Elisabeth Moss Opens Up About Having To Pass on 'The Power of the Dog' Role That Went to Kirsten Dunst

Elisabeth Moss is dishing on one of her most embarrassing celebrity encounters.

No drama intended. Elisabeth Moss explained the real reason she wasn’t present when Leah Remini won a Television Critics Association award for her anti-Scientology series — and it wasn’t an intentional snub.

This week Apple TV+ released an inside-look trailer/featurette for their upcoming series “Shining Girls,” which began streaming on Friday, April 29. Based on the best-selling novel by Lauren Beukes, it follows Kirby Mazrachi (Elizabeth Moss), a newspaper archivist and wannabe journalist recovering from a traumatic assault.

Elisabeth Moss has spoken out about her belief in Scientology, labelling it a “misunderstood” religion.Moss has been a member of scientology since she was a child and has previously addressed criticisms over the apparent “hypocrisy” of her beliefs and her role in The Handmaid’s Tale. It came after Scientology was accused of promoting homophobia due to founder L.

Elisabeth Moss has made rare comments about her background in Scientology, with The Handmaid’s Tale saying she doesn’t want her viewers to be ‘distracted’ by her faith. The actor, whose previous roles include starring in The West Wing, Mad Men and The Invisible Man, was raised as a Scientologist. Invented by American author L Ron Hubbard, Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices that expanded from a movement into a global church.

Elisabeth Moss is making a rare comment about her ties to Scientology!

Elisabeth Moss doesn’t often discuss her beliefs, but the lifelong Scientologist opened up about her controversial religion in a new profile for The New Yorker.

A crime drama with a twist. Elisabeth Moss has added another prestige TV show to her resume with the new Apple TV+ series Shining Girls.

Elisabeth Moss is all in on Shondaland.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThere’s a moment late in the run of Apple TV+s’ new limited series “Shining Girls” in which one character puts forward an urgent question, and gets a mind-bending answer. “Is he going to kill me?” one woman asks. “He already has,” the other responds.

NEW YORK -- She navigated a 1960s advertising agency boys club on “Mad Men," leads the charge against a totalitarian regime on “The Handmaid's Tale” and fought back against an abusive partner in the 2020 movie “The Invisible Man.” Based on her career choices, it makes sense to want to seek out Elisabeth Moss if things go south.“That's a big compliment,” said Moss recently of the notion that she's desirable for a fantasy foxhole. “With the characters I play, it’s always my intention to show how badass an everyday person can be. I want people to feel like, ‘Oh, I could be that person.

Serial killers are a popular source of inspiration whether true-crime adaptations, network procedurals (including a touted “Criminal Minds” revival), or fictional stories. Audiences have been lapping up gruesome material long before television entered the fray and subverting or introducing a different perspective in this genre is a tall task.

Will Smith past him before this year’s Oscars.The comedian, who co-hosted the event with Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall, has now explained that she double-checked the people she was poking fun at could approve of her jokes ahead of time.“I did reach out to people I was going to joke about before and make sure it was OK with them because I’ve been burned too many times,” Schumer said in an interview on SiriuxXM’s The Howard Stern Show (per The Independent), adding that she “didn’t want the camera to cut to somebody looking sad”.She added “I told the Williams sisters, I told Will, I told Leo,” of the jokes she made about Serena and Venus Williams, Will Smith and Leonardo DiCaprio.On stage, Schumer discussed Smith’s film King Richard, which tells the story of Serena and Venus Williams’ father Richard, saying: “After years of Hollywood ignoring women’s stories, this year we finally got a movie about the incredible Williams sisters’ dad.”Amy Schumer recently revealed she received death threats after a joke she made about Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons at the Oscars.Schumer had pretended to mistake Kirsten Dunst, nominated for her performance in The Power in the Dog, for a seat-filler, who is a person hired to sit in a guest’s chair if they briefly leave the room.Fans of Dunst and her husband Jesse Plemons, who engaged with Schumer after the joke, took aim at Schumer on social media. She then said in a statement on Twitter: “Hey I appreciate the love for Kirsten Dunst.

Elisabeth Moss is revealing why she didn’t star in “The Power of the Dog”. 

When Jane Campion returned with 2021’s Oscar-nominated “The Power Of The Dog,” there was much talk about the New Zealand filmmaker’s return and her 12-year absence from feature filmmaking. However, often missing in that narrative was the fact that Campion never went anywhere.