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Dev Patel refused to let the slew of injuries he suffered while filming his elaborate fight scenes in “Monkey Man” get in the way of him completing the movie.

Patel not only directed and co-wrote the action movie, but he also stars as Kid, a young man who seeks to avenge his mother’s death at the hands of India’s corrupt law enforcement officials, political figures and spiritual leaders. He earns money by competing in a brutally violent underground fight club.

While Patel recently outlined the many production hurdles he had to overcome to make the film in a Reddit Ama, Variety caught up with him at the “Monkey Man” premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday to talk about the film’s impact on his body during the four-month shoot in Indonesia. “I broke my hand in the first big action scene, broke some toes, tore a shoulder, eye infections,...

Exclusive: Pirates Of The Caribbean and Carnival Row star Orlando Bloom is attached to play a boxer who comes out of retirement in psychological thriller The Cut, which The Exchange is launching ahead of the EFM in Berlin.

Bloom will be the pugilist who is coming out of retirement to vie for his championship title through a grueling and unsanctioned weight cut program with a coach who knows no limits, alienating himself from reality and loved ones, as he spirals out of control. Filming is due to start in summer 2023 in Nevada.

Sean Ellis, director of thriller Anthropoid and BAFTA-nominated crime-drama Metro Manila, will direct an adapted screenplay by Justin Bull (Little Rituals) from a story by Mark Lane.

Producers are James Harris (47 Meters Down) and Mark Lane (47 Meters Down) of Tea Shop Productions and Orlando Bloom and Adam Karasick (3:10 To Yuma) of Amazing Owl.

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While it's up for 6 Oscars at the 95th Academy awards, Todd Field's award-storming 2022 movie provides such an in-depth look at its title character that it's not always clear whether Tár is based on a true story. Cate Blanchett's portrayal of the conductor Lydia Tár certainly helps to lend an air of verisimilitude to the sometimes shocking tale. As Tár interrogates many cultural questions surrounding sexual politics and the misuse of power, such relevant topics of today, it's easy to assume that Tár is a true story.

Tár's opening scene, in which a real New Yorker journalist recites Lydia's long list of musical achievements, immerses a viewer into the main character's world by highlighting how she is at the pinnacle of her career. With what follows, Cate Blanchett gradually turns Lydia Tár into a three-dimensional character by adding many complex layers of contradiction and corruption to her narrative. With...

Nia Long has enjoyed a long and successful career, including a recent run of popular titles, but she still has questions about parts for which she wasn’t considered in the past.

During an interview with The Cut that published Friday, Long was asked whether she feels that she gets overlooked for roles. Known for appearing in such sequel-spawning films as The Best Man, Big Momma’s House and Are We There Yet?, the actress’ latest credits include Missing, You People and The Best Man: The Final Chapters.

“I’ve felt passed over on things, for sure,” Long said. “There have definitely been moments like, ‘Why wasn’t I considered for that?’ Like, why wasn’t I considered for Avatar?”

Long clarified that she thinks Zoe Saldaña is “amazing” as Neytiri in James Cameron’s wildly successful film franchise. She added, “But I wasn’t even a topic of discussion, you know?...

Nia Long is calling out Hollywood for leaving her out of casting conversations. In a new interview with The Cut (via IndieWire), the “You People” actor questioned why she was never in the conversation to star as Neytiri in James Cameron’s “Avatar.”

“I’ve felt passed over on things, for sure,” Long said. “There have definitely been moments like, ‘Why wasn’t I considered for that?’ Like, why wasn’t I considered for ‘Avatar’? I think Zoe’s amazing. But I wasn’t even a topic of discussion, you know?”

Although Long admitted that “a lot of times, to be fair, directors know in their minds who they want,” she still finds herself feeling passed over for big Hollywood roles.

“I would love to do a film like ‘Avatar’ because I’m really a fan and obsessed,” Long said. “I would even do a supporting role in a film...

Nia Long has a long memory when it comes to roles she didn’t get.

The “You People” star admitted that she has felt “passed over” for projects in the past and wondered why she was not considered for certain roles, like the co-lead in James Cameron’s blockbuster franchise “Avatar” before Zoe Saldaña was cast.

“I’ve felt passed over on things, for sure. There have definitely been moments like, ‘Why wasn’t I considered for that?’ Like, why wasn’t I considered for ‘Avatar’?” Long said in a The Cut cover story. “I think Zoe’s amazing. But I wasn’t even a topic of discussion, you know?”

Long continued, “A lot of times, to be fair, directors know in their minds who they want. It’s happened to me, and it’s not happened for me.”

