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Benedict Cumberbatch likes America: ‘You don’t have to stay in your lane over there’

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Here are some photos from this week’s New York premiere of The Roses, a remake (not really) of The War of the Roses, the 1989 film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. The two films are based on the same source material (a book by Warren Adler). This new film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as a British-transplant couple living in Malibu and having an extremely contentious divorce. Olivia and Bendy have been paired together for all of the film’s promotion, and they have an easy chemistry together – a chemistry of old friends, nothing more, really. I enjoyed this piece in the Guardian, where Olivia and Bendy talk about love, marriage and the difference between American humor and British humor. Some highlights:

Benedict is a bigger fan of America: “You don’t have to stay in your lane over there. You can keep evolving.” He talks about how “history speaks to a more nefarious version” of the idea that Britons are refined and Yanks brutes. He also questions the charge levelled by the film: that Americans don’t get irony. “It taps into that cliche: that Brits say to each other things that are really quite cruel, cold and barbed – and Americans just think it’s funny. But maybe that’s changed. Look at the roasting thing … Barbarically cruel. Not at all epigrammatic.”

Olivia on swearing: “Oh I go much worse [internationally]. My first time in America, my lovely team went: [nervous American accent] ‘Um, I know you like the c-word. We can’t do the c-word here.’ And then the LA Times asked me about David Tennant and I said: ‘Oh, total c–t!’ and you could see everyone’s colour just draining. It’s because I was told not to.”

Benedict on romanticizing love: “By its very nature, yes. And I think that’s fine. Classicism has given us this sort of romantic ideal of love, which is impossible to live up to. Those two things wrestle: it’s great to fall in love, but eventually one of you will be dog-tired and doing the bins….There has to be this cool thing beyond the idealism of vows.” He talks mistily about his wedding. “It’s such a powerful thing to express love and then have it reflected back with your friends and family. But to find something beyond that heightened moment, you have to think a bit more deeply than just the party of love.”

His character confesses to feeling “great waves of dizzying hatred” for his wife. Is that incompatible with love? Cumberbatch gulps. “God, this is like a Trojan horse to our [private] lives. When you’re living closely with someone, you go through all the extremes of life. That’s really what love is: getting through them.” A pause. “I’m not sure I’ve felt massive hatred,” says Colman. “I didn’t mean that,” he says, quickly. “But moments when you’re not massively in love.”

[From The Guardian]

For the record, I don’t think Benedict is confessing that there’s trouble in Hunterbatch paradise – whenever we see Sophie and Benedict out together, they seem happy enough, and she IS the mother of his three kids. I think he’s just being realistic, that you’re not achingly and romantically in love with your spouse 24-7. As for the differences between British humor and American humor…I think that, more than any other two nationalities, Americans and Brits understand each other and “get” each other’s humor. If that makes sense? I also think British humor relies too heavily on irony.

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Jack Lowden cast as Darcy in Netflix’s new Pride & Prejudice: thoughts??

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You know how Hollywood feels like every generation needs their Spider-Man? It feels like someone – who??? – has decided that every generation needs their own Mr. Darcy as well. If I’m being honest, I love both of the most well-known versions of Pride and Prejudice, the BBC miniseries starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, and the Joe Wright film starring Keira Knightly and Matthew Macfayden. Both are imperfect, but both are completely enjoyable and mostly faithful to Jane Austen’s most beloved novel. I always think that younger people should just watch the 2005 film if they want an easy-to-digest version, because Keira really does such an amazing job as Lizzie, and she had such chemistry with Macfayden’s Darcy. But still, they’re remaking it into a Netflix miniseries and the cast list so far sounds… eh, interesting??

Jane Austen’s timeless novel Pride and Prejudice has inspired many works of art since its release — and now it’s headed to Netflix!

On April 10, the streamer announced that best-selling author Dolly Alderton and director Euros Lyn were adapting Pride and Prejudice into a six-part series, starring Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden and Olivia Colman.

“Once in a generation, a group of people get to retell this wonderful story and I feel very lucky that I get to be a part of it,” Alderton told Tudum. “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is the blueprint for romantic comedy — it has been a joy to delve back into its pages to find both familiar and fresh ways of bringing this beloved book to life.”

