Prince William and Kate Middleton have been pictured boarding a helicopter today as they make their way to Anmer Hall in Norfolk where they are believed to be spending Easter with their kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
06.03.2024 - 02:15 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Louis McCartney describes himself as “a West End baby” because before he was cast to play boyish-looking monster Henry Creel in the Stranger Things stage show The First Shadow, he’d never performed on stage in his life.
“They were coaching me how to speak properly, how to project my voice,” McCartney says of the countless recalls he endured during the auditioning process.
The key was: Could McCartney play “the sweet little by whose mum loved him” who also happens to be “a killer” who’s “psychiatric at heart.”
McCartney nails it all with one of the most breathtaking debut performances in the West End.
The show’s director, Stephen Daldry, remembers seeing McCartney out of the corner of his eye during an open casting call. The lad from Belfast was sitting quietly in a corner when Daldry remarked to casting director Jessica Ronane and dialect coach William Conacher, “Who’s that kid?”
It’s an instinct that has served Daldry well.
He knew Jamie Bell was right to play Billy Elliot in the movie. He knew without a doubt that Claire Foy, Vanessa Kirby and Matt Smith were right to portray Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Prince Philip, respectively, in the first two seasons of The Crown.
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Daldry smiles and tells me that he considers McCartney “a proper theatre animal.”
“It’s in his bones,” he says, marveling at the fact that McCartney has a performative ability of ”knowing how to respond and excite an audience.”
And ”bizarrely” — for someone who, until November, had never been on a stage before — “knowing how to control an audience.”
He shakes his head and gives a nod of approval: “He’s a proper star
Prince William and Kate Middleton have been pictured boarding a helicopter today as they make their way to Anmer Hall in Norfolk where they are believed to be spending Easter with their kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
We still call her Kate Middleton.
Millie Bobby Brown has asked her Stranger Things co-star Matthew Modine to officiate her and Jake Bongiovi’s wedding.Matthew Modine, who plays Dr. Martin Brenner, aka Eleven’s “Papa,” on the hit Netflix sci-fi series, recently explained to Access Daily how the idea came about.“I have one of those licenses to get people married and Millie thought it’d be great and then Jake said it would be a great idea, so I wrote the wedding vows and they loved what I wrote for them to join hands and to become husband and wife,” he explained.Modine added that he has officiated a wedding once before, saying, “It’s such a beautiful thing to be able to join two people in holy matrimony.”In February, Brown first shared the story of her engagement to Bongiovi during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, saying that she hadn’t previously spoken about it because she wanted to keep “key moments” private.However, she told Fallon that the story of Bongiovi’s proposal was “too good to not tell”, since he carried it out underwater.“He puts the ring on my hand and as I go to show him, the ring falls off my finger, plummets so fast,” the actress recalled.
Djo, the music moniker of Stranger Things star Joe Keery, has told NME about how his love of Charli XCX and the Chicago DIY scene has been instrumental in his own sound.The musician and actor, who played Steve Harington in the hit Netflix show, has released two albums under the Djo alias, most recently 2022’s ‘Decide’.That album is where the song ‘End Of Beginning’ was first released, although it is in recent months that the track has become a major trend on TikTok, with users taking advantage of its woozy, nostalgic quality to illustrate their memories of their hometowns, especially, as referred to in the song’s lyrics, Chicago.Following the viral success of the song, it has become a major chart hit on both sides of the Atlantic.And now, Djo has told NME about his love of British pop iconoclast Charli XCX, and the impact that her writing style has had on his own.“I feel like what she’s really good at is writing a song that is really about a specific thing,” Djo said. “A great example is this song from her most recent album [‘2022’s ‘Crash’] called ‘Yuck’.
Two suspects are in custody for allegedly kidnapping and murdering a retired University of Washington professor. That would be awful enough. But the way they met him and gained his trust? It’s diabolical…
Katie Waissel has become the latest former X Factor contestant to criticise former X Factor judge Louis Walsh.Earlier this week, Jedward took aim at their former manager Walsh, following him branding them as “vile” during his time on Celebrity Big Brother (March 12). After another contestant asked Walsh what it was like working with the pop duo, he replied: “They were vile…But they were great.
Usually when celebs are set to appear on daytime TV they make sure their makeup is perfectly done before heading in front of the camera. Millie Bobby Brown, on the other hand, just proved that you don’t need makeup to make a statement.
Celebrity Big Brother contestant Louis Walsh has ignited a ramped-up war of words with X Factor breakouts Jedward, with the identical twin singers accusing Walsh of forcing them to give one of his PR workers £70,000 ($89,500).
Greta Gerwig tells me there’s “no resistance” from her about the possibility of Barbie 2.
Naman Ramachandran India premieres of France’s “The Taste of Things” and Korea’s “Exhuma” will open and close respectively the first edition of India’s Cinevesture International Film Festival. Tran Anh Hung won best director at Cannes 2023 for “The Taste of Things,” which was subsequently submitted as France’s official entry to the Oscars’ international feature category.
The 96th Academy Awards ceremony should be known as the Cannes Oscars, argues Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux.
Sandra Hüller (a Best Actress nominee) and Christian Friedel, stars of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest — nominated for Best Picture, Best International Picture, Director, Sound, and Adapted Screenplay — are familiar with Shakespeare’s famous verse from Hamlet: ”All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players …” That’s because both thespians have been playing the Danish prince on stages around Germany for years.
Earlier this month, Deadline kicked off its Hollywood Contraction series by checking in with the acting community to see whether opportunities have picked up since the end of the strikes.
EXCLUSIVE: Sony has preemptively closed a deal for film rights to Grady Hendrix‘s short story “Ankle Snatcher,” tapping Hendrix to adapt it for the screen, sources tell Deadline. Hendrix is also set to produce alongside Escape Artists‘ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Tony Shaw, as well as Aperture Entertainment‘s Adam Goldworm.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Chris Rock had the good sense to arrive early at the Jean-Michel Basquiat Made on Market Street exhibition at the Larry Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.
Stranger Things star Brett Gelman has spoken out after a third bookstore cancelled his signing event, following backlash surrounding his views on Israel.Book Soup in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, was set to be the next stop on the star’s debut book tour, promoting his short story collection, The Terrifying Realm Of The Possible: Nearly True Stories (set for release on March 19).However, similarly to bookstores in San Francisco and Winnetka, Illinois, Book Soup have cancelled his appearance. The decision comes after Gelman has been outspoken in support of Israel, particularly following the attack by Hamas on the Supernova music festival in October 2023.An initial statement released by Book Soup said that it “feels very strongly that a free society should protect individuals’ freedom of thought and expression,” before clarifying that the cancellation was in the interest of safety for Gelman, the staff and the attendees.According to the Los Angeles Times, the Fleabag star responded: “I am really wondering if there was any direct threat made.
How do you capture Jenne Casarotto? She was at the intersection of theatre, film and television. It all, seemingly, swirled around her.
Zendaya is hitting the red carpet!
EXCLUSIVE: Napoleon star Vanessa Kirby will reunite with The Crown’s Benjamin Caron on a movie based on Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel The Night Always Comes, about a working-class woman in the Pacific Northwest who embarks on a 24-hour quest to call in old debts and raise enough money to keep a roof over her head.
Kris Jenner is spilling the details on her family’s future plans regarding marriage!