‘Carpool Karaoke': ‘The White Lotus’ Cast Reminisces About Pandemic Production (Exclusive Video)

Murray Bartlett has been acting for 35 years, but it wasn’t until his turn as smiling and spiraling hotel manager Armond in HBO’s “The White Lotus” that Hollywood started buzzing about its new “breakout star.”“In the last year since ‘White Lotus,’ I’ve had more choice and more work than I’ve ever had,” the Australian actor tells Variety.The role earned him an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts prize and Critics’ Choice Award, but Bartlett’s career hasn’t always been a smooth journey. “There have been times where I haven’t worked much — sometimes long periods,” he says.

In the “Star Wars” universe, like any franchise, there are close-call casting decisions that don’t make the grade or simply go another way. Actress Jessica Henwick (“The Matrix Resurrections”), for example, lost out to Daisy Ridley for the Rey role in “The Force Awakens” but did play a small pilot in the film instead.

[HBO series] ‘Enlightened,’ and I loved that show and started really getting into his stuff. I started this project pretty late. When I came in, we were, like, about a month from mixing time, so I started working only with the script.”Though Hawaii was a backdrop for “White Lotus” that Tapia de Veer was not terriblly familiar with, he knew that the tension of the series would present itself through unveiling emotions under the surface and expressed it with well-utilized instruments.“I have an instrument that’s called a charango, which is small guitar like a ukulele but with more strings,” the composer said.

Marquee at The Star has joined forces with In The Dark Events to throw a massive ‘XTRA’ party this long weekend. Finalist of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK Season 3, Ella Vaday will be hosting this extravaganza. When asked how she got into the world of drag, Ella Vaday states that her start began at a west end charity night which took place once a year.

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey appear in a new photo from the upcoming series The Last Of Us released by HBO (above) on Thursday. The duo portrays Joel and Ellie in the project based on the 2013 PlayStation game of the same name.

really feels about the “Star Trek” franchise’s famously obsessive-compulsive fans? (“They’re such a beautiful group of people”). Then take a look at TheWrap’s “Star Trek: Discovery” Q&A panel, in which contributing editor Benjamin Svetkey talked to both actors as well as co-showrunner and executive producer Michelle Paradise and introduced an extended trailer of the Paramount+ series upcoming fifth season. Other revelations from the interview: how the cast and crew keep track of all the various timelines criss-crossing through the “Star Trek” canon; the challenges of making a totally new sort of series and still staying true to the franchise’s original DNA; and why not everyone was onboard with Discovery’s mission to boldly become the most inclusive sci-fi show on TV, featuring Trek-dom’s first gay couple and first nonbinary character.“If someone has a problem with that,” said Paradise, “then this isn’t the show for them.”Oh, and one more tidbit from the Q&A: Star Trek actually employs not one but two PhDs to make sure there’s as much “science-y stuff” in the plots — as Paradise put it — as there is fiction. “We know that people pay attention,” she said.

“The Gray Man,” Ryan Gosling dismantles a room full of bad guys, insults Chris Evans’ “trash stache” and even thinks about stealing Evans’ shoes off his feet. It’s a clip in which Gosling and Evans are meeting face to face for the first time, and Evans seemingly has Gosling in a barrel on two occasions as he looks for a mysterious hard drive that Gosling possesses.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeOne of the key character traits of snotty college duo Olivia (Sydney Sweeney) and Paula (Brittany O’Grady) on HBO’s “The White Lotus” is their choice of poolside reading material. They’re skimming through Nietzsche and Freud when not casting side eye and throwing withering commentary about the people around them.Later, they also pick up Frantz Fanon, Camille Paglia and Aimé Césaire. But Sweeney, speaking Saturday at the ATX TV Festival in Austin, revealed something more about that character: She believes it’s all an act.

