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The third season of Emily in Paris, the sartorial delight of a rom-com, says bonjour to Netflix audiences on December 21.
The previous season’s finale left Lily Collins’ eponymous type-A Chicago marketing exec with not one, but two, life-altering decisions: Should she get serious with British financier Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) or pine for French chef Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) now that he’s back with his ex, Camille (Camille Razat)? And should she stay under the tutelage of her mentor Madeline (Kate Walsh), who sent her to Paris, or join the sophisticated sometimes boss-enemy (bossemy?) Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu)?
Series creator Darren Star stressed that this season will help Emily find a work-life balance of sorts.
“Work is why Emily’s in Paris, and [we wanted to keep] the focus on that,” he told Rotten Tomatoes. He added that “work often gets in the way of her romantic relationships … I think the relationship aspect of her life comes as sort of always a bit of a surprise to her.”
She’ll also be out of the office and take in the sights. After all, what is a fun roommate like Ashley Park’s Mindy for if not for carnival bumper cars and pool parties?
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And she sings. Poorly. This is a choice since Collins can actually sing.
“What I loved about that scene is that, because she’s an incredible actress, it really allows her voice to be informed by what’s happening in the scene,” Park said and added that “you can feel what that character is feeling … she’s singing for a reason and with an intention and for somebody and that is the best kind of singer and artist.”
Emily and her friends and co-workers get up to much more this year in gay Paree. And, thanks to the help of costume designer Marylin Fitoussi and her team, they all do it while looking fabulous.
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While work is very much at the forefront of this story, Collins’ Emily and her friends do spend a good deal of time talking about dating and relationships — both Emily’s and theirs.
“Season 1, I was asked [if Emily were] more of a workaholic or romantic, and I feel like that question just so much defines what we’re used to in the romantic comedy world,” Collins said. “This show is so much about women in the workplace as much as it is about romance. And I think it’s really important to continue that storyline of feeling torn within your job and how much it means to you.”
But, with Laviscount’s Alfie and Bravo’s Gabriel still very much in the picture, this season allows for plenty of awkward exchanges and looks while also exploring backstories for both of these men — who, for the record, are just as devoted to their jobs as Emily is to hers.
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This year, Gabriel’s restaurant will flourish as he thinks about what kind of a future he wants while keeping a profession that has notoriously long (and late-night) hours that conflict with Camille’s job at an art gallery.
“With any character, you want to evolve and you want to see more and you want to be challenged as well,” Bravo said. “It wasn’t so much about his love life anymore. It was mostly about making strong choices and becoming the man he wants to be. Because, in the previous season, he didn’t really own up to a few choices he made or mistakes he made. It felt great to see him evolve.”
Meanwhile, long-distance relationships are rarely ideal and Alfie and Emily have to find a way to stay together while still staying employed.
“Season 3, for me, it delves into everyone’s who-they-are a little bit,” Laviscount said. “As much as it is Emily in Paris, it’s also these amazing characters that she’s found herself living this life with who have so many more things going on.”
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Much of the season deals with the fallout from the decision by Leroy-Beaulieu’s Sylvie to leave the marketing company she started and is now owned by Emily’s Chicago-based firm. There’s a spot for Emily, if she wants it, but that would mean she’d have to “break up” with her mentor, Walsh’s (very pregnant) Madeline.
“Emily wants to be there for both women,” Collins said. “It’s not that she wants one over the other; she really feels like she can give something of herself to both. The value she places in her work and her passion and her love for it is unapologetic.”
But while Emily is good at helping clients make decision, she’s not so good at making them herself.
“I think of Emily as a character that’s indecisive in all areas,” Walsh said. She added that, for her and Leroy-Beaulieu, “It’s just a really fun tug-of-war that we get to play and it was great. We both felt like the writers were having a great time writing this arc; this little piece of the show [that’s] between Madeline and Sylvie vying for Emily.”
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Sylvie has always played it cool with Emily (and most everyone else). But Leroy-Beaulieu said that it was fun to play a version of her that we haven’t seen.
“When she realizes she’s been two-timed by Emily it’s like, ‘You betrayed me,'” Leroy-Beaulieu explained. “I like the idea that both of them feel so betrayed.”
Not that Emily is always on Sylvie’s mind. She was never one to have a dull dating life and this season is no different.
“It gives us some kind of density to see that she goes toward [spoiler],” Leroy-Beaulieu teased. “She suddenly has somebody who really has some sort of — I don’t want to say ‘values’ in the boring sense, but in the nice sense. I love that, and I think she should stay with that person. But Darren doesn’t make it easy for us.”
Leroy-Beaulieu also got a chance to show off her dance moves when Sylvie dances a tango under the Parisian moonlight. She does this, of course, wearing Sylvie’s trademark pencil-thin heels.
“It was my last day of shooting too,” the actress said. “It was so nice to end on that scene because it’s Sylvie’s cliffhanger.”
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Emily’s work friends and off-hours friends also get more to do this season and don’t just operate in Emily’s orbit.
“What we were really excited about this season was, often female friendships get the stigma of if there’s any sort of ‘challenging each other,’ then that doesn’t come across as the most supportive,” Park said. “I think that what’s really interesting is, with all of these female friendships, you get to see all these different dimensions’ you get to see these nuances. And I think that was really unique to this season, especially for Mindy and Emily.”
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Park’s Mindy continues to try to make it on her own as a singer without relying on the financial support and connections of her wealthy parents, while Emily and Camille have to decide how their friendship will work now that she moved in with Gabriel (who happens to be Emily’s downstairs neighbor).
“I think Camille is getting even more complex,” Razat said. “In this season, we see more of her work side so we see her at the gallery; we see her picking an artist; we see her accomplish her goals, work-wise. So I think it’s very interesting. And in terms of love, it’s getting even more complicated.”
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This isn’t to say that everyone is in favor with Emily’s seemingly Don Draper–like ability to pitch and pivot to brilliant ideas on the spot.
“Emily means well, but she’s not really being a team player,” said Samuel Arnold, who plays Emily’s increasingly frustrated coworker Julien, a forward-thinker who does not enjoy being side-lined. “I feel like Julien just speaks up for himself. He’s trying to find his place in his own company where he was before she even got to Paris in the first place.”
This season also welcomed back playwright-actor Jeremy O. Harris as the aggressive and provocative fashion designer Grégory Elliot Duprée.
“He’s such a great character,” Star said. “I think we have so many wonderful characters that populate the show. I feel like any reason to bring Jeremy O. Harris back, we’re going to find it.”
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Fans of Emily in Paris who enjoy other stories of well-dressed Americans discovering other places might have also noticed that Bruno Gouery, who plays Emily’s quirky and curly-haired coworker Luc, was also in the second season of The White Lotus.
