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This Friday, Chace Crawford will hit the big screen in a role he has yet to play: a baby daddy. In What to Expect When You're Expecting, the 26-year-old actor and his co-star Anna Kendrick find themselves in it for the long haul when their one night stand turns them into expectant parents.

Parade.com sat down with Crawford on a recent sunny afternoon in Beverly Hills to discuss babies (his sister Candice recently welcomed a son with her husband Tony Romo), weddings, and his plans post-Gossip Girl.

While one would think anyone would jump at the chance to shimmy alongside Cameron Diaz, Crawford was relieved that it was Matthew Morrison playing the role of the pro dance instructor who romances the actress.

"It spared everyone the atrocity of my dance moves," he said, laughing.

Read on for more from Crawford, including the dream show he'd love to be on and how he rates as a new uncle.

On working with Anna.
"The chemistry was instant. I knew her work and she's outstandingly talented. It was fun. When she was cast, I knew right away what it was going to be. In some of those scenes, it's like a verbal tennis match. Some of our scenes are improvised. She's really great with that stuff. In the moment, she's super witty."

On settling down.
"I met up with some friends recently that I hadn't seen in awhile and two of them were married. Being from Texas, there is a little more pressure to get it done but I'm not really on that spectrum. I'm on a different train. I've learned I need a couple of decades of maturity."

A couple decades?
"Maybe less than a couple of decades. It's about finding the right person. I'm not the kind of guy that needs to have a girlfriend or needs to have attention from a girlfriend. If it happens, it happens. I'm always open to that. Not marriage yet, but I'll figure it out."

On how he would end Gossip Girl.
"If I got to write the show, it would be a very different thing. I would make Chuck Gossip Girl and I would turn my character into Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. That would be a wierd twist of events."

On ending the show.
"I tend to throw something for the crew at the end of every season. What will we do? For me, it's going to probably be more bittersweet and tough to leave New York City. And it's definitely an end of an era. It was college for everyone really. We'll do something for sure."

His baby handling skills.
"They are top notch [laughs]. I haven't changed a diaper yet and that's the part of being the cool uncle. I didn't realize that babies can't hold their heads up right away so that was a lesson of a sister yelling. It's always the handoff that's a little awkward. He sleeps all day and just sits there and you watch him. It's a beautiful thing. He's a big baby. He's a strong baby.

Is his nephew destined for the turf?
"He came out with a football in his hand. It was a very weird thing. And a Giants hat. I was like, 'What is that? Get that off!' My sister was very athletic as well so I'm sure he'll be fine."

His future.
"Unless Games of Thrones comes knocking at my door, I'm going to try to make a run at film for awhile. Their are pros and cons to both. With TV, you're locked in. It's great because you have conistency though while film is like camp."

For nine seasons, Alison Sweeney has helped scores of contestants navigate through their weight loss journey on The Biggest Loser and now she's helping Coppertone find their footing in the future. She's guest judging the Little Miss Coppertone contest, which aims to discover the next little girl who will serve as the face of the iconic brand (you can enter the contest here).

"My number one beauty tip has always been sunscreen," Sweeney explained about her interest in the competition. "Naturally I want to protect my kids and give them good habits. I grew up with the Coppertone brand and the image of Little Miss Coppertone is so iconic. It's what I imagine when I think of fun in the sun."

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Read on for more on what she's looking for in the contest winner, how she keeps her family healthy, and Biggest Loser romances:

Her judging criteria.
"For me, it's all about the spirit. You don't have to look like the original Coppertone girl. We want to see people from all walks of life and are just looking for that little girl that has that energy and outdoor enthusiasm."

How she keeps her kids healthy.
"A lesson that I learned from The Biggest Loser that has been really helpful is a simple math equation. I've been known to reduce it to Lightning McQueen needing fuel for his car. It's important to have the healthy fuel that helps you run fast. So I tell them the vegetables are what that is. I try to have my kids understand the reasoning behind things. It's the old Popeye mentality: your vegetables help you grow muscles. We make fitness a family thing too. We do outdoor activities, go on hikes, go to the beach. We keep our kids moving and they can see that we also lead healthy lives."

On why romance blossoms on The Biggest Loser.
"We have a bunch of great love stories! Normally in a romance you put your best foot forward but then over time you see who the other person really is. And then it either works out or not. But when they come to the campus, some of them are at their lowest points and they're baring their souls and weaknesses. There is something so honest and special about people who are willing to do that. They bond in such an intense way that carries them through. They make these friendships that will be there the rest of their lives. If you happen to meet someone and there is a spark, it started from such a sincere place of having seen each other at their worst. Then they build from there and go on this great journey together. I think that's such a healthy way to start a relationship."

On the past season's controversy.
"Each season is unique because of the contestants that are part of it. This particular group of people came together and were a strong-willed group of people from day one. They had a very strong idea of what they wanted to happen and how they wanted it to go. So I think a lot of it came from that."

Her advice for weight loss strugglers.
"The same advice that I take from myself. I'm in maintenance and I'm always looking for ways to clean up and make sure I'm staying healthy. But for those who have gone through extreme weight loss like our contestants, they need to reevaluate the balance. We want this to be a lifestyle change. We're not believers of a fad diet or crazy extremes. Every day, every meal, I make the choice that I want to be healthy. And it's something you have to balance out. Being at a birthday party is different than being at home and you just try to make the best choices you can. Be honest with yourself about those choices and if you make some bad ones, turn it around as soon as you can. Don't wait to start eating healthy a week from now or the next day. Start now."

The final four will hit the hardwood on tonight's semifinal episode of Dancing with the Stars. The season, which has showcased a surprising and impressive breadth of sequined talent, is quickly coming to a close and only one team can win the coveted mirrorball trophy.

