Cristina “Vita” Aranda, a model and the estranged wife of soccer star Ivan Torres, has sadly passed away at just 29 years old.
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The role that almost didn’t happen. Diane Kruger earned a ton of acclaim for her work in 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, but she recently said director Quentin Tarantino didn’t even want her in the film.
“He auditioned everyone,” the German-born actress, 45, recalled during the Tuesday, January 11, episode of the “Reign With Josh Smith” podcast. “He didn’t want to audition me because he saw a movie that I was in he didn’t like. So, he didn’t believe in me from the get-go. Literally, the only reason he auditioned me is because there was no one left to audition.”
The National Treasure star eventually landed the role of Bridget Von Hammersmark, an actress turned spy, but she claimed the Oscar winner, 58, really made her work for it.
“I had to pay for my own flight from New York to go to Germany because … he wouldn’t see me in the U.S.,” she alleged. “So, I had to jump through all these hoops that definitely put my nose out of joint, but I was like, ‘You know what? F–k him! I’m just gonna do that and prove to him that I can do it.’ And thankfully, it all worked out.”
Kruger scored a nomination for her role at the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where the entire Inglourious Basterds cast won the trophy for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
The In the Fade star now believes that the casting process “must’ve been a lesson” for Tarantino as well, especially given her successful turn in the film.
“Sometimes you are the one that puts — and I’m sure I’m guilty of that too — you put people in boxes,” she explained. “You think they’re gonna be one way and then they’re not at all.”
Kruger previously defended Tarantino after some actors spoke out about the way he treated them on set. In February 2018, Uma Thurman claimed
Cristina “Vita” Aranda, a model and the estranged wife of soccer star Ivan Torres, has sadly passed away at just 29 years old.
After being introduced to the world as part of the cast of “Mad Men” and then redefining herself in the recent Netflix series, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrine,” it appears actress Kiernan Shipka is ready to jump back into the world of TV in the new series, “Swimming with Sharks.” According to The Roku Channel, the streaming service is going to release a TV adaptation of “Swimming with Sharks” starring Shipka alongside Diane Kruger.
Mónica Marie Zorrilla Gritty, psychological scripted drama “Swimming With Sharks,” starring Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger, will debut on The Roku Channel this April. The leads were previously announced back in February 2020, when the series was previously under Quibi. Donald Sutherland, Ross Butler, Thomas Dekker, Finn Jones, Erica Alexander and Gerardo Celasco also star alongside Shipka and Kruger.“Swimming With Sharks,” a modern update of George Huang’s original 1994 cult comedy about the Hollywood studio system, will feature six half-hour episodes.
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Ellise Shafer The New York Times has purchased Wordle, the daily word game that has recently taken the internet by storm.The publication announced the acquisition in a press release on Monday, writing: “As The Times looks to entertain more solvers with puzzles every day — especially during these anxious times — we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve acquired Wordle, the stimulating and wildly popular daily word game that has become a cultural phenomenon. Wordle, which gives players six tries to guess a five-letter mystery word, will join New York Times Games’s portfolio of original, engaging puzzle games that delight and challenge solvers every day.”The press release also states that Wordle was purchased for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.” The game was created by Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn-based software engineer, and released to the public in October 2021.
Having cracked Hollywood in the 1980s and 1990s, Bridget Fonda was one of the most memorable pin-ups of the time. But after twelve years out of the spotlight, the star’s life looks a lot more different, swapping red carpets for a quieter time. Here’s everything we know about her lifestyle change… Who is Bridget Fonda? Bridget Fonda is a former American actress, hailing from a family of renowned actors - her father is Peter Fonda, her aunt is Jane Fonda and her grandfather is Henry Fonda.
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Katie Price has revealed she’s in talks with Netflix and Amazon Prime to make a new show about her life. The former glamour model said the programme would be about the “drama” she's faced as she teased details about her alleged new project. At a press conference – where she announced her decision to start an OnlyFans – Katie said: “There have been talks about doing a dramatised TV series of my life.
Off to the races! The Pegasus World Cup is back for another year of thoroughbred horse racing and thoroughly entertaining performances. On Saturday, January 29, legendary racehorses will join legendary artists at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida for the championship invitational stakes. Presented by 1/ST Experience, the 2022 entertainment line-up includes DJ Cassidy’s Pass the Mic, featuring Ja Rule, Lil’ Kim, Mase and special surprise performers.
Katie Price has revealed the name she was born with, saying that she 'has no idea what her Mum was thinking' making such a selection. Although most fans think Katie Price was the name on her birth certificate, the former glamour model was instead given a different moniker at birth. Her full name is actually Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield.The 43-year-old has admitted that she disliked the name that Amy Price picked out for her when she was born.
Thierry Mugler has died aged 73. Known as the man who came to define Eighties power-dressing, Mugler’s designs were regularly worn by stars including David Bowie, Miley Cyrus, Cardi B, Diane Kruger and Diana Ross, in music videos, films, and on the red carpet. In 2017, The Independent interviewed renowned celebrity photographer Brian Aris, who took one of the most recognisable shots of Bowie in 1992, in which he wears a lime-green suit by Mugler as he leans against a pink door.
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The quintet of women in the film packs major starpower. Jessica Chastain plays CIA agent Mason “Mace” Brown, Diane Kruger (“In the Fade,” “National Treasure”) plays rival German agent Marie, Lupita Nyong’o portrays computer intelligence hacker Khadijah and Penélope Cruz rounds out the espionage foursome as Colombian therapist Graciela.
It’s always a little suspect when too much is made of a big action movie being “female-fronted.” Unfortunately, Hollywood has decided lately that in course correcting for decades of gender inequity in certain genres that it’s not enough to just make an action-packed movie starring more than one woman: They must let the audience know that they know that this is A Girl Power Moment. And frankly, whether it’s the lady Avengers assembling in “Infinity War,” a montage of Girls Doing Sports and Science in the latest “Charlie’s Angeles,” or all of “Ocean’s 8,” it’s never not insulting to its purported audience.There have been subtler, cleverer and just plain better efforts at bringing women to the forefront of so-called male genres (from “Widows” to “Spy”), but it’s hard not to go into something like “ The 355,” which has been written about as a female “Jason Bourne” meets “Mission: Impossible” for over four years, a little wary.