Big news for Charlie Barnett – he’s getting married!
05.04.2022 - 00:11 / variety.com
Jordan Moreau Frida Gustavsson has walked the runway for the likes of Valentino, Chanel, Lanvin, Carolina Herrera, Fendi, Oscar de la Renta, Versace, Christian Dior and has even donned a pair of wings for Victoria’s Secret. However, her most revealing walk in recent years, she told Variety, was a runestone walk she took with her father in her native Swedish hometown to do some extracurricular research for her leading role as Freydís Eiríksdóttir in “Vikings: Valhalla.”“I went for a runestone walk with my father, who is a history buff.
The Vikings left all of these wonderful runestones — they had erected stones with carved letters in the Elder Futhark alphabet, which is the 1000-year-old alphabet from Sweden,” she explained to Variety. “They are little remnants of a time long gone, but they are still scattered all over the area where I live and tell little messages of what it was like to live there and come back after traveling to England and returning home with gold.” As soon as Gustavsson landed the part of Freydís, she knew she had to make good to both the fans and her Scandinavian roots and learn all she could about Viking women.
She opened her old schoolbooks, she went to all of the museums, but not even the runes she saw with her father told her much — or anything at all — about the type of woman she would need to portray onscreen. That’s when she knew the stakes for accuracy were high.Jeb Stuart’s “Vikings: Valhalla,” a 100-year jump from its “Vikings” predecessor created by Michael Hirst for the History Channel, dropped all eight of its episodes on Netflix on Feb.
25. The results — four consecutive weeks on Netflix’s Top 10 chart for English-language television and two consecutive weeks on Nielsen’s Top 10 SVOD
.Big news for Charlie Barnett – he’s getting married!
Nicolas Cage is back on the late night circuit for the first time in well over a decade, and he’s already leaving our mouths agape!
MAYWOOD, Ill. -- The Illinois childhood home of Fred Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment, has been designated a historical landmark.In a news release, organizers of the Save The Hampton House initiative, led by Hampton's son and his mother, announced that the Maywood Village Board voted to recognize the house as a historical landmark.The Tuesday night vote in the Chicago suburb follows a yearlong campaign that was tied to the Academy Award-winning film about Hampton and his death called “Judas and the Black Messiah.”The designation is part of a broader effort to see the Black Panther Party and the U.S.
EXCLUSIVE: Tattoo Artist Katrina “Kat Tat” Jackson, best known for starring in Black Ink Crew; Chicago on VH1, has signed a first look, development and executive producer deal with Paramount. Jackson will develop and EP original content for the studio in collaboration with her production company, Enigma Entertainment Group.
depiction of Michelle Obama in Showtime’s series “The First Lady” turned heads on Sunday evening following the premiere.The episode made fans’ jaws drop when they saw the Oscar winner’s portrayal of former President Barack Obama’s wife.Watchers were confused over one scene in which Davis, 56, is talking and her lips were overly-pursed in an exaggerated way. The scene involves Davis as Michelle conversing with her husband Barack, played by O.
Michelle Pfieffer is opening up about her latest role.
LOS ANGELES -- “The First Lady” presents three influential women, three acclaimed actors playing them, and a century of history encompassing wars, presidential scandal and America's stubborn gender and race fault lines.The ambitious Showtime drama series proved an irresistible challenge for Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier. While its subjects — Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama — each have a “compelling and gripping" story, the sum is even greater, Bier said of her first biographical project.“It was interesting to me that it wasn't one biopic,” Bier said in an interview.
Doing it her way! Kaley Cuoco isn’t letting her past romances affect how she approaches love — but she has learned a few lessons from her two failed marriages.
Karamo Brown is joining the legion of celebrities taking over daytime TV!The star's self-titled talk show has been sold in 90 percent of the U.S. for a fall 2022 premiere, Tracie Wilson, Executive Vice President of NBCUniversal Syndication Studios and E! News, announced in a press release on Wednesday.«Karamo has done an incredible job guest hosting many times over the past two seasons.
The Emancipation of Mimi. Mariah commemorated the special occasion by taking a dip in her swimming pool wearing a dazzling dress. But it wasn’t just any dress, it was a custom sequined Tom Ford gown from the collection.
