Tim Roth (Hateful Eight, Lie to Me) is replacing Ian McShane in Paramount+’s buzzy Australian drama series Last King of the Cross.
05.05.2022 - 23:33 / usmagazine.com
Even Sansa Stark has struggles. Sophie Turner has been candid about her mental health journey, revealing that she battled an eating disorder during her time on Game of Thrones.
“I have experienced mental illness firsthand, and I’ve seen what it can do to the people around [the sufferers] as well,” the actress told Marie Claire Australia in 2019. “[When I was a teenager] my metabolism suddenly decided to fall to the depths of the ocean and I started to get spotty and gain weight, and all of this was happening to me on camera.”
Around the same time as her cover story, Turner revealed on the “Phil in the Blanks” podcast that social media users were quick to criticize her appearance.
“People used to say, ‘Damn, Sansa gained 10 lbs’ or ‘Damn, Sansa needs to lose 10 lbs’ or ‘Sansa got fat.’ It was just a lot of weight comments, or I would have spotty skin because I was a teenager and that’s normal, and I used to get a lot of comments about my skin and my weight and how I wasn’t a good actress,” she explained to Dr. Phil McGraw. “I would just believe it. I would say, ‘Yeah, I am spotty. I am fat. I am a bad actress.’ I would just believe it. I would get [the costume department] to tighten my corset a lot. I just got very, very self-conscious.”
The body image struggles affected Turner’s desire to socialize.
“I had no motivation to do anything or go out. Even with my best friends, I wouldn’t want to see them, I wouldn’t want to go out and eat with them,” she continued. “I just would cry and cry and cry over just getting changed and putting on clothes and be like, ‘I can’t do this. I can’t go outside. I have nothing that I want to do.’”
More recently, Turner spoke about how therapy helped her.
“For a long time, I was quite sick with an
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Premiere Digital has acquired global distribution rights, including the U.S., for “The Girl on the Bridge,” a mental health documentary directed by New Zealand filmmaker Leanne Pooley.“The Girl on the Bridge” tells the story of 22-year old Jazz Thornton, who survived multiple suicide attempts and now works as a filmmaker and activist for young people’s mental health. The film sees her juggle the personal cost and pressures of advocacy work as she leads her own charity.Previously only seen in New Zealand and Australia, “The Girl on the Bridge” is now available on digital platforms.
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actually spent her pandemic year getting fit.The “Senior Year” star recently shared how an inevitable break from the spotlight in 2020 gave her the chance to get healthy, and lose over 80 pounds.During her self-proclaimed “year of health,” the Australian funny woman, 42, was inspired to shed some weight after she visited a fertility doctor some years ago, intent on freezing her eggs.“He looked me up and down and said, ‘You’d do much better if you were healthier’,” the actress recently told People.Her wish to become a mother one day encouraged her to put health first. Wilson also has polycystic ovarian syndrome, a disease that can greatly impact fertility, and lead to weight gain.“I was taken aback. I thought, ‘Oh God, this guy’s so rude.’ He was right.
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Flume has addressed working with collaborators for his new album ‘Palaces’, including his hero Damon Albarn who made him feel “nervous”, as well as the influence of the late SOPHIE.The Australian DJ and producer, real name Harley Edward Streten, told NME in an In Conversation video interview that Albarn is one of his musical heroes, so he found the experience of working with him on the album’s title track particularly nerve-wracking.“We were both playing the LA festival Life Is Beautiful and linked up afterwards, and went to some weird studio in the middle of nowhere in the desert,” Streten told NME about the Albarn collaboration, recalling that he played him a bunch of music.“I was nervous because I’m a huge fan,” he added, having showed Albarn lots of ideas, “but he didn’t like anything.”In fact, it was only the second to last track on ‘Palaces’ that piqued Albarn’s interest. “He was like ‘Alright, there’s something in this, this is cool’.”“After he came round to one of the songs, I did think ‘Thank fuck for that!” And having Albarn join him on-stage at Coachella to play piano during the debut live performance of their collaboration was a “really special moment”.
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Neighbours might be ending, but the legacy of the long-running soap lives on thanks to all the epic careers it helped to kick-start. Show bosses announced in March that the iconic Australian show is being axed after 37 years on the air, with the final episode set to be filmed in June.The soap, which began in 1986, has been a breeding ground for acting and singing talent, with many residents of the fictional suburb of Erinsborough going on to make it big in the world of Hollywood and pop music.
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