Former First Lady Michelle Obama is drawing a lot of media attention for a comment she made on Jay Shetty‘s podcast, in which she says that she is “terrified” over what could happen in the next election.
22.12.2023 - 20:31 / variety.com
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor When Rosamund Pike sat down to tea with Emerald Fennell to discuss “Saltburn,” the filmmaker’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman,” she ordered coffee. Fennell asked if she was going to drink it black, to which Pike stated that she was going to add milk.
Recalls Pike, “So she said, ‘Oh, thank God. I think people who have their coffee black have no love in their life.’ And I just thought, ‘Okay, first test passed.’”
Pike had already read the script her agent described as “pretty delicious,” a decadent tale of obsession and excess that finds young Oxford student Oliver (Barry Keoghan) ingratiating himself into the family of classmate Felix (Jacob Elordi.) Fennell wanted to offer Pike the role of Lady Elspeth Catton, Felix’s wildly out of touch mother who loves to take in charity cases — in addition to Oliver, her friend “Poor Dear” Pamela (Carey Mulligan) is crashing at the titular manor for the summer after breaking up with a “malignantly ugly” Russian billionaire.
Pike has long excelled at playing morally questionable characters we nonetheless root for, such in her Oscar nominated turn in “Gone Girl” or her Golden Globe-winning role in “I Care a Lot.” While Elspeth is more clueless than conniving, Pike continually steals scenes by saying the most horribly insensitive things – and we love her for it.
As “Saltburn” hits Amazon Prime, Variety spoke with Pike about finding empathy for her character, improvising as Elspeth and what a spin-off with Mulligan could look like.
Are you surprised by how much people are loving Elspeth?
I’m totally astonished! I’m bewildered. I sort of don’t know what to do with it.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is drawing a lot of media attention for a comment she made on Jay Shetty‘s podcast, in which she says that she is “terrified” over what could happen in the next election.
Golden Globes last night, after being in a skiing accident over the holidays.The actor, who had been nominated for Best Supporting Female Actor in a Motion Picture for her performance in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, arrived on the red carpet in a dramatic black Dior gown, sporting a meshy black veil over her face.Speaking to Variety in an interview on the red carpet she revealed that she “had a skiing accident over Christmas,” adding that it’s “not what you want, knowing that you’re coming to the Golden Globes”.She continued: “On the 26th of December, my face was entirely smashed up and I thought, I need to do something.”Rosamund Pike says she had a skiing accident the day after Christmas. #GoldenGlobes https://t.co/bTYJ1neAOi pic.twitter.com/HWqVitwVfY— Variety (@Variety) January 7, 2024 She also suggested that she was inspired by her eccentric and glamorous character in Saltburn, Elspeth Catton, saying “Well you know, you have to channel it don’t you, either a weird, sort of, weird funeral vibe or, maybe she wore black for her wedding.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Christopher Nolan has begun his healing journey with fitness brand Peloton after one of the acclaimed director’s instructors dissed his movie “Tenet” during a workout class. “Nothing but love for Peloton,” Nolan told Variety backstage at Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, when asked if he saw instructor Jenn Sherman’s apology for taking issue his 2020 the sci-fi film’s byzantine plot. “But I did not climb on it today.
Golden Globes. The “Saltburn” star graced Sunday’s carpet in a black Dior Haute Couture gown and matching headpiece that she called a “protective veil” in an interview with Variety’s Marc Malkin.
Mama June Shannon says her late daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell had one final wish — and it involved her daughter’s living arrangements.
On Tuesday Kanye West brought his exhibition of wife Bianca Censori to social media. After weeks of parading her around in nearly nude bodysuits and heels on the streets of Italy and elsewhere, the rapper posted extremely revealing pics on his Instagram — ones we’re frankly kind of shocked have been allowed to stay on the relatively prudish site.
told GB News.“Meghan and Harry seemingly don’t understand why it’s a different rule for her.”Harry and Meghan shut the door on royal life in 2020 when they packed up and moved to California in search of privacy.The couple has since released a slew of projects detailing their struggles with royal life, including Harry’s bombshell memoir, “Spare,” their shocking sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey, as well as their Netflix doc, “Harry & Meghan.”Harry and Meghan have been heavily criticized for sharing private details of their relationships with royal family members.Ferguson, for her part, has also regularly appeared on TV shows and has written several books in recent years.In contrast, her TV presence has not been criticized as much as the Sussexes’ has.The Post has reached out to reps for the Sussexes for comment.The Sussexes were recently warned that they must “deliver” next year as Hollywood has “probably had enough of them.”“Something is beginning to unwind at the heart of Meghan and Harry,” PR expert Mark Borkowski told the Daily Mail earlier this month.“I think 2024 is going to be seismic, either because they’re going to do something to recover and find a new positive tactic or it’s going to be the undoing of the brand.”“It can only go one or two ways. It can’t stay where it is at the moment.