The new series will join the lineup of dozens of other movies and series that have been adapted from Austen’s novel. While no release date has been announced yet, there are plenty of versions available to view throughout the wait.

The Pride and Prejudice series will be a period-faithful adaptation and closely follow the original text, per Tudum.

[From People]

I’m trying to balance my anger at the idea that every generation should “retell” this story versus my hope that the miniseries format will help with a faithful-to-the-text adaptation. Like, if we’re doing straight adaptations with all of Austen’s nuances, the miniseries format is the best way to go. And P&P hasn’t been a miniseries since 1995! THIRTY YEARS AGO!!

As for the cast so far… Olivia Colman was cast as Mrs. Bennett, not Lady Catherine de Bourgh, although Colman could totally play Lady Catherine!! But she’ll be a fantastic Mrs. Bennett, and I hope they don’t update the character to make her less pushy or gauche. Emma Corrin as Lizzie is honestly inspired casting – if you want to know if Emma can play period drama, check out Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Netflix, which is SUCH a good adaptation and Emma is fantastic in it. Jack Lowden is better known to me as Saoirse Ronan’s husband. He’s good looking, for sure. But can he brood in corners and stare longingly at Lizzie?? Also: who should they cast as Jane and Bingley? Charlotte? Wickham?

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Olivia Colman: If I was Oliver Colman I’d be earning a f-ck of a lot more

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Olivia Colman was a steadily working actress before her Oscar win for The Favourite, but man has she been making hay of that win in the years since! And the world is a better place for it! Since Olivia won Best Actress in 2019 she has turned in award winning and/or nominated performances in The Crown, The Father, The Lost Daughter, Landscapers, and Empire of Light, to name but a few. She’s also been producing with her husband, Ed Sinclair, and one of their coproductions comes out in limited release this week. To promote Wicked Little Letters, a quirky British comedy based on a true story, Olivia appeared on The Amanpour Hour where she did not mince words with host Christiane Amanpour on the pay disparity she experiences even as an Oscar winner. As Olivia put it: “If I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning a f— of a lot more than I am.” Preach, Oliver!

Olivia Colman is getting candid about the gender pay gap in Hollywood, which even an Oscar winner like her cannot avoid.

Ahead of her latest film, Wicked Little Letters, the actress and producer opened up about the wage disparity that persists throughout the industry during a recent appearance on CNN’s The Amanpour Hour.

“Don’t get me started on the pay disparity, but male actors get paid more because they used to say they drew in the audiences,” The Crown star said. “And actually, that hasn’t been true for decades, but they still like to use that as a reason to not pay women as much as their male counterparts.”

Host Christiane Amanpour then asked Colman if she has experienced pay disparity firsthand, given her status as an acclaimed actress with an Oscar, two Emmys, and four BAFTAs as well as high-profile projects like Wonka, The Favourite, Broadchurch, The Crown, Fleabag, and Heartstopper under her belt. She told Amanpour those accolades do not make her an exception.

“I’m very aware that if I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning a f— of a lot more than I am,” she replied. “I know of one pay disparity, which is a 12,000 percent difference. Do the maths, I know.”

Colman is the latest Hollywood star to call out gender inequality in wages. Other outspoken advocates include Debra Wilson, who left MADtv in 2003 after discovering a pay disparity between her and the show’s white male cast members, and Jennifer Lawrence who penned an essay on the subject in 2015. Back in 2018, Michelle Williams made headlines after revealing that her costar Mark Wahlberg earned $1.5 million for reshoots of All the Money in the World, while she received less than $1,000.

In December, while promoting The Color Purple, Taraji P. Henson opened up about racial pay disparities when she appeared on Gayle King’s Sirius XM radio show, expressing her frustration and admitting it had made her want to quit acting.

