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5 Questions With Kyla Pratt of Freeform’s “Recovery Road”

February 12, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Kyla Pratt has been an actress for most of her life. She voiced Penny Proud on Disney Channel’s The Proud Family, starred on the UPN’s One on One and in all 5 films in the Dr. Dolittle franchise, and stole every scene she was in in BET’s Let’s Stay Together. Now Pratt returns to her scene stealing ways in Freeform’s Recovery Road as recovering addict Trish Collins, roommate to the series’ central character, Maddie (played by Jessica Sula). Pratt describes bubbly and vibrant character as “someone who had everything going right, but then got involved in the wrong stuff.” She also laughs that […]

5 Questions With … Katherine McNamara Of “Shadowhunters”

January 26, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Katherine McNamara is wowing fans of Cassandra Clare’s best-selling series The Mortal Instruments, in Freeform’s dark and action-packed new series, Shadowhunters. In the series, 18-year-old Clary Fray discovers that she comes from a long line of shadowhunters — human/angel hybrids who hunt demons. McNamara shares a lot of insight into her character and the shadow world in our interview, and one thing I wanted to ask the actress about is her character’s luscious locks. She shares, “[Executive producer & Director of the pilot ] McG and myself, and [Series creator/executive producer] Ed Decter, and all of the creatives on the […]

5 Questions With Jessica Sula Of Freeform’s “Recovery Road”

January 25, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Freeform bravely explores the world of teen addiction in its new drama, Recovery Road. In the series, 17-year-old Maddie is a highly functioning addict whose party-girl world comes to an end when she’s busted with booze at school. When she has to choose between rehab or expulsion, she begins a double life: normal teen by day and recovering addict in a sober living facility at night. Related: Recovery Road: A Gritty & Triumphant Look At Teen Addiction Jessica Sula is the actress taking on this challenging and beautiful role and I asked her our fun, and light “5 Questions,” which the joyful […]

5 Questions With … Emmy Rossum of “Shameless”

January 14, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Showtime’s Shameless is currently airing its sixth season, and the Gallagher clan is as messed up as ever. At the end of Season 5, Emmy Rossum’s character, Fiona, was a newlywed — and newly dumped — who had confessed her unrequited love to her boss. In addition to those issues, she has to contend with the exploits of her deadbeat dad, Frank (played by William H. Macy). Rossum revealed that she stores up a lot of emotion before her character unleashes one of her signature tirades against Frank, saying, “I feel like I save up everything that happens in my […]

5 Questions With … America Ferrera of NBC’s “Superstore”

January 5, 2016 Ryan Berenz

In NBC’s workplace comedy Superstore (Mondays at 8pm ET/PT) America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) stars as Amy, a veteran Cloud 9 store “angel” who has accepted the monotony of her job until new employee Jonah (Ben Feldman) arrives to shake things up. Ferrera was friendly and helpful when she answered our “5 Questions”: 1. Can you tell us about a time you were starstruck? When I met Tom Hanks the night before the Emmys, the first time I went to the Emmys. 2. What are three things you must always have in your fridge or pantry? Eggs, milk and gluten-free toast. 3. […]

Jane the Virgin Chapter 30 recap: Christmas Miracles

December 14, 2015 StayTuned Staff

Since Christmas is right around the corner, The CW is gifting us with the mid-season finale of Jane the Virgin — finally! If you’ll remember from the last episode, Jane discovered that Rafael hired someone to go to the police to lie about Michael. Just as things were looking magically perfect once again, she had to find something to ruin that plan. Let’s hope the holidays bring them together. That’s what usually happens, right? Calm Jane has decided that she’s going to try to deal with Rafael for Mateo’s sake since it’s his first Christmas. When Mateo goes to get his picture […]

5 Questions With … Wyatt Nash of “Karen Kingsbury’s The Bridge”

December 6, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Get to know Wyatt Nash. The charming Nashville-born actor stars in the Hallmark Channel original film, Karen Kingsbury’s The Bridge, based on the best-selling author’s book of the same name. Nash shared behind the scenes info about making the two-part film here, but we were dying to find more about the talented actor. In addition to starring in The Bridge with Katie Findlay, Faith Ford and Ted McGinley, he also starred as Christopher Dollanganger, Jr. in the Flowers in the Attic sequel, Petals on the Wind. If you go way back in his career, you’ll even see him as a contestant […]

5 Questions With … Elliot Knight of “Once Upon A Time”

November 25, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Once Upon a Time‘s Elliot Knight has wowed fans for his strong portrayal as the sorcerer Merlin, and in the first part of my interview with the British actor, he shared insight into the challenging role. In part 2, he showed off his charming light-hearted side when he answered our “5 Questions.” 1. If your TV had only three shows or networks, what would you watch? It’d have to be ABC. Every job I’ve done since I’ve been in the U.S. has been for ABC — it’s crazy — and they have a lot of really great shows too. I’m […]

5 Questions With … Daz Crawford of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”

November 3, 2015 Kellie Freeze

In Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Ward (Brett Dalton) has a new right-hand man who is seemingly made of steel. Kebo, the quasi-henchman, is played by a real-life gladiator, actor Daz Crawford. Crawford and I chatted about the rise of his role and he revealed his fascinating past. “I came in at the end of the last season — it was only meant to be for one episode,” the actor shares. “But I heard through the grapevine that they liked what I did in that particular scene, so they decided to write me back in for the new season.” Crawford’s other […]

5 Questions with Stephen Bishop of BET’s “Being Mary Jane”

November 2, 2015 Kellie Freeze

The first three episodes of the third season of Being Mary Jane have been jaw-dropping, and Stephen Bishop’s character David has been at the center of it all. When I spoke to the actor before the Season 3 premiere, he’d been sworn to secrecy about much of the the new season, but revealed that his favorite scenes from last season were the ones he shot with Chris Spencer. “He and I have been friends for a long time,” Bishop said,” but we’d never gotten to shoot together. It was fun to see him do drama. He’s such a great standup […]