Meryl Streep Claims She Was Rejected For This Major Hollywood Role For Being ‘Ugly’

Posted on 02/10/2024 by Boris Clair

There’s no business like show business. And given that screen legend Meryl Streep says she once missed out on a massive movie role for being “ugly”, I’m not sure I’m interested in any operation like it.

The star revealed on The Graham Norton Show back in 2015 that she missed out on a huge role in 1976′s King Kong remake because of her looks.

The son of the film’s director Dino De Laurentiis had seen Meryl in a play and took her to meet his father.

“He had this amazing office that looked all over Manhattan,” she explained.

“I walked in and his son was sitting there, very excited that he’d brought in this new actress. And the father said to his son in Italian, because I understand Italian, he said, ‘che brutta’, you know, ‘why do you bring me this ugly thing?’.”

The now 21-time Oscar nominee seemed to handle it expertly though.

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While she called the experience “sobering” as a “young girl”, she added that she quickly responded to the director in Italian.

“I said to him… I understand what you’re saying, I’m sorry I’m not beautiful enough to be in King Kong,” she joked.

In case you’re wondering, the role of Dwan in the 1976 movie ended up going to fellow Academy Award winner, and American Horror Story star Jessica Lange.

Speaking at Indiana University Bloomington in 2014, Meryl said she thought she was “too ugly to be an actress” when she was a student.

“I was always in plays, but I thought it was vain to be an actress. Plus, I thought I was too ugly to be an actress. Glasses weren’t fabulous then,” she explained.

Still, she seems to have moved on from those early worries.

“For young women, I would say, don’t worry so much about your weight,” she advised the graduating students.

“Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men and women too, what makes you different or weird, that’s your strength… I used to hate my nose. Now I don’t. It’s OK.”

“I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work,” Meryl Streep told Vogue in 2002.

“For an actress, worrying about appearance is a horrible, horrible trap. It’s great for acting to be unconscious of how you look and to be willing to mess up how you look, and see what that does to people.”

Nobody Wants This Creator Makes Very Honest Admission About Kristen Bell’s Casting

Posted on 30/09/2024 by Boris Clair

Kristen Bell and Adam Brody have both been at the centre of plenty of praise for their performances in the Netflix rom-com Nobody Wants This.

It might interest you to know, then, that the show’s creator Erin Foster initially had someone very different in mind for the part of Joanne.

The 10-part series was inspired by the early days of Erin’s relationship with her husband, and while promoting the show, she admitted she initially hoped to play the lead role herself.

However, it was Netflix who raised the idea of Kristen playing the title character.

“I wanted an actress who would fall into it in a really relaxed, natural way. And from our first meeting at Netflix, after they bought the idea, immediately for them, it was like, ‘It’s Kristen Bell. It’s Kristen Bell no matter what. It is Kristen Bell. That is who it is’,” Erin recalled to Harper’s Bazaar.

“They have worked with her many times before, and they are obsessed with her. They love her.”

She continued: “We had a meeting, and she was so respectful, nice, and complimentary, and she very clearly, very quickly said, ‘Erin, I know you wrote this for yourself to be in. I’m not comfortable taking this role away from you’. And I said, ‘Well, first of all, it doesn’t sound like I really have a choice, so let’s do this’.”

However, Erin had another reason for not wanting to take on the part, as she was trying to get pregnant at the time, and has since welcomed her daughter, Noa.

“I said to her, ‘The truth is, I want to be a mum. I’m trying to get pregnant, and that’s really my life focus right now, becoming a mum. I don’t want to be sitting in a hair and make-up trailer at 5am’,” she said.

Erin added that she was very happy with the way things turned out, insisting: “It would’ve been way too much. I was really trying to get pregnant, and I knew that those two things happening at the same time wasn’t going to work. And so I was kind of giving her my blessing. Like, ‘I want it to be you. I don’t want it to be me’.

“And after that, it just sort of all fell into place. She really wanted us to cast Adam, too. They had a personal relationship, outside of it, a friendship. She felt really confident that they would have great chemistry. And she was right. She’s got a really great instinct for casting. She had really good ideas.”

Kristen Bell was responsible for helping Adam Brody get cast in Nobody Wants This

Since it began streaming last week, Nobody Wants This has won near-unanimously positive reviews, with attention already turning to whether a second season could be on the cards.

Nobody Wants This is available to stream now.

17 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets You Probably Never Knew About How Gruesome Body Horror The Substance Was Made

Posted on 28/09/2024 by Boris Clair

If you’ve seen The Substance in a cinema over the last week, the chances are you’re still thinking about some of the film’s more extreme moments, mulling over the amazing performances from Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley or perhaps just trying to wrap your head around exactly what it is you just watched.

