Justin Timberlake is putting his career on hold and making four films in a row. After The Social Network, he’s got next spring’s comedy Bad Teacher (costarring his real life ex-girlfriend Cameron Diaz; he’s now dating Jessica Biel), Friends With Benefits with Mila Kunis (due July 2011), and a thriller from Gattaca director Andrew Niccol. We’ll also hear him as Boo Boo in this December’s animated Yogi Bear. Meanwhile, in the four years since his last CD was released, Timberlake has also emerged as a bona fide comedy star thanks to memorable appearances on Saturday Night Live (including two crowd-pleasing moments on the Sept. 25 season premiere). His SNL stints even won him two Emmys: one for hosting in 2009 and another for co-writing the riotous 2006 R&B track “

D— in a Box.” Playing The Social Network’s entrepreneur Sean Parker—who helps Mark Zuckerberg grow Facebook—Timberlake gets to show acting chops only hinted at in past films like 2007’s Alpha Dog. “We looked at a lot of different actors for that role,” says Social Network director David Fincher. “But I needed somebody who understood the value of ‘If I sit this person next to this person, there’s millions to be made.’ There’s this kind of glee and glint and sparkle that happens with people who truly know that.”

Here Timberlake talks about coping with industry pressures and why you shouldn’t expect a new record from him anytime soon. See below for a portion of the Q&A, running in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly:

EW: So how did you land such a choice part?

Justin Timberlake: I did a marathon of testing for the film. I tested more than anyone. I have to fight against my music career—I’m cognizant of that. But I didn’t care. I loved the part and I wanted to work with David [Fincher] so bad that I was like, “We can read this scene butt-naked if you guys want.”

EW: Are movies your priority now?

Timberlake: My priority is inspiration. It always has been. I grew up in a generation that was like, “Why not do everything?” I grew up in a family where they said, “Why not do everything you want to do if you have the opportunity?”

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Jessica Biel claims she has a lot of trouble sticking to the diet and exercise routine required for a celebrity. Here’s some excerpts from her recent interview with Glamour UK.

“I’m not a perfect person who doesn’t mess up, eat bad, not work out — I do all those things,” Biel, 28, tells August’s issue of Glamour UK. “It’s just for the most part, when I’m working, I don’t feel like I have the choice. I have to bring my A-game.”

“I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney’s burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries,” she tells the mag. “Turkey chili is good, but it will give you terrible farts!”

“I have an amazing trainer, Jason Walsh, who I work with two or three times a week. We do lots of circuit and strength training, especially for my legs and my back, because it’s quite weak from years of gymnastics,” Biel says. “I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can’t do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day — and I’m not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class, or cook. I’m not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.”

“No one talks to you about this when you’re a kid and you want to be in the movies,” Biel complains. “No one says, ‘Hey, guess what: this is going to happen to you. Are you prepared?’ But it is what it is.”

So Jessica Biel pigs out every now and then. Well that’s good I guess.

The actress and girlfriend of Justin Timberlake is currently starring in the A-Team.

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“I’m not a perfect person who doesn’t mess up, eat bad, not work out–I do all those things,” Jessica Biel tells the magazine.

But her normal workout regimen is two or three days a week with a personal trainer, and exercise every day–whether she goes to the gym or does hiking or ballet. And no bread, dairy, sugar, salt or much meat when she is working. (“Oh, it’s the worst!”)

Biel also subscribes to the Kelly Bensimon method of a weekly six-day fast followed by a day of feasting.

“When I’m working and I eat healthily all week, I then give myself one day–usually Sunday–when I just eat what I want. You have to, otherwise your mind goes a little nutso,” she said.

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