Rooting for love! Kaley Cuoco offered her opinion on Meet Cute costar Pete Davidson‘s romance with Kim Kardashian — and the couple definitely has her stamp of approval.
joining the cast of “Chicago” on Broadway.I can now attest that the actress and “Baywatch” babe moves confidently, carries a tune and, you know, all that jazz.Anderson, 54, started her eight-week run as foxy Roxie Hart in the musical Tuesday night, and she was greeted with the kind of crowd euphoria that few shows have received during this tricky season — let alone a production that just turned 25 years old. Her sons, Dylan Jagger Lee and Brandon Thomas Lee, were sitting in the Ambassador Theatre, decked out in their midweek finery, supporting their famous mom. For Tuesday’s other, non-blood-related ticket-buyers, Pam might as well have been Ethel Merman considering the roars. She was swell, she was great.It helps that Roxie — a 1920s adulteress who murders her lover and becomes a tabloid darling as she argues self-defense — is the perfect part for the entertainment icon. Producers Fran and Barry Weissler — whose whole show is in terrific shape — have printed money for decades by cycling out an array of stars in the lead roles. However, hardly any (save for Melanie Griffith, maybe) know first-hand what it’s like to be front-page news the way Anderson does. When her Roxie is bombarded by reporters and flashbulbs at the courthouse with her smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn (Ryan Silverman), there’s a world-weary wisdom and a learned darkness to the actress that, intentional or not, separates her from the many Roxies who so often go overboard with squeals and emoting. Anderson is also very funny.
Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAs Chicago lawyer Michelle Obama becomes First Lady Michelle Obama in Showtime’s newest drama, her predecessor Laura Bush offers some words of advice and comfort. “You may think you have nothing in common with the First Ladies before you,” Laura tells her, “[but] trust me when I say we all felt that way.” Here, Laura Bush acts as both some benign voice of reason (an odd choice) and also as a mouthpiece for “The First Lady” writ large (odder), which tackles the stories of three First Ladies who share little beyond the fact of living in the White House (oddest, by a mile).There’s Michelle, played by Viola Davis with Obama’s familiar cadence (if also some very exaggerated stenciled half-moon eyebrows).
Hailey Bieber is opening up about her decision to stop walking runways for fashion shows.
Mickey Rourke sustained a painful-looking injury on his forehead that left a bloody gash. The Oscar-nominated actor took to Instagram on Tuesday and shared a close-up of the grisly wound. "Looks like my skateboarding days are over," captioned the 69-year-old. It’s unclear whether the former boxer was joking or the laceration came from the gym or while riding his motorcycle.
Chicago Fire fans saw a new paramedic join Firehouse 51 in March as longtime ambulance 61 driver Sylvie Brett took a leave of absence to spend time with boyfriend Matthew Casey.Exclusive: Daniel Kyri shares importance of LGBTQ+ storytelling in Chicago Fire season 10Caitlin Carver plays Emma, who has come in to help Violet Makami on ambo - but Hanako Greensmith has now shared with HELLO! that Emma is "someone who is not necessarily what she seems on the page so there is [for Violet to be] wary of and distrusting".WATCH: Violet questions Hawkins over her awardDuring a conversation with press ahead of the return of the show on 6 April, Hanako discussed the ongoing romance between Violet and her boss Chief Evan Hawkins."Violet is driven and ambitious, but I also think she is mortified that this romance could get her somewhere she doesn't deserve," Hanako said.Exclusive: Chicago PD star Patrick John Flueger teases future for Ruzek and Burgess "She wants to feel she has worked hard and gets what she has worked for, so that's the hardest part of the relationship for her, that things are coming to her unfairly - like getting the ambo fixed."As for someone new coming in, I think it's more of a challenge [for Violet] to work with someone who is not necessarily what she seems on the page so there is a lot for her to be wary and totally distrusting of - and also to be curious over - and it complicates things because she can't go to her superior because she is dating her superior." Emma will make an appearance when the show returns"It is an interesting challenge to see all three of these people navigate that and see what choices are made," she concluded.Hanako, 25, is still relatively new to the One Chicago family, joining in season