This interview took place before that show’s season finale, but Gouery said he got the part of the somewhat eccentric Didier — a friend of Tom Hollander’s slick heir Quentin — through an audition.
“I got the role, and after [creator] Mike White said to me, ‘Bruno, when I choose you, I thought I discovered an unknown [actor],'” Gouery laughed. “He said to the hair and makeup teams — all the staff — ‘Look at that guy I found,’ and everybody said, ‘Oh, it’s Luc, the guy from Emily in Paris.'”
67%
Emily in Paris: Season 3
(2022)
premieres on Wednesday, December 21 on Netflix.
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Bonjour, Paris!
The second season premiere of the Netflix rom-com Emily in Paris finds Lily Collins’ fabulously dressed titular American marketing executive still in the City of Lights — and still guilt-ridden about the events of last season that saw her committing the cardinal sin of sleeping with her friend’s ex right after she found out they’d broken up.
She’s also still working for the French marketing firm, Savoir, although she is making inroads in getting her co-workers to like her and attracting new clients with her brilliant social media-forward campaigns.
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Eventually everything collides and, like a cracked Ladurée macaroon, Emily must find out if her personal life and professional life are still salvageable.
To help us prepare for the new season, Collins, creator Darren Star and others from the cast offered Rotten Tomatoes a few bon mots.
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Last season put Emily in a messy love triangle when she learned the chef she’d been smooching (Lucas Bravo’s Gabriel) was also the boyfriend of her new friend Cami (Camille Razat). Emily and Gabriel rekindled their romance at the end of last season when she thought he was leaving town and that he and Cami had broken up. Turns out, he’s sticking around — making things pretty awkward for Emily.
Luckily, she’s got someone to help take her mind off things: Lucien Laviscount’s British banker, Alfie. Like Emily, he’s also in Paris on business and his trip also has an expiration date.
“Alfie provides a sense of escapism, and a welcome challenge to Emily at times,” Collins told Rotten Tomatoes. “If anything, since she moved to Paris, she’s trying new experiences and meeting new people. Alfie’s an interesting person for her to get to know and Lucien plays it so brilliantly. And he really provides a sense of sparring with Emily that I think she needs. He brings a spark to Emily at a time when she was becoming really conflicted.”
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This doesn’t mean that Emily doesn’t have residual guilt about Gabriel, especially since she’s considers Cami both a dear friend and a business associate. In fact, she’s still working on a marketing campaign for Cami’s family’s Champagne company and they go on a girls weekend to Saint-Tropez with Ashley Park’s Mindy.
“Emily, first and foremost, was Cami’s friend,” Star said. “She never intended to make the mistake she did at the end of Season One … I think that’s a mess that Emily has to deal with at the beginning of this season.”
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This season is also a chance for Park’s Mindy to experience self discovery. A heiress to a zipper manufacturing empire, Mindy is mostly a joke in her native Shanghai thanks to a disastrous turn on a singing competition series. Now, having dropped out of business school and been financially cut off by her father, she’s living with Emily and giving this music thing a go by working in drag club and as a street busker.
This means that Park, a Broadway veteran, gets plenty more to sing about this season. But she stressed that it was important to her, Star, and others that “if I’m singing on this show, I really need to propel the story forward.”
“The show’s 30 minutes [per episode] and there’s so many incredible, colorful characters, and storylines to follow that there needs to be a reason for the music,” she said. She even performs an original song written for the show by Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato collaborator Freddy Wexler.
However, Park said that this season also gives Mindy a chance to grow up. She added that, especially in the Saint-Tropez episode, “We see her starting to digest as an adult the consequences of the decisions that she had made. I do think she’d really been living day-to-day in Paris.”
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Last season saw Emily frequently frustrated by her tough, but determined, boss Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu). This season, the marketing execs may not be the best of friends but they have reached a simpatico relationship — even if the cigarette-loving, food-adverse boss still has plenty of secrets for Emily to discover.
“I always knew who Sylvie was, [but] you don’t want to give everything away at the beginning,” Star said. “I think the fun of her character in season 1 was that she was such an enigma. I think she’s a woman who’s never going to fully ever put all of her cards on the table … that’s antithetical to who she is and what she believes … but we definitely learn a lot more about her and we see some of her we get a glimpse into her vulnerability in Season Two.”
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Tony-nominated playwright — and Instagram celebrity — Jeremy O. Harris has already been on scripted TV this year, playing himself in an episode of HBO Max’s reboot of Gossip Girl. In this season of Emily in Paris, he plays a fictional character: Grégory Elliot Duprée, a larger-than-life fashion designer with an equally larger-than-life ego.
“One of the things that was very exciting for me was the opportunity to investigate different ways of writing or telling story,” Harris said of why he took on this role and the Gossip Girl cameo. What he likes about both projects, he said, is that “in order to make something tightly and neatly sweet is to be a great confection artist … As someone who is interested in knowing how to be a chef in all manners, I looking at this as a performer who gets to stretch his wings and stretch his muscles in a different direction. But also as an artist who is getting the chance to observe and learn from a master at work.”
Star said that Harris was the first person he thought of to play the part, stressing that the character isn’t based on anyone in particular; “just the fashionista personalities that we’ve all sort come to know and be fascinated by over the years.”
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And what would be the point of having a diva fashion designer as a character unless there was a brilliant fashion show at the end of the season? This one takes place in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles — home to an actual, also iconic, fashion event.
Star acknowledged the parallel, but said that “thematically, [the Emily in Paris fashion show] really ties into everything that happens in that episode.”
He said costume designers Patricia Field and Marylin Fitoussi and their team pulled out all the stops, including having him negotiate for a larger wardrobe budget to accommodate for intricately designed costume choices.
One example: Harris wears a neon pink Marie Antoinette–style corset.
“I think that there’s no question that the the Versailles outfit is phenomenal,” Harris said, adding that he also likes a costume he wears earlier in the episode when his character has a freak-out in a viral video.
“The costume designer were very, very, very excited by my ability to say yes, and the joy I take in clothes,” said the artist who is known for his vibrant fashion sense.
Fashion labels used this season on Collins, Harris, or others include Prada, Casablanca, Carolina Herrera, Mary Katrantzou, Vivienne Westwood, and Zara.
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Before he created Emily in Paris, Star was known for another show about a curly-haired young woman with great fashion sense: Sex and the City. While Michael Patrick King is the showrunner of that series’ recent HBO Max follow-up, And Just Like That…, it’s an interesting coincidence that both shows have storylines involving the exercise bike Peloton (well, Emily calls it “Pelotech” and the results aren’t as deadly, but …).
Star laughed about the coincidence and tows the party line from AJLT: “Peloton did not kill Mr. Big.”
He points out that, in this show, Sylvie is the one who gets interested in the bike. And she smokes and drinks and lives another day of her lavish Parisian lifestyle.
