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Vogue
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Alexander Skarsgard, Zoe Saldana, and Co. Join Cartier in Stockholm for a High Jewelry Affair
Cartier feted the debut of its newest high jewelry collection, En Equilibre, in Stockholm last night. The collection showcased the jewelry house's approach to balance: no overwhelming metalwork, space for the impressive stones to breathe in the designs, and a purposeful use of color and form to accentuate and complement each element of the pieces. The Cartier high jewelry collection. Photo: Courtesy of Cartier The Cartier high jewelry collection. Photo: Courtesy of Cartier The exhibition, tucked up an impressive staircase from the water's edge, was bookended by activations, one showcasing artisans hard at work, the other the Swedish art of fika, or coffee, sweet treats, and conversation. Another surprising element was the stone room, which showcased a selection of exceptional stones not yet made into a jewelry piece. Suggested designs sat alongside the gems, but the final creations will ultimately be up to the client and whichever paraibas, corals, sapphires, diamonds, or emeralds she, or he, desires. Alexander Skarsgard, fresh from the Cannes Film Festival, in a Cartier panthère brooch. Photo: Courtesy of Cartier For the evening portion, guests arrived via boat and walked up a trail through the scenic woods, the modern gallery appearing out of almost nowhere. Friends of the house Zoe Saldana and Deepika Padukone both wore impressive pieces from the collection, Padukone opting for a necklace with a 58.08-carat cabochon sapphire center stone surrounded by a rippling of diamonds, and Saldana, a more colorful set of emeralds and spinels. Shogun actress Anna Sawai dazzled in a rubelite and diamond set, while local guest Alexander Skarsgard, fresh from the Cannes Film Festival where his outfits were the talk of the town, chose a brooch pinned at his shirt collar—a hunk of yellow beryl in the paws of the Cartier panthère. All four seemed happy to engage with the global media in attendance.
Newsweek
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
25 Best TV Shows That Released in 2025
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Looking for the best new TV shows to watch right now? You're in the right place. In this article we're running down the 25 highest-rated shows that released in 2025, ranked by Rotten Tomatoes according to both critical and audience review scores. That includes brilliant limited series like Netflix's Toxic Town and Adolescence, fantasy epics like Prime Video's The Wheel of Time Season 3, and spectacular superhero animations like Disney+'s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Expect quality, as well as a few surprise wildcard entries. Murderbot stars Alexander Skarsgard Murderbot stars Alexander Skarsgard Apple TV+ The year is far from finished, but there's hours upon hours of amazing content to watch on TV. So scroll down to see the perfect shows to stream, ranked in order of their review scores, and which streaming service you can catch them. Best TV Shows 2025 1: Poker Face: Season 2 Tomatometer 100% Popcornmeter 64% Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Katie Holmes, John Mulaney, Cynthia Erivo Where to watch: Peacock 2: Common Side Effects Tomatometer 100% Popcornmeter 89% Starring: Dave King, Emily Pendergast, Mike Judge, Martha Kelly Where to watch: Adult Swim, Max, and Max's Amazon Channel 3: Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light: Season 2 Tomatometer 100% Popcornmeter 78% Starring: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Timothy Spall, Claire Foy Where to watch: PBS 4: The Narrow Road to the Deep North Tomatometer 100% Popcornmeter 68% Starring: Jacob Elordi, Odessa Young, Masa Yamaguchi, Max Berkman Where to watch: Prime Video 5: Murderbot Tomatometer 98% Popcornmeter 76% Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu Where to watch: Apple TV+ 6: Get Millie Black Tomatometer 100% Popcornmeter 74% Starring: Tamara Lawrance, Joe Dempsie, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Chyna McQueen Where to watch: Max 7: North of North Tomatometer 100% Popcornmeter 79% Starring: Anna Lambe, Maika Harper, Tanya Tagaq, Jay Ryan Where to watch: Netflix 8: Toxic Town Tomatometer 100% Popcornmeter 83% Starring: Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood, Claudia Jessie, Robert Carlyle Where to watch: Netflix 9: Adolescence Tomatometer 99% Popcornmeter 73% Starring: Ashley Walters, Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Faye Marsay Where to watch: Netflix 10: Andor: Season 2 Tomatometer 97% Popcornmeter 88% Starring: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O'Reilly, Forest Whitaker Where to watch: Disney+ 11: Dying for Sex Tomatometer 98% Popcornmeter 80% Starring: Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Rob Delaney, Jay Duplass Where to watch: Disney+, Hulu 12: Reacher: Season 3 Tomatometer 98% Popcornmeter 