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    George Clooney Confesses to Showing Up Drunk to 'One Fine Day' Set

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    While chatting to Michelle Pfeiffer for a Variety Studio: Actors on Actors segment, the Oscar winner recalls upsetting makeup crew for breaking eye socket during a lunchtime basketball game.

    Jan 23, 2021
    AceShowbiz – George Clooney had to film a scene with Michelle Pfeiffer while he was still drunk after a heavy night out with pal and business partner Rande Gerber.
    The movie star admits he was far from professional when he showed up on the set of 1996 film “One Fine Day” still hammered.
    The Oscar winner made the confession while chatting to Pfeiffer for a Variety Studio: Actors on Actors segment, revealing he didn’t think he had work the next day when he agreed to a night out with his friend.
    “I woke up… and I was like, ‘I feel OK!’ ” George recalled, “and I looked in the mirror and I was like, ‘Ah, I’m still drunk.’ And I got to the set and walked into the trailer and you (Pfeiffer) looked at me and you go, ‘What?’ and I was like, ‘I didn’t know we were going to work today,’ and you go, ‘You’re still drunk!’ ”

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    “I kept trying to spray whatever mouth spray I could because I smelled like a distillery.”

    Clooney also upset the film’s makeup crew by taking an elbow to the face during a lunchtime basketball game.
    “I broke my eye socket,” he chuckled. “It kept swelling and I was like, ‘I can still shoot.’ Remember, we actually shot scenes where we blocked half of my face with a kid?”
    A concerned Pfeiffer asked her former co-star whether the injury healed completely, “because you shattered your eye socket.” He said, “Pretty much. Yeah,” before jesting, “It works fine now. Only when I sneeze.”

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    Denzel Washington Spills How Making 'The Little Things' With Rami Malek and Jared Leto Affected Him

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    Portraying Joe ‘Deke’ Deacon in the psychological crime thriller, the Academy Award winner also claims to be tempted in passing action stunt to one of his younger co-stars.

    Jan 23, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Denzel Washington was “energised” making “The Little Things” alongside Rami Malek and Jared Leto.
    The actor portrays Joe ‘Deke’ Deacon in the psychological crime thriller and he admitted working with the two younger fellow Oscar winners made him up his game on set.
    “It absolutely energised me, having those two on the film,” he told the Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, “I’m like, ‘Uh-oh. I’d better read the script’. Obviously joking!”
    One scene in the movie sees Denzel’s character – who he described as having “a lot of haunting darkness that follows him like a cloud” – have to climb up a drainpipe and run across a rooftop and he admitted he wanted to pass that on to one of his younger co-stars.
    “There comes a time in one’s life where you’re just not the guy running across the rooftop,” he laughed. “I said to Rami, ‘You go run across the rooftop!'”

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    However, Denzel eventually decided to do the scene.
    The “Fences” actor also added he thinks it’s hilarious he’s regarded as a sex symbol.
    “I’ve finally made it as an over-the-hill fat guy…and they still love me! Either that, or they just feel sorry for me,” he grinned.
    Meanwhile, Denzel also praised his late “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” co-star Chadwick Boseman, who died following a secret battle with cancer last August (20).
    He said: “(He was a) brave man. He kept it to himself, and didn’t complain. (Even though) he knew he wasn’t going to make it.”

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    Bryan Cranston Credits 'Malcolm in the Middle' Cancellation for 'Breaking Bad' Role

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    The actor famous for his portrayal of Walter White spills the story behind him joining the cult TV drama series during an appearance on Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes’ podcast.

    Jan 23, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Bryan Cranston credits a little luck for his career-defining role on “Breaking Bad” as he would have had to turn the job down if his TV comedy “Malcolm in the Middle” was picked up for an eighth season.
    The actor became an international star thanks to his role as teacher-turned-drug kingpin Walter White on the cult TV drama, but admits the part almost went to someone else, because he was almost tied to playing TV dad Hal.
    Appearing on Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes’ “Smartless” podcast, Cranston revealed he would have had to pass on the “Breaking Bad” pilot if an eighth season of “Malcolm in the Middle” was picked up in 2006.
    “Fox said, ‘Keep the sets up. We might do an eighth season of Malcolm in the Middle’, and everyone was like, ‘Yeah, that’d be great.’ ”

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    “In late April and early May, they called…, and they said, ‘Nope, we had a very good pilot season. Thank you guys, you did well. You’re on your own.’ So we thought, ‘Ahh, that’s too bad.’ ”

    “Later that month, I get the call to go see a guy called Vince Gilligan… ‘He wants to see you about a new project called Breaking Bad’. I read it and I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is amazing.’ I met with him. He said, ‘I want to turn Mr. Chips into Scarface and I think you’re the guy to do it.’ We shot the pilot in February and March of 2007.”
    “So had we got that eighth season of ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, I would not have been available to shoot that pilot and someone else would be talking to you. It is absolutely my belief, I dogmatically believe this, that a career in our business cannot be fully realised without a healthy dose of luck sprinkled throughout.”

