Hairspray

…adaptation of the hit musical Hairspray (2007) and Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles (2008). The latter was an effort by Efron to go beyond musicals and challenge his acting skills. He subsequently took on parts in various genres, starring alongside Matthew Perry in the time-travel comedy 17 Again (2009),…

…from 2007 include the musical Hairspray and Juno, the latter a popular comedy in which Janney played the mother of a teenager who becomes pregnant. She was later cast as an offensive suburbanite in Mendes’s Away We Go (2009). Her subsequent films include The Help (2011), about African American housemaids…

… (1995), What Lies Beneath (2000), Hairspray (2007), and Dark Shadows (2012). After starring in the crime drama The Family (2013), Pfeiffer took a break from acting, but she returned with a myriad of films in 2017. That year she appeared in The Wizard of Lies, an HBO TV movie about…

…Motormouth Maybelle in the film Hairspray (2007), a remake of the stage musical that originated as a 1988 comedy by John Waters.

…a 2007 musical remake of Hairspray. From 2010 to 2011 he and his wife reteamed in Stiller & Meara, a Web series of two-minute comical segments produced by their son and filmed in the couple’s living room.

Colors (1998), Swordfish (2001), and Hairspray (2007). In 2016 he appeared as attorney Robert Shapiro in the TV miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson. Travolta acted steadily through the rest of the decade, starring in such movies as Gotti (2018) and The Fanatic (2019), but most of his work during…

…2007 remake of the musical Hairspray—in which he played Wilbur Turnblad opposite John Travolta—as well as Stand Up Guys (2012), Seven Psychopaths (2012), and Jersey Boys (2014). Walken portrayed Captain Hook in the 2014 TV movie Peter Pan Live! and provided the voice of King Louie in the Disney