Shonda Rhimes has created many iconic characters throughout her career and she says that Olivia Pope from Scandal is one that she would like to bring back.
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Scarlett Johansson still has a lot of love for Disney, though.
This week, the “Asteroid City” star is on the new cover of Variety, and in the issue she opens up about the Disney’s response when she filed her lawsuit against the studio.
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After she filed her suit in 2021, alleging that Disney’s move to release “Black Widow” on Disney+ on the same day it hit theatres during the pandemic cost her millions in backend payments.
“There is no merit whatsoever to this filing,” Disney responded at the time. “The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The fiery response from the studio surprised many industry watchers, though the two parties eventually settled out of court.
“I was sad and disappointed. But mostly sad,” Johansson says now of the studio’s response. “It was such a surreal moment because we were all isolated and just sort of emerging a little bit. I was also really heavily pregnant, too, which in a weird way was amazing timing. Suddenly, your entire attention is drawn to this miracle of life. So, I had the most wonderful distraction in the world and soon after had a beautiful baby.”
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Looking back on that time, though, Johansson recalls getting a lot of public support for her stance.
“I couldn’t even walk through a restaurant without somebody saying, ‘Good for you. Stand up for yourself,'” she says. “I could see that it had a bigger impact. I got support from strangers that have no skin in the game at all.”
Despite it all, Johansson still
Shonda Rhimes has created many iconic characters throughout her career and she says that Olivia Pope from Scandal is one that she would like to bring back.
Ariana Madix is opening up about life after Season 10 of Vanderpump Rules.
Angelique Jackson Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” sequel has rounded out its cast with the additions of May Calamawy (“Moon Knight,” “Ramy”), Peter Mensah (“Avatar”) and Matt Lucas (“Wonka,” “Bridesmaids”), as well as legacy cast member Derek Jacobi, who will reprise his role from the 2000 blockbuster. “Kraven the Hunter” and “The White Lotus” star Fred Hechinger is now in talks to take on the role of Emperor Geta, after Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan dropped out of negotiations due to a scheduling conflict. The new additions join a star-studded cast, led by Oscar nominee Paul Mescal and two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington, with “Stranger Things” breakout Joseph Quinn set to play Emperor Caracalla and Pedro Pascal in final negotiations for an undisclosed role.
Don’t count on Ariana Madix popping up on screen alongside Tom Sandoval or Raquel Leviss ever again.
Ariana Madix broke her silence on her decision to keep Tom Sandoval‘s hookup with Miami Girl a secret during their relationship.
saw Lala Kent drop a bomb that viewers may not have been ready for.While unpacking the scandal with fellow castmates, Katie Maloney, James Kennedy and his girlfriend, Ally Lewber, Kent says she's not so sold on Tom Sandoval's affair with Raquel Leviss being the first time he stepped out on Ariana Madix over the course of their nine-year relationship.Reminding the group that she suspected they were looking at the wrong Tom all along towards the tail-end of filming the summer before, when Leviss and Tom Schwartz were caught making out, Kent points out Sandoval's pattern of behavior, first cheating on Kristen Doute, and then Madix. Kent shares her theory that Sandoval got bored with Madix and wanted to be with a «sloppy drunk» girl — cue Leviss.«He got off on the fact that he could sneak around,» Kent tells the group, before asking if they believe this is the first person Sandoval's cheated on Madix with.
“Elemental” and Martin Scorsese’s Apple-produced “Killers of the Flower Moon” an additional veneer of vindication. As to the box-office futures of the 20-odd films competing for this year’s Palme d’Or, certainly none will reach the international highs of James Mangold’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” but then, none were ever expected to.Instead — and at its best — Cannes works as a sophisticated shell game, channeling the glamour of the red carpet and the frenzy of 40,000 accredited guests to make glitzy international events out of existential Turkish dramas like Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses,” existential Finnish dramedies like Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves”or intimate two-headers about 19th-century French gastronomy like Tran Anh Hung’s “The Pot au Feu.”Other Palme d’Or contenders will come with built-in SEO, as Wes Anderson’s more-star-packed-than-usual “Asteroid City”threatens to saddle red-carpet rubberneckers with a permanent case of whiplash once the Texan auteur’s full repertory company mounts the Palais steps alongside new additions Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson.That all the aforementioned filmmakers could walk those Palais steps in blindfolds is another notable element of an official competition marked by staggering high fidelity.
Rumer Willis commemorated her first Mother's Day on Sunday with a series of intimate portraits from her childbirth journey last month. The images show Willis' mom, Demi Moore, at her side throughout the process. Willis, the eldest daughter of Moore and Bruce Willis, welcomed the family's first grandchild, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis, on April 18. She shares the little bundle of joy with her boyfriend, musician Derek Thomas. Willis posted two separate carousels to Instagram on Sunday in celebration of the new arrival. The first featured a reflection on her experience becoming a mom with her own mother by her side.