But if you’re anything like us, you might have also been pondering exactly how such a uniquely stylised film – with all of its stomach-churning body horror and physically demanding sequences – came to be.

Well, you need wonder no more. From the script to the screen, here are 17 behind-the-scenes facts you probably never knew about how The Substance actually got made…

First of all, director Coralie Fargeat fully never expected Demi Moore to say yes when she first sent her the script

Coralie Fargeat and Demi Moore at the Cannes Film Festival

“To be honest, when her name came up, you know, when we were thinking about actresses, I said, ‘Oh, forget it. She will never want to do something like that. Let’s not lose time, you know’,” Coralie admitted to People magazine at the initial premiere of The Substance.

“And then I said, ‘Well, we have nothing to lose. Let’s just send the script’.”

And it’s a good thing she did, because we truly can’t imagine any of Demi’s peers playing Elisabeth Sparkle quite like she did.

Lead actors Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley already had a bit of a connection before they were cast

Margaret Qualley and Demi Moore forged a strong bond while making The Substance, despite only sharing minimal screentime

Of course, Demi worked with Margaret’s mum, Andie MacDowell, almost 40 years ago in St. Elmo’s Fire.

However, there was another connection, as Margaret was also friendly with the Ghost star’s children, Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Willis, so before they were even on set, she told People “we felt like we knew each other”.

In keeping with the types of films that inspired it, Coralie was keen to rely mostly on practical effects rather than computer trickery, CGI or AI

“I would sometimes suggest we use VFX and she would immediately say no, because she doesn’t like VFX,” prosthetics designer Pierre-Olivier Persin told GQ.

“It’s really a movie about our bodies and about the reality of how we feel in our bodies. I needed to speak to the reality of the way our flesh can reflect our mental deformation, and I knew this had to exist for real,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.

One of the film’s only bits of CGI came at the end, when Demi Moore’s screaming face was added to the back of Monstro Elisasue, a character who was otherwise achieved entirely with prosthetics.

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Meanwhile, realistic dummies were also constructed to help with the “birthing” scenes.

“We had quite sophisticated silicon dummies. We had two for the birth. We also had matching prosthetic makeup on the body double and some days we applied the makeup on Demi,” Pierre-Olivier told Marie Claire.

One thing that wasn’t real was the film’s Hollywood setting, though

Coralie explained to Rue Morgue: “We shot 100 percent of the movie in France. Cinema, to me, is the art of illusion, and that’s what I really enjoy when I make my films, to be able to cheat stuff.

“So the house was entirely shot on a set, on a stage. A huge part of our prep was deciding how we were going to recreate the view of Hollywood [from Elisabeth’s large window]. It was a major research-and-development thing, thinking about different techniques and finally using the one that would give the most life and the greatest sensation of being inside the location.”

She added that rather than recreating a “realistic” Hollywood, she wanted to “create my version of Hollywood, the one that we all have in our unconscious minds”, putting together a “kind of enhanced vision of Hollywood that fit the story”.

Despite appearances – no, that is not Hollywood

Demi Moore’s prosthetics journey took her character through five different stage, with each part having its own nickname

These were known – pretty self-explanatorily – as “Requiem” (inspired by Ellen Burstyn’s character in Requiem For A Dream), “The Finger”, “Gollum”, “Monstro” and “Gremlin”.

Before Elisabeth’s decline begins, Pierre-Olivier admits that he and Coralie clashed over how the character should look.

“I had a bit of a fight with the director because I told her that she had to be beautiful in the beginning,” he revealed to Marie Claire.

“It had to be like, ‘Why would they [fire her]?’ Because she has everything, she’s beautiful, she still has a show that’s going on very well – so I wanted for her to be sparkling and beautiful.

“Coralie was telling me, ‘No, no, no, she cannot,’ and I said, ‘Coralie, I have to have the time for her to go down deep before she has all the prosthetics and all of that’.”

Debates were had about whether Elisabeth should be glamorous at the beginning of The Substance

If you’re wondering, all those prosthetics could take Demi Moore as long as six hours to put on

And then another two hours to take them off without doing any damage to the actor’s skin which, in the middle of a tightly-scheduled film shoot, is pretty important.

Margaret Qualley really struggled with her own prosthetics

“It was torture,” she told USA Today. “I had this awesome team of prosthetic artists that put it on me and took it off of me and got me through the day and made me laugh a couple of times while I was just on the brink of panic.

“I only have one eye. I can’t hear anything. I can’t move my arms. I’ve got these retainers in that are like too huge, they just kind of cut everything. It was grueling to embody.”

