“When I turned 30, I could not believe my 20s were over,” Kristen told Access Hollywood at the “Despicable Me 2″ junket in Los Angeles, when asked what she wishes she could tell herself at 30. “But my 30s were by far my favorite!

“You kind of think like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m 30. My 20s were the best!’” she continued. “But 20s are kind of hard. 30s are the best.”

Kristen will hit the huge 4 – 0 on August 22, but has yet to plan a party for the occasion.

“As of now, I’m working on that day,” she stated with a laugh. “But I wanna do something. I do not know exactly what — I’m not going to like, go skydiving or anything!”

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The actress, who has five movies set to open before the end of this year, stated — even with her busy filming schedule — she still misses “Saturday Night Live” terribly.

(She left the show in 2012 after a seven-year run.)

“It’s hard to watch. I’ve admitted that like, I cannot watch it a lot of times,” she stated of the NBC sketch show. I” think I’ll always miss it. I’ll always wonder what they are doing on Saturday nights and I’ll feel that tiny tug in my heart.”

“Despicable Me 2″ hits theatres on July 3.

Copyright 2013 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

“When I turned 30, I could not believe my 20s were over,” Kristen told Access Hollywood at the “Despicable Me 2″ junket in Los Angeles, when asked what she wishes she could tell herself at 30. “But my 30s were by far my favorite!

“You kind of think like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m 30. My 20s were the best!’” she continued. “But 20s are kind of hard. 30s are the best.”

Kristen will hit the huge 4 – 0 on August 22, but has yet to plan a party for the occasion.

“As of now, I’m working on that day,” she stated with a laugh. “But I wanna do something. I do not know exactly what — I’m not going to like, go skydiving or anything!”

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The actress, who has five movies set to open before the end of this year, stated — even with her busy filming schedule — she still misses “Saturday Night Live” terribly.

(She left the show in 2012 after a seven-year run.)

“It’s hard to watch. I’ve admitted that like, I cannot watch it a lot of times,” she stated of the NBC sketch show. I” think I’ll always miss it. I’ll always wonder what they are doing on Saturday nights and I’ll feel that tiny tug in my heart.”

“Despicable Me 2″ hits theatres on July 3.

Copyright 2013 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

“When I turned 30, I could not believe my 20s were over,” Kristen told Access Hollywood at the “Despicable Me 2″ junket in Los Angeles, when asked what she wishes she could tell herself at 30. “But my 30s were by far my favorite!

“You kind of think like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m 30. My 20s were the best!’” she continued. “But 20s are kind of hard. 30s are the best.”

Kristen will hit the huge 4 – 0 on August 22, but has yet to plan a party for the occasion.

“As of now, I’m working on that day,” she stated with a laugh. “But I wanna do something. I do not know exactly what — I’m not going to like, go skydiving or anything!”

PHOTOS: Funny Ladies – The Women Of TV Comedy

The actress, who has five movies set to open before the end of this year, stated — even with her busy filming schedule — she still misses “Saturday Night Live” terribly.

(She left the show in 2012 after a seven-year run.)

“It’s hard to watch. I’ve admitted that like, I cannot watch it a lot of times,” she stated of the NBC sketch show. I” think I’ll always miss it. I’ll always wonder what they are doing on Saturday nights and I’ll feel that tiny tug in my heart.”

“Despicable Me 2″ hits theatres on July 3.

Copyright 2013 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Note: Some of the details in these definition could be considered SPOILERS. Tread carefully.

Citadel: The name of the structure that Jor-El, Lara and the very recently born Kal-El (Superman) as General Zod and his forces attempt to retrieve the Codex.

Codex: An ancient Kryptonian artifact that decodes the genetic makeup of the artificially incubated babies on the planet. It translates a child’s genetic attributes before his or her birth. Zod was born to be a soldier, as dictated by the Codex. Zod needs to codex in order to shape the genetic future of a reborn Krypton population.

