Taylor Swift Recalls ‘Nightmare’ Film Audition Alongside Eddie Redmayne

Posted on 28/10/2022 by Boris Clair

Taylor Swift has recounted a “nightmare” audition she had for the film adaption of Les Miserables opposite Eddie Redmayne.

The singer spoke about the screen test for Tom Hooper’s 2012 version of the musical as she appeared alongside Eddie on Friday’s edition of The Graham Norton Show.

Taylor, who did ultimately not land a part in the film, joked the audition became hellish after she was made to look “like death”.

She recalled: “Basically I was up for two roles – I had the look of Cosette and the range vocally of Eponine, so it was established I was there for a good time but not for a long time, I wasn’t going to get the role.

“But they asked if I would like to go to London to do a screen test with Eddie, who is one of my favourite actors, and I thought ‘This isn’t an experience I am going to get again in my life’, so I said yes.

“When I got there they put me in full 19th century street urchin costume and told me they were going to paint my teeth brown and I was like, ‘You are going to do that after I meet Eddie Redmayne, right?’

“But no, they made me look like death and it became a nightmare. When I met Eddie I didn’t open my mouth to speak!”

Bono, Taylor Swift, Eddie Redmayne and Alex Scott during filming for The Graham Norton Show

Eddie, who was cast to play Marius Pontmercy in Les Miserables added: “I thought we would just be singing off each other – I didn’t know we would be in each other’s arms.

“My overriding memory of it is that I had had pizza and garlic dough balls beforehand and all I could think about was my garlic breath while Taylor was dying in my arms and I was trying to show emotion.”

I’d Do Anything star Samantha Barks ultimately landed the role of Eponine in the film, with Hollywood star Anne Hathaway playing Fantine and Mamma Mia! actress Amanda Seyfried playing Cosette alongside Hugh Jackman’s Jean Valjean.

The Graham Norton Show airs on BBC One on Friday at 10.40pm.

Tom Felton Details Relationship With ‘Brother’ Daniel Radcliffe And Addresses Harry And Draco Fan Theory

Posted on 22/10/2022 by Boris Clair

Tom Felton has opened up about his relationship with his “brother” and former Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe.

The Draco Malfoy actor has said he always have a close bond with Daniel and praised him for “always being collaborative” on the set of the film franchise, which they first joined as children.

Speaking on US TV’s CBS Mornings, Tom gushed: “I love the man dearly.

“I don’t see him as much as I’d like to — that’s the same for all of us, really. But I consider him a brother, definitely. Huge amounts of respect for him.”

Tom went on to praise the way Daniel “brings a certain energy to any room that he’s in”.

He continued: “But it was important to me, looking back, how important his enthusiasm and his eventual professionalism runs down the ranks, if you will.

“He could’ve very much easily, I think, coasted a lot of those years. And it seemed to me, on set with him, that he was always up for bringing as much as he can to the table, always being collaborative.

“And I think he learned that the same way that I did: from the other chaps around us.”

Tom also admitted he agrees with fans who have theorised that Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy “could be” two sides of the same coin.

He said: “You have one boy who has no parents, no money, no status, but he has everything that is good with the world: He has love and compassion and friends and truth and honesty.“And the other side is the slightly darker one, very powerful parents, lots of money, big house, all the toys, but also a bully and someone that can’t find a way of expressing his light, because he hasn’t been shown any his entire life.

“These are broad sweeps of the brush, but I think it’s fairly true.”

Fellow Harry Potter star Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger, recently hailed Tom as her “soulmate” and admitted she struggles to explain their relationship to people.

Writing the foreword for Tom’s new book, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, Emma said: “Like Tom, I always struggle to explain to people the nature of our connection and relationship.

“For more than 20 years now we’ve loved each other in a special way, and I’ve lost count of the times that people have said to me, ‘You must have drunkenly made out, just once!’ ‘You must have kissed!’ ‘There must be something!’

“But what we have is far deeper than that. It’s one of the purest loves I can think of. We’re soulmates, and we’ve always had each other’s backs. I know we always will.”

Scarlett Johansson On ‘Bizarre’ Orgasm Moment That Made Joaquin Phoenix Lose It

Posted on 15/10/2022 by Boris Clair

Scarlett Johansson says the robot sex scene in Her just about caused Joaquin Phoenix to short-circuit.

In Spike Jonze’s 2013 sci-fi romance, Scarlett plays Samantha, an Alexa-like virtual assistant.

Although Scarlett doesn’t actually appear on camera in the movie, her voice is omnipresent throughout, while Joaquin portrays Theodore, who eventually falls in love with the artificially intelligent assistant.

The two characters share an intimate scene in which Scarlett makes sex and orgasm noises.

She explained to Dax Shepard and Monica Padman on their Armchair Expert podcast this week that the offbeat sex scene was pretty awkward to put together.

