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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Love Island USA' Unveils Season 7 Cast
'Love Island USA' has unveiled its cast for its upcoming Season 7, and the islanders are ready for a summer of love and drama. The 10 new contestants hail from all across the country, from Los Angeles to Miami to Honolulu, with jobs ranging from a poolman, a cowboy and an employee at a family-owned coffee shop, Peacock announced Wednesday alongside a teaser introducing the cast. Hosted by Ariana Madix and narrated by Iain Stirling, Season 7 of 'Love Island USA' premieres Tuesday, June 3, with new episodes dropping every day at 6 p.m. PT/9pm ET during premiere week. After premiere week, new episodes will stream Thursdays through Tuesdays. Additionally, 'Love Island: Aftersun,' which recaps each week's drama with interviews from cast members, will return for Season 7 every Saturday, beginning June 7. Hosts for this season's 'Aftersun,' which was hosted by former Islander Maura Higgins, will be announced soon. See the full list of new islanders below: Ace Greene, Los Angeles, California Austin Shepard, Northville, Michigan Belle-A Walker, Honolulu, Hawaii Chelley Bissainthe, Orlando, Florida Huda Mustafa, Raleigh, North Carolina Jeremiah Brown, Los Angeles, California Nicolas Vansteenberghe, Jacksonville, Florida Olandria Carthen, Decatur, Alabama Taylor Williams, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Yulissa Escobar, Miami, Florida Season 7 has some hefty shoes to fill after last year's Season 6 entered the cultural zeitgeist and social media chatter in a way the U.S. spinoff series had never done before. Season 6 was the first installment hosted by Madix, who undoubtably brought some 'Vanderpump Rules' fans into the reality dating show's audience, and featured fan-favorites Leah Kateb, JaNa Craig and Serena Page, whom audiences lovingly dubbed the P.P.G., a.k.a., the Powerpuff Girls. The Season 6 cast was so loved that Peacock greenlit a spinoff, titled 'Love Island: Beyond the Villa,' which follows the islanders around Los Angeles as they navigate new careers, evolving friendships, newfound fame and complex relationships outside of the Love Island villa, per the official logline. The post 'Love Island USA' Unveils Season 7 Cast appeared first on TheWrap.
RTÉ News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Paul Mescal dons monochrome look for Cannes film premiere
Paul Mescal made a glamorous appearance at the 78th Cannes Film Festival last night, where he attended the premiere of his newest film, The History of Sound. Established in 1946, and running this year from Tue, May 13, 2025 – Sat, May 24, 2025, the festival has been one of the most watched events in the celebrity and fashion calendar, with some of fashion history's most memorable looks appearing on the steps of the Palais des Festivals. Mescal had landed in the chic French city days before his event, attending the Kering Women in Motion gala alongside Charli XCX, Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek and more. Styled by Felicity Kay, his ensemble was typically eye-catching: a Gucci suit with a pale cream shirt accented with a gold hoop. The look certainly set the tone for what the Aftersun star would wear for his premiere. Also styled by Kay, Mescal stepped out in a monochromatic black outfit by Gucci, pairing a sharply tailored black blazer with flared black trousers and a matching black shirt that had a loose, retro-inspired tie detail. He finished his look with black dress shoes and a gold earring. Also walking the red carpet for the premiere was singer Gracie Abrams, who is believed to be dating Mescal, and who wore an elegant black midi-length dress by Chanel, with beaded straps and a matching shawl. Supermodel Coco Rocha turned heads in her red carpet look, wearing a design by Inout Ravzan that was made to resemble multiple shirt collars. She paired that with towering hair and statement earrings.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yes, Paul Mescal can sing in 'The History of Sound'
CANNES, France — If you are not perpetually online, you may have missed a TikTok titled 'Paul Mescal Having Pipes for a Minute Straight.' Ardent fans already know that Mescal — jovial Irish lad IRL and incredibly talented sad boy from 'Normal People,' 'All of Us Strangers' and 'Aftersun' — can sing. They've circulated 2012 clips of him playing Javert in 'Les Misérables' and the titular role in 'Phantom of the Opera,' both from when he was 16 and in high school. Occasionally, the actor, 29, has posted videos of himself playing piano and singing at home, including a lovely, impressive duet of 'Nothing Arrived' by Irish indie folk group Villagers alongside Mescal's sister, Nell. He's also been a surprise guest vocalist at a concert of Irish singer Dermot Kennedy, played guitar and sang in a music video for a mostly songless film adaptation of the opera 'Carmen,' and even performed a musical parody of 'Gladiator II' on SNL in 2024 — which may be the first time the public became aware of those pipes. That word, though, hadn't quite gone international, judging from the pleasantly surprised gasps, impressed murmurs and longing sighs that echoed throughout the theater during the premiere of Mescal's singing-infused period epic, 'The History of Sound,' at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night. Ever since the film — a quiet, heartbreaking gay romance set in and around World War I — was announced as a Cannes selection, there have been two burning questions: How's the chemistry between its co-stars, Mescal and Josh O'Connor — two of the biggest young actors of the moment? And how's Mescal's singing? Reviews have been giving shockingly little space to either of these very important topics, so it seemed imperative to dive in. The sepia-toned film — from South African director Oliver Hermanus ('Moffie,' 'Living'), with a script that Ben Shattuck adapted from his own short story — is told from the perspective of Mescal's Lionel, a farm boy raised on guitar-plucked folk songs in rural Kentucky who has both synesthesia and a voice that lands him at the Boston Conservatory of Music. At a bar, Lionel overhears a fellow music student, O'Connor's David at the piano playing a song Lionel's father used to sing to him. Soon, David gets the entire bar to quiet down and cajoles the much-shier Lionel into singing a traditional ballad for him, 'Silver Dagger,' which is essentially a mother's warning to her daughter about men. The only sound in the scene is Mescal's absolutely angelic voice, until David, listening intently, starts accompanying him on piano. Mescal brings a sense of utter joy to Lionel as he sings; this is what he loves more than anything in the world. And you can tell from O'Connor's face that David is mesmerized. It's hard for the audience not to be, too. David immediately begs Lionel to sing him every folk song he knows. That lesson turns into many other joyous nights around the piano, and eventually a night when David asks Lionel to walk him home and the two take their bond to its natural next step. After being torn apart by war, they embark on a blissful summer together hiking through Maine to 'collect' recordings of American folk songs on wax cylinders. There are long dialogue-free stretches, and even when the men are talking, an economy of words. The end of that summer is perhaps the film's greatest tragedy. Early reviews of the film and singing have been mixed. The film's tone was too 'listless' for some, and the BBC's Nicholas Barber wrote that 'Mescal's singing never sounds any better than anyone else's in the film.' Still, his many plaintive renditions of American heritage songs — which were stuck in this viewer's head for days — are deeply felt. 'The power of the music alone makes it one of the most unabashedly romantic LGBTQ films in recent memory,' wrote David Rooney of the Hollywood Reporter. Much of the premiere audience had no quibbles, and seemed primed to love anything Mescal did. The two young women sitting next to this reporter were practically shaking with excitement that they'd scored last-minute seats, and sighed deeply every time Mescal let that lovely voice fly. The actor got a 'We love you, Paul!' shouted from the balcony, and a prolonged standing ovation once the movie ended. Mescal said during Thursday's news conference that he's long been surrounded by the kind of traditional Irish music that influenced so much of the American folk music in the film, 'so it's music that I grew up being familiar with,' he said. (O'Connor couldn't attend the premiere because he's filming Stephen Spielberg's untitled new sci-fi film with Emily Blunt. Rooney accurately describes his charming singing style as 'tuneful' but 'with more gusto than vocal skill.') This film is, bar none, the most of Mescal's singing his fans will hear yet — at least until he finally gets the Broadway musical he's broadcasted wanting to do. As for the chemistry question, the actors are overflowing with it. 'Josh is one of the easiest people to build chemistry with,' Mescal said at the news conference. '[Josh] has a great gift [in that] the person the general public sees is very close to the person we know,' Mescal continued. 'That's a very difficult thing for an actor to do in today's age.' The two men were attached to the film as it developed for four or five years and already came to know each other well. For three or four weeks, they filmed in the woods together, sharing inside jokes and warming up in cars instead of film trailers. On-screen, that gravitational pull is rarely shown with the touching of flesh, but rather through loving, sometimes lustful gazes and dialogue laden with unspoken meaning. More than a few critics brought up parallels to 'Brokeback Mountain,' Ang Lee's celebrated 2005 story of repression and longing among cowboys. Mescal pushed back on that notion in the news conference: 'I personally don't see the parallels to 'Brokeback Mountain,' other than we spend a little bit of time in a tent, but to each their own.' He added, 'To be honest, I find those comparisons relatively lazy and frustrating. For the most part, I think that the relationship that I have to the film is born out of the fact that it's a celebration of these two men's love, not a film about their repressed relationship with their sexuality.' Mubi bought the film out of Cannes and will be bringing it to North America sometime this year. The exact release date is unknown, but it will surely be accompanied by new TikToks of Mescal having pipes, and rightly so.
France 24
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- France 24
Arts 24 in Cannes: Paul Mescal Talks Chemistry with Josh O'Connor in 'The History of Sound'
Culture 11:22 From the show Culture editor Eve Jackson brings us another special programme from the Cannes Film Festival. Today, we talk to actor Paul Mescal about his new film "The History of Sound", the moving gay love story starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor, premiering at the festival. Paul, fresh off his Oscar nomination for "Aftersun" and his role in "Gladiator 2", shares how he and Josh created undeniable on-screen chemistry in this intimate drama. Eve also speaks to the film's director Oliver Hermanus about bringing this touching story of love and memory to life. Plus, we'll take you behind the glamour of the Cannes red carpet with Eva Longoria and explore the films that have captivated audiences this year.
Extra.ie
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Paul Mescal to make debut at MAJOR summer festival
The event will kick off on Wednesday, June 25 Paul Mescal will speak at a Q&A for a screening of his film Aftersun at this year's Pilton Palais, the Glastonbury Festival cinema tent. Today's top videos STORY CONTINUES BELOW The 2022 independent drama, which received critical acclaim and earned Mescal his first Oscar nomination, will be shown alongside a selection of films including Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17, the Leonardo DiCaprio drama The Beach and the documentary One to One: John & Yoko. Mescal also participated in the event last year, when he spoke with his co-star Andrew Scott about their film All of Us Strangers. 'The Pilton Palais team is proud to present this year's programme, which happens to be more star-studded than ever before, with more A-list guests supporting screenings and participating in Q&AS of their films', said the festival in a statement. Other celebrity guests coming to the cinema tent include Tilda Swinton, Margot Robbie, Andrew Garfield, Ncuti Gatwa and Jodie Comer. Bastille frontman Dan Smith will also be attending to pay a tribute to the late David Lynch before the screening of Wild At Heart. The cinema tent, which has a capacity of 1100, will be hosting events throughout the five-day festival. Glastonbury Festival is set to take a 'fallow year' in 2026, in keeping with the event's tradition to protect the environment. The festival will return the following year. Irish acts at the UK festival include Kneecap, Inhaler, The Script, CMAT and Snow Patrol. Ticket information can be found here.
