-Succession is coming back soon, so the cast is doing the press rounds. In his new GQ cover story, Jeremy Strong addresses his viral 2021 New Yorker profile, calling it “15 minutes of shame, with a long tail” and saying, “I hadn’t felt judged like that in a very long time” He also commented on his costars Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin contributing to the piece (“Everyone’s entitled to have their feelings. I also think Brian Cox, for example, he’s earned the right to say whatever the fuck he wants”) but says he doesn’t agree with Cox’s assessment that he’s “in pain” because they’ve only interacted with each other as performers. “There’s certainly a lot of pain in Kendall, and I haven’t really met Brian outside of the confines of that.”
-Meanwhile, Brian Cox got his own cover (this one for Town & Country), and still seems annoyed by Strong’s method acting (“Oh, it’s fucking annoying. Don’t get me going on it”). He says he was particularly impressed with Strong during a scene last season where his character tells his siblings that he murdered someone, but was baffled that the actor refused to break character on set. “He’s still that guy, because he feels if he went somewhere else he’d lose it. But he won’t! Strong is talented. He’s fucking gifted. When you’ve got the gift, celebrate the gift. Go back to your trailer and have a hit of marijuana, you know?”
–Ariana Debose‘s opening number for the BAFTAs was so poorly received, she quit Twitter. I mean, this part was really, really rough but “Angela Bassett did the thing” instantly became a meme, so yay?
-Big day for baby news! Adam Driver and wife Joanne Tucker are expecting baby number 2, as is Constance Wu and boyfriend Ryan Kattner.
–Avril Lavigne and Mod Sun have called off their engagement the day after she was photographed grabbing dinner with Tyga.
–Paris Hilton says she thought she was asexual before meeting her husband: “I was known as a sex symbol, but anything sexual terrified me….I called myself the ‘kissing bandit’ because I only liked to make out. A lot of my relationships didn’t work out because of that.”
-The first review I read of the Party Down revival was Variety’s, which was negative, so I’m thrilled to see that all the others I’ve come across are glowing.
–Jenny Slate “never felt” her Everything Everywhere All At Once character, who is credited as Big Nose, was offensive. “[The Daniels] explained it to me. They explained it to me right away, so I never felt it was antisemitic.”
–Jamie Lee Curtis revealed she got more screen time in movies like Knives Out because she never spends any time in her trailer: “Here’s the deal. It’s my secret sauce. Don’t go back to your trailers. Trailers are not your friend. Jonathan Wang, our producer of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ will tell you I never left the set. I don’t believe in it.”
-This is such a great interview with Ellen Barkin, who was recently in Poker Face. “I am 68 years old. I’m fresh out of all my f**ks.”
–Pedro Pascal was on Seth Meyers’ show last week, and was predictably adorable.
–Liam Neeson doesn’t exactly seem like a fun hang, huh? The actor said his recent appearance on The View was “a bit embarrassing,” adding, “I was in the dressing room drinking a cup of tea, turned the TV up, and I thought, oh, this will be great. They’re talking about gun violence in America, and I agree that it’s an American problem. I go onstage and join the ladies during the break, and I was congratulating them on this discussion. And then our segment starts and it’s just all this BS with Joy [Behar] and Liam Neeson and having a crush, and I’ve known Whoopi for years and Joy a little bit, but I just wasn’t impressed.”
–Jully Black is so boss for changing one word while singing Canada’s national anthem at the All Stars game: “our home and native land” became “our home on native land.” She said, “We’ve been singing this anthem since kindergarten. I reached out to some Indigenous friends to say ‘first of all, how do you feel about me doing this anthem?’ And I got some feedback and I really dissected the lyrics to really sing it with intention.”
–Cardi B is tweeting her way through community service, which she was given as part of a plea deal stemming from a 2018 strip club brawl.
–Ana De Armas talks about social media killing movie stars: “The concept of a movie star is someone untouchable you only see onscreen. That mystery is gone. For the most part, we’ve done that to ourselves — nobody’s keeping anything from anyone anymore.” This would be a lot more powerful if she didn’t aggressively participate in pap walks to Dunkin’ for like, a year.
-I always forget that Paul Rudd and Olivia Colman are good friends. She recently pranked him on BBC Radio 1.
–Selena Gomez is calling out cruel commenters: “just the idea of bodyshaming a woman who has to fight & deal with an autoimmune disease and take proper medication… like some people are just too much.”
–Chris Brown responded to backlash following the announcement of his collaboration with Chlöe: “IF YALL STILL HATE ME FOR A MISTAKE I MADE AS A 17 year old please kiss my whole entire ass!” I mean, Karruche got a 5-year restraining order against him 6 years ago, so it’s not just really old mistakes.
–Will Smith did good with this TikTok.
-This is awful: Kellie Pickler‘s husband was found dead of apparent suicide.
–Penn Badgley seems overwhelmed in his puppy interview.
-Speaking of Penn, this is a really good take on how the latest season of You reinvented itself the wrong way.
-Love this piece on how we have to stop trying to make Brooklyn Beckham happen.
-Here’s the Shadow and Bone season 2 trailer. I have zero recollection of what happened in season 1 apart from the Crows’s bit.
–Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon play journalists tracking a killer in the trailer for Hulu’s Boston Strangler.