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The series was criticized last season for portraying a heightened, Americanized view of Paris and its culture. Razat told Rotten Tomatoes that “Emily in Paris is like Sex and the City for New York: It’s a heightened reality. It is a fantasy that we’re kind of selling.”
“We want people to want to come to Paris, so of course, we’re going to show them the best version of the city,” she said. “Yes, it’s not 100-percent realistic. But we need more to dream right now than to be realistic.”
Star said the show incorporates more French this season and that he aims to increase use of the language with each season.
“By season 5, the entire show might be in French if Emily’s that proficient,” he said. “But it really does take a long time to learn French. As someone who has studied it for many years, I don’t even think five seasons is going to get her there.”
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That brings up the question of how long this show can go on. Emily is only supposed to be at her Paris job for a year. And she’s now met a nice British man. Is she an Anglophile or a Francophile?
“I don’t even think it’s about her just staying,” Star said of the second season’s cliffhanger ending, in which Emily must make some major life decisions. “I think she’s faced with some very real choices at the end of the season. The question for season 3 is not just what door she’s going to pick, but how she’s going to maneuver through that door and not kill off certain relationships in her life.”
58%
Emily in Paris: Season 2
(2021)
season 2 premieres December 22 on Netflix.
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The winners of the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards will be announced on February 28, 2021, and the list of nominees is both history-making (three women up for Best Director!) and, in some cases, historically surprising (Music?!). Add to the mix the fact that this has been one of the strangest years in movie history, with studios holding back a number of their planned big “awards movies” for 2021 and streaming services like Netflix dominating in many of the film categories, and this is one of the toughest Golden Globes nights to predict in recent memory.
Tough – but not impossible. Which is why we asked you to fill out our digital Golden Globes ballot to let us know who you think will win on the big night, and while we can’t say for sure how accurate the RT community’s predictions will be, there weren’t too many surprises in the results of the poll.
Notably, Chloé Zhao and her #vanlife drama Nomadland both won for Best Director and Best Motion Picture – Drama, respectively, but the film’s star, Frances McDormand, fell in the Best Actress race to Promising Young Woman’s Carey Mulligan. Meanwhile, in TV, The Mandalorian edged out The Crown for Best TV Drama by only 17 votes, and RT users predict Schitt’s Creek will repeat its history-making feat at the Emmys by sweeping all five of the awards it’s nominated for, namely Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and acting awards for each of its four stars. See below for the full list of winners in our poll, and be sure to check back on Sunday, February 28 to see how on-the-money you were.
Best Motion Picture – Drama: Nomadland
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama: Carey Mulligan – Promising
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Hamilton
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Motion Picture – Animated: Soul
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language: Minari
Best Director: Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Original Score: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste – Soul
Best Original Song: “Speak Now” – One Night in Miami
Best Television Series – Drama: The Mandalorian
Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama: Olivia Colman – The Crown
Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama: Jason Bateman – Ozark
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy: Schitt’s Creek
Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy: Catherine O’Hara – Schitt’s Creek
Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy: Eugene Levy – Schitt’s Creek
Best Television Limited Series, Anthology, or Motion Picture Made for TV: The Queen’s Gambit
Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology, or Motion Picture Made for TV: Anya Taylor-Joy – The Queen’s Gambit
Best Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology, or Motion Picture Made for TV: Mark Ruffalo – I Know This Much Is True
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Annie Murphy – Schitt’s Creek
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Dan Levy – Schitt’s Creek
The winners of the 2021 Golden Globe Awards will be announced at the Golden Globes ceremony on February 28, 2021 at 5pm PST / 8pm EST on NBC. See below for the full poll results.
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The 78th annual Golden Globe Awards nominations announced Wednesday morning held some snubs and surprises that stunned us and many industry watchers.
While we feel pretty good about the accuracy of most of our predictions, nominations for Ratched and Emily In Paris came as a surprise, and the overall snubs of Mrs. America (aside from Cate Blanchett’s acting nomination) and I May Destroy You seem almost unforgivable.
On the film side, the big story is Promising Young Woman, which had a… well, promising start to awards season, picking up four nominations, including Best Director for Emerald Fennell. For the first time, men are in the minority in the director category, and there are two debut directors (Fennell and Regina King for One Night in Miami) for the first time in the category.
Overall it was the surprises that had us pinned in our seats more than the snubs, with actors like Jared Leto and Kate Hudson seemingly coming from nowhere to earn nominations.
Despite some big nominations in acting fields for film and for best director, the biggest surprise of all was once-again scant representation of Black talent and titles among the nominees. Films with predominantly Black ensemble casts, including Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Judas and the Black Messiah, and One Night in Miami between them had seven nominations overall and not one made it into the the best drama picture category; compare that to the six total received by top-nominated film Mank. Fargo season 4’s Chris Rock, Ramy supporting actor Mahershala Ali, and I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel were all left out, and those series have only one nomination (for Ramy Youssef) between them.
The Golden Globe Awards are voted on by about 90 HFPA members; the organization clearly has to do better about representation in the awards if it wants the Golden Globes to remain a relevant measure of entertainment quality.
Check out our pick of the biggest Golden Globe nomination snubs and surprises below – and let us know yours in the comments.
Film Snubs and Surprises | TV Snubs and Surprises
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Promising Young Woman
(2020)
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This dark comedy/thriller – we’re still not sure exactly how to categorize it – always stood a chance of making a dent in the nominations this year, particularly with Carey Mulligan an outside chance for a nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. But few had writer-director Emerald Fennell – best known as showrunner of Killing Eve season 2 and for portraying Camilla Parker Bowles on the last two seasons of The Crown – and her debut film as their picks for many other categories. And yet, on nominations morning Promising Young Woman came out one of the biggest winners of the day with four nominations: For Mulligan, for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and for Fennell for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
92%
Da 5 Bloods
(2020)
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With Promising Young Woman edging its way into the directing and drama categories, the space for other contenders in those groupings narrowed – and it seems Spike Lee and his critically acclaimed Vietnam epic Da 5 Bloods was one of those squeezed out. We had picked Lee as one of our five predictions in the Best Director category going into Wednesday morning, but the veteran filmmaker was left in the cold, along with the film’s star, Delroy Lindo, who had been singled out as an early awards favorite as far back as May.
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Okay, so this wasn’t exactly a jaw-on-the-floor shocker – pundits had predicted Cohen could come out of the morning a double nominee for lead actor (comedy) for his Borat sequel and supporting actor for his work as activist Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of Chicago 7. (Yep, you read that right: Those in-the-know were predicting big awards power for Borat Subsequent MovieFilm.) Still, any double acting nomination is worth singling out, especially when one of those nods comes for playing a character as outrageous as his Kazakhstani provocateur. This is a dual nomination we liiiikkkkee.