Genesis Chamber: A system of artificial wombs where the infants of Krypton develop according to the Codex. Kal-El was born outside of the Genesis Chamber, making him the first natural birth on the planet and first outside the rule of the Codex in a century.

Kelor: An artificial intelligence system comparable to Jarvis in the “Iron Man” movies. Voiced in “Man of Steel” by “Sin City” actress Carla Gugino.

Phantom drive: Originally used as a method for sending prisoners to the Phantom Zone, Zod repurposes it as a hyperdrive.

Phantom Zone: An alternate dimension of sorts used for incarceration on Krypton. In “Man of Steel,” the unstable nature of Krypton grants Zod and his followers to escape their captivity there.

Terraforming: A long-standing trope of science fiction that involves taking an otherwise uninhabitable planet and through various means turning into one that can sustain life. In “Man of Steel,” Zod attempts to do this to Earth via the world engine. (See: World engine.)

World engine: A piece of Kryptonian technology sent with scouts thousands of years ago to the outposts established to possibly one day support life. When Zod attempts to use the engine on Earth, the first step would essentially destroy the planet as we know it.

Note: Some of the details in these definition could be considered SPOILERS. Tread carefully.

Citadel: The name of the structure that Jor-El, Lara and the very recently born Kal-El (Superman) as General Zod and his forces attempt to retrieve the Codex.

Codex: An ancient Kryptonian artifact that decodes the genetic makeup of the artificially incubated babies on the planet. It translates a child’s genetic attributes before his or her birth. Zod was born to be a soldier, as dictated by the Codex. Zod needs to codex in order to shape the genetic future of a reborn Krypton population.

Genesis Chamber: A system of artificial wombs where the infants of Krypton develop according to the Codex. Kal-El was born outside of the Genesis Chamber, making him the first natural birth on the planet and first outside the rule of the Codex in a century.

Kelor: An artificial intelligence system comparable to Jarvis in the “Iron Man” movies. Voiced in “Man of Steel” by “Sin City” actress Carla Gugino.

Phantom drive: Originally used as a method for sending prisoners to the Phantom Zone, Zod repurposes it as a hyperdrive.

Phantom Zone: An alternate dimension of sorts used for incarceration on Krypton. In “Man of Steel,” the unstable nature of Krypton grants Zod and his followers to escape their captivity there.

Terraforming: A long-standing trope of science fiction that involves taking an otherwise uninhabitable planet and through various means turning into one that can sustain life. In “Man of Steel,” Zod attempts to do this to Earth via the world engine. (See: World engine.)

World engine: A piece of Kryptonian technology sent with scouts thousands of years ago to the outposts established to possibly one day support life. When Zod attempts to use the engine on Earth, the first step would essentially destroy the planet as we know it.

Note: Some of the details in these definition could be considered SPOILERS. Tread carefully.

Citadel: The name of the structure that Jor-El, Lara and the very recently born Kal-El (Superman) as General Zod and his forces attempt to retrieve the Codex.

Codex: An ancient Kryptonian artifact that decodes the genetic makeup of the artificially incubated babies on the planet. It translates a child’s genetic attributes before his or her birth. Zod was born to be a soldier, as dictated by the Codex. Zod needs to codex in order to shape the genetic future of a reborn Krypton population.

Genesis Chamber: A system of artificial wombs where the infants of Krypton develop according to the Codex. Kal-El was born outside of the Genesis Chamber, making him the first natural birth on the planet and first outside the rule of the Codex in a century.

Kelor: An artificial intelligence system comparable to Jarvis in the “Iron Man” movies. Voiced in “Man of Steel” by “Sin City” actress Carla Gugino.

Phantom drive: Originally used as a method for sending prisoners to the Phantom Zone, Zod repurposes it as a hyperdrive.

Phantom Zone: An alternate dimension of sorts used for incarceration on Krypton. In “Man of Steel,” the unstable nature of Krypton grants Zod and his followers to escape their captivity there.

