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The Sun
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Axed Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa reveals new job after BBC show exit
AXED Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has revealed a huge new job after his BBC show exit. We previously revealed that the former Sex Education star was given the boot by bosses after just two series. 5 Ncuti, 32, has left the long-running drama after 'woke' storylines have seen ratings plummet in recent years. The actor is off after just two series with no replacement likely for the Time Lord's regeneration on May 31. Now, the actor is quickly moving on as he has just announced his next project on social media. He will stay in the upcoming satirical black comedy film called The Roses. The star took to his Instagram stories as he displayed the poster of the Hollywood movie, alongside a simple rose and red heart emoji. It features a completely star-studded cast of Hollywood A-listers and Oscar winners. Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, and I, Tonya star Allison Janney all have leading roles in the new flick. While former Saturday Night Live favourites Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon will also have feature roles. The news comes after Ncuti backed out of announcing the UK's jury scores in last weekend's Eurovision Song Contest. He pulled out of his commitments just 48 hours before he was due to appear in front of 160million people. Doctor Who's wokest ever lead star Ncuti Gatwa axed after just two series with show set to be paused after ratings nosedive At the time, the corporation confirmed he would no longer be involved, citing 'unforeseen circumstances' and he was replaced by Sophie Ellis-Bextor. This was amid controversy among some at Israel's inclusion in the global singing competition and Ncuti stepped aside moments after Israel qualified for the grand final. A TV insider said: "If the final nail wasn't already in the coffin, it was well and truly hammered in after that. "Bosses were incredibly disappointed. Ncuti, as the Doctor, is one of the corporation's most high-profile faces. Who has starred in Doctor Who? Which actors have portrayed the famous Time Lord over the years? First Doctor: William Hartnell (1963 - 1966) Second Doctor: Patrick Troughton (1966 - 1969) Third Doctor: Jon Pertwee (1970 - 1974) Fourth Doctor: Tom Baker (1974 - 1981) Fifth Doctor: Peter Davidson (1982 - 1984) Sixth Doctor: Colin Baker (1984 - 1986) Seventh Doctor: Sylvester McCoy (1987 - 1989) Eighth Doctor: Paul McGann (1996) Ninth Doctor: Christopher Eccleston (2005) Tenth Doctor: David Tennant (2005 - 2010) 11th Doctor: Matt Smith (2010 - 2013) 12th Doctor: Peter Capaldi (2014 - 2017) 13th Doctor: Jodie Whittaker (2018 - 2022) 14th Doctor: David Tennant (2023) 15th Doctor: Ncuti Gatwa (2023 - present) "His withdrawal was incredibly embarrassing. It caps what has been a largely depressing tenure in the Tardis for Ncuti." Execs are likely to rest the 62-year-old show to consider who might revive its fortunes. 5
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Another Simple Favor's Ending Leaves A Huge Mystery, And I'm Already Hoping For A Third Movie
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Warning: massive spoilers for Another Simple Favor are about to be liberally poured. It's starting to really feel like summer in some parts of the world. There's nothing like a cold drink in your hand, a blessed event to celebrate, and a trail of dead bodies potentially triggering a mob war. All this and more is offered in director Paul Feig's 2025 movie schedule, offering Another Simple Favor, and the end result is a cliffhanger so twisted, I need to see more. Naturally, this means we'll need to talk big time spoilers involving Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and a handful of other cast members involved in this Prime Video subscription booster. So if you're looking to learn more without spoiling the surprises, you can check out our Another Simple Favor review elsewhere. But for the rest of you fake true crime fiends out there, let's pour ourselves a martini, and get into what I think happened - and where it could lead! Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) has once again journeyed through hell at the hands of her own family. As it turns out, the woman also known as Hope McLanden had a secret triplet named Chastity (Lively), who, with their aunt Linda (Allison Janney), went on a murder spree during her destination wedding in Capri. When all is said and done, Chastity was responsible for killing ex-husband Sean (Henry Golding) and new beau Dante Versano (Michele Morrone); while Linda ices her sister/mother to triplets Margaret (Elizabeth Perkins). That last murder was in order to adjust to Charity going off script by disposing of Emily's angry ex-husband, as Dante was always the sole intended target. Amazon Prime Video: 30-day free trialIf you want to do yourself a simple favor, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime; which