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The “Fast and Furious” actress and star of upcoming fantasy action heist film “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” detailed her workout routine to prepare for the role. “[It was] lots of working out, lots of protein shakes, lots of gas,” Rodriguez told the San Diego Comic-Con crowd (via Insider). “Lots of push-ups, lots of sit ups. There’s lots of lifting weights. During COVID, you could get lots of frustration so I kind of got [producer] Jeremy [Latcham] to hook me up with a punching bag by my trailer....

Though the partnership between Gadsby and Netflix previously produced acclaimed work — namely the 2018 standup special “Nanette” and its 2020 follow-up “Douglas” — Gadsby has been increasingly critical of the company’s business relationship with Dave Chappelle and his slew of recent streaming specials that many deemed transphobic. In late 2021, Gadsby called out the company’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos in an Instagram post that seemed to call their working relationship with Netflix into question....

Both movies focus on an isolated 911 police dispatcher on the phone with a possible kidnapping victim whose children are left home alone. We see the dispatcher but only hear the people he’s talking to as he gets more and more stressed about what’s happening beyond his control, miles away. Gyllenhaal happened to be prepping a Broadway monologue at the time he first saw the original — he went on to earn his first Tony acting nomination for “Sea Wall/A Life” — and was excited by the opportunity to exercise his theater chops in a performance piece....

It’s jarring when a big-name talent arrives for an interview on their own — either in-person or via the telephone or Zoom — because it almost never happens. Not without the buffer of publicists, assistants, handlers, and other assorted hangers-on. Reinhart calls me, right on time. No one patches her through. No one else is on the line. That’s a surprising move, particularly for the “Riverdale” and “Hustlers” star who has earned a reputation for being outspoken when left to her own devices (often literally)....

So learned Lily James when prepping to play Pamela Anderson in Hulu’s highly anticipated series, “Pam & Tommy,” premiering February 2. “I really wanted to pull out of this a week before,” James explained to Variety, recalling a sinking feeling of “I can’t do it. I can’t do it,” before production. “It just felt too frightening,” James added. “But I think that’s a good place to work from because it keeps you growing and getting better, I hope....

Lucy DeVito (daughter of Danny) voices Chrissy, the eponymous spawn of a wine-carrying, cardigan-wearing Satan, played by Danny DeVito (father of Lucy) — only Chrissy doesn’t know her father is a fallen angel; she thinks he’s been absent from her life for a very good reason: He’s dead. That’s what her mother told her anyway. For the last 13 years, Laura (Aubrey Plaza, no relation to the DeVito family) has kept Chrissy (birth name: Christina) hidden, moving from small town to small town in the hopes of staying off the Devil’s radar....

“Marvel’s 616” is a docuseries aimed at lifting the veil on the Marvel universe to showcase the real people at its center. Each of the three women directors who participated on the series felt they were picked because of a connection to the material. “My way into the series was very specific to [my] episode,” Alison Brie told IndieWire. Her episode focuses on a high school theater program that performs Marvel-based plays....