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03.02.2022 - 00:53 / variety.com
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Actor John Bradley is still defending the controversial “Game of Thrones” series finale against its very harsh critics, even more than two years after the show ended.“It is highly unlikely that we were ever going to please everybody,” the actor, who played Samwell Tarly on the long-running fantasy show, tells me on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “Chances are we were going to please a fraction of people… We almost couldn’t win.
It almost meant too much to people for them to really ever be satisfied. And who knows, when the wounds have healed a little bit in a few years time, maybe people will reevaluate it and be able to see it as a complete thing.” Bradley is particularly irked that some naysayers argued that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and the cast “didn’t care anymore” by the time the finale came about.
“If they didn’t care, they wouldn’t choose to be standing in a field in Belfast at 3 o’clock in the morning for months on end,” the actor says. “They wanted to make it as good as possible, and it’s a shame if people didn’t like it because we did try our best to make something very special.”And yes, he’s looking forward to watching “House of the Dragon,” the upcoming “GoT” prequel series.
“There will be a certain bittersweet quality to it,” Bradley admits. “I think it’s a bit like, do you know when you move house and you go back to your old house and other people have moved in and then they’ve redecorated and they’ve changed things and they’ve made it their own and you just don’t feel involved in it… It’s going to be like seeing somebody else living in your house.”I talked to Bradley
.Television is big business for both traditional cable networks and streaming services alike. In the case of FX, the cable television channel has shows airing on linear television and streaming.
The Bingeworthy boys, Mike DeAngelo, and Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez, are back to talk about all of the TV news and shows that are worth your time. This week finds us discussing the big Paramount investor day presentation news and digging into the depths of HBO Max to uncover a hidden gem of a show called “Painting with John.” READ MORE: ‘Painting With John’: John Lurie Offers A Soulful, Deep, Pained & Absurdist Portrait Of An Artist & A Strange Life [Review] After the news breakdown, John Lurie himself stops by to discuss his career and the second season of “Painting with John,” which begins on HBO Max this Friday, February 18.
Game Of Thrones fans “lost their minds” over the show’s finale.The actor, who is currently starring in the sci-fi movie Moonfall, played Samwell Tarly in all eight seasons of the HBO fantasy drama.Fans had waited seven seasons for the climactic showdown between dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen and the ruling Lannister clan.The fans were left extremely disappointed to the point where they started a petition to remake the final season, which racked up 1.8million signatures.Speaking to NME in a new interview, Bradley said: “We were never going to please everybody. People had invested too much.”He also took umbrage with people who said the cast and crew “knew it was going to be rubbish”.Bradley added: “We genuinely wanted it to be great.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorHannah Waddingham made her Super Bowl commercial debut during today’s telecast of the championship game.The “Ted Lasso” star is featured in a spot for cash back shopping service Rakuten. She plays a villainous (and glamorous) character that could easily appear in a “James Bond” film — she has a hairless cat named Leonardo! — in a high stakes poker game who loses to a Rakuten user. The 60-second commercial, directed by Matt Aselton, was shot at Hatfield House outside of London.“They came to me because they wanted a very specific kind of type,” the Emmy winner told Variety.
, is here! We've been impatiently anticipating the release since production was announced and have withstood a year-long delay (due to the pandemic), but it's finally arrived — just in time for Valentine's Day weekend. premiered in both theaters and on Peacock simultaneously on Friday, Feb. 11.The romantic comedy follows pop star Kat Valdez (Jennifer Lopez), who on the day of her extremely public wedding to celebrity hunk Bastian (Maluma), finds out he's been unfaithful.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorKanye West made a surprise appearance at a preview of the Netflix docuseries “Jeen-Yuhs” at Citizen News in Hollywood on Friday night.Celebs in the 300-strong audience at the Super Bowl Weekend event included Taraji P. Henson, Offset, Usher and Roddy Rich and Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. and co-president Valeisha Butterfield Jones.West arrived at about 8:15.