The “Missing” actress added, “I would love to do a film...

In 2010, Lawrence “Larry” Ray moved in with his daughter and her friends at Sarah Lawrence College. More than 10 years later, he has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. Hulu‘s true crime series Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, which premieres on Thursday, Feb. 9, details “Larry” Ray’s crimes and his victims’ stories.

Hulu’s ‘Stolen Youth’ premieres Feb. 9 | Hulu ‘Stolen Youth’ details Lawrence ‘Larry’ Ray’s sex crimes

Lawrence “Larry” Ray became a household name when The Cut published “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence” in April 2019. Now, Hulu’s series Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence details the victims’ stories.

When Talia told her housemates that her dad was getting out of prison and needed to crash with them in their Sarah Lawrence dorm, they were mostly unfazed. Nine years later, it seems he was the worst thing that ever happened to her and her roommates https://t.

Content warning: This post contains mentions of emotional and psychological abuse.

"Stolen Youth," Hulu's new docuseries that explores Larry Ray's reign of psychological terror over a group of Sarah Lawrence college students, is extremely difficult to watch. The three-part series, released on Feb. 8, contains many real videos taken during the students' time living with Ray, and many feature verbal and physical abuse.

The story of what would become known as the "cult at Sarah Lawrence" first broke when The Cut published an exposé in 2019. It detailed how Ray had moved into his daughter Talia's dorm at Sarah Lawrence, quickly developing a hold over her roommates by regaling them with self-improvement advice. He claimed his knowledge was drawn from his years in the Marines, but Ray had lied about that - along with many other aspects of his life.

Anyone who followed the story in 2019 knows what happened next.

This article contains spoilers for Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence.

When news first broke in 2020 that a man named Larry Ray had been arrested for operating a sex cult at Sarah Lawrence College, the casual news observer could be forgiven for finding the ensuing headlines slightly humorous at first.

The existence of a hippie sex cult would be in keeping with some prevailing stereotypes attached to the prestigious college in Yonkers, New York. Originally a women’s institution of higher learning, Sarah Lawrence became coeducational in 1968 and has since developed a reputation for its wealthy, creative, socially liberal, and generally “out there” student body.

Of all the colleges in the United States, of course the libertines at Sarah Lawrence would be the ones to “yes and” themselves into a sex cult. But as more bits of information began to trickle out it began to become clear that...

John B and Sarah will still be very much in love in "Outer Banks" season three, but for stars Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline, filming the hit Netflix show's third season marked their first time working together post-breakup. The young couple called it quits in November 2021, not long after they celebrated their one-year anniversary. But while it would have been understandable if things were weird on set between the actors, Stokes and Cline revealed to Entertainment Weekly that their professional relationship is still going strong.

"Mads and I have been working together now for 30 episodes, and we made a promise to each other before we even started dating that the work was always going to come first," Stokes explained. "And that no matter what happens in our personal lives, and the ways that life sometimes takes you in different directions, that we're always going to honor the work. That stayed 100 percent truthful this season.

The Last of Us star Nico Parker has weighed in on the “nepo baby” discourse.

A debate about the children of celebrities and their privilege erupted after Vulture released an exhaustive guide to the Hollywood “nepo-verse”.

Now, in a new interview with The Cut, Parker, the daughter of actor Thandie Newton and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again director Ol Parker is the latest to join the conversation.

While the 18-year-old British actor said she sympathises with those who feel the argument “minimises” their achievements, she added: “But I think it’s incredibly important to recognise that with your parents being prevalent in the industry, it’s way easier to get in the room.

“It’s so important to know how many people would dream of being in that room, and how lucky you are to be there,” she acknowledged.

“Especially when you start, your parents know people, and you...

Exclusive: Paris-based mk2 films has boarded international sales on Tina Satter’s debut feature Reality about real-life U.S. whistleblower Reality Winner ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival later this month.

Euphoria and White Lotus star Sydney Sweeney plays Winner.

The former intelligence officer was given the longest prison sentence ever for the unauthorized release of classified material to the media in 2018 (five years and three months) after she leaked a report about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Opening with the Saturday afternoon in June 2017 when 25-year-old Winner was confronted at her Georgia home by the FBI, the film follows the cryptic conversation that took place as the young woman’s life begins to unravel.

Satter’s dialogue, taken directly from the FBI’s transcript of the interrogation, alternates between nail-biting and banal, darkly funny and surreal.

The film tracks one woman’s experience of the State at work.

Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Wins First UK Commission

Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine has won its first UK TV commission, a Channel 4 DIY series fronted by Stacey Solomon and exec produced by the Oscar-winning actress. The Candle Media-backed non-scripted outfit is producing Bricking It, in which Solomon will give viewers easy and helpful tips to makeover their homes themselves. Solomon also helms similar BBC series Sort Your Life Out and Channel 4 commissioner Clemency Green said she “has a natural talent for making a house a home.” Hello Sunshine’s UK division opened last year and is headed up by former Channel 4 commissioner Sarah Lazenby, who is EPing Bricking It with Solomon and Sara Rea. In the U.S., it has produced Prime Video’s Making the Cut and Netflix’s Get Organized.

Constantin Film Extends Contracts For Torsten Koch and Oliver Koppert

Germany’s Constantin Film has...

Arden Cho, who played Kira on the MTV series Teen Wolf but does not appear in the new sequel film, took to social media on the day of the movie’s Paramount+ release to give an update on her mind-set.

After a Twitter user posted Thursday that he was thinking of Cho that day because it was “probably a bit of a rough time for her,” the actress replied to seemingly assure fans she had no regrets about skipping director Russell Mulcahy’s Teen Wolf: The Movie, although she did not specifically mention the project by name.

“Don’t worry babies,” she tweeted. “Thanks for your support. Looking forward to better in 2023! Don’t be scared to walk away or turn down an opportunity if you know it’s not fair and it won’t make you happy! You deserve better. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! Love you all,...

Luke Newton is stepping into the spotlight for Bridgerton Season 3. The new season will focus on his character Colin Bridgerton’s love story with Penelope Featherington. Bridgerton has become one of the most popular series on Netflix, and season 3 promises to bring in just many viewers. For Newton, however, the news that he was cast in the series came during a lull in his acting career.

Luke Newton | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images ‘Bridgerton’ star Luke Newton is trained in musical theater

Bridgerton fans might not know that Colin actor Luke Newton is a talented singer and dancer thanks to his training in musical theater. He landed his first onscreen acting role at just 17, playing Luke Atwood for 11 episodes in the BBC Two series The Cut.

A year later, Newton began attending the London School of Musical Theatre. “I actually was still at the London School of Musical Theatre when I...

Episode five, “Festival Wear,” was a bloodbath on “Making the Cut,” with outrage from judge Jeremy Scott and the eliminations of both Curtis Cassell and Sienna Li. That left five designers going into episode six, “Social Media Content”: Rafael Chaouiche, Georgia Hardinge, Jeanette Limas, Markantoine Lynch-Boisvert, and Yannik Zamboni. After all that vitriol, it was nice to get back to a kinder, gentler “Making the Cut.” And spoiler alert: no notebooks were harmed in the filming of this episode.

See‘Making the Cut’ season 3 episode 4 recap: ‘One Day, One Team,’ one sewing machine fight, and one ‘sex funeral’ Assignment

“We’re going to turn this thing around,” host and head judge Heidi Klum told the final five. They would get a chance to redeem themselves by showing off their online marketing skills. Not only would they be creating the usual two-look collections — one high-fashion runway design and one accessible...

Much to the surprise and delight of all the designers on “Making the Cut,” no one was eliminated in season three, episode four, “One Day, One Team.” So all seven contestants returned to design again in episode five, “Festival Wear”: Curtis Cassell, Rafael Chaouiche, Georgia Hardinge, Sienna Li, Jeanette Limas, Markantoine Lynch-Boisvert, and Yannik Zamboni. All sunshine and puppies and roses, right? Unfortunately, the judges’ momentary mercy curdled like milk in the sun. Let’s get into it.

See‘Making the Cut’ spoilers: Who was eliminated, when, and why in season 3? Assignment

“Festival wear has become big business for fashion retailers,” Tim Gunn explains. “Many large brands are creating year-round festival lines. In fact, for the Millennial and Gen-z demographics it’s becoming tangential to resort wear.” We’re talking hippie Woodstock looks, Afropunk, all those wild desert utopia Burning Man costumes. The sky is kind of the limit with this one.

Bethenny Frankel thinks Meghan Markle should stop talking about the royal family now that her and Prince Harry have stepped down as senior royals and moved to California.

In the latest episode of her “Just B with Bethenny Frankel” podcast, the “Real Housewives of New York City” star shared: “She’s very much like a Housewife in that she can’t stop talking about the very thing that she wants to be irrelevant.

“[It’s like] when you… want to separate from the Housewives. ‘It was toxic, I don’t want to be part of the drama,’ or whatever the housewife says. [But] then… for the next five years, always talking about the very thing you’re trying to extricate yourself from,” Us Weekly reported.