98%
Minari
(2020)
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Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari – currently Certified Fresh at 99% on the Tomatometer – was subject of some controversy when it was announced it would be competing in the Foreign Language category, not for Drama, despite being an American film. The movie picked up a nomination in its eligible category, but anyone hoping for recognition elsewhere would be disappointed. Star Steven Yeun had a real shot for some Best Actor love for his portrayal of a Korean immigrant building his dream farm in the South as his wife and children lose faith, as did veteran Korean actress, Youn Yuh-jung, who plays the family’s grandmother.
7%
Music
(2021)
Until this morning, pop star Sia’s directing debut, Music, was best known for an Internet-breaking casting controversy and the filmmaker’s eyebrow-raising public responses to it. And the movie certainly wasn’t on many pundits’ radars leading into nominations morning. (To be fair, it hasn’t widely screened in the U.S., and a handful of reviews from Australia, where it opened in theaters, have it at 29% Rotten on the Tomatometer). So, color us very surprised when it was announced the film would not only be competing for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, but that its star, Kate Hudson, is up for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. Good news for Sia was bad news for On the Rocks, which missed out on a best musical or comedy nod, and for Meryl Streep and Cristin Milioti, who we had picked in the acting category over Hudson and Rosamund Pike, who also earned recognition for her excellent turn in Netflix’s I Care A Lot.
54%
The Prom
(2020)
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We’ve already covered this in our paragraph about the surprise nods for Music, but it bears repeating: THEY SNUBBED MERYL.
45%
The Little Things
(2021)
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Perhaps we shouldn’t be as surprised as we are by this one. For starters, he’s Jared Leto – and the HFPA likes his work, as evidenced by his previous win in 2014 for Dallas Buyers Club. (It also doesn’t hurt that he’s a superstar, and the HFPA loves having as many of those on the red carpet each year as possible – virtual or otherwise.) On top of that, while John Lee Hancock’s old-school serial killer drama hasn’t been a hit with critics, it has a Fresh Audience Score and is sitting at the top of the box office as we write these words. And Leto has been singled out among the movie’s cast of Oscar winners – Malek! Washington! – for an effectively creepy performance as a repairman and suspect.
75%
The Mauritanian
(2021)
57%
Malcolm & Marie
(2021)
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98%
One Night in Miami
(2020)
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62%
Ratched: Season 1
(2020)
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Listen, of course there were elements to love about Ryan Murphy’s glossy, retro origin story about One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest villain Nurse Mildred Ratched. For starters, the committed performances from Sarah Paulson, costar (and Globes nominee) Cynthia Nixon and more. Then there are the gorgeous costumes and expansive sets and immersive world building. But the series debuted to mixed reviews (though it remains barely Fresh at 62%), meaning this was certainly not a shoe-in and most prognosticators did not predict that it would receive that much love. But Globes voters are known to love both Ryan Murphy and Netflix — don’t forget the number of nods The Politician got in its first year — so it isn’t without precedent.
87%
Bridgerton: Season 1
(2020)
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Is there any show more talked about over the past few weeks than the Shonda Rhimes-produced Regency romance series? Netflix claims it’s the streaming service’s most-watched series to date (although it doesn’t officially release viewership data), and it’s certainly dominated headlines. On one hand, it seems like HFPA catnip — European-made International hit (it was filmed in the U.K. and stars mostly British actors. But on the other hand, perhaps the subject matter proved too tawdry. The HFPA also does not have a great track record with diversity, and this is one of 2021’s most glaring examples that perhaps voters should try harder to broaden their horizons.
61%
Emily in Paris: Season 1
(2020)
97%
The Flight Attendant: Season 1
(2020)
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Another splashy European-filmed series with a big name creator, Emily In Paris was not necessarily on Emmy voters’ radar but is exactly the kind of thing the HFPA appreciates (plus a previous nominee in Lily Collins). It, too, premiered to mixed critical feedback but sits Fresh at 63%. The fact that it edged out critical darlings Ramy and What We Do in the Shadows, both of which were Certified Fresh for their second seasons (and WWDITS at 100%, no less!) is certainly surprising. Addictive HBO Max dramedy The Flight Attendant snagging one of those coveted Musical or Comedy slots was also a bit of a surprise, though what’s more surprising is that this is Big Bang Theory all-star Kaley Cuoco’s first solo nod.
96%
Mrs. America: Miniseries
(2020)
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Small Axe’s inclusion is no surprise given the critical reception of the anthology film series from Steve McQueen, but axing the The Undoing certainly could have made room for the phenomenon that was Mrs. America. The series, about the effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, featured a slew of actresses delivering masterful performances, in particular Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisholm, Tracey Ullman as Betty Friedan, and Rose Byrne as Gloria Steinem. The fact that neither the series as a whole nor any of the supporting performances got nods is a major snub (though the lack of separate TV supporting categories at the Globes is particularly glaring here).
88%
Lovecraft Country: Season 1
(2020)
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While Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer got her second nomination and Ratched‘s Sarah Paulson got her fourth, Jurnee Smollett, universally acclaimed for her performance in HBO’s horror series Lovecraft Country, got nothing. For an awards body that loves to honor young actresses overlooked by other committees (in recent years, nominating Katherine Langford for 13 Reasons Why, Caitriona Balfe for Outlander, Rachel Bloom for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Gina Rodriguez for Jane the Virgin, among others), it seems like a pretty glaring oversight to leave Smollett out of the conversation. The actor category is no better, with Majors losing out on a nod for his acclaimed performance to several repeat nominees (Jason Bateman, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys) and a movie star who decided to do TV (Al Pacino in Hunters), another HFPA favorite category of actor.
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Outlander: Season 5
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After four nominations and no prize, the HFPA has finally given up on trying to honor Balfe for her role in the romantic fantasy series. Once given kudos for recognizing her performance in the fan-favorite series when other award-giving bodies overlooked the show altogether, it appears the HFPA has moved on to another fight.
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Hunters: Season 1
(2020)
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The veteran actor wasn’t much in the conversation among awards watchers. We expected Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country) or Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) to get a nod for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama. That Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk showed up in the category was not so much a surprise as a vindication for the actor having been overlooked in 2019 and 2020.
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I May Destroy You: Miniseries
(2020)
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One of the top-scoring series of the past year, Coel’s remarkable look at the trauma of sexual assault was lauded as a favorite for nomination in the categories of Best Performance By An Actress In A Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television and Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television — the actress-director for her role perhaps more so than the series overall. The Certified Fresh series, which currently has a 98% score on the Tomatometer, lost its spot to fellow HBO limited series The Undoing, which is Certified Fresh at 78%. Not that the nominations of The Undoing and its star Nicole Kidman were exactly a surprise, but Coel’s achievement with I May Destroy You was infinitely more deserving.
