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Perth Now
2 days ago
- Perth Now
Quentin Tarantino explains why he pulled the plug on The Movie Critic
Quentin Tarantino "wasn't really that excited" about The Movie Critic. The 62-year-old director has long declared he will retire after making his 10th movie and after previously announcing what his last project would be, it was revealed last April he had had a change of heart, and he's now shared some insight into his decision. Speaking on The Church of Tarantino podcast, the Kill Bill filmmaker was "very happy" with what he had originally written as an eight-part series before turning it into a script for a feature film, but ultimately lost enthusiasm in pre-production. He said: 'No one's waiting for this thing per se. I mean, I can do it whenever I want. I mean, it's already written. So OK, let me just not start it right now. 'Let me try writing it as a movie and let me see if it's better that way. And I was like, 'Oh, OK, no, I think this is going to be the movie.' And then it wasn't. I pulled the plug on it. And the reason I pulled the plug, it's a little crazy.' Tarantino noted he "really,really likes" The Movie Critic but it had given him a "challenge". He said: "There was a challenge that I gave to myself when I did it. Can I take the most boring profession in the world and make it an interesting movie? 'Every Tarantino title promises so much, except The Movie Critic. 'Who wants to see a TV show about a f***ing movie critic? Who wants to see a movie called The Movie Critic? If I can actually make a movie or a TV show about somebody who watches movies interesting, that is an accomplishment... "'I was so excited about the writing, but I wasn't really that excited about dramatising what I wrote once we were in pre-production.' Tarantino dismissed reports that Brad Pitt would reprise his One Upon a Time... in Hollywood character Cliff Booth for The Movie Critic. He said: 'It's a spiritual sequel to Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood in so far as they take place in the same world and they take place in the same town. But there were no crossover characters. Cliff Booth was never in The Movie Critic. That's all a bunch of bull****. That never was the case ever, ever, ever.' The director had set The Movie Critic in California in 1977 and it was 'based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.' While there were no plans for Brad to return as Cliff in the film, the actor will be portraying the stuntman again in Netflix's upcoming off-shoot The Adventures of Cliff Booth, which will be directed by David Fincher.
News.com.au
10-07-2025
- News.com.au
‘Do other women have this problem?' And Just Like That star's sex scene confession
And Just Like That star Sarita Choudhury had addressed what it's like shooting awkward sex scenes – and the reason she is 'almost embarrassed' by them. 'I'm like, how do they know that? You think it's personal to you,' the British-Indian actor said. '[You think] do other women have this problem? A lot that happens to us in life, you might tell your one friend, you're not talking to everyone about it. 'Usually in any of the bed scenes, I find the most comedy.' The 58-year-old plays Seema Patel on AJLT, which is currently airing its third season. Seema is a leopard-print wearing and Birkin bag toting real estate agent working in Manhattan, and a close friend of Carrie Bradshaw's (Sarah Jessica Parker), filling the kind of sexually liberated role famously and formerly filled by Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall). An accomplished actor, Choudhury made her Hollywood debut opposite Denzel Washington in Mira Nair's 1991 drama Mississippi Masala, and had a starring role in hit TV series Homeland, among other projects. Asked about the importance of cultural representation in Hollywood, Choudhury remarks: 'It is so important. As an actor, I look for [the] character. And then because I have brown skin, and I'm Indian, that's going to come in naturally as opposed to the writers informing me how to do that'. 'With And Just Like That, one of the first things I saw was – oh, she smokes, she walks, she says it. I was like, this is exciting. This is not a stereotype.' Sitting down with Stellar from New York, Choudhury says she takes inspiration from Seema's self-confidence, which she muses was likely built from 'maybe not fitting in'. 'Often what looks like confidence comes from, you know, maybe not fitting in,' she said. 'I think you develop your strength, because you have no choice. I think Seema comes from that kind of root. 'I'm of colour, and it doesn't matter what school I went to, I was always the different one. 'You find tricks and you are also like, f-off to anyone who doesn't get it, as you go home and cry. Now, she's like whatever.' While Fendi and Dior are staples of Choudhury's on-screen wardrobe, her personal style is less like Seema's in real life. 