It's the series on everyone's lips at the moment - Traitors' second season has dominated our week nights once again. The hit BBC One show first aired in January 2023 and returned earlier this year for another instalment.
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The prospect of working with Jessica Chastain under the direction of Michel Franco was enough to pique Peter Sarsgaard’s interest in Memory, but what really sealed the deal was how Franco had written his character, Saul. Since Franco rarely defines the character on the page, Sarsgaard was given the freedom to create a personal portrait of a man just beginning to struggle with a debilitating illness. Here, he explains how was influenced by a family member with early onset dementia, and why he chose to focus on the joy and humor in the character’s life, rather than the disease.
DEADLINE: How did you get involved with making Memory?
PETER SARSGAARD: The usual way. My agents called me and said that there was this project they thought I’d be interested in, which is how they preface anything that they think I should do. I heard who was involved even before I’d read it, and obviously I was already thinking that it was quite possible I would do it. I’m a huge fan of Michel Franco’s and a big fan of Jessica [Chastain]’s, and it was shooting in my backyard. I took a meeting with Michel.
I had read the script a few times, which I do before a meeting for a project that seems like something I might want to do, and we took a walk for several hours. I showed him around the Lower East Side and he was very interested in New York City. This was going to be one of the real characters in the movie and he’d been spending a lot of time in New York trying to feel the city. I’m not a New Yorker, but I’ve been here since 1993 and I used to live on the Lower East Side, so I just took him on a walk around that neighborhood. And it was kind of new for me too because the neighborhood has changed so much since I lived on Rivington in the ’90s.
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It's the series on everyone's lips at the moment - Traitors' second season has dominated our week nights once again. The hit BBC One show first aired in January 2023 and returned earlier this year for another instalment.
Fire Country may be blazing new trails.
Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Norwegian director Thea Hvistendahl’s zombie movie “Handling the Undead,” premiering at Sundance and to be released in the U.S. by Neon, sees the reunion of Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie, the stars of Oscar-nominated “The Worst Person in the World,” in a poetic, visually-charged chronicling of a hot summer’s day in Oslo when the dead mysteriously come back to life.
It all started with dim sum, said Da’Vine Joy Randolph. It ended with knives pulled, screaming, and a near-death feeling.
Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is set in the last weeks of 1970 and, if attention is paid, you’ll see Da’Vine Joy Randolph pay homage to Isabel Sanford, particularly how the tv legend wore her hair when she played Louise “Weezy” Jefferson in the classic TV comedy The Jeffersons.
Jason Priestley is forever grateful he got out of Los Angeles!
Annika Pham Paris-based The Party Film Sales has boarded renowned Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson’s fourth pic, “When the Light Breaks,” which is selected for Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market’s works in progress session.Rúnarsson serves as producer together with Heather Millard of Iceland’s Compass Films, in co-production with local banner Halibut, Holland’s Revolver, France’s Eaux Vives/Jour2Fête and Croatia’s MP Film. Lauded for his coming-of age tales set against Iceland’s majestic scenery, Rúnarsson saw his international breakthrough in 2008 with his Oscar-nominated short “Two Birds.” Since then, he has delivered equally poetic fare in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2011 entry “Volcano,” San Sebastian 2015 winner “Sparrows “ and 2019 Valladolid and Lübeck fest winner “Echo.” As in his earlier works, Rúnarsson was inspired by a personal event for “When the Light Breaks”.
CBS sitcom The Honeymooners, has died at the age of 99.According to Associated Press, Randolph’s son and only surviving family member Randolph Charles conveyed in a statement that she died of natural causes while in her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Saturday evening (January 13).The stage and television actress was most well-known for her role as Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners, starring in an ensemble cast that included Jackie Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden, Audrey Meadows as Kramden’s witty and tenacious wife Alice, and Art Carney as Ed Norton, a dimwitted-yet-buoyant sewer worker and husband to Randolph’s character.The sitcom, which was also created by Gleason and loosely based on his childhood, aired on CBS between 1955 and 1956. Lasting one season consisting of 39 episodes, The Honeymooners followed the foursome in their daily lives as residents of New York City.
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton on the classic sitcom “The Honeymooners,” and was the last surviving member of the cast, died Saturday in New York City. She was 99. Randolph was in hospice care at the time of her death and died of natural causes, her son, Randy, told TMZ.
told TMZ. According to the outlet, the last surviving member of the hit television show had been in hospice care at the time of her death and was unable to walk. The Michigan native, who was born in 1924, got her acting start when she moved to New York City in 1950 to star in a Broadway show called “Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath” before moving into TV.
Joyce Randolph has sadly passed away.
Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton on the television classic The Honeymooners, died Saturday at her home in New York City, according to multiple reports. She was in hospice care at the time of her death, which was from natural causes.
Brazen dog dealers badly neglected a host of animals they were raising at their unlicensed Scottish puppy farm.
EXCLUSIVE: Annette Bening is joining Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s Frankenstein lore feature at Warner Bros; the studio making it official that this is a go-project. Cameras roll in Q1. This package with its attachments has been out there since it was at Netflix, and the deals have finally closed with everyone.
Morrissey has claimed that he has been “deleted” from the “essence” and history of The Smiths in a new post.Taking to his official website Morrissey Central yesterday (January 11), the singer-songwriter defended his role in his former band amid numerous reports that – according to him – have downplayed his contributions.“There is also an obvious media shift to delete me from being the central essence of The Smiths,” he began, “but this cannot work because I invented the group name, the song-titles, the album titles, the artwork, the vocal melodies, and all of the lyrical sentiments came from my heart.“And so it’s a bit like saying Mick Jagger had nothing to do with the Stones.”Morrissey continued: “Several news sites now claim that the initial meeting at Rough Trade Records was with ‘Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke,’ even though Andy wasn’t even a committed band member at that point. The meeting, of course, was Morrissey and Marr.“Even Geoff Travis [Rough Trade founder] has now suddenly decided that he ‘can’t remember who was with Johnny,’ even though Geoff looked me squarely in the eye on that very day and said ‘we’d like to release [The Smiths’ 1983 debut single] ‘Hand In Glove’ immediately,’ and he then more importantly said to me that his name was Geoff with a G, not Jeff with a J.
Jeffrey Wright, star of Cord Jefferson’s provocative debut feature American Fiction, says he felt a personal affinity with his character Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in the film, in part because of the challenges Monk experiences with regard to family issues. Monk is an author and a professor of English literature who discovers he may have to lower his standards to attain some kind of glory in the phony world of publishing. We follow him as he takes an enforced leave of absence to care for his ailing mother, a situation that the actor himself is painfully familiar with — Wright’s mother died a year before he received Jefferson’s script.
Lots of celebs stepped out to attend the National Board of Review’s 2024 Awards Gala and we have all the red carpet photos!
Paul Thomas Anderson has assembled an all-star trio to star in his next film!
We are huge fans of shopping at ASOS because not only are the branded offerings pretty unbeatable, but the retailer regularly offers unique discount codes and amazing sale offers too. However, with the hundreds of items listed under fashion and beauty, available for both men and women, it can sometimes be a minefield to navigate. If, like us, you are looking to get moving more this January and are in the market for some new gym gear, then we thought it would be helpful if we did the tedious trawling task for you to find some of the best activewear to shop online now.
Fat Dog have released their latest energetic single ‘All The Same’ and have shared new tour dates in the US.The track marks the band’s second release under their new label, Domino. Co-produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Geese, Shame, Blur) and the band’s frontman Joe Love, ‘All The Same’ features a retro beat reminiscent of old 80s-90s video games.