Pedro Pascal and Steven Yeun Talk Road Rage

–Pedro Pascal and Steven Yeun teamed up for Variety’s Actors on Actors, and Pascal gushed about working with Bella Ramsey: “I couldn’t have asked for a more anchoring, generous, thoughtful teenager,” while Yeun said he loved “talking shit” with Ali Wong on the set of Beef.

–Meghann Fahy and Elizabeth Olsen also did an Actors on Actors interview and wow, does Olsen not sound like she misses playing Wanda.

–Kieran Culkin and Claire Danes also interviewed each other, and Culkin begged her to “stop making me cry so much. I’m going to stop watching you’re work; I hate crying.” He also told her of the Roman/Gerri dynamic: “Something in my belly said ‘yeah, this is working.’ I don’t know what it is or why and I didn’t try to identify it — I feel like Roman wouldn’t be able to identify it so I tried to remain in the dark. I sort of thought ‘when the show’s over, I can figure it out’ and I still haven’t.”

-Also, Culkin crashed Brian Cox and Emily Blunt‘s photoshoot and it was adorable. “How are you, are you grumpy today?”

–Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup are married. The actress posted a photo from the nuptials at a Manhattan courthouse.

–Garth Brooks says his new bar is safe for trans people and will serve Bud Light: “Our thing is this: if you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an asshole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”

-I watched some of the Tony Awards last night, which felt kind of fun and free as there were no teleprompters in honour of the WGA strike. The fashions were also great, especially Lupita Nyong’o’s look.

-Also, Samuel L. Jackson did not look thrilled when he lost to Brandon Uranowitz.

-Her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, but Kelis is currently giving it to Bill Murray. When fans asked about the relationship rumours in the comments of her latest IG post, the singer responded “Lol yeah maybe for now everyone’s dumb and will believe anything. But the best part is we are both blessed, rich, and happy. So who’s really laughing now?” When someone else asked her to address the rumours, she wrote “lol no babe, I wouldn’t bother at all”

–Kevin Federline is denying a UK tabloid report that he told two reporters that he and his sons were worried about alleged drug use by Britney Spears. “We did allow [reporters] Daphne & Bill into our home because we trusted them, but that trust was lost and we severed ties back in March for many reasons we choose not to go into here.”

-Following Barbie, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling will reunite in a Ocean’s Eleven prequel.

–Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are not happy that Tr*mp is using the Air monologue in his campaign ads.

-The Globes Globes will no longer be under the oversight of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, as Dick Clark Productions have acquired its rights. Meanwhile, the HFPA will wind down.

-A new Steven Soderbergh interview is always worth a read. He sounds off on cellphones (“Cellphones are the worst thing that’s ever happened to movies…It’s so hard to manufacture drama when everybody can ahold of everybody all the time. It’s just not as fun as in the old days when the phone would ring and you didn’t know who was calling. I remember that fondly’), and talks about why he’s not afraid of AI (“It’s just another tool. If it helps you finish a first draft of a script, great. But can it finish that thing and make it great on its own? Absolutely not. As of today, it is not keeping me up at night”).

-Wednesday actor Percy Hynes White denounced the “campaign of misinformation” against him after he was accused of sexual assault earlier this year: “The rumors are false.”

-This is a lovely story about Barry crewmembers talking about how wonderful Bill Hader was to work with. I listened to his episode recaps this season on The Ringer podcast, and I was always so pleasantly surprised by how willing he was to share the credit. He was always saying stuff like, “Oh, that wasn’t my idea; our lighting guy came up with that” and “we cast our P.A. in that role and isn’t she fantastic?”

–Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo get their weird on in the Poor Things trailer.

