Prince Harry detailed Queen Elizabeth II's touching act of support towards his wife Meghan Markle in his memoir Spare. The Duke of Sussex revealed that the late monarch reached out to the Duchess of Sussex during a personally challenging period.
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William Earl administrator Although her tastes largely align with subversive voices like Eric André and Sacha Baron Cohen, Todd Phillips’ 2019 box office hit “Joker” captivated alt-comedian Vera Drew. “Warner Bros. made a Batman movie about class struggle, the mental health crisis, the fact that our city structures and government systems are completely failing,” she said.
Although she notes that some audiences could have seen the moral of the story as “white men, disenfranchised men are being put down,” she took away different ideas. “I related to it as a trans woman,” she said. “My family system failed me.
My government is still failing me constantly, and for some reason, I still have to pay them taxes next month. I related to that core element of just wanting to make art and put myself out there. How can I do that in a system that is so rigidly gatekept and so much of it is just an arm of propaganda?” Drew took that motivation and made a wholly original and subversive feature with “The People’s Joker,” which opens in theaters Friday.
She stars as Joker the Harlequin, a young trans woman who flees a small town to try to make it in the comedy world. The film is filled with characters parodying Batman mainstays — The Penguin, Ra’s al Ghul, The Riddler, Mr. Freeze and many more — adding a superhero dimension to this coming-of-age story.
In Hollywood, Drew cut her teeth working on productions from alt-comedy idols like André, Nathan Fielder, Tim Robinson, Scott Aukerman, Sacha Baron Cohen and Tim and Eric — largely editing projects that necessitated specific timing to make the offbeat humor hit perfectly. Yet helping these comedians perfect their voices only pushed Drew to further sharpen her own. “Whenever I did stand-up,
.Prince Harry detailed Queen Elizabeth II's touching act of support towards his wife Meghan Markle in his memoir Spare. The Duke of Sussex revealed that the late monarch reached out to the Duchess of Sussex during a personally challenging period.
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The follow-up to the billion-dollar global hit that earned Joaquin Phoenix the Best Actor Oscar statue back in 2020, Warner Bros. spent yesterday promoting the mature comic book sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux” at CinemaCon 2024 in Las Vegas and unveiled a new trailer. And that trailer has raised all sorts of questions, including how much of a musical the film is and how different it will be from the original “Joker” film.
is reacting to rumors that she’s splitting from husband Blake Shelton.The “Don’t Speak” songstress, 54, who tied the knot with the country star, 47, in 2021, opened up about their relationship in a new interview for NYLON.Despite Stefani having no doubt in her mind that she loves Shelton, she confessed that sometimes she feels vulnerable in her marriage.The feeling even led to her writing a duet titled “Purple Irises” with her partner.“I had been going through those times where you’re questioning: ‘Oh my gosh, am I just getting older? Am I cute?'” Stefani noted. “In my own relationship, even though I know the truth of what’s happening today, you still create drama in your own mind about your insecurities and what might happen.
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It has been a tough year for Amy Nuttall.The former Emmerdale star broke up with her husband of 11 years, Andrew Buchan, in August following allegations of him cheating, before losing her mum to a glioblastoma brain tumour in October. Five months on, Amy is still dealing with the loss of her mum Elaine, and recently admitted that she had experienced “one of the hardest” days of grief so far. She has just released a single in her memory, called Thank You Mother, for The Brain Tumour Charity.
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