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Rihanna Is Pregnant

-There is no other news today that matters more than Rihanna‘s pregnancy. I adore the way she announced it too, with a DIY snow-themed photoshoot. Though I’m a little surprised she didn’t release the images on her own social media, or do a mag exclusive with proceeds going to charity. Instead, she used a paparazzo and the pics are on a photo agency’s site for $1,500 a pop.

–Nick Cannon sparked rumors that he is expecting his eighth child after he hosted pregnant Bre Tiesi’s baby shower.

-Is Cara Delevingne now dating Sienna Miller? Colour me intrigued.

–Andrew Garfield and Rachel Zegler are today’s Actors on Actors pairing, and she couldn’t handle his gushing about her performance in West Side Story: “I cannot even believe those words just came out of your face towards my face.”

-Party Down’s revival added some new cast members: Jennifer Garner, ZoĂ« Chao, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and James Marsden. I assumed they’d all be playing versions of themselves who hire the catering crew for their parties, but Garner is playing Adam Scott’s love interest! She’s no Lizzy Caplan but I’ll take it.

-Aw man, I knew the purity of Wordle couldn’t last. The NYT just bought it for seven figures. (I do love that the guy who invented it is getting paid so much, and that part of his agreement to sell was that they must keep it free.)

–Eric Dane sat down with THR to discuss “the absolute dumpster fire of a meltdown that is Cal Jacobs” in Euphoria season two. Despite episodes three and four giving viewers more insight into who Cal Jacobs is, Dane insists it doesn’t justify who he is — or the things he’s done. “You’re not going to walk away from this thinking, ‘Oh, Cal, what a great guy.”

-Netflix’s latest South Korean zombie drama All Of Us Are Dead has dethroned Euphoria from the top spot in this week’s Twitter TV buzz rankings.

-Hollywood’s obsession with making movies about toys has gone overboard.

-Vulture did a hilarious deep-dive into what Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers may have “agreed to disagree” on. “It’s my belief that the men who punched Miles Teller in the face while on vacation with Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers were sent back in time from the future, Ă  la 12 Monkeys, to save the world.”

–Tessa Thompson says the new Thor movie will include a romance for her character. “It’s totally exciting. We talk so much about representation and obviously, in terms of the LGBTQIA community, there’s still so much work to be done. But if you look at the comics in the canon, there are so many queer characters! It’s hard because Taika [Waititi] and I would’ve even liked to go further, but in the context of the movies, there’s only so much we can do.”

-Spotify said that it will add content advisories before podcasts discussing the pandemic (which doesn’t solve the problem at all). Meanwhile, Joe Rogan defended himself on IG, and promised to “try harder to get people with differing opinions on” and “do my best to make sure I’ve researched these topics.” Yes, because the “doing my own research” thing seems to be panning out so well for everybody who says it…

-Meanwhile, I wonder if Brené Brown removing her podcasts from the platform will hurt Spotify even more than the musician exodus?

–Drake asking his son a simple question about how big he’ll grow up to be, and his son getting all existential about how his dad is going to die and his body will wither back into the universe is quality content.

-This is interesting: new viewer data suggests that Netflix shows often start strong but fizzle out super quickly.

-Poor Zac Efron sounded like he had a crappy time on the set of 17 again.

–Quentin Tarantino is not only selling Pulp Fiction NFTs, he’s been accused of using stolen artwork to do so.

-Leatherface returns in the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer.

–Jim Sturgess plays a man with an eye condition who suddenly starts seeing the true motives of those around him in The Other Me trailer.

Emma Roberts Comes Into Her Own

Emma Roberts on the cover of Tatler

–Emma Roberts opened up about finding herself amid news of her split from Garrett Hedlund in her Tatler cover story. While she declined to comment on the specifics of their relationship, she said, “I’m at a place where I can say, ‘I may not have got everything right but I like who I am more than I ever have.’ My life has changed more in the past two years than it did in the 28 years beforehand and I love where I’m standing now at the age of 30.” She also talked about the paparazzi harassing her. “The way I was followed and treated when I was pregnant was disgusting. I’d be driving to a doctor’s appointment and they’d be following me so closely. At one point, I remember saying to them, ‘Please don’t do that, I’m eight months pregnant.’ But they don’t care.”

–Sean Penn recently told a newspaper: “I am in the club that believes that men in American culture have become wildly feminised. I don’t think being a brute or having insensitivity or disrespect for women is anything to do with masculinity, or ever did. I don’t think that [in order] to be fair to women, we should become them.” When asked to clarify his remarks by a different newspaper, he doubled down: “I think that men have, in my view, become quite feminised. I have these very strong women in my life who do not take masculinity as a sign of oppression toward them. There are a lot of, I think, cowardly genes that lead to people surrendering their jeans and putting on a skirt.” If it were anybody else I’d be surprised by such a blatant display of toxic masculinity. But him? Sounds about right.

