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Daily Mail
35 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Hollywood actors set to join Rivals cast for upcoming second series as filming begins for Disney+ drama
Two Hollywood actors are set to join the cast of Rivals for the comedy's upcoming second series. Hayley Atwell and Rupert Everett will be starring as Helen Gordon, Rupert Campbell-Black's ex-wife, and show-jumping coach Malise Gordon. Filming for the next instalment began in May, with stars such as Danny Dyer and Emily Atack sharing a behind-the-scenes insight from Disney+ set. Now, it has been revealed they will be joined by new additions, including Hayley, known for her role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and well known actor Rupert. Also joining the ensemble are Maxim Ays, Holly Cattle, Oliver Dench, Amanda Lawrence, Bobby Lockwood, Eliot Salt and Jonny Weldon. The period drama - which is based on author Jilly Cooper's novel of the same name - premiered in the UK on streaming service Disney+, as well as in the US on Hulu back in October 2024. Lee Mason, executive director of scripted originals EMEA Disney+ said in a statement to Hollywood Reporter: 'Rivals, is a landmark series for Disney+, quickly becoming one of our most beloved British U.K. original dramas. 'I'm delighted to welcome Hayley and Rupert to our extraordinary family of actors. They are a perfect match for the world of Rutshire, so lovingly created by Dame Jilly and the team at Happy Prince.' Rivals author Jilly recently weighed in on intimacy coordinators being used for the Disney+ show following comments made by Danny Dyer. The actor said there is so much bonking in Rivals 2 – which is currently filming - that they have hired every intimacy coach in the UK. But Jilly - who wrote the 1988 novel - is bemused by the growth of the on-set sex-scene coach. She told The Times: 'In my day when people were acting they just used to jump on each other and roll around without having anyone telling them what to do. I suppose the world's changed, hasn't it?' Had she been an actress rather than author, Jilly said she would not have been comfortable with having an intimacy coordinator choreographing her sex scenes. She added: 'I'd be very embarrassed. I wouldn't like it myself - but then no one has any fun any more, do they?' Rivals author Jilly recently weighed in on intimacy coordinators being used for the Disney+ show following comments made by Danny Dyer Danny said there is so much bonking in Rivals 2 – which is currently filming - that they have hired every intimacy coach in the UK Her comments come after Danny said there is so much bonking in Rivals' second series that they have hired every intimacy coach in the UK. Danny - who plays Freddie Jones in the show, which also stars David Tennant, Emily Attack and Alex Hassell - said: 'We are doing 12 episodes of Rivals and we are filming until March next year. 'It is brilliant but it is a mad thing to do a sex scene. 'If you think about it you are legally allowed to tongue someone else. It is part of your job. Depending on your partner. It is OK if you fancy it, I am not going to lie.' 'On Rivals there are a lot of intimacy coaches. I think we used every intimacy coach in the land,' he added. In the smash hit Disney+ show, based on the novel by Jilly, Danny played self-made businessman Freddie Jones who goes into business with Rupert Campbell-Black, played by Alex Hassell and Declan O'Hara played by Aidan Turner. In the show, his character falls in love with romance author Lizzie Vereker, played by actress Katherine Parkinson. The initial run was eight episodes but Disney+ have asked for more this time around after the huge success of series one. Danny's performance has been hailed as bringing heart to the frothy, pulpy show, which has led to a reassessment of him as an actor, following his long-running stint in EastEnders. He was awarded a BAFTA last month for his performance in Mr Bigstuff. He told Esquire magazine: 'People saw me in a different light[in Rivals], and it came out just after Mr. Bigstuff, which, for once, shows a bit of versatility, because Lee is so different to Freddie. 'I've made a lot mistakes over the years. I've said yes to a lot of jobs I probably shouldn't have, probably because I was driven by the dollar – I had bills to pay and kids in private schools.