Scarlett Johansson admitted that she began to question her future in Hollywood after losing two major acting roles to Emily Blunt and Sandra Bullock. The 38-year-old actress told Variety that she became demoralized after being rejected for parts in the 2010 Marvel blockbuster "Iron Man 2" and the 2013 science fiction hit "Gravity." "I got turned down for two roles — the first was ‘Iron Man 2’ and then the other one was Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity,’" Johansson told the outlet.
Art imitates life? Peter Madrigal poked fun at Raquel Leviss and Tom Sandoval‘s cheating scandal with a shady new cocktail recipe.
In the hot seat. Andy Cohen dropped some major hints about Tom Sandoval‘s state of mind during the season 10 reunion of Vanderpump Rules.
Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval's relationship begin to show, Raquel Leviss is throwing her hat in the ring and giving Madix advice on how to spruce up their sex life — which would seem friendly and helpful had Leviss not been engaging in an affair with Madix's boyfriend of nearly nine years behind her back.In Wednesday's all-new episode of , the final episode before all hell breaks loose and "Scandoval" is revealed, the group meets up at SUR following Madix and Katie Maloney's party for their new sandwich shop, Something About Her.Leviss, who was not invited to the party following her makeout with Maoloney's ex-husband, Tom Schwartz, reconvenes with Madix at the restaurant's garden bar, where she asks Madix how she and Sandoval are doing — earlier in the episode, the pair had a heated conversation about their relationship and where their disconnect lies, with Sandoval's increased desire to spend time with Leviss over Madix being a point of contention.«He feels like he’s not being heard, which is why he’s always the loudest person in the room,» Madix says after Leviss asks how she's doing following the intense one-on-one.Leviss then brings up Madix and Sandoval's sex life, reminding Madix that she offered Leviss advice when she was going through a dry spell with her ex-fiancé, James Kennedy.Madix stressed that her main issue with Sandoval is that she needs more quality time with the Tom Tom co-owner in order to be open to having sex with him.«I feel like in a relationship, you should want to have sex,» Leviss offers. «OK, but you have to be, like, emotionally intimate before you can be physically intimate,» Madix replies.«You guys were emotionally intimate at one point, obviously, right?» Leviss asks.
After Jeremy Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries from a near-fatal snowplow accident, his "Avengers" co-star Scarlett Johansson wasn’t sure if she would ever see her friend again. Johansson, 38, recalled the moment she learned that Renner had been crushed by a nearly 15,000-pound snow machine while he attempted to save his nephew’s car. "I was very upset," the Marvel star recounted during an interview with Variety.
Eurovision enthusiasts have claimed Hannah Waddingham threw shade at Amanda Holden during Tuesday night's live semi-final. Actres Hannah, 48, hosted the semi-final, which aired live on BBC One, in Liverpool alongside Alesha Dixon and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina. During the Eurovision show last night, Hannah seemed to playfully take a swipe at Amanda as she explained the voting rules in French.
she told Variety. “I had wanted that role so much.”Johansson said it was “sort of the straw that broke the camel’s back” when the film decided to go with another actress, Sandra Bullock, who starred opposite George Clooney as the two leads.“I felt really frustrated and hopeless,” the two-time Oscar nominee recalled.
Scarlett Johansson was introduced as the Black Widow in Iron Man 2, and she went on to become the highest-grossing actor ever, she was a hustling performer, who was starting to have doubts about her career. While this movie star is now one of the major powerhouses in Hollywood, before joining the MCU she was starting to feel “frustrated and hopeless” about her career, and she recently got candid about how she was feeling before she was cast as Natasha Romanoff.
As Jeremy Renner continues to make a miraculous recovery from an accident that initially left him in critical condition, his “Avengers” co-stars are celebrating along with him.
Scarlett Johansson is detailing her visit with Jeremy Renner following his near-fatal snowplow accident in January.In a new interview with , Johansson emotionally recalled visiting the star, telling the outlet that she was unsure if she'd ever see him again after the brutal accident left him injured and hospitalized.Renner was crushed by a snowplow near his home in the Mt. Rose Highway area of Reno, Nevada, on New Year's Day. The Marvel actor was trying to rescue his nephew after his car got stuck in the snow.
Scarlett Johansson is revealing a ton of details about her personal and professional life.
Scarlett Johansson is one of the most famous people on the planet and one of the most in-demand actors around. But in the mid-to-late-2000s, that was far from the truth.