-The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue came out today and everyone’s dunking on Nicole Kidman’s cover, but I dunno. It’s overly photoshopped but if I look like anything even remotely that when I’m 54 I’ll weep with joy. Personally, I have more questions about Benedict Cumberbatch‘s milk bath with swans.
-There’s also a cute video in which the 8 cover subjects answer 8 questions about their careers.
-Also in the issue, Kristen Stewart talks about working on a TV show with her screenwriter fiancée Dylan Meyer: “We discovered a superbrain.”
-In the new issue of Interview, Alexander Skarsgård talks to Kirsten Dunst about his role in the new viking saga The Northman.
-Oh, this is rich. When asked about Taylor Swift‘s new version of “Red” in his Esquire profile, Jake Gyllenhaal said he hasn’t listened to it but added, “That begs for a deeper philosophical question. Not about any individual, per se, but a conversation that allows us to examine how we can—or should, even—take responsibility for what we put into the world, our contributions into the world. How do we provoke a conversation? We see that in politics. There’s anger and divisiveness, and it’s literally life-threatening in the extreme.” Sir, she wrote about her dad comforting her when you skipped her birthday party. If you want to talk about taking responsibility for what we put out in the world, let’s chat about the nightmares I had after watching Nightcrawler, mmm-ok?
–Joe Rogan‘s deal with Spotify may be worth even more than the rumoured $200 million. Swell.
–Ioan Gruffudd filed for a domestic violence restraining order against estranged wife Alice Evans.
-Even airing opposite the Super Bowl, Euphoria’s latest episode was able to attract a series-high 5.1 million viewers within a few hours of its premiere.
–Zendaya and Tom Holland were spotted enjoying a date night in New York and they were as super cute as always.
-Oh god, here we go. Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine has forged a partnership with NFT collective World of Women (WoW) to make feature films, scripted and unscripted TV series based on NFTs.
–Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are rumoured to be expecting another kid, judging by various rounds of paparazzi pics.
–Keri Russell will star in and exec produce Netflix’s The Diplomat, an 8-ep political thriller where she’ll play a career diplomat who lands a high-profile job she’s unsuited for in the midst of an international crisis. Yes, please!
-Stranger Things is gearing up for it’s fourth season (with will be broken into two parts — one dropping in May and the other in July) with “super-sized episodes“. They also just announced that the fifth season will be their last.
-The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has been renewed for its fifth and final season, which is already underway in New York.
-FX has renewed Dave for a third season. I love that little weirdo of a show.
–This interview with HBO/Max’s Casey Bloys is good, mostly because he says he’s not just interested in doing reboots (despite there being talk of Six Feet Under and True Blood revivals). “I just want to point out that if you look at the last year, between Mare of Easttown, The White Lotus and Succession and Insecure and now Euphoria and Gilded Age and going into Winning Time, there’s no reboots. In most those cases, they weren’t based on existing IP. I do want to take a moment to make clear that we don’t spend our days thinking about what to reboot because it’s a tricky business bringing a show back.”
-Here’s the trailer for Lizzo’s dance competition series, which looks delightful!
–Austin Butler plays Elvis in the trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about the King of Rock and Roll.
-Watch Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Gillian Anderson transform into Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt in Showtime’s The First Lady trailer.