Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Fiery Hot Ones Appearance

–Julia Louis-Dreyfus was on Hot Ones, and she wasn’t happy about it. Her best bon mots include: “I don’t know why anyone would subject themselves to this show,” “This is awful. What’s the point? Do you not want to eat food anymore?”, “That one I know is going to be a motherfucker; I can tell by looking at it,” and “I’m firing my publicist. I also want my lawyer. Now.”

–Taika Waititi is on the cover of THR, and people are weirdly taking issue with this quote: “I’m 47. My God, take the pressure off. People are so obsessed with likes or leaving behind a legacy, being remembered. Here’s the thing: No one’s going to remember us. What’s the name of the director of Casablanca? Arguably one of the greatest films of all time. No one knows his name. How the fuck do I expect to be remembered? So who cares? Let’s just live, make some movies. They’ll be obsolete and irrelevant in 15 or 20 years. And so will I, and then I’ll die and someone else can do it. This whole idea of chasing, chasing, chasing this life. It’s like, do we have to actually work this hard? Maybe not.”

–Leonardo DiCaprio and his mom where spotted at dinner with model Neelam Gill. How warped is it that I thought “oh, that’s not too bad” when I found out she’s 28?

-A pap is suing Kanye West for assault, battery and negligence because he grabbed her phone and threw it into the street.

–James Van Der Beek‘s silly rant about Joe Biden was pretty mild, but it’s having the unintended consequence of lots of people discovering his wife is an anti-vaxxer.

-These incredibly blurry photos are supposed to be Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet? OK.

–Melissa McCarthy told a really sweet story about how Halle Baily was constantly humming on set.

-It’s a big week for stars going back to franchises they promised they’d never do again because someone shook the money tree. Following Kim Cattrall‘s return to the SATC universe, Dwayne Johnson is coming back for another Fast and Furious movie. Not surprisingly, Vin Diesel is not expected to costar.

-DeuxMoi is claiming that Chris Evans and Alba Baptista are engaged and getting married in Boston.

–Ronald Gladden from Jury Duty remains the best.

-Past Lives opens in limited release this weekend. It might be the best-reviewed movie of the year so far. Everything I’ve read about it since Sundance is gushing.

-THR’s comedy actors roundtable features Jason Segel (Shrinking), Steven Yeun (Beef), Mo Amer (Mo), John Mulaney (Baby J) and Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary). Segel talked about struggling to feel satisfied despite career peaks (“There was a period in my life and career around like the last couple years of HIMYM where things were firing on both movies and TV and everyone was telling me how well it was going, and I was really unhappy. And so then I had to grapple with like, “Why? What’s off about this equation? Because I should be feeling like ‘I did it!'”), while Williams recalled taking costar Janelle James shopping for a BMW (“No b-tch, you cannot pull up to season two in a Mazda!”).

-Huh. A bunch of people think the montage near the end of the Ted Lasso finale was a dream? I didn’t get that, though that one scene was shot/looked really, really odd.

–Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have finally settled on a house–and it only cost them $60M cash.

-Yay! HBO has renewed Somebody Somewhere for a third season.

–John Cena and Jackie Chan team up to kick some ass in the Hidden Strike trailer.

 

Ryan Gosling Goes Deep on Ken

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-The Barbie press tour continues to be a delight. Ryan Gosling is up to bat with his new GQ cover story, in which he laughs off those who think he’s too old to play Ken (“Suddenly, it’s like, ‘No, we’ve cared about Ken this whole time.’ No, you didn’t. You never did. You never cared. Barbie never fucked with Ken. That’s the point. If you ever really cared about Ken, you would know that nobody cared about Ken. So your hypocrisy is exposed”), why he took a break from acting when he and Eva Mendes had their second child (“I wanted to spend as much time as I could with them”), how he relates to Ken (“There’s something about this Ken that really, I think, relates to that version of myself. Just, like, the guy that was putting on Hammer pants and dancing at the mall and smelling like Drakkar Noir and Aqua Net-ing bangs. I owe that kid a lot. I feel like I was very quick to distance myself from him when I started making more serious films. But the reality is that, like, he’s the reason I have everything I have”).

-That 70s Show star Danny Masterson has just been found guilty in his rape trial. Of the three counts of rape he was charged with, jurors found him guilty on two counts but were “hopelessly deadlocked” on the third.  He could face up to 30 years in prison.

-The LA District Attorney’s office issued a statement saying it will not pursue charges against Armie Hammer.

–Kim Cattrall will reprise her iconic role as Samantha Jones in the Season 2 finale of And Just Like That, but don’t expect a cuddly reunion. Reports Variety: “According to sources, Cattrall shot her dialogue on March 22 in New York City, without seeing or speaking with the stars of the series.”

–Sydney Sweeney is promoting her critically acclaimed turn in Reality, and talked about how being an actor is different than it was 20 years ago: “I don’t know if that construct of a movie star is possible anymore. There used to be more mystery behind all of it. You have so much access to your favorite stars or celebrities, and the whole concept is different because of it. Hollywood’s different than what it used to be; I don’t think that has to be a good thing or a bad thing, it’s just that the world is changing.”