“I’m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do, getting paid a fraction of the cost,” Henson said. “I’m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over. You get tired. I hear people go, ‘You work a lot.’ I have to. The math ain’t mathing.”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

Darn right the math ain’t mathing! This makes me all the more pleased that Olivia was paid for her role in Barbie even though it got cut. Whether it was intentional or not, her comments are even more timely considering we recently passed Equal Pay Day on March 12 — the date women have to work to match what men earned in the year before. Sometimes it’s really hard to believe this is the 21st century. Like Olivia says, whatever old, tired “explanations” are trotted out, there is simply no excuse for gender pay gaps of any kind to still exist, let alone egregious ones. There are allies in the fight — like the late great Chadwick Boseman — but salary negotiations shouldn’t have to fall to costars. So until the gap is closed, I fully support Olivia conducting all business as Oliver Colman in order to bank the pay she deserves. Hey, if accountants can mix up a payment between Tom Holland and Tom Hollander, it’s worth a shot.

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Dakota Johnson in Gucci at ‘The Lost Daughter’ UK premiere: cute or meh?

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Last night was the BFI London Film Festival premiere of The Lost Daughter. TLD hasn’t been getting the kind of concerted awards-season hype as, say, Spencer of The Last Duel, but I’m very curious about the film and it’s been making its way through the late-summer and autumn film festival circuit too. Maggie Gyllenhaal adapted the screenplay from Elena Ferrante’s book of the same name, and this is Maggie’s feature-film directorial debut. I’m still waiting for the first trailer for this film! When is it going to come out?

Maggie cast her husband (Peter Sarsgaard), Dakota Johnson, Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley in key roles. Jessie has been a breakout actress in recent years, and I have to think that one of these days, she’s going to get that role which makes her a household name. In this film, she plays the younger version of Olivia Colman’s character. Dakota has a larger role and I think they’re mostly selling the film on Dakota’s name.

Dakota wore Gucci because she’s a Gucci girl and she gets paid to rep the label and wear Gucci as often as possible. I’ll say this – I think this is legitimately her style. Somewhat conservative, enjoying beiges and nude shades, some feathers, a strong shoulder. But all I can think about is how she could have worn something so much better than this. There were better Gucci looks too!

As for everyone else’s style… Maggie looks like Maggie, she always wears different versions of the same three outfits and it kind of works for her. Jessie’s styling is kind of so bad that it’s actually kind of cute and avant-garde. Like, the hair is tragic and her dress looks like a brothel lampshade, but she TRIED! Olivia kind of tried too, bless her heart. I actually like that material a lot, it would have made a cute blazer and pencil skirt.

PS… Enjoying the fact that Maggie was like “no blondes allowed.”

London Film Festival 2021 - The Lost Daugter UK Premiere Arrivals at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London

London Film Festival 2021 - The Lost Daugter UK Premiere Arrivals at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London

The BFI 65th London Film Festival UK Premiere of 'The Lost Daughter' held at the Royal Festival Hall

London Film Festival 2021 - The Lost Daugter UK Premiere Arrivals at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London

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Emma Corrin brought Crucible Realness to the Emmys: cute or funny?

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The Crown’s Season 4 won a bunch of Emmys, no surprise. The only surprise was that Emma Corrin didn’t win for their portrayal of Princess Diana, which was arguably the biggest performance of the season. The season would have faltered in a huge way if Emma didn’t get it right. So I was sad for Corrin that they lost. I enjoyed Emma’s Emmy look though: Crucible Realness, Goody Proctor Goes to the Emmys. Emma wore a custom Miu Miu. The gloves had the fingertips cut out, and Emma got a black manicure to give themselves a “claw” look. The little bonnet though… it’s more like Swim Cap Realness.

As it turned out, Emma was the only major cast member to miss out on winning an Emmy. Olivia Colman, Josh O’Connor, Tobias Menzies and Gillian Anderson all won Emmys for their performances as (respectively) QEII, Prince Charles, Prince Philip and Margaret Thatcher. The only other “loser” among the main cast was… Emerald Fennell, who played Camilla Parker-Bowles. So Camilla and Diana both lost. LOL.

Olivia wore this simple Roksanda sack dress. She broke down in tears when she won and spoke about how her father passed during the pandemic.

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Gillian Anderson in Chloe. It’s weird that so many women actually had better styling for the “stay at home” pandemic awards shows. Gillian’s style has been struggling!

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Emerald Fennell in Valentino. I kind of love this? It’s wacky and it suits her.

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Josh O’Connor in Loewe. I love him, he’s an absolute doll. He’s quite the dandy too, he loves clothes.

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