MTV Movies Blog › richard jenkins

Michelle Trachtenberg was off fighting vampires when she was 17 -- but for "Seventeen Again," she's happy to be "free and clear" from action scenes, especially those that involve dancing. That, she leaves to her co-star Zac Effron.

"I just watch him and mope," she said -- and not because she's pining for a different sort of action. As if! He's playing her dad (even though she's two years older), and just to rub it in, she called him "Dad" on set. "Anything we did, father/daughter-wise," Trachtenberg told us, "I'd tease him, 'I'm older than you! You're not really my father,' while he's trying to tell me what to do." But she understands that the girls love Zac, and she doesn't fault them for that: "If you think he's hot, rock on. He is." Read more...

Tags buffy the vampire slayer, gossip girl, michelle trachtenberg, richard jenkins, Seventeen again, zac efron

From the mind of "The Station Agent" director Tom McCarthy comes "The Visitor," arriving in theaters April 18. In the film, a spark is ignited within a disillusioned college professor (Richard Jenkins) after he learns to play the African drums from a young man (Haaz Sleiman).

Tags haaz sleiman, richard jenkins, the station agent, the visitor, tom mccarthy