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Meghan Markle is adding podcast host to her already impressive resume. On Thursday, Spotify announced the release of , the first podcast series made in collaboration with Archewell Audio — the audio-first production company founded by Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex -- as a part of their multi-year partnership. Slated to launch this summer, will «investigate the labels that try to hold women back.» Throughout the series, Markle will have candid conversations with historians and experts to uncover the origin of these stereotypes and have uncensored conversations with women who know all too well how these typecasts shape narratives.«This is how we talk about women: the words that raise our girls, and how the media reflects women back to us,» Markle says in a teaser released Thursday, addressing the common stereotypes that have historically generalized women through the lens of popular culture and media. «But where do these stereotypes come from? And how do they keep showing up and defining our lives?»«This is the podcast where we dissect, explore, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back,» she adds. «I'll have conversations with women who know all too well how these typecasts shape our narratives.

How do you define a 'boy band' in 2022?

What’s been a bad stretch for Disney Parks’ self-declared “Inclusion” initiative got a little worse this week as video surfaced online of a high school cheer team from Texas performing a routine at Walt Disney World that contained racist stereotypes of Native Americans.

Todd Gilchrist In 2021, the ways in which women can define themselves, their identities and their successes is more complex and diverse than ever before, but tradition — and the expectation of adherence to that tradition — continues to exert a powerful influence on how easily or confidently these individuals navigate the spaces they’re creating for themselves.Many of the most memorable stories told on screen this year examined that topic, portraying women of all different ages as they reckon with the roles that society believes they should fill, which come with duties their culture or beliefs tells them they must fulfill, or that lead them down paths, personally or professionally, that the world pressures them to follow. And judges mercilessly when they don’t.

Whitney Friedlander The increased focus on female butt-kickers on TV has been a positive step for feminism and in trouncing stereotypes.Series as vastly different in tone as AMC’s “The Walking Dead” zombie franchise to the martial arts-tinged “Cobra Kai” on Netflix and the CW’s “Kung Fu”to Disney Plus’ Marvel Cinematic Universe spinoffs like “Hawkeye” and Starz’s wrestling family drama “Heels” have all highlighted stunt work of female characters.“There are a lot of female stunt doubles and

Zendaya and Tom Holland’s height difference was the subject of many interviews during their press tour for “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.

Zendaya and Tom Holland pose for a photo while attending a SiriusXM Town Hall panel on Friday morning (December 10) in New York City.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentCairo-based Tunisian film and TV star Hend Sabry is debuting as an executive producer on upcoming Netflix Arab Original “Finding Ola,” a series she proposed to the streamer. The show sees Sabry reprise her role as the widely beloved Ola Abdel-Sabour character she played 10 years ago in groundbreaking social drama “I Want to Get Married” (Ayza Atgawez).

Zazie Beetz makes a stylish appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden this week, opening up about her most recent movie, The Harder They Fall.

Riz Ahmed’s case, so can a bad one.At age 22, the actor-producer-rapper fell victim to a “horrific bowl cut,” he recalls to Variety. In his arts program at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, the students deconstructed Shakespeare by day and hustled for acting jobs at night.“We were still doing headshots at drama school, so everyone was making sure they looked good,” he says.

K.J. Yossman Jeymes Samuel was inspired to make his Western-themed feature debut “The Harder They Fall” after growing up watching genre flicks on BBC One and feeling disappointed by the way they depicted women and people of color.Samuel, who grew up on Harrow Road in London, U.K., acknowledged his passion for the genre was unusual but explained that the BBC “were just hammering us with Westerns when I was growing up.”“I loved cinema.

Destin Daniel Cretton took his first meeting with Marvel Studios roughly two and a half years ago to discuss “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” he never actually expected to be handed the reins of the latest film in the biggest movie franchise in cinema history. Up to that point, Cretton had directed a series of small-scale independent dramas — “Short Term 12,” “The Glass Castle” — that were exceptional in the all-inclusive empathy the filmmaker deployed for all of his characters.

Eternals gave him the chance to reject “brown dude” stereotypes usually perpetuated in Hollywood.The actor, who is playing superhero Kingo in Chloé Zhao’s forthcoming Marvel film, has said he welcomed the chance to portray a different kind of character to the roles he is usually offered in Hollywood.“I’ve been in this industry for about a decade and I looked at the usual opportunities that the brown dudes get,” Nanjiani told the Los Angeles Times.“We get to be nerdy.