Parade.com spoke to the gorgeous Peta Murgatroyd, the dancing pro paired with NFL star Donald Driver, about what tricks they still have up their sleeve and how she rates their competition:

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On calming the nerves.
"I always tell him it's just him and I. It's about how we can better ourselves and he agrees. He's always telling me there is no 'i' in 'team.' He's all about camaraderie and making sure it's a team effort."

Hardest part of the show.
"The hours that you have to put into it and how mentally exhausted you get after teaching and dancing all day and every day."

The advantages of having an athelete.
"Definitely their drive to win and how competitive they are. They're also quite good about being coached by somebody."

And the disadvanatages.
"Their posture! Running after a ball is not good for their figure. Their shoulders are usually slumped and we have to correct that."

What sets Donald apart.
"The chemistry we have together is like no other. We have this special bond. I don't think anyone else has our friendship. And everyone can see how much fun we have on the dance floor. It's not just about the competition for us. We're having so much fun together."

On the competition.
"It is so hard since everyone is so good at different things. Katherine [Jenkins] is the technician. She's an amazing dancer. Maria [Menounos] has all that character and she's so beautiful when she dances. William [Levy] is a heartthrob and he has this huge fan base. He's an incredibly hulky guy. Everyone has something to offer."

Suprises they have in store.
"There are a few cool moves we've got this week. The waltz is going to be extremely emotional. It's going to be quite touching. When Donald and I first heard the song we both started crying. It was really emotional and people will be surprised by that."

Favorite part of the season.
"Getting to know Donald. He's an amazing family man, father, husband, everything. He's so sweet and warm."

Her dream DWTS partner.
"I was thinking about this: maybe Ryan Gosling or Kellan Lutz. I'll be starting my campaign soon."

To understand where Bravo TV executive and talk show host Andy Cohen gets his prodigious energy and gift for gab, one need only meet his mom. Evelyn Cohen, 75, silver-haired and diminutive, proves that big personalities can come in small packages.

On this spring day, mother and son are having dinner at one of the Palm steak houses in Manhattan. Evelyn arrived in the afternoon from Clayton, Mo., the St. Louis suburb where 43-year-old Andy and his older sister, Emily, were raised (and which he fondly refers to as “Pleasantville”). They are dining on separate orders of filet mignon, Andy having announced preemptively, “I don’t want to split with you; I want a whole one for myself.”

Cohen’s appetite is well earned. He has already finished up work at his day job, as executive vice president for development and talent at Bravo, and had a session with his trainer. Next he will head to his second gig, as host of Watch What Happens Live, a half-hour, five-night-a-week celebrity chatfest that airs live on Bravo at 11 p.m. on the East Coast. Evelyn is coming along to watch him work.

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“She texts me a review of my show every night,” says Andy, holding up his iPhone as proof. “She’ll say, ‘Fantastic.’ ‘You seem drunk.’ ‘Funny one.’”

Evelyn chortles. “‘Too dirty,’” she chimes in.

“‘Not our demographic.’ ‘Get some sleep.’ ‘Didn’t laugh once,’” Andy continues.

“I feel a need before I go to bed to text him,” Evelyn explains.

“I like it,” says Andy. “And my staff now asks, ‘What did your mom say?’”

Evelyn may be critical of individual episodes of her son’s show, but she’s his biggest supporter. “Andy was a magnetic personality from the time he was a little boy,” she says. “He brings this energy with him and makes people happy.”

The rest of the country is only now catching up with Evelyn in fully appreciating her beaming baby boy. After a career spent behind the scenes as a TV news producer and programming executive (overseeing Top Chef and the Real Housewives franchise, among other popular Bravo reality shows), Cohen has in recent years become a recognizable face himself, as the host—or, more accurately, referee—of the Housewives reunions as well as Watch What Happens Live.

The freewheeling gabathon that is Live broadcasts from a tiny, bric-a-brac-filled studio that Cohen has dubbed the Clubhouse. Typically, it features an actor or singer promoting a project and a second guest who’s often a Bravo personality (a.k.a. a Bravolebrity). Liam Neeson, Anderson Cooper, and Sarah Jessica Parker, all friends of Cohen’s, have sat in Live’s swivel chairs, as have Housewives NeNe, LuAnn, Teresa, and many others.

Part of Live’s shtick is that Cohen and his guests imbibe freely, and there’s an on-set bartender. “Anyone else need a refill on their Fresquila?” Cohen will ask, waving his tumbler of Fresca and tequila. (He also quaffs Maker’s Mark bourbon mixed with ginger ale on the air.) Then he’ll urge viewers to tweet him, contact him via Facebook, dial in with questions, post to Live’s website, and otherwise interact with the show.

This month, Cohen also published a breezy memoir, Most Talkative: Stories From the Front Lines of Pop Culture. Mixed in with the boldface names are warm family tales and reminiscences of growing up Jewish, gay, and television-obsessed in the Midwest. Why a book now? “I’ve been working in TV for 22 years, so I don’t want anyone to think that I just showed up and all this happened,” he says of his newfound fame. “Besides, I had good stories and I love to write. I just needed a deadline.”

The surest sign that Cohen has arrived came last month when he and his talk show were parodied on Saturday Night Live. SNL cast member Taran Killam lampooned Cohen as self-adoring and obsessed with the trivial. “Look, I’m wearing floaties,” the faux Cohen announced, waving colorful blow-up water wings on his arms.

Cohen says he regards being satirized as an honor. “It was funny; I revere SNL,” he says. (For the record, he has never worn floaties.) Mom is markedly less pleased. “It hurt my feelings as a mother,” says Evelyn. “Lou [husband Lou Cohen] and I turned it off. Andy is nothing like that. He isn’t an egotist.”

Cohen grew up in Clayton glued to All My Children (a passion his mother came to share), Battle of the Network Stars, and CHiPs (he had an early crush on Erik Estrada). “He’s always been about TV,” says his sister, Emily Rosenfeld. Young Andy used to yak for hours into a hairbrush, pretending it was a microphone. “He never shut up,” Evelyn says. During high school, Cohen had internships at St. Louis TV and radio stations; he then majored in communications at Boston University and landed a summer internship at CBS News in New York.