The Black Widow star explained that Joaquin had already filmed his end of the scene, but because the film only features Scarlett’s voice, he needed to join her in a recording studio to work with her on her part.

“Joaquin comes in, we try to get through one take, and he was, like, losing it,” Scarlett recalled.

“He was like, angry … He had already done [the scene], he had done it in person, and now he was with me, in this weird theatre, I’m in this box and [Joaquin] is staring at me, the lights are low, and like, Spike is there. It was so bizarre.”

“Joaquin was so upset about it, he left the studio,” she added. “He needed a break.”

Scarlett said that thinking back on the scene today gives her “panic” and that she totally understood where Joaquin was coming from.

“You don’t want to hear your voice, ever,” Scarlett said about 46 minutes in. “You definitely don’t want to hear what you sound like having an orgasm. You definitely don’t want to hear what you sound like having a fake orgasm — ew. It’s so gross.”

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Trailer Reveals First Full Look At New Black Panther

Posted on 03/10/2022 by Boris Clair

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Months after Marvel unveiled the emotional first look at Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a new action-packed trailer for the highly anticipated sequel has arrived.

The future of the African nation is in peril in the clip released on Monday, as the kingdom grapples with the loss of its king T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), while facing a new threat below the surface.

In this longer second trailer, we see extended glimpses at what looks like a funeral service for the fallen leader amid sequences of the film’s antagonist Namor (Tenoch Huerta), the ruler of the underwater kingdom of Talocan, and his army dominating the land, sea and sky ― yes, with comic book-accurate winged feet.

But the Wakandans never back down from a fight, with Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), Okoye (Danai Gurira), and Queen Mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett) joining forces to protect their homeland alongside newcomers Michaela Coel and Dominique Thorne, taking up Tony Stark’s mantle as the superhero Ironheart.

“They have lost their protector and now is our time to strike,” Angela Bassett intones in the trailer over footage of her kingdom under attack and partly submerged.

And then, there’s Shuri (Letitia Wright), who many have suspected (and certain Lego sets may have spoiled) will become the new Black Panther in the film following Chadwick Boseman’s death in 2020 from colon cancer.

The final moments of the trailer seem to confirm the speculation, as we get the first full look at Wakanda’s defender, who appears to be a woman, in a sleek and slightly more ornate new suit.

Alongside the trailer, Marvel released the first official poster for the sequel, which puts Shuri front and centre with the mask of the Black Panther looming large above her.

The first teaser Black Panther: Wakanda Forever attracted over 172 milliion views within 24 hours when it was released during Comic-Con earlier this summer, becoming one of the biggest trailer debuts in the studio’s slate.

Ryan Coogler once again returns to direct the film, which hits cinemas on 11 November.

All The Beef Surrounding Olivia Wilde, Florence Pugh And Harry Styles On ‘Don’t Worry Darling’

Posted on 27/08/2022 by Boris Clair

Olivia Wilde’s highly anticipated Don’t Worry Darling — her second movie as a director, following 2019′s Booksmart — stars Oscar nominee Florence Pugh and singer Harry Styles in his first leading film role. The period drama and sci-fi thriller is set to make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5 before a theatrical release on Sept. 23, as the autumn awards season ramps up.

But what’s happening behind the scenes has generated an outsize amount of media attention and internet speculation, with fans and social media observers leaving no stone unturned and mulling over every nugget of information. Among the areas of intrigue: While neither has commented on it publicly, Wilde and Styles reportedly began dating sometime in late 2020, during production on the film.

Much of the drama surrounding the movie came to a head this week due to a Variety profile of Wilde, in which she spoke out about some of the major headlines for the first time. If you’ve struggled to piece together the various threads and keep up with the sheer amount of details and players — with some tangential to the film itself — here’s what has transpired so far.

Harry Styles and Florence Pugh in "Don't Worry Darling," directed by Olivia Wilde. — Harry Styles and Florence Pugh in “Don’t Worry Darling,” directed by Olivia Wilde.

Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf was originally cast in the movie in early 2020. But Styles replaced him by that autumn, shortly before the film began production.

In December 2020, LaBeouf’s former partner FKA Twigs sued him for assault and sexual battery, accusing him of physical, mental and emotional abuse. The case is currently pending. LaBeouf — who has a long and public history of physical and verbal altercations, with a judge once ordering him to attend anger management — parted ways with his agency and began an inpatient rehab program.

Warner Bros., which is distributing Don’t Worry Darling, initially said LaBeouf couldn’t do the film due to a scheduling conflict. However, in this week’s Variety profile, Wilde said that she fired the actor, describing how his “combative energy” didn’t work for the film.

“I say this as someone who is such an admirer of his work. His process was not conducive to the ethos that I demand in my productions,” Wilde told Variety.