DJ D-Nice is taking the stage for the Unscripted awards show.The Unscripted awards showwill debut exclusive clips from the upcoming series “Selling the OC” (Netflix) and “The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Ex-Wives Club” (Bravo.)Here are the full lists of presenters:Awkwafina (presenting Comedic Genius Award to Jack Black)Billy Eichner (“Bros”)Chase Sui Wonders (“Bodies Bodies Bodies”)Chris Evans (“Lightyear”)Eduardo Franco (“Stranger Things”)Glen Powell (“Top Gun: Maverick”)Lana Condor (“Moonshot”)Jamie Campbell Bower (“Stranger Things”)Jay Ellis (“Top Gun: Maverick”)Jenna Ortega (“Scream 5”)Joe Keery (“Stranger Things”)Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things”)Maria Bakalova (“Bodies Bodies Bodies”)Pablo Schreiber (“Halo”)Rachel Sennott (“Bodies Bodies Bodies”)Rebel Wilson (“Senior Year”)Riley Keough (“Daisy Jones & The Six”)Sarah Shahi (“Sex/Life”)Sydney Sweeney (“Euphoria”)Alex Hall (“Selling the OC”)Ariana Madix (“Vanderpump Rules”)Brandi Marshall (“Selling the OC”)Chris “CT” Tamburello (“The Challenge”)Chrishell Stause (“Selling Sunset”)Crystal Kung Minkoff (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)Dorinda Medley (“The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Ex-Wives Club”)Dorit Kemsley (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)Emma Hernan (“Selling Sunset”)Erika Jayne (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)Garcelle Beauvais (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)James Kennedy (“Vanderpump Rules”)Jeremy Scott (“Making the Cut”)Kathy Hilton (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)Kevin Kreider (“Bling Empire”)Kim Lee (“Bling Empire”)Kristin Cavallari (“The Hills”)Kyle Richards (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)Lindsay Hubbard (“Summer House”)Lisa Rinna (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)Melissa Gorga (“The Real

Rich Flu.As reported in Variety, Culkin will join Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike in the new film, which is directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.Filming will begin on the project this autumn and it’s described as a “high-concept social thriller in which a deadly disease starts killing off the richest people on the planet,” according to Variety.The description adds: “At first it strikes the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires, and so on. With the whole world panicking and headed for collapse, people are trying to flood the market with assets they no longer want, in hopes of saving their skin.”Gaztelu-Urrutia is directing Rich Flu from a script he co-wrote with Pedro Rivero, who he’d previously worked with on The Platform, as well as David Desola and Sam Steiner.Culkin had his breakthrough role in the Home Alone franchise and starred in other 90s films such as The Good Son, My Girl and Richie Rich. After taking a break from acting, he returned with roles in 2003’s Party Monster and 2007’s Sex and Breakfast.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMK2 Films has locked major territory deals on Leonor Serraille’s drama “Mother and Son” which world premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and garnered strong reviews. “Mother and Son” charts the lives of a young African woman, Rose, and two of her four children, Jean and Ernest, who come to France from the Ivory Coast in the 1980s with high ideals.

making an appearance. It’s unclear how Jackson and April will fit into the story.Season 18 of “Grey’s Anatomy” will come to a close May 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

Wilson Chapman editorMichael Lebowitz has been hired as head of development and production for Maroon Visions, the independent production company founded by antiracist scholar and author Dr. Ibram X.

“The Gray Man,” the $200 million plus spy and espionage thriller that stars Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans. But they definitely don’t get along in this one.Gosling is part of the Sierra program, a team of “reckless mystery men you guys send in when you can’t officially send anyone else.” He’s known as The Gray Man, and according to Chris Evans’ Lloyd Hansen, “he’s got some street cred.” But he’s apparently outlived his usefulness, and has become an important target.Hansen is determined to hunt him down, and enlist anyone he needs to to get it done.

The debut trailer for The Gray Man is finally here!

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone” turned into a bona fide Emmy contender, in its fourth season, as the show’s audience grew beyond its middle America base and managed to reach the coasts — including industry players and Hollywood awards voters. Last year, its only Emmy nomination was for outstanding production design for a narrative contemporary program (one hour or more).

EXCLUSIVE: Neve Campbell (Scream, The Lincoln Lawyer) has joined the cast of Peacock‘s in a recurring role. Campbell will portray the character of Raven opposite Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, and Thomas Haden Church.

“The Essex Serpent” kicked off last week with a two episode debut, following the Victorian Era-set story of Claire Danes’ Cora Seaborne, who moves to the English countryside only to find there is something in the waters there.The townspeople are convinced a creature swims in their murky waters, despite the protestations of Will Ransome (Tom Hiddleston), the local pastor. In TheWrap’s exclusive sneak peek from Episode 3, Frank Dillane’s character, Dr. Luke Garrett, makes a visit to Essex to see his friend Cora, where he encounters a girl who thinks she may be the reason horrific things are happening in the community.

Judge Robin Thicke thinks he’s solved another mystery in the season finale of Fox’s “The Masked Singer.”In this exclusive sneak peek at Wednesday night’s episode, the show’s season finale, Thicke adds up all the clues and comes up with a definitive answer on who he thinks The Prince is (the one in the frog costume). Check out the clip below to watch Thicke layout the evidence.Heading into the season finale, Firefly, Ringmaster and The Prince are still in the game.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Snowpiercer” producer Tomorrow Studios has struck a first-look deal with Frank Spotnitz’s London-based production company Big Light Prods.Under the deal, Tomorrow Studios will tap into Big Light’s network of established and emerging writers and its pursuit of IP for projects to produce together under one development slate.Big Light Prods. specializes in returning and limited dramas for the global market.