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It was during college that Cohen began telling good friends that he was gay. One of the first was Amanda Baten, with whom he remains close today. “He had gotten to a place where he was about to burst,” says Baten, now a psychologist in Manhattan. “He felt comfortable enough with me to take that step, and it was a positive experience.”

Positive enough that not long after, he told his parents. Although supportive, they needed time to adjust. “I cried for six months,” Evelyn says, explaining that back then she knew almost no other gay people; she also worried about AIDS and thought that Andy would have career trouble. Then a neighbor told her, “Andy is Andy. He’s still the same today as he was yesterday.” Realizing that was true, Evelyn, who had always been involved in community and volunteer work, turned activist: She helped establish Doorways, an interfaith organization in St. Louis that provides housing for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. “That really speaks volumes as to who she is,” says Andy. “I love her for it.”

Upon graduating in 1990, Cohen was hired as a news clerk at CBS This Morning. Distinguishing himself with his enthusiasm, he rose quickly. “It was a great place for him to learn how TV works and what works on TV. Every cell in his brain was geared to learning that,” says his friend Harry Smith, who was an anchor on the program. “I told him once, ‘You’re gonna end up with your own show.’”

Cohen booked celebrity guests (Oprah Winfrey, Susan Lucci, Joey Buttafuoco) and crisscrossed the country producing hard and soft news stories. “He had good story ideas and was passionate about selling them,” recalls Paula Zahn, then co-anchor with Smith. After a decade at CBS, Cohen became a programming executive at the start-up cable channel Trio. “It was like cable boot camp,” he says. His next job was programming and development at Bravo, where he also began blogging and conducting interviews on the network’s website. At the suggestion of his bosses, Lauren Zalaznick and Frances Berwick, Cohen served as host of the second Real Housewives reunion show (Orange County, 2007), and his career as a TV star was born. (This despite the fact that one of his eyes wanders a bit—something a CBS producer once warned him could keep him off the air. Cohen says he consulted an eye surgeon a couple of years ago who said the problem wasn’t serious enough to warrant correction.)

Since Live expanded to five nights, Cohen has cut back some on his executive responsibilities at Bravo, though he still goes into his office—a corner perch on Rockefeller Center’s 46th floor, where he keeps a mini refrigerator stocked with Diet Cokes—three days a week and watches rough cuts of shows.

What’s missing from Cohen’s life is a significant other. “I would like a boyfriend,” he says. “I’m a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I’m looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.” Evelyn worries that he’s too busy to meet Mr. Right. “Is life passing him by because he’s working so hard?” she asks at dinner.

“Maybe I just haven’t met the right person,” Andy tells her.

After dinner, they head to the Live studio. Evelyn sits in while Andy goes over the lineup—singer Monica and actor John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C) are the guests—then takes a seat in the Clubhouse as Andy runs through his lines. She objects to off-color dialogue in a Big C clip that he plans to show. “Too dirty,” she winces (a frequent reaction).

Once the show starts, Evelyn laughs at her son’s jokes and kibitzes with him and the crew during commercial breaks. When Live finishes, Andy walks over and holds his cell phone aloft. “‘Good show,’” he says, reading his mother’s texted review.

“It was,” she says, beaming. “So good I sent that text before the show was even over.”

Come June, Molly Sims and her husband Scott Stuber will welcome a bouncing baby boy into their home and the supermodel is ready for the new addition.

"I am in full nesting mode", Sims gleefully told Parade.com. During her pregnancy, she's encountered some unanticipated life changes: sugar cravings and restless nights. While frozen yogurt runs are taking care of the first thing, her lifesaver for the second came courtesy of her Sleep Number bed.

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"I had been having back problems and it's unbelievable!" Sims said. "I can put my feet up and my husband and I can be on different settings. I was having a really difficult time sleeping and it's been the number one thing I've bought during my pregnancy." The bed allows her to indulge in a new habit: working in bed! "My feet have really started to swell and I would never lay in bed in the middle of the day but now I can put my feet up and work," she added. "The body of the bed comes up so you can elevate your feet. It helps my feet become less Shrek-like."

Read on for her baby name options and her upcoming last-minute escape (a babymoon!) with her husband:

Nursery plans.
"We're going for something more gender neutral. In case I have a girl next, we have some pink in there and some powder blue. It's more modern bohemian. It's turning out super cute. I am so excited. I am in full nesting mode."

On her cravings.
"Sugar. I had three apples, I can down a mango, pineapple, watermelon. Anything cold and crunchy, I love. Birthday cake: I die for. I never liked birthday cake in my life! Not a huge fan of chocolate but I love frozen yogurt. Anything cold, I love."

On choosing baby names.
"We're down to eight. [Scott] will email or text me from work or take a picture of a name. He's got to focus and we, well he, has four criteria: can a sportscaster announce it properly, how can it be shortened and still look cool, does it mean anything, and is he going to be made fun of in fifth grade. He loves Daschel and goes like, 'Dash! Number 41 for the Greenbay Packers.'"

On preparing her dogs for the new arrival.
"My girlfriend has an amazing dog company and works with different animals and she actually bought a fake little baby that makes sound. So I'm sitting with the baby and have the dogs look at the little baby boy and see how sweet he is. I know it sounds ridiculous but I am so wanting them to be involved and be a part of it. My dogs have been in my life for so long so we're practicing with a fake baby!"

The motherhood advice she's been receiving.
"Breastfeed if you can, don't feel guilty if you can't. Follow your intuition: go with it, don't go against it. I have a really high pain tolerance so don't sit on it because I might be in labor."

On wanting to follow in her mom's footsteps.
"My mother told me that when your kids are young, be their mother, not their friend. When they're older, you can be both. She's my best friend but she's my mother first. That was the best thing she gave me. She made me respect her and set boundaries. We're so afraid now with discipline and what it's going to do to our kids but those boundaries I had helped me for life."