@bethennyfrankel Once again I’ve been told to keep my mouth shut on such a polarizing topic, for fear of cancelation….and once again…listen to the rest on...

One of South Africa’s most renowned composers has got things other than the British royals on his mind.

Speaking to the MailOnline, Lebohang Morake, better known professionally as Lebo M, said he couldn’t recall speaking with Meghan Markle about Nelson Mandela at the 2019 premiere of “The Lion King”.

Read More: Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Responds To Meghan Markle’s Comments About Her Marriage Being Celebrated Just Like His Grandfather’s Prison Release

In an interview this week with The Cut, the Duchess of Sussex claimed that she had met a South African cast member at the premiere in London, said to her, “I just need you to know: ‘When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.'”

On Wednesday, Dr. John Kani, the only South African cast member in the film, denied ever having spoken to Markle,...

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Meghan Markle is having a busy couple of weeks and they are dramatic ones at that. While you could say that about every week since she met Prince Harry and the pair hightailed it for Montecito, California, this one has been particularly juicy.

First, Meghan released the first few episodes of her podcast, Archetypes, one of which featured an interview with professional tennis player Serena Williams. However, Meghan, or the Duchess of Sussex, spoke for the first 11 minutes and according to critics spoke mostly about herself.

Of all the questions she could have asked someone who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles throughout her illustrious career, they came few and far between.

And, let’s not forget that bizarre or upsetting story, however you want to look at it, in which Meghan spoke about a fire that broke out in...

A Lion King actor and friend of Nelson Mandela says he is “baffled” after Meghan Markle claimed she was told people in South Africa “rejoiced in the streets” over her marriage to the Duke of Sussex.

In a recent interview, the Duchess of Sussex told The Cut magazine that an unnamed South African actor from the cast of the 2019 film of The Lion King made the surprise proclamation during the London premiere.

“He looked at me, and he’s just like light,” Meghan recalled. “‘I just need you to know: When you married into [the royal family], we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison’.”

However, Dr John Kani, who voiced the mandrill shaman Rafiki in the Disney film, has now claimed that he was the only South African actor in the production, and also said that he had never met the Duchess and did not attend the UK premiere,...

The royal family is not pleased with Meghan Markle’s recent comments.

The Duchess of Sussex got candid this week when she shared certain aspects of her life as a senior working royal during both an interview with The Cut and episode two of her “Archetypes” podcast.

A source tells Et that the “royal family is disappointed by Meghan Markle’s latest comments in The Cut magazine and on her podcast. They are distressed that after stepping back from the royal family — claiming a need for privacy — she continues to publicize family matters in public,” the source says.

The source added that there is a “loss of trust” with Meghan.

During her interview with The Cut, the 41-year-old detailed her life in Montecito, California, and addressed the “bittersweet” transition that she and Prince Harry made after stepping away from royal life in 2020.

Inside the magazine, the duchess shared how she...

Australian morning show host Natalie Barr called Meghan Markle a “tosser” live on air following the duchesses’ recent tell-all interview.

“I couldn't even stomach getting through the whole article,” Barr, who is reportedly known for her candour, told her cohost David Koch.

“I think in Australia we’d say she’s just full of it. She’s a tosser. She’s a total tosser,” she continued.

“That’s how we would describe her. I just can’t… the way she speaks.”

Another host on the show, Edwina Bartholomew, suggested more sympathetically: “I think she has a very different narrative, perhaps, in the US to what is being accepted in the UK.”

Barr responded: “Or just everywhere in the world!” as Koch interjected: “That’s Eddie’s code for tosser!”

A stunned Aussie breakfast host calls Megain full of it & a total tosser...

There have been a lot of changes in Meghan Markle’s life.

In the new cover story for The Cut, the Duchess of Sussex opens up about her and Prince Harry’s move to Montecito, her rocky relationship with the Royal Family, and a lot more.

“It was a big adjustment — a huge adjustment to go from that kind of autonomy to a different life,” she says of relinquishing control of her public image when she got together with Harry.

“There’s literally a structure by which if you want to release photos of your child, as a member of the family, you first have to give them to the Royal Rota,” Markle adds, referring to the U.K. media pool, which includes many tabloids.

“Why would I give the very people that are calling my children the N-word a photo of my child before I can share it with...

