Melissa McCarthy and the rest of the cast of Gilmore Girls felt the heat when they were filming the show.
30.05.2023 - 18:09 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Alexa will no longer swear a blue streak for you in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson. Amazon has discontinued sales of the special Alexa celebrity-voice add-on packs from Jackson, Melissa McCarthy and Shaquille O’Neal, which have been able to tell jokes, report on the weather and deliver other responses to users of Alexa-enabled devices. According to notices on Amazon’s site, the trio of Alexa celebrity voice “personalities” are no longer available for purchase. The Alexa celebrity voice packs had cost $4.99 each. For customers who already bought them, the Alexa voices for McCarthy and Shaq are set to expire on Sept. 30, 2023, while the Jackson voice add-on for Alexa was deactivated as of April 30.
Introduced in 2019, the voice pack for Samuel L. Jackson — legendary for his profanity-laced dialogue — let Alexa users opt to use explicit language or not. For example: Asking “Hey Samuel, roast me” would elicit responses including “Why the f— do you want to be roasted? You really think you can handle that?” and “I’m just gonna ignore that request, because if I really roast you, your sorry ass will be destroyed on impact.” Amazon introduced Alexa voice packs for McCarthy and Shaq in 2021, touting the popularity of the Jackson voice. That required each of them to record dozens of hours of themselves speaking to train the AI-based system that generated their Alexa voices. Amazon did not respond to a request for more information. The company’s decision to phase out the Alexa celebrity voices was previously spotted by The Verge. In the past six months, Amazon has been in cost-cutting mode, and the Alexa celebrity voices may be getting sunsetted as part of that larger initiative — which has
Melissa McCarthy and the rest of the cast of Gilmore Girls felt the heat when they were filming the show.
Stars Hollow may have been picturesque on the screen, but it was a nightmare for Melissa McCarthy and the rest of the cast IRL!
Melissa McCarthy, who played lovable chef Sookie St. James on all seven seasons, recently opened up about one big downside to filming the mother-daughter dramedy starring Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore and Alexis Bledel as her daughter, Rory Gilmore.Though the show takes place in the fictional Connecticut town of Stars Hollow, it was actually filmed at the Warner Bros.
Melissa McCarthy would love to work with Octavia Spencer at some point and that includes in a potential Ma sequel.
in the hilarious 2011 “Saturday Night Live” sketch, the “Spy” star actually chugged a probiotic drink called Kefir.“When I think about it, I kinda really love ranch,” said “The Heat” star to Entertainment Weekly’s “3 Rounds” host Alexis Wilson. “So I don’t know that I couldn’t have just [drank ranch dressing] … but there’s a lot of logistics to that.”McCarthy revealed that is an attempt to find a substitute for the condiment, she discovered Kefir. The “Tammy” star joked that the diary drink isn’t that different from ranch “when you’re shotgunning it down your throat.”According to “The Little Mermaid” star, the entire “SNL” sketch was a version of something she wrote and performed while a part of the L.A.
The 2023 WeHo Pride Parade was the place to be this weekend in the Los Angeles area!
Waving their rainbow flags proudly! Allies like Melissa McCarthy and Christine Quinn joined LGBTQ+ icons such as Tinashe and Niecy Nash-Betts for 2023 pride celebrations.
Amazon’s Alexa will no longer sound like Samuel L. Jackson and Melissa McCarthy.
The Little Mermaid makeup artist is clapping back at hate over Ursula’s new look!
Angelique Jackson Grammy winner Erykah Badu has joined the all-star ensemble for Netflix’s feature adaptation of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” The singer-songwriter (“What Men Want”) will make a cameo, delivering “her soulful sound and eclectic style” with musical performances in the film,” starring Oscar winner Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington. Jackson and Washington reprise their roles from the highly successful Broadway revival of Wilson’s play, which recently received two Tony Award nominations (best revival of a play and best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play for Jackson).
Clapping back. The Little Mermaid makeup artist Peter Smith King is responding to backlash over Melissa McCarthy’s transformation into Ursula.
The makeup artist behind Melissa McCarthy’s Ursula transformation is clapping back at critics.
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Melissa McCarthy‘s makeup artist for The Little Mermaid is responding to critiques of her appearance in the movie.
Charna Flam The Icons for the 2023 WeHo Pride Parade are Melissa McCarthy, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Laith Ashley, Niecy Nash-Betts and Jessica Betts, announced the city of West Hollywood and WeHo Pride producer JJLA, Jeff Consoletti. The recipients have been honored with the Drag Icon Award, the Breakthrough Icon Award, the Trailblazer Icon award and the Ally Icon award. Laith Ashley, a model, actor and activist has been named this year’s Breakthrough Icon Award. In 2017, Laith was the first transgender man to be featured in an ad campaign. Following his historic campaign, Laith starred in Taylor Swift’s “Lavender Haze” music video and volunteers for the FLUX nonprofit and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s transgender division.
She can’t look! Melissa McCarthy got candid about why she has a hard time watching anything she’s starred in — including Gilmore Girls.
Melissa McCarthy is opening up about her refusal to watch “Gilmore Girls” in her home despite the special place it holds in her heart.
Melissa McCarthy loved her time in Stars Hollow, but she's not always keen to return to her role on, especially not in her own house.In a preview clip of her upcoming interview with Willie Geist on, the star reflects on her time on the Amy Sherman-Palladino hit mother-daughter comedy and shares why she's never watched it with her own daughter.McCarthy — who played Sookie St. James, the clumsy chef and best friend to Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) on the hit series — is mom to 16-year-old daughter Vivian and 13-year-old daughter Georgette Falcone, whom she shares with husband Ben Falcone.While speaking with Geist, McCarthy notes that she's only ever watched the pilot of with Vivian once.«I watched it with Vivian once, my oldest, and we watched the pilot...and I was watching her watch it.
The Little Mermaid” cast did their best at playing Variety’s “Name That Fish” on the red carpet at the movie’s premiere in Los Angeles Melissa McCarthy (Ursula), Jacob Tremblay (Flounder), Noma Dumezweni (Queen Selina), Daveed Diggs (Sebastian) and Javier Bardem (King Triton) were put to the test by Variety’s Marc Malkin to see just how much they know about life under the sea. When quizzed with images of various fish, answers included “basketball with spikes,” “sad fish,” “not Spongebob,” “swordy-thing” “not edible” and “definitely a fish.”
Melissa McCarthy is opening up about her Gilmore Girls past.