She added to The Times: “It was a torture chamber. The amount of videos I have of me like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ It was eight days. I know that doesn’t seem like a lot.

“We would just go until I had a panic attack. And the tempting thing is you want to peel it off, but of course you can’t do that, because you’ll bring your skin with you.”

Margaret's final transformation truly needs to be seen to be believed — Margaret’s final transformation truly needs to be seen to be believed

Oh, and Margaret Qualley was also wearing prosthetics you mightn’t have even known were there

According to Margaret, Coralie Fargeat had envisioned Sue as a curvaceous “Jessica Rabbit”-type.

“Unfortunately there is no magic boob potion, so we had to glue those on,” she told The Times.

“Coralie found an incredible prosthetic team to endow me with the rack of a lifetime, just not my lifetime.”

Yes, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley really did have to learn all those aerobics routine

Margaret described her own dance sequences as “brutal”, and later admitted she needed a bit of liquid courage to get through the day.

“I just got wasted first thing in the morning because I was like, I can’t do this in front of everybody,” she told The Times, claiming a combo of tequila and weed helped her through that difficult day.

Margaret Qualley as seen during Sue's aerobics set-up — Margaret Qualley as seen during Sue’s aerobics set-up

For Demi, the most difficult part was the infamous scene in front of a mirror

After setting up a date with an old school friend, Elisabeth is about to head out for the evening, when she becomes distracted with thoughts of Sue, and repeatedly removes and reapplies her makeup.

“It was very difficult,” Demi told Variety, describing the scene as “one of the most heart-wrenching moments in the film”.

Apparently, Coralie required as many as 45 takes for the shot, (15 for each of the three makeup set-ups), until it reached “a point where I couldn’t do it anymore”.

Elisabeth roughly removes her makeup in The Substance

In fact, Demi said, it was actually the make-up team who intervened, which Pierre-Olivier confirmed to be the case to Marie Claire.

“My concern was she’s going to hurt herself. At the end, I did something that I never did on a movie, ever. I told Coralie, ‘That’s enough. You cannot do it anymore because she’s going to have a rash all around the face’,” he recalled.

“Coralie said, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, no problem.’ But of course after the 11th [take], she said, ‘We are going to do it once again,’ and I took the remover pad and I squashed everything, and I said, ‘I removed everything, that’s over. You have already 11. You cannot have more because tomorrow she will have a red face.’”

“Normally you don’t do that! But it was too much because it was very hard on her skin,” he revealed.

All that hard work really did take its toll on both Demi and Margaret

Demi told the LA Times that for the week of shooting where she wasn’t needed on set, she ended up contracting shingles – “and I then lost, like, 20 pounds”.

For her part, Margaret said that eight days on set wearing enormous prosthetics led to her breaking out in “crazy acne for a full, long-ass time”, the effects of which she claimed could still be seen in her other 2024 film Kinds Of Kindness.

Despite all of the body horror in The Substance, Demi had a surprising choice when naming the ‘most violent’ moment of the film

Apparently, she still crings every time she sees Dennis Quaid eating all of that shrimp. And if you’re wondering, he ate it all for real, with Coralie estimating the actor probably ate around “two kilos” of shrimp while filming.

Dennis Quaid in Demi Moore's least favourite scene from The Substance — Dennis Quaid in Demi Moore’s least favourite scene from The Substance

“I will just warn everyone, the scene with Dennis [Quaid] eating the shrimp is by far the most violent scene in the whole movie. He ate, I think, four pounds of shrimp, tearing the heads off with sound effects,” Demi recalled to Seth Meyers, while gagging.

Dennis Quaid was actually a late addition to The Substance

He took over the role of Harvey from Emmy winner Ray Liotta, who was cast in the film in 2022, but died before filming got underway.

And his character’s name, Harvey, was no coincidence either

“Not at all!” Coralie said with a laugh when asked by Rue Morgue if the reference was unintentional. “To me, that’s part of the craziness of filmmaking – how with just a first name, you can characterise a whole type of person.

“It says so much about those stories that we heard everywhere, and then that kind of exploded with this specific figure, and now just this name, Harvey, can represent something that has existed in society on many different levels.

“I love to work with symbolism, and the symbolism of that name was definitely powerful and strong.”

But what about the other characters’ names in that case?

“For Sparkle, it was this idea to shine, to be under the light, and to have this moment that means happiness,” Coralie told Collider.

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Ellen Degeneres Has Released Her Latest Netflix Special And People Already Have Strong Feelings

Posted on 25/09/2024 by Boris Clair

Ellen Degeneres’ latest comedy offering has already sparked a lot of conversation, and probably not for the reasons she was hoping.