-On the opposite end of the spectrum, Jamie Dornan was on Ellen and talked about having three daughters. He cheerfully said, “I’ve gone from my sisters dressing me up in like wigs and lipstick and stuff to my kids doing the same thing. I’ve basically been in a perpetual state of drag for 39 years.”

–This clip of Lady Gaga talking about all the acting courses/methods she follows and Salma Hayek quietly dying inside is hilarious.

-Meanwhile, here’s  a round-up of the most chaotic spectacles of Lady Gaga’s press tour. Everyone’s making fun of her but I love how extra she is. You do you, lady.

-Today’s Actors on Actors is Benedict Cumberbatch and Penelope Cruz.

-The Fleishman Is In Trouble continues to pick up great cast members. Adam Brody just joined the show.

–Ezra Miller posted a video to social media in which the actor appears to threaten members of a Ku Klux Klan chapter in North Carolina.

–Brad Pitt and Lykke Li recently had fans convinced they were more than just friends — but multiple sources say they’re strictly platonic.

-And Just Like That star Cynthia Nixon is sticking up for Miranda’s treatment of Steve.

-To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Lana Condor is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, actor and musician Anthony De La Torre. I love that her ring is from a Canadian jeweler.

-This is an interesting look at how the explosion of international members in the Academy has made the Oscars harder to predict — but also non-English-language films are more viable than ever before.

–Jason Momoa has joined the Fast and the Furious franchise. He’ll be in F10.

–Adele’s worst selling-album is still the year’s biggest record.

–Olivia Munn and Henry Golding had a playdate with their kids. (And yes, John Mulaney was in the picture.)

–Tom Holland does the video game adaptation thing in the final trailer for Uncharted.

–Joesph Gordon-Levitt stars as Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Uma Thurman plays Arianna Huffington in the first trailer for the Showtime limited series Super Pumped.

Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman Reunite

-Today’s Variety Actors on Actors is Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman. Stewart talked about being a child actor and working with Kidman on Panic Room before she dropped out of the film due to an injury (“We spent a couple weeks rehearsing…The way you treat kids is so telling. I just felt like I was buds with you. You were so nice to me…You gave me walkie-talkies for Christmas!”), while Kidman gushed about her costars in Being the Ricardos. (I also love how both Stewart’s dog and cat were making tons of noise during the interview.)

-Ruh roh. Marvel/Lost actress Evangeline Lilly attended the D.C. anti-vax protest last weekend, saying she’s for “bodily sovereignty.”

–Mike Schur (whose creation of the philosophical sitcom The Good Place led him to write a new book about moral philosophy called How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question) says anti-maskers aren’t headed for The Good Place.

–Olivia Munn and John Mulaney‘s PR teams are working overtime these days.

-Is Adele’s Vegas residency actually going to happen? It sounds like the stage sets have already been pulled down.

–Guillermo del Toro‘s Nightmare Alley is getting a second shot at movie theaters — this time in black and white.

-With Bradley Cooper and Benedict Cumberbatch dropping trou in their Oscar bait movies, Hollywood’s male stars aren’t scared of full-frontal nudity anymore.

-Ohhh, Deuxmoi’s new podcast was going well but now that they’ve gone after Meghan Markle, I wonder if the tide will turn.

-This entire Nicolas Cage quote is perfection: “[My pet crow] has taken to calling me names…it’s comical, at least, it is to me. When I leave the room, he’ll say, ‘Bye,’ and then go, ‘Ass.’ Crows are very intelligent. And I like their appearance, the Edgar Allan Poe aspect. I like the goth element. I am a goth.”

-The NFT craze has now claimed Gwyneth Paltrow, which is frankly not surprising. The woman loves a good grift.

–Keanu Reeves‘ involvement in a Tibet independence concert is sparking a boycott in China of The Matrix Resurrections. China is also making headline for dramatically editing Fight Club to change its ending.

-Streaming television is going to make less money — probably a lot less money — for entertainment companies than cable did. This thread explains it well.

-I stopped watching Legends of Tomorrow a while back, but I’m glad to see that it continues to be an amazing show for representation, with a regular character coming out as ace this week.

-This is the first positive piece of criticism I’ve seen yet for the Sex and the City revival.

– Josephine Decker’s Apple TV+ film The Sky Is Everywhere follows a 17-year-old girl mourning the loss of her older sister. It’s an adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s 2010 YA novel.