Her Mother's Day plans.
"I'm making my husband take me on a babymoon! I said, 'See, Sienna Miller went on a babymoon too in Italy.' Our last trip is New York so we're excited. I have to be there for work and we might drive a few hours outside. I have to do some work there and I'm making him come with me [laughs]."

The season of shocking eliminations continued last week as American Idol said farewell to country singer Skylar Laine.

The 18-year-old Mississippi native was a fan favorite all season long, but her performances of "Fortunate Son" and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" last week were not enough to keep her out of the bottom two. She was joined by Hollie Cavanagh, who has ranked in the bottom for the last few weeks.

Laine talked to reporters about her surprising send-off, the upcoming Idol summer tour, and plans to stick to her country roots.

On her shocking elimination.
"I wasn't surprised. I just got a gut feeling when I came back up there and I told Hollie, 'I think you're about to be surprised,' because she thought she was going home. You never know what's going to happen. This season has been really unpredictable, and it's going to keep being that way now. Maybe it was just my time to go. I just didn't get enough votes. I was happy to make it as far as I have."

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On having no regrets.
"I really think that I showed everything that I could. I showed ballads. I showed upbeat songs. I showed passion. I showed anger in my songs. I wouldn't change a thing that I did on the show."

On the upside of elimination.
"I am relieved that I won't have to have that crazy hectic schedule. I won't have to worry about song choice and being judged. I just am relieved about that stuff."

On the Idol tour.
"I'm looking forward to meeting fans on the tour because they're the ones that have gotten me this far. They're the ones that are still supporting me now even though I'm not on the show anymore. I'm just looking forward to meeting them, and seeing all the places that we're going, and feeling like I've made it by being on a stage and giving a concert."

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On her country style.
I'm definitely going to stay myself. I'm not a pop country singer. I never will be. I need to sing the kind of country music that I want to sing. I've accepted the fact that if I get to make an album, they're probably only going to be played on country radio because that's just the way it is. That's the way my songs are going to sound. I want to make real country music — like Honky Tonk songs — just the good old country stuff!"

On her fellow Idol contestants.
"I was closest with Josh and Hollie. We just had a bunch of funny stuff we'd always say. I would wake her up with a duck call sometimes. So that was pretty funny."

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On her plans post-Idol.
"I don't plan on moving to LA after the tour. I want to move to Nashville because that's where country music is and that's where country artists record. So that's where I want to be!"

Bravo TV star Andy Cohen and the real housewife who started it all: his mom, Evelyn, grace the cover of this weekend's special Mother's Day issue of PARADE. The mother-son duo talk about everything from Andy’s love life to their candid text messages. Read the full interview in this weekend's issue of PARADE and go to Facebook.com/parademag on Sunday, May 13, at 2 p.m. ET to join Andy in a live chat!

Here are some highlights:

Andy Cohen, 43, is missing one thing from his life: “I would like a boyfriend,” the Bravo TV exec and host of the network’s Watch What Happens Live tells PARADE in this Sunday’s issue. “I’m a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle.” His mom, Evelyn, 75, worries that he’s too busy to meet Mr. Right. “Is life passing him by because he’s working so hard?” she asks. “Maybe I just haven’t met the right person,” Andy tells her.

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Evelyn, silver-haired and diminutive, proves that big personalities can come in small packages. “She texts me a review of my show every night,” says Andy. “She’ll say, ‘Fantastic.’ ‘You seem drunk.’ ‘Funny one.’” Evelyn may be critical of individual episodes of her son’s show, but she’s his biggest supporter. “Andy was a magnetic personality from the time he was a little boy,” she says. “He brings this energy with him and makes people happy.”

After a career spent behind the scenes as a TV news producer and programming executive, Cohen has in recent years become a recognizable face himself, as the host—or, more accurately, referee—of the Real Housewives reunions as well as Watch What Happens Live.

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Cohen grew up in Clayton, Mo., glued to All My Children (a passion his mother came to share), Battle of the Network Stars, and CHiPs (he had an early crush on Erik Estrada). During college, Cohen began telling good friends that he was gay. Not long after, he told his parents.

“I cried for six months,” Evelyn says, explaining that back then she knew almost no other gay people; she also worried about AIDS and thought that Andy would have career trouble. But she agreed when a neighbor told her, “Andy is Andy. He’s still the same today as he was yesterday.” So Evelyn, who had always been involved in community work, turned activist: She helped establish Doorways, an organization in St. Louis that provides housing for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. “That really speaks volumes as to who she is,” says Andy. “I love her for it.”

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This month, Cohen published a breezy memoir, Most Talkative: Stories From the Front Lines of Pop Culture. Mixed in with the boldface names are warm family tales and memories of growing up Jewish, gay, and TV-obsessed in the Midwest. Why a book now? “I’ve been working in TV for 22 years, so I don’t want anyone to think that I just showed up and all this happened,” he says of his newfound fame. “Besides, I had good stories and I love to write. I just needed a deadline.”

Read more from Andy and Evelyn's interview in this weekend’s issue of PARADE.

Despite giving his best performance on Dancing with the Stars on Monday, Disney star Roshon Fegan was sent home during last night's dramatic double elimination episode. Despite the setback, the 20-year-old was simply thankful to have his tried-and-true supporters nearby.

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"My family are my biggest cheerleaders," Fagan told Parade.com. "They keep me excited about everything and make sure I know I did a good job. It's all good. It's all gravy."

Read on for who he thinks will take home this season's Mirror Ball Trophy:

The elimination.
"It was definitely a shock. Going into it after getting great scores, you automatically think you're safe. All of a sudden you are in the bottom two and you are kicked off so quickly. I didn't know for awhile what happened. I was confused. But that's the way the competition works. I had a great time."