On Tuesday, Netflix unveiled For Your Approval, Ellen’s newest stand-up comedy special, which she is billing as her last ever.

The special marks a major step back into the spotlight for Ellen after the much-publicised end of her talk show in 2022, following a BuzzFeed News report featuring the accounts of nearly a dozen former employees who accused the presenter of fostering a toxic work environment on the set of her eponymous daytime series.

In the report, Ellen and executives on the show were accused of regularly making inappropriate comments about employees’ race, firing staff for taking medical leave and creating a general culture of fear within the workplace.

And while Ellen does address the controversy throughout her special, people aren’t exactly impressed with the way the subject is handled.

For Your Approval opens with a perturbed-looking Ellen surrounded by negative tweets (as they were then known) about the allegations, with one clip that’s been viewed on X almost eight million times branding the set-up “ridiculous”.

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Just what I thought. Ellen’s Sad Girl Hours.

She claims she got cancelled. But you’re not cancelled when you have a Netflix special and a Kind (lmao) Skincare Brand.

Cancel culture is not real. Stop making it a thing. https://t.co/TXGsq14J8K

— chanél aka trap wife 🫀❤️🔥 (@thetrapwife) September 24, 2024

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Just what I thought. Ellen’s Sad Girl Hours.

She claims she got cancelled. But you’re not cancelled when you have a Netflix special and a Kind (lmao) Skincare Brand.

Cancel culture is not real. Stop making it a thing. https://t.co/TXGsq14J8K

— chanél aka trap wife 🫀❤️🔥 (@thetrapwife) September 24, 2024

It’s also been pointed out that the now-deleted tweet at the centre of the montage, inviting people to share “insane stories you’ve heard about Ellen being mean”, obscures the fact that for each one, the original user offered to donate money to an LA food bank.

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obscuring the part of the tweet that says “…and i’ll donate to the food bank” is really funny

why did ellen even feel the need to do a special at this point in her career/life https://t.co/AC7ZuXLJe7

— 12 cellphones & i look like kurt angle (@psptvs) September 24, 2024

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obscuring the part of the tweet that says “…and i’ll donate to the food bank” is really funny

why did ellen even feel the need to do a special at this point in her career/life https://t.co/AC7ZuXLJe7

— 12 cellphones & i look like kurt angle (@psptvs) September 24, 2024

Early on in her set, Ellen jokes that she has been “kicked out of show business” since she last did a comedy special, which has also raised eyebrows, given the several deals that the award-winning comic still has in place.

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“I got kicked out of show business” she says from :::checks notes::: a Netflix special with a seemingly sold out venue?

Love watching comedians make a mockery of all the people they hurt during their careers! https://t.co/FnqlZJxiVf

— Eric Crumrine (@ECrumrine) September 24, 2024

Meanwhile, another moment from later on in the show sees Ellen responding to the allegations from behind the scenes of her talk show by agreeing that she’s “impatient”, “demanding”, “direct” and a “strong woman”.

This is met with a one-minute ovation from the audience of her special, which viewers watching clips on X found a little alarming.

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Legend has it the crowd is still applauding

— Kyle and 8,732 others (@KyleNumber) September 24, 2024

Critics have also expressed similar sentiments to viewers on X in their reviews.

Variety claimed that Ellen “lets herself off the hook” in the “self-indulgent” special, describing For Your Appreciation as “a frustrating watch, and a bum note to go out on”.

“The problem with For Your Approval, aside from the fact that it is almost never funny, is that it feels so disingenuous, so calculated to rehabilitate an image and preserve that triumph for posterity,” Time lamented, while The Independent branded it “bizarre”, “self-pitying” and “unfunny”.

“For Your Approval renders DeGeneres an unimpeachable victim to an angry mob, her failings largely inconsequential, her imminent departure from the spotlight a tragedy,” the latter review added, claiming the comedian appears to have “truthfully learnt little” from the scandal.

More positive reviews, however, could be found in TheWrap (who said For Your Approval was “candid”, “funny” and “relatable”) and The Hollywood Reporter, who celebrated its “moments of sincerity and genuine reflection”.

Shortly after the BuzzFeed News report was published, Ellen said on air: “I learned that things happened here that never should have happened. I take that very seriously and I want to say I am so sorry to the people that were affected.”

“I know that I’m in a position of privilege and power, and I realise that with that comes responsibility. I take responsibility for what happens at my show.

“We have had a lot of conversations over the last few weeks about the show, our workplace and what we want for the future, we have made the necessary changes and today we are starting a new chapter.”

However, a year later, she claimed: “I still don’t understand it. It was too orchestrated, it was too coordinated.”

Ellen Degeneres: For Your Approval is now streaming on Netflix.

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