includes access to Prime Video. There, you'll easily be able to stream this Anna Kendrick/Blake Lively sequel, at your earliest convenience. However, if you want to grant yourself another simple favor, through acces to Amazon Originals like The Lord of the RIngs: The Rings of Power or The Boys. then you can stay signed up for $14.99 a month, or $139 upfront for an entire year! No family inspired schemes needed!View Deal With that fun new family member going to jail in the place of 'Emily,' Hope could be considered a free woman. That is, until this final ask from her mother-in-law, Portia Versano (Elena Sofia Ricci), transpired: I will keep your secret. … But my son is still dead because of you. However, I consider you to be part of the family now. And I expect a lot from family. So, because of this, I have a simple favor to ask of you. With that request, Portia passes a piece of paper to Hope, and we never see or hear what's on it. All that follows is the ladies clinking glasses, right before we cut to credits. That being said, I think Another Simple Favor ends with Portia Versano making Emily Nelson swear to kill her latest adversary, keeping this latest round of murder in the family. And to connect the dots, we have to walk through the wilderness of mirrors that preceded this finale. As it turns out, all three of the triplets born to Margaret McLanden (Elizabeth Perkins) survived! Hope (our current antihero), Faith (the sister killed in A Simple Favor's twisted ending), and Charity were all born happy and healthy. That third baby was apparently hidden by good old Auntie Linda from day one, thanks to some creative lying. With Linda telling Margaret that Charity died in childbirth, Another Simple Favor's big bad took an opportunity to raise a little bundle of joy of her own - all in the name of the con. Look, fineries like Blake Lively's pizza purse are expensive, and some people really like that sort of thing. Not Charity, though. Sheltered beyond belief, to the point where she has an unhealthy sexual obsession with her triplet, all that third McLanden wants is to be with Hope forever. Hence, the double homicide of the men in Emily's life, so she can keep her all to herself! And somehow…she survived this betrayal. Despite being set up as the woman we all love to hate, the person known to the world as Emily Nelson found herself doing something sweet in this seductive sequel. Admitted in her own confession to Stephanie, Hope/Emily shares that her marriage to Dante Versano was a cover for his relationship with a member of a rival family: Matteo Bartolo (Lorenzo de Moor). This 'small, beautiful thing in this fucked up world' was done to avoid a mob war, in exchange for an old friend helping Emily/Hope get out of prison. But even with all of that compromised by her sister fucker/stalker Charity, Another Simple Favor's head bitch in charge took pity. Knowing the horrific things that she went through, and seeing a way to tie up loose ends yet again, Hope doesn't kill Charity. She just has her arrested in her place, which some might think is an elegant solution to the problem. However, that does leave two dangling threads that Portia Versano is probably looking to tie up. And what better way than to ask Hope to finish the job with Charity, so as to cover up this whole incident, while getting revenge against Dante's killer? We've been talking a lot about what Another Simple Favor may have done for Hope McLanden's future. However, she's only the Moriarty to this potential franchise's Holmes, true-crime vlogger turned author Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick). So if we're really going to have a ballgame here, we need a reason to bring Stephanie into the picture, and there's a perfect three-quel worthy twist that's sitting in plain sight. If we're going to see A Simple Favor 3 take place, Stephanie is more than likely going to have to break bad. While Hope/Emily will naturally do the dirty work, Ms. Kendrick's astute crime solver will be needed to plot out this potential murder in such a way that both parties would get away with the results. Considering Blake Lively's recent post of support for Anna Kendrick, that looks like a good possibility. At least, that's if this supposed debunking of the alleged Lively/Kendrick feud holds up between now and when/if a potential sequel is pitched. It's not exactly the kind of story that allows its author to go to print unless some sort of unforeseen twist puts Stephanie so in the clear she can write without fear of incrimination. But maybe that's the best gift that Blake Lively's anti-hero could give her dear companion: a chance to live the adventure, rather than just document it. Did anyone else just hear the clink of cocktail glasses, or was that just me? Should you have answered 'yes,' you've probably just seen Another Simple Favor. But if you've somehow read this rundown without hitting 'Play,' that's alright. There's plenty of stylish murder and mayhem awaiting you on Prime Video, as that brand new sequel is now streaming for your pleasure.