How the cast reacted to his elimination.
"Everyone let me know how amazing my last dance was and how great my past dances were. It was good to connect with everyone. It was a perfect moment."

On his biggest challenge.
"The biggest challenge of all was to change the direction of what I loved to do. Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. I was going through a lot of things trying to find the right posture and the certain way to hold up my arms. It was a lot of work and nobody really knew that part. But I made it eight weeks and that's pretty far."

Summing up his DWTS experience.
"I really learned a lot about myself. How hard of a worker I was as an entertainer and that I could stay in the game with the big boys. Breaks are an important part of life and I learned I can't always work, work, work. There was a couple of times in the week when I felt like I was going to fall asleep."

On who he thinks has the best chance to win.
"Katherine [Jenkins] has been on a super roll. Not only is she popular at this point but she's a great dancer as well. She's very graceful, very smooth and she's been at the top for a long time so she has a good chance."

On turning 21 in October.
"We're working on a little party, a little get-together, but not much. I'm trying to keep it simple and cheap. I'm on a budget."

On the future of his career.
"At this point, I'm really deep into my music. Producing and song writing. I've been working on my music all my life. It's funny how life works. Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes. I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world so that's my next step. I think I'm just going to flood the Internet with content and new songs."

This Sunday, the women of Wysteria Lane will say goodbye after eight seasons of deliciously naughty nighttime television. Felicity Huffman, whose character Lynette Scavo was often the show's emotional and moral anchor, recently spoke to Parade about the final weeks leading up to the series finale.

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What was their final script read-through like? What memento does she have her eye on?

Read on to find out!

Celebration plans?
"Nothing formal, I have to say. I'm not very good at endings. I'm feeling very sad and grateful. Since the final read-through, everybody's been taking lots and lots of silly pictures. And then crying quite a bit."

The final read-through.
"There were secret blue pages, which were the end-end scenes, and you couldn't take them out of the room. But of course everybody took them out of the room. I was walking around talking to the writers and they caught me with my blue pages. They have the un-envious job of ending something. You either have to go off the cliff like Thelma & Louise or come in under wire and fade to black like The Sopranos."

The finale.
"They actually hit something that I didn't expect. It's very heartfelt, melancholy and very satisfying. They didn't try and top it all. They didn't try to put a button on it. Over the past eight years we've all had a romance with Desperate Housewives and it's great when that romance ends so satisfactorily. And I don't mean everybody hugs in the end. You just go, 'oh yes, it hits those sweet spots of satisfaction.'"

The future of Tom and Lynette.
"Between Tom and I there were little gasps of 'Ooh! That's what happens?' Our characters find an interesting and unusual happy ending. You get a good sense of where each character is going to go and it's very fun and really appropriate. You go, 'Oh yes, of course that is what she should be doing in 20 years or next year.' The satisfaction comes from seeing where the characters end up and where they might be in the future."

Will there be time jumps?
"There might be. They're throwing a lot of ingredients in the soup."

How she will remember her time on Wysteria Lane.
"It's been half my marriage and my kids were two and three when we started. It's certainly going to be in my obituary. Right after Desperate sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of. The whole experience for me has been, and I don't mean to sound like a haiku, but grateful abundance. I've learned a lot. I get to do a one-act play every eight days. I keep working on things I'm not good at. Sometimes it hits the sweet spot of my wheelhouse and that feels good to. I love working."

Her memento.
"For awhile there I joked I would take Marcia Cross' legs, Eva Longoria's butt. There is a really ugly couch in Tom and Lynette's den that Doug [Savant] and I always nap on. We're like the old couple. When they yell cut we go in and snooze for 3 minutes."

As Addison Montgomery on Private Practice, Kate Walsh is used to looking picture perfect for the cameras. But that doesn't mean she always rolls into the makeup chair that way.

"After a long time of coming to work everyday and entering the makeup trailer with watery eyes and runny nose, I figured I had allergies," the actress, 44, laughed, adding that her problems would start at home. "I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails," she told Parade.com. "So between all of those cats and dogs, it's a festival of allergies. Plus the garden, it's a nightmare."

To help others combat "allergy face" Walsh partnered with Zyrtec, her go-to itchy eyes fighter. "I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications," she said. "But I take Zyrtec. It's the one thing that works for me."

Read on for more of her beauty tips, the changes on Private Practice, and her personal views on motherhood:

Her beauty staples.
"I hydrate intensely in the morning. I always hydrate and I am a huge fan of the entire Kate Somerville line. I also put Emu oil on at night or in the morning before I go to work. It has good healing properties and doesn't clog your pores. Or if you're vegan, jojoba oil is another hydrating oil. And then I always wear sunscreen and lip balm. I love the Christian Dior little pot of rose balm."

On her enviable makeup stash.
"I travel with a whole arsenal. There are like two bags. I rotate things too. I'm not just a product hoarder. I believe in rotating things since your skin and hair get used to products so it's good to switch things up."

Her simple beauty secret.
"I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic."

Breaking makeup rules.
"People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair color and complexion. Even though I'm fair in my face, I have a little olive in my skin tone so it's harder to find a bright lipstick that works. Look in the mirror and see what looks right. When in doubt, ask a friend."

On Addison' love life.
"For any woman who has had a child, that becomes the focus. It's all about the baby. She's waited so long for the little dude so whatever we did with that story line and the love triangle, I wanted it to be really real. As the story line continues, there are lots of exciting twists and turns."

How Addison will be as a mom.
"You see her coming back to the work place and juggling how to balance things as a single, working mother. There is a theme of balancing motherhood, work, and relationships with all of the characters this season. You see the softening of these women a little bit. You see the mother come out. It's a great way to capture the fear, trepidation and anxiety working moms have to deal with."