Kumail Nanjiani is talking all about his character in Marvel’s upcoming The Eternals.

There is no question Niall Horan is comfortable on stage and he proved himself as quite the comedian on a popular US chat show.

Hulu that features four rough-and-tumble teenagers who cuss, fight and steal their way toward adulthood in a rural Oklahoma town.

ROME -- Several years ago they were four teenagers busking in the piazzas of Rome.

According to reporter Raphael Rashid, Sweden's visual said it was the "developed country of welfare" but made a typo in "developed country" (선진국) and wrote "선지국" which is cow blood soup, a Korean delicacy.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAustralian unscripted factual series “You Can’t Ask That” is poised to bel localized across a swath of countries in East and South Asia.Format rights to the hit show, which explores diversity and inclusion by posing candid questions that people might otherwise by unwilling to ask, have been licensed by social welfare-oriented producer Be Inclusive and by Tiger Tiger Pictures.“You Can’t Ask That Asia” is now being developed by the pair with a view to streaming

Angelique Jackson For the cast and crew of “India Sweets and Spices,” the Tribeca Festival debut on June 12 served as a welcome reunion after a long year of What’sApp messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.“A lot of our cast is scattered throughout the world, and it’s been tough with this COVID situation so we really missed them,” Malik tells Variety about celebrating without a few film family members.

Comrie man with a determined approach to his studies has been named as the undergraduate student of the year for Perth College UHI.

Michael J. Fox was presented with the ATX Television Festival’s Award in Television eXcellence during a virtual ceremony on Wednesday.

Rita Moreno has had quite the Hollywood journey.The EGOT winner is now sharing her story in the documentary, and the personal and professional struggles she endured along the way.«Here I am, a person who's won, who's garnered, I hate to say won, a lot of awards, a lot of acknowledgment,» the 89-year-old iconic performer told ET's Rachel Smith at a screening of her film in the Bronx. «But what people don't see is how I got there.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorIn the opening moments of “Genius: Aretha,” Cynthia Erivo’s Aretha Franklin is seen on stage as her career begins to skyrocket. The scene then cuts to Franklin in a gaggle of reporters, peppered with questions, one of which comes from a man asking whether her children were in the audience.

Manori Ravindran International EditorIn 2017, Oscar-nominated “Sound of Metal” actor Riz Ahmed gave a rousing speech to the House of Commons warning that the U.K. could lose its Muslim youth to extremism unless they see themselves represented on screen as something other than problematic stereotypes.

Sutton Stracke is issuing an apology to her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-star Crystal Kung Minkoff.

A new report from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that only 5.9% of the 51,159 speaking roles in the 1,300 top-grossing movies from 2007-2019 were played by Asian American and Pacific Island actors, and that only 3.4% of those films had an API lead or co-lead, with only six movies featuring an API woman in a leading or co-leading role.

“S.W.A.T.” packs plenty of high stakes and high-octane action in every episode. So, it’s virtually impossible to imagine David Lim, who portrays Office Victor Tan, slowing down enough to sit behind a desk as a career. But, after earning an electrical engineering degree, that’s almost what went down.

In Netflix's romance/tech sci-fi series The One, Amir El-Masry — also recently seen on the HBO/BBC financial drama Industry and now appearing as the lead in Focus Features' darkly comic refugee film Limbo — played a DNA expert called Ben.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe most memorable moment of “Rutherford Falls” — featuring two characters sitting opposite each other and just talking with startling honesty — deviates sharply from the show’s established norm.

Lost star Daniel Dae Kim has recalled the time he told the show’s creators he had concerns about the Asian stereotypes set out in the pilot episode.Kim and co-star Yunjin Kim played Korean married couple Jin and Sun in the popular series, but their characters received criticism early on for falling into the Asian stereotype of the overbearing husband and his submissive wife.Speaking in a new interview, Kim revealed that he spoke to Lost creators J.J.

Grace Kao is the IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.Peter Shinkoda has been a film and TV actor for more than three decades.

Sharing his side. Daniel Dae Kim is best known for his role on Lost, but when he first read the script, he had some issues with the relationship between his character, Jin-Soo Kwon, and his wife, Sun (Yunjin Kim).

Daniel Dae Kim has been serious about representation from the beginning.

A new charity has launched in the U.K. with the aim of challenging Muslim stereotypes on screen.

Catelynn Lowell.