Jennifer Love Hewitt is reflecting on a particularly tough year.
seventh anniversary of Fisher’s death.Fisher and her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, both died within a day of each other in late December 2016.Lourd posted, via social media, a throwback photo of herself and the “Star Wars” actress playing on the beach.“Every anniversary brings a different iteration of my grief. Some infuse me with rage, some make me cry all day long, some make me feel dissociated and empty,” she wrote on Wednesday.The “American Horror Story” alum adds that some anniversaries of her mother’s passing make her “feel nothing” and “some make me feel guilty for feeling nothing.”This year, Lourd noted, she woke up feeling “grateful — or griefull — if you will.“Grief has infused my life with a sense of appreciation I had never had before.
Following in the coveted footsteps of Billie Piper, Jenna Coleman and Catherine Tate to play Doctor Who's latest assistant, Millie Gibson certainly has a lot to live up to. And while her acting ability has landed her the role alongside Ncuti Gatwa, it seems she has attracted attention for a completely different reason - the scar on her eyebrow.The 19 year old star, who had appeared in Coronation Street, playing the troubled Kelly Neelan in 2019, says she has a very simple explanation. In a recent interview she said: "It’s a scar.
As Elspeth Catton, Saltburn’s bohemian but bloodless matriarch, Rosamund Pike strikes an unnervingly accurate note as the crushingly careless mother of Jacob Elordi’s character Felix. When Felix brings home Oliver (Barry Keoghan), his apparently lame duck of a new friend from Oxford University, Elspeth is delighted to add a new tragic case to her collection of playthings. Already among them is Carey Mulligan’s lost soul character, Poor Dear Pamela — an old friend on the run from a messy breakup with a Russian oligarch. Here, Pike pays tribute to the world created by writer-director Emerald Fennell, and its unpredictable outcome.
Faye Winter left Celebrity Masterchef fans in stitches when she quipped that she looked like a dead fish during her time on Love Island. The reality TV star, 28, made the comparison while appearing on Celebrity MasterChef: Christmas Cook Off alongside Blue star Duncan James, singer Mel Blatt, and actor Richard Blackwood.
shared on X.In June, the Queen Of Pop was found unresponsive in her NYC home after “strenuously rehearsing” and “putting in 12-hour days” in anticipation of her tour.Madonna said the ordeal made her think about her own mother, who died aged 30 back in 1963.“She was by herself,” the singer shared. “And I was thinking, ‘What if I left my children?’ That would destroy me to leave my children at this moment in their lives.”“I wasn’t thinking about me.
Can you believe it has been over a decade since The Hunger Games was initially released in theaters, and can you imagine a world where Jennifer Lawrence did not star as Katniss Everdeen!?
Maren Morris is getting candid about her divorce from Ryan Hurd.
Did Charlie Sheen lie about his ex-wife Brooke Mueller not being “in the picture” for their twin boys?!
Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino has expressed her feelings at the response to her first solo album, saying she has been left “so disappointed” in the outcome.The release of the album came earlier this year, following Best Coast announcing news of an indefinite hiatus while the frontwoman focused her efforts on a solo career.Titled ‘Natural Disaster’, the debut solo LP arrived back in July, however, according to the singer-songwriter, the response to the project has been a lot more lacklustre than she expected.“I’ve debated having this conversation with you for a really long time,” she began, addressing her fans in a TikTok post (transcribed by Stereogum). “I put so much of myself into this record — into the writing of this record, into the recording of this record.
Emma Stone had a little mishap before her wedding!
Ali MacGraw has issued a statement on the death of her co-star in Love Story, Ryan O’Neal, who died yesterday at 82.
Are you watching, Meghan Markle? Because Princess Catherine appears to have a message after being publicly called out as one of the alleged “royal racists”!