73% Starring: Alan Ritchson, Willa Fitzgerald, Malcolm Goodwin, Sonya Cassidy Where to watch: Prime Video 13: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Tomatometer 97% Popcornmeter 62% Starring: Hudson Thames, Eugene Byrd, Grace Song, Hugh Dancy Where to watch: Disney+ 14: Hacks: Season 4 Tomatometer 97% Popcornmeter 64% Starring: Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Rose Abdoo Where to watch: Max 15: Ludwig Tomatometer 97% Popcornmeter 85% Starring: David Mitchell, Anna Maxwell Martin, Dipo Ola, Sophie Willan Where to watch: Britbox, BBC iPlayer 16: The Rehearsal: Season 2 Tomatometer 97% Popcornmeter 94% Starring: Nathan Fielder Where to watch: Max 17: The Wheel of Time: Season 3 Tomatometer 97% Popcornmeter 83% Starring: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Josha Stradowski, Madeleine Madden Where to watch: Prime Video 18: High Potential Tomatometer 96% Popcornmeter 81% Starring: Kaitlin Olson, Daniel Sunjata, Javicia Leslie, Deniz Akdeniz Where to watch: Disney+ 19: Deli Boys Tomatometer 96% Popcornmeter 86% Starring: Frank Rizzo, John Fiorentino, Andrew B. Lipson, Zimbo Gessert Where to watch: Disney+ 20: Mo: Season 2 Tomatometer 96% Popcornmeter 91% Starring: Mohammed Amer, Teresa Ruiz, Farah Bsieso, Omar Elba Where to watch: Netflix 21: #1 Happy Family USA Tomatometer 96% Popcornmeter Pending Starring: Ramy Youssef, Alia Shawkat, Salma Hindy, Randa Jarrar Where to watch: Prime Video 22: Doctor Who: Season 2 Tomatometer 96% Popcornmeter 58% Starring: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Millie Gibson, Michelle Greenidge Where to watch: Disney+, BBC iPlayer 23: The Last of Us: Season 2 Tomatometer 95% Popcornmeter 39% Starring: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey Where to watch: Max 24: The Pitt Tomatometer 95% Popcornmeter 84% Starring: Noah Wyle, Patrick Ball, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif Where to watch: Max 25: Forever Tomatometer 96% Popcornmeter 92% Starring: Xavier Mills, Lovie Simone, Michael Cooper Jr., Gabriella Martinez Where to watch: Netflix
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
X-rated BDSM film starring Harry Potter actor edited down due to extreme sex scenes and nudity
One of the most critically-acclaimed movies to screen at Cannes this year has been edited down due to its graphic nature. Pillion, which stars Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling, 36, who played Dudley Dursley, is a gay BDSM-themed romance from first-time feature writer-director Harry Lighton. The movie received an eight-minute standing ovation, but Lighton admits that the version screened at the iconic film festival had been edited down significantly due to its graphic sex scenes. 'It was purely because I didn't want to push the audience into feeling they were being deliberately shocked by an image,' he explained to Variety. 'So for example, there was one close up of a d**k, a hard d**k … like down the barrel of the lens. And after watching the film on that "f**k-off" screen I thought, yeah, cutting it was probably the right decision!' Skarsgard chimed in, 'There's definitely a raunchier version of this movie … what you've seen is the family friendly version… there's also the Alexander Skarsgard cut.' Lighton admits that Pillion may need to undergo even more edits to ensure that it can get a US release. The film explores the BDSM relationship between a gay biker and a parking attendant - with the project earning rapturous applause at the premiere. A synopsis reads: 'Colin, a timid man, meets Ray, a confident biker gang leader, who initiates him into a submissive relationship, challenging Colin's mundane existence and prompting personal growth through their unconventional dynamic.' Before the screening, director Lighton said he wanted the film 'to make you laugh, make you think, make you feel and make you horny.' The film features explicit sex scenes and kinky BDSM costumes but Cannes audiences were still lapping it up. Melling stars as shy Colin, whose humdrum life in the suburbs is blown apart when he meets Skarsgard's character Ray. Ray strikes up a sexual relationship with Colin and integrates him into his queer biker milieu, injecting his life with a fresh dose of excitement and mystique. However Colin eventually starts to feel stifled by the fact that he always has to occupy the submissive role in his dynamic with Ray. Skarsgard has spoken freely in the past about how comfortable he is playing nude scenes, quipping to uInterview: 'I'm Scandinavian, godda***it! We love to be naked.' The Swedish hunk is also no stranger to gay sex scenes, thanks to his star-making turn on the vampire show True Blood. One of the scenes was with heterosexual actor Theo Alexander, whose anxiety Alexander had to help assuage before they shot the sequence. 'He's also a straight guy and he was nervous; he had never kissed a guy before,' Alexander explained in an interview with PrideSource. He said to Theo, 'Look at the scene. It's this nemesis and he comes in and then it gets seductive and you think they're gonna make love and it gets into that and then suddenly my character stabs him in the back and he explodes.' The actor added, 'In two minutes, look at this emotional rollercoaster we're taking the audience on. If we commit to this, it's going to be an amazing scene and we're going to be very happy with it forever. If we hold back, that's when it gets awkward.' Skarsgard is himself heterosexual and is in a long-term relationship with Swedish actress Tuva Novotny, with whom he welcomed a baby in 2022.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alexander Skarsgård's short shorts have the gays going wild: 'I wanted to be sexy today'
