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Lizzo Talks Rihanna and Reality TV

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–Lizzo is on the cover of Variety and she’s never more relatable than when she talks about being friends with Rihanna: “If she f—s with you, she f—s with you. By the grace of the goddamn stars, she f—s with me. I’m so happy for her being pregnant. I’m like, ‘S–t. I’m about to get pregnant.'”

-A new book details Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy’s hatred of each other on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. It sounds like Charlize was professional and on time, and Tom was a Method actor who was consistently late, maybe even to piss her off. When he showed up three hours late and she yelled at him, his response made her scared enough that she says she “didn’t feel safe” and a producer was assigned to be with her. It sounds like he chilled out by the end of the shoot, though. Both Theron and Hardy talk about it in this excerpt.

-In an interview with the Today Show, Matt Hutchins, the husband of late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins who was killed on the set of Rust, said he watched Alec Baldwin‘s interview about the accident and was “so angry to see him talk about her death so publicly in such a detailed way and then not accept any responsiblity after having described killing her.”

–Lindsay Lohan joined TikTok and everyone is surprised that she pronounces her last name “Lo-wen” instead of “Lo-HAN” like she has in the past. I get it. The pronunciation of my last name changes based on where in the country I am, and I just kind of roll with it.

-A pop culture blog posted that the Queen had died and got the internet in a tizzy, and then took it back. (If she had, Kate Middleton wouldn’t still be in Denmark.) The CEO of the site is still standing by the report — but it might actually be a misunderstanding related to the death of Queens of the Stone Age singer Mark Lanegan.

–Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were spotted on a double date with Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank in Santa Barbara

-Once again, the Academy is trying to “fix” the Oscars and once again, they’ve just made everyone angry. They’ve just moved 8 rather significant categories (editing! original score!) to the off-air portion.

-This piece on how movie scores get made is eye-opening and depressing, with big names farming their scores out to uncredited, underpaid minions who do most of the work, and now streamers aren’t even paying out royalties.

–Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham quietly eloped last year. While promoting Inventing Anna, Edwards told Esquire, “We’re too old to throw weddings. She’s just spectacular. She’s an amazing singer and she’s a wonderful actress and she’s an incredible person.”

–Abigail Breslin is engaged to longtime boyfriend Ira Kunyansky. She will always be Little Miss Sunshine to me, but she’s actually 25.

-The guy whose tweet sparked a slew of negative stories about Ellen Degeneres is back and this time he’s set his sights on … Jason Sudeikis? It’s comforting that there doesn’t seem to be anyone collaborating his take in the replies, though.

-Country star Sam Hunt‘s pregnant wife filed for divorce, citing adultery — and then she withdrew the petition hours later.

-The Hating Game movie is apparently doing very well on streaming and I can only take credit for 30% of those views. Ok, 40 tops.

-Disney+ in Canada will now have all the Netflix Marvel shows. This just makes sense and I’m guessing the US will follow suit as soon as the hash out a deal with Netflix.

–Euphoria’s Season 2 finale is this Sunday and I swear to god, Fez better make it out unharmed.

-Arrow’s Juliana Harkavy has been cast in the lead in ABC’s L.A. Law revival.

-Here’s the trailer for the new season of Upload, starring Robbie Amell. I really liked the first season.

–Tom Holland says it was Andrew Garfield’s idea to recreate the Spider-Man pointing meme in a newly released pic.

-Here’s the trailer for Hulu FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven, starring Andrew Garfield and inspired by the true crime bestseller by Jon Krakauer.

Hailey Bieber’s Big Year

Hailey-Bieber on the cover of WSJ

–Hailey Bieber tells the WSJ what she’s up to in 2022: launching her skincare brand, going on tour with Justin for the first time, NOT having babies (yet).  “I think ideally in the next couple of years we would try. But there’s a reason they call it try, right? You don’t know how long that process is ever going to take. Definitely no kids this year; that would be a little bit hectic, I think.”

–Justin Bieber pranked Charlie Puth on a phone call. “We never really got to talk about just like…years ago when you said ‘F— you’ on stage to me…it hurt my feelings.”

–Whoopi Goldberg faced heat after saying on yesterday’s The View that the Holocaust was ‘not about race’, but you got to hand it to her — she knew she stepped in it and was quick to try and get in front of it. She went on Colbert last night and discussed it (though didn’t actually apologize), and also opened today show to talk about it again and have the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on to further educate herself and the viewers.

-There’s no way this story about Prince Andrew wanting to ask Kevin Spacey for help is legit. Right?!?!

–Chris Evans fans think he’s dating Warrior Nun star Alba Baptista.

-Today’s Variety’s Actors on Actors featured Jessica Chastain and Rita Moreno.

–George Clooney talked to Deadline about The Tender Bar, which I guess he’s campaigning for it though I can’t imagine it picking up a lot of (or any) nominations.

-There’s yet another Hollywood movie that has no Canadian distribution — this one is Channing Tatum‘s latest. I’m getting very nervous about this trend.

-Pregnant Bre Tiesi is reportedly “horrified” after her and Nick Cannon‘s baby news was publicly revealed.

