Wendy Williams is looking for answers from both her bank and manager.
12.03.2022 - 01:43 / variety.com
Zack Sharf Zoe Saldaña revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that her former management team “discouraged” her from using her real name once she landed her first major acting role in the 2000 teen drama “Center Stage.” The actor stressed that her team was not trying to be malicious at the time. Saldaña starred in the Nicholas Hytner-directed drama as Eva Rodriguez, a smart aleck dancer from Boston.
The “Center Stage” ensemble cast also included Amanda Schull, Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy and Ethan Stiefel.“When I did [2000 film] ‘Center Stage,’ I remember being discouraged by my management at that time to use my name,” Saldaña said, “but their intention was never for me to stop being who I was. They celebrated who I was.
But my manager at the time was a former singer and a ballroom performer, and she did change her name as well, when she was a teenager back in the19’60s, I believe. And she said it’s what everybody does.” Saldaña noted that giving that advice in today’s Hollywood landscape would be in poor taste, adding, “That was her doing the best that she wanted for me, but I still knew that I liked my name.”While “Center Stage” marked her debut movie role, it wasn’t until the consecutive releases of “Crossroads,” “Drumline” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” that Saldana started to become a more familiar face in Hollywood.
The actor landed her first major studio franchises in 2009 with “Star Trek,” in which J.J. Abrams cast her as Uhura, and James Cameron’s “Avatar,” which became one of the highest-grossing films in history.
Saldaña’s signature role is Gamora in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She’s set to reprise the character in James Gunn’s upcoming
.Wendy Williams is looking for answers from both her bank and manager.
Naman Ramachandran Sophie Turner Laing, former CEO of Endemol Shine and MD of Sky, has been appointed chair of the U.K. National Film and Television School’s (NFTS) board of governors. She will become the NFTS’ first female chair when she succeeds Ingenious founder Patrick McKenna, who will step down at the end of his term in August.During McKenna’s tenure, which began in 2013, the NFTS became the film school to win a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education and the first educational institution to be awarded a BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.Turner Laing was in charge of Endemol Shine from 2014-2020, overseeing a network of more than 120 creative production companies in 28 markets.
The Adam Project, Reynolds was asked by a young boy if his make-out scene with Zoe Saldaña was “real.” Reynolds, ever the jokester, first accused the kid of being in disguise, but then came clean: yeah…and that's weird!“I guess it was kind of real. How do I answer this? It’s being broadcast everywhere too. I didn’t mean it.
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Zoe Saldaña is opening up about the highs and lows of her career in Hollywood, including the time her former manager encouraged her to change her name in the early days of her success.“When I did Center Stage, I remember being discouraged by my management at that time to use my name,” the actress revealed during her recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, explaining that “their intention was never for me to stop being who I was.
Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentEverybody has to start somewhere. Cate Blanchett — long before her two Oscars and starring roles in film, TV and on stage — had an oddball beginning in showbiz.On March 28, 1994, Variety mentioned “Police Rescue,” a big-screen version of the hit Aussie TV series, in which she appeared.
Zoe Saldana is opening up about the time when a former manager encouraged her to change her name.
Zoe Saldana is looking back on the piece of advice that she ignored after first stepping into the spotlight.
Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly has one of the most recognisable names in UK showbiz, but it's not her real one. It turns out, the original Strictly staple and 52 year old mum of two has been using a different name for decades. And what's more, not even her husband and fellow TV presenter Vernon Kay, 47, calls her by her real name.
The Dark Knight Rises says she's thrilled for Zoë Kravitz, who plays Kyle opposite Robert Pattinson in The Batman, in theaters now."I haven’t been able to go to see [The Batman] yet,” the told , but added, “I have a friend who saw it this weekend and said not only is she phenomenal in it but how much fun it was to be in a packed movie theater and realizing that people are coming back to movies…I am so happy for her. I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, but I look forward to that.” This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Kravitz recently earned praise from another A-lister, Taylor Swift, who wrote on Instagram Stories that the High Fidelity star was “.”Hathaway is currently promoting Apple TV's upcoming WeCrashed, based on the rise and fall of WeWork founders Adam Neumann and his wife Rebekah Neumann.
Zoe Kravitz says Robert Pattinson wore George Clooney’s Batman costume during their screen test. ‘The Batman’ star revealed that her co-star tried on one of his predecessor’s superhero suit - the one he wore during his Razzie-nominated performance in the 1997 movie ‘Batman and Robin’ - but “only from the waist up” while appearing on ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’. The 33-year-old actress told host Jimmy that the 35-year-old actor - who plays Bruce Wayne in the new Matthew Reeves movie - was “wearing sweatpants at the bottom,” before labelling the look “causal Batman”.
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The Batman.The actor appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (March 2) ahead of the film’s release, when the host listed preparations he’d make if he was cast as Selina Kyle.“I would study cats,” said Fallon, to which Kravitz replied: “I did that.”Fallon then suggested drinking milk out of a bowl, to which Kravitz seemingly joked: “I did that. I did.”Asked if she actually drank milk from a bowl, Kravitz added: “Maybe.