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Dwayne Johnson Spills On The ‘Vortex’ That Brought Black Adam Sequel To A Halt

Posted on 07/08/2023 by Boris Clair

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson recently declared that the halted follow-up to DC Studios’ Black Adam got “caught in a vortex of new leadership”.

On an episode of Kevin Hart’s Hart To Heart, Johnson reflected on changes to DC Studios’ film slate when James Gunn and Peter Safran were tapped to helm the company last year.

“At that time, as we were creating Black Adam, developing it, shooting Black Adam… there was so many changes in leadership,” Johnson said on the talk show.

“And as you know, anytime you have a company but especially that size and magnitude that’s a publicly traded company, and you have all those changes in leadership, you have people coming in who — creatively and fiscally — are going to make decisions that you may not agree with philosophically.

“I think Black Adam was one of those movies that got caught in that web of new leadership.”

Black Adam handed Johnson the best opening weekend of his career — at $67 million — for a movie in which he was the leading man.

Still, a number of publications considered the 2022 film a disappointment at the box office, as it reportedly needed at least $560 million to $600 million to break even.

The film grossed $393 million worldwide during its run, according to IMDbPro’s Box Office Mojo.

In December, Johnson cited Gunn as he revealed that the Black Adam character would not be in DC Studios’ “first chapter of storytelling”. But Johnson noted that he felt “very proud” of the released film, which was years in the making.

During his conversation on Hart To Heart, Johnson said that the dropped sequel “will always be one of the biggest mysteries.”

“You had the biggest opening of your career. Sure, no China — that could’ve been maybe 100, maybe 200 million more dollars. You’re establishing a new superhero and you want to grow out the franchise. You bring back Superman and Henry Cavill — the world went crazy,” he said.

“And we created a diverse superhero portfolio, where we had just men and women of colour in Black Adam, and Black Adam 2 as well.”

Watch clips from Kevin Hart’s conversation with Johnson below:

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9 Ryan Reynolds Roles You’ve Probably Forgotten – From TV Cameos To A Horror Movie

Posted on 06/08/2023 by Boris Clair

Thanks to Deadpool, Free Guy and his ongoing stint as an unexpected (yet hugely successful) football club owner, Ryan Reynolds is something of a household name in the UK.

The Hollywood star’s career skyrocketed following his first outing as everyone’s favourite Marvel anti-hero in 2016, but the actor had 20 years’ worth of credits before donning Deadpool’s iconic red and black suit.

From tiny TV appearances to under-rated comedies and movies that didn’t do quite so well (sorry, Ryan), here are nine of the star’s roles you’ve forgotten about…

Sabrina The Teenage Witch

Heartthrob Harvey (played by Nate Richert) was the ultimate ’90s crush – but in a TV movie of Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Mellisa Joan Hart’s character had two love interests to choose from.

Bosses made the 1996 film before deciding to commission a full series and it saw Harvey played by another actor (Tobias Mehler) while Ryan – complete with curly, ’90s curtains – starred as his love rival, Seth.

Sabrina ultimately decided to dump him, leaving Harvey as the sole recipient of her affections in the series but it was a different story backstage, as Melissa has since admitted she had a huge crush on her co-star.

“[Ryan] was very sweet,” she said during an Australian TV interview in 2017. ”I had a boyfriend at the time, but we were smitten and cute, and he was adorable.

“He was a really, really nice guy. Probably would have been a great boyfriend, and I didn’t end up with the other guy, so maybe I should have taken a chance.”

The Sabrina TV movie is currently unavailable to stream, rent or buy online in the UK.

Family Guy

After being name-checked multiple times in Seth MacFarlane’s cartoon comedy series, Ryan finally made a cameo in the 2011 episode Stewie Goes for a Drive. The ep saw Ryan move in next door to the Griffins and develop a crush on dad Peter.

Ryan also lent his voice to a 2011 episode Jesus, Mary And Joseph!, in which he played “overweight guy”, according to IMDb, before making another brief appearance as himself in 2017.

The actor is good pals with Family Guy creator Seth and also popped up in his 2012 movie Ted.

You can stream Family Guy on Disney+.

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Deadpool is far from Ryan’s first comic book adaptation and back in 2004, he joined the cast of the third instalment in the Blade franchise to play rogue vampire hunter, Hannibal King.

Blade: Trinity saw Wesley Snipes’ human-vampire hybrid join forces with Hannibal and his fellow hunters in a bid to defeat rival Danica Talos (Parker Posey) once and for all.

While the first movie in the series proved hugely popular and the second was seen as a fitting follow-up, the third didn’t match their success and has a dismal 24% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

You can stream Blade: Trinity with an Amazon Prime subscription.

Amityville Horror remake

Straight after wrapping on Blade, Ryan jetted to Wisconsin to start filming a remake of the 1979 horror flick.

Ryan and Mulholland Drive star Melissa George played George and Kathy Lutz, a couple who move into their dream home only to learn a mass murder took place there just a year before.

The couple and their children are soon plagued by paranormal activity and a number of eerie events during production spooked Ryan and his castmates.

Just days into filming, a body washed up on the lake where the set had been built and the real-life Kathy Lutz also died during production.

Ryan also admitted he found the set – which was a real 1800s house that had been given a slight makeover – “terrifying and upsetting”, while noting another strange coincidence.

He told MovieWeb: “A lot of the crew were waking up at 3:15 in the morning which was when all these atrocities in the house took place each time. I think it was a subconscious thing. You read the script and suddenly pop awake at 3:15 in the morning.”

Unfortunately, Amityville Horror didn’t prove to be a hit either – and Ryan hasn’t taken a starring role in a horror film since.

You can rent or buy Amityville Horror via Amazon Prime.

Scrubs

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Ryan popped up in one 2003 episode of the hit medical comedy as Spence, an old friend of J.D (Zach Braff) and Christopher Turk (Donald Raison), who encouraged them to head out drinking instead of prioritising their work at Sacred Heart.

At the time of filming, Ryan had a number of impressive TV credits under his belt but was yet to get his big breakthrough in the film world.

You can stream Scrubs as part of a Disney+ subscription or rent individual episodes via Amazon, Apple TV and YouTube.

Green Lantern

Another of Ryan’s previous forays into the superhero genre saw him star as Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is given powers and a place in the Green Lantern Corps intergalactic space force – but the movie wasn’t quite the hit that Deadpool is.

