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-The Lost Daughter is one of the few Oscar noms that feels like it’s been widely seen (the Netflix effect, I guess). The film’s helmer Maggie Gyllenhaal covers W magazine’s Directors Issue, and talks about the choices she made in adapting Elena Ferrante‘s novel. “The challenge of the book was very much like breaking a scene down as an actor. You have a text and you’re like, Okay, these are the words, but what is the underlying, more interesting event of the scene, and how can you articulate that cinematically without ever saying it out loud?” (The accompanying noir-inspired photo shoot includes her husband, Peter Sarsgaard.)

-Hurray for Kim Kardashian, who is now legally single one year after filing for divorce from Kanye West.

-Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney is engaged to her boyfriend of 3 years, restaurateur Jonathan Davino. (Also, this article made me realize that she played Nick’s wife on The Handmaid’s Tale and my mind is blown.)

-Speaking of Sweeney, I’m surprised she’s not in the running to play Madonna in the upcoming biopic. Instead, her Euphoria costar Alexa Demie is, along with Julia Garner, Florence Pugh, Odessa Young, Emma Laird, Bebe Rexha and Sky Ferreira. According to THR, some hopefuls are even participating in 11-hour choreography sessions called “Madonna bootcamp“.

–Zoe Kravitz continues to wear on-the-nose, gimmicky dresses to The Batman premieres, and she continues to somehow make it work. I also really dig Robert Pattinson‘s look here.

-I won’t be convinced that Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet have reunited until People reports it, but I understand the excitement surrounding the rumours.

–Sean Penn says he “walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our car on the side of the road” while filming a documentary for Vice on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

-I wish this sketch about white dudes who podcast wasn’t cut from John Mulaney‘s SNL episode.

–Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo are back together and playing a couple in Netflix’s The Adam Project, and on the press tour they said they are open to a 13 Going on 30 sequel. God, yes!

–Lindsay Lohan has teamed with Netflix for two more movies, which bodes well for the holiday one she just shot.

–Marilyn Manson is suing his former fiancée Evan Rachel Wood and the artist Illma Gore, accusing them of concocting an elaborate ‘conspiracy’ to cast him as ‘a rapist and abuser.’

-Netflix announced a new documentary about Pamela Anderson, already in production for several years, in which she is “setting the record straight as she looks back on her professional path and her personal journey.” I’m glad she gets to tell her story after Pam & Tommy tried to do it for her.

-So it seems like the controversial changes the Oscars are making this year, including presenting eight Oscar categories differently than the other 15, were pushed by ABC, not the Academy.

-It’ll be interesting to see if Disney+ cleans up the Netflix Marvel shows before they stream them. Disney bumped Love, Victor to Hulu because it was too risqué for their platform, so I can’t imagine them being cool with the bed-breaking sex scene between Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.

-I really liked this piece about Better Things’ final season and what made the show so special. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen another series that’s so loose and immersive, but this sums it up perfectly: “A person doesn’t watch the show so much as drop by Sam’s big cozy house for a visit.”

–Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas lead a group of spies looking for redemption in Apple TV’s Slow Horses trailer.

–Regina Hall stars in the eerie trailer for Mariama Diallo‘s Master, which follows three Black women’s experience at a predominately white university.

-Here’s the first full Bullet Train trailer, in which Brad Pitt leads an ensemble cast of assassins made up of Bad Bunny, Joey King, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, and more.

Emma Roberts Comes Into Her Own

Emma Roberts on the cover of Tatler

–Emma Roberts opened up about finding herself amid news of her split from Garrett Hedlund in her Tatler cover story. While she declined to comment on the specifics of their relationship, she said, “I’m at a place where I can say, ‘I may not have got everything right but I like who I am more than I ever have.’ My life has changed more in the past two years than it did in the 28 years beforehand and I love where I’m standing now at the age of 30.” She also talked about the paparazzi harassing her. “The way I was followed and treated when I was pregnant was disgusting. I’d be driving to a doctor’s appointment and they’d be following me so closely. At one point, I remember saying to them, ‘Please don’t do that, I’m eight months pregnant.’ But they don’t care.”

–Sean Penn recently told a newspaper: “I am in the club that believes that men in American culture have become wildly feminised. I don’t think being a brute or having insensitivity or disrespect for women is anything to do with masculinity, or ever did. I don’t think that [in order] to be fair to women, we should become them.” When asked to clarify his remarks by a different newspaper, he doubled down: “I think that men have, in my view, become quite feminised. I have these very strong women in my life who do not take masculinity as a sign of oppression toward them. There are a lot of, I think, cowardly genes that lead to people surrendering their jeans and putting on a skirt.” If it were anybody else I’d be surprised by such a blatant display of toxic masculinity. But him? Sounds about right.