'I like things to look normal within the glamour,' she said. 'When people tell you, no, no, no, you've got to do this! People actually want your original truth. 'Yes, it has to be packaged a bit at the beginning. In a moment of a scene, you can just stare at someone in a certain way, no one can control that. It's actually more work to be yourself but it's worth it.' The latest season of And Just Like That – the buzzy reboot of groundbreaking series, Sex and the City – has been widely criticised, including this week for a bizarre inconsistency surrounding the death of Lisa Todd Wexley's father twice. It led New York magazine's influential Vulture blog to ask: 'Could the loony bin known as the AJLT writers' room have made such a big continuity error?' In his popular Substack, writer Evan Ross Katz analysed what he called 'The Curious Case of LTW's Father's Multiple Deaths'. While not commenting on the criticisms, Choudhury said she had felt more embedded into the cast – and role, while shooting the third season. 'I feel so much more settled and also, more alive. Now, I know how to wear high heels well, I know how to open all my purses quickly. 'I enjoy her pace, I know how to study for it. It's less uncertain and scary and it allows me to take in everyone,' she said, referring to her co-stars including Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. 'By season three now, it's completely at ease. I don't think twice about running into any of their dressing rooms to ask them advice or a question. 'If we're lucky to be in a location ... there are crowds. We can't even hang out! We can't go to the next restaurant and just sit outside. That's not possible. 'Sometimes, we visit each other at our houses, where there is certain privacy. 'My most fun these days is when we're in the makeup room together and we gossip. Because we know each other more, it's a shorthand.' It's a contrast to the reality Choudhury faced in the show's first season, when she admits she 'was a little terrified, let's be honest'. 'It was exciting to get the news that I was going to do this and at the same time, how was I going to do this? 'I knew this show was under the world's eye – like, people have a lot of love towards the history of the show. And their history with the show. It was scary. 'By the time season one finished, I started to think, oh, this could be fun! Season two you don't know if you can repeat what you did in season one. 'By season three, I realised it's not me playing a character, it's these friends pulling me in. You start to earn that over the seasons. I feel so comfortable with the ladies.' New episodes of And Just Like That … are out every Friday in Australia on Max. The latest issue of Stellar is out on Sunday, inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland) and Sunday Mail (SA).
Perth Now
11-06-2025
- Perth Now
'World-first' Abbey Road proposal inspires new song
A couple's proposal has inspired a new record. Christina Teenz Tan and Ron Danziger got engaged inside London's Abbey Road's Studio One in November 2021, while they were recording their co-written track Pie-in-the-Sky - will have their new song Timeless be performed by 2022 Britain's Got Talent star Tom Ball. Like Pie-in-the-Sky, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Voices Choir, conducted by Robert Zeigler, recorded with Tom for the single - which will be released on June 27. The song - which has won 40 international awards for excellence in music and artistic direction - celebrates the preciousness of a bond that transcends time, culture, and the human experience. It was composed by Danziger with lyrics by Tan, arranged by Manu Martin, directed by Susan Lim and co-produced by Lim and Martin. The track was mastered by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone - two of the industry's most respected engineers with a combined 12 Grammy Awards, having worked with Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, and more. Ron and Christina will walk down the aisle to 'Timeless' when they marry at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles on June 14. It will then be performed in St Giles Church, London on June 19 as part of the Summer Music in City Churches Festival. Ron, the composer, said: 'Timeless captures the essence of our story—one of deep connection across worlds of science and music. To celebrate our wedding with this piece feels like coming full circle.' Christina, the songwriter, added: 'Writing the lyrics to Timeless was a way of capturing how I saw our journey then. Hearing it now—fully realised with an orchestra, and sung on stage—it feels like our love set to music.' Hear 'Timeless' live in London on June 19, by booking tickets through Pre-order the single by visiting
