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Time of India
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Nicole Kidman has strong opinions about working alongside Keith Urban
Many couples enjoy working together when they share the same profession, but Nicole Kidman says, no thanks. Speaking with reporters at the premiere of season two of Nine Perfect Strangers , the Babygirl actress explained her reasoning. When asked if she would like to do a show together with her husband, Keith Urban , the Boy Erased actress bluntly said, 'No.' Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have been married since 2006 and share two children, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret. Occasionally, the A-lister joins her husband onstage to sing, as she did for Urban's 57th birthday last fall. Urban was performing at a Hurricane Helene benefit show with Eric Church, and Kidman and Church led the crowd in a rendition of 'Happy Birthday.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Click Here - This Might Save You From Losing Money Expertinspector Click Here Undo On another occasion, she even sang 'The Fighter' during a carpool karaoke session with her husband. In January, Kidman revealed that even at home, she and Urban like to keep some things separate. 'The double-headed shower: key to a successful marriage,' she told W magazine. 'Separate commodes and a double-headed shower!' Some couples do best by keeping their work lives and home lives separate, and it sounds like Kidman and Urban are one of those couples.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Yahoo
Ban on conversion ‘therapy' to be reconsidered by Supreme Court. Here's what the discredited practice that tries to change LGBTQ youth is like
Curtis Lopez-Galloway was 16 when he told his parents he was gay. And while he didn't exactly expect them to throw him coming-out a party, their reaction left him stunned: They took him to so-called conversion "therapy"—driving him to a Kentucky therapist, two hours away, who used the sessions to berate him for being gay and for not trying hard enough to change into 'the man that God wanted' him to be. Further, the therapist confirmed to his parents all of their worst fears, telling them, ''He's never going to be happy. He's going to be abused and get AIDS. He's going to die,'' Lopez-Galloway, now 30, tells Fortune. It was 'mentally and emotionally abusive,' he says of his experience with conversion therapy—organized attempts to deter people from expressing non-heterosexual or transgender identities, which can include the subject receiving insults, threats, prayers, or physical abuse that can be severe. The scoldings that Lopez-Galloway received from the licensed therapist led to screaming matches between himself and his parents that he says 'tore my family apart.' It also pushed the teen deep into the closet, leaving him anxious and depressed for years to come. Today, luckily, it's behind him—and as the co-founder of the Conversion Therapy Survivor Network, created as a support system for others who have been subjected to such treatment, Lopez-Galloway knows that it could've been even worse. 'I know people that have been locked in church basements while exorcisms were performed and they were sexually assaulted,' he says. 'I know people that had electrodes strapped to their genitals while they were shown homosexual pornography, and I know people…whose families locked them in their bedrooms because they felt they were a danger to the rest of the family.' It's why he's been 'angry and dismayed' over news from earlier this month that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case questioning the legality of Colorado's conversion-therapy ban for LGBTQ children—despite the fact that the practice has been denounced by every major medical association, from the American Psychological Association (APA) to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and that studies have found the practice leads to increased suicidality, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With bans enacted in roughly half of the states, any decision regarding Colorado will have far-reaching effects. Over the weekend, actor Bowen Yang shared on his podcast to guest Lady Gaga that he had been subjected to conversion therapy, also called "reparative" therapy, as a teen, something he's talked about before. There have also been a handful of films, including 2018's Boy Erased and Ryan Murphy's 2021 Netflix documentary Pray Away, depicting conversion therapy—which refers to a range of dangerous, medically discredited, and unscientific practices that attempt to change one's LGBTQ identity, according to the Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people, which is careful to always put quotes around 'therapy.' ''Therapy' gets quotes because conversion therapy is not therapeutic at all,' explains Casey Pick, director of law and policy at the Trevor Project, which has denounced the Supreme Court's latest move. 