Time moves painfully slow between seasons of “Game of Thrones” for Westerosians. For actress Natalia Tena, who plays the wilding Osha, her absence has felt even longer as her character wasn’t included in the recently finished season 5. When we last saw her, Osha had parted ways with Bran, played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright, to watch […]
If you ever doubted HBO’s casting decisions for “Game of Thrones,” you definitely won’t now. During Friday’s “Thrones” panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego, HBO shared a composite of the cast’s audition tapes. The reel shows auditions of everyone from Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth) and Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell) to Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell). […]
David Thorpe has a “gay voice.” For the filmmaker’s latest endeavor, an autobiographical documentary, he embarked upon a long-delayed confrontation with his own “internal homophobia.” He was in his early 40s, recently single and he was bitter about “sounding gay.” For the project, Thorpe sets out to change the way he speaks. He meets with […]
John Stamos has checked into rehab for substance abuse, according to People magazine. The decision to enter a residential treatment program comes a month after the 51-year-old actor was arrested on DUI charges and briefly hospitalized. He’s due in court on Sept. 11. Stamos was originally scheduled to co-host the 2015 Emmy Award nominations on […]
The “Star Wars” panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday brought together a handful of original cast members. Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford joined several other actors from the franchise on stage. It marked Ford’s first public appearance since the actor was injured when his plane crash-landed in March. Fisher and Hamill had […]
The seemingly smallest of movie mistakes can sometimes affect a plot in the strangest of ways. Here are nine movies with plots that don’t hold up once you notice one tiny incongruity. 1. An Elvish tattoo brings Middle Earth into the “Pirates of the Caribbean” universe. Orlando Bloom was one of This happens during a […]
It’s no secret that Jennifer Lawrence loves food, and by now, everyone should be familiar with her thoughts on dieting (“If anybody even tries to whisper the word ‘diet,’ I’m like, ‘You can go fuck yourself’”). Her attitude comes after years of producers telling her she needed to lose weight when she was younger, and, […]
Let’s be honest, some of the feats athletes are able to accomplish seem not of this world. So it’s only fitting that ESPN teamed up with Marvel Entertainment to give some sports stars the superhero treatment. The network will premiere its new eight-part series, “1 of 1 – Origins” on Friday, July 10, which will […]
In 1941, the comic-book world was introduced to a confident if slightly dweeby redhead named Archie Andrews. He stood smugly on top of a bicycle seat near a caption dubbing him “America’s boyfriend.” The feat was an attempt to impress his neighbor, a coquettish blonde looking on coyly. “You’re awful clever,” she marvels, flipping her […]
Everyone was already geeking out over Jennifer Lawrence meeting Bill Murray at Comic-Con, but on Thursday, the actress sang a little bit of Cher’s “Believe” while talking to Conan O’Brien, and now the world is about to go crazy again. Lawrence actually had a song on the Billboard charts with her rendition of “The Hanging […]