Meghan Markle is clearing the air.  The Duchess of Sussex is clarifying a comment that she made in her recent interview with The Cut, in which she appeared to be referring to her husband Prince Harry's strained relationship with his father, Prince Charles. In the interview, Meghan says, "Harry said to me, 'I lost my dad in this process.' It doesn't have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that's his decision." While many readers thought she was saying that Harry had lost his relationship with his father, a spokeswoman for Meghan told E! News that she was referring to her rapport with her own estranged father, Thomas Markle, and was saying...

Nelson Mandela’s grandson Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela has responded to Meghan Markle’s recent comments to The Cut.

Meghan said in the piece, that was titled “Meghan of Montecito”, that an actor from South Africa pulled her aside at the 2019 “Lion King” premiere to say: “I just need you to know: When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.”

The Cut article added, “Of course, she knows she’s no Mandela, but perhaps even telling me this story is a mode of defence, because if you are a symbol for all that is good and charitable, how can anybody find you objectionable, how can anybody hate you?”

Mandla said of his grandfather being released after serving 27 years in prison, “Madiba’s celebration was based on overcoming 350 years of colonialism with 60 years of a brutal apartheid regime in South Africa.

Inventing Anna became an instant hit when it was released earlier this year. The series gave us plenty of true crime material to pour over – but where exactly does fact stop and fiction start?

The Netflix series – which stars Ozark actor Julia Garner as scammer Anna Delvey (real name Anna Sorokin) – was one of the streamer’s most anticipated releases to date, and captivated audiences when it finally arrived in February.

The show, however, also caused a major stir. Netflix has since been sued by Rachel DeLoache Williams, former Vanity Fair staffer and real-life former friend of Delvey’s who is portrayed in the series by actor Katie Lowes.

Williams filed a lawsuit on Monday (29 August) claiming that she was falsely depicted in the drama as “unethical,” “greedy,” “snobbish” and “disloyal”.

Inventing Anna tells the incredible true story of Sorokin, a twentysomething socialite who successfully posed as a rich German...

Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast was number one on Spotify in its first 24 hours last week, overtaking usual U.S. frontrunner The Joe Rogan Experience.

The premiere episode featured Serena Williams, and it was announced that Markle will be joined on tomorrow’s show by Mariah Carey.

That’s a powerhouse guest list for a launch, and a cover story for The Cut today revealed more star power to come. Constance Wu, Issa Rae, Lisa Ling, Margaret Cho and Ziwe are among the upcoming guests the outlet lists. The piece also reveals more about the concept behind the show’s name and how it relates to many standard characterizations of women.

Per the Cut:

The rest of the episodes, she’ll dig into labels like Old Maid, Dragon Lady, Bimbo, Crazy, Angry Black Woman, Bitch, and Slut (Will Meghan say slut? “Oh my gosh. That makes me so uncomfortable.”)

The title of the Williams episode was “The Misconceptions of Ambition.”

Deadline reached out to Spotify and will add any comment received.

Produced by Archewell Audio in partnership with Spotify’s Gimlet Media, Archetypes arrived nearly two years after Markle and husband Prince Harry, under their Archewell Audio banner, signed an exclusive multiyear deal with Spotify.

Another arm of Markle’s mutimedia enterprise with her husband is Archwell Productions, which has a deal with Netflix.

As Deadline reported exclusively in May, her animated series Pearl was quietly dropped by Netflix as part of the wave of cutbacks going on at the streamer.

“There’s not much you can do when a company and a division changes their slate,” Markle said about the cancelation. “And there’s also not much you can do when, even if they think the project is great, the media will report it as though it was only my project.”...

Carmen Electra smiles close up. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Birdie Thompson/AdMedia

Carmen Electra is living it up from a hot tub as she shows off her amazing figure in a swimsuit.

The model and Baywatch actress, 50, looked flawless as ever as she posted for her rising TikTok fanbase over the weekend – while Carmen boasts over 1 million followers on Instagram, she’s yet to hit 15,000 on TikTok.

Sizzling in a black swimsuit, the Ohio native sent out a big smile while enjoying a tiled hot tub late at night.

Carmen showcased her toned back and slim shoulders in her thin-strapped bathing suit, also wearing her blonde locks down and wet.

The ex to NBA player Dennis Rodman wore smokey eyeliner, also rocking the defined brows trend as she showed off her facial features before turning around to face the camera and leaning her head to one side.

“Good vibes only,...