 

Ellen Pompeo & Katherine Heigl Reunite

-Honestly, I was hoping the Actors on Actors between Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl, but they didn’t really get into Heigl’s acrimonious exit from Grey’s too much. They talked about becoming a meme (Pompeo: “My daughter and her friends, they sit around and they’re like, ‘Oh, she’s a ‘pick me girl.’ I’m like, ‘Hello?! Do you know who invented the ‘pick me girl’?”) and awkward encounters with fans (Heigl: “[This young girl] goes “Do you know Izzie Stevens?” And I go [smugly], ‘Yeah.’ And she goes, ‘Are you her mother?’ [shocked] I was like, ‘How old are you?’ and she said, ‘I’m 17’ and I was like ‘Go. Away.'”)

–Jenna Ortega, Elle Fanning, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Natasha Lyonne, Ayo Edebiri and Devery Jacobs were on THR’s TV Comedy Actress Roundtable to talk fighting stereotypes, digesting studio notes and the prospect of playing Pete Davidson’s girlfriend. Fanning recalled a terrible comment earlier in her career (“I was literally 16 and this person said ‘Oh, she didn’t get the father/daughter road trip comedy because she’s unfuckable”), while Reservation Dogs star Jacobs very respectfully and gently asked corrected the others’ language (“For us, we call ourselves Indians but for other people I would say indigenous or Native Americans. I say that with all the love…Indian is more like a joke that we’ve reclaimed for ourselves”).

-I very much liked this profile on Harrison Ford in Esquire. He seems like such a hard interview but this one felt surprisingly human.

-Speaking of good profiles, Bella Ramsey covers Vanity Fair and they talk about Pedro Pascal’s “daddy” rep (“I very much played into it at the beginning, but now I’m worried it’s gone too far. I don’t know whether he’s still loving it; I need to ask him”), and staring on Game of Thrones (“It was weird, suddenly having no friends at school to everyone wanting to be my friend. I saw right through it, though. I think they thought I was being a diva by not spilling the beans. But I was scared. I mean, I signed NDAs!”).

–Meghann Fahy and Theo James chat about playing a couple on White Lotus, and Fahy has a theory about why her character took Ethan to that island: “From Daphne’s perspective, taking him to the island was a strangely compassionate moment. She saw how ill-equipped he was to deal with the situation he’d found himself in, and she’s got this whole toolbox.”

–Cuba Gooding Jr. settled a lawsuit that accused him of rape, narrowly averting a trial in New York federal court on Tuesday.

-Though we don’t get a full excerpt this time, here’s some of what Mo Ryan wrote about the Sleepy Hollow set in her new book, Burn It Down.  I’m not surprised by how terribly Nicole Beharie was treated, but I am pretty disappointed in Tom Mison‘s reported role in it. They always seemed really tight while doing press, so I had hoped he tried to have her back.

-This is a very good read on how TV’s transition from linear network to streaming binges has broken the industry.

-Netflix is doing it’s big “Tudum” event on June 17, where they’ll unveil new trailers and sneak peeks for what’s coming in the next year.

–Kim Cattrall heads a makeup empire in the trailer for Netflix’s Glamourous.

Drew Barrymore on Practicing “Active Love”

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–E. Alex’s Jung‘s profiles are always excellent and his latest on Drew Barrymore doesn’t disappoint. She talks about bribing her daughters’ bus driver (“He doesn’t like me. Brought him cookies the other day ’cause we’re like, ‘Maybe if we bring cookies…'”), her parenting rules (“Just consistency. Homework, dinner, bath. It took me so long to learn the simplicity of how to say ‘no’ because growing up, I didn’t know how comforting and safe that is”), and being too self-critical (“I’ve been a circus bear my whole life. I swear to God, if the ringmaster left the tent, I would become the ringmaster and start, like, flagellating myself”).

-Has Taylor Swift already shaken off Matty Healy? TMZ is reporting a split.

–People confirmed that Natalie Portman and husband Benjamin Millepied are “privately working through marital struggles” after a French outlet claimed Millepied had an extramarital affair. A source tells the magazine, “It was short-lived and it is over.”

-Remember the good ol’ days of last week when we thought Leonardo DiCaprio was dating a 28-year-old? He was seen hanging out with 22-year-old model Meghan Roche in Ibiza over the weekend.

