Vintage Globes

Right now he's singing and dancing in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick…tick… BOOM!, an adaptation of writer and composer Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical play. Back in September of 2010, over 11 years ago, we met Andrew Russell Garfield for the first time.

Will Smith offered some insight on Muhammad Ali – having spent time with the boxing champion during the shooting of Ali, directed by Michael Mann – when he spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press on the set in Miami in 2001, then in Los Angeles a few weeks before the film’s release. “Three or four days out of the month, Ali will come and hang out on the set, and he seems to be very happy up to this point.

Clive Owen was interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press for the first time in 2003 in London when he spoke about Beyond Borders directed by Martin Campbell, co-starring Angelina Jolie. “I had a strong immediate and instinctive response to the script, I thought it was an important film, so powerful, and a fantastic part.

In 1999 Angelina Jolie spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about Girl, Interrupted, directed by James Mangold, and co-starring Winona Ryder. Her performance as Lisa, the sociopath held in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s, earned her a third Golden Globe award as Best Supporting Actress.

Ewan McGregor spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1999 about playing a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode One-The Phantom Menace directed by George Lucas. “I was six when I saw the first Star Wars, and I was blown away by seeing the film the first time when I was that age, it’s a great age to see it at.

In 2003 Gwyneth Paltrow spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in London about playing poet Sylvia Plath in the movie Sylvia with Daniel Craig as her husband, poet laureate Ted Hughes. “I grew up reading a lot of poetry because the schools that I went to focused on it; so, I’m lucky that I learned to understand the language of poetry, which is fantastic because a really well-written poem can in such a short space of time connect you so completely to what life is about.

In 2003 Daniel Craig spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in London about playing poet laureate Ted Hughes in the movie Sylvia with Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath. “My intention in doing this part was to try and get as even-handed a portrayal of Ted and Sylvia as possible, so that we weren’t just leaning either way.

In 1989 Raul Julia spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about playing Óscar Arnulfo Romero in John Duigan’s Romero. Romero was the Archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated in 1980 for taking a stand against the death squads of the military dictatorship.

In 2001 Reese Witherspoon talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about playing Elle Wood in Legally Blonde directed by Richard Luketic. “When I read the script, I thought that this really needed a director with a great visual style and sense of humor, and when I sat down with Robert Luketic, he was so charming and he had all these wonderful ideas about what to do with the visual side of the story.

Clint Eastwood spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1973 about playing San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan in Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry and Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post. “One critic made some remark about the first Dirty Harry being a Fascist masterpiece or something like that, but it wasn't that at all.