–Connie Britton is reuniting with Friday Night Lights creator Jason Katims for a new Apple TV+ series.

-The late Soul Train creator and host Don Cornelius has been accused of locking up and violently sexually assaulting two young Playboy bunnies decades ago.

-Eve 6 did an interesting thread on the exploitation of bands by their labels and why they don’t see a cent from Spotify streams.

-Meanwhile, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who signed a deal with Spotify in 2020, have expressed their concerns about COVID misinformation on the platform in a new statement.

-A father in a coma haunts his family in the trailer for The Ice Demon.

-Paramount Plus released the first teaser for The Offer, its series about the making of The Godfather starring Miles Teller and Juno Temple.

-Here’s the trailer for the fourth and final season of Killing Eve, I show I didn’t know was still on.

–Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Justin H. Min star in the After Yang trailer, which got raves at Sundance.

 

Joss Whedon Just Can’t Help Himself

joss whedon new york mag

-I’m bummed that New York magazine gave a full profile feature to Joss Whedon. Did he really need this big of a platform? Again? Luckily, it doesn’t come off as a redemption piece, but only because the man can’t stop playing the victim. Every answer he gives is pretty much a disaster. He talks about having affairs with actresses on the Buffy set: (“‘I feel fucking terrible about them,’ he said. When I pressed him on why, he noted ‘it messes up the power dynamic,’ but he didn’t expand on that thought. Instead, he quickly added that he had felt he ‘had’ to sleep with them, that he was ‘powerless’ to resist. I laughed. ‘I’m not actually joking,’ he said. He had been surrounded by beautiful young women — the sort of women who had ignored him when he was younger — and he feared if he didn’t have sex with them, he would ‘always regret it'”), he blames the Justice League reshoot issues on the cast’s behaviour, saying Gal Gadot simply didn’t understand his jokes (“English is not her first language, and I tend to be annoyingly flowery in my speech”) and casts doubts on Ray Fisher‘s motives for speaking out (“We’re talking about a malevolent force. We’re talking about a bad actor in both senses”). The piece actually ends with him saying, “I think I’m one of the nicer showrunners that’s ever been.” Oh, and he alludes to possibly being responsible for another kid’s death when he was five. An absolute and total catastrophe of an interview.

–Ray Fisher has responded to Whedon‘s new comments against him through Twitter: “Rather than address all of the lies and buffoonery today — I will be celebrating the legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tomorrow the work continues.”

–Prince Harry says he won’t visit the UK until he can pay for police protection. He’s tried hiring private security but UK intelligence won’t share with them the credible threats. And to make matters worse, the timing of the story is gross.

–Tiffany Haddish was arrested in Georgia on suspicion of DUI.

–Britney Spears seems to be open to the idea of making amends with her younger sister, Jamie Lynn. “I admire you for being strong … just know I love you and I think you know that already more than anything!!!”

–Kanye West doesn’t want his and Kim Kardashian’s four children to have TikTok accounts. Which…sounds reasonable.

-Meanwhile, Kanye West went on Instagram Live to complain that he wasn’t invited to daughter Chicago’s birthday party — but Kim Kardashian was reportedly shocked he said that. He was later pictured at the party.

-Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer and Dominic Fike (who plays new character Elliot) might be dating.

-Oh no. Bryce Dallas Howard is the latest celeb to start promoting NFTs.

–Kendall Jenner insists she asked her friend’s permission before she showed up to her wedding in that barely there dress.

–Jeff Goldblum and Kyle MacLachlan walked in Prada’s menswear show at Milan Fashion Week.

-Is Chloe Sevigny shooting her shot with Jason Momoa via Instagram?

-God, what a stellar week of TV. First up was the Station Eleven finale, which left me crying happy tears. For a pandemic show based on a somewhat bleak book, those last 10 minutes were the most uplifting thing I’ve seen in ages.

-The other big finale everyone’s talking about is Yellowjackets. I love that the showrunners aren’t afraid to shoot down fan theories. Meanwhile, there’s been some great writing about this show, including this piece on how it embraces its gen x roots, this revealing interview with the showrunners, as well as the various excellent weekly recaps.

-Speaking of Yellowjackets, this is a great interview with Christina Ricci, who is stealing the spotlight every week amid a whole show full of scene stealers. She talks about moving to New York when she was a teen and choosing her apartment because it was in her favourite book (“I lived in the Police Building in Little Italy. We moved into that building because I was obsessed with The Alienist”) and how people treat her worse on the Yellowjackets set as soon as she’s dressed as Misty (“I was just, like ‘Oh, this is so interesting, that just because I’m wearing this wig and glasses they’ve forgotten I’m No. 3 on the call sheet'”).

-In other Yellowjackets cast interviews, Melanie Lynskey says her three leading co-stars supported her when she was body-shamed on set by a producer.

-I liked this piece about how we’re finally moving away from mystery-box TV.

-Scream had a really strong opening weekend at the box office.

-People can’t get enough of Peacemaker’s opening credits dance sequence. John Cena and Jennifer Holland talked about nailing the “stoic” moves.

-Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau fights the elements in the Against the Ice trailer.