Perth Now
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Allison Janney keeps her Oscar in different rooms around her house
Allison Janney moves her Oscar around the house. The 65-year-old star won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2017 movie 'I, Tonya' and explained that she puts the gong in various places in her property to remind herself of the success. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday newspaper's You magazine, Allison said: "He moves around a lot. Sometimes he's in the kitchen. Sometimes he's on the top of the bookshelf I have in the living room. Sometimes he's in my office. It depends where he is needed. "I'm in the bedroom and sometimes I need to look at Oscar. I just look at it and go, 'That happened. That really happened.'" Allison recalled that she didn't get the chance to revel in her Oscar win as she was filming for her role as Bonnie Plunkett in the TV series 'Mom' the day after the ceremony. She said: "I went to bed at 2am, got up at 4.30am to do the TV talk show 'Live with Kelly and Ryan', then went to work. We did the read-through of the 'Mom' script and then they said congratulations (for the Oscar win) and sent us all home." Janney has never been married, although she was engaged to actor Richard Jenik between 2004 and 2006, and admits that she has no interest in trying to find love at the moment. 'The West Wing' star explained: "I don't date any more. Dating sounds awful. I've only had long-term relationships. The people I wound up with were friends who slowly developed into something. "I joined one of the dating apps once, Raya, but I didn't actually engage with it. That's on the backburner indefinitely." Allison also recounted a hilarious language misunderstanding as a crew member made a request to keep her cool during hot weather in Italy during the making of her latest movie 'Another Simple Favor'. She said: "I have this wig on and I'm sweating. The American assistant director looks at the Italian assistant director and says, 'Get Miss Janney a fan.' And the Italian assistant director comes back with two people - he thought that I needed to have fans of my work. "I'm laughing, wondering how he tried to find fans of Allison Janney. 'Come on, has anyone seen her in 'The West Wing'? He's probably listing my credits and no one knows who I am."
Daily Mail
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Oscar-winning actress ALLISON JANNEY on why she's given up on dating, what it's really like to work with Blake Lively and the pressure to stay young at 65
Allison Janney starts every day like a normal person: playing Wordle. But while I play alone, she dukes it out with 91-year-old Hollywood grandee Carol Burnett. 'My starting word is 'stale'', says Janney, who befriended Burnett through their Los Angeles-set TV show Palm Royale. 'Every day we play Wordle and Connections. Every day I get a text from Carol Burnett, and it makes my day.' Although, 'I just found out she plays with other people. She plays with Charlize Theron. I think there's many more. She's got a whole Wordle racket. And she's very good. She gets it in two too many times.' Janney, 65, hasn't done an in-person print interview in years, preferring the low-stakes venue of Zoom, and she's asked me to meet her at 10.45am for an equally low-stakes breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. Here dogs sit politely at the heels of suburbanite owners sipping lattes at wooden tables. She's eight minutes early, which she says is a mark of someone trained in theatre acting, where if you're a minute late, your understudy takes your part. She orders an Arnold Palmer iced tea and lemonade, and skillet-baked eggs with avocado, tomato and feta. Though she admits coveting the mini pancakes the young girl next to us is having. If this isn't the biggest celebrity interview ever to take place at this Le Pain Quotidien, then it must come awfully close. It's near the Oscar-winner's house, and she comes in often, though she does look cooler than anyone else here. She's 6ft tall, and her blue eyes are highlighted by turquoise Monocle frames that she bought when shooting her new film Another Simple Favor, director Paul Feig's sequel to 2018 murder mystery A Simple Favor, in Rome. She's wearing R13 jeans, a white T-shirt under a vintage jacket and carries a pink Louis Vuitton bag. She looks like a gallerist who might sell me a Damien Hirst. It's a different look to the one Janney sports in Another Simple Favor, alongside Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick and Elizabeth Perkins. Janney plays Lively's psychotic aunt Linda, and dresses the part. Despite reports that Lively and Kendrick didn't get along, Janney says there was no tension on the set. 