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On one hand, it’s no surprise that the HFPA likes to honor actors they’ve recognized before, and Cranston (Your Honor) and Daniels (The Comey Rule) certainly fit the bill. This is Cranston’s eighth nod (with one win) and Daniels’ fifth. But on the other hand, the shows they’re being recognized for aren’t necessarily the most critically hailed projects either has been in. Your Honor is Rotten at 44%, and miniseries The Comey Rule is Fresh at just 68%, missing the bar set for Certified Fresh designation. Cranston and Daniels are both masters of their craft, of course, but were they the best of this particular year? Normal People’s Paul Mescal and Fargo’s Chris Rock are right there, people.
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Fargo: Season 4
(2020)
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The fourth season of Noah Hawley’s anthology series, with a Certified Fresh 82%, was not the highest-scoring season of the show on the Tomatometer (that would be season 2, Certified Fresh at 100%). Even so, that the series didn’t get nominations for Jessie Buckley’s scenery-chewing supporting performance, for either Chris Rock or Jason Schwartzman in their lead roles, or as a limited series borders on bizarre.
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Bad Education
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Also missing out in the tediously broad Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and its related categories were Bad Education and its star Hugh Jackman. With the streaming companies now rampaging through the field of contenders with impressive original films and limited and anthology series, it’s time to break out films from this overstuffed, overly-long-titled category and break up the companion acting categories, as well.
98%
Ozark: Season 3
(2020)
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We are both surprised and not surprised that the HFPA finally acknowledged Linney and Garner, who have been snubbed for the past several years. Garner is a two-time Emmy winner for her role in the crime drama; meanwhile, their costar Jason Bateman is now on his third best TV drama lead actor nomination.
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Both Pelphrey (Ozark) and Ali (Ramy) were expected by awards experts to receive nominations in the television actor in a supporting role category, which doesn’t distinguish between drama actors and comedy actors. Jim Parsons (Hollywood) and Donald Sutherland (The Undoing) received nominations instead. Ozark season 3: Certified Fresh at 98%. Ramy season 2: Certified Fresh at 97%. Hollywood: 57%. And The Undoing: Certified Fresh at 77%. The Tomatometer score doesn’t speak specifically to these actors’ performances — and this is certainly no swipe at Parsons or Sutherland — but both of those nominees have been recognized for meatier roles. Pelphrey and Ali deserved the recognition here.
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After one of the strangest years in movie history – and one of the best years in TV and streaming – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the nominees for the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards on Wednesday. On the film side, history was made when three women – Emerald Fennell, Regina King, and Chloé Zhao – were nominated for Best Director (a first for the Awards) and streaming giant Netflix dominated with 22 nominations. On the TV and streaming side, genre favorites The Mandalorian and Lovecraft Country broke through, while Netflix’s The Crown led all series with six nominations.
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The winners of the 2021 Golden Globe Awards will be announced at the Golden Globes ceremony on February 28, 2021 at 5pm PST / 8pm EST on NBC.
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From Sex and the City and Younger creator Darren Star, the show follows Collins’ Emily, a twentysomething marketing manager who gets a promotion and moves to the City of Lights to run social media for a luxury French marketing agency. Culture clashes abound, both in the office and in her personal life. While she quickly makes friends in her French chef neighbor (Lucas Bravo), Chinese ex-pat Mindy (Ashley Park), and stylish Parisian Camille (Camille Razat), Emily finds it much harder to fit in at work, where her all-American effervescence and inability to speak French aren’t exactly appreciated.
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The series, which was originally commissioned for Paramount Network, but moved to Netflix after some corporate shuffling, is Star’s first streaming series.
“I love the idea that people can binge this show, and they’re not waiting for next week and next week and next week,” Star told Rotten Tomatoes over Zoom ahead of the Emily In Paris premiere.
Before you grab some champagne and chocolate and settle in for a binge, read on to find out what else you need to know about the fizzy rom-com.
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The first thing to know about the series, which was filmed in Paris late last summer and fall, is that living the Parisian life is just as dreamy as you’d expect.
“I wish for jealousy’s sake that I could say it wasn’t the best time ever,” Park told Rotten Tomatoes, but that just wasn’t the case: “I couldn’t have had more fun if I tried.”
Days off included strolling along the Seine, trying new restaurants, and sipping plenty of wine. Park got an apartment in the historic 4th arrondissement neighborhood of the Marais, and “it was exactly what Emily is going through, but I was living it in real time,” Park said.
“There is a wine bar that I took almost everyone who visited me that had the best orange wine and was about the size of this little living room — it’s the best. Lucas Bravo and Camille Razat, they would take me out to their favorite French spots,” she said.
Of course, moving anywhere new is a difficult and isolating experience, and it takes Emily a little while to feel comfortable. Then there’s the fact that although the historic buildings in Paris are beautiful, they do have some downsides; for one, the frequent need of repair.
Collins experienced the personality of the city’s aging infrastructure first hand. Though she said she had a similarly blissful time exploring Paris — her first time in the city for more than a handful of days — she also had some less-than-idyllic experiences like her character.
“I had a lot of meta experiences as Lily and Emily, like, where my hot water didn’t work for two weeks, or my heating stopped working or just funny things where I was like, OK, this is Lily, but it’s also very Emily,” Collins said.
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Like all of Star’s series, there’s a fantasy element at work in this show. First of all, Emily is described as a “marketing executive” at the ripe old age of not-even-30, which is a bit of an exaggeration even if she was a wunderkind who worked her way up the corporate ladder quickly. But even so, the culture clash at her new company is very extreme, with the buttoned-up French staff not at all receptive to Emily’s over-eager, bubbly personality and “ask for forgiveness, not permission” work style.
Emily is a fish out of water careening forward without first assessing how her new colleagues operate (a rookie mistake).
“It’s an interesting situation for Emily because she was sent there last minute,” Collins explained. “So the office is expecting someone older who speaks French, and she arrives and she’s someone younger who doesn’t understand the language at all. So right away, it’s like, Oh, wait, this is not gonna work.
“Emily is very passionate, loves her work, and is very articulate, and quite loud and obvious. And so when she comes bustling in to prove herself right away, it can seem like a lot,” Collins said. “Her youthful boldness, her youthful passion, at the beginning is like a full train rolling, going straight ahead 20 miles an hour too fast.”
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Paris is also called the City of Love for a reason — it is tres romantic, especially the version of Paris captured by this breezy 30-minute show. Emily has a boyfriend back home, a fancy client who’s extremely into her, and sizzling chemistry with neighbor Gabriel, who’s also a chef at the bistro downstairs from their apartments.
But above all, Collins said, “I think this is a romantic comedy where mostly Emily’s trying to find love within herself. The City of Love is teaching her so much about finding love within herself, and then obviously with these people that she’s meeting.”