“A lot came to light … that really troubled me, in terms of his behaviour,” the director continued. “For our film, what we really needed was an energy that was incredibly supportive. Particularly with a movie like this, I knew that I was going to be asking Florence to be in very vulnerable situations, and my priority was making her feel safe and making her feel supported.”

LaBeouf disputes the nature of his exit from the film. In an email to HuffPost, sent early Thursday in response to Wilde’s Variety interview, LaBeouf wrote: “I was never fired from Don’t Worry Darling. I quit the film due to lack of rehearsal time.”

LaBeouf also enclosed a forwarded email that he said he sent to Wilde this week, imploring her to “correct the narrative as best you can,” and attached text messages that appear to be from August 2020, in which the two discussed him exiting the film.

“What inspired this email today is your latest Variety story. I am greatly honoured by your words on my work; thank you, that felt good to read. I am a little confused about the narrative that I was fired, however. You and I both know the reasons for my exit. I quit your film because your actors & I couldn’t find time to rehearse,” said LaBeouf’s email to Wilde.

“I know that you are beginning your press run for DWD [Don’t Worry Darling] and that the news of my firing is attractive clickbait, as I am still persona-non-grata and may remain as such for the rest of my life,” the forwarded email said.

“My failings with Twigs are fundamental and real, but they are not the narrative that has been presented. There is a time and a place to deal with such things, and I am trying to navigate a nuanced situation with respect for her and the truth, hence my silence. But this situation with your film and my ‘firing’ will never have a court date with which to deal with the facts. If lies are repeated enough in the public they become truth. And so, it makes it that much harder for me to crawl out of the hole I have dug with my behaviours, to be able to provide for my family,” it continued.

“Firing me never took place, Olivia. And while I fully understand the attractiveness of pushing that story because of the current social landscape, the social currency that brings. It is not the truth. So I am humbly asking, as a person with an eye toward making things right, that you correct the narrative as best you can. I hope none of this negatively effects you, and that your film is succesful [sic] in all the ways you want it to be.”

A representative for Wilde declined to comment on LaBeouf’s remarks.

Florence Pugh

Social media speculation has swirled around a purported feud between Pugh and Wilde, based on the impression that Pugh has barely promoted the movie on social media — with some observers zeroing in on how she didn’t hit “like” on Wilde’s Instagram post about a trailer for the movie or a subsequent one praising Pugh’s work. A Page Six story about Pugh taking issue with Wilde and Styles’ on-set relationship also generated intrigue.

The two women have also expressed divergent views on the film’s sex scenes. Wilde has described the movie as breaking new ground for centering female pleasure and, throughout promoting the movie, has discussed her philosophy on portraying sex on screen. On the other hand, in a Harper’s Bazaar profile published earlier this month, Pugh suggested the movie’s marketing has placed too much of an emphasis on sex.

“When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it. It’s not why I’m in this industry,” Pugh told Harper’s Bazaar. “Obviously, the nature of hiring the most famous pop star in the world, you’re going to have conversations like that. That’s just not what I’m going to be discussing because [this movie is] bigger and better than that.”

Neither Pugh nor Wilde has publicly commented on the speculated feud. In her interview with Variety, Wilde praised Pugh’s performance. She also denied claims of a pay gap between Pugh and Styles. Meanwhile, Pugh’s publicist has said the Little Women and Midsommar star has been busy filming Dune: Part Two in Hungary.

Jason Sudeikis

The promotion for Don’t Worry Darling has also become entangled in Wilde’s custody battle with Jason Sudeikis, her former partner, over their two children. When Wilde was giving a presentation on the movie at CinemaCon in April, a representative for Sudeikis served her custody papers on stage.

At the time, a representative for Sudeikis told HuffPost that the Ted Lasso star “had no prior knowledge of the time or place that the envelope would have been delivered as this would solely be up to the process service company involved and he would never condone her being served in such an inappropriate manner.”

Wilde at CinemaCon 2022 in April, holding an envelope with custody papers.

According to a court filing obtained by the Daily Mail earlier this month, Wilde later said Sudeikis’ actions “were clearly intended to threaten me and catch me off guard.”

“He could have served me discreetly, but instead he chose to serve me in the most aggressive manner possible,” she reportedly said in the court filing. “The fact that Jason would embarrass me professionally and put our personal conflict on public display in this manner is extremely contrary to our children’s best interests.”

Sudeikis said the whole situation was due to a series of mishaps, according to the Daily Mail. “I deeply regret what happened,” he said in the documents.

In the interview with Variety, Wilde similarly described the incident as “an attack” and “really upsetting,” adding that she “hated that this nastiness distracted from” the movie.

“To try to sabotage that was really vicious. But I had a job to do; I’m not easily distracted,” she told Variety. “But, you know, sadly, it was not something that was entirely surprising to me. I mean, there’s a reason I left that relationship.”

