The Film Academy has unveiled its 15-track shortlist for the Best Original Song Oscar in 2023, which marks a confluence between stars old and new.
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Selena Gomez has been candid about her struggle with mental health issues, including her 2018 bipolar diagnosis. With Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me, she and director Alek Keshishian wanted to create a public account of her long battle to recover her mental wellbeing.
Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary panel for the Apple Original Films pic, Keshishian revealed why Gomez trusted him to tell such a personal story.
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“I met Selena in 2015 because she told her manager, who happened to be my sister, that she was obsessed with [Keshishian’s 1991 Madonna docu] Truth or Dare,” he said. “She had watched it seven times while she was in Hawaii, and she said she found it so authentic and so inspiring and real. So we met, and that’s how the first connection happened.”
Together they created a deeply personal and revealing film, with Gomez openly discussing her stay in mental health facilities. Keshishian shared that the singer’s health struggles were so great that he canceled their first attempt to create a film together.
“She asked me if I would do her tour doc for [Gomez’s 2015 album] Revival, and I said, ‘I’m not sure you’re going to be comfortable with what true cinéma vérité filmmaking is like. I just shoot. It’s not like I have prescribed days or hours. I just keep shooting.’ And she said, ‘No, no, no, but you know, I really want to do this.’ And so I did for two weeks, but I could see that things were really going off the rails, and it didn’t feel right for me to be necessarily filming all the time this 24-year-old young woman who I could see was in distress. It just felt exploitative. So we mutually agreed to put a pause on it.”
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and have also been channeling a more glamorous take on the French-girl look. Although the classic style can be easily imitated, there’s a certain je nais se quois that’s required to nail the vibe.
dated and on and off for nearly a decade before a brief Jelena renaissance from 2017-2018. Bieber went on to marry (née Baldwin), while Gomez recorded “Lose You to Love Me” and called their breakup “the best thing that ever happened to me” in her recent documentary, . Now, Gomez is commenting on Jelena once again. In a recent by a Selena Gomez fan account, user @donttellmymomma.fr posted a series of photos of Gomez from her time with Bieber, including an old comment Gomez reportedly made after one of their past breakups.
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and for full-on '80s Barbiecore.On December 10, crashed her costars Steve Martin and Martin Short's monologue. During their most recent opening bit, the pair joked about hosting each other's future funerals.
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