Just when you thought the fun, funny, feminist Disney+ Marvel series She-Hulk: Attorney At Law couldn’t get any cooler, it’s just been announced that Megan Thee Stallion will be a special guest star in the first season. This isn’t Megan’s first time appearing in a popular series — she stunned viewers in her breakout role as her alter ego, Tina Snow, on Starz’s P-Valley (wearing an amazing white fur and crystal bodysuit). She also appeared in an episode of Good Girls and has a first-look deal with Netflix to create and executive produce her own shows, including a comedy series based loosely on the Houston-born rapper’s early life. In an interview with The Cut, Megan was quoted as saying she looks up to legendary rappers like Queen Latifah and Ice Cube who have gone on to have successful movie and television careers. “When I look at them,...

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Meghan Markle may be making a return to Instagram.

In a candid interview with New York Magazine’s The Cut published Monday, Markle quickly teased, “Do you want to know a secret?” before revealing, “I’m getting back … on Instagram. Markle noted that it was being considered, “Especially now, with Archetypes coming out.”

Archetypes is Markle’s recently launched Spotify podcast, which examines the history behind the stereotypes that get leveled against women. The podcast is the first series released as part of a production deal between her and Prince Harry’s Archewell Audio and Spotify’s Gimlet Media.

Markle spoke with Serena Williams in the premiere episode of Archetypes, where they both spoke about fulfilling work obligations despite their children having been hurt or in danger. Upcoming Archetypes guests will include Constance Wu, Issa Rae, Lisa Ling, Margaret Cho, Mariah Carey and Ziwe.

Megan Thee Stallion has been navigating fame on her own ever since the deaths of her mother and grandmother back-to-back in 2019. Though the "Traumazine" rapper has previously opened up about losing her family - including her father who died when she was 15 years old - she got candid about her fondest memories with her late parents in a new interview with The Cut, published on Aug. 29.

"I had the coolest parents in the world and I just wanted to be a good mix of both of them, and I feel like I am."

In her profile story, Megan talked about juggling success while parenting herself and recalled the days when her mom, Holly "Holly-Wood" Thomas - who was also a rapper - helped manage her career. "Me and my mom had this good-cop, bad-cop thing going on," she told The Cut of how they would handle industry meetings. "So she...

Although Meghan Markle is moving ahead in the next chapter of her life, she's reflecting on the hurdles it took to get there.   In a rare interview with The Cut published Aug. 29, the Duchess of Sussex opened up about her life in California with husband Prince Harry and their two kids Archie, 3, and 14-month-old Lilibet, more than two years after they made their much-talked-about move from across the pond. Meghan also reflected on her relationship with social media, the couple's life-changing decision to take a step back from royal duties and their current projects in development under their company and non-profit organization, Archewell.   But before it all,...

The Duchess of Sussex has recalled being “scared to go out” during the 2019 London premiere of The Lion King.

Meghan has spoken before about the alleged racism she experienced while pregnant with her and the Duke of Sussex’s son, Archie.

In a 2021 interview with Oprah, she explained that a big part of their decision to leave the UK was the tabloid racism that created a “toxic environment” of “control and fear”.

Now, in a new interview with The Cut, Meghan described the period of time just after giving birth.

“I just had Archie. It was such a cruel chapter. I was scared to go out,” she said.

Megan described a moment at the premiere when a South African cast member pulled her aside.

“He looked at me, and he’s just like light. He said, ‘I just need you to know: When you married into this family, we rejoiced...

Meghan Markle might be ready to let bygones be bygones. The Duchess of Sussex, 41, shared that she is "still healing" from everything she and husband, Prince Harry, went through with the royal family, however, she hopes that they can one day move on. "I think forgiveness is really important," she said in an interview with The Cut published Aug. 29. "It takes a lot more energy to not forgive. But it takes a lot of effort to forgive. I've really made an active effort, especially knowing that I can say anything."  Meghan added, "I have a lot to say until I don't. Do you like that? Sometimes, as they say, the silent part is still part of the song." E!...

Megan Thee Stallion has revealed her dream acting role.

The Texas rapper made her acting debut earlier this year in the Starz drama P-Valley, a series about the women who dance at a Mississippi strip club.

In a new interview, Megan said that her dream role would be Isis, the head-cheerleader from the cult hit Bring It On.

In that 2000 film, Isis, played by Gabrielle Union, is the gutsy leader of a Black cheerleading squad that doesn’t back down from a rivalry with another local squad, led by Kirsten Dunst.

“I always have wanted to be Isis. I would be perfect for that. If they were ever to make a new Bring It On, I should be that character,” Megan told The Cut.

The 27-year-old also said she admires the careers of Queen Latifah and Ice Cube, both rappers who also found success in Hollywood.

“When I look at them,...