Unfortunately, it was universally panned upon its release in 2011 and poor box office takings soon saw plans for a sequel shelved by Warner Bros.

In a very Ryan Reynolds move, the actor frequently makes self-deprecating quips about the movie and in Deadpool, his character begged for a superhero costume that wasn’t green.

Ryan once wasted no time in offering advice to a fan who was thinking about renting the movie:

Green Lantern is available to rent for $0.99 on Apple TV, it’s been 9 years… should I do it @VancityReynolds ?

— Oli (@oliver___u) April 25, 2020

There is one upside though: he met future wife Blake Lively on the movie’s set.

You can go against Ryan’s advice by streaming Green Lantern on Amazon Prime or renting it via Apple TV.

Hillside/Fifteen

Yup, Ryan was a Nickelodeon kid.

Hillside (or Fifteen, as it was titled on its worldwide release) was Canada’s only teen soap opera in the 1990s.

Ryan starred as Billy Simpson – who became a bully as a way to mask his emotions following family problems and romantic rejections – in an impressive 18 episodes.

The role gave Ryan his first ever on-screen credit but he later revealed he “hated” the job.

“I hated it, I really did,” he said during a US talk show appearance. “I just did it to get out of the house.”

Ryan later worked in a warehouse and a restaurant before being persuaded to give acting another go.

Fifteen is currently unable to stream, rent or buy online in the UK.

Adventureland

Despite its A-list cast, this coming-of-age comedy essentially flew under the radar upon its release in 2009.

Set in the mid-80s, Adventureland sees The Social Network’s Jesse Einsenberg’s character fall in love with coworker Em Lewin (Kristen Stewart) during a stint working in a theme park but a love triangle develops between them and Mike Connell, played by Ryan.

Older than his co-workers, Mike is a married Adventureland employee who has been having an affair with teenager Em, and Ryan previously admitted feeling painfully aware of the age gap (he was 32 and Kristen was 18) during filming.

He told Collider: “I’ve never felt so old, yeah. Daily. God. It was a routine of humility. It was kind of cool. I like that aspect, too.

“Obviously, this guy is having a pretty inappropriate relationship with this very, very young girl but the spirit on the set really felt like where I was eight or nine years ago. It’s a pretty cool place to be now.”

Adventureland is currently available to stream on ITVX.

Dick

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The 1995 comedy sees two not-so-savvy teenagers (Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams) become inexplicably embroiled in the Watergate scandal. Yes, it’s as bizarre as it sounds.

In a brief appearance, Ryan plays Chip, the son of White House Chief of Staff H.R. Halderman, and writing in 2019, Screen Rant noted how Dick is an early indication of Ryan’s scene-stealing abilities.

“Reynolds doesn’t have a lot of screentime in Dick, but his nervous energy and fumbling for words make Chip both delightfully awkward and a little endearing,” they wrote.

Dick is available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime.

The Wild Backstories Of Allan And All The Discontinued Barbie Dolls In The Barbie Movie

Posted on 30/07/2023 by Boris Clair

The pink, glittery dust has settled on Barbenheimer weekend, and with that, a number of revelations have come to light — including that people, it turns out, still want to go to the movies! And that Ryan Gosling is so much more than just Ken. And most importantly, that there are far more obscure, lesser-known and questionable Barbie dolls in the world than we remembered.

Barbie writer and director Greta Gerwig was given what feels like a surprising amount of creative autonomy from Mattel for her take on the iconic doll’s tale. She did not sidestep some of the toy giant’s more questionable decisions or public controversies. Many of them pop up during the film, prompting audiences to wonder: “That couldn’t be real, could it?”

But real they are. Real dolls, anyway. From Ken’s “buddy” Allan to Growing Up Skipper, here are all the very real and, in some cases, very weird Barbies that appear in the film.

Warning: Barbie spoilers and truly puzzling information ahead.

Allan

If Ken is “just Ken,” Allan is … only Allan. And literally the only Allan, since his character in the film is the only one of his kind, unlike the many Kens and Barbies.

Allan was introduced as Ken’s best friend in 1964. According to History, Mattel actually used the fact that he could fit into all of Ken’s clothes as a selling point, but Attitude notes that this also led to rumors that Ken and Allan were a little too close. After a very brief life of living in Ken’s shadows (and in the same striped shirt as in the film), Allan was discontinued that same decade before being rereleased as Midge’s husband in the ’90s.

After watching Michael Cera’s awkwardly endearing turn as the lonesome sidekick, we wouldn’t be surprised if he went promptly back into production today.

In the film, “Allan is sort of like a person without a group that he belongs to, he’s kind of a loner, in a way,” Cera said in an interview. “I think the joke about that, at least how I interpret it, is that Allan the doll … didn’t have a very successful run. [He’s] sort of this marginalised person in this world of Kens.”

Attitude reports that “conspiracists” think Allan was paired with Midge in the ’90s to “canonise Allan as heterosexual,” but it hasn’t stopped Allan from becoming something of a queer icon over the years.

“As a non-binary person I relate to Allan a lot!” said one TikToker in a slew of comments. “I see him as my rep ✨ not quite Barbie, not quite Ken. Just ✨ Allan✨ .”

Pregnant Midge

As we mentioned, one of the more refreshing aspects of seeing Barbie Land through Gerwig’s pink-tinted lens was the director’s unwillingness to shy away from the toy company’s missteps.

We’re reintroduced to Pregnant Midge early on in the movie, and she comes back to haunt the Mattel execs later on in the film, too. A not-yet-pregnant Midge originally debuted in 1963, and there’s even a Wedding Party Midge gift set from some 30 years later that includes Midge and Allan (for some reason renamed “Alan”) alongside Barbie and Ken as bridesmaid and best man.

In 2002, Pregnant Midge was released; the doll featured a removable pregnant belly, prompting people to accuse Mattel of “promoting teen pregnancy,” even though, as CNN reported, she was by then canonically a married woman with a three-year-old child.

Earring Magic Ken

What’s less boring than Ken? A Ken in a mesh purple shirt and pleather vest, with slicked-back bleached-blond highlights, an earring, of course, and a … necklace.

