adele was so real for this 😠pic.twitter.com/hiws0DxAi6
— wiLL (@willfulchaos) February 6, 2023
-I love that Adele didn’t even try to hide her reaction when Harry Styles won the top Grammy over Beyonce. She also left during his speech. Ha!
-Speaking of viral moments from the Grammys, lip readers think that Jennifer Lopez was scolding Ben Affleck to “Look more friendly. Look motivated” in that viral clip. I find it so strange that this comes right on the heels of them seemingly getting into a tiff at the Shotgun Wedding premiere over a drink. They had to know cameras were on them.
-Meanwhile, a source is blaming the incident on Ben being an introvert. “They have both been very busy working on several projects, and Ben was feeling tired… He wanted to go and support Jen, but he wasn’t his usual self … Ben is more of a homebody, and it isn’t his thing to be out at events all the time.”‘
-Speaking of people who should know better when cameras are pointed at them, it’s actually kind of shocking that someone who runs as tight of a ship as Reese Witherspoon let herself become meme’d with those tragically bad press appearances with Ashton Kutcher while promoting their new romcom.
-All this talk about their lack of chemistry is prompting some damage control. There are better photos, and a cute story about how Kutcher’s wife Mila Kunis texted them both to razz them about their awkwardness. Kutcher also defended his pose, saying “Here’s the thing: If I put my arm around her and was, like, all friendly with her, I’d be having an affair with her. Like, the rumor would be that I’m having an affair with her.” Um, no? We all lost our collective crap over Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain heating up the red carpet, and I don’t remember any affair speculation. It was all about their chemistry, which helped sell their project, which is the whole point of promotion.
-I dug all of Doja Cat’s Grammy looks, but I’m praying she doesn’t bring back the ultra skinny eyebrows.
-Parenthood costars Mae Whitman and Miles Heizer hung out with Taylor Swift after the Grammys and I love this for them.
-I don’t know why I keep getting bummed when Brian Cox gives Logan Roy-ish soundbites, but here we are again. First he defended JK Rowling, and now he’s excusing the behaviour of director Bryan Singer on the X-Men set, saying he was “under a lot of strain” but is “an extraordinary director — really, really gifted.” I’ll never forget that THR article from a couple of years ago that described the “traumatic” set.
-What’s happening with Bam from Jackass seems really sad.
-You People costar Andrew Schulz insisted on a podcast that Jonah Hill and Lauren London didn’t even kiss in the Netflix movie — it was all CGI. This scene does look a little off.
-This is a really interesting, nuanced look at the backlash to Colleen Hoover‘s It Ends With Us. I really disliked that book, but mostly because it was marketed as a romance and it very much is not.
–Marc Maron interviews are always worth your time. To Vulture, he talks about his girlfriend Lynn Shelton‘s death (“I had to learn a lesson about my public grieving around her, because my relationship with her was fairly new. Like, when she died, I hadn’t really even spent time with her family…The truth is that her cousin, who I didn’t know, read a piece in the New York Times about her, and it had a picture of us and they talked to me. And her cousin said, “Look, there’s other people grieving, and you should go easy on the public face of it'”). He also goes off on comedians who complain about wokeness (“Anti-woke is the new hack. You’ve got like-minded people who fill these rooms because they don’t know how to assess funny unless it’s bullying, or unless it’s in totally bad taste. There’s no nuance to it”).
-Contestants from Netflix’s Squid Game reality show are speaking out about the brutal conditions on set: “It’s not like we signed up for Survivor or Naked and Afraid. The conditions were absolutely inhumane and had nothing to do with the game.”
–Leonardo DiCaprio was apparently just sitting next to 19-year-old Eden Polani at a party but they’re not dating. Don’t give him a medal just yet; he was last romantically linked with a 23-year-old.
-Amazon is giving the new Matt Damon-Ben Affleck drama Air a theatrical release that’s comparable to or even longer than those from major studios. Will Netflix and Apple feel pressure to follow suit?
-Shrinking, the new Apple show starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford, is getting good reviews but it doesn’t seem to have much buzz.
–Effie Angelova, who accused Armie Hammer of “violently raping” her in 2017, took to her Instagram stories to refute his claims in his new interview. She says he told her the “walk into the ocean” story after she confronted him about the alleged assault (“Armie told me his ocean story. It made me so worried about him, he made me feel bad for telling him his abuse messed me up and it made me want to take care of him instead”) despite the interview implying that he did that as the result of the accusations going public. “It seems so manipulative because he knows his ocean story shut me up last time and evoked sympathy and it’s like now he’s trying it again.”
-Starz seems to be in the business of saving filmed-but-cancelled shows. First it was Minx, and now they’ve rescued Three Women, the Shailene Woodley drama Showtime dropped.
–Timothée Chalamet is back with another Apple TV commercial. I know he likely has a project coming up with them, but this still feels wildly off brand for him to me.
-I’m sad but not surprised that the new Magic Mike isn’t getting stellar reviews, since it’s so hard to top the last one, which was a radical experiment for a mainstream movie. I was hoping the new one would be a bit more than “serviceable” but as this review says, “Once you turn a character into a lens for female desire, it’s hard to go back.”
-Here’s the trailer Brothers, Clement Virgo’s latest set in Toronto in the 90s, which was well-received at TIFF.
–Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim star in the trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.