'Blake was so lovely. We would share where we found cool jewellery,' she says. 'I love this metal dress she wears in the movie. It weighed quite a lot and after every take she would take it off. But that's a woman who knows how to suffer for fashion.' She was impressed by Lively's acting in one mind-bending sex scene in which her character makes love to herself in the form of one of her identical sisters (also played by Lively). 'She seemed to be so effortless at it, just going back and forth.' Feig rearranged the shooting schedule to accommodate Janney's packed diary. Mostly, he says, because 'she's the most talented actor I know'. But also, if you're going to be in Italy for a couple of weeks, you want the person he calls 'Janney' to be there. 'She's a party in a box. If you want to get a party started, you have Allison Janney show up. She arrives with a playlist and tries to get the dancing started,' he says. 'She brings the fun.' Not that the shoot was wholly straightforward. It was swelteringly hot just outside Rome, where they filmed the bulk of Janney's scenes, and, 'I have this wig on and I'm sweating,' she recalls. 'The American assistant director looks to the Italian assistant director and says, 'Get Miss Janney a fan.' And the Italian assistant director comes back with two people – he thought that I needed to have fans of my work. I'm laughing, wondering how he tried to find fans of Allison Janney. 'Come on, has anyone seen her in The West Wing?' He's probably listing my credits and no one knows who I am.' I'm pretty sure everyone knows who Janney is. She's done comedies (two Emmys for Mom, a sitcom about addiction recovery), dramas (an Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe for the film I, Tonya; four Emmys for The West Wing, one for Masters of Sex and musicals (a Tony nomination for 9 to 5). She's currently in two TV shows: Palm Royale and The Diplomat, from which she had to carve out time for Another Simple Favor. It's hard to believe she has as many credits as she has, since she certainly doesn't look 65. In real life her face looks more natural than it does in Another Simple Favor, which makes her look somehow younger in person. Though she stopped dyeing her hair years ago and promised to keep it grey, she's blonde again. 'My hairdresser changed her mind. She's done my hair for over 20 years and I'm pretty much her puppet.' She has never admitted to having cosmetic work done but tells me that she feels pressure to look young. 'In Hollywood you definitely want to do what you can to make yourself look good,' she says. 'But I think I'd feel that whether I was an actress or not. Women naturally feel that pressure. Everyone always has something they don't like about themselves and it's great to do things that will help mitigate those feelings. I bought a Pilates machine that I have in my house, which I love. I have someone who comes over and works me out on that. I think that's the best exercise for me, being 6ft tall. It makes you stand up straight.' Janney grew up in Dayton, Ohio, where she lived with her dad Jervis, a real estate broker, mum Macy, a former actress, older brother Hal and younger brother Jay. After finishing boarding at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, she took a Quaalude at a party with other kids who were graduating – and ran straight through a glass door. Today she isn't wearing socks with her Golden Goose trainers, which allows her to point out a faint scar from which three-quarters of her blood once exited. 'I sort of hate that I wasted a Quaalude on that. They're hard to get now. That was a waste of a Quaalude and almost a waste of a life.' Hal made a tourniquet and raised her leg above her head, which probably saved her life. 'I definitely almost died,' she says of subsequently spending seven weeks in hospital, delaying her first year at Kenyon College, and giving up on her plan to become a professional figure skater. When she did arrive for her first year at Kenyon, a private liberal arts college in Ohio, she landed a part in a play directed by Paul Newman, who was christening the theatre he had donated to his alma mater. He liked her so much he granted her 'one favour' from him that she could cash in whenever she needed it. However Newman's wife, Joanne, then got her into New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, and she never did call in that favour. Janney subsequently spent years supported by her parents as she worked in New York theatre, almost giving up on a career in acting. At one point, she took a three-day-long series of tests to find out what career she should pursue. The result was 'systems analyst'. She still doesn't know what a systems analyst does. In 1994, she appeared in Nicky Silver's darkly comedic play Fat Men In Skirts, in which the first act ends with Janney being sodomised by her son. One night, she got no reaction from the audience and turned to co-star Stanley Tucci to ask what was going on. 