Owen Wilson stars oppositeJennifer Lopez in the romantic comedy Marry Me and he joined Ellen DeGeneres on her show The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday to talk about the film. Naturally, DeGeneres asked if he’s a romantic in real life.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMatthew McConaughey had us fooled for a second.His new commercial for Salesforce, which he co-created and premiered during the Olympics, opens with the Oscar winner in an astronaut’s suit, making the spot look like it could be a trailer for a sequel to his 2014 film “Interstellar.”“I wanted this misdirect at the beginning,” McConaughey told me ahead of the ad playing during Super Bowl LVI on Sunday. “I wanted it to open and look very serious and in space because we’re about to pull the rug out from under you. Some people are going to think this is going to be the trailer for ‘Interstellar 2.’”Instead, McConaughey is floating among the stars in a hot air balloon before waxing philosophically, “It’s not time to escape.
, is here! We've been impatiently anticipating the release since production was announced and have withstood a year-long delay (due to the pandemic), but it's finally arrived — just in time for Valentine's Day weekend. will premiere on both the big and small screen simultaneously on Friday, Feb. 11, in both theaters and on the Peacock app.Sign Up for PeacockGet TicketsThe romantic comedy follows pop star Kat Valdez (Jennifer Lopez), who on the day of her extremely public wedding to celebrity hunk Bastian (Maluma), finds out he's been unfaithful.
Marry me, Jennifer Lopez? Perhaps the movie star’s beau Ben Affleck hasn’t popped the question just yet, but things are looking up for the couple who were photographed at Jennifer’s Marry Me Los Angeles movie premiere getting pretty cozy! J.Lo wore a gorgeous bridal-style white mini-dress, with long sleeves, lace detail, and an adorable shortened train that flipped out in the back. The “Let’s Get Loud” singer paired her dress with a silver clutch embroidered with white flowers and silver strappy pumps which also featured a flower-like details on the toe.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorElton John is back.The legendary rocker and his husband David Furnish’s annual Oscar viewing party for the Elton John AIDS Foundation will return as an in-person event on March 27 after going virtual last year due to the pandemic. The AIDS organization announced Monday morning that Grammy winner Brandi Carlile will perform during the festivities, which take place in West Hollywood Park.“David and I are so grateful to celebrate 30 years of the foundation and especially grateful to Brandi Carlile and the many fabulous guests supporting us for another magnificent night in West Hollywood Park,” John said in a statement.
director Roland Emmerich thinks Superhero and films are ruining the industry. He is among the many actors and directors that have lambasted the state of the movie business because these types of movies exist.
Jennifer Lopez, 52, wowed on Feb. 4 when she made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in an eye-catching set of outfits. The singer performed her new song “Marry Me”, from the new film Marry Me, with Maluma, and wore a flattering white bikini top under a matching cropped blazer and a long skirt. Before she sang, she also wore a long bright red dress with spaghetti straps as she happily chatted with the show’s host, Jimmy Fallon.
“Moonfall.” The sci-fi action film stars Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson (who also starred in Emmerich’s “Midway”) as astronauts who take up the task of saving the Earth from colliding with the moon. “Game of Thrones” alum John Bradley co-stars as K.C. Houseman, a conspiracy theorist and amateur scientist who worms his way into the missions, as well as Carolina Bartczak as the ex-wife of Wilson’s Brian Harper and Michael Peña as her new husband.
“Moonfall.” If the big budget film had been his first acting offer after hanging up Samwell Tarly’s maester’s cloak and chains on “Game of Thrones,” though, the British actor might have said no.“Well, funnily enough, the thing upon leaving ‘Game of Thrones’ all those years ago now, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do at the time, but I just knew that I didn’t want to do anything that was going to be comparable to it in any way really, because as soon as something is successful, a lot of clones of it start to appear. And you see a lot of ‘Game of Thrones’-esque projects starting up,” Bradley told TheWrap during a recent interview.
John Bradley is poised to save the world in “Moonfall.” The epic sci-fi film from Roland Emmerich sees the actor portray an unlikely hero whose contributions prove that anyone can make a difference. For Bradley, its significance goes well beyond a standard popcorn flick.
John Bradley is speaking out about Game of Thrones.
the hallmarks of an Emmerich blockbuster — natural disasters, parents separated from children, the total annihilation of Manhattan — but with a twist so baffling, you pinch your arm to make sure you are really awake. No need to reach for your dream journal — it’s all painfully real.The lunar-cy begins during a routine space station mission in outer space with Jocinda (Halle Berry), Brian (Patrick Wilson) and another astronaut.
Jennifer Lopez and Maluma star in “Marry Me”, but Drake and Adam Levine were names thrown in the hat to portray Bastian.