-In their Actors on Actors interview, Jennifer Lawrence opened up to Viola Davis about her reluctance to diet despite the scrutiny over her weight during The Hunger Games. “I was like ‘I don’t know if I want all the girls who are going to dress up as Katniss feel like they can’t because they are not a certain weight.'”
-She also said “I remember when I was doing Hunger Games, no one had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie.” Which is…not true? (Just off the top of my head, Angelina Jolie was in Salt a few years before that.) Between this and Mindy Kaling claiming The Office would never be made today because “most of the characters on that show would be canceled by now,” actresses are saying some wild stuff this week.
-In their Actors on Actors interview, Brendan Fraser told Adam Sandler that filming George of the Jungle messed up his memory. “I was…starved of carbohydrates. I would drive home after work and stop to get something to eat and I needed some cash one day, and I went to the ATM and I couldn’t remember my PIN number because my brain was misfiring. [I was] banging on the thing. I didn’t eat that night.”
-Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson is Cosmopolitan’s Party Issue cover star.
-Time Magazine’s Icon of The Year is Michelle Yeoh. Yup, no notes.
-Speaking of Everything Everywhere All At Once stars, I adored this interview with Ke Huy Quan.
–Florence Pugh has been crushing it style-wise this week. Slip dresses are not my fave but her whole vibe at the British Independent Film Awards made me overlook the puckered seams. I also dug the red backless Valentino gown she wore at the British Fashion Awards.
-Host Jodie Turner-Smith also looked fantastic in her multiple outfits — and Joshua Jackson was with her! Whew!
–Lana Del Rey surprised fans this morning with a release of a new song. She’s got an album coming in March.
-I can’t stop looking up photos of the White Lotus cast hanging out together.
-I love some of these predictions for White Lotus’ finale this weekend. God, I hope Daphne turns out to be an evil mastermind.
-There are no advanced screeners for critics for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s documentary.
-The Grey’s Anatomy writer who lied about cancer and a dead brother tells her side of the story in a new interview that’s pretty sympathetic, and the writers who worked with her are PISSED. One tweeted, “The whole interview is written like a pitch doc. It feels like she’s literally begging someone to both give her a job and buy her life story. It’s a fucking shameful article.”
–Nancy Meyers shot down rumours that The Holiday is getting a sequel.
-Speaking of Kate Winslet joints, Hugh Grant will be joining her in a new HBO series.
-New York Magazine’s new cover features 79 celebrities. It’s like a star-struck game of Where’s Waldo.
-Yellowjackets season two was rumoured to be dropping this year, but it’s now debuting in March. Seems like a good idea — it would be lost in the noise right now.
–Kelsey Grammer, Ted Danson, and more Cheers stars paid tribute to their Kirstie Alley after her death at age 71.
-HBO’s Perry Mason is a show that I watched and enjoyed but I have like, no memory of. But it’s coming back soon.
-Netflix’s Wednesday is getting backlash after Jenna Ortega revealed that she filmed her viral dance sequence while sick with covid. “I felt like I’d been hit by a car and that a little goblin had been let loose in my throat and was scratching the walls of my esophagus. They were giving me medicine between takes because we were waiting on the positive result.” There were so many extras in that scene! Awful.
-Yikes. The fall box office has been even worse than 2021, when people were still reluctant to leave their house.
-There may be a bright spot at the box office this month: the first reactions about Avatar 2 are raves.
-Daisy Jones and the Six is not my fave Taylor Jenkins Reid novel (it’s a tie between The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising), but I am interested to see Prime’s adaptation of it. Here’s the first teaser.
–Léa Seydoux finds love in the trailer for Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning.
–Anna Kendrick stars in the trailer for the psychological thriller Alice, Darling. I saw this at TIFF and there was a moment when the audience in my theatre broke out into cheers. (It was also the most articulate post-film Q&A I’ve attended all year.)
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