On motherhood.
"There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture. You never know what the world is going to bring. I know a lot of women talk about [their feeling on becoming a mom] in interviews but I find it an intensely personal thing. So I don't really love to talk about it but I do feel there are so many babies out there and I'm a huge advocate of adoption. So many of my friends have become mothers recently so I get to be this fabulous auntie and godmother to one of my good girlfriend's baby."

At the end of this month, the seniors of William McKinley High School will face a fate similar to millions of teens across the country: graduation. On May 22, Glee's season three finale is bringing more than the end of the season. It's an end of an era for the show's actors.

"We're definitely going to have a couple of cast parties this week to say goodbye to each other," Matthew Morrison, who plays McKinley's glee club director William Schuester, told Parade.com on Saturday while promoting his latest film What to Expect When Expecting (in theaters May 18).

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"That's the thing: there is so much unknown next year. It's going to be interesting for me teaching in the choir room next year and seeing a lot of faces I don't know." he added. "There are the familiar faces that I always go to like Finn (Cory Monteith) and Rachel (Lea Michele) and it's going to be weird not staring in those eyes."

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Morrison said the past weeks of shooting have been emotional, but filming the final episode 'Goodbye' has helped the cast face the tough reality of the situation. "I think the last script is amazing," Morrison said. "They put so much work into it and it really helped us deal with what we're feeling. So that did a lot for us. We've been crying a lot the last couple of weeks. I'm really sad. I'm going to miss a lot of my friends and I don't know when I'll see them again. "

The actor, 33, has confirmed there will be no Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) and Schuester wedding, but lit up when asked if the couple will finally consummate their relationship. "You're the first person to ask that. I think you might be on to something there," he said with a smile. "I cannot confirm or deny that but that is a wise thing to ask."

Michelle Pfeiffer greets me with an air kiss and introduces her husband, TV writer-producer David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice, Harry’s Law), at whose office in Burbank, Calif., we are meeting. Kelley—handsome, bemused—kisses his wife. “We won’t be long, I promise,” Pfeiffer tells him as she leads me to a room across the hall, laughing flirtatiously, a woman used to handling men.

She settles in next to an open window, looking ethereally beautiful in the afternoon sun, casually dressed in slim, tailored black jeans and a beige silk blouse worn unbuttoned over a fitted white T-shirt. A diaphanous, flowered silk scarf hangs loose against her elegant neck. Everything about her, from her appearance to the sound of her soft voice, seems exquisitely feminine, like costly perfume. We talk for several hours about things that matter greatly to her: family, friends, the career that serendipitously brought her from a grocery checkout line to enduring stardom.

Pfeiffer, 54, grew up near Los Angeles, one of four kids in a working-class family. Her mom was a homemaker, her dad an air-conditioning contractor. An indifferent student, dreamy, a bit lost, she hung out with surfers at the beach. She thought about becoming a court stenographer someday, maybe a psychologist—she wasn’t sure. In 1978 she entered the Miss Orange County beauty pageant and won; a pageant judge who was also a talent agent took her on. Her first notable films were 1982’s Grease 2 and, a year later, Scarface, opposite Al Pacino. But she says it wasn’t until 1987 and The Witches of Eastwick that people started recognizing her and stopped asking, “Are you Debbie Harry?” Oscar nominations for Dangerous Liaisons, The Fabulous Baker Boys, and Love Field followed. Her latest film is Dark Shadows (opening May 11), which reunites her with Tim Burton, who directed her as Catwoman in 1992’s Batman Returns. It’s an adaptation of the gothic soap opera that aired from 1966 to 1971 and with which she was “obsessed” as a kid, she says. In late June, she’ll costar in the family drama People Like Us.

Before Kelley, Pfeiffer was not especially lucky in love. An early marriage to actor Peter Horton failed, and she was romantically linked with Val Kilmer, John Malkovich, and Michael Keaton. After a three-year relationship with Fisher Stevens ended, Pfeiffer decided to start a family on her own, initiating adoption proceedings. A couple of months before finalizing the adoption of her daughter, Claudia Rose, in March 1993, she met Kelley on a blind date; they married later that year, and she got pregnant with their son, John Henry, on their wedding night. The family is now based near San Francisco.

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PARADE You and your husband will celebrate your 19th anniversary this year. How do you judge whether a person in your life is going to be that solid for you, whether they’re worth the effort?
I haven’t met a ton of people who meet that criteria. [laughs] It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable. You have to be vulnerable to have real intimacy with people. It’s a two-way street, you know? Eventually I do get there, but not with very many people. I have it with David, of course.

Why the fear of vulnerability?
Well, it is part of the hand you’re dealt when you become a celebrity. Nobody would consciously decide to become guarded and self-protective. I was very open when I was younger, but celebrity teaches you. You learn to cope with the intense scrutiny.

How do you know if a man really loves you?
Sometimes you know and sometimes you don’t. All humans are subject to denial. Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I’m no different. It’s just human nature.

But you are different. You’re rich and famous.
Yes. Well, like my daddy used to say, “Trust everyone, but cut the cards.”

You had other relationships before you married David. …
Some were relationships, some were encounters.

Why didn’t they work out?
This is the thing I’ve learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don’t continue to make the same mistakes with another person. Really look back and ask, “How was I so hoodwinked here? Why did I do this?” From the beginning you have to choose well. If you choose badly, no matter what you do, it’s going to fail and you’re going to be unhappy. A lot of it is luck. I chose really well with David. I got really lucky.

You met on a blind date?
Yes, and for once it was the right person at exactly the right time! [laughs] And 19 years later, I never take him for granted. I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things—but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him.

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Your first marriage, to Peter Horton, failed.
I married Peter at a very young age. I’m not the same person I was then. I forget I was even married before.

It’s a hard thing to forget.
I do forget. Actually, I didn’t tell my kids for the longest time. They were old when I finally said, “Oh, by the way, just FYI, I was married once before.” They were like, “What?!” It had never occurred to me to tell them.

