Oscar winner Lawrence revealed during The Hollywood Reporter’s roundtable panel alongside Michelle Williams, Michelle Yeoh, Danielle Deadwyler, Emma Corrin, and Claire Foy that working with director Singer was a more clichéd “emotional” experience on set compared to female directors. “It did always just make us laugh about how we ended up with, ‘Women shouldn’t be in roles like this because we’re so emotional,’” Lawrence said. “I mean, I’ve worked with Bryan Singer....

As Entertainment Weekly reports: “Henwick had her own leap of faith to take…she was up for a role in Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ at the same time she was up for the role of Bugs. Both Disney and Warner Bros. knew about the other offer and gave her an ultimatum: She could audition for their movie only if she forfeited the competing project. Neither role was guaranteed....

Per Apple, the multiple season, one-hour, single-issue series will explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation and Stewart’s advocacy work. Each season of the series will be further explored in a companion podcast to continue the discussion. Stewart will host the still-untitled series, which does not yet have a release date. Stewart will executive produce the series through his Busboy Productions company. Stewart will be joined by James Dixon, his longtime manager, and former HBO chief Richard Plepler, who inked a five-year deal with Apple in early 2020....

Though “The Queen’s Gambit” was the closest thing to an opening weekend slam dunk at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Winslet outpaced frontrunner Anya Taylor-Joy. And, as IndieWire TV Critic Ben Travers put in his predictions earlier this week, this was a category filled entirely with worthy winners. Michaela Coel does TV storytelling like few others, and “I May Destroy You” was proof of that, whether she was in front of the camera or behind it....

One person who disagrees with that assessment? Longtime cast member Kenan Thompson. Appearing on “Hell of a Week with Charlemagne Tha God’ on Comedy Central, Thompson was asked about a rumor that the series could end after its 50th season, which would wrap up in 2025. He responded with a joke, saying “OK, well I need to start planning.” But the conversation quickly turned serious, as the comedian acknowledged that “there could be a lot of validity to that rumor because 50 is a good number to stop at....

The original screenplay is written by Robert Lynn and is currently shooting in Mexico City. “Silent Night” also stars Harold Torres and Catalina Sandino Moreno. Additional casting is underway. Mescudi recently appeared in Adam McKay’s Oscar-nominated “Don’t Look Up” plus Ti West’s ’70s slasher “X.” Mescudi also starred in “Bill & Ted Face the Music” and Season 3 of “Westworld,” and had a starring role in Luca Guadagnino’s HBO limited series “We Are Who We Are....

“I definitely don’t align myself with Louis Farrakhan, I don’t stand by him,” he said. “Any kind of hate speech, I vehemently reject. That’s not up for debate, hate is not up for debate.” Comments made by participants in the Clubhouse room (titled “Someone Ended the Room About Farrakhan,” spawned from another room that was shut down) included praise of Hitler, conspiracy theories about Jewish people running the slave trade, and comparisons of Jewish people to termites....