This 1993 model of Ken, long referred to as the time Mattel “made Ken gay,” quickly became one of the company’s best-selling dolls and a true queer icon before being recalled just months later after then-manager of marketing and communications, Lisa McKendall, was forced to give one of the greatest corporate statements of all time.

“We’re not in the business of putting cock rings into the hands of little girls,” the statement read. There’s at least one Earring Magic Ken currently available on eBay for $154. (Just saying.)

Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken

What was Mattel thinking with Sugar Daddy Ken?

His release wasn’t the most puzzling Barbie decision (see Growing Up Skipper below), but it was strange nonetheless. Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, which is exactly what it sounds like, was a 2009 doll marketed to adults wearing a lime-green jacquard blazer and toting a tiny white dog named Sugar. He also came with swim trunks, slides and sunglasses, and apparently retailed for a whopping $82. In the film, he claims that his name is a misunderstanding — he’s merely Sugar the dog’s daddy. Uh-huh. Sure.

Video Girl Barbie

“I have a TV in my back,” Video Girl Barbie quips in the film, deadpan, while showing off her embedded screen to the human visitors in Barbie Land. This version of Barbie may seem innocuous, if not a bit weird, but the FBI said differently.

The agency put out a “cyber crime alert” following her release in 2010, citing her ability to stream up to 30 minutes of recording onto a computer as a potential “dangerous tool for pedophiles.” Yikes.

Growing Up Skipper

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Skipper, Barbie’s little sister, was first released in 1964. In 1975, Mattel decided it was time to let her grow up before your very eyes. This strange doll was advertised as two dolls in one: Skipper as the girl we knew, and, by twisting her arm around, a teenage Skipper who grew upward and also outward. Yes, her breasts enlarged as she got taller. You can see this in action in a commercial for the doll, which was perhaps predictably discontinued in 1977.

Tanner The Dog

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When Barbie, err, Margot Robbie, enters Weird Barbie’s house, she is greeted by a strange-looking dog. A strange-looking pooping dog. “That surely can’t have been real,” you might have thought to yourself.

And you would have thought wrong. Tanner the dog came with Barbie and did things a real dog does, like accepting treats that make their way through his digestive tract and out of his body by way of tiny brown pellets.

A recall for the Barbie and Tanner play set was issued because its poop scoop accessory contained a small magnet that could come loose. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said that if multiple magnets were swallowed by a child, they could attract each other and cause a potentially fatal intestinal perforation or blockage.

We Can Finally Answer The Question Everyone’s Asking – Does The Barbie Movie Live Up To The Hype?

Posted on 19/07/2023 by Boris Clair

If you’ve watched TV, gone online or even just ventured outside your home lately, it can’t have escaped your attention that Greta Gerwig’s long-awaited Barbie film is finally almost here.

The hype has been building ever since we caught our first glimpse of Margot Robbie in character as the iconic doll, but things ramped up when the first meme-ready trailer dropped in the spring, followed by a marketing campaign that dominated social media.

After that came the star-studded soundtrack, a seemingly-never-ending line of tie-in merchandise and a glittering press tour that has made Margot and Ryan Gosling pretty much unavoidable for the last few weeks (until, of course, the whole thing was brought to an abrupt halt by that whole SAG-AFTRA strike debacle).

As a result, the film has undoubtedly become the most talked-about of 2023, and while we’re happy to hold up our hands and say we’ve been as swept up in the pink tornado as much as anyone… it’s also been hard to ignore that tiny voice in the back of our heads that just kept on questioning: “Can the Barbie film – or, indeed, any film – actually live up to all this hype?”.

Well, we’re pleased to report that it can. Not only is Barbie an effective dose of candy-coloured escapism, and one of the funniest new comedies to come out in recent history, it’s also genuinely thought-provoking and, at times, quite devastating. What a relief.

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as seen on the poster for Barbie

In case you’re one of those who hasn’t spent the last three months watching the Barbie trailer at least once a day (we can’t be the only ones, right?), the film centres around the titular doll, played by Margot, who spends her days in Barbie Land hanging out with her Barbie pals, having Barbie dance parties and generally living her best Barbie life. Until she’s not.

From nowhere, things quickly start to unravel in her life. Her unnaturally-arched Barbie feet suddenly hit the floor, her perfect routine is thrown out of whack and, oh yeah, she starts to be consumed by thoughts of impending death. Fun!

Guided by the oracle “Weird Barbie” (and accompanied, begrudgingly, by her always-eager right-hand man Ken), Margot’s character ventures to the “Real World” to help set things right, where she discovers she and her Barbie pals haven’t quite impacted society for the better in the way they’d hoped.

It also turns out to be an eye-opening experience for Ken, who – after a lifetime in Barbie’s shadow – begins to flourish in his new surroundings, with genuinely unsettling results.

This is just one of the areas the Barbie movie managed to surprise us. Our biggest worry heading into the film was that a lot of the plot may have already been given away in the trailer. While admittedly much of the first act plays out like an extended version of the teaser, with a few clever gags added in , there were still plenty of satisfying twists ahead – particularly involving Ryan’s Ken and Rhea Perlman’s mysterious character – that we’re happy were kept under wraps until now.

It’s hard to play favourites among the cast, but we have to shout out Margot for her stand-out performance, helping us root for a character who could so easily have become one-dimensional or even irritating in the wrong hands.

Much has been made of Ryan’s performance as Ken, and he deserves it, taking the character to places we truly didn’t expect, and supporting players Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, America Ferrera and Will Ferrell all deserved to be singled out for praise, too.

But it has to be said, the true star of the show is Greta Gerwig, who directed and co-wrote Barbie. The three-time Oscar nominee created a film that’s visually stunning and so jam-packed with fun details and Easter eggs that the only way to spot them all would be through repeated viewing.

She’s also gifted film fans with a script that manages to be both laugh-out-loud silly and heart-breaking – often within the same scene – and it’s pretty much guaranteed to be a quote-along sleepover go-to for Generation Alpha, akin to Clueless, Mean Girls and Easy A before it.

Ken and Barbie prepare to take a journey to the "Real World" — Ken and Barbie prepare to take a journey to the “Real World”

The filmmaker mostly manages to toe the line between irreverence and outright disrespect, sending up Barbie and pointing out its critiques without turning the whole thing into a hatchet job. She also makes it clear that there’s room for all viewpoints on the brand – love, hate, apathy – in her Barbie Land.

Of course, a Mattel-endorsed Barbie movie is still a Mattel-endorsed Barbie movie, and even the teenager who at one point brands the character a “fascist” who’s responsible for “setting the feminist movement back 50 years”, glorifying capitalism and “destroying the planet” is won over by her in the end.

Still, to anyone nervous about Barbie living up to expectations, take a sigh of relief, gather up your Barbie pals and get ready for some big laughs. Life in plastic, we’re relieved to say, is every bit as fantastic as Aqua promised all those years ago.

Barbie is in cinemas from 21 July. Watch the trailer below:

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Inside Barbie Land: 19 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets From The New Barbie Movie

Posted on 16/07/2023 by Boris Clair

Bringing the most iconic doll in the world to life on the big screen is no small feat – but if the first reactions from critics are anything to go by, it seems like Greta Gerwig has pulled it off with her Barbie movie.

As soon as the first trailer dropped earlier this year, it was clear that Greta, along with star and executive producer Margot Robbie and the rest of the film’s production team, went to painstaking lengths to immerse viewers in Barbie’s plastic fantastic world.

The film features full-size Dream House sets, costumes inspired by famous Barbie looks and even nods to Barbie controversies (like the inclusion of pregnant Midge, a doll who caused outrage upon release) – the attention to detail looks impeccable.

From Greta’s unusual pitch to film executives to the cameos that didn’t happen and Ryan Gosling’s costume brainwave, these behind-the-scenes facts should tide you over until the film arrives on Friday 21 July…

The woman who inspired Barbie’s name has a cameo in the film

Barbie meets her namesake in the new film's trailer — Barbie meets her namesake in the new film’s trailer

If you’ve watched the Barbie trailer over and over again (guilty!), you might be familiar with one sequence showing Margot’s character meeting an older lady on a park bench, who tells her: “Humans get one ending. Ideas live forever.”

That woman is none other Barbara Handler, who the first ever Barbie was named after. She’s the daughter of Barbie inventor Ruth Handler (who also named Ken after her son, Kenneth).

The production used so much pink paint, they ‘cleaned out’ their suppliers

Barbie Land is a pastel paradise – causing a shortage of pink paint the world over

Bringing Barbie Land to life required a lot of pink paint. So much, it turns out, that the film industry’s go-to paint suppliers, Rosco, basically had to hand over all their stock.

Lauren Proud, Rosco’s vice president of global marketing, confirmed that the film “used as much paint as we had” in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

“There was this shortage, and then we gave them everything we could,” she explained.

This Barbie doesn’t need CGI effects

This shot of Barbie's perpetually-arched feet appeared in the first trailer — This shot of Barbie’s perpetually-arched feet appeared in the first trailer

Sure, Christopher Nolan may have recreated a nuclear explosion without CGI for Oppenheimer, but Barbie still features some pretty impressive practical effects of its own too.

In one instantly memorable shot from the film’s trailer, we see Barbie step out of her fluffy high heels, only for her feet to remain perfectly arched (just like the doll’s).

Greta decided against using CGI for Barbie’s feet (perhaps she’s still traumatised by the Cats movie). “I thought, ‘Oh god, no! That’s terrifying! That’s a nightmare’,” she told The Project.

The shot eventually took “about eight takes”, according to Margot. “I was holding on to a bar, but that’s it,” she told Fandango. “I wasn’t in a harness or anything. I just walked up and kind of held onto the bar above camera.”

Margot and Greta had to perform a scene for a Mattel exec to win him over

According to TIME magazine, at one point during production, Mattel’s Chief Operating Officer Richard Dickson flew over to London to intervene as he believed that one scene was “off-brand” for Barbie.

“[Dickson] says he took a flight to the London set to argue with Gerwig and Robbie over a particular scene, which he felt was off-brand,” the report says. “But Gerwig and Robbie performed the scene for him and changed his mind.” Who could argue with that?

A chance encounter with a Ken doll persuaded Ryan to take the role

Ryan Gosling at CinemaCon earlier this year

After reading the Barbie script, Ryan headed outside to mull things over.

“I walked out in the backyard and you know where I found Ken?” he told Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on The Tonight Show. “Face down in the mud next to a squished lemon.”

He took a photo of poor downtrodden Ken, and sent it to Greta.

“I shall be your Ken,” he wrote in the message. “For his story must be told.”

He also came up with the idea that Ken would wear his own branded underwear

When the first promotional picture showing Ryan in full Ken get-up, complete with bleach blond hair, landed online last year, fans quickly honed in on one hilarious detail: the fact that Ken’s underwear was specially branded with his name on the waistband.

According to costume designer Jacqueline Durran, the idea came from the actor, who had the brainwave in a late fitting. “We just rushed to make it,” she told Vogue.

The Barbie gang attended ‘movie church’ during filming…

When production was in full swing, Margot’s production company LuckyChap put on weekly film screenings at Notting Hill’s Electric Cinema, a tradition which came to be known as “movie church”.

The films on the line-up included titles that had inspired Greta’s Barbie vision, including the likes of The Wizard Of Oz, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg and The Red Shoes.

… had a fancy sleepover in a London hotel…

Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig at Barbie's London premiere — Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig at Barbie’s London premiere

That wasn’t the only event that the cast got to attend together. Before filming kicked off, Greta hosted a Barbie sleepover at Claridges and invited some of the female cast (the Kens could attend too, but they weren’t allowed to stay the night).

“Honestly, it just felt like it would be the most fun way to kick everything off,” the director told The Guardian. “And it’s something you don’t get to do that much as an adult. Like, ‘I’m just going to go have a sleepover with my friends…’”

… And went on a night out to see Magic Mike Live

In an interview with Rolling Stone UK, Ncuti Gatwa (who plays one of the Kens) described the cast’s trip to Magic Mike Live as “one of the best nights of my life”.

“I don’t know how I made it through any filming in the week after, my voice was gone from screaming so much,” he admitted. “The videos in the group chat the next morning were the best.

“Greta Gerwig’s assistant was pulled up on stage and given a lap dance and Greta was screaming in delight. Afterwards, we went and danced our hearts out. Margot is a very, very good party host. She’s queen of the vibes.”

Margot left a special ‘beach-related’ gift for Ryan every day during filming

Not only did Margot help cast and crew get into the Barbie spirit by mandating a “pink day” dress code once a week on set, she also channeled her character by providing her co-star with some extremely on-brand gifts.

“[Margot] left a pink present with a pink bow, from Barbie to Ken, every day while we were filming,” Ryan told Vogue earlier this year. “They were all beach-related. Like puka shells, or a sign that says ‘Pray for surf’. Because Ken’s job is just beach. I’ve never quite figured out what that means. But I felt like she was trying to help Ken understand, through those gifts that she was giving.”

Oh, and Margot took that ‘pink day’ very seriously

“Margot had this pink day once a week, where everyone had to wear something pink,” Ryan told People magazine.

“If you didn’t, you were fined. She would go around collecting the fines, and she would donate it to a charity.”

Greta wrote Mattel and Warner Bros executives a ‘surreal’ poem to get them on side

As part of her initial pitch, Greta came up with a poem that she has since described as “surreal” in an interview with The Guardian.

So far, she’s kept quiet on the poem’s contents, but she has likened it to religious writings like the Apostle’s Creed, a Christian prayer, and the lament of Job.

“Shockingly, it does actually communicate some of the vibe of the movie,” she said.

Greta really wanted these two long-time collaborators to make a cameo – but the timings didn’t work

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet appeared in Greta’s first two solo directorial efforts, Lady Bird and Little Women, and the filmmaker had lined up Barbie cameo roles for them too. Unfortunately, the timing didn’t work out, with Saoirse working on an adaptation of The Outrun and Timothée also being ridiculously in-demand.

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet looking – it has to be said – not unlike Barbie and Ken at a Little Women photocall

“It was always going to have to be like a sort of smaller thing because [Saoirse] was actually producing at the time, which I am so proud of her for,” Greta told CinemaBlend.

“And of course, it’s brilliant. But it was going to be a specialty cameo. I was also going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy.

“Both of them couldn’t do it and I was so annoyed. But I love them so much. But it felt like doing something without my children. I mean, I’m not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom.”

There was another star who didn’t make it into the film either

“Gal Gadot is Barbie energy,” Margot explained.

“Because Gal Gadot is so impossibly beautiful, but you don’t hate her for being that beautiful, because she’s so genuinely sincere, and she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky. It’s like right before being a dork.”

Unfortunately for Margot and Greta, however, Gal wasn’t available at the time of filming either, meaning we never got to see the Wonder Woman star in Barbie Land.

Margot’s connections with Chanel shaped Barbie’s wardrobe

The majority of Margot’s outfits were custom-made by Jacqueline Durran and her team, but “if Margot wears anything that we didn’t make, it’s pretty much Chanel,” the costume designer told Vogue.

Margot has been an ambassador for the French fashion house since 2018, and the company “sent us anything and everything that we wanted”.

Margot didn’t initially think she’d be the one to play Barbie

Barbie’s journey to the big screen has been a long one. First, Amy Schumer was cast in the role, but later left the project when it became clear that it didn’t align with her vision for the film.

She later revealed that an early sign was when the team behind the movie sent her a pair of Manolo Blahniks to celebrate her hiring. “The idea that that’s just what every woman must want, right there, I should have gone, ‘You’ve got the wrong gal,’” she told The Hollywood Reporter last year.

Amy Schumer was originally supposed to play Barbie

Anne Hathaway then joined the film, but plans fell through.

And even when Margot’s LuckyChap production took the helm, it still wasn’t a given that she would take the lead role, eventually being announced in July 2019, two years before Greta signed on to direct.

The Barbie dreamhouse sets play with scale to make the actors appear more doll-like

In Barbie Land, all the proportions are deliberately a little bit off.

Set decorator Katie Spencer told Architectural Digest that they adjusted the dreamhouse rooms to be 23% smaller than the usual human size. So, for example, the ceilings were “quite close to one’s head”, as Greta put it, “and it only takes a few paces to cross the room”, as would be the case in an actual Barbie house.

The overall effect was to make the actors “seem big in the space but small overall”.

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There’s no writing in the Barbie Land sets

You won’t see any proper writing in Barbie Land – instead, the Barbies communicate through scribbles, Margot explained.

“There’s no actual writing in Barbie Land,” she told Architectural Digest. “It’s just scribbled the way kids kind of write endless amounts of, you know, nothing. But it’s all very beautiful.”

Playing Ken helped Ryan ‘make peace’ with his Disney Channel days

Before Ryan was an Oscar-nominated movie star, he was an all-singing, all-dancing member of The Mickey Mouse Club (you’ve almost certainly seen the video clips of his fancy footwork). He thought he’d turned his back on his Mouseketeer past, but playing Ken helped him reconnect with his inner child star.

“At a certain point I thought I had left that kid behind, and I realized that I needed his help to make this movie,” he told EW. “So I had to go back and make peace with him and ask for his help. It was good for me.” We’re certain that his Disney past came in useful when he was filming his epic musical number, “I’m Just Ken”.

Barbie arrives in UK cinemas on Friday 21 July. Watch the trailer below:

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Oppenheimer Is One Of The Most Anticipated Films Of The Year – Here’s What You Need To Know

Posted on 02/07/2023 by Boris Clair

Oppenheimer, the hotly anticipated Christopher Nolan film starring Cillian Murphy, is due to hit cinemas in just a few weeks.

The big-budget biographical thriller follows Robert J. Oppenheimer, who is known as ‘the father of the atomic bomb’ due to his work with on the Manhattan Project in developing the first nuclear weapons during World War II.

With an all-star cast, which includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, and Florence Pugh, the blockbuster will no doubt have people rushing to the cinemas.

Got questions about the upcoming movie? Here’s everything you need to know.

Is Oppenheimer based on a true story?

Oppenheimer tells the story of the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped develop the world’s first nuclear weapons.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer, pictured in c1946

The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Oppenheimer was heavily involved in The Manhattan Project, a research and development undertaking during World War II.

From 1942 to 1946, he was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the bombs under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

At its peak, nearly 130,000 people were involved in the project, which at the time cost nearly $2billion, the equivalent of $24billion in 2021.

As a result of his work, Oppenheimer is a key figure within the narrative of atomic bomb ethics and political nuclear power.

Oppenheimer, who was a chain smoker, was diagnosed with throat cancer in late 1965.

On February 15, 1967, he fell into a coma and died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey on three days later at the age of 62.

Who is in the cast of Oppenheimer?

All the biggest names in Hollywood appear to have been cast in Oppenheimer.

While Cillian Murphy plays the titular role, Emily Blunt takes on the role of his on-screen wife, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer.

Robert Downey Jr plays American businessman Lewis Strauss, Matt Damon is Liutenenant General Leslie Groves, and Florence Pugh stars as American psychiatrist Jean Tatlock.

The line-up also includes Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek, Josh Peck, Gary Oldman, Casey Affleck, and Jack Quaid, as well as Matthias Schweighöfer, Christopher Denham, David Rysdahl, Guy Burnet, Harrison Gibertson, Emma Dumont, Gustaf Skarsgård, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, and Olli Haaskivi.

Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHann, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Modine, David Dastmalchian, Jason Clarke, Devon Bostick, Alex Wolff, Tony Goldwynn, Scott Grimes, James D’Arcy, Olivia Thirlby, and Louise Lombard complete the cast.

What has been said about Oppenheimer already?

First reviews of the film are still under embargo, with the press tour also set to get underway shortly. However, details about the film have already started trickling out.

“Some people leave the movie absolutely devastated,” Nolan said about early screenings in an interview with Wired.

“They can’t speak. I mean, there’s an element of fear that’s there in the history and there in the underpinnings. But the love of the characters, the love of the relationships, is as strong as I’ve ever done.”

The director added: “It is an intense experience because it’s an intense story. I showed it to a filmmaker recently who said it’s kind of a horror movie. I don’t disagree.”

When is the release date for Oppenheimer?

Oppenheimer is scheduled to be released in cinemas on Friday 21 July – the same date as Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.

In addition to standard cinemas, Oppenheimer will be also available to watch at Imax cinemas.

The film is Christopher’s longest to date, clocking in with a run time of three hours.

Is there a trailer for Oppenheimer?

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Chasing Chasing Amy Revisits The ’90s Classic Through A Modern LGBTQ+ Lens

Posted on 01/07/2023 by Boris Clair

With a simple description of the documentary Chasing Chasing Amy — which looks at one of director Kevin Smith’s most enduring and critically acclaimed films — it’s hard to imagine where the movie can go. But over the course of its 95-minute run time, the film changes in scope as the story begins to take shape and, unbeknownst to the director at the time, becomes a story about his maturation as a filmmaker, a trans person and a member of the Chasing Amy fandom.

The film sets out with a simple question: Why, as a 12-year-old, did director Sav Rodgers become obsessed with the movie Chasing Amy, and what does the film’s seemingly progressive (at the time) gender and sexuality politics, which includes frank depictions of out and happy LGBTQ+ characters, hold up to a modern lens? Chasing Chasing Amy comes at a curious time. Still, the nostalgia for the late ‘90s and early 2000s culture is at a fever pitch, but the film meanders, in the best sense of the word, as it begins to encompass new questions and documents the filmmakers’ life, too.

As the events of making the film unfold, Rodgers befriends Chasing Amy director, Smith, and comes out as a trans man. Rodgers also proposes to his then-girlfriend and now-wife, Riley, and gets a deeper understanding of the deep emotions behind the making of Smith’s film. By the time the viewer is on the other end of the narrative, we’ve got a deeper understanding of three relationships — the pair in the film, Smith and Chasing Amy star Joey Lauren Adams, as well as Rodgers and his wife — while also hearing the saga of making the film from Adams herself, who was dealing with both an emotional breakup and the misogynistic Hollywood machine.

In an interview with HuffPost, Rodgers spoke about how a simple 2019 Ted Talk led to the film’s creation, how he wanted to handle coming out in the midst of creating this film and why he’s ready to pass the torch as the No. 1 fan of Chasing Amy.

As a filmmaker, what made you want to turn what was the subject of a shorter TED talk into something that would be like a feature-length documentary?

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I had the idea for the documentary long before TED ever came into the picture. The funny story with TED is that I had just seen an opportunity for the TED residency through a Facebook ad. And Adobe was sponsoring a spot in the TED residency for, you know, somebody between the ages of 18 and 24 to participate. And it was free. I recorded a one-minute video attached to my director’s reel from the last movie short that I had directed. And I just kind of sent it off and said, “OK, well, I’ll probably never hear back from that.” About a month later, I heard back that I was a finalist, and I was like, “Oh, this is an interesting turn of events!”

I went in there expecting nothing. We were just having like a lovely 30-minute chat, a little conversation about film and, what TED did, and everything. And they were like, “Well, we think you’re great, but we’ve not heard an idea for a TED talk. So if you had to give a TED talk tomorrow, what would it be about? And I told them about this documentary I wanted to make about Chasing Amy and the LGBTQ community. And then, I told my personal story of how deeply it affected me. And they said, “That is the most specific, narrow idea for a TED talk we’ve ever heard. We’ll call you in two weeks.” Three days later, I heard that I got it.

I moved to New York on Sept. 1, 2018. And that program gave me the opportunity to really start work on the documentary. And a week after I gave the TED talk, I shot our first two days of Chasing Chasing Amy. We shot the first day of interviews at TED HQ. And then, the next day, we went on location to Red Bank, New Jersey, to go to all the locations.

What I really love about your documentary is that it shows you how documentaries can turn when new discoveries or plot points come up and when certain people get involved. And I was wondering, what was your plan if you didn’t have [Chasing Amy director] Kevin Smith involved? And how did his presence kind of change the film’s trajectory?

I don’t think I ever planned for Kevin not to be in it. I was always super optimistic that he would agree to participate because he had appeared in so many other documentaries and was often a talking head for documentaries about geek culture and comic books or movies. And I was like, “Well if he’ll be in those, I feel reasonably confident he would be in a movie that’s inspired by his movie.”

But his involvement just was a game changer because his interviews are so central to what happens in our documentary. I was just so blown away that he did say, “Yes,” even though I was really hoping for it. And I was optimistic the whole time he would.

But yeah, the documentary absolutely changes over time. And I think the most interesting documentaries I’ve ever seen allow the story to change in real-time as it’s happening. And they don’t just stick to the initial thesis that they set out to make. My initial pitch for this movie was just a pretty straightforward examination of the LGBTQ community intersecting with Chasing Amy and what makes a good representation or bad representation. It was almost anthropological. The way that the story evolves is literally what happened. I wasn’t initially planning on being in it at all. And then I conceded to being in it a little bit.

