“Bridgerton”‘s Simone Ashley had some arguably peculiar sex education to prepare her for on-screen intimacy.
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premiered Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival exposes the frightening and vulnerable position actresses have been put in for decades on sets run by powerful male directors.Steamy sex scenes, they insist, are anything but sexy.Rosanna Arquette recalled that her first nude shoot, in the 1981 comedy “S.O.B.,” was never meant to happen. When she took the role, the actress said, the intimate moment was not mentioned in her contract.Then the cameras rolled.“Let’s just lose the bikini top,” Arquette, 62, remembers famed director Blake Edwards, whose wife Julie Andrews also went topless in the movie, telling her surrounded by crew and fellow actors, such as William Holden and Robert Preston.
She added: “I was 19 at the time.”Rose McGowan said that it was completely normal for filmmakers to even hold day-long bikini casting calls.“They would write a role for a girl in a bikini for no apparent reason,” the actress, 48, said, adding that it was a pervy excuse for the creative team to get together and watch a parade of scantily clad women.Jane Fonda remembered that she first personally dealt with on-screen nudity when she moved to more permissive France in the 1960s. There she met director Roger Vadim, who directed 1960’s “Blood and Roses” and was previously married to Brigitte Bardot and partnered with Catherine Deneuve. Vadim and Fonda wedded in 1965 and three years later, he cast her in “Barbarella,” a sexually charged film about an astronaut.
Lines of trust were crossed, she said, even for a husband and wife.“Roger promised me that he would use the letters in the titles to cover the important things,” Fonda, 84, said of the risque opening credit sequence in which she strips. “Which was only partly [true].”As the actress floats
.“Bridgerton”‘s Simone Ashley had some arguably peculiar sex education to prepare her for on-screen intimacy.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPornhub, the massive pornography site owned and operated by MindGeek, has laid off an unknown number of staffers, according to social media posts.A rep for MindGeek declined to specify the number of employees who have been pink-slipped.The layoffs at MindGeek came as the company said CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo resigned in a leadership transition was in the works since early this year. Antoon and Tassillo will remain shareholders in MindGeek.The shakeup at the internet porn giant follows the New Yorker’s publication of an investigative piece last week on MindGeek documenting how Pornhub has hosted sexually explicit nonconsensual videos — including those with children — and that several of the people in those videos spent months trying to get the site to remove the material.
Caroline Framke Chief TV Critic“Menudo: Forever Young” won’t mark the first time that members of Latin America’s iconic supergroup have tried to reveal the truth of what it took to be a part of it. As the new docuseries from directors Angel Manuel Soto (“Charm City Kings”) and Kristofer Rios (“Havana Skate Days”) details again and again, each time more revealing than the last, Menudo alums have been speaking plainly for years about the exhaustion, neglect and sexual abuse they allegedly suffered under the thumb of Edgardo Diaz, the man who masterminded the boy band.Over four episodes — two of which premiered at the Tribeca Festival, and all of which will be available to stream June 23 on HBO Max — “Forever Young” does its best to balance tributes to Menudo’s undeniable legacy with disturbing testimonies about the working conditions the group endured.
My Policeman, in which the singer plays a married police officer involved in a secret gay love affair in 1950s Britain, was released June 15, stirring up even more public interest in the Queer love story.In a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Styles spoke about the challenges he faced while performing the film’s sex scenes.“It does feel vulnerable. I’d never kissed anyone on camera before and it felt like giving a part of myself away in some ways,” Styles said.“I was naked in My Policeman.
It often feels like none of the characters in Jesse Armstrong’s “Succession“ have a shred of decency in them. Whether they are members of the Roy family or executives maneuvering to survive mergers and power struggles, there are few characters on the program who are looking out for anyone but themselves.
being held captive by a religious cult, the 25-year-old keeps on dancing. Derrick — whose maiden name is Wilking — built a successful TikTok dance account with her sister, Melanie Wilking, under the username @wilkngssister until 2021 when the siblings split and Miranda signed with 7M management.
finally be released on July 29.But mere hours later, Drake deigned to try and one-up Queen Bey by announcing that his own seventh studio LP, “Honestly, Nevermind,” would be dropping at midnight. Just when it seemed as if it was all Harry Styles’ world, in one day, two of music’s biggest stars just made summer a lot hotter.“Honestly, Nevermind” — and a wild video for the first single “Falling Back,” featuring a parade of women lining up to be his brides — arrives just nine months after Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy,” which, despite the success of “Way 2 Sexy” and “Girls Want Girls,” felt like somewhat of a disappointment by his standards. And this 14-track LP is a radical reset for the 35-year-old artist born Aubrey Drake Graham.It’s a full-blown a-bop face from hip-hop to house.
Sasha Urban editorSydney Sweeney is opening up about filming sex scenes on “Euphoria,” which she says boosted her body confidence.“She doesn’t know how to communicate without showing her body,” Sweeney said about her character Cassie. “That is a form of communication for her, and she was never taught that you did not need that.”Sweeney dove into the psyche of her character for Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series presented by Apple TV+, in conversation with “Yellowjackets” star Christina Ricci. “Euphoria” made headlines earlier this year when Sweeney revealed that there were supposed to be more nude scenes in the show’s sophomore season, until she spoke out against including them because she felt that they weren’t necessary.
Christine Lampard looked the epitome of summer chic in a burnt orange dress as she hit the beach with her family on Wednesday.MORE: Christine Lampard reflects on long-distance love with husband FrankLooking relaxed and beautiful, the Loose Women star looked stunning in the maxi - from Melissa Odabash - which she styled with a beige tote, black flip flops and oversized sunglasses.WATCH: Christine Lampard shares rare footage of daughter Patricia playing footballShe was pictured with husband Frank Lampard and their three-year-old daughter Patricia during their family vacation in Formentera. Kicking back in the sun, at one point, they were seen heading on a boat ride.MORE: Christine Lampard shares rare footage of daughter Patricia playing footballSEE: Christine Lampard's £10million family home with husband Frank is ultra-chicChristine, 43, has been married to former footballer Frank since December 2015 and together they share Patricia and little Freddie, who was born in March 2021.Christine is also a stepmum to Luna, 16, and Isla, 14, from Frank's previous relationship with model Elen Rivas.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterJune is ’90s month on Vice TV. But based on its recent programming decisions, it could be argued that the cable network is currently in a perpetual state of ’90s month.With the debut of “Dark Side of the 90’s” Season 2 on Tuesday and the July 12 premiere of Nacelle Company’s docuseries “Icons Unearthed: Star Wars,” Morgan Hertzan, Vice TV executive vice president and general manager, tells Variety his team’s goal with this content is to reach the Gen X audience through its seemingly endless love for the era.“Obviously, a lot of media has focused on millennials, a lot of media is focused on the ‘Greatest Generation,'” Hertzan said.
defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, French luxury house Christian Dior retained its contractual ties to the actor with fans rushing to empty shelves of the perfume as a show of support. The ad features Depp playing a guitar in a desert as a howloing wolf walks alongside him appeared on Fox in a move which could see more of Depp’s endorsements return to the public sphere.
James Gunn wants people to stop blaming Hollywood for gun violence.
has been revived for a third time. Available to stream on Peacock, the latest U.S. version moves the drama from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, where it follows the many, diverse and overlapping lives of modern queer characters.
Home sweet home! Jill Dillard (née Duggar) and her husband, Derick Dillard, shared photos of their new home shortly after announcing their move to Oklahoma.