'At the end I find out that Jackie Onassis, John F Kennedy Jr, Mike Nichols, Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino were in the audience. It was a benefit performance, but they didn't tell us who was going to be there. And Jackie O left at the intermission. She died a week later. I kept thinking about it. I was like, 'Oh my god, that poor woman, the last play she saw was half of Fat Men In Skirts.'' Her theatre contacts began paying off and she got roles in movies such as Big Night, Private Parts, The Ice Storm, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Primary Colors. In 1999 she landed the role of White House press secretary C. J. Cregg in The West Wing. But she would have to wait almost 20 years to win an Oscar in 2018 for playing figure skater Tonya Harding's mother in I, Tonya. Where does she keep it? 'He moves around a lot. Sometimes he's in the kitchen. Sometimes he's on the top of the bookshelf I have in the living room. Sometimes he's in my office. It depends where he is needed,' she says. 'I'm in the bedroom and sometimes I need to look at Oscar. I just look at it and go, 'That happened. That really happened.''' So how does it actually feel to win an Academy Award? Janney takes out her phone and pulls up the 1977 photo of Faye Dunaway lounging by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel next to her Oscar the morning after winning it, looking dreamily postcoital. This is not how it went for Janney. 'I had to go to work the next day at Mom. I went to bed at 2am, got up at 4.30am to do the TV talk show Live With Kelly And Ryan, then went to work. We did the read-through of the Mom script and then they said congratulations [for the Oscar win] and sent us all home.' After being offered mostly 'alien and lesbian' parts in her early career, she has carved out a career playing smart, powerful women. 'It's fun because that's so not who I am,' she says, claiming to be both shy and happiest at home, despite her reputation for bringing the party. She gets all her travel in when she's working – including a long stay in London for Netflix's The Diplomat, during which she fell for the famous chicken with morels dish at Noble Rot, the cosy, French-inflected wine bar on Greek Street in Soho. 'You have to order the minute you sit down. I dream about that, going back to London to get this chicken,' she says. She's never married (she was engaged to actor Richard Jenik for two years, but they broke it off in 2006) or had children and she hasn't dated in a while. 'I don't date any more. Dating sounds awful. I've only had long-term relationships. The people I wound up with were friends who slowly developed into something,' she says. 'I joined one of the dating apps once, Raya, but I didn't actually engage with it. That's on the backburner indefinitely.' She finds the older man at the next table, however, worth talking to. That's because his adorable dog is looking all over for food, and because it makes Janney wonder if she can bring her dogs here, too. She's recently down to two, one of which was abandoned and offered to her on the set of Palm Royale. 'I said, 'If no one will take him, I will.'' After the older one lives out his days, she plans to adopt a dog from her niece Petra Janney, a pilot and co-founder of Amelia Air, a nonprofit that rescues animals from kill shelters and flies them to areas with more demand. 'She's just a rock star,' says Janney of her niece. Janney also has a nephew, Niall; both he and Petra are her older brother Jay's children. Hal, Janney's younger brother, took his own life in 2011 after years of struggling with addiction, and Janney dedicated her 2018 Oscar speech to him. Talk turns to upcoming projects – Janney is hopefully going to be in a £75 million Ridley Scott-directed film also starring Margaret Qualley and Jacob Elordi, which isn't likely to be out until 2027 or 2028. 'It's based on a Peter Heller novel [The Dog Stars] about a post-apocalyptic world.' Oh, and she is in a band, The Broken Dolls, with Courteney Cox (who she befriended on the Hollywood circuit) and her West Wing co-star Mary McCormack (the show's cast are all still in touch with one another on a big text group, she says), although they haven't played anywhere yet. 'I'm the one who's holding us back. I need to learn how to play the guitar,' she laughs. 