Rachael Drummond and Brian Huskey Get Their Swagger On

Casting directors can't ask actors to improvise. Brian Huskey and Rachael Drummond do it anyway."I always try to do a little bit of improvising just to let them know what I can 'bring to the table,'" Huskey says.However, at their audition for the Toyota Sienna "Daddy Like"/"Mommy Like" campaign, they were required to improvisecallbacks were paid to get around the SAG rulesa skill both know well."That was a little bit different," Drummond says about being asked to improvise.Huskey landed the audition through his work in shorts on Funny or Die and Will Ferrell movies, while Drummond's weekly performing team at iO West and training with The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade didn't hurt.Despite the tight-knit community of improvisers, the two had not met before the first day of shooting."People kept asking us if we worked together before," Huskey recalls. "We are both well-trained enough to know you go into a scene with these tools of agreement. Also, we understood our characters."And so the self-proclaimed best parents ever were born, turning the mom mobile into the hot ride for parents with every snarky comment. The hilarious campaign boasts a slew of television and web spots and a viral hip-hop video"Swagger Wagon" that has nabbed almost 10 million YouTube views.But Huskey is quick to iterate that improvising does not mean the actors come up with all the dialogue."People credit me with coming up with 'swagger wagon,' but I think it's something that one of the writers suggested," Huskey says. "People are like, 'Oh, you improvise, so you came up with everything,' but there would be none of this without the writers.""They had a script that they wanted us to stick to and play with," Drummond adds. "They knew that they wanted someone who thinks they're cooler than they are."Creating characters for the Sienna campaign was not unlike creating characters for a TV series. "This one had to be on par with like doing a character for a show," says Huskey, adding that some fans suggested the Sienna family land its own sitcomthe way the Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa, signed a talent deal with NBC.Both Huskey and Drummond say doing the campaign has given them another positive point of reference when they go in to audition. "If you get a campaign on that level, it sort of makes you network viable," Huskey suggests. While the two might not be immediately associated with the brand, casting directors regularly recognize them. And for those actors who knock working in commercials, Huskey has something to say."People are savvy enough to know if you're funny in this commercial, you're funny," he says. "And I'll punch those people. I'll punch them right in the chest."Watch the Swagger Wagon music video below: To watch more Daddy Like/Mommy Like spots, visit the Sienna Family YouTube channel.

Dancing With the Stars New Season 13 Cast Revealed

Chaz Bono, Ricki Lake and David Arquette Hang on to your sequins and strappy sandals: The 13th season of Dancing With the Stars is unleashing a cast that would make the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus green with envy. Among them: a Kardashian, an L.A. Laker, George Clooney's sexy Italian ex, and the first transgender contestant, Chaz (formerly Chastity) Bono. PHOTOS: Check out the new Dancing with the Stars Season 13 contestants! "I want people to know that we're just normal people like everybody else," says Bono, who will dance with a woman. "It's nothing to be afraid of or think is strange." Joining Bono on the dance floor are actor David Arquette; L.A. Laker Ron Artest, who is trying to change his name to Metta World Peace; Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis, newly split from Clooney; The Hills' Kristin Cavallari; former district attorney-turned talk show host Nancy Grace; Keeping Up with the Kardashians brother Rob Kardashian; former talk show host Ricki Lake; All My Children actor and Iraq war veteran J.R. Martinez; singer Chynna Phillips; Queer Eye's Carson Kressley; and World Cup and Olympic gold medal soccer player Hope Solo. Bono, who took some dance classes as a kid, says he signed on for the show because "I thought that it would be fun and a great physical challenge. Since transitioning, I'm very comfortable in my body and enjoy doing physical activities." Grace is also up for the challenge. She says she feels like "Cinderella going to the ball, even though I know people are going to mock me and make fun of me. I don't know how to dance, and I don't know what I'm gonna wear. I may end up in rags in a pumpkin. But I know that I have been invited and I am going." What do you think of the new Dancing With the Stars cast? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Dork Matthews Band, STYX Concerts Derailed by Hurricane Irene

