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How Moses Sumney Went From Music to ‘MaXXXine’: “I Wanted to Prove Myself as an Actor”
In Moses Sumney’s first film acting role, he dies onscreen. That’s not so much a spoiler as it is an inevitability; the movie is MaXXXine, the final installment of Ti West’s beloved Mia Goth-starring horror trilogy from which nobody makes it out alive. Sumney plays Leon, a Hollywood Boulevard video store employee and the closest […]
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How Josh Hartnett Became a Surprise Guest Star on ‘The Bear’
[This story contains spoilers from season three of The Bear.] When Josh Hartnett appeared onscreen in the new season of The Bear, revealing himself as one of this year’s surprise guest stars, fans experienced it as a delightful and seemingly random casting. But, like everything in the world of The Bear, it was actually a […]
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‘The Bear’ Star Gillian Jacobs on Tiffany’s ‘Past Lives’ Moment, Taylor Swift Easter Eggs and That Fiancé Reveal
[This story contains spoilers from season three of The Bear.] After Gillian Jacobs first debuted as Tiffany on season one of The Bear, she didn’t know if she was going to get another shot at the show. The actress recorded a voice memo from her apartment in Marseille, France — she was on location for […]
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‘The Bear’ Star Lionel Boyce on Marcus’ Eulogy Scene, Season 3 Cliffhanger and Whether Anyone on the Show Is OK
[This story contains major spoilers from season three of The Bear]. When Lionel Boyce sat for his recent profile with The Hollywood Reporter, he had just returned home to Los Angeles from Chicago, where he and the rest of The Bear cast had just wrapped filming on the third season. His memories from the set […]
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‘Normal People’ Actor Éanna Hardwicke to Narrate the Next Sally Rooney Novel (Exclusive)
The Sally Rooney cinematic universe is coming to her next book. The author will release Intermezzo, her fourth novel, on Sept. 24 and The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively announce that Normal People actor Éanna Hardwicke will narrate the audio version. “Her writing was a real gift to act, so it is a privilege to get […]
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Jenny Slate Announces Her ‘Lifeform’ National Book Tour (Exclusive)
Jenny Slate has had a prolific year. Last January, her film Marcel the Shell With Shoes On was nominated for the best animated feature film Oscar. In February, she premiered her second stand-up special Seasoned Professional on Amazon Prime and announced the forthcoming publication of her sophomore memoir Lifeform. And this fall, she’ll be taking […]
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Lionel Boyce on Breaking Through on ‘The Bear’
On the first day of filming season three of The Bear, Lionel Boyce realized he was being watched. He was in a Chicago neighborhood shooting a scene for the chef-centric series — which also stars Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — and when he glanced up at the surrounding apartment buildings, he […]
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‘I’m a Virgo’s Secret Sauce: Anti-Capitalist Messaging and a Briefcase Full of Dolls
Boots Riley didn’t set out to make I’m a Virgo as a television series. Even a year after releasing the show, which premiered to critical acclaim and received four Spirit Award nominations, he’s not entirely sold on the medium. “I’m just going to be honest for the other filmmakers out there: I’m not a TV […]
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What Paul Scheer Wishes He Knew About Publishing a Book
Paul Scheer would absolutely call himself a go-getter. After attending NYU, he forged his way through the New York improv scene, eventually ending up as a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade. Now decades into his comedy career, he acts, writes, hosts multiple podcasts and his own Twitch channel. So when he set out to […]
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What ‘A Murder at the End of the World’ Creators Think Is the Most Radical Thing About the Show
When Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij started working on the idea that would become A Murder at the End of the World in 2019, they were searching for a way to build out the character of the billionaire who holds the retreat for the show’s central whodunit. The seemingly obvious option was to make Andy […]
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How Adria Arjona Put the “Hit” in ‘Hit Man’
Adria Arjona’s new movie Hit Man is a rousing success, but she’s trying not to think about it. The Richard Linklater feature, starring Glen Powell as an undercover fake-killer-for-hire and Arjona as a woman who tries to solicit his services, first premiered to rave reviews at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, shortly before it was acquired by Netflix […]
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‘I’m a Virgo’ Editor on His Approach to 13-Foot-Tall Sex Scene in Boots Riley’s Superhero Drama
In the third episode of Prime Video’s I’m a Virgo, a beloved character succumbs to an injury after being denied treatment at a hospital because he was uninsured; it’s one of several of the show’s depictions of the horrors of America under capitalism, and the scene that made editor Tom Eagles want to be part […]
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