Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels on That Knee-Jerk ‘A Man in Full’ Finale and Getting the Shot in One Take
Jeff Daniels says he isn’t giving much thought to metaphor in his performances. But his recent role as Charlie Croker in Netflix’s A Man in Full was swimming in them. Based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel of the same name — which shook up Atlanta’s high society, thanks to Croker’s striking likeness to the city’s […]
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Jeff Daniels Feared ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Toilet Scene Would “End” His Acting Career
Jeff Daniels is looking back at his time filming the infamous toilet scene in Dumb and Dumber and how he feared it would end his acting career. The actor, known for several of his more dramatic roles, recently told USA Today that even his agents warned him about taking on the role of Harry, the […]
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‘A Man in Full’ Review: Jeff Daniels Bellows, but David E. Kelley’s Tom Wolfe Adaptation for Netflix Is Mostly Hot Air
The 1998 novel about excesses in the Atlanta real estate bubble becomes a limited series co-starring Diane Lane and Lucy Liu.
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Jeff Daniels Teases Widening Murder Conspiracy in ‘American Rust’ Season 2 Trailer
Jeff Daniels as eternally glum police chief Del Harris returns for a widening murder conspiracy in the second-season trailer for American Rust: Broken Justice, which dropped Monday. After the sudden, mysterious death of a former police officer in Pennsylvania’s rust belt in the rookie season is not quite solved by Harris, to say the least, […]
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Jeff Daniels Drama ‘American Rust’ Moves to Amazon for Season 2
Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney drama American Rust is returning for its second season — on its third platform. Amazon announced that the sophomore run — titled American Rust: Broken Justice — will premiere on its Prime Video platform rather than the previously announced ad-supported service Freevee. All 10 episodes of the season will debut in […]
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Full Scope PR Expands by Hiring Publicist Jennifer Curran, Aligning With Digital Rep Chelsea Durgin
Full Scope PR is making moves. The West Hollywood-based firm, which launched earlier this year as a partnership between veteran reps Jack Ketsoyan and Pia Malihi, has hired publicist Jennifer Curran as managing director and struck a partnership with digital talent manager Chelsea Durgin to help build Full Scope’s digital talent management department. Both execs will […]
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Amazon’s Freevee Revives ‘American Rust’ After Showtime Cancellation
The canceled Showtime series American Rust is getting a new life. Freevee, the free, ad-supported streaming service from Amazon, has revived the drama starring Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney. Both are slated to return for the show’s second season, as is executive producer and writer Dan Futterman (Capote, The Looming Tower). Boat Rocker Studios produces. […]
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Jeff Daniels to Lead Netflix’s ‘A Man in Full’
Netflix has found its Man in Full. Emmy winner Jeff Daniels will star in the limited series based on Tom Wolfe’s best-seller. David E. Kelley is adapting the novel and will executive produce along with Regina King. Published in 1998, A Man in Full tells the story of a Charlie Croker (Daniels), an Atlanta real […]
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Jeff Daniels Says Iconic ‘Newsroom’ Speech Saved His Career
The success of The Newsroom was placed squarely on the shoulders of Jeff Daniels, who had two weeks to learn a last-minute Aaron Sorkin monologue placed at the beginning of the HBO pilot. In a recent career retrospective with GQ, the award-winning actor revealed that the “America is not the greatest country in the world” diatribe […]
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Clint Eastwood Told Jeff Daniels He Related to Gross Scene in ‘Dumb & Dumber’
Jeff Daniels dropped by The Late Show on Monday where he discussed a funny moment he shared with Clint Eastwood years ago. Talking to host Stephen Colbert about his award-winning career with films and characters running the Hollywood gamut, Daniels said he landed his role in Blood Work thanks to his polar opposite performances that […]
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Jeff Daniels’ Wife Still Packs His Lunch: “Kathleen Takes Great Care of Me”
Jeff Daniels stopped by Live With Kelly and Ryan Friday morning and revealed his wife, Kathleen Rosemary Treado, packs his lunch for him each morning. “She packed my lunch today in my little Detroit Tigers lunch box because I’m going to rehearsal later,” Daniels said when co-host Kelly Ripa asked about the sweet gesture. His […]
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Jeff Daniels in Showtime’s ‘American Rust’: TV Review
The drama centers on a small group of locals, including a laconic police chief and a former high school football star, who become entangled in the investigation of a potential homicide in a depressed Rust Belt town.
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