Terraforming: A long-standing trope of science fiction that involves taking an otherwise uninhabitable planet and through various means turning into one that can sustain life. In “Man of Steel,” Zod attempts to do this to Earth via the world engine. (See: World engine.)

World engine: A piece of Kryptonian technology sent with scouts thousands of years ago to the outposts established to possibly one day support life. When Zod attempts to use the engine on Earth, the first step would essentially destroy the planet as we know it.

LOS ANGELES – British actor Henry Cavill will be making his grand Hollywood entrance as the latest huge screen incarnation of the all-American superhero Superman, in director Zack Snyder’s dark and gritty “Man of Steel,” which opens in U.S. theatres on Friday.

Cavill, 30, so far ideal known for 16th century TV drama “The Tudors” and the 2011 fantasy film “Immortals,” told Reuters that he leaned on a sturdy method to portray the legendary DC Comics superhero who celebrates his 75th anniversary this month.

“I chose not to act as Superman,” the actor said.

“It withdraws from the whole reality of the story. You take the experiences of the guy, his fears of the future, his dreams of the future and you just apply that to everything you do.”

“Man of Steel” tells the origins story of Superman and his alter-ego Clark Kent, who was first animated into life in June 1938 by comic book artist Joe Shuster and writer Jerry Siegel.

Snyder’s story chooses to start with Superman’s birth on the planet Krypton, and as the last hope for his people’s survival, his parents send him to Earth to escape an insurrection by General Zod, played by “Boardwalk Empire” actor Michael Shannon.

The film, which also stars Amy Adams as “Daily Planet” reporter and love interest Lois Lane, follows Superman growing up as Kent from Smallville, Kansas, and struggling to come to terms with his own super powers.

“There’s something special about the character, the way he was raised, that makes him Superman,” Cavill stated about the character’s strong values instilled in him by his farming foster parents Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane).

“Man of Steel,” which was produced by Christopher Nolan who directed the recent Batman “The Dark Knight” franchise, leans heavily on action and science-fiction as a box-office draw for studio Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc.

The studio hopes it can re-launch a new series of Superman films after its 2006 offering, “Superman Returns” and its leading man Brandon Routh, failed to live up to box office expectations.

Comic book franchises have been top draws in recent years with Nolan’s three “Batman” films grossing more than $2 billion worldwide between 2005-2012, according to figures compiled by box-office tracker Boxofficemojo.com.

Walt Disney Co’s Marvel studio has also scored box office hits with “The Avengers” and “Iron Man” franchises making more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

Straight-jawed with broad shoulders, the little-known Cavill strikes a resemblance to late Superman actor Christopher Reeve, who had success as Superman on the huge screen, his four “Superman” films grossing more than $400 million at global box offices between 1978 and 1987.

Actors Dean Cain in “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” and Tom Welling in the CW network’s “Smallville” also built a career playing the hero.

Cavill stated he intentionally ignored the influence of past Superman performances tugging at his cape. Instead, he focused on the original comic books as his source material, creating a database of notes on the superhero.

“(The notes) just kind of became a secondary character lurking there and I just drew from that,” Cavill said.

“There’s not really a word for it or any way to describe playing Superman,” he added. “But it’s just a feeling and you have got to just channel that into the character in just minute details unconsciously and instinctively.”

Another pressure point among Superman’s avid and loyal fan base that Cavill had to navigate was whether a Briton could handle playing the Krypton-born and Kansas-bred American hero.

“As long as I can do it convincingly, as long as I can play an American well enough, then I’m OK with that,” Cavill said, drawing a comparison to the UK’s beloved film franchise on super-spy James Bond.

“I would not mind if an American played Bond, as long as he is good and played the role right,” Cavill added.