It shouldn’t be too much of a spoiler to tease that perhaps something explosive will happen between Emily and her hot chef neighbor — come on, you’ve seen a romantic comedy before, right? The situation is very complicated on both ends, Bravo said, but Gabriel ultimately can’t resist the sparks between them.
“He’s wearing that charming self-confidence mask, but he’s really lost,” the Nice-born actor said. “And when Emily comes around, and at his doorstep — he is not looking for her, she really steps into his life — he sees this very curious character; he sees an opportunity. It’s like, OK, what I’m feeling right now, I need to experience it because I felt kind of dead all this time and lost, and I feel something right now so I need to experience it.”
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While Park is Tony-nominated for her work in Broadway’s Mean Girls musical and Collins has been a big-screen star for years, American audiences won’t be as familiar with Bravo. The actor was born in the South of France but lived all across Europe as the son of a professional soccer player, settling in Paris to finish his studies. After a five-year stint in Los Angeles, he moved back to Paris, where he’s worked in TV and film for the past few years.
As someone who moved around a lot as a kid, Bravo said he’s comfortable in all sorts of situations, and that includes his professional life. But his role as a chef isn’t necessarily that big of a stretch, since he’s got his own skills in the kitchen from his stint working as a chef.
“I was bartending, and at some point, I was like, I don’t think I can learn anything more about bartending. So I asked the chef, because the sous chef just left, I asked him if I could step in and he said yes,” Bravo said. “And so I started learning and cooking the little plates at first and then he made me part of the bigger process. And the kitchen was open so the customers could see us, and I was totally overplaying it. Sometimes the omelet didn’t have to jump so high, but I would just [do it] just for the sake of it. I discovered what it is to be a chef and the food was actually good!”
Emily and Gabriel’s burgeoning relationship, of course, gets complicated as the season progresses, leaving lots of potential storylines should the series get picked up for a second season.
While Netflix typically takes a month or two to decide whether to renew a show, Star said that he has ideas ready should they get the green light. So although he hasn’t “formally” started working on a second season, “there’s a lot of roads to take. So that’s the idea: to have a lot of possibilities.”
Collins is also excited about further exploring that Emily-Gabriel dynamic and said: “Hopefully we get to go to a season 2, because we can kind of maximize on that since we are left with a cliffhanger in the last episode, we don’t know how it ends yet.”
Emily In Paris launches on Netflix on Friday, October 2.
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Ryan Reynolds voices a furry yellow Pokémon out to catch all the crooks in this weekend’s release of Pokémon Detective Pikachu. Meanwhile, Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson are dirty, rotten scoundrels out for trouble of their own in The Hustle and Diane Keaton, Pam Grier, and Jacki Weaver get in formation for cheerleading comedy Poms. For something more serious, Nicholas Hoult stars as J.R.R. Tolkien in director Dome Karukoski’s eponymous film about the influential writer’s formative years. Which films get the critics’ best picks?
Find a kid-friendly plot written and directed by someone with a proven track record in this arena (Rob Letterman of Captain Underpants and Monsters vs. Aliens fame) and add an actor like Ryan Reynolds, who doesn’t take himself too seriously, and you’ve got a recipe for an ideal Mother’s Day weekend family outing. The plot revolves around a young Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) who is on the hunt to find his missing detective father. Luckily, dad’s wise-cracking former Pokemon partner is there to help him on the hunt. It’s not the deepest film opening this weekend, according to the critics, but it’s a solid pick if you want to take your mind off the outside world for 104 minutes, plus previews.
Was Anjelica Huston onto something? The formidable actresses recently scoffed to Vulture that she would never appear in what she describes as an “old-lady cheerleader movie” – a dig many decided was directed at Poms. Directed by The Battle of the Sexes documentarian Zara Hayes, the movie stars Diane Keaton, Pam Grier, Rhea Perlman, and Jacki Weaver as ladies of a certain age who still have spirit (yes they do) and decide to break out the pom-poms and sneakers to start their own cheerleading team (13 Reasons Why actress Alisha Boe plays their coach). While this movie will certainly satisfy a certain subgroup of moms looking for a night out, the general critical consensus is to stay home and watch Wine Country on Netflix.
The Hustle is the latest gender-swapped Hollywood remake, following Ghostbusters and Overboard – and it’s not fairing as well as either with the critics. Here, writer Jac Schaeffer and director Chris Addison have attempted to update Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as the swindling con-artists who take unsuspecting wealthy paramours for everything they’re worth. But the film may end up being a Murphy game for anyone hoping the price of admission will result in hysterical and zany hijinks that still have the wit of the original. On the plus side, The Hustle’s costumes and scenery make the grade.
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This week in TV news saw some major changes for HBO talent, an update to your Netflix subscription, live-action Cowboy Bebop casting, and plenty more developments.
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Westworld creators Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy have just signed a reported nine-figure, four-year deal with Amazon to create new content for the company’s TV studio and streaming service. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the duo will be making upwards of $30 million per year at their new home.
But what does that mean for Westworld, which is currently in production on its third season?
The short answer is nothing; the third season of the series is still likely going to air on HBO in 2020, and Joy and Nolan are running the show.
The long answer, though, is slightly more involved. Joy and Nolan had been working at Warner Bros. TV, which produces Westworld. And while they’re moving their production company to Amazon, they’re still planning to stay on board as writers and executive producers on Westworld for “the life of the show,” according to the report, which means nothing is changing day-to-day for season 3, and should the show be renewed for a fourth season, continuing to run their series is “a top priority.”
Essentially, all their new work from now on will be done under the Amazon umbrella, but Westworld is staying put and they’re staying involved. So breathe easy, it’ll still be the complicated sci-fi drama you know and love.
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Netflix is raising its prices again: The streaming service’s biggest price increase to date will increase the two-HD stream Standard plan by $2 per month to $12.99; Premium (four Ultra HD streams) is also increasing by $2 to $15.99; and the Basic plan (one non-HD stream) will increase $1 to $8.99. The new prices take effect for new subscribers immediately, and will be phased in gradually for existing customers based on their billing cycles.
There’s a LOT of good television on nowadays, and approximately a dozen TV series dropped trailers for their upcoming seasons this week. You can watch the full trailer for Cobra Kai season 2 above, out April 24. Season 2 brings fans back into the action with Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) after the shocking Season 1 cliffhanger featuring the return of John Kreese (Martin Kove). When a new rivalry between opposing dojos is born in the aftermath of Cobra Kai’s controversial win at the All Valley Championships, Daniel realizes his next countermove is to open his own karate training school called Miyagi-Do, in honor of his mentor Mr. Miyagi. What was once a personal feud between Daniel and Johnny escalates beyond their differences to engulf their students, who as teenagers, are already challenged to figure out who they are and who they want to be. Which path will they follow — Cobra Kai or Miyagi-Do?
