Mary Holland on 'Happiest Season' Sequels and Running Away With Aubrey Plaza (Exclusive)

Natalie Oganesyan editorGLAAD and Outfest have partnered to produce a PSA with the cast and artists from the soundtrack of Hulu’s “Happiest Season” to discuss the importance of finding “chosen family” for LGBTQIA+ people during the holidays.The PSA, which you can view above, features writer-director Clea DuVall, stars Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Dan Levy, Alison Brie and Mary Steenburgen, singer-songwriters Carlie Hanson and Shea Diamond, executive producer of the film’s soundtrack and

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStrand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Agnieszka Holland’s critically acclaimed “Charlatan” from Berlin-based company Films Boutique.“Charlatan” competed at the Berlin Film Festival this year in the Special Gala section, and was most recently selected at Telluride.

Also Read: Aubrey Plaza Joins Power Women Summit 2020When Waxman asked the “Parks and Recreation” alum if she was being “serious” she added: “Yes. I mean, I didn’t sell that yet — but I will.

While she’s still perhaps best known for her comedic turn as the sardonic April on “Parks and Recreation,” Aubrey Plaza has been making a name for herself by nimbly crafting bizarre and offbeat characters. She arguably delivers her best performance to date in “Black Bear,” directed by Lawrence Michael Levine (“Wild Canaries,”) which sees the actress having to play multiple versions of the same character.

Aubrey Plaza believes her “Happiest Season” co-star Kristen Stewart contracted the coronavirus while they were filming the movie earlier this year.  During a recent virtual appearance on “The Late Show,” Plaza was asked by host Stephen Colbert about filming the movie in late February just before the pandemic changed everyone’s way of life in March.  The actress noted that the virus was a topic of conversation on set, but it was not treated with the seriousness it deserved at first.  “Right

Remember all the way back at the beginning of 2020, when we barely knew what coronavirus was? Apparently, Kristen Stewart was finding out pretty intimately.

said on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” last week.Plaza added that a lot of people on the set got sick around that time and no one thought anything of it.“It was the last week of February so people were starting, it was like that zone where people were starting to talk about coronavirus, but people were laughing about it,” she said. “No one understood how serious it was.

Happiest Season last month, they likely just intended for the movie to be a cutesy rom-com about going home for the holidays to meet the parents with a queer spin, but as luck would have it, it has become one of the year's most highly contested contribution to lesbian pop culture.The long and short of it is that audiences have been very vocal about how badly they wanted one of the film's stars, Kristen Stewart, to ditch her character's girlfriend played by Mackenzie Davis for a tertiary

, but the set of the hit holiday romance wasn't exactly a happy place the whole time. Actress Aubrey Plaza revealed onthat the Hulu film's star, Kristen Stewart, as well as many others on the set got sick with what she believes to be COVID-19. Sharing that they filmed the moving in late February, Plaza noted, «Yes, right before COVID, in fact, COVID was on our set.

Aubrey Plaza has revealed Kristen Stewart contracted coronavirus while filming “Happiest Season”.

Aubrey Plaza, who has been receiving a lot of fan love for her performance in Happiest Season, recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about the Christmas film.

Premiering back at Sundance 2020, “Black Bear” might not have made waves equal in size to some (hello “Minari” and “Palm Springs”), but it certainly caused a stir among critics.

Spoiler warning: This interview reveals plot points of “Happiest Season.“ READ MORE: ‘Happiest Season’: Kristen Stewart & Mackenzie Davis Shine Bright In A Coming Out Xmas Romcom [Review] Hulu’s “Happiest Season” is a bonafide hit – breaking premiere records, scoring the most-watched status during its opening weekend, attracting more new subscribers than any previous movie title on the platform, and trended on Twitter.

Selling Sunset has been the series on everyone’s lips after it first landed on Netflix in 2019.The hit show, brimming with boujee properties, saucy secrets and high heels, centres around a group of glamorous estate agents who sell jaw-dropping properties across Los Angeles.The third season had fans engrossed as drama exploded between the girls and Chrishell Stause experienced a heartbreaking split from actor husband Justin Hartley, leaving us all wondering if there will be a season four? Get

Kate Aurthur editor“Happiest Season,” from Sony’s Tri-Star Pictures, was always poised to make history, as the first holiday romantic comedy about a same-sex couple from a major Hollywood studio. Then the pandemic hit, leaving Sony with little choice other than to sell “Happiest Season” to Hulu. That seems to have turned out wonderfully: Variety has learned exclusively from Hulu that “Happiest Season” broke premiere records for the streamer.

is essentially a heist movie with the number of supporting cast members who steal scenes: Mary Holland walking off with a scene here, Dan Levy chewing scenery there, there's even a cameo from Michelle Buteau. But Aubrey Plaza is the undisputed hero of the film.«There is just something else going on with this movie that felt very important, to have a gay Christmas rom-com.

The new holiday romantic comedy Happiest Season is now streaming on Hulu and the general consensus among people who have watched the film is that they wish it ended differently.

[This story contains spoilers for Happiest Season on Hulu.] "Right away I said, 'I would like to play her. I would like that to be me,'" remembers Mary Holland of pitching herself to play Jane, the fantasy novel-loving, ready-to-please and overall black sheep of the buttoned-up Caldwell clan, as seen in new Hulu holiday movieHappiest Season.