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    Salt-N-Pepa's Former DJ Spinderella Slams Biopic for 'Wrongfully' Excluding Her

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    Spinderella, who first joined the group in 1987 when she was just 15, speaks against the biopic as she is ‘excluded me from every aspect of development and production.’

    Jan 23, 2021
    AceShowbiz – DJ Spinderella has broken her silence regarding Lifetime’s Salt-N-Pepa biopic titled “Salt-N-Pepa”. Taking to her social media accounts on Friday, January 22, the 50-year-old DJ expressed her disappointment for being snubbed from the project, which is executive produced by her former hip-hop group members, Cheryl James a.k.a. Salt and Sandra Denton a.k.a. Pepa.
    “Sorry but I gotta speak on this Lifetime special. Too often, Black women who have made meaningful contributions in their industry are left out of historical narratives,” she explained on Twitter. “Back when Salt n’ Pepa was building our legacy, which is rooted in empowering women, I could not have dreamed that this same group would one day disempower me.”
    “Words cannot fully express my disappointment when I learned a decision was made to move forward with a Lifetime biopic that wrongfully excluded me from every aspect of development and production all the while using my image throughout, given that I played an integral role in the group’s story and success,” she went on adding. “There’s nothing more unacceptable than a woman being silenced by another woman. It is for this reason, I will not be supporting it.”

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    Spinderella continued, “I do, however, want to offer a huge congratulations to the talented actresses that represented us, including Monique Paul, who I wish would’ve been given an opportunity to share my true perspective with. In reflection, I’m grateful I’ve managed to uphold a 30-year career of truly empowering women with my gift, against all odds. This will continue in my work and in my service.” She also shared that she’s “in the final stages of writing my memoir, a personal journey navigating through life, relationships, and the industry that raised me.”

    Spinderella first joined the group in 1987 when she was just 15, replacing original DJ Latoya Hanson. Later in May 2019, she announced on Instagram that she received a “termination email.”
    “It was my expectation, after making that decision, that they would also take responsibility for sharing the news with the public and other affected parties,” Spinderella wrote on Instagram at the time. “It has been months now with no mention. Out of love for my fans and a commitment to upholding a standard of professionalism, I’ve taken it upon myself to let everyone know.”

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    Lesley Manville to Solve 'Magpie Murders' in New Series

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    The actress, who will play Princess Margaret in the upcoming two seasons of ‘The Crown’, will channel her inner detective to solve a mysterious death in a new television series.

    Jan 23, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Actress Lesley Manville has signed on to help solve the slaying of a mystery writer in the TV adaptation of bestselling book the “Magpie Murders”.
    The “Phantom Thread” star will portray literary editor Susan Ryeland, who stumbles upon the body of famed author Alan Conway after attempting to retrieve the final chapters for an unfinished manuscript of his latest work.
    The six-part series is based on Anthony Horowitz’s hit 2016 novel, and will be directed by “The Full Monty” filmmaker Peter Cattaneo from a script adapted by Horowitz himself.
    “I could not be happier to be playing Susan Ryeland – what a fabulous character for me to grapple with,” Manville shared in a statement.

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    Cattaneo added, “Anthony has adapted his novel into wonderfully witty and richly layered scripts. Two cleverly intertwined stories and a host of fascinating characters led by Lesley Manville make this an irresistible opportunity for a director.”
    “Magpie Murders” was the first in the author’s Susan Ryeland mystery series. A sequel, the “Moonflower Murders”, was released last year (20).
    Lesley Manville was last seen on the big screen last year in movies “Misbehaviour” with Keira Knightley and “Let Him Go” with Kevin Costner. On TV, she is tapped to play Princess Margaret in the fifth and sixth seasons of Netflix’s royal drama series “The Crown”.
    The 64-year-old actress is additionally attacked to play the lead role in an upcoming drama called “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”. She is joined by the likes of Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, and Lucas Bravo.

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    Hugh Grant In Talks for Guy Ritchie's New Spy Movie

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    The ‘Undoing’ actor is reportedly in negotiations to reunite with the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ director in an upcoming feature film which will be fronted by Jason Statham.