-In her Elle profile, SZA says her anxiety and struggles with self-esteem is not an act: “I didn’t succumb to industry pressure. I succumbed to my own eyes in the mirror and being like, ‘No, I need some more ass.'”

-Move over, Dwayne Johnson! Vin Diesel may be feuding with another costar now. He’s reportedly angry that Jason Momoa stole his thunder in Fast X.

–Jennifer Coolidge and Jeremy Allen White‘s Actors on Actors interview was very flirty. She told him, “99% of my jobs were all restaurant jobs, and I always fell in love with the angry chefs…I just like the way they throw the food down. It was so sexy. They’d be like, ‘Take it. Just take it.’ And there’s something about a man who can do something fast.”

-Meanwhile, here’s the latest trailer for White’s show The Bear, which is back on June 22.

-If you are put in the uncomfortable situation where you have to talk about your sexuality, do it in the classy way like Abbott Elementary’s Tyler James Williams just did: “I’m not gay, but I think the culture of trying to ‘find’ some kind of hidden trait or behavior that a closed person ‘let slip’ is very dangerous. Overanalyzing someone’s behavior in an attempt to ‘catch’ them directly contributes to the anxiety a lot of queer and queer-questioning people feel when they fear living in their truth. It makes the most pedestrian of conversations and interactions in spaces feel less safe for our gay brothers and sisters and those who may be questioning.”

-We’re getting our own “dun dun!” CityTV has ordered a drama based on Dick Wolf’s mega-franchise called  Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent.

–Padma Lakshmi announced she won’t be on Top Chef anymore.

-Last week, we got a peek at Mo Ryan‘s new book Burn It Down with a focus on Lost. This week, it’s the behind-the-scenes at SNL. One woman alleges that when she was 17, she was groped at an afterparty by Horatio Sanz in full view of his costars. “My control top pantyhose did more to keep me safe than any of those people that I idolized.” Meanwhile, Janeane Garofalo, Cheri Oteri, Harry Shearer, Julia Sweeney and others are quoted about the difficult atmosphere Lorne Michaels has cultivated.

-In his new memoir, Elliot Page reveals a past romantic relationship with Kate Mara, who was dating Max Minghella at the time, at recounts a party where an A-list actor told him, “You aren’t gay. That doesn’t exist. You are just afraid of men. I’m going to f—k you to make you realize you aren’t gay.”

-I know nothing about art but this is a pretty good recap of the controversy surrounding Hannah Gadsby‘s Pablo Picasso exhibit. The connection to the Sackler family is…not great.

–Ioan Gruffudd’s 13-year-old daughter filed a restraining order against him following an incident at her father’s house.

–Beanie Feldstein and producer Bonnie-Chance Roberts got married with a summer camp themed event in upstate New York. Brother Jonah Hill didn’t attend because he was busy welcoming his first child with girlfriend Oliva Millar.

-You know what’s more entertaining than watching last night’s premiere of The Idol? Reading critics tear down last night’s premiere of The Idol: “I should note The Weeknd’s performance is not alone in its badness on a show that is shot like an overlit snuff film. It’s just the one that grabbed me by the hoodie strings and refused to let go like a drunk breathing 3 a.m. Jager breath on you and asking if he can crash in your hotel room.”

-The biggest complaint about the new HBO show seems to be that it’s just really boring and dull. It fell short of 1 million viewers, but Euphoria started slow too so who knows?

-Showtime has dropped its plans to air a documentary about Louis C.K.’s return to standup following his sexual misconduct.

-This is cool: Coldplay is leaning hard into sustainability initiatives in their latest tour.

-Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opened huge this weekend, enjoying third-biggest opening ever for an animated film. Because they made them pretty much at the same time, the next Spiderverse movie is coming out in only 9 months.

–Adam Devine and Nina Dobrev‘s relationship gets complicated when her parents (Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin) rob the bank he works at in the trailer for The Out-Laws.