If that’s not what you’re after, you can follow the links for a teaser for the third season of TNT’s Claws (out June 9), a trailer for the second season of Paramount Network’s Yellowstone (June 19), one for the sixth season of The CW’s The 100 (out April 30), and ones for new series including Netflix’s dark comedy Dead to Me (out May 3), AMC’s horror adaptation NOS4A2 (out June 2), and Epix’s Batman butler prequel series Pennyworth (out this summer). You can also watch the entire first episode of The Chi season 2 ahead of the show’s official April 7 debut.
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Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop is finally coming together. The 10-episode series will star John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda, and Alex Hassell as a crew of bounty hunters searching for the solar system’s most dangerous criminals and is based on the jazz-inspired Japanese anime series from 2001. Cho will play Spike Spiegel, “an impossibly cool ‘cowboy’ (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit, and style to spare. He travels the solar system with his ex-cop partner, Jet, pursuing the future’s most dangerous bounties with a combination of charm, charisma — and deadly Jeet Kune Do.” Shakir is Jet Black, “was one of the few honest cops in the solar system before an ultimate betrayal robbed him of all that he loved, forcing him into a vagabond life of hunting bounties to put food on the table. Jet is an inveterate jazz enthusiast and Captain of the Bebop.” Pineda is Faye Valentine, “a bold, brash and unpredictable bounty hunter. Suffering from amnesia after years of being cryogenically frozen, Faye does whatever it takes to survive. Whether she’s lying, stealing, or just being a thorn in Spike and Jet’s side.” And Hassell is Vicious, “a man who thoroughly enjoys a good kill, Vicious is the Syndicate’s most notorious hitman. He’s also Spike Spiegel’s ex-partner and arch-enemy.” Radical Ed has not yet been cast.
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Lily Collins will star in the newest series from Sex and the City and Younger creator Darren Star, a dramedy called Emily in Paris. The new series is set to premiere on Paramount Network in 2020, and will follow the adventures of the titular character (Collins), a driven twentysomething from the Midwest who moves to France for an unexpected job opportunity. The series will tackle her career, friendships, love life, and the challenges of living in a foreign city, and begins filming later in 2019.
Hulu’s horror series Light as a Feather has added Robyn Lively (Teen Witch), Katelyn Nacon (The Walking Dead), and several other new cast members for its upcoming second season.
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More than 2,500 hours of programming from the Jim Henson Company is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. While it’s mostly available in 67 different territories around the world, much of the content is not accessible to U.S. users due to existing licensing deals. The content available only to lucky viewers outside of the U.S. includes The Storyteller, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Mother Goose Stories, and all five seasons of Fraggle Rock. (U.S. viewers can watch Fraggle Rock on HBO.)
Showtime has ordered a new spy thriller anthology series from The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty writer Mark Boal. Intelligence is based on real stories from around the world and will explore how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media, and silicon valley. Season 1, which is currently being written, will focus on the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election. Subsequent seasons will look at a different major world event through the lens of covert operations.
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The 75th Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers, were held on January 7, 2018 in Los Angeles. Top honors went to Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird for film, and to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Big Little Lies for television. Read on for the full list of winners in all categories.
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The nominations for the 75th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning in Los Angeles. The winners will be revealed in a ceremony airing live on NBC, Sunday, January 7. Read through for the full list of nominees.
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The Golden Globe Awards revealed the 2017 winners tonight on a ceremony hosted by Jimmy Fallon at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The musical drama La La Land swept the Comedy/Musical category, taking home all seven awards it had been nominated for, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress, while Moonlight was named the Best Drama of the year. On the Television categories, FX’s Atlanta took home the awards for Best Musical or Comedy and Best Actor (Donald Glover), and Netflix’s The Crown won Best Drama and Best Actress (Claire Foy). Read through for the full list of nominees and winners.
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The nominations for the 74th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning in Los Angeles. The winners will be revealed on January 8. Read through for the full list of nominees.
RT Senior Editor Grae Drake talked to Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Matthew Broderick, Alden Ehrenreich, and Lily Collins from Rules Don’t Apply about whether or not the “rules” we’ve all been told actually apply to them. Then Brett Ratner and Chris Tucker dropped by for a surprise visit, because they just make every interview better!
Lily Collins was born into fame — her dad, Phil, could bang a drum and write a hit tune or two — but she found her own way into an acting career, performing in stage productions as a kid before working as a teenage Hollywood reporter and scoring small roles in movies like The Blind Side. This week she steps into the limelight as the star of Mirror Mirror, director Tarsem’s visually energetic remix of the Snow White fairytale — the first, and likely funniest, of this year’s adaptations of the classic story. As the fairest of them all, Collins dazzles in the late, great Eiko Ishioka’s exquisite costumes, while getting to put Julia Roberts’ evil queen in her place and sharing her first kiss with Prince Winkelvoss, er, Charming, played with a degree of good sportsmanship by Armie Hammer.
We sat down with the English-born Collins recently in her adopted home of Los Angeles, where she talked about the movie, working with Tarsem and her thoughts on Kristen Stewart’s not-really-a-rival take on Snow. First up, she talked us through her five favorite films.
Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003; 63% Tomatometer)
These are so raw — this is who I am, these movies. [Laughs] They’re very girly. In no particular order… Love Actually. Most of these movies have British accents in them, because, being from England, there’s something about films that I watch that have a British accent that I just feel so at home with. That film I can watch any day and it makes me smile; and I love Christmas, so it kind of matches perfectly.
Pride and Prejudice. I love sweeping British drama period pieces and I hope that one day I can do one just like that, because, to me, I love old English literature. And I’m a big Keira Knightley fan. It’s just so beautiful aesthetically and in terms of story.
Harry Potter. All of them. [Laughs]
That’s cheating. Do you have a particular favorite?
Is it cheating? [Laughs] It’s hard to pick. I wouldn’t necessarily know which. I mean, I love the Goblet of Fire. I don’t know. Maybe the Goblet of Fire. I read those books so quickly when I was a kid, because that whole world was so, like… it took me out of my reality. And I just love magic and I loved that whole world, the creatures, and just how you felt so friendly with all the characters. The way they translated that into movies, I thought was genius. You know when they take a book, and they make it a movie, and you hope that it’s gonna be everything that you hope for and more? To me they just succeeded. I don’t know, I just love them so much. Every time I’m sick I’ll watch a marathon of them and I can repeat all the words.
Hopefully you’re sick for a while… I mean, so you can watch them all.
[Laughs] I know, they’re so long. I just had laryngitis, so…
Breakfast Club. I was actually having trouble because I would say Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club, but that would be three. Of all three, Breakfast Club is my favorite. But those John Hughes films, with Molly Ringwald and the Brat Pack, those are my favorite grouped films. They’re just so… they’re timeless. I feel like, even when you’re watching them now, they’re so modern, and the characters are so real. They’re just so appealing to me. I watched them with my mom when I was really young. I always would watch things with my mom that maybe other moms wouldn’t allow their kids to watch. I associated with them right away. I just really, really love John Hughes.
Who’s your favorite character in the movie?
I love Molly Ringwald. But I also love the basket case, Ally Sheedy — you know, with the pixie sticks and the crunching of the sandwich. She’s so fantastic.
Sabrina, with Audrey Hepburn. I actually spent my New Year’s this year watching Sabrina, and as it turned midnight I paused it and it was just her face on screen, smiling. I was like, “What a cool way to start the New Year.” She is just someone I’ve always admired. She says so much without saying anything at all. And back then they didn’t do such fast cuts in films; they stayed on a character’s face long enough for them to go from one emotion to another, and for the audience to really feel the emotion with each character — and she in that movie just goes from so many endearing moments to moments of sadness and laughter. It’s just such a classic, and I love black and white. So, that’s my list!
Next, Collins on playing Snow White in Mirror Mirror, what she thinks of Kristen Stewart’s take, and her favorite song by her dad.
I noticed you’re nostalgic for a kind of idealized English home, but you moved here when you were quite young, right?
Lily Collins: Yeah, I moved here when I was about six.
So you went back and forth between LA and England?
I did. I used to go for every summer, for like two-and-a-half to three months. The last two summers I haven’t been able to because I’ve been working — no complaining — but I haven’t been able to go in the summer. But I’ve been going at Christmas time. And I can put the accent on. I auditioned for this film, Mirror Mirror, with an English accent, but they went in a different directions. I mean, I did it in both accents. I can turn it on really quickly. There’s something at times that feels more just, natural when I have a British accent. It just feels very me.
Your mom is American?
Yeah, my mom is here and my dad, obviously, is English. I pick up things when I go back, and I still say things like “the car boot,” or “the loo,” or “the bin.” It’s just so beautiful over there. It’s something, like — ’cause I go out in the countryside, so it’s not the hustle and bustle of London. And LA compared to the countryside, I just relax right away. I just love going out in the garden and walking and reading and not answering my phone; just being and talking to people. You know, it’s like all these revolutionary ideas that you just don’t do in the big city. It’s a slower pace way of life. I love it. [Pauses to look out over the Santa Monica beach] I say that as we’re here with the lovely ocean — you don’t get that out in London. [Laughs]
Let’s talk about Mirror Mirror. Were you worried at all about playing an icon like Snow White?
I was more excited, I think, than anything. I was one of those little girls that created their own fairy tales in their head, growing up, and I know that every young girl has their own version of what a fairy tale princess is and should be. So I wasn’t really worried about making sure that I felt like I was everyone’s version of a Snow White — I just wanted to be a young girl that people, you know, that young girls as well as adult women could relate to. I felt like everyone has a little bit of Snow in them. So I wanted to be someone that people thought, “She could be a friend of mine.” Not a caricature of a fairy tale princess, because the [Disney] cartoon does enough justice. The cartoon is the cartoon, and the animation does what it does; it serves its purpose and it’s amazing. You don’t wanna just take that and make it a real-live person. You wanna take something different about it and modernize it and make it more real. My concern is that I wanted to make sure that she was a real girl.
You’ve worked with Sandra Bullock and now Julia Roberts — two of “America’s sweethearts” — and yet, in this movie, Julia is so awful to you.
She was horrible!
I trust she was more civil between takes.
Oh, she’s so cool. The second they yelled “cut” she’s all apologizing, and so sweet.
Is it true that she ripped some of your hair out?
Yes! In one of the scenes, because my shoe got caught in my dress, and I wasn’t as close to her as I was in the rehearsal. But we didn’t stop shooting, because my dress was so big and no one knew, and I wasn’t about to stop the scene. She leans over to do the hair pull, and had to pull me a bit further and harder, and so she pulled my hair out. I was like, “Okay, I’m not gonna react because they’ll probably use this,” and they ended up using that take in the movie, where she ripped it. They yelled “cut” and she goes “I’m so sorry!” So she totally was cool, when we weren’t filming. Even when we were filming, I was having so many moments in my head where I’m looking at her being mean to me and I’m beaming inside and so excited, but I’m not supposed to be smiling — so it taught me a lot about how to mute out everything else you’re thinking but what’s in the scene. If I was showing what I was feeling, Snow White would have been smiling from the get-go.
And yet she’s smiling at you, even while she’s spitting out the nastiest remarks.
I know, right? It’s like in high school when someone’s saying, “Oh I just love your sweater, it’s so cute…”
And they’re really thinking, “I’m gonna kill you…”
Exactly. It’s scary. You don’t know if you love her or hate her.
Have you talked to Kristen Stewart about her Snow White, and is there any competition between you two?
It’s funny, we’ve actually laughed about the fact that we’re apparently rivals — because we’re so not.
So you’re friends?
Yeah. She’s so cool, and I’m very excited for the other film. It could not be more different. They’re polar opposites. I think the advertising campaigns prove to everyone how different they are: everything from the tone to the rating to the costumes; everything. She and I, we’re very, very different characters and we just have laughed about it. I’m happy for her, she’s happy for me. I think there’s definitely room for both.
Tell me about working with Tarsem. He seems pretty out there, in a good way.
[Laughs] He’s so cool. He’s lovely. He’s definitely got an interesting sense of humor: you either understand it or you don’t. I totally get it, but things can be taken out of context. But he is — visually, he’s a visionary genius. He’s so… he’s a wizard when it comes to the aesthetic of a film. And also, when it comes to actors, he is all about, “Do you feel comfortable, do you feel confident? How are you feeling? What do you think? Let’s collaborate.” It’s so nice to work with somebody that truly has your best interests at heart and wants you to forget about all the nonsense or politics and just really focus in on your moment: “This is now, here — how do you feel, and let’s work on this together.” It was a really nice environment to be in when you’re taking on this kind of a role; when you’re fighting and you’re hot and you’re tired but you have a director who really believes in you. And from day one he really believed in me, and he never made me feel any different.
I’m compelled to ask this, because I’m an idiot: Does your dad sing “Lily, don’t you lose my number” to you?
[Laughs] Well he used to sing to me all the time.
Do you have a favorite song?
A favorite of my dad’s songs? It’s funny because everyone will probably go, “Really? Not one of the classics?” But I think, because of the sentimentality of it, the song from Tarzan: “You’ll Be In My Heart.” I was there throughout that entire process of creating Tarzan and the songs and everything. I was there for the process of each song, and the animation. Part of that song was written as a lullaby to me, so it’s such a personal song. I just see him as dad. Obviously I know everything he’s accomplished, but when I think of his songs I think of what touches me the most — and that song for sure is one of them.
Mirror Mirror opens in theaters this week.