    Jan 23, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Hugh Grant is in talks to star in Guy Ritchie’s new spy thriller – his second movie with the British director.
    Deadline report the 60-year-old is set to join Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, and Bugzy Malone in the movie which was formerly titled “Five Eyes” although a deal has not been closed yet.
    Hugh has previously collaborated with Richie when he played the role of Fletcher in the 2019 film “The Gentlemen”.
    The new movie follows MI6 agent Orson Fortune (Statham) who is recruited by a global intelligence agency to track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
    Reluctantly paired up with CIA tech expert Sarah Fidel, Fortune sets off on a globetrotting mission where he will have to use his charm, ingenuity and stealth to infiltrate billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds.

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    Guy is directing and producing from a script written by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Bill Block is producing for Miramax, who are fully financing the project – which is being filmed in Qatar and Turkey.
    Hugh Grant only had one TV project last year amid the pandemic, sharing screen with Nicole Kidman” in “The Undoing”.
    He was also quite idle partly because he was taken down by Covid-19 along with wife Anna Eberstein. “I had it, my wife and I had it way back in the winter,” he told Stephen Colbert in November. “I’ve had an antibody test only a month ago.”
    When he was ill, he felt his eyeballs were “about three sizes too big” and he felt as though “some enormous man was sitting on my chest, Harvey Weinstein or someone.”
    “You start to panic because by then people were just starting to talk about this as a symptom,” he shared. “And I started sniffing flowers, nothing, and you get more and more desperate. I started sniffing in garbage cans and you want to sniff strangers’ armpits because you just can’t smell anything. I eventually went home and sprayed my wife’s Chanel No. 5 directly into my face, couldn’t smell a thing. I did go blind.”

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    Sigourney Weaver Explains Why She Agreed to Join Netflix Comedy Without Reading the Script

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    The ‘Ghostbusters’ actress says she jumped at the chance to play a fictionalized version of herself in the Netflix comedy series because she enjoys poking fun at herself.

    Jan 23, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Sigourney Weaver accepted a role in French comedy series “Call My Agent!” before reading the script.
    The actress admits she doesn’t like to agree to projects until she has seen a script, but she made an exception after becoming a fan of the Netflix hit.
    “I’ll probably never ever do that again in my career,” she told the BBC, “but I knew whatever it was, I could make it work. I just wanted to say yes in case they changed their mind.”
    In the episode of the new season, which was filmed in Paris shortly before the coronavirus lockdown, Sigourney speaks fluent French, and she admits she relished the challenge of showing off her language skills.

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    “It was such a delightful experience,” she adds. “I love France and I also love performing in a comedy. I’m not asked to do it enough and yet it’s so much fun. By the end, I was even improvising in French with the cast and I can’t tell you how much it meant to me. The actors have such a sharp sense of comic timing.”
    “Call My Agent!” has featured a host of big-name stars over the years, including Monica Bellucci, Isabelle Huppert, and Juliette Binoche, and Sigourney loves the idea of well-known people playing fictionalised versions of themselves in the show.
    “I guess it’s such a good joke of finding out the reality behind the glamorous image of the actor,” she smiles. “Isabelle Huppert doesn’t take herself seriously and so sends up her real seriousness about her work. There’s just about enough truth in it to make it resonate in a real way. It’s great fun to make fun of yourself and make fun of your business.”
    The new season of “Call My Agent!” is now available on Netflix.

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    Neil Patrick Harris: There's Something Sexy About Straight Actor Playing Gay Role

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    The former ‘How I Met Your Mother’ actor weighs in on whether straights actors should play gay roles, insisting that he would ‘definitely’ hire the best actors regardless of their sexualities.

    Jan 23, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Neil Patrick Harris has weighed in on the debate about whether straight actors should be cast in gay roles, insisting that if they’re the “best actor” for the gig, then it shouldn’t matter about their sexuality.
    The actor, who is openly gay in real life, famously played straight character Barney on “How I Met Your Mother”, and has no issue starring as gay or straight on screen,
    “I think there’s something sexy about casting a straight actor to play a gay role – if they’re willing to invest a lot into it,” he told The Times newspaper. “I played a character for nine years who was nothing like me. I would definitely want to hire the best actor.”

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    “In our world that we live in you can’t really as a director demand that (an actor be gay or straight). Who’s to determine how gay someone is?”
    Neil’s remarks come after Kristen Stewart, who is also openly gay, spoke about her thoughts on the debate while promoting her lesbian romcom “Happiest Season” last year.
    Asked if only gay actors should star in gay roles, Kristen replied, “I think it’s such a grey area. There are ways for men to tell women’s stories, or ways for women to tell men’s stories.”
    “But we need to have our finger on the pulse and actually have to care. You kind of know where you’re allowed. I don’t have a sure-shot answer for that.”

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