This story is corrected with paragraph 2 date for “Immortals” to 2011 instead of 2001

(Reporting by Eric Kelsey, Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy)

LOS ANGELES – British actor Henry Cavill will be making his grand Hollywood entrance as the latest huge screen incarnation of the all-American superhero Superman, in director Zack Snyder’s dark and gritty “Man of Steel,” which opens in U.S. theatres on Friday.

Cavill, 30, so far ideal known for 16th century TV drama “The Tudors” and the 2011 fantasy film “Immortals,” told Reuters that he leaned on a sturdy method to portray the legendary DC Comics superhero who celebrates his 75th anniversary this month.

“I chose not to act as Superman,” the actor said.

“It withdraws from the whole reality of the story. You take the experiences of the guy, his fears of the future, his dreams of the future and you just apply that to everything you do.”

“Man of Steel” tells the origins story of Superman and his alter-ego Clark Kent, who was first animated into life in June 1938 by comic book artist Joe Shuster and writer Jerry Siegel.

Snyder’s story chooses to start with Superman’s birth on the planet Krypton, and as the last hope for his people’s survival, his parents send him to Earth to escape an insurrection by General Zod, played by “Boardwalk Empire” actor Michael Shannon.

The film, which also stars Amy Adams as “Daily Planet” reporter and love interest Lois Lane, follows Superman growing up as Kent from Smallville, Kansas, and struggling to come to terms with his own super powers.

“There’s something special about the character, the way he was raised, that makes him Superman,” Cavill stated about the character’s strong values instilled in him by his farming foster parents Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane).

“Man of Steel,” which was produced by Christopher Nolan who directed the recent Batman “The Dark Knight” franchise, leans heavily on action and science-fiction as a box-office draw for studio Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc.

The studio hopes it can re-launch a new series of Superman films after its 2006 offering, “Superman Returns” and its leading man Brandon Routh, failed to live up to box office expectations.

Comic book franchises have been top draws in recent years with Nolan’s three “Batman” films grossing more than $2 billion worldwide between 2005-2012, according to figures compiled by box-office tracker Boxofficemojo.com.

Walt Disney Co’s Marvel studio has also scored box office hits with “The Avengers” and “Iron Man” franchises making more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

Straight-jawed with broad shoulders, the little-known Cavill strikes a resemblance to late Superman actor Christopher Reeve, who had success as Superman on the huge screen, his four “Superman” films grossing more than $400 million at global box offices between 1978 and 1987.

Actors Dean Cain in “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” and Tom Welling in the CW network’s “Smallville” also built a career playing the hero.

Cavill stated he intentionally ignored the influence of past Superman performances tugging at his cape. Instead, he focused on the original comic books as his source material, creating a database of notes on the superhero.

“(The notes) just kind of became a secondary character lurking there and I just drew from that,” Cavill said.

“There’s not really a word for it or any way to describe playing Superman,” he added. “But it’s just a feeling and you have got to just channel that into the character in just minute details unconsciously and instinctively.”

Another pressure point among Superman’s avid and loyal fan base that Cavill had to navigate was whether a Briton could handle playing the Krypton-born and Kansas-bred American hero.

“As long as I can do it convincingly, as long as I can play an American well enough, then I’m OK with that,” Cavill said, drawing a comparison to the UK’s beloved film franchise on super-spy James Bond.

“I would not mind if an American played Bond, as long as he is good and played the role right,” Cavill added.

This story is corrected with paragraph 2 date for “Immortals” to 2011 instead of 2001

(Reporting by Eric Kelsey, Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy)

LOS ANGELES – British actor Henry Cavill will be making his grand Hollywood entrance as the latest huge screen incarnation of the all-American superhero Superman, in director Zack Snyder’s dark and gritty “Man of Steel,” which opens in U.S. theatres on Friday.

Cavill, 30, so far ideal known for 16th century TV drama “The Tudors” and the 2011 fantasy film “Immortals,” told Reuters that he leaned on a sturdy method to portray the legendary DC Comics superhero who celebrates his 75th anniversary this month.

