Hannah Waddingham is a staunch LGBTQ+ ally. The star has garnered a strong queer following, thanks to her performances in West End favourites and on-screen with Willow, as well as her 2022 judging panel appearance on RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
As with previous years, our figures show that the winning film isn't always the most read about. Whereas the Academy chooses their winners based on artistic merit, on the other hand promotional campaigns, big name actors, and controversies can affect which movies capture public attention.
What Maggie O'Farrell so brilliantly did, not just with Agnes and Shakespeare's wife, but also with Hamnet, their son, was to bring these people ... and give them status beside this great man. ... [And] give the full landscape of what it is to be a woman.
Each series explores technology that feels just one step ahead of reality. In the era of AI, it feels more and more timely. Ben does a lot of research and we have advisers who inform us about the latest developments. Not just from the Met and counter-terror but military consultants as well. They're banks of information and a lot more open than you'd expect because it's all off the record.
The original version followed childhood best friends in New York who get engaged at the same time and accidentally schedule their weddings on the same date and at the same location. The new version is keeping the name but not anything else, really. The series will be set in North Carolina and follow a wedding planner who moves to a new town and sparks a feud with the town's currently reigning wedding planner.
So why did people flock to the Pinter to catch it before we all vanished? A clue might be that many of the reviews were written by men who really didn't understand what it is to be a working mother or a child-free actress. She said one male critic had described a female character's lament about her vagina as unrealistic. We need women to write that, she said.
Among the bold choices in Luca Guadagnino's feverish film of William S Burroughs' novel are the late 20th-century pop and alternative soundtrack (Nirvana, Prince, New Order) for a 1950s story, and the casting of an unrecognisable, orc-like Manville in a trumped-up cameo as the shaman Dr Cotter, who was male in the original book.
The best actress I've ever worked with is Judi Dench, who's such a mischief maker. She's so delightful. She's so, so good. If you ever just want to just hear something short, listen to Judi Dench read a Shakespeare sonnet, just find one on YouTube, and it will move you to tears - you'll just think that is how English should be spoken.
She continued: "I share this with my daughter, who has been with me since she was six weeks old on the road with this. "It's the best role of my life being your mum and I promise to continue to be disobedient so you can belong to a world in all your complete wildness as a young woman. I am very grateful for this."
Taking a helicopter to Royal Ascot. That is one of the poshest things I have done. I became aware of how posh it was when I started calming down and realised I wasn't going to fall out of it. There's a scene in which you spit an hors d'oeuvre squarely at Katherine Waterston. How many takes did you need to get it right? Thirty-three. But that's because I asked for 20 more just because I was enjoying it.
"I've become a mom and I'm in a wow moment of my life that I never expected, and it's such an honour to come home and share this with you," she said. Buckley gave a nod to her co-star Paul Mescal in her speech. "I know everyone is sick of me talking about how much I love him, but I love him, and to Kerry for reminding me of my own wildness," she said.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Rose Byrne, fresh off her Golden Globe Award win and Oscar nomination for the leading role in "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," was named as the 2026 Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Wednesday. Byrne, who also has starred in "Bridesmaids," "Neighbors," "Insidious," and "Damages," will be honored Feb. 13 with a parade through the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Killarney woman Buckley has proved unbeatable through the awards season so far for her performance as Shakespeare's wife Agnes Hathaway - historically known as Anne - in the big-screen adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel about the family life of William Shakespeare and the death of their young son. The Irish actress has also been nominated for an Oscar and secured a string of trophies including the Golden Globe and Critics' Choice awards.