the 13-year-old who’s put on 15lbs and is told every day at school she’s a fat pig?

Essentially, “loving oneself” is the answer, yes, but as a hyper-aware, introspective, self-help-book-consuming 22-year-old I have already deduced that that is a mission that takes a lifetime of learning, forgetting, crying-in-your-car-that-you’re-a-giant-failure and relearning all over again.

No, it’s not about demanding of ourselves to instantaneously love ourselves. It’s about consciously choosing light over dark. It’s about realising that even if we don’t have the strength to stare these hurtful comments plain in the face and say “you’re wrong”, we have the strength to search for those people who will convince us that the bullies and the nasty things written about us, or others, are wrong.

And it’s about practising that positive outlook every single day, with every person, in everything we do until eventually – eventually – that becomes a habit.

Last year we reported that Rupert Grint would be voicing a character in the English version of Foosball, a film released in Argentina last July.  The film has since been renamed The Unbeatables and will be released on August 8th in the UK.

Rupert Grint, Anthony Head, Ralf Little, Rob Brydon and Alistair McGowan all voice characters in the film about Amadeo [Grint], a shy table soccer genius whose table soccer figures come alive to help him save his local town and win his childhood sweetheart, both threatened by a preening soccer mega-star.

Thanks RupertGrint.net!