The Dork Matthews Band, STYX, and Pat Benatar are probably the functions which have either cancelled or postponed concerts because of Hurricane Irene.our editor recommendsKenny Chesney Fans Upset Over Rescheduled Concert Date Because of Hurricane IreneKenny Chesney Concert Rescheduled Because of Hurricane Alerts The Dork Matthews Band asked ticketholders to its weekend-lengthy Caravan on Governors Island to go to the big event Friday, because the Saturday or sunday dates were postponed because of the condition of emergency notice released by New You are able to Governor Andrew Cuomo. ྂs rockers STYX were because of play in the South Shoreline Music Circus in Cohasset, Mass. on Sunday but canceled the gig. STYX management authored about the band's website, "The security in our fans is very important to us whatsoever in our shows. Recent occasions happen to be unfortunate memory joggers that people must still prioritize the security of involved and carefully monitor weather advisories from city and condition government authorities in each city we play." Benatar canceled two gigs in Williamsburg, Veterans administration. for Saturday or sunday. Several festivals were impacted by the storm too: Brooklyn's In the Roads and Afro-Punk festivals and also the Rib Rock Festival in New You are able to and Nj were canceled while Maryland's Silopanna Music Festival and New You are able to City's Charlie Parker Jazz Festival were both postponed, based on Moving Stone. Mary Chapin Contractor recheduled a Virginia Beach date to March. 6, so that as formerly reported by THR, Kenny Chesney's Sunday evening appearance at Foxboro's Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts was knocked as much as Friday, towards the consternation of some fans. Related Subjects Dork Matthews Hurricane Irene

R.I.P. Lane Venardos

Former CBS News Vice president Lane Venardos died Friday after having suffered cardiac arrest in the home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 67. Venardos spent 3 decades at CBS, including stints as executive producer from the CBS Evening News so that as Vice president for hard news. Venardos, who gained 13 News Emmys, created the majority of CBS News' live coverage from the Persian Gulf War, along with the coverage of political campaigns from 1986 through 1998. He upon the market in the network in 2000.

Double Feature 2

A National Theater presentation of a double-bill of "Nightwatchman" by Prasanna Puwanarajah directed by Polly Findlay and "There Is A War" by Tom Basden directed by Lyndsey Turner.Abirami - Stephanie StreetAnne - Phoebe FoxThe idea of scale dominates the second of the National Theater's double-bills of new plays by emerging writers. While Prasanna Puwanarajah conjures a world via fierce single character monologue "Nightwatchman," Tom Basden's "There Is A War" uses 29 named characters in pursuit of an idea. Although neither is an unequivocal success, both show distinctive potential. Face-to-watch Phoebe Fox, who made a splash in a more comic role in Anya Reiss's "The Acid Test" at the Royal Court, is Anne, the serious center of Basden's surreal black comedy about a ridiculous war between the unknowable Blues and Greys. The politics and/or reasoning behind the conflict is never discussed. Instead, Basden places the increasingly desperate Anne amid a mad gallery of self-serving characters - soldiers, torturers, a chaplain, a photographer, military top brass, scavengers, a clown, a dance teacher - to present the lunacy of war. Using "Alice-in-Wonderland"-like upside-down logic, he pushes Anne through ten often amusing scenes in which the absurdity of behavior is made manifest. There's mordant wit on display as people ruthlessly pursue agendas without bothering to listen to anyone else. The Monty Python-esque tone, however, becomes wearying. Aside from the first and last scenes of exposition and denouement, the intervening scenes can be played in any order: Every scene features the naive character arriving at a new location, suffering misfortune and then moving on none the wiser. Without development, tension evaporates. The increasingly daft posturing underlines the futility of war and is deftly directed by Lyndsey Turner on Soutra Gilmour's traverse stage, which packs a surprise with the reveal of Anne's longed-for hospital, a scene given added solidity by James Farncombe's atmospheric lighting. By contrast, "Nightwatchman" is more distilled. Puwanarajah's monologue features Stephanie Street as Abirami, a female cricketer about to make her debut at Lords, the most revered English cricket ground. If that weren't pressure enough, she wearyingly points out: "You try being The Only Brown Girl In Salford Who Plays Cricket." She's a British-born Sri Lankan woman, and the team she's playing against is from, yes, Sri Lanka. Following the idea that the game is "all about the batting," the playwright puts her on the receiving end of a bowling machine fiercely lobbing balls, which we only "see" courtesy of Carolyn Downing's spot-on sound design, vividly conjuring the thwack of bat on ball and, amusingly, the crashes of objects being hit. The bowling machine determines Abirami's ever more contentious mood. She's hitting out literally and metaphorically against the conflicting circumstances that the occasion has brought to a head. This allows Puwanarajah to discuss cultural identity and familial and political responsibilities towards a homeland removed by a generation. Director Polly Findlay's production is crisply paced and Street is wholly convincing as a sportswoman and as someone rising to emotional meltdown. But Puwanarajah's play strains to reach its reconciliation between Abirami and her unseen father (the nightwatchman of the title), whose opposing arguments she has to explain to the audience. For all the lucidity of the analysis, the play doesn't lift from intelligent monologue into engaging drama.Sets and costumes, Soutra Gilmour; lighting, James Farncombe; sound, Carolyn Downing; music, Ben Castle and Matthew Herbert; production stage manager, David Marsland. Opened, reviewed Aug. 4, 2011. Running time: 2 HOURS, 30 MIN. "Nightwatchman" "There Is A War"With Tom Basden, Oliver Birch, Kirsty Bushell, Trevor Cooper, Claire-Louise Cordwell, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Karina Fernandez, Richard Goulding, Trystan Gravelle, Richard Hope, Nitin Kundra, Matthew Needham, Damian O'Hare. Contact David Benedict at benedictdavid@mac.com