In 1993, when you were single, you adopted your daughter. Was that because you said, “To hell with men—I’ll do it alone”?
No, I said, “To hell with figuring out the man thing before I start a family.” I really, really wanted to have kids, and I think my desperation to do that was messing up my relationships. It was skewing my perceptions, causing me to judge things too harshly or maybe deciding they were better than they were. Finally I thought, “Wait a minute! I don’t have to have a man to become a mother.” It was like a lightbulb went on.

And when I met David, all of that pressure was off. It was really just about, how do David and I work together? As a bonus, I got to see how he was as a father as he developed a relationship with Claudia.

What led you to acting?
I knew I wanted a career. I’m a worker. I loved it from the moment I entered the workforce, when I was 14. My mother really harped on me, “You have to have a career.” She never worked [outside the home], and it was important to her that we had careers. I was working at Vons supermarket as a checker. It’s a good job, but I was having a particularly bad day. Some man was complaining about the price of his cantaloupes, and that was my breaking point. I looked up to the heavens and asked myself, “If you could be doing anything in the world, what would it be?” And it was acting. It kind of surprised me.

You’ve said that parenting is much harder than acting; do you still feel that way?
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world. Sometimes I feel like I have to go back to work to get some rest, and we work a minimum 12-hour day making a movie! None of that is nearly as exhausting as parenthood—the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously. Just when you think you’ve got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who’s controlling, you can’t control it. Of course, I don’t think I’m controlling, but that’s what I’ve been told! [laughs]

Your kids are now nearly grown.
People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard. Claudia’s in her first year of college. She’s doing great. My son is applying to colleges now. I remember reading an interview with Dustin Hoffman; his first child had just gone off to college, and he said, “Nobody talks about their [empty] room.” I feel like I’m going to cry just thinking about it. [pause] Are you hot? I am. Or am I having a big hot flash? Did I really just say that? That will be a headline; I can see it. [laughs and opens the window wider]

Let’s talk about Dark Shadows. What did you like about this project?
I had this memory of loving the TV show; I’d sprint home from school so I didn’t miss one second of it. I just wanted to be in the movie, work with Tim Burton again, and work with Johnny Depp. One day I called Tim and said, “Look, I don’t know if there’s anything for me, but I’d love to do it.” A year went by, maybe more, and I thought, “It’s never going to happen.” But it did. I had so much fun making it! [Pfeiffer plays the matriarch of the Collins family, and Depp the ancestral vampire, Barnabas.]

In films like Personal Effects with Ashton Kutcher and Cheri with Rupert Friend, you play opposite leading men younger than you. …
Maybe a tad. [laughs] They get younger and younger. I went from Ashton to Rupert to Zac Efron in New Year’s Eve. If I keep on like this, I’m going to get into X-rated material! Well, that’s what happens with men and their leading ladies, right? I was acting in The Russia House opposite Sean Connery when he was turning 60. [Pfeiffer was 32.]

Are there more roles now for experienced actresses?
There are fewer movies being made, so there are fewer movie roles overall. There aren’t really enough to go around—there just aren’t. But TV has opened up a lot of parts for women. Some of the best work, in fact, is on cable.

Have you ever thought of doing a TV series?
I might. When I started out there were “TV actors” and “movie actors,” and they didn’t let you cross over. Big movie stars weren’t going to get on a television series. I’ve never understood that. Now actors are crossing over all the time, which is really exciting.

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Would you do a series with your husband?
I’d worry about coming home and complaining to him about the people I work with. I wouldn’t want to bring my work home with me like that. But it doesn’t mean we won’t do something together one day. I couldn’t ask for anyone better. David’s the best in terms of developing things for women. I watch [his shows] and I turn to him and say, “I hope these actors realize how lucky they are.”

Your dad passed away a while back. How has that affected you?
My father was a force to be reckoned with. And we battled because I’m also incredibly strong-willed. The apple didn’t fall too far from the tree, and so we went around and around; but as cantankerous as it was, I think that’s how deep the love and the bond were between us. He was strong farm stock. I really thought he’d outlive us all, but I lost him about 12 years ago. One of my biggest regrets is that I didn’t get his life story before he died. I didn’t dig it out of him. He was really private.

And your mother?
We all share the care of her. She lives in Orange County, where I grew up.

Does it make you think in terms of your own mortality? Is that frightening?
It’s scary, yes. It really hits you that you are now definitely in the second half of life. I feel that way with each friend or family member who gets ill or passes away. It can be very lonely. I’m lucky that I have family and friends, a great support system.

What drives you to succeed?
I don’t know if it’s naïveté or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It’s not until I get into it that I realize what I’ve thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.

In person, Will Smith has the same larger-than-life presence that he does onscreen so it's no surprise that his childhood fantasies were pretty spectacular.

On Thursday, while promoting his latest film Men in Black 3 (which hits theaters May 25), Smith, 43, opened up about his childhood and the surprising inspirations behind his life and career.

"As a child, I watched Dallas and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember. How does that property have a name? Southfork!...Everyone worked the family business," said Smith. "And I was like 'I want that!' So I've been a mad scientist ever since trying to build Dallas through Star Wars and rap music."

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He added, "The joy [of life now] is watching an idea that I had at seven years old coming into fruition. I am actually building the family that I've always dreamed about...Building a family around the entertainment business. I love watching my kids and my family blossom from something that was a seed from a seven-year-old's mind."

Read on for how he and wife Jada Pinkett Smith keep their kids grounded and his friendly competition with his son:

On his love of franchises.
"The greatest experience I ever had in a movie theater was Star Wars. It shaped how I looked at the world. My imagination was so small before I went into that movie theater and it was an explosion. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with that or make me feel like that. For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie. Even more than awards, which have never been that important to me. Those are about what a small group of people think. For me, it's about the maximum amount of people that can have an experience that will give them a little germ to think or talk about. That's all that is important to me in making movies."

