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Boardwalk Empire Star Michael Shannon Talks Character Development and Being Hated. Spoilers for "The Age of Reason," beware!

Meanwhile, this review, cited in the interview, is a little too cynical about the show for my taste (it is a heartless individual who did not feel anything when Richard was pasting pictures in his scrapbook! heartless, I say ( Read more... )

Interview with Michael Shannon about his new movie, Take Shelter, which coincidentally also stars Shea Whigham.

And omg Michael is going to be General Zod in the Superman re-reboot.

Michael Shannon and Shea Whigham are in a movie coming out called Take Shelter, in which Shannon is plagued by visions of the apocalypse.

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Kinda had to laugh just a tiny wee bit.

Interview with Michael Shannon on Broadway.com about "Mistakes Were Made." Also: Production for season two begins in February. What do you hope happens to Agent Nelson? He made a lot of mistakes at the end of the season, so I hope he pulls himself together and doesn’t go completely off the tracks. But it's not up to me!And don't forget to check out ( Read more... )

Michael Shannon in "Mistakes Were Made" at the Barrow Street Theatre.

Shannon, best known for his pop-eyed contributions to Revolutionary Road and Boardwalk Empire, has a voice like a coffee grinder packed with gravel and paving tar. His lantern jaw looks misaligned, as if it's jumped its tracks from too much teeth-grinding, and his eternal- ( Read more... )

Shannon 'attacking the devil' -- "I think he takes his job very seriously," says Shannon. "He's very outnumbered. I mean, for him, he looks at it as he's on the side of God, and the bootleggers are on the side of the devil." He pauses. "If he's attacking one of them, he's attacking the devil. You wouldn't show any mercy to the devil."

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Article and interview with Michael Shannon -- I did get a sense of Eliot Ness about Van Alden.

Boardwalk Empire History -- This article answers the questions: was Al Capone really a member of the WWI Lost Battalion, and was he ever in Atlantic City at the same time with all those other gangsters? Let's find out!