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-On weekend two of Coachella, Lizzo was Harry Styles’ surprise guest, while Hayley Williams joined Billie Eilish for a a rendition of “Misery Business.”
–Megan Thee Stallion gave her first interview about the alleged Tory Lanez shooting. “He’s like, ‘I’m so sorry. Please don’t tell nobody. I’ll give y’all a million dollars if y’all don’t say nothing.’
–Rihanna and A$AP Rocky hit up their fave restaurant following his release on bail.
–Johnny Depp was back on the stand today, and he was asked about the text messages he sent Amber Heard forbidding her from taking any work meetings or accepting any new movies. Which is a totally normal, non-controlling thing for a husband to demand from his actress wife.
-At a fan event over the weekend, Jensen Ackles said his Supernatural co-star Jared Padalecki is recovering from a serious car accident. “He wasn’t driving, he was in the passenger seat, and he’s lucky to be alive.”
–The Weeknd’s HBO drama series The Idol is being reworked with significant changes to its cast and crew. Production was already completed on multiple episodes of the six-episode series, which will now be redone due to the change in creative direction.
-On the day he finalizing his purchase of Twitter, FX and The New York Times announced a new Elon Musk exposé.
-Broadway’s Funny Girl revival starring Beanie Feldstein has debuted to unfavorable reviews. Though critics say she handles the comedy well, they are pretty unanimous about her not having the vocal chops for the role, which makes her casting misguided at best and cruel at worst. The Vulture review summed it up: “It seems brutal to place a woman in such an exposed position, where a whole Broadway production rests on notes she can’t sustain.”
–Lea Michele (who absolutely would have loved to be cast in Funny Girl), says in the Spring Awakening documentary that she once let Jonathan Groff “see her vagina, using a desk lamp to give him an illustrative lesson and satisfy his curiosity in the female anatomy as a gay man with no practical knowledge of its particulars.”
-This is a good interview with Dagmara Domińczyk of Succession, We Own This City, and The Lost Daughter. “A pandemic, I turned 45—all of a sudden I’m getting really interesting, wonderful roles that I would’ve killed for in my 20s.”
-Vulture released their picks for the 101 best movie sequels of all time. There’s lots of debate about how low Paddington 2 is on the list, but on the flip side, I’m glad that Magic Mike XXL is so high.
-For movie fans who complain there’s only Marvel blockbusters at the theatres these days, we’re suddenly blessed with a crop of wildly inventive films currently at the box office: Everything Everywhere All At Once, X, Ambulance, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Northman, etc.
-This is a good interview with Joel Kim Booster, Fire Island’s creator and star, in which he unpacks his complex feelings about making a rom-com with an entirely LGBTQ lead cast for Disney-owned Searchlight Pictures amid Disney’s actions surrounding Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
-And here’s the amazing-looking trailer for Fire Island, a contemporary gay take on Pride and Prejudice.