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Meryl Streep

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas Are in Deep

-Here’s the trailer for Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’ Hulu film, Deep Water, which starts streaming next week. The more they try to bury this thing, the more I want to watch it.

-It looks like Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers are still together. They attended a wedding over the weekend.

–Kanye West defended his latest music video, in which he depicts Pete Davidson being buried alive, by posting, “Art is therapy just like this view. art is protected as freedom of speech. art inspires and simplifies the world. Art is not a proxy for any ill or harm. Any suggestion otherwise about my art is false and mal intended.” Uh huh.

-When asked about the rumours that she feuded with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson and that’s why her character was barely in the last season, Barbie Ferreira said a lot of words that didn’t really add up to a clear answer.

-I’m so happy that Simon Rex won Best Actor at the Independent Spirit Awards. In other categories, CODA’s Troy Kotsur and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter continued to build Oscar momentum.

–Gigi Hadid will be donating everything she made during fashion week to Ukrainian relief and continuing her support of Palestine.

-Uh oh, has Daniel Kaluuya fallen under the thrall of a life coach who encouraged him to fire his agents at CAA and his publicist? This article is so messed up.

–Pamela Anderson‘s resurgence continues; she will make her Broadway debut in Chicago next month, playing Roxie Hart.

–Dua Lipa is facing a second copyright lawsuit over her hit song “Levitating.”

-The reviews for Pixar’s Turning Red, which is set in Toronto, are glowing. I don’t get why this is being pushed straight to Disney+.

-The Walking Dead is growing to a fifth spinoff: Lauren Cohan and Jeffery Dean Morgan will star in Isle of the Dead for AMC in 2023. It’s been a while since I’ve watched anything to do with TWD, but aren’t Negan and Maggie mortal enemies?

-The weakest actor in The Gilded Age is Meryl Streep‘s daughter, but at least she tells cute stories about her mom.

–Colin Farrell and Kelly Clarkson have a lot of manic energy in this interview and I love it.

Vulture asks the right question: Instead of spending time and money to make Colin Farrell look like a middle-aged Italian American in The Batman, why not just cast one of these character actors instead?

-Speaking of Batman casting, Zoe Kravitz says she was told she was too “urban” to audition for The Dark Knight.

–Russian Doll Season 2 premieres April 20 on Netflix with seven new, half hour episodes. Here’s a trailer.

Jennifer Aniston Talks Reunions and Rumours

 

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–Jennifer Aniston‘s THR cover story feels like the most substantial interview we’ve gotten from her in years. She talks about how hard the Friends reunion was on her (“It just took me by surprise because it was like, ‘Hi, past, remember me? Remember how that sucked? You thought everything was in front of you and life was going to be just gorgeous and then you went through maybe the hardest time in your life?’ “), how the industry has changed (“It’s not that glamorous anymore. It’s slowly becoming about TikTok and Instagram followers. It’s like, we’re hiring now based on followers, not talent? Oh, dear”), and dealing with tabloid rumours (“I used to take it all very personally — the pregnancy rumors and the whole ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption. It’s like, ‘You have no clue what’s going with me personally, medically, why I can’t…can I have kids?’ They don’t know anything, and it was really hurtful and just nasty”).

-Meanwhile, Aniston and friends did a great job on last night’s Facts of Life live. The old school ads they ran during the special were amazing.

-I really like the photos that accompany this interview with Kristen Stewart and Pablo Larraín.

–Meryl Streep had just come to accept that Jonah Hill kept calling her GOAT, and Jennifer Lawrence had to explain to her that it was a compliment.

-Meanwhile, when Stephen Colbert asked Jennifer Lawrence what she’d been doing just her 3-year hiatus from Hollywood, she said “I just had a ton of sex.” Fair enough.

–Prince William says that at a charity fundraiser, Taylor Swift encouraged him to join her and Jon Bon Jovi on stage to sing “Livin’ on a Prayer” — and he didn’t know the words. “Honestly, even now I’m cringing at what happened next, and I don’t understand why I gave in…if Taylor Swift looks you in the eye, touches your arm and says, ’Come with me,′ you basically do what she says. I got up like a puppy and went, ‘Yeah, OK, that seems like a great idea ― I’ll follow you.’ ”

–Christina Ricci (who is currently doing fantastic work in Yellowjackets) just welcomed her second child.

-This is a very good list of the best TV performances of the year.

-For those of us who spend a lot of time watching TV and movies while turning the volume up and down, this article explains a lot.

-A court has dismissed Rose McGowan’s RICO lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and his lawyers.

-Disney+ is working on a reboot of Firefly — minus Joss Whedon.

-Director Daniel Cretton is returning for the Shang-Chi sequel.

-Has Jeremy Strong been teasing his Succession character’s fate for months? (I’m still not convinced that what everyone thinks is happening is really happening.)

-I’m super bummed that The Hating Game is only available in VOD in Canada and not in theatres (so far). Still, this clip of the infamous elevator scene is good enough to have me watching it however I can this weekend. (I also love that they have her make the first move; plays way better than the scene in the book.)

–Alicia Silverstone is stranded at sea in The Requin trailer.

FKA twigs Accuses Shia LaBeouf of ‘Relentless Abuse’ and Sexual Battery

-Whoa. FKA twigs has filed a lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf, her former boyfriend, accusing him of sexual battery, assault and infliction of emotional distress. She says last Valentine’s Day, after returning from a trip where she woke up and he was choking her, he removed his seatbelt while speeding toward Los Angeles and threatened to crash unless she professed her love for him. When they stopped at a gas station, she says he assaulted her, throwing her against the car while screaming in her face before forcing her back into the car. Karolyn Pho, another of LaBeouf’s exes, described similarly tumultuous experiences in the lawsuit. In an email to NYT, LaBeouf said “I have no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, only rationalizations. I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. I have a history of hurting the people closest to me. I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I hurt. There is nothing else I can really say.”

-This is amazing news for Telefilm Canada: Rather than choose who does and who doesn’t receive development program funding this year, the federal agency has decided to fund every filmmaker who applied and is eligible.

–Jenny Slate revealed she’s expecting her first child.

-Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is bringing back some familiar aunts.

-To end this crappy year on a high note, Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys released a new song together.

–JK Rowling criticized the ‘climate of fear’ surrounding the trans conversation. I honestly don’t know why she just doesn’t stop.

–George Clooney was hospitalized after losing weight for Netflix’s The Midnight Sky. “I think I was trying too hard to lose the weight quickly and probably wasn’t taking care of myself.”

-Disney made a ton of announcements yesterday, including news that Amy Adams is returning for Enchanted 2, Hayden Christensen is returning as Darth Vader for a new show, Chris Evans will voice a new Buzz Lightyear movie, Lauren Graham will star in a Mighty Ducks series, Rachel McAdams will reprise her role in the new Dr Strange film, Tatiana Maslany was confirmed as She-Hulk, and Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood & Bone (a book I ADORED) is being adapted by Lucasfilm. Plus, here’s the trailer for the new Loki series starring Tom Hiddleston, and the first trailer for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

-Dune director Denis Villeneuve slammed the 2021 HBO Max release plan: “AT&T has hijacked one of the most respectable and important studios in film history. There is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here.”

–Taylor Swift debuted her latest surprise album to glowing reviews.

-The Dickinson Season 2 trailer just dropped.

–Meryl Streep and Jennifer Trainer star in the Museum Town trailer.