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“He called me on the phone. At first I hadn’t read the script yet, and he proposed this idea and said he was doing this sort of weird tone poem about Diana, and asked whether or not I would be interested in tackling the subject at all, before he sent the script,” she said. “Kind of without thinking, very irresponsibly, I said ‘Yes, absolutely.’” Stewart said normally when she takes on a role she comes from a place of “trust me, I can do this,” but when she said yes to Larraín she “did not have that....

A New York commercial photographer and graphic designer, Castro joined the Academy Museum in July 2019, after seven years as a designer and production manager at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. The Academy Museum spokesperson declined to state whether Castro is still working for the museum at this time. The Museum has confronted a lengthy series of setbacks, from design changes — two theaters instead of three — and the restoration and adaptation of the May Company landmark building at Wilshire and Fairfax, as well as complications in erecting architect Renzo Piano’s glass sphere....

Poitras said the company terminated her contract in November after she criticized the company’s publication, The Intercept, for its handling of whistleblower Reality Winner in a story published in 2018. Winner is an NSA specialist who shared classified documents about U.S. cybersecurity efforts to meddle in Russian elections. She was arrested by federal investigators before the story was published and is currently serving a five-year prison sentence, which Poitras attributed to The Intercept’s inability to protect its source....

The brainchild of “Spontaneous” filmmaker Brian Duffield (who shares a script credit with Matthew Robinson), “Love and Monsters” was clearly written by people who’ve seen too many post-apocalyptic movies, for people who’ve seen too many post-apocalyptic movies. The lighthearted “this is how the world ended” voiceover that kicks things off is so lackadaisical and matter-of-fact that it feels like Duffield and Robinson were aiming it at an audience that’s been living in a post-apocalyptic movie since March....

These two stories collide in a way that becomes terrifying, heartbreaking, and beautiful. It also sets the bar high for any of Chung’s future projects. “I’m scared that I won’t ever get a role like this again,” she told IndieWire. “It’s pretty rare that these types of characters come across an actor’s path.” Chung, who has been acting in film and television for nearly 15 years, says not only was playing Ji-Ah different from previous roles she’d done, it also casts an eye on the history of representation for Asian-Americans....

“As we’re doing the scene, Bill starts to sort of hurl insults, and I won’t get into the specifics, but it kept going on and on,” Liu said. “I was, like, ‘Wow, he seems like he’s looking straight at me.’ I couldn’t believe that [the comments] could be towards me, because what do I have to do with anything majorly important at that time?“ Liu continued, “I literally do the look around my shoulder thing, like, who is he talking to behind me?...

The Grammy winner is set to direct her own life story for the big screen, from a script co-written with Erin Cressida Wilson. The project was first announced in 2020 with Diablo Cody as co-screenwriter; the “Juno” writer later exited. Amy Pascal is currently on board to produce. Now, they just need to find their Madonna among today’s A-listers. Casting director Carmen Cuba reportedly has selected five actresses to undergo a Madonna boot camp of sorts, per The Hollywood Reporter....