From Left: Kevin Smith, director of Chasing Amy, and Sav Rodgers, director of the documentary Chasing Chasing Amy.

And then, you know, with brilliant collaborators like Alex Schmider, Carrie Radigan, Lela Meadow-Conner, Matthew Mills, our editor Sharika, our DP Brad, these conversations that I would have with them, they were like, “Dude, you need to be in it. We’re all here for you. We’re all responding to your specific story.” And when you get that 20 to 50 times, I think you just have to listen.

In terms of you being in it, there’s the moment in the film where you stop an interview and tell Kevin about your gender identity. And then it’s like the first time that the audience also knows that information. When did you know that that was going to be the moment in the film where your own gender identity becomes a part of the story, and how did you want to insert that into the narrative?

It was a conversation that was constantly in flux. How do we include this? And full credit to [the producer] Alex for challenging me as a director to think bigger because, over the last hundred years of cinema, transition has been portrayed in a very specific way, which is sensational. There’s this kind of unwritten expectation that when somebody transitions, well, then we see how that physically manifests. We go into somebody’s private medical history, obligatory shots of hormone injections or surgeries or things that are otherwise really private.

We mostly see that in narrative films, but we also see it in unscripted stuff all the time. He challenged me. It wasn’t, “Why do you want to do that?” It was “Why do you think you have to do that?” And with that question, it kind of gave me permission to explore; if I just had my way about it, what could I do? How can I imagine this differently?

And so that moment is portrayed exactly how it happened in my life, in terms of the boundaries that I set with people in my life, which is, “Hey, I’ve come out as trans. This is a private thing. These are my pronouns.” And that’s it. And the rest of the movie kind of just shows how I come of age in different ways. Obviously, getting to be myself is a huge part of that. But also, there are so many other ways that I come of age in this movie that I think are perhaps more interesting than the fact that I come out as trans. I’m obviously happier now. But the growing pains for me were emotional and about the filmmaking process and about relationships and analysing my own relationship to fandom even.

I’m really glad that that moment with Kevin was private. And it’s not on screen. And it doesn’t become this dragged-out thing. And it’s exactly the way that I wanted it.

There’s another moment that I really thought was beautiful between you and Kevin where he says to you, “You gave me my movie back,” and I wanted to ask you about that as a filmmaker and a person and a friend of Kevin’s now. How did you receive that when you heard it?

I cried. You know, in the same way that Kevin says to me, “I wasn’t trying to reach you, but you got reached regardless,” as it relates to Chasing Amy. I say at the beginning of the movie in the comic book shop that, you know, I wanted to pay tribute to this movie, but over the course of the movie, it quickly becomes not that, you know. My agenda was never to make people like Chasing Amy. I thought this exploration of it was tribute enough.

But the idea that a primary participant in a movie that you make, somebody who made you want to make movies inadvertently, somebody whose work you really respond to says something like that to you. It’s incredibly kind. It’s incredibly generous. And all I could really do was cry at that moment. It was very affirming in a lot of ways that even through these hard conversations, even through exploring the ugly parts of making that movie, he felt that way.

You dedicate a large section of the film to the real-life relationship between the film’s stars, Joey Lauren Adams and Kevin Smith. And you kind of juxtapose it to the relationship in the film, between Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams, and then your own relationship. And you have that amazing conversation with your wife where you talk about her still identifying as a lesbian and still using that term. And I think you even refer to her as very “Alyssa Jones” at one point. When you were trying to incorporate these three relationships together in this one film, how did you want them to kind of speak to each other?

I mean, if I had written this as a screenplay, it would have been too on the nose, right? All of this is just literally what happened, and when we went back to do the edit, we were overwhelmed by the richness of the material that we had in these interviews. And we could have made a lot of different versions of Chasing Chasing Amy, but ultimately, the version that we decided on was that every scene has to be about my evolving relationship to Chasing Amy, and if it doesn’t fit within that paradigm, it doesn’t fit into this movie. We just had to really narrow the focus so that every scene felt germane to the story we were telling, and I don’t think that story could be told without sharing Kevin and Joey’s respective truths. If every scene is about “Chasing Amy,” we will have to analyse where “Chasing Amy” comes from. So much of that is based on their relationship.

From Left: Joey Lauren Adams, Sav Rodgers and Kevin Smith in the documentary Chasing Chasing Amy.

We had to honour Joey’s truth here, which she hadn’t shared before. As a team, we were just like, “Well, we have to include the truth that Joey shares with us and the truth that Kevin shares with us,” and it all just ended up working as a result of that narrow focus that we had in the edit.

Speaking of the Joey interview, I think that’s another example of how this film is not only a film about Chasing Amy, but it’s also a film about making this film. You’re very upfront with the audience about how Joey’s interview changes the course of what the documentary is going to do. When you left that interview, did you have a sense, as a filmmaker, that she had steered the documentary in a different direction?

Oh, she just completely changed the film, yes, absolutely. Sitting there in that interview, I made sure I was being present to hear what Joey was saying because it was really important. Her story is extremely important, and her truth is important. And for her to be listened to was all I really cared about in that moment, and that required, you know, pretty immediately getting rid of any ego I had going into that interview and just listening.

After we left that day, after the interview ended, she was like, “I couldn’t give another bullshit Chasing Amy interview,” and it ended very positively, and then she invited us to stay after, and we listened to Dolly Parton. But as I was driving back to where I’m staying, I was like, “Wow, OK, that is not what I expected at all, and this is a game changer.” The movie I thought I was making, I realised, almost certainly after that interview, that the movie would be different and it would be better for it. As a filmmaking team, we had a big responsibility on our hands to make sure that Joey’s truth was honoured to the best of our ability.

You know, the Joey part and the film, and in general, reminds me of this cultural moment we’re having right now where we like to revisit things from the late 1990s and early 2000s. But one thing I do love about this film is that, as opposed to those documentaries about Pamela Anderson and Britney Spears, this one is starting from a place of, “I loved this thing from the ’90s, but let’s see how the reaction has changed. Or how people at the time felt about it, for instance, the director Gwen Turner. Were you afraid at all to open up something that you loved so much to this type of scrutiny?