Spectator
2 hours ago
- Spectator
Alien: Earth is wantonly disrespectful to the canon
I once spent a delightful weekend in Madrid with the co-producer of Alien. His name was David Giler (now dead, sadly, I've just discovered) and he'd hit upon the bizarre idea of trying to get my anti-eco-lunacy book Watermelons made into a Hollywood movie. The film project never came off but I did learn an important lesson in our time together, hanging out in nice restaurants and pretending to work: if you want a happy life cushioned from financial care, the secret is to wangle yourself percentage points of a successful franchise. Another example of this is Franc Roddam, with whom I once spent an even stranger weekend in Accra, Ghana. Roddam devised the format for the MasterChef concept and has been sitting pretty ever since. As too, of course, has Brummie comedian Jasper Carrott, who co-owned the production company that invented Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. So, I learned the other day from a chap who comes riding with me, have many of the people involved with the Mamma Mia! musical, who were persuaded to take percentage points in lieu of payment because the show had no money at the beginning and no one quite expected it to do as well as it did. Anyway, Alien. One of the reasons it had such a massive cultural impact, Giler explained, was that it was just about the first film to introduce the concept of a female action heroine. Before Alien, the job of women in action films was to look pretty and vulnerable and to be rescued by men. Sigourney Weaver's iconic Ripley character changed all that (she had no option, all the blokes, notably John Hurt in the exploding chest scene, having been disembowelled by the Xenomorph). We have been paying the price ever since with endless blockbusters featuring pumped-up girls doing stuff that in real life they'd be utterly incapable of doing, while the beta males look on pathetically as western civilisation breathes its last. There have been seven Alien movies so far: the original quadrilogy, starting with Ridley Scott's in 1979, and three artsy prequels, starting with Prometheus, which Scott also directed. Now Disney has got its claws on the franchise with yet another prequel series, written and directed by Noah Hawley (who created the FX series Fargo). It has had quite a few favourable reviews but the diehard Alien fans aren't happy. And I'm with the diehard Alien fans. On the upside this latest reboot has remained true to the original aesthetic and its mood of careworn bleakness. (It's set in 2120, but the typefaces on the computers still have the retro look of a 1979 sci-fi movie designer's idea of the future.) But it's disappointingly silly, even twee in places, with poor editing (clunky transitions; pointless fades to black) and gaping plot inconsistencies quite out of keeping with the original's grimy authenticity. The premise is that one of the spaceships owned by the rival evil corporations that run the universe has crashed into a high-rise building in Bangkok. It has been collecting nasty alien specimens, including an eye creature with octopus legs, half-leech half-centipede insects that drain your blood in seconds and – bizarrely – a Xenomorph. I say bizarrely because Ripley's primary mission in the Alien movies was to stop the Xenomorph, which had never before been seen by any human, getting to Earth and wreaking havoc. Yet in Alien: Earth, a film supposedly set two years earlier, the Xenomorph has already arrived. This is wantonly disrespectful to the canon. Meanwhile, the world's youngest trillionaire, Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), a sort of whackier, creepier, more annoying Elon Musk, is trying to win the 'race for immortality' by engineering synthetic bodies, implanted with human consciousness, called 'hybrids'. The prototype is Wendy, who has the body of an attractive young woman, but the mind of an 11-year-old girl who was dying of cancer but who in this new container, apparently, will live for ever and be able to do all sorts of cool things such as jump off ledges from high cliffs and land unscathed. Soon Wendy (Sydney Chandler) is joined by yet more hybrids, all of whom still talk and think like the children they were. Nervous, impulsive, traumatised kids who've had no time to get used to their bodies and no training whatsoever: the very last people, you might think, that you'd send totally unbriefed to conduct a rescue operation in a disaster zone swarming with killer aliens. But Boy Kavalier – for the flimsiest of reasons – thinks it makes perfect sense. As one wag has quipped, it really should have been called Alien: Daycare.
Daily Mail
4 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Celebrity judge Frank Caprio whose empathy to defendants made him world-famous dies aged 88
Frank Caprio, a renowned judge turned internet sensation, has died at the age of 88. Caprio's passing was confirmed on Wednesday by his son, Frank T. Caprio. Elected as a judge in 1985, Caprio rose to national fame through his television series Caught in Providence, which earned a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2021. The show gained widespread popularity on social media, with numerous clips going viral - particularly those featuring Caprio compassionately dismissing tickets after hearing the heartfelt stories of those who appeared before him.