-When Robert De Niro welcomed a baby earlier this month, Al Pacino was like “hold my beer.” The 83-year-old actor is expecting a baby with his 29-year-old girlfriend, Noor Alfallah.

-The Jonas Brothers went on a Chicken Shop Date, with a (not too surprising) surprise celeb cameo at the end.

-This Is Us cast had a lot of reunions this week.

-When Damon Lindelof was promoting Mrs Davis (a show I’m loving), he talked a lot about how much he didn’t want to be a showrunner because of how badly he’d messed it up on Lost. “There was toxic, misogynistic, even racist language in those rooms because I allowed it to happen. What I said or didn’t say is not really important. That was the culture, and just because it was happening 20 years ago is no excuse.” Which sounded like an admirable thing to admit at the time, but now that the Lost chapter of Mo Ryan‘s book has been released, it feels more like he was trying to get ahead of what he knew was coming. (I will say that in that chapter, he seems to genuinely grapple with her questions — and she doesn’t let him off the hook when he tries to claim ignorance or ineptitude — while Carlton Cuse just gives boiler plate apologies and denials. Their reactions make a fascinating contrast.)

-Meanwhile, Ryan says there’s a chapter devoted to Sleepy Hollow and I can’t wait. (Preorder here.) Justice for Nicole Beharie!

-Here’s our first look at Brie Larson in the new Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry, which debuts this October. I adored this book about a female scientist in the 50s who becomes the unlikely star of a cooking show.

-The Other Two is doing such good work this season. They’ve even given Josh Segarra a big, emotional (and surprisingly insightful considering his character) scene.

-The second installment of the animated Miles Morales/Spidey saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is getting glowing reviews.

-Here’s the trailer for the final season of Jack Ryan.

-I haven’t caught up on this week’s Ted Lasso yet but critics are saying it felt like a series finale. And the cast sure are tweeting like it’s the end. So why is Apple remaining mum?

-Here’s the latest Black Mirror trailer.

Ali Wong Steers Clear of Beef

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–Ali Wong covers the new issue of Variety and demurs from talking about Beef costar David Choe (“We put out that statement and for now, I just feel like it’s time for me to listen and not rush to say anything more on the matter”), or boyfriend Bill Hader, but she does touch on her relationship status (“I’m not single now, but I was single for a long time after I got divorced. It was so compelling to talk about my life as a single woman. When practicing [standup], I was in the habit of talking as if I was still single. What’s strange is now [my romantic life] is public information.”).

–Azealia Banks is not a fan of Matty Healy. She posted a story calling him a “lame poser with a trash cliche band” and wrote “Taylor, this guy is gonna give you scabies” as well as an audio message saying “Bro, you need a banana bag, a liquid IV, you need a strong green salad. You need some water, you need to wash your dick…you’re sweaty and musty.”

-Vanity Fair published a chapter from Mo Ryan’s new book Burn It Down, which features a deep dive into what went wrong behind the scenes at Lost. It’s a tough read, depicting a set that seemed incredibly toxic, especially if you were a woman or POC. Harold Perrineau says as the first season progressed, the storylines shifted to focus on the white characters and in photoshoots, actors of color were often asked to stand in the back row or at the edges of the frame. Writer Monica Owusu-Breen added, “I can only describe it as hazing. It was very much middle school and relentlessly cruel. And I’ve never heard that much racist commentary in one room in my career.”

-Screenwriter Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who quit the show in season two, put out a statement saying “Though I did not witness every incident in Burn It Down, I can confirm that the behavior [Ryan] reports took place constantly during my tenure on the show.”

-The book will also feature horror stories from bts on SNL.

-As we brace for the Ted Lasso finale, here’s an article how the show completely failed Keeley this season.

-Meanwhile, tonight’s finale will be dropping on Apple three hours later than usual.

–Quentin Tarantino doesn’t want the lead of his next movie to be British. “The truth of the matter is, yes, obviously, a Brit could pull it off, but I don’t want to cast a Brit. Obviously, nothing against the Brits, but we’re living in a really weird time now…I think when people look back on this era of cinema, and it’s just all these British actors pretending to be Americans and all these Australian actors pretending to be Americans, it’s like phantoms. Nobody is acting in their own voice.” Sir, did you miss the part where you mentioned “acting”?

-Following the racist online vitriol about Halle Bailey playing The Little Mermaid, IMDb changed its ratings system when it noticed the film was getting hate-bombed.

–Kate Beckinsale recalled the time costars Keanu Reeves and Robert Sean Leonard covered for her wardrobe malfunction.

-It’s been a big week for Sarah Snook. Not only did Succession end, but she revealed she recently had a baby.

–Megan Thee Stallion appears to be dating soccer star Romelu Lukaku.

-If The Flash sequel happens, director Andy Muschietti doesn’t think Ezra Miller will be recast. “I don’t think there’s anyone who can play that character as well as they did.” Somewhere, Grant Gustin just died a little inside.

–Kaley Cuoco is true-crime obsessed pregnant woman who convinces her husband (Chris Messina) to hunt a serial killer in the trailer for Based on a True Story.