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Irish Independent
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
What to watch on TV and streaming today: Our Dream Farm, As Good as It Gets and The Handmaid's Tale
Investec Champions Cup RTÉ2, 4.45pm Leinster take on Northampton Saints in the semi-final at Aviva Stadium. The hosts have been in scintillating form all season, but Saints may give them a run for their money in a tense encounter. Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker Channel 4, 6pm Baker hosts the final, in which the last two remaining applicants go head-to-head over the course of 48 hours in an attempt to prove they have what it takes to run a 600-acre farm in north Wales. They face challenges involving a sheepdog trial and a business plan. 24 Hours: The Fall of Nazi Germany Channel 4, 8pm New documentary being broadcast to tie in with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. Using astonishing archive footage, expert testimony and dramatic reconstructions, it offers insights into the events building up to Germany's surrender. As Good as It Gets TG4, 9.50pm Wonderful, Oscar-winning romantic comedy starring Jack Nicholson as a bigoted, misanthropic author whose life is transformed by his friendship with his gay neighbour (Greg Kinnear) and love for a down-on-her-luck waitress (Helen Hunt). Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Channel 4, 10pm Comedy-drama featuring top-notch performances from Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack. Thompson is a recently widowed ex-teacher whose marriage lacked passion; McCormack is the young sex worker she hires to teach her what she has been missing. ADVERTISEMENT The Handmaid's Tale Prime Video, streaming now While I still can't bring myself to watch it, for those of you fully immersed in the 'fictional' realm of Gilead, the sixth and final season is now available. The Four Seasons Netflix, streaming now Three couples — Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte), Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), plus Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani) — face serious introspection when one of the couples announces their split. For more saccharine aspirational viewing, Prime Video has released Another Simple Favour, starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. A Complete Unknown Disney+, streaming now Arriving in 1960s New York armed with his guitar, 19-year-old Bob Dylan (portrayed by Timothée Chalamet's impressive jawline) is set to revolutionise American music. Angi: Fake Life, True Crime Netflix, streaming now In 2008, the remains of 35-year-old designer Ana Páez were discovered in Barcelona. Dubbed 'The Almost Perfect Crime', this documentary revisits the case and explores the dark past of María Ángeles Molina ('Angi') and her late husband. In other European offerings, the final instalment of Lost Bullet arrives Wednesday, while AppleTV+ is now offering pastry, espionage, and Bridgerton levels of fornication in Carême.
Calgary Herald
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Calgary Herald
Calgary Expo: Helen Hunt talks Twister, As Good as it Gets, Paul Reiser and what her dream role would be
Article content 'I had to do a U.K. accent,' she said. 'Boy, when you hear it and it's bad and it's coming out of your own mouth. I have a good enough ear to know when it's bad but I didn't know enough to make it good. I worked on it for a year. It might take other actors less amount of time. For me it was a year until I could walk out there and not worry about it.' Article content Hunt rose to fame during her seven-season run as Jamie Buchman in Mad About You in the 1990s. There was a reboot in 2019. Hunt starred opposite Paul Reiser, who played her film-director husband. When asked who some of her favourite people were to work with, she again didn't hesitate. Article content 'Paul Reiser for sure,' she said, again to tremendous applause. 'I would probably pick him. Not only is he one of the best but we had eight years to be together. I hear stories about people who worked together in TV shows and they don't get along, I don't know what I would have done. I really don't. Because I just lucked out. He and I are still friends, we see each other all the time. Oh my God, we would see each other more than we would see our partners in real life for eight years. So if I didn't adore him and didn't love playing with him, it would have been a long day.' Article content Article content Hunt was still working on Mad About You when she was cast it one of her pivotal roles. In James L. Brooks As Good as It Gets she played the single mother of a chronically ill child who befriends a misanthropic author with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder played by Jack Nicolson. The film won both Hunt and Nicholson Academy Awards. Article content 'It's always the writing,' she said.'Ninety per cent of it all is the writing. I was working on that and doing Mad About You at the same time. I was a blonde Tuesday through Thursday and a brunette Friday to Monday.I was saying to someone in front of the writer and director Jim Brooks — who has made some of my favourite movies and your too, I bet — a friend of his asked me which of these parts was more like me and I said 'Well, Mad About You, probably.' Article content Article content Jim Brooks disagreed. Article content 'I thought about that and then after not seeing it for decades, I saw the last 25 minutes recently because I went to a screening of it and I thought 'He's right. I'm very sensitive to what people say, I care about my kid in a fierce way, although I didn't have a kid when i did that part. There is a lot of me in there even though she lives in a part of the world, has a different job and speaks a differently, there was a lot of me in her.' Article content As for Twister, a 1996 blockbuster in which Hunt played storm-chaser Jo Harding, Hunt says she is nothing like that character. Article content 'I would be driving the other way,' she said. Article content She looks back on it fondly, but admits it was a tough shoot. Article content 'We were in the mud, we were in the firehoses, we were in the wind,' she says. 'The most fun part …was hanging out with all these guys. It was like Wizard of Oz in that way — 'you were there and you were there' — and they were all around this Dorothy character that I got to play. We worked until six in the morning in 100 it's not like the most fun you've ever had. But we laughed so hard played cards all night. That's kind of what movie-making is sometimes. You're bored and you get so close.' Article content
