Matthew Lillard has been in Hollywood for over 25 years, with roles in Twin Peaks: The Return, The Descendants, and Halt And Catch Fire. But one of his most recognizable roles is Shaggy Rogers from Scooby-Doo, as Lillard has portrayed the live-action version and contributed his voice to the animated franchise. In the…
Matthew Lillard has been a part of some great television, with appearances as the falsely-accused Bill Hastings on Twin Peaks: The Return; the slickly dressed Ken Diebold on Halt And Catch Fire; and Rowby on The Good Wife. At the Sundance premiere of his latest project, Halfway There, we asked Lillard to pick his five…
Good Girls, like Breaking Bad, explores how apparently good people somehow get thrust into a life of crime for what are well-intentioned reasons. Sisters Beth (Christina Hendricks) and Annie (Mae Whitman) and their friend Ruby (Retta) all hit financial and domestic hardship at the same time, their desperation leading…
Matthew Lillard’s performance as the accused murderer Bill Hastings was a welcome addition to Twin Peaks: The Return, but according to Lillard, filming his part was extremely challenging. At the Sundance premiere of his latest project, Halfway There, we talked to Lillard about his experience being a part of Twin Peaks…
As a director, Rick Rosenthal has worked on a wide range of projects, from hit TV shows like Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Veronica Mars to indie and studio features like Bad Boy and Halloween II. His skill lies in is his ability to adapt to multiple environments, crews, and genres—a journeyman of TV and film.…
With over 25 years in Hollywood and 120 IMDB credits to his name, Matthew Lillard knows what it’s like being a working actor. But even with two and a half decades of industry experience and successful turns in Twin Peaks: The Return, The Descendants, and Halt And Catch Fire, he still finds himself auditioning and…
Last night, David Lynch brought us back to Twin Peaks for the first time since we saw the Trinity nuclear test give birth to BOB a few weeks ago. It was a solid, if exposition-heavy, hour, and one of its highlights was the return of Matthew Lillard’s William Hastings, who we haven’t seen since the series’ first few…
The strangest thing about being in a room playing Dungeons & Dragons with Joe Manganiello, star of the Magic Mike movies and True Blood, is that no one here finds it odd. The actor-producer is still required to test his mettle in battles that grow increasingly dramatic and perilous, especially once game designer Chris…
This post discusses plot points from the first two episodes of Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival.
“Whoa! What is that thing?” asks the illicit visitor (Madeline Zima) to a super-secret room.
Our A.V. Club Field Guide To Parenting is designed to guide you toward the best kids’ books, shows, movies, and music, just like we do with The A.V. Club for adults. Every month or so, we will feature a new subject with a few essential pop-culture takes parents should know, saving you from the mountains of kids’ dreck…
Season three of Halt And Catch Fire will see Mutiny’s founders get a fresh start in Silicon Valley, where Joe (Lee Pace) will be setting up shop as well. And it looks like he’ll get a hand from an investor played by Matthew Lillard. Entertainment Weekly reports that Lillard, late of FX’s The Bridge, has been cast in a…
With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: The excellent Green Room has thinking about some of the best punk rock movies.
Deadline reports that Matthew Lillard will embody John Ritter’s role as a heartfelt adoptive father in NBC’s single-camera remake of Problem Child, the best piece of anti-adoption propaganda since The Bad Seed. Lillard—who won’t recreate SLC Punk but allows more than 20 Scooby-Doo references on his resume—will star…
When in doubt, playwright Stephen Belber apparently opts to place two male characters and one female character in a room, supplying one of them with a tape recorder and at least one of them with a hidden agenda. That scenario describes Tape, Belber’s 1999 play (adapted into a movie by Richard Linklater, and widely…
Matthew Lillard has been that guy in a whole slew of iconic films from the ’90s—ranging from a clownish murderer in Scream to the laid-back computer whiz Cereal Killer in Hackers. (We even did a Random Roles with him to prove it.) But once he grew out of high school roles—which brought him to his 30s—Lillard had to…
Last year, director James Merendino first announced plans to develop a sequel to SLC Punk!, his 1998 film that unflinchingly captured the punk scene as the After-School Special with brief forays into romantic comedy that it is. Just a couple days ago, Merendino confirmed that SLC Punk 2: Punk’s Dead would begin…