MTV Cancels 'Hard Times Of RJ Berger'

It was the first of MTV's new generation of scripted series. Now The Hard Times of RJ Berger has been canceled after 2 seasons, series co-creator Seth Grahame-Smith tweeted earlier today. The series, which Grahame-Smith co-created with David Katzenberg, launched with 2.8 million viewers last year when it aired after the MTV Movie Awards. Its second season premiere hit a series high of 3.1 million viewers airing behind Jersey Shore. But by the end of the second season run in May, the series' viewership had dropped below 1 million. RJ Berger, which stars Paul Iacono as a well-endowed high-school student, is the second MTV scripted series to be canceled following the axing of Skins after one season. Teen Wolf has been renewed for a second season, and new comedy Awkward appears a lock for a second-season renewal after hitting a series high in persons 12-34 this week. Coming up is the premiere of Death Valley on August 29 and a post-Video Music Awards sneak of I Just Want My Pants Back, and the October launch of animated comedies Beavis and Butt-head and Good Vibes. The Inbetweeners is in production for a 2012 debut.

Browse The First Peek at Kevin Costner about the 'Man of Steel' Set

After you have our start looking at Henry Cavill destroying a bank as Superman the 2009 week, we've our start looking at Kevin Costner entirely Jonathan Kent garb about the group of 'Man of Steel.' It has been a great lengthy while since Costner found themself a large-budget role between constantly he stays attempting to cleanup oil spills, and despite the fact that he's had his levels and lows about the acting front through the years, we miss the times whenever we could not avoid Costner, so we are happy to have him back. 'Man of Steel' will not be striking theaters until June 14, 2013, therefore it appears like we have got a lengthy road of waiting and tease in front of us, but because of digital photographer Frank Laraia and also the miracles of Facebook, you are able to go right ahead and look for a tragically lo-res shot of Costner and Cavill chilling out about the group of Supes' next visit to the big screen. Like we stated, we are gonna need to wait some time longer before we obtain a far more vivid picture of Costner to gawk at, but we are nonetheless excited. What exactly would you think about Costner's change as Jonathan Kent? Photo thanks to Warner Bros., Frank Laraia, and Facebook.