“I chose not to act as Superman,” the actor said.

“It withdraws from the whole reality of the story. You take the experiences of the guy, his fears of the future, his dreams of the future and you just apply that to everything you do.”

“Man of Steel” tells the origins story of Superman and his alter-ego Clark Kent, who was first animated into life in June 1938 by comic book artist Joe Shuster and writer Jerry Siegel.

Snyder’s story chooses to start with Superman’s birth on the planet Krypton, and as the last hope for his people’s survival, his parents send him to Earth to escape an insurrection by General Zod, played by “Boardwalk Empire” actor Michael Shannon.

The film, which also stars Amy Adams as “Daily Planet” reporter and love interest Lois Lane, follows Superman growing up as Kent from Smallville, Kansas, and struggling to come to terms with his own super powers.

“There’s something special about the character, the way he was raised, that makes him Superman,” Cavill stated about the character’s strong values instilled in him by his farming foster parents Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane).

“Man of Steel,” which was produced by Christopher Nolan who directed the recent Batman “The Dark Knight” franchise, leans heavily on action and science-fiction as a box-office draw for studio Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc.

The studio hopes it can re-launch a new series of Superman films after its 2006 offering, “Superman Returns” and its leading man Brandon Routh, failed to live up to box office expectations.

Comic book franchises have been top draws in recent years with Nolan’s three “Batman” films grossing more than $2 billion worldwide between 2005-2012, according to figures compiled by box-office tracker Boxofficemojo.com.

Walt Disney Co’s Marvel studio has also scored box office hits with “The Avengers” and “Iron Man” franchises making more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

Straight-jawed with broad shoulders, the little-known Cavill strikes a resemblance to late Superman actor Christopher Reeve, who had success as Superman on the huge screen, his four “Superman” films grossing more than $400 million at global box offices between 1978 and 1987.

Actors Dean Cain in “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” and Tom Welling in the CW network’s “Smallville” also built a career playing the hero.

Cavill stated he intentionally ignored the influence of past Superman performances tugging at his cape. Instead, he focused on the original comic books as his source material, creating a database of notes on the superhero.

“(The notes) just kind of became a secondary character lurking there and I just drew from that,” Cavill said.

“There’s not really a word for it or any way to describe playing Superman,” he added. “But it’s just a feeling and you have got to just channel that into the character in just minute details unconsciously and instinctively.”

Another pressure point among Superman’s avid and loyal fan base that Cavill had to navigate was whether a Briton could handle playing the Krypton-born and Kansas-bred American hero.

“As long as I can do it convincingly, as long as I can play an American well enough, then I’m OK with that,” Cavill said, drawing a comparison to the UK’s beloved film franchise on super-spy James Bond.

“I would not mind if an American played Bond, as long as he is good and played the role right,” Cavill added.

This story is corrected with paragraph 2 date for “Immortals” to 2011 instead of 2001

(Reporting by Eric Kelsey, Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy)

“The spandex in this thing is like four layers,” Crowe told MTV News at the film’s Los Angeles press day. “And then when you put the ceremonial robes on top and 40-pound leather cape and all of that sort of [stuff], it’s fine if you are just standing there but when you have to jump around doing fight sequences and everything, it was a bit of a challenge.”

Although Crowe was required to participate in some considerably physical sequences, including a fight scene with co-star Michael Shannon, who plays General Zod, the acclaimed actor suggested that the biggest obstacle in the costume was decidedly more mundane. “The main challenge is probably not being able to go to the bathroom for eight hours at a time,” he confessed. “Once you are in your costume, you are stuck in it until lunchtime, because it was 20-25 minutes just to get out of it. So there was a lot of new and interesting things on this.”

In “Man of Steel,” Crowe provides the film’s philosophical core: after sending Kal-El to Earth to save him, his “consciousness” nurtures his son through the moral and spiritual minefield of being a citizen of two planets. This required him to not just inhabit the role but interpret it through the filter of an instructional computer program. Remarkably, he stated that part of his role was relatively simple to tap into.