'It's really fun to do all the band things except play. We hang out, get drinks, have photo shoots, do all things that bands do, but we just don't play music.' As she's showing me many, many photos of her dogs – including one in which three of them are mounting each other in a non-PG-rated stack – she gets a text from Laurie Feig, the wife of the director of Another Simple Favor. She's inviting Janney to dinner next week, and Janney immediately accepts. She goes back to scrolling dog photos, but is distracted by a guy sitting at an outside table. His dog has a bad leg and she's worried that it's hurt itself and the owner doesn't know. But he assures her that the dog was injured when he adopted him. Pleased to have talked to a neighbour and fellow dog lover, Janney walks over to her black electric Audi, saying she needs to get rid of it because it's too low for her 6ft frame, although it looks a perfect fit to me. Then she slowly drives away, as if she's calmly heading off to another suburban appointment. Which I know is an act. Because while her days begin 'stale', the party in a box never lets them stay that way. A walk and talk with Allison Janney Go-to karaoke song 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.' Last piece of clothing you purchased The jacket that I'm wearing. I bought it two days ago. This is my first outing with it. It's already got dog hair all over it. Biggest Spotify song of last year 'Kill Bill' by SZA. [Singing] 'I just killed my ex…' The movie that makes you cry Terms Of Endearment. The last thing you took a photo of and sent to someone This one was sent to me: a photo of a finished New York Times crossword including the answer 'I, Tonya'. It's from my friend Steven [Rogers] who wrote the movie. Artificial intelligence: terrific or terrifying? Terrifying. Your idea of vacation hell Planes getting cancelled. Cars not being there. Hotel screw-up. The word you most overuse 'I don't know.' I overuse that phrase. I say it to myself. I wake up and I go, 'I don't know. I don't know.' And it drives me crazy. Your go-to breakfast I do intermittent fasting, so I usually don't eat at this time. I should wait till noon. The website you spend too much time on I'm on Instagram too much. Favourite swear word It's probably just 'f**k'. Styling: Tara Swennen at With Falcon. Picture director: Ester Malloy. Hair stylist and producer: Jill Crosby. Make-up: Marie DelPrete.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Allison Janney enters Emmy race as a supporting actress for ‘The Diplomat' (exclusive)
An Emmy favorite has made a category decision that could have a huge impact on this year's awards. Gold Derby has exclusively learned that Allison Janney will submit as Best Drama Supporting Actress for the second season of The Diplomat. She is already a seven-time winner in acting categories at the Primetime Emmys, so an eighth win would tie her for the record with TV Hall of Fame inductees Cloris Leachman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Janney joined the Netflix series for its second season, which began streaming on Oct. 31. She only appeared in two episodes as U.S. Vice President Grace Penn, giving her the option to submit either as a guest actress or supporting actress. More from GoldDerby Ruth Negga will submit in lead at the Emmys for 'Presumed Innocent' - see the show's entries in 19 categories Sam Heughan, Caitriona Balfe, and every 'Outlander' Emmy acting submission A 'roller coaster' of perspectives: 'Good American Family' creator on the show's unique structure and breakout star Imogen Faith Reid Her role in The Diplomat previously earned nominations for supporting actress at the 2025 Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. She was also nominated at the SAG Awards against costar Keri Russell despite the Screen Actors Guild only offering one category which combines lead and supporting. The Best Drama Supporting Actress field is expected to be extremely competitive when nominees are announced in July. Gold Derby odds currently have Janney in third place behind The White Lotus costars Carrie Coon and Parker Posey. Others in the top 10 include Kaitlyn Dever and Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Aimee Lou Wood and Natasha Rothwell (The White Lotus), Patricia Arquette (Severance), Taylor Dearden (The Pitt), and Kristin Scott Thomas (Slow Horses). Best of GoldDerby 'I felt my blood boil': Nicholas Alexander Chavez on playing Lyle Menendez in 'Monsters' 'I've gotten a high from the gavel': Melissa Rauch on bringing 'Night Court' back to life and crafting Judge Abby Stone How Tawny Cypress told a 'beautiful story of love' while channeling 'Other Tai' in 'Yellowjackets' Season 3 Click here to read the full article.
