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    Photos: We Visited Saturday Night Live’s Set-Building FactoryBehind the scenes with the rapid-fire builders.
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    Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke on Eating Fake Horse Heart, Nude Scenes, and Ned“The best way to describe it is sort of a congealed jam kind of thing. On the outtakes, there will be me heaving into a bucket.”
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    Sally Hawkins on Playing an Older, Cheating Housewife in Submarine“I mean, if you’re worrying about people thinking that you’re older, then you’re not doing your job.”
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    Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on Last Night’s Episode, Incest, NudityAnd the scene that made him think, ‘Oh, whoa, George R.R. Martin has a sick mind.’
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    Jeremy Piven on His Indie Drama Angels Crest and the Entourage Backlash“I think it would be silly to be offended by anything Seth Rogen said.”
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    Lost Director Jack Bender on the Series Finale“We don’t know if we write ‘Lost’ or if ‘Lost’ writes us.”
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    Will Forte on MacGruber and SNL Mustache Battles“They said, ‘Oh, we just came up with something. You have to put celery in your butt.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, okay, okay. Great, write it up.’”
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    Lost’s Mark Pellegrino on Being Jacob“Finding [Jacob] to be as simple as he was, I was a little disappointed.”
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    Serial Villain Mark Strong on Robin Hood“I had no idea there were really going to be arrows!”
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    Lindelof and Cuse on the End (?) of Lost“There might, possibly, be some questions that we, as storytellers, will answer in the body of the show that might not be appearing in the finale. “
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    Evangeline Lilly on the End of Lost“Obviously we’re not islanders. We all smell like normal civilians who shower every day.”
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    Lost’s Jorge Garcia on the Finale, the Numbers, and Taking Advice From the Dead“This is the start of the house cleaning … They can pretty much start picking us off as we approach the end.”
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    Lost’s Henry Ian Cusick on Desmond’s Big Episode“All the actors have been given a script that contains ten acts. There is an eleventh act that we haven’t got yet.”
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    Michael Emerson on the Rumored Ben-Locke Spinoff“I’m not sure who you’re going to think needs revenge on whom when this is all over.”
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    Lost’s Nestor Carbonell on His Origin Episode“I’m especially flattered that I can wear the hell out of a button-down.”
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    Lost’s Zuleikha Robinson on Ilana’s OriginsWe spoke with Robinson about Ilana’s last name and why she didn’t kill Ben.
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    Lost’s Emilie de Ravin on Playing the New Crazy Claire: ‘Thank God It’s a Wig’“Claire didn’t leave Aaron out of not caring. She was sort of under the influence … Not drunk.”
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    Lost’s Yunjin Kim on the Sun-Jin Reunion You’ve Been Waiting Three Years For“I think the only reason for the writers to keep them apart is so that when we do reunite, it will be that special.”
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    Jenna Fischer on Tonight’s Baby Episode“Creed is involved. Creed is still weird.”
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    Lost’s Hiroyuki Sanada on Guarding the Temple, and Dogen’s Big Secret“Yeah … I’ll have a few more fighting scenes.”
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    Lost’s Daniel Dae Kim on the Cave Names and Which Jin He Likes Better“Jin’s done a complete 180. Who knows? He might be coming back around to do a complete 360.”
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    Lost’s Terry O’Quinn on Playing Smokey-Locke“Little bits of Locke keep popping up in Smokey. But that’s just my choice, it’s not anything anybody told me to do.”
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    Anthony Hopkins Talks The Wolfman“Yeah, I think it’s about time I played God.”
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    Lost’s Jorge Garcia on Playing Happy Hurley“Hurley definitely steps up a lot this season, for sure — more than ever before.”
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    Lost’s Ageless Alpert on the Big RevealThe man behind the ageless Richard Alpert tells us to get ready for a major revelation.
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    Extraordinary Measures’ Brendan Fraser on His Movie’s Famous Catchphrase and What Happened to Harrison Ford’s Brass BallsThe ‘Extraordinary Measures’ actor talks health care, ‘School Ties,’ and Harrison Ford’s balls.
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    The Vicious Kind’s Adam Scott on His Spirit Nod and Party Down’s Next Season“It was the first time I had that pressure: If I don’t pull it off, the whole movie will suck.”
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    Jason Schwartzman on Bored to Death“You know what I mean? Someone doesn’t karate chop something when they’re excited.”
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    John Cusack on Finding the 2012 Script“I don’t know how we shoot that, because you can’t have a stuntman for a 12-year-old.”
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    This Is It Director Kenny Ortega on Memories of Michael Jackson“It wasn’t This Is It that had any negative impact on Michael Jackson. It was nourishing him.”
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    Paul Dano on Where the Wild Things Are’s Big WeekendVulture raps with Dano about the voice-acting process and the movie’s success despite its offbeat tone.
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    Jesse Eisenberg on Zombieland, the Movie’s Big Cameo, and Facebook“Why would I ever want to be in something called this?”