“The thing is, every motion picture you do is pretend,” he observed. “When we were doing ‘Gladiator,’ we only had one third of the Colosseum, so you were reminded in every split second it was only pretend. And that stuff doesn’t bother you, it goes with the territory. But I did a CGI-heavy motion picture in 1995 called ‘Virtuosity’ and that was when you had to be really mathematically specific in order for things to be done properly — and now it’s a bit more fluid. You can exist in that space a lot more naturally, so it was kind of fun.”

Check out everything we have got on “Man of Steel,” in theatres June 14.

“The spandex in this thing is like four layers,” Crowe told MTV News at the film’s Los Angeles press day. “And then when you put the ceremonial robes on top and 40-pound leather cape and all of that sort of [stuff], it’s fine if you are just standing there but when you have to jump around doing fight sequences and everything, it was a bit of a challenge.”

Although Crowe was required to participate in some considerably physical sequences, including a fight scene with co-star Michael Shannon, who plays General Zod, the acclaimed actor suggested that the biggest obstacle in the costume was decidedly more mundane. “The main challenge is probably not being able to go to the bathroom for eight hours at a time,” he confessed. “Once you are in your costume, you are stuck in it until lunchtime, because it was 20-25 minutes just to get out of it. So there was a lot of new and interesting things on this.”

In “Man of Steel,” Crowe provides the film’s philosophical core: after sending Kal-El to Earth to save him, his “consciousness” nurtures his son through the moral and spiritual minefield of being a citizen of two planets. This required him to not just inhabit the role but interpret it through the filter of an instructional computer program. Remarkably, he stated that part of his role was relatively simple to tap into.

“The thing is, every motion picture you do is pretend,” he observed. “When we were doing ‘Gladiator,’ we only had one third of the Colosseum, so you were reminded in every split second it was only pretend. And that stuff doesn’t bother you, it goes with the territory. But I did a CGI-heavy motion picture in 1995 called ‘Virtuosity’ and that was when you had to be really mathematically specific in order for things to be done properly — and now it’s a bit more fluid. You can exist in that space a lot more naturally, so it was kind of fun.”

Check out everything we have got on “Man of Steel,” in theatres June 14.

“The spandex in this thing is like four layers,” Crowe told MTV News at the film’s Los Angeles press day. “And then when you put the ceremonial robes on top and 40-pound leather cape and all of that sort of [stuff], it’s fine if you are just standing there but when you have to jump around doing fight sequences and everything, it was a bit of a challenge.”

Although Crowe was required to participate in some considerably physical sequences, including a fight scene with co-star Michael Shannon, who plays General Zod, the acclaimed actor suggested that the biggest obstacle in the costume was decidedly more mundane. “The main challenge is probably not being able to go to the bathroom for eight hours at a time,” he confessed. “Once you are in your costume, you are stuck in it until lunchtime, because it was 20-25 minutes just to get out of it. So there was a lot of new and interesting things on this.”

In “Man of Steel,” Crowe provides the film’s philosophical core: after sending Kal-El to Earth to save him, his “consciousness” nurtures his son through the moral and spiritual minefield of being a citizen of two planets. This required him to not just inhabit the role but interpret it through the filter of an instructional computer program. Remarkably, he stated that part of his role was relatively simple to tap into.

“The thing is, every motion picture you do is pretend,” he observed. “When we were doing ‘Gladiator,’ we only had one third of the Colosseum, so you were reminded in every split second it was only pretend. And that stuff doesn’t bother you, it goes with the territory. But I did a CGI-heavy motion picture in 1995 called ‘Virtuosity’ and that was when you had to be really mathematically specific in order for things to be done properly — and now it’s a bit more fluid. You can exist in that space a lot more naturally, so it was kind of fun.”

Check out everything we have got on “Man of Steel,” in theatres June 14.