Gabriella Meyer was sent home for her underwhelming “Winter Wear” in episode three of “Making the Cut,” leaving seven designers fighting to be the next great global brand: Curtis Cassell, Rafael Chaouiche, Georgia Hardinge, Sienna Li, Jeanette Limas, Markantoine Lynch-Boisvert, and Yannik Zamboni. But how well could they work together? We found out — for better and worse — in “One Day, One Team.”

Assignment

For the first time on “Making the Cut” the designers had to display teamwork by all working on one team. Together they would create an accessible, cohesive collection where every designer was responsible for one look. Oh, and the timeline for finishing their assignments was shorter than ever. Instead of two weeks, or two days, or one day, they would have a mere seven hours and no help from seamstresses. What could possibly go wrong?

See‘Making the Cut’: Winner of ‘Activewear Champions’ assignment on capturing...

Carmen Electra smiles close up. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/StarMaxWorldwide

Carmen Electra is making sure her popularity stays on the up as she gets busy on TikTok.

The model and actress is already a hit on both Instagram and Twitter, and her fanbase over on rival platform TikTok is building up.

Sharing a video this week, the 50-year-old sizzled as she told fans that it “cost a billion to look this good.”

Showing off from a bed with white linens, Carmen filmed herself at various angles, wearing a white unbuttoned Oxford shirt and revealing a nude-colored bra beneath.

Carmen, born Tara Leigh Patrick, also toyed with her tousled blonde hair as she smiled and rocked a glossy lip. She went from standing to lying down on her side while driving fans wild.

The blonde used Beyonce music to accompany her post, also shouting out the Renaissance singer in hashtags. Carmen boasts over 12,000 TikTok followers,...

Warner Bros. Television has optioned Coco Mellors’ debut novel “Cleopatra and Frankenstein” to develop as a series, Variety has learned exclusively from sources.

Mellors is onboard to adapt her book for the screen with Maggie Kiley attached to direct and executive produce via her overall deal with Wbtv.

Wbtv declined to comment.

In the book, twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank’s life is full of all the excesses Cleo’s lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a green card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could’ve predicted.

“Those two assignments were very important,” remembers fashion designer Rafael Chaouiche, who won the “Activewear Champions” assignment on the competition series “Making the Cut.” But he was one of the top designers in the “Evening Wear” challenge as well, so he got off to quite the start. Winning the activewear assignment gave him the opportunity to design a capsule collection in collaboration with Champion to be sold online. Watch our exclusive video interview with Chaouiche above.

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For the first “Evening Wear” looks, which included a bold, pink butterfly coat over sequins, “I could show my DNA and the DNA from my country, brilliant and colorful,” Chaouiche explains. “And for the second assignment I can show my skills on activewear,” which was especially important because that wasn’t his area of expertise, but “I think I made very good work,...

Winning the season three “Evening Wear” assignment on “Making the Cut” was a “big surprise” to designer Sienna Li. The 10 competitors were surprised two weeks before the show was set to film with the news that the competition was starting early. They had to spend those two weeks working on two evening wear designs — a high-fashion runway look and an accessible look that the winner would sell in Amazon’s online “Making the Cut” store. Watch our exclusive video interview with Li above.

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Evening wear is Li’s specialty, but “it was really hard to think of” design ideas, especially since she had “done so many evening dresses in the past. I was so stressed to think about how can I find inspiration out of nowhere. And then right in front of me,...

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Kelly Ripa is stunning in skimpy bikini bottoms as she announces big news and hints that she’s ready to conquer her fears.

The talk show host, 51, updated her Instagram Stories today with footage showing her in figure-flaunting swimwear – posting jointly with husband Mark Consuelos, the bubbly blonde updated fans on her book tour, one that’s set to take her to the Midwest.

Posting for her three million+ followers, Kelly appeared lounging around an oversized outdoor couch amid greenery and chatting to her Riverdale star husband.

“Guess what,” she told Mark while showing off her figure in a cropped black tee and tiny orange bikini bottoms.

“I can’t believe I’m about to say this,” she continued, adding that she was “extending” her book tour. Mark didn’t seem too keen at first, although he did then say it was “great.

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A line about cleavage in The New York Times review of A24’s new horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies is the source of social media’s latest dust-up, this one involving Amandla Stenberg.

The actress, who stars in the Halina Reijn-directed film opposite Pete Davidson, Lee Pace, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders and Myha’la Herrold, took to Instagram Stories on Thursday to clarify why she sent a pointed Dm to Nyt’s Lena Wilson after the critic posted their back-and-forth on Twitter late last night. It has as since inspired hundreds of comments about everything from homophobia to how critics write about actresses and their bodies, particularly Black women.