His current approach to his career.
"The adjustment I am making in my career right now is about the clarity of what we are saying with the movie. There has to an idea, there has to be some message or statement. With Men in Black 3, we connected to the destructive nature of secrets. That idea, whether you get that or not, is what we are displaying. It's about how a relationship can get repaired and go to another level through the exposure of a secret."

"I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive."

How he keeps his children grounded.
"The most difficult part of the whole thing is emotional management. To have them connect to the artistry of what they create rather than connecting to the success or the adoration. Jada and I have been talking a lot about pulling back during teenage years because they are very formative. In the middle of the Justin Bieber tour she saw a Russian ballerina or something and she was riveted. She wanted to go home and take ballet and it was like, 'No, honey, you have seven more tour dates.' [laughs] But now she is way gone on ballet. So it's the difficulty of letting the business go and let them develop in the way that is more natural for them."

On Bad Boys 3
"It has a really solid idea behind it right now. For the most part, I am just looking for material that resonates."

On Tommy Lee Jones.
"Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in The Fugitive. That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has."

His friendly competition with his son Jaden.
"Jaden has a little bit of a predatory look in his eye. He is so coming for me. I tell him all the time, 'Son, I am going to teach you everything that I know and if you work hard, you can be the second biggest movie star in the world.' [laughs]"

On Willow cutting her hair.
"We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it's like how can you teach her that you're in control of her body? If I teach her that I'm in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she's going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can't cut my hair but that's her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives."

Reacting to Jay Pharoah's SNL impersonation of him.
"He's got Denzel [Washington] down but he doesn't really have me. He does 'WHOAAAH!" I don't do that. His Denzel is really good. Denzel might not think that."

Dark Shadows star Michelle Pfeiffer, 54, steps back into the spotlight and opens up to Dotson Rader in this Sunday’s issue of PARADE about starring opposite younger leading men, the challenges of parenting, and the secret to staying in love. Read the full interview in this weekend's issue of PARADE.

Here are some highlights:

On what drives Pfeiffer to succeed.
"I don’t know if it’s naïveté or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It’s not until I get into it that I realize what I’ve thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success."

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On acting opposite younger leading men.
"They get younger and younger. I went from Ashton (Kutcher) to Rupert (Friend) to Zac Efron in New Year’s Eve. If I keep on like this, I’m going to get into X-rated material! Well, that’s what happens with men and their leading ladies, right? I was acting in The Russia House opposite Sean Connery when he was turning 60. [Pfeiffer was 32.]"

On her husband of 19 years, TV writer-producer David E. Kelley.
"I chose really well with David. I got really lucky. … And 19 years later, I never take him for granted. I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things—but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him."

Would Pfeiffer ever do a series with her husband?
"I’d worry about coming home and complaining to him about the people I work with. I wouldn’t want to bring my work home with me like that. But it doesn’t mean we won’t do something together one day. I couldn’t ask for anyone better. David’s the best in terms of developing things for women. I watch [his shows] and I turn to him and say, “I hope these actors realize how lucky they are.”

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On her first marriage to Thirtysomething star Peter Horton.
"I married Peter at a very young age. I’m not the same person I was then. I forget I was even married before. … Actually, I didn’t tell my kids for the longest time. They were old when I finally said, 'Oh, by the way, just FYI, I was married once before.' They were like, 'What?!' It had never occurred to me to tell them."

Which is harder: parenting or acting?
"Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world … the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously. Just when you think you’ve got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who’s controlling, you can’t control it. Of course, I don’t think I’m controlling, but that’s what I’ve been told!"

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On preparing for an empty nest.
"People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard. Claudia’s in her first year of college. She’s doing great. My son is applying to colleges now. I remember reading an interview with Dustin Hoffman; his first child had just gone off to college, and he said, “Nobody talks about their [empty] room.” I feel like I’m going to cry just thinking about it. [pause] Are you hot? I am. Or am I having a big hot flash? Did I really just say that? That will be a headline; I can see it. [laughs]"

In 2011's Thor, Tom Hiddleston was a scene-stealer as Thor's bad apple brother Loki. With his bravado and gleaming sneer, his cunning wit proved formidable for his fellow demigod's brawn.

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For The Avengers, Loki takes his scheming to new heights. Though his goal isn't the most original (i.e. world domination!), he does it with flair...and a great head of hair.

Hiddleston talks about Loki's future and why he wants Bridesmaids producer Judd Apatow to give him a call.

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On Loki's Hair.
"In Thor, that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to The Avengers, I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline but the rest of it was a wig. It was kind of like extensions really so I couldn't have rocked it off-screen."

On Loki's sneer.
"It was an organic thing. Loki is arrogant, proud, vain, pompous and smug but underneath all of that are reservoirs of pain, lack of self-esteem, and emotional sadness. When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. I never thought about Loki's swagger so it evolved from his vanity."

On the costume.
"When I first looked in the mirror I remember thinking how I looked so menacing. I looked terrifying. Mercifully that's not what greets me every morning. They make my eyes look sunken and they hollowed out the pits of my eyes. My jawline was more defined. With black hair and pale skin, my blue eyes suddenly look kind of creepy and alien almost. Just knowing that was the silhouette walking onto the set, it makes you feel different. Wearing 40 pounds of leather and metal makes you feel like a bad ass."

On Thor 2.
"He was a prince who loved his brother and I hope we get back to that since he started that way. I think that's the most fascinating aspect of him. He's constantly treading on this tightrope of redemption. In Avengers, he has really yielded to the dark side but hopefully down the line there is a possibility of redemption. The question is can he be forgiven by Thor? Can he accept that forgiveness? Can he forgive himself and does he want to? And even in the event of that reconciliation, is that the last of the god of mischief? The mythology of the character is that you can never quite trust him."

His funny bone.
"I am desperate to do a comedy now. If Judd Apatow wants to give me a call, I would love to. I love those movies. It's nice to flex the funny bone."