Olivia Wilde Addresses Harry Styles And Florence Pugh Pay Disparity Rumours

Posted on 24/08/2022 by Boris Clair

Olivia Wilde has spoken out over reports that Harry Styles was paid more than three times as much as Florence Pugh for his work on Don’t Worry Darling, despite the latter receiving top billing.

The actor and director is currently gearing up for the release of her new thriller, which stars Harry and Florence as a married couple in the 1950s living a seemingly perfect life in the suburbs together.

Earlier this month, it was reported by Showbiz Galore that Florence had received $700,000 (around £593,000) for her work on the film, with the outlet also claiming Harry was paid $2.5 million (£2.12 million).

This pay disparity quickly went viral, particularly as Florence is an Oscar nominee with years of experience, while Harry had only one film credit to his name when he signed up for Don’t Worry Darling

However, in a new interview with Variety, Olivia insisted these reports were completely inaccurate.

“There has been a lot out there that I largely don’t pay attention to,” she said. “But the absurdity of invented clickbait and subsequent reaction regarding a nonexistent pay disparity between our lead and supporting actors really upset me.

“I’m a woman who has been in this business for over 20 years, and it’s something that I have fought for myself and others, especially being a director. There is absolutely no validity to those claims.”

There has also been speculation online of a supposed feud between Olivia and Florence, which Page Six has claimed was sparked by the Little Women star being “unhappy” about the director’s romantic relationship with Harry.

Variety noted that neither party has “bothered to comment on the tabloid-driven feud”, with Olivia praising the actor throughout the interview.

She said: “She was really a great supporter of his as someone who was newer to a film set. And he was such a great supporter of hers, as someone who understood it was her film.”

On first seeing Florence in action in Midsommar, Olivia added: “I had been blown the fuck away by her. I loved the film, but I loved her. I was just like, ‘Well, she’s extraordinary. She’s clearly the most exciting young actress working today.’.”

Variety noted that Florence “declined to be interviewed” for their story, with her publicist telling the outlet she is currently filming the sequel to Dune in Budapest.

In an interview this week, Florence said she would not be commenting publicly on filming sex scenes with Harry in Don’t Worry Darling, telling Harper’s Bazaar: “When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it. It’s not why I’m in this industry.

“Obviously, the nature of hiring the most famous pop star in the world, you’re going to have conversations like that. That’s just not what I’m going to be discussing because [this movie is] bigger and better than that. And the people who made it are bigger and better than that.”

Meanwhile, Olivia has been keen to highlight the importance of female pleasure within the film’s intimate moments.

“It’s all about immediacy and extreme passion for one another,” she told Variety. “The impractical nature of their sex speaks to their ferocious desire for one another.

“I think it’s integral to the story itself and how the audience is meant to connect to them. My early conversations with the cast were all about how the audience has to buy into the fantasy.”

Don’t Worry Darling also co-stars Gemma Chan, Chris Pine and Nick Kroll.

The film hits cinemas in the UK on 23 September.

Tom Hardy Has Just Added Gold Medal-Winning Jiu-Jitsu Champion To His CV And… Swooon

Posted on 22/08/2022 by Boris Clair

Not content with being a handsome movie star, brilliant bedtime story reader and cute dog owner, Tom Hardy has just gone and won not one, but two gold medals in a Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament.

The Venom star took to the mat at the Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship at Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton on Saturday, a charity event organised by REORG, which the British actor is a trustee of.

REORG teaches those with life-altering injuries or those who are suffering from PTSD and depression the Brazilian version of the martial art.

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TikTok user Jiu-Jitsu Geoff was at the event and shared a series of videos of the 44-year-old actor in action.

“Tom Hardy dominating REORG Open taking double gold. Won every match by submission, the man is a killer,” he captioned the clips.

“Tom Hardy out here ripping people’s arms and legs off,” he jokingly added.

Tom also made one young fan’s day when he took time out to meet him (and his mum).

Carla Frost took her six-year-old son to the venue with the hope of meeting their hero.

Speaking to the Express and Star, she said: “I received a message that he was in our town competing in a Jiu-jitsu tournament, drove down, walked in, asked for him and was told he had just left.

“My son then burst into tears. The lovely lady from REORG decided to just check. The next thing I know this lovely man is walking across the sports hall to us.

“He instinctively scooped my son into a hug and proceeded to just make his year.

“He’s so kind and thoughtful. So surreal! My son has grown up hearing me talk about how talented and brilliant this man is.

“He loves Venom so this is something I know he will always remember.”

As well as winning gold medals, Tom has been busy preparing for the third Venom movie, a year after the second film in the franchise raked in $500million at the box office, despite being panned by critics.

They might want to choose their words carefully next time after seeing Tom in action on the mat.