-On the opposite end of the spectrum, Jamie Dornan was on Ellen and talked about having three daughters. He cheerfully said, “I’ve gone from my sisters dressing me up in like wigs and lipstick and stuff to my kids doing the same thing. I’ve basically been in a perpetual state of drag for 39 years.”

–This clip of Lady Gaga talking about all the acting courses/methods she follows and Salma Hayek quietly dying inside is hilarious.

-Meanwhile, here’s  a round-up of the most chaotic spectacles of Lady Gaga’s press tour. Everyone’s making fun of her but I love how extra she is. You do you, lady.

-Today’s Actors on Actors is Benedict Cumberbatch and Penelope Cruz.

-The Fleishman Is In Trouble continues to pick up great cast members. Adam Brody just joined the show.

–Ezra Miller posted a video to social media in which the actor appears to threaten members of a Ku Klux Klan chapter in North Carolina.

–Brad Pitt and Lykke Li recently had fans convinced they were more than just friends — but multiple sources say they’re strictly platonic.

-And Just Like That star Cynthia Nixon is sticking up for Miranda’s treatment of Steve.

-To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Lana Condor is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, actor and musician Anthony De La Torre. I love that her ring is from a Canadian jeweler.

-This is an interesting look at how the explosion of international members in the Academy has made the Oscars harder to predict — but also non-English-language films are more viable than ever before.

–Jason Momoa has joined the Fast and the Furious franchise. He’ll be in F10.

–Adele’s worst selling-album is still the year’s biggest record.

–Olivia Munn and Henry Golding had a playdate with their kids. (And yes, John Mulaney was in the picture.)

–Tom Holland does the video game adaptation thing in the final trailer for Uncharted.

–Joesph Gordon-Levitt stars as Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Uma Thurman plays Arianna Huffington in the first trailer for the Showtime limited series Super Pumped.

W’s Great Performances Covers

-A slew of stars posed for W’s Great Performances issues, and some covers were way zanier than others.

–Jake Gyllenhaal is seemingly trolling Swifties in his photoshoot for W Magazine, where he sports a pair of red heart sunglasses that are almost identical to the ones Taylor Swift wore in her “22” music video. I love this level of pettiness.

-In his W profile, Adam Driver says he doesn’t attend wrap parties. “I haven’t been to a wrap party since Girls. I just want to get the character out of my system and go home.” What a bummer for the crew.

-Love is dead. Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet have announced their split.

-On the other side of the coin, Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly got engaged. (I’m so curious about who was filming this. There are multiple angles in the video!) Also, is there a proposal uniform? His buddy Travis Barker wore a similar shirt. (This is my fave tweet about it.)

-Welp. The Queen has stripped Prince Andrew of his military affiliations and he will “no longer use the style ‘His Royal Highness’ in any official capacity.” The palace added in their brief statement that he will be defending himself in the sexual abuse case “as a private citizen.”

–Kanye West was allegedly involved in a battery incident in Los Angeles. He was named as a suspect in a battery report (rumoured to involve him hitting a fan) taken by the LAPD’s Newton Division early on Thursday morning. TMZ has video of him yelling at someone, though its not clear who. He was not arrested and a rep has yet to comment.

-Before all that hubbub, he was with Julia Fox, Madonna and Floyd Mayweather at Delilah nightclub last night. There’s a really cringey video of them all listening to music.

-Meanwhile, Julia Fox addressed criticism about their relationship, denying that they’re only spending time together for attention.

–Bob Saget‘s widow is expressing her gratitude for John Mayer and Jeff Ross, who picked up his car from LAX for her.

–David Beckham packed wife Victoria Beckham‘s lunch with a note that said, “Enjoy lunch ***hole… Come home happier.” She posted it with the caption, “Even when I’m grumpy he looks after me.”

–Halle Berry penned a tribute to Sidney Poitier: “I was a child who, like my parents’ interracial relationship, never quite fit in. In those years, it was rare to see Blacks in leading roles, much less have our narratives celebrated or even acknowledged.”

-I keep trying to avoid the Drake/hot sauce story but the memes are hilarious.

-Ohhhh, Nicole Kidman *should* host the Oscars.

-This is a great interview with Matilda Lawler, the 13-year-old who’s crushing it on Station Eleven.

-There’s been a lot of speculation about who will play fan favourite Nikolai in the second season of Shadow and Bone — and Patrick Gibson of The OA has landed the role. Other new cast members include Anna Leong Brophy as Tamar, Lewis Tan as Tolya, and The Witcher’s Jack Wolfe as Wylan. Everyone looks pretty much how I pictured them when reading the books (though the guy who plays Wylan looks like a child, but IMDB assures me he’s 26).

-The reviews for How I Met Your Father with Hilary Duff are very not good.

-A Degrassi revival series has been ordered by HBO Max.

–Jean-Marc Vallée finished writing a film about Yoko Ono and John Lennon before his sudden death last month.

–Gugu Mbatha-Raw moves into a haunted house in the trailer for The Girl Before.