I’m a guy that doesn’t particularly enjoy conflict. I try to mind my own business for the most part, and going into these interviews, I didn’t think I realised the depths to which people had their own experiences making “Chasing Amy,” and so it was a real learning experience for me. I always felt that “Chasing Amy” already had a level of scrutiny. Again, I wasn’t trying to change anybody’s minds about the film. I was just trying to explore this thing because that conflict was already inherently there, and you know; it was a curious endeavour. And then it quickly evolves.

People will always have their own opinions on Chasing Amy or Chasing Chasing Amy because cinema is such a subjective experience. Life informs how you feel about a movie. Your experience informs how you feel about a movie. Chasing Amy isn’t for everybody, and that’s OK. There is no movie that is for everybody. I was just excited to explore what I thought was the rich history there. And I’m happy with the results.

I was really moved when at the end, you talked about how Chasing Amy was there for you at a time when you needed it. And it’s not that to you anymore. I think the film captures the way that pieces of culture can help transform who we are, but that doesn’t mean that they have to be the same for us throughout the rest of our lives.

Somebody was asking about this yesterday, and I stand by what I said then, which is that my life is so full now in a way that it wasn’t when I was 12, right?

I have Riley. I have two very cute pugs that I’m obsessed with. I have friends. I have collaborators. I have filmmaking. I have community. I have all of these things that I desperately wanted as a kid. And for years, that space, everything I was yearning for, was filled up by Chasing Amy. And so, how could it have the same meaning to me now? It was that life raft until I could get the things that I really needed. It was that support so I could make it to this part of my life. In some ways, it’s kind of like having an imaginary friend. It was everything when I needed it to be. Somebody else can take up the mantle of trying to be Chasing Amy No. 1 fan.

Margot Robbie’s Body Double Says Even She’s Clueless About Barbie Plot Details

Posted on 01/07/2023 by Boris Clair

Despite multiple trailers for Barbie dropping earlier this year, details of the film’s plot remain largely unknown — even to Margot Robbie’s body double.

In an interview in The New York Times, Emma Eastwood detailed her experience subbing in for the movie star after initially being turned away as an extra.

“I was on this for two weeks, and I barely know what the movie is about,” Eastwood said, adding that the production team “did a very good job of keeping the plot hidden.”

“There were a couple times they said the whole cast would be there and it would be an important day, but they never actually gave me any details of what we would be doing until I was on set,” she said.

Eastwood, who revealed that she was first hired as a hand double for Robbie but went on to appear in additional scenes, said she would receive commands on set with little explanation of the context.

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She recalled being told to lie facedown on the floor for an hour while shooting one scene, causing her makeup to smear.

“When I got up, I literally felt drunk,” Eastwood told the Times. “I have no idea what that scene was about.”

Barbie, based on Mattel’s famous Barbie and Ken dolls, has been in the works for more than a decade.

An official website provides only a vague synopsis of the live-action film: “To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.”

Along with Robbie, the highly anticipated movie features Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Michael Cera, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon and others.

Directed by Greta Gerwig, Barbie is set to hit cinemas on 21 July.

Indiana Jones Director Has Something To Say About Negative Reviews For Latest Film

Posted on 24/06/2023 by Boris Clair

Indiana Jones director James Mangold has had his say on the less favourable reviews of the latest instalment in the movie franchise.

Outlets including the BBC, The Times and The Telegraph gave the franchise’s last hurrah just two stars in reviews published after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Although it currently has a 61% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it also marks the lowest score of all five films.

Speaking to Variety about the film’s critical reception, James appeared unsurprised.

He said: “When you’re in franchise land, it’s very hard for critical thinkers to overlook what I’m sure their editors want, which is this business prism of how does it rate to the other ones?

“I always thought if I were second or third best to one of the greatest films of all time, I’d be good. I mean, it all vaporises later. Either the movie will live or it won’t.”

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny is the first film in the series not to have been directed by Steven Spielberg, and follows 2008′s Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

There’s also a star turn from Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who plays Indiana Jones’s goddaughter Helena Shaw.

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny hits cinemas on 28 June.

Luke Evans Says He ‘Wept’ After Reading Script For His First-Ever Gay Role

Posted on 17/06/2023 by Boris Clair

Luke Evans’ latest movie role is the first to reflect his queer authentic self.

The Welsh actor stars opposite Billy Porter in Our Son, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

Our Son follows Nicky and Gabriel (played by Luke and Billy, respectively), a married couple who are engaged in a bitter custody dispute over their eight-year-old son, as they inch toward divorce.

Though Luke’s résumé includes starring roles in Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty And The Beast and other blockbusters, the actor had not portrayed a gay role in a major film until now.

“I’ve been ready to take that step for ages. I just haven’t found the right story [until now],” he told People. “Divorce is as right for a gay couple as marriage, and I hadn’t really seen that, and when I read it, every time I’ve read the script, I wept.”

Billy Porter (left) and Luke Evans star in the new drama "Our Son," which debuted at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. — Billy Porter (left) and Luke Evans star in the new drama “Our Son,” which debuted at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

He went on to note: “So I just thought, ‘Maybe this is a good time, and this is a good role to pick up and do.’”

These days, Luke is in a relationship with boyfriend Fran Tomas, a graphic designer from Spain. The couple made their red carpet debut at a UNICEF event in December.

Still, the actor has endured criticism in recent years amid claims he’d been reluctant to make a statement about sexuality as his Hollywood career was on the rise.

“My career was public, I was photographed, and all that stuff,” he told Attitude magazine in 2020.

“My personal life just became the last thing that I had. Also, what was strange was that when people did find out that I was gay, there was a lot of articles and stuff written saying that I was hiding it, and I wasn’t.”

Luke Evans (left) and boyfriend Fran Tomas.

Raised a Jehovah’s Witness, Luke left his home and religion at age 16 in order to pursue an acting career.

In his chat with Attitude, he said that decision made speculation he’d deliberately stayed closeted more hurtful: “I just wanted to get online and I wanted to pick up the phone and say, ‘Do you realise I left home at 16 because I was gay?’ I went into the world as a kid, because I had to.”

As for Our Son, Luke described working on the film as “traumatic at times, painful at times, very real, very visceral and very relatable”.

“You don’t have to be gay to enjoy this or understand this story,” he explained to People. “Families break up all the time, but this is the story of hope, and how they get through it, and how a new chapter is started, but a different kind of chapter.”

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