scored a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in the rom-com as a hard-partier who strips off his clothes, offers drugs to other party guests and checks out a jacuzzi.And here is how the “Saturday Night Live” alum, 28, snagged the quirky walk-on — or jump-on — part and was caught off-guard in the process.“I didn’t even tell him what he’s doing,” film director Jason Orley told Variety on the red carpet at the picture’s Los Angeles premiere on Thursday. “I said, ‘Can you come down for a night?’ and he said ‘Sure!’ And he showed up and I said, ‘Okay, get up on this ledge and take off your clothes.’ And he was like, ‘What are you talking about?’”For the cameo, Davidson was fastened onto the ledge of a roof — wearing only his underwear — and leaped onto protective pads on the ground.
Rachel Lears on Following Up ‘Knock Down the House’ With a Darker Look at the Climate Crisis
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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIn 2019, Rachel Lears electrified Sundance with “Knock Down the House,” a fly-on-the-wall look at a group of progressive candidates hoping to ride grassroots campaigns to Washington. That film, which played like cri de coeur while the Trump administration was at the height of its power, also benefitted from capturing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez while she was still a bartender turned upstart congressional hopeful, a bit of kismet that resulted in a $10 million sale to Netflix.Three years later, Lears returns to Sundance in a different key with “To the End.” It’s a more somber look at a group of activists who are trying to do everything possible to pressure the U.S.
government to get serious about combatting the climate crisis. If “Knock Down the House” ended more triumphantly with Ocasio-Cortez being ushered in to a position of great influence, “To the End” premieres as President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda is being held in limbo, and with it much of his push to wean the country off fossil fuels and promote alternative sources of energy.
Hope and optimism have curdled as gridlock sets in. “It’s very much about how impossible things become possible through movements,” says Lears.
“It’s a darker story than ‘Knock Down the House’ and more complex in many ways.”Once again, Ocasio-Cortez plays a central role in the drama, but Lears’ cast of characters also includes three millennials, all women of color, who are agitating for change. They include climate activist and Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash, Justice Democrats executive director and progressive political activist Alexandra Rojas, and Rhiana Gunn-Wright, a liberal scholar and the climate policy director at The
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mxmtoon has released ‘mona lisa’, a new single from her sophomore album that will be released later this year. The artist known as Maia has also announced North American tour dates – find those below.The single was released on streaming platforms on February 8 alongside art depicting the singer as the iconic Leonardo da Vinci painting.The ukulele-driven song invites the listener to daydream, mxmtoon checking off references to several famous artists, including William Shakespeare and Frida Kahlo, as she sings: “I wanna be a Mona Lisa / The kinda girl that you can dream of”.Listen to mxmtoon’s ‘mona lisa’ below.The single is taken from mxmtoon’s upcoming sophomore album, which has yet to be given a release date.In a statement, she said, “As someone who usually writes songs about other people, one of my ongoing questions is ‘will anyone ever write songs about me?’”“‘mona lisa’ is about wanting to be the subject of the art for once instead of being the creator.
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The words and characters of Min Jin Lee’s multigenerational novel Pachinko have come to life in the first look images for Apple TV+’s upcoming drama of the same name.
Jennie Nguyen Fired by Bravo From ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’
Kate Aurthur editorAfter the firestorm earlier this month caused by caused by racist (and deleted) Facebook posts by “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” cast member Jennie Nguyen, Bravo announced Tuesday that Nguyen has been fired from the show. It had recently begun filming its third season in Utah with Nguyen, Heather Gay, Whitney Rose, Jen Shah, Meredith Marks and Lisa Barlow returning.
Lulu Wang, Dani Melia Set First-Look TV Deal at Amazon, Form Production Company Local Time
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‘To The End’ Review: A Scattered, Occasionally Brilliant, Rallying Cry about the Climate Crisis [Sundance]
Returning to similar thematic territory as her previous 2019 documentary feature, “Knock Down the House,” director Rachel Lears turns to the climate crises in her follow-up, “To the End.” Much like that previous film, Lears follows four female climate activists — Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Sunrise Movement Executive Director Varshini Prakesh, Justice Democrats Executive Director Alexandra Rojas, and Roosevelt Institute Policy Director Rhiana Gunn-Wright — as they work to write and institute the Green New Deal.
‘To the End’ Review: A Documentary About Trying to Change the Systems Enabling Climate Change
Dennis Harvey Film CriticUnstoppable force meets immovable object in “To the End.” Rachel Lears’ documentary inspires in its portrait of youthful activists organizing to push impactful climate-change policies into American political reality — and exasperates in the resistance with which that urgent quest is greeted on both sides of the entrenched-power aisle. Covering several years of fast-moving events, this Sundance premiere is too exclusively U.S.-focused to be particularly viable for offshore programmers, but its topicality should stir sales interest on home turf.Like the director’s last feature “Knock Down the House,” about the 2018 Congressional election, this one also throws a spotlight on New York state candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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