Carmel Dagan Staff WriterJane Powell, who starred as an angelically visaged young actress in a number of MGM musicals including “Royal Wedding” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” during the 1940s and 1950s, has died of natural causes.
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Thandiwe Newton has revealed that she’d love to star in a superhero movie.
However, the 48-year-old actress added that there are certain roles she’s seen in the action movies that she’d definitely pass on.
Click inside to see which superhero roles Thandiwe will pass on…
In a recent interview with LAD Bible, Thandiwe shared that she has turned down a superhero movie before, because the role she was offered was “someone’s mom who just dies.”
“I was like, ‘Meh, no.’ It was more the role, you know
Carmel Dagan Staff WriterJane Powell, who starred as an angelically visaged young actress in a number of MGM musicals including “Royal Wedding” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” during the 1940s and 1950s, has died of natural causes.
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LADbible–but only in the right part. The actress revealed that she was forced to reject a particularly underwhelming role in such a film. “I was offered a role playing someone’s mum who just dies,” Newton told LADbible.
British actress Thandiwe Newton has been making a career tackling genre projects with roles like Maeve in HBO‘s “Westworld,” the female lead in John Woo‘s “Mission: Impossible 2,” “The Chronicles of Riddick,” Guy Ritchie‘s gangster comedy “RockNRolla,” “Interview with the Vampire,” and now reunites with “Westworld’s” Lisa Joy for the new feature, “Reminiscence.” READ MORE: ‘Solo’: Thandiwe Newton Says Val Wasn’t Supposed To Die In The ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff & Calls The Death “A Big, Big Mistake”
Thandiwe Newton is interested in attaching herself to a superhero movie now that film’s in the genre are offering more.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story, stating that her character’s death was a “big mistake”.The actress played Val – wife to criminal Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson) – in the Star Wars spin-off, which charted the origins of Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich).Newton’s character made history as the first Black woman to have a major role in the franchise, but Val was swiftly killed off by the end of the film – a decision which wasn’t in the original script.Speaking to Inverse, Newton said: “I felt disappointed by
Newton told Inverse in an interview. “And, actually, in the script, she wasn’t killed.
Looking back. Thandiwe Newton has opened up about her character being killed off in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story and how she felt seeing it play out onscreen.
Thandiwe Newton made history in 2018 as the first Black woman to have a major role in a “Star Wars” movie when she appeared as Val in “Solo: A Star Wars Story”. Now, the “Reminiscence” star says the original script didn’t have her character die in an explosion — that disappointing change was made during filming on the Ron Howard-directed movie.
Lucasfilm‘s “Solo: A Story Wars Story” was a costly venture for the studio, as they fired the original directors, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, leading to very expensive reshoots led by acclaimed director, Ron Howard. And as we all know, those reshoots were quite extensive, greatly changing quite a bit of the story along the way, apparently including the fate of at least one of the main characters.
You may remember that Thandiwe Newton starred in Solo: A Star Wars Story as Val and her character was killed off in an explosion.
Thandiwe Newton believes the Solo: A Star Wars Story team made a "big mistake" when they killed her character off. In the 2018 Star Wars spin-off, starring Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo, the Westworld actress played Val, a criminal and Solo ally who gets unceremoniously killed off during a train heist.
Nicole Kidman reveals today how she had to take on ageist studio executives who wanted to throw her on the scrapheap – in her 40s. In an interview with The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine, Nicole, 54, tells how she was eventually forced to set up her own production company to make the kind of films women want to see and that she could also star in.
who played Black Canary in last year’s “Birds of Prey,” is attached to star.Misha Green, best known as the showrunner of the supernatural series “Lovecraft Country” on HBO, is writing the script.Black Canary, aka Dinah Lance, is a fantastic hand-to-hand combatant who comes from a family of crime fighters. Her father, Larry Lance, was a police officer, while her mother (also named Dinah) was the original Black Canary.