'It completely fails to abide by the ethical standards, the science, the research, and the best experience of decades of actual therapists who know that attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity is actively harmful,' she says. 'So what this situation is about is when you have state-licensed mental health professionals who are harming LGBTQ kids by trying to change a part of them that can't be changed.' While it's unknown exactly how many youths are subjected to such practices each year, a 2023 intergenerational systematic review—analyzing 14 survey studies of LGBTQ people between 2011 and 2020, across several countries—found that between 2% and 34% of people globally, with a median of 8.5% and estimate of 13% in the U.S., had experienced conversion therapy. The Trevor Project found, also in 2023, that there were over 1,300 conversion practitioners in the U.S.—46% of whom held active professional licenses and 54% who were operating in a religious or ministerial capacity. When licensed therapists 'abuse their position of trust' to 'push an agenda' that queer youth should change, Pick says, research has shown that it puts kids at high risk of suicide attempts, depression, anxiety and other mental health harms. "These are pressure tactics that can be deeply harmful. It can contribute to feelings of shame and failure,' Pick says. "The idea that I've heard from so many survivors of these practices is, 'We were just told that they weren't trying hard enough.' And when you try and try and fail and fail, so many find themselves in a place of anxiety and depression.' The organization's peer-reviewed research has found, in fact, that young people who reported experiencing conversion therapy were twice as likely as other LGBTQ youth—who already have a disproportionately high suicide risk—to report a suicide attempt in the previous year, and two and a half times as likely to report multiple suicide attempts. A large Stanford University study on the practice found it was linked to higher rates of depression, suicidality, and PTSD, and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found came up with similar findings to the Trevor Project regarding suicide attempts, with researcher Ilan Meyer, senior scholar of public policy, noting, 'This is a devastating outcome that goes counter to the purpose of therapy.' Practices that try to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity go back well over 100 years, says Pick. 'As soon as psychology began to understand that sexual orientation was a part of who a person was, you had parts of the psychological profession that were trying to find ways to change that,' she says. 'But even Freud rejected these practices as ultimately being harmful and not good for patients.' The American Psychological Association declared that homosexuality is not a mental illness back in the 1970s, with gender identity following some years later. It's why the APA, AAP, American Medical Association, National Association of Social Workers, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, American Counseling Association, and 22 other medical associations have condemned conversion therapy as ineffective and harmful—and how, as of 2013, states (and several countries) began to ban the practice. In 2020, United Nations expert on sexual identity and gender identity Victor Madrigal-Borloz called for a global ban on conversion therapy, telling the Human Rights Council that such practices are 'inherently discriminatory, that they are cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and that depending on the severity or physical or mental pain and suffering inflicted to the victim, they may amount to torture.' Pick says the medical establishment has known since the '70s that the best way to improve the mental health of LGBTQ people is "acceptance, affirmation, and helping folks to cope with what it means to be different in our society, rather than trying to change their identity to meet a therapist's or a counselor's own agenda.' Lopez-Calloway is hoping that logic holds for the Supreme Court justices. 'Even agreeing to take it up is giving credence to the practice itself,' he says. 'And it's just astonishing to me that it has become such a political issue when the fact of matter is that it's child abuse.' More on LGBTQ mental health: Fleeing the country and rationing testosterone: Transgender Americans' new reality under a Trump presidency American troops describe their fear, anxiety, and whiplash following Trump's transgender military ban The truth about how many transgender kids are using hormones and puberty blockers, according to a new study This story was originally featured on
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Joel Edgerton on Directing Harrison Ford in New Glenmorangie Whisky Ad Campaign, Getting Him to Wear a Kilt and Embrace Being an ‘Older Dude': ‘Let's Not Try and Hide It' (EXCLUSIVE)
Joel Edgerton has directed two feature films, 'The Gift' and 'Boy Erased,' but he is now making his advertising directorial debut with Glenmorangie Scotch Whisky's new ad campaign starring Harrison Ford. The legendary actor plays himself as he travels to Andross Castle in Scotland to film the campaