an awards show. While some stars use the time to catch up on emails or even get some shut-eye, others use it to squeeze in a much-needed meal or snack.Take Shay Mitchell, for example.
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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorBetty Gilpin insists she doesn’t know exactly what’s going happen during the fourth and final season of “Glow.” The Netflix series had started production on the season when the coronavirus pandemic hit.“I know generally what’s going to happen,” Gilpin, who has earned two Emmy nominations for work as Debbie Eagan on the show, says during an appearance on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “We were about
.an awards show. While some stars use the time to catch up on emails or even get some shut-eye, others use it to squeeze in a much-needed meal or snack.Take Shay Mitchell, for example.
Last year, DaBaby became a rap superstar with his MVP-caliber performance, courtesy of his first Billboard 200 No. 1 album KIRK and his punchy Billboard Hot 100 top ten single, “Suge.” For his second act, Baby has been busy this year netting another Billboard 200 No.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorBrittany O’Grady can certainly relate to Bess, the aspiring singer-songwriter she plays in “Little Voice,” Sara Bareilles’ semi-autobiographical Apple TV Plus series.Whereas Bess works as a dogwalker and a bartender to make ends meet, O’Grady was a host at Figaro Bistrot in Hollywood when she was 17. She was fired after two months because she went home back East for the holidays to look at colleges.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLuke Evans has quite the jewelry collection, thanks to his career in Hollywood.“I started to collect the rings of my characters because I seem to have a ring with all my characters,” the 41-year-old Welsh actor says from Ibiza, where he’s vacationing before heading to Australia to shoot “Nine Perfect Strangers,” during an appearance on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.”Evans has pieces acquired from
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Crisis Theory,” the finale of “Westworld” Season 3.Dolores may have been killed off — or erased — on “Westworld,” but that doesn’t mean the actor who portrayed her, Evan Rachel Wood, is necessarily done with the show.“I want to come back,” Wood, who has earned two Emmy nominations for her work as the show’s leading robot, says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSara Gilbert admits she misses “The Talk,” the show she created in 2010 and co-hosted for nine years before leaving in August.She’s fine no longer broadcasting her opinions and views to millions of people each day, but on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket” she said, “I loved seeing those women every day and connecting with them, and the producers and the crew and staff.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe co-directors and producer of a new Netflix documentary about the life of iconic television astrologer Walter Mercado are hoping to adapt the film into a scripted biopic.Cristina Costantini, who directed “Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado” with Kareem Tabsch, tells Variety that they asked Mercado who he wanted to play him. “I suggested Gael García Bernal and he said, ‘Too old,’” Costantini said.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorOne would assume that the powers that be at Disney and Marvel have approached Charlize Theron about joining the MCU.But no, Theron says, she hasn’t heard a peep. “I swear to God.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMatt Bomer already knew Derek Simonds, the creator and showrunner of “The Sinner,” before being approached about starring in the third season of the USA Network series.“I had met with Derek years ago when he was involved in ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ and we’d hit it off creatively and had a great conversation,” Bomer, 42, says from his home in Los Angeles during an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorShortly after Shira Haas auditioned for “Unorthodox,” she visited her grandmother, who is in her 90s and was in the hospital at the time.“She gave me a ring, and she told me that this one will give me luck, and that she really hopes that I will get this role, and she feels that I’m going to get it,” the Israeli actor says during an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “This was kind of like
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorHenry Cavill admits he thought about easing up on his workout regime in quarantine.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWhen Darren Criss was filming “Hollywood,” he was also shooting his Quibi series “Royalties” and traveling to Las Vegas for a series of concerts he was headlining with Steve Aoki.“There was, like, a Sprinter van with an editing bay in it that would come to set on ‘Hollywood,’ to where I’d be shooting a scene on ‘Hollywood,’ and then I would go edit music videos in the van for like 20 minutes on my break and then go back to shooting
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFor Diane Guerrero, taking on the role of Crazy Jane in HBO Max’s “Doom Patrol” isn’t as easy as just playing a kooky character from a comic book series. Jane actually has 64 personalities, the result of childhood sexual trauma.“It’s like, ‘Of course I’m doing this role.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMark Duplass is a man of many hats — he’s a writer, director, producer and actor.
Lauren Pope has been sharing details of her pregnancy journey while in isolation at the stunning home she shares with her millionaire boyfriend Tony Keterman.The former TOWIE star revealed just before lockdown began in March that she was expecting her first child, and has since shared how she didn't imagine to be experiencing it from the confines of her house.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMandy Moore insists she doesn’t know the complete history of Rebecca Pearson and Miguel Rivas’ relationship on “This Is Us.”“I know as much as the audience knows at this point — Rebecca and Miguel were in each other’s lives,” Moore, who earned an Emmy nomination last year for her work as Rebecca, says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.”“I think she particularly leaned on him a little heavier,” she
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIf exposing his life in the semi-autobiographical ABC comedy “Black-ish” wasn’t enough, Kenya Barris now plays a fictionalized version of himself in “#BlackAF.” The Netflix series — the first project under the $100 million overall deal that Barris signed with the streamer in August 2018 — is a satirical look at himself, his family (series co-producer Rashida Jones plays his wife) and his career.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorZoë Kravtiz wasn’t exactly jumping at the chance to star in Hulu’s “High Fidelity” reboot.“’Oh no, please don’t,’” she recalls about her first reaction to the pitch. “Genuinely, that was the first thing that went through my mind.