Alexander Skarsgård is making yet another splash with his bold fashion choices, this time appearing on the ITV talk show, Lorraine, on Friday wearing teeny tiny shorts. Guest host Ranvir Singh quickly drew attention to the True Blood star's outfit, complimenting how "out there and free" he is with his style. "I wanted to be sexy today," he admitted, "and I thought there's nothing sexier than a middle-aged man in a British schoolboy uniform." Per Singh's request, Skarsgård subsequently stood to show off his legs properly, and audiences were very pleased with the whole situation. — (@) "He's so babygirl here" — (@) "Alexander Skarsgard is so Miu Miu it-girl coded. In another universe, he's Miuccia Prada's muse." — (@) "Celebrities being fun again is so wholesome to see" — (@) "alexander skarsgård on 'lorraine': ''So great to have Alexander Skarsgàrd in the studio looking as stylish as ever!'" — (@) "He just understands the vibe in a way that almost no other actor does, like this diva is feeling the FANTASY" This certainly wasn't the only time Skarsgård has turned heads with his fashion lately. Appearing at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, he threw on some thigh-high leather boots over an otherwise normal tailored Skarsgård attends the "The Phoenician Scheme" red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 18, 2025 in Cannes, France. The fetish-adjacent choice was purposeful — meant as a nod to his role as the BDSM-enthusiast leader of a biker gang in the upcoming Pillion. Of course, fans will also consider it reminiscent of the time he donned a collar and leash for Infinity Pool press back in Skarsgård attends 2023 Sundance Film Festival "Infinity Pool" Premiere at The Ray Theatre on January 21, 2023 in Park City, Utah. Oh, then there was that time he just skipped pants altogether for the 2016 MTV Movie MTV Alexander Skarsgard (L) and Samuel L. Jackson speak onstage during the 2016 MTV Movie Awards at Warner Bros. Studios on April 9, 2016 in Burbank, California. Keep doing what you're doing, sir!
The Sun
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Lorraine viewers shocked as Hollywood superstar ‘forgets his trousers' and appears in tiny hotpants
ALEXANDER Skarsgård seemed to have left his trousers at home during an appearance on Lorraine saying he wanted "to be sexy." The Swedish star was in London to promote his new Apple TV+ series, Murderbot, wearing nothing but a waist-length jacket which hid a pair of blue shorts as he was seated. 4 4 Alexander sat down with Ranvir Singh on Friday's installment of the ITV show, fresh off his high-fashion, headline grabbing red carpet outfits at the Cannes Film Festival. Ranvir pointed out his choice of outfit saying: "Your fashion, and can I just mention it today, you've got your legs out. "You're wearing shorts, which is the theme of the fashion segment today. Your fashion is so out there and free," she added referring to his Cannes outfits. He thanked her and added he chose the outfit because: "I wanted to be sexy today." "There's nothing sexier than a middle-aged man in a British schoolboy uniform." Ranvir then asked the actor to stand up and show off his outfit, which he obliged by standing with his arms up and doing a little curtsy. People watching at home reacted to Alexander's outfit on X, formerly Twitter. "Alexander Skarsgard on #Lorraine was an experience.... There was no shot without knee in it, then he stood up... wow.... Someone forgot his trousers again. Seeing a theme here sir!" wrote one person. Another added: "Alexandra Skarsgard is an ICON." And a third commented: "'He's still gorgeous, regardless of his odd fashion choices." Why Swedish People Are the Sexiest in the World: Celebrities and Science Alexander rose to fame thanks to his breakthrough performance on HBO vampire drama, True Blood. He is an Emmy and Golden Globe winner thank to his role opposite Nicole Kidman in another HBO drama, Big Little Lies. Alexander's other TV credits include Succession and The Stand. He has also starred in movies such as, Zoolander, The Northman and The Legend of Tarzan. The actor's new series, Muderbot, sees him play a robot who acquires human feelings, but must hide its free will to complete a dangerous assignment, but when all he really wants to do is watch futuristic soap operas. 4 4
