-Pink covers the Limitless issue of Women’s Health and talks about her dad’s death (” I don’t grieve in a normal way, like how I see other people grieve. They have such instant access to their grief, it seems. I just kind of go numb”), her strength (“I have wide, big feet, and I joke, ‘The better to kick you with.’ I’m short, close to the ground, fast, and agile…. I could pick up a car if I needed to”) and how she challenges herself (“I feel like when the going gets tough, that’s when you dig deeper and double down. And I’m constantly saying, ‘What will I do with this one precious life?’ I’m going to do too much. I’m gonna slide in sideways until the end, going, ‘HOLY SH*T, DID YOU SEE THAT!?'”).
-Iconic 80-year-old action star Harrison Ford sat down with THR to talk about Indiana Jones 5, his Yellowstone prequel 1923, and Shrinking. “I’m not anti-therapy for anybody — except for myself. I know who the fuck I am at this point.”
–Evangeline Lilly says she visited Avengers costar Jeremy Renner after his snow plow accident: “He was wheeling himself around, laughing with his friends. It’s a miracle. It’s a straight up miracle.”
-Oh my god, I adore the fact that Jeremy Renner’s renovation show is called Rennervations.
-Great to see Rachel Bilson back on TV. I’m not going to watch her procedural, but still love to see it.
–Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid tried to do the Dirty Dancing lift — with an assist from Ed Sheeran.
-It’s wild that the Kardashian are still allowed to do crap like sponsored posts about vitamin gummies that allegedly make your vagina taste better (they don’t).
-La La Land is being adapted for Broadway and you know what? I would watch the crap out of that.
-In a rare move, theater chains across the U.S. and Canada have lowered the ticket price for 80 for Brady, in partnership with Paramount.
-This is a great piece on how Fleishman is in Trouble and M3GAN shine a sobering light on just how much we ask of moms today.
-Speaking of the Fleishman discourse, I finally got around to reading that piece in The Cut. Are rich people ok?!?
–Melanie Lynskey wrote a great thread on why she was drawn to her Last of Us character. “I was excited at the idea of playing a woman who had, in a desperate and tragic time, jumped into a role she had never planned on having and nobody else had planned on her having, and then she actually got shit done. I wanted her to look like she should have a notepad on her at all times.”
–Nicole Kidman has booked her next TV gig: She’ll play Kay Scarpetta in the TV adaptation of Patricia Cornwell‘s bestselling novels.
-Disney’s Bob Iger announced that two new sequels to massive franchises — Toy Story and Frozen — are in development.
-Of course Dunkin’s first Super Bowl commercial will star Ben Affleck.
-This is such a great interview with Steven Soderbergh on shooting the new Magic Mike movie. He talks about pushing the envelope (“I remember being in Miami, watching Channing and Alison Faulk, the choreographer, go through the paces of that [first dance] scene…I said, ‘There’s no universe where Salma’s going to do all that.’ And when I came back, Salma’s like, ‘No, no, no, no! Let’s push it further! I want to lock and fold him! I want to do all this other stuff!’ I thought, ‘Okay! Let’s do it!'”) and filming the dance in the rain (“That shit’s hard to do when it’s dry. He’s deadlifting her and throwing her around, and it’s fucking wet!…We had this tiny little seat with coasters, like five sets of wheels on the bottom of it. I was moving myself around the stage, around them, with the camera. I was just chasing them…I wanted it to feel — sloppy is not the right word, but rough. I was not going for a kind of typical, classical composition or movement. I wanted something that just felt spontaneous”).
-Now that everyone’s sharing that clip of Pedro Pascal cracking up on SNL, here’s my fave clip of him breaking character.
-Glad to see the reviews for Sharper, the twisty con flick starring Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan, are great. It is in theatres for a bit before streaming on Apple.
-Oh man, I *just* got to a point when I wasn’t thinking about Aftersun everyday and then they go and release BTS footage.
-The Woman King director Gina Prince-Bythewood talked about the film’s Oscar shut-out: “The Academy made a very loud statement, and for me to stay quiet is to accept that statement. So I agreed to speak up, on behalf of Black women whose work has been dismissed in the past, is dismissed now…and for those who haven’t even stepped on a set yet.”
–Viola Davis also weighed in: “Whether it be a ‘grassroots’ campaign spearheaded by peers or multi-million industry dollars backing one, we rarely are the benefactors. If you see my work you also have to see our plight and either contribute to it or hinder it.”
-Meanwhile, this the best deep-dive into the Andrea Riseborough nomination I’ve seen. Two things can be true at the same time: it was a super savvy strategy — and there’s little chance POC performers would be afforded the same playbook.
-Speaking of deep-dives, here’s a fascinating look inside the implosion of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland’s career.
–Jonathan Majors‘ Kang goes hard in the new Ant-Man: Quantumania teaser.
-I do find it interesting that the first reactions to Ant-Man seem a bit muted? Usually the tweets about Marvel movies before the full review embargo is lifted are way more over the top and gushing. (I mean, there is some of that, but still…) Everyone seems to be praising Majors’ performance though.
–Jack Harlow and Sinqua Walls star in the Hulu reboot of White Men Can’t Jump.