“Ur review was great, maybe if you had gotten your eyes off my tits you could’ve watched the movie,” Stenberg wrote to Wilson on Aug. 8. The Dm was in direct...

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Amandla Stenberg is reflecting on her experiences with “cancel culture” after being canceled “so many times” by people across the political spectrum.

The Bodies Bodies Bodies star spoke with Euphoria actress and friend Hunter Schafer for The Cut’s August cover story and got frank about how she’s navigated people’s criticisms of her career choices.

“Do I care that I have been canceled?” Stenberg asks after Schafer draws a connection between supposed cancel culture and the tone of the new A24 film. (Euphoria‘s Schafer notes at one point in the chat that Bodies Bodies Bodies features characters “just trying to cancel each other in the same space.”)

“I consider myself one of the lucky ones because now I don’t have to live with some perverse, distorted Catholic guilt,” Stenberg responds. She later adds, “This guilt that seems to derive...

"Not Okay," the new film by writer/director Quinn Shephard starring Zoey Deutch, is a satire of influencers and the terminally online. So it makes sense that they got one of the internet's most controversial influencers to make a cameo in the movie: Caroline Calloway. How did the duo make the shocking appearance happen?

"I think I DMed her and asked her," Shephard tells Popsugar. "I think we also sent a script through her agent, and then we drank a lot of rosé together. I found out that she was down to do it through an Instagram story that she posted."

"Zoey and I were going through a number of attempted recruitments of different cameos for that scene," she explains, but Calloway was "down to make fun of herself." "It was a challenge to find people, [who] not only were down to make fun of themselves, but also their entire team...

The Gotham Film & Media Institute on Monday has selected the films and series for its Project Market, a slate which IndieWire can exclusively reveal. Taking place during September’s Gotham Week at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the annual sales and development forum connects creators to distributors, financiers, and other industry decision-makers. It offers a look ahead at what could become the next buzzy films; “Moonlight” and “American Factory” are recent Oscar winners that were launched at past Project Market events.

This year’s lineup includes 65 fiction features and series, 60 nonfiction features and series, and 17 audio projects in various stages of development or production, including new projects from the producers of “Dopesick,” “Pose,” and “Sorry to Bother You.” For the first time since the pandemic, the annual event will include both in-person and virtual participation. In-person meetings run September 17-23, while virtual meetings will be held September 22-23.

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Teen Wolf alum Arden Cho has confirmed that she passed on joining Paramount+’s revival movie after learning that she was offered far less money than her white and/or male co-stars.

In a recent interview with The Cut, Cho, the only actress of color among the four female series regular cast members who played the group of teen friends at the center of the TV show, was asked about Deadline’s report that she was offered half the per-episode salary proposed to her three counterparts for Teen Wolf The Movie. Cho confirmed that was in fact the case, saying “I think I was actually offered even less.” She insisted that whoever leaked the story was not in her camp, but added, “I probably would’ve never shared it.”

Cho, who is Korean-American, acknowledged that being paid less than her white and/or male co-stars is not a situation that is unique to her.

Arden Cho has confirmed a report that she chose not to return for Teen Wolf: The Movie after learning that she was being offered considerably less money than her white co-stars.

During a recent interview with The Cut, the Korean American actress was asked about Deadline’s report that she was offered “half the per-episode salary proposed to her three counterparts,” to which she replied, “I think I was actually offered even less.”

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In September, as news of an upcoming "Teen Wolf" movie broke, fans of the six-season MTV series were eager to find out which members of Beacon Hills' wolf pack would be headed to Paramount+ for a feature-length sequel. When the cast list came out, a couple key names were absent, including actress Arden Cho.

While rumors about Cho's reasons for declining to participate in the film have been circulating for months, the actress finally confirmed them in an interview with The Cut this week. When interviewers asked Cho about a Deadline story claiming the actor...

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“Teen Wolf” actress Arden Cho has opened up about the Aapi pay disparity she experienced on the project.

Cho, who played supernatural teen Kira Yukimura in the original series, said she was offered far less than her counterparts’ salary to return for the upcoming Paramount+ revival film.

A new interview in The Cut brought up a Deadline report from February 2022 alleging that Cho turned down the film after being “offered half the per-episode salary proposed to her three counterparts.”

“I think I was actually offered even less,” Cho clarified of the staggering wage gap between co-stars that led her to turn down the film version of the MTV series. She added that whoever leaked the pay disparity wasn’t in her camp. “I probably would’ve never shared it,” she said.

“Sometimes you don’t have a choice to say ‘no.’ Sometimes you just need it. You’ve got bills to pay.