Prince Andrew was last night urged to take action on his vow to make a stand over child sex trafficking.
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Oscar winner Javier Bardem is enjoying a strong awards season run with a Best Actor nomination for Being The Ricardos and is also coming off his first Spanish-language movie in nearly two decades, Goya laureate The Good Boss. Below, we talk about balance — both at home and at work, as well as what the future holds. On the day Bardem and I were initially due to speak, Russia invaded Ukraine and the actor made a beeline to protest at the Russian embassy in Madrid. When we did hook up, we discussed why that was so important to him.
DEADLINE: You are having quite the awards season, between the record number of Goya nominations for The Good Boss — and six wins — along with yet another Oscar nomination for Being The Ricardos…
JAVIER BARDEM: It was a helluva week. I mean there was a week with the Oscar nominations and the Goyas and you’re like, “OK, don’t get used to this because it’s not very normal.”
I don’t think you can get used to any of this and you shouldn’t; the support of your fellows and your industry is one of those things that you can’t take for granted. When you’re younger, at least I had some kind of anxiety to be there, to belong to the industry which is absolutely understandable. Now, I just want to do my job right, as good as I can, and keep making a living out of it. If it turns out that people like it, it’s even better.
DEADLINE: When you have these nominations and wins, I imagine you’re not still having parties with firemen sending alcohol up to your flat like you did for Before Night Falls…
BARDEM: (Laughs) No, unfortunately not. I was 30 years old when that first nomination happened, and those firemen were so nice. They brought us ice for the drinks and some liquor. They were bringing it all up through the
Prince Andrew was last night urged to take action on his vow to make a stand over child sex trafficking.
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea recently performed a wild and distorted rendition of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’. Watch a clip of him playing below.The rock aficionado wielded a Lakers-branded bass, providing his own intense spin on the song.The performance was inspired by jazz musician Charli Parker and legendary basketball player Kareen Abdul-Jabar.“I was so happy to have had a brief conversation with Kareem Abdul Jabbar before I walked out there,” Flea said via Instagram.He continued: “Knowing Kareem’s deep love for and knowledge of jazz, I told him I would do a Charlie Parker riff, which I did in the second stanza (on the word ‘fight’.)”He also wrote about his fellow RHCP bandmates, noting that frontman Anthony Kiedis and drummer Chad Smith were both in attendance and that “everyone got a bitchin RHCP hoops shirt.”A post shared by Flea (@flea333) The band released their 12th album, ‘Unlimited Love’, last month via Warner.
Dead Man Walking, an operatic adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean’s famous book that he developed with Terrence McNally.Barton and Heggie will perform music from The Breaking Waves at this recital, designed in part as a live showcase of the duo’s Grammy-nominated 2020 album Unexpected Shadows.The program also includes the album’s song cycles “Of Gods & Cats,” set to poems by Gavin Dillard, and “Iconic Legacies: First Ladies at the Smithsonian,” set to poems by Gene Scheer and originally commissioned by Vocal Arts.Also on tap at the concert is “What I Miss the Most,” a song cycle set to lyrics by an assorted bunch of strong, inspiring women, including Prejean, Joyce DiDonato, Patti Lupone, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Kathleen Kelly.“Jamie Barton and Jake Heggie make music together in a way that is completely beguiling and infectious,” says Vocal Arts DC’s Peter Russell in a press release.“It is an honor to welcome them back to our organization for the first time since our 25th anniversary season in the autumn of 2015, and I know their program will be a joyous occasion.”Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. Terrace Theater.
Manori Ravindran International EditorFew people can say their comfort zone is in playing strong women, but for Gillian Anderson, it ’s become something of a personal brand.The American-British actor, who was once best-known for her skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully in Fox’s long-running sci-fi hit “The X-Files,” has gone on to play detective Stella Gibson in “The Fall,” notorious British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” and sex therapist Jean Milburn in “Sex Education.” (And you wouldn’t want to cross any of them.)Anderson — who will receive the Variety Icon Award in a ceremony at CannesSeries on April 1 — will next be seen portraying the rarely dramatized Eleanor Roosevelt, opposite Viola Davis’ Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Betty Ford, in Showtime’s drama “The First Lady.” But portraying no-nonsense women didn’t begin as a conscious choice for Anderson. In 1993, she recognized a “stark difference” between the Dana Scully role and “pretty much everything else on television at the time,” though, at age 24, she wouldn’t have labelled Scully as the feminist icon she’d come to represent.“I don’t think it was as clear-cut in my mind as being, ‘Oh, this is a feminist character,’” she says.
Oscars, Amy Schumer made a joke about siblings Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal and referenced them as a couple. During her opening monologue, Schumer acknowledged how many couples were attending the 94th Academy Awards.
Penelope Cruz holds hands tight with husband Javier Bardem while arriving at the 2022 Academy Awards on Sunday (March 27) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem’s fashion is already one of Sunday night's biggest wins at the 94th Academy Awards. The pair, who have been married since 2010, took their date-night style to another level on the red carpet.Cruz, looked stunning in a custom black dress by Chanel.
Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons proved, once again, why they are one of awards season's hottest red carpet couples! The A-list duo arrived at the 94 annual Academy Awards in style on Sunday.Dunst stunned in a ruffled red gown. Completing her look, the actress wore her hair pulled up in a glam knot. Plemons was a dapper complement to his leading lady, as he rocked a sleek black tux. The pair, who play husband and wife in the Oscar-nominated film each snagged nominations for their roles and they are ready to celebrate. «We don’t have kids right now,» Dunst tells ET.
Checking in! Many famous faces have visited Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital during its nearly two-decade run — some of which fans may not remember.
Manori Ravindran International EditorHBO is developing a long-awaited adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s critically acclaimed, award-winning novel “A Fine Balance,” Variety can reveal.The seven-part series is being produced by “A Very British Scandal” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” producer Blueprint Pictures and “Anne With an E” outfit Northwood Entertainment. Ritesh Batra, who directed the late Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur in “The Lunchbox,” is attached to both write and direct.The show would look to shoot in India from early June through November.First published by Canada’s McLelland and Stewart in 1995, “A Fine Balance” went on to win the 1995 Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize.
Being The Ricardos, said in a new interview that he once drunkenly agreed to work as a stripper when he was 20 years old.He told The Ellen DeGeneres Show that he’d been “stepping out of a friend’s fiancé’s cake” at a club when the venue owner asked him to return.“I did my routine again on the disco dance floor, and the owner of the disco said, ‘Will you do that every Friday?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, of course!’ because I was drunk,” Bardem said.He said that the club then hired him. Bardem appeared the following Friday for his debut (and only ever) performance, bringing along his mother and sister for support.“I was so nervous, I called my mom and my sister to accompany me to my striptease number,” he said.
Melissa McCarthy landed the dream of a lifetime when she was cast as Ursula in Disney's live-action .“I’m so excited to see it in its full glory,” the 51-year-old actress told ET’s Lauren Zima of the movie while at the27th Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday. “Doing the and working with [director] Rob Marshall and doing one of my favorite villains of all time was an out of body experience,” she added.
Penelope Cruz wows in a gorgeous red dress while being honored at the 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival held at Arlington Theatre on Tuesday night (March 8) in Santa Barbara, Calif.