Famous birthdays for June 11: Anna Sawai, Peter Dinklage
1 of 3 | Anna Sawai, winner of Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for "Shōgun," appears backstage during the 31st annual SAG Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on February 23. The actor/singer turns 33 on June 11. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
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1 of 5 | Michelle Monaghan discussed making out with Tom Cruise for "Mission: Impossible III" Wednesday on "The Tonight Show." File Photo by Rune Hellestad/ UPI | License Photo June 12 (UPI) -- White Lotus actress Michelle Monaghan discussed what it was like filming a Tom Cruise kiss on her honeymoon when she stopped by The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday. Monaghan, 49, shared the story after Fallon congratulated her on her upcoming 20th wedding anniversary to husband Peter White. The couple's wedding coincided with Monaghan's filming for Mission: Impossible III. "My husband's Australian, so we got married in Australia, actually and we didn't have time for a honeymoon because we had to start filming, I think, three days later, so we flew back to LA," she said. She recalled receiving her call sheet and seeing that her first day would require her to film "an intimate scene with Tom Cruise." "I was so nervous about it," Monaghan said. "I get up at 4 a.m., I dart out of the hotel, I forget my key, of course. And I go to work, and I proceed to have the best day with Tom and J.J. Abrams, our director." When she arrived back at the hotel that evening, her husband said "brush your teeth and tell me all about it." "He looked at me and he grabbed my arms and he goes, 'How cool is it that you were making out with Tom Cruise on our honeymoon?'" she said. "... I married the right dude." Monaghan recently starred in Season 3 of The White Lotus. She portrayed actress Jaclyn, who was vacationing at a luxury resort in Thailand with longtime friends Laurie (Carrie Coon) and Kate (Leslie Bibb). 'The White Lotus' stars walk the red carpet Leslie Bibb arrives for the Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 15, 2024. Bibb portrays Kate Bohr in "The White Lotus" Season 3. Photo by Chris Chew/UPI | License Photo
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Luke's ready to tango with Carrie-Anne Moss' spy in 'Fubar' S2
NEW YORK, June 12 (UPI) -- Terminator and True Lies icon Arnold Schwarzenegger says Luke Brunner, the CIA operative he plays in Fubar, has to face his past if he wants to stop a villain (Carrie-Anne Moss) from destroying the world in Season 2. "It was great to have the family back together again and it was great, also, to have Carrie-Anne (Moss) come in and be part of that family and we had a wonderful time in Fubar Season No. 2," Schwarzenegger, 77, told UPI in a Zoom interview Tuesday. "The writers and the showrunners ramped up the action. They ramped up the comedy, the drama and all of that stuff," he said. "It's a fantastic job in a fantastic project to work on and to be up there in Canada and to work with such talented people has been a really great pleasure." Season 1 ended with Tally Brunner (Fabiana Udenio) discovering both her ex-husband Luke and their daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro) are secret agents who have been lying to her for years about their globe-trotting adventures. After a dangerous mission goes sideways, Luke, Tally and Emma, as well as Luke's team -- Barry (Milan Carter), Roo (Fortune Feimster) and Aldon (Travis Van Winkle) -- end up in the witness protection program, sharing a house with Tally's miserable former fiance Donnie (Andy Buckley) and Emma's ex, Carter, (Jay Baruchel). Luke never liked keeping his identity a secret from his loved ones, but he did so because of the sensitivity of his missions and his determination to keep his family safe from the bad guys he was constantly running up against. "There's stuff that even I cannot have my teammates know about," Schwarzenegger said about Luke's need to be mysterious. "So, everyone has to keep a secret from everyone else. I, of course, can be as big a spy and successful a spy in the outside world, but, when I come back home, I have the same kind of problems as I always had." After decades of death-defying missions, Luke is finally ready to give it all up and relax, but his country always seems to need him. "Every time I come home, I say, 'OK, now I'm going to retire and I'm going to go and take my wife on a boat ride around the world,'" Schwarzenegger said. "Then, some incident happens again and I get pulled out of retirement and I'm back again on the job. So, that has been going on and the same thing is going on in Fubar 2, except it is more intense, more action and more comedy." The Matrix and Jessica Jones actress Moss, 57, joins the cast for Season 2 as Greta Nelson, Luke's nemesis and former lover. "She's just off her marbles. She's so fun. She's so out there. She's, obviously, very, very stealthy and incredible at what she does, being a spy," Moss said. "She also has a bit of insanity to her and has got nothing to lose, really," the actress added. "She loves what she does and she's in love with Luke and I loved playing her." Greta is over-the-top in the best possible ways, she noted. "There was nothing that was too big, I think, in playing her," Moss said. "I love to play those kinds of characters where nothing is off the table. You can just kind of go all the way." Schwarzenegger described Greta as an "old love interest that I have known for decades that helped me bring down the Berlin Wall and bring down communism." "Now all of a sudden, we pick it up again, decades later. We're different people. I still work for the same government, but she works for a different villain. And, so, this is how this relationship begins," he explained. Moss was thrilled when she read the scripts and found most of her scenes were with Schwarzenegger. "Once, I said 'yes' to it, I couldn't wait to meet him. I just had this feeling that we were going to really get along well and we did," she recalled. "We had so much fun rehearsing for our dance number and practicing the fights and working out in the gym and then having a meal or being on the set and doing our scenes and then sitting, having a coffee." She said she enjoyed watching how Schwarzenegger captivated the cast and crew with stories from his long Hollywood career. "I could sit for hours, listening to them. He's just a joy to be around. From the moment I said, 'yes,' I just knew it was going to be a great experience and it really was," Moss added. Asked how the action sequences of Fubar Season 2 could possibly top those in the first season, Schwarzenegger replied: "You always can top it, but it's not so much to do with me, it has to do with the writing and they did a really fantastic job."
