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The film 'The Drama' faces backlash for its sensitive plot involving a character's confession about planning a school shooting.
"The Comeback," which Kudrow created with Michael Patrick King, the "Sex and the City" impresario, premiered in 2005. The first season found Valerie attempting to revive her career in a lame new sitcom called "Room and Bored," while reality-TV cameras captured her every humiliation. What we see is the raw footage from Valerie's reality show. Kudrow's portrayal was unflinching, an early version of cringe comedy.
The space serves as a gathering spot and relaxation center for the busy entertainer, known to moviegoers as Auntie Suga from "Next Friday." TV fans have seen her in "Raising Whitley," a reality show about unexpectedly becoming a new mom through adoption, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and Amazon's "Forever," alongside "Saturday Night Live" alums Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen.
In 2022, Jennette McCurdy released her memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died, a brutally honest portrait of her life as a former child star, her battle with eating disorders, and, as the title would suggest, her rather complicated relationship with her mother.
Gray's Anatomy and Euphoria star Eric Dane passed away this week at the age of 53, and following his death it's been revealed that he was an interview subject for the Netflix series Famous Last Words, hosted by Brad Falchuk. Dane's interview was filmed in November 2025, and is streaming now.
He had already picked on me several times for laughing too loud, too readily (that wasn't even a joke, he chastised me at one point). I was trying hard to suppress my laughter to hold it in, to hold it back, to not fully express the joy I was feeling. I was being somewhat successful. And then I wasn't. Everyone in the audience was laughing but I was laughing too much.
What do you get when you cross an all-women dance troupe with a rebellion against Catholicism and erotic '90s thrillers? Something supremely queer, I hope. In the words of Ayo Edebri: I'm simply too seated. This is The Body, a new Netflix psychodrama from queer writer-director and Blame actress Quinn Shephard, starring none other than The Traitors ' sapphic supreme, Gabby Windey (plus a host of other very talented stars) Announced back in October, the eight-part show is set to further the fascination with "raunchy" coming-of-age, sports-ish series when it's released later this year, and with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge approach to religion, too.
[The scene is] a lot calmer in the movie than my audition was," she told the Los Angeles Times in November 2025. "But I was so happy that I got a self-tape versus an in-person thing. You can make it entirely your own - you can really make it look like how you feel like it would look. If you want somebody to pay attention to your tape, make sure that you stand out and take a risk.
Listen to the spectacular nonchalance with which she says, "Fine, I'll fuck you, but you have to bring someone who will open your ass for me." Or when she passes Elliot off to an out-of-town associate, with a "Screw her real good, but don't let her penetrate you, she's not that close a friend." Erika's a great, outsize character, and she's also an avatar for Araki's many gleeful provocations.
"Very, very early in my career, an actor I worked with, a male actor, gave me a book called Why French Women Don't Get Fat," she told Charli, referring to a 2006 food book by Mireille Guiliano. "And it was essentially a book telling you to eat less." Robbie recreated her shocked expression upon receiving the book for Charli. "'I was like, ' Oh. F*ck you, dude,'" she recalled. "He essentially gave me a book to let me know that I should lose weight."
As it goes, her eventual co-star Hugh Jackman saw Hudson performing and chatting on "CBS Sunday Morning" in 2024, where the actress and Oscar nominee was promoting her soon-to-be-released solo album, "Glorious." Jackman, who was already on board to star as Mike Sardina in Craig Brewer's fact-based film, was so taken by Hudson's energy (and singing!) that he immediately texted Brewer that he had found their Claire.
Tattooed on Asia Kate Dillon's neck is "einfühlung," the German word for empathy. Not only is it a pretty bad*ss tattoo, it's also a guiding principal for an actor who strives to be a conduit for empathy in all their work, whether they're playing an inmate on Orange Is The New Black, a high-powered enforcer in John Wick: Chapter 3, or a financial analyst in the Showtime drama Billions, where they made history as the first non-binary main character an a mainstream American TV show.
My parents were not a love match. My dad was at the very least not straight. They got married because they got pregnant, and it was like, my dad came from a Catholic family.
It wasn't about the person. It was about me. It was so scary. I didn't know then how to go, 'Hey, can I talk to you privately?' Now, I would want to believe that I could have taken this person aside," she argued. "A lot of people say that we've become too woke, but I think, no, it's great. The pendulum needs to swing to the other side so that we can find a balance in between.
The story kicks off in a diner when a man claiming to be from the future barges in with a detonator and a warning about an impending AI-fueled doom spiral - and from there, it only gets weirder. Richardson says she tore through the script in one sitting. "My agent said, 'Haley, there's a good script. We want you to do it,' which is rare," she explains. "And then I read it all in one sitting... which is also rare."