Well, this is going to be sort of interesting. Over the weekend, Colin Farrell confirmed his casting in Season 2 of True Detective. His casting had been long-rumored and there weren’t strong feelings for or against him, you know? Some people were happy, some people were like “Meh.” What’s weird is that the most bizarre name thrown into the “casting rumor” jungle has come to fruition though: Vince Vaughn is going to have a major role in Season 2.
It’s finally official: Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will star in True Detective season two. HBO made the announcement today, Sept. 23.
Justin Lin, who recently helmed the Scorpion pilot, will direct the first two episodes of the eight-episode second season. Production will begin later this fall in California. The official logline from HBO: “Three police officers and a career criminal must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder.”
Creator Nic Pizzolatto is once again penning the HBO series.
Farrell will play Ray Velcoro, a “compromised detective” who is torn between a corrupt police department and the mobster who “owns him.” Vaughn will take on the role of Frank Semyon, described as a career criminal who may lose his empire after his attempts to move into legitimate business are upset by the murder of a business partner.
Still missing? Two other police officers, including a female lead. Mad Men Star Elisabeth Moss is said to be in the running. Other news outlets have named Jessica Biel and Rachel McAdams as potential stars as well. The Killing’s Michelle Forbes may be involved as well. And then there’s Taylor Kitsch, who was reportedly up for a role at the same time Farrell’s name first surfaced. HBO said more casting will be announced as its confirmed, so don’t consider the Friday Night Lights veteran out of the running just yet.
So, Vince Vaughn is playing the “career criminal,” at least that’s what it seems like. We still have to find out the male actor and female actor playing the other two cops. I have to admit… I probably would have bought Vince as a down-on-his-luck dirty cop type, but I actually think he’ll be better as a career criminal-type. What always bugged me about Vince Vaughn’s career is that he managed to convince people that he was a leading man. He’s not really. He’s a character actor and he should have been doing more character-driven ensembles this whole time.
Oh, and now that Vince has been confirmed, I’m really, really hoping that Elisabeth Moss is coming on board. Moss just signed on to that “Rather-gate” movie starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford though. Huh. Well, if it’s not Moss… just anyone but Jessica Biel. Please.
Amy Poehler’s memoir-esque book Yes, Please will be released Oct. 28, 2014.
–Amy Poehler is releasing a book in October called Yes, Please (also known as “what I’m getting every single person I know for Christmas.” You’re welcome.).
-Sadness: Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell have split after nearly two years of marriage. I like them both and wish them well!
-A new video clip shows One Direction’s squeaky clean Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik smoking pot on their way to a concert. And so it begins…
–Hayden Panettiere is reportedly expecting her first child with fiance Wladimir Klitschko. She’s actually the best thing about Nashville (which pains me to say when Tami Taylor is also on that show, but it’s true.)
-Instagram took down a photo of a sweatshirt Scout Willis designed that features naked women, so she protested the social network site by walking around New York topless.
-The Hollywood Reporter asked Robert Pattinson if he still talks to Kristen Stewart. “Oh, yeah,” he said blithely.
–Tom Cruise’s new Edge of Tomorrow movie is tracking soft in the US. Should Johnny Depp start making space for him in Hollywood jail?
-Not tracking soft is Angelina Jolie‘s Maleficent, which I’m seeing tonight. Something tells me I’m going to walk out of that thing with a cheekbone complex.
–Gwyneth Paltrow says that being a celebrity who faces online criticism is like being in a war. Oh god. She just makes it so easy, doesn’t she?
–Katy Perry has scored Cosmopolitan’s first-ever global cover, which means she’ll be gracing the July cover of all 62 editions.
-I really like this article about how Seth Rogen proved Washington Post writer Ann Hornaday’s point about Elliot Rodger. Yes, Hornaday could have chosen a better example of misogynist pop culture than Neighbors (how about Mixology, which I stopped watching after one episode when it became clear the main character’s catchphrase would be “I’m going to smash her out!”), but Rogen’s knee-jerk reaction on Twitter was bad form. Also, as a Washington Post editor tweeted today, “Dear celebrities criticizing WaPo: Your objections would seem more sincere if you accepted our offer to respond in more than 140 characters.”
–Levar Burton has started a Kickstarter to bring back Reading Rainbow. Get on that, parent types.
–Monica Lewinsky‘s full essay in Vanity Fair is now online, if you were too cheap to buy the print issue.
-An Australian newspaper offered a ridiculous justification for publishing Kate Middleton‘s butt photos. As Jezebel states, “At parts, it reads like Ayn Rand does upskirt photography.”
-Here’s a good article examining the fascinating racial component of Louie. I was both confused and impressed by last episode’s flashback, in which his wife was white.
–George RR Martin‘s tweet about Kimye’s wedding made me laugh out loud.
-This Ant Man news just keeps getting worse. More details about Edgar Wright’s exit suggest “Ant-Man’s tone might have been too quirky for the Marvel universe.” Um, have they not seen the Guardians of the Galaxy trailers?!
–Benji Madden is reportedly madly in love with Cameron Diaz. I’m sorry, but I just can’t take anything about a guy called Benji seriously.
–Rick Ross got a new face tattoo on his chin that says “Rich Forever.” It’s about as attractive as you’d expect.
–Taylor Kitsch seems to be the only person alive who is sad that a John Carter sequel will never happen.
–Jonah Hill told a hilarious story about shooting a film with Morgan Freeman, who didn’t talk to him at all between takes — unless it was to banana song his name.
–Tom Ford thinks Rihanna‘s Instagram account wields more power than any fashion magazine. Guess who’s about to be flooded with (even more) free stuff?
–Amy Schumer‘s skit on a bachelorette disaster is beyond priceless.
-Finally, here’s our first glimpse of footage from FX’s The Strain. I’m already terrified.
–Tina Fey and Jason Bateman figure prominently in the first trailer for This is Where I Leave You (though it also stars every other actor you love).
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Yesterday morning, I scanned through these photos of the AFI Fest premiere of Lone Survivor and I decided not to cover them because there was no Eric Bana at the premiere. But here we are! Mark Wahlberg was at the premiere (he’s the star) with his wife Rhea, who looks really different, right? Is it just a haircut or has she messed with her face? Hm.
Anyway, you know Mark is king of the sh-t talking badasses, right? Memorably, he once told Men’s Journal that if he had been on one of the hijacked planes on 9/11, he would have punched all the terrorists until they were all dead, and then there wouldn’t have been a 9/11 I guess. After Mark received an assload of criticism for those comments, I guess he’s trying to overcorrect now. In Lone Survivor, he’s playing a Navy SEAL, but please don’t ask him to compare himself to the real SEALs.
…At the premiere of Lone Survivor at the AFI Fest Tuesday night in Los Angeles, Mark Wahlberg shocked the audience with his candor about his role in Lone Survivor, an adaptation of Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell’s account of his Navy SEALS mission in Afghanistan in July of 2005, which director Peter Berg recreates with harrowing, explicit, and relentless precision.
When Wahlberg took the stage with Berg and Petty Officer Luttrell after the credits rolled for a brief Q&A, he looked distraught and distracted. After Luttrell explained how he and Berg teamed up for the film, the moderator, Festival Director Jacqueline Lyanga, turned to Wahlberg to ask about his rigorous training and the rough shoot. Wahlberg looked visibly pained by the question and started on what would become an almost five-minute monologue.
“For actors to sit there and talk about ‘oh I went to SEAL training’? I don’t give a f-ck what you did. You don’t do what these guys did. For somebody to sit there and say my job was as difficult as being in the military? How f-cking dare you, while you sit in a makeup chair for two hours,” Wahlberg said.
He continued: “I don’t give a sh-t if you get your ass busted. You get to go home at the end of the day. You get to go to your hotel room. You get to order your f-cking chicken. Whatever the f-ck it is. People talk about what do we do to bond the way that those guys bonded. We just knew what they did. It didn’t matter. I didn’t have to say a word to Emile [Hirsch] or a word to Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster…who’s my brother even though he’s the kind of actor who wants to continuously debate the debate and everything else…and I love him for it. I gave him half my salary…whatever I gave him…to do it because I knew how great he was and for us to be on that mountain together and in the end I could just look at him and it would break my heart knowing that that’s my brother and I may never see him again. But it just seems like so much more than that.”
“I’ve done the movies where I talk about God. I trained for four and a half years and I was ‘The Fighter’ and f-ck all that. It really means nothing. I love Marcus [Luttrell] for what he’s done and I’m a very lucky guy to do what I do and I’m proud to have been part of it, but it’s just so much bigger than what I do. I love Pete [Berg] for what he did and how committed he was,” he said.
“He would never let any one of us forget about what was important in the course of making the movie and whether it was Marcus or the other SEAL guys, if they saw something that didn’t ring true, I don’t care if it was going to be the biggest stunt sequence in the movie, they would cut, call bullsh-t, and grab all of us by the f-cking neck and say ‘no do it this way, and do it right and make it real’ and if you don’t it’s a problem. I was really proud to be a part of that.”
Wahlberg finished by saying, simply: “I’m sorry for losing my sh-t. Don’t ask any more questions tonight.”
Berg attempted to lighten the mood by grabbing Wahlberg’s arm and reassuring the audience that it had been a long night, to which Wahlberg replied “no, it’s just getting f-cking started. I’m going to find my f-cking second wind and we’re going to celebrate this f-cking movie. But don’t ask me any more questions.”
[From Entertainment Weekly]
Many people think Mark was perhaps taking direct aim at Tom Cruise for maybe/not really equating film work with being a soldier overseas. I don’t think Cruise actually said that, and I kind of doubt Mark Wahlberg was trying to take direct aim at Tom. Mark said as much to TMZ too – that he wasn’t aware of the “comparison” that Tom Cruise made (except he really didn’t). Besides, it’s not like we couldn’t find a dozen actors who bitch and complain about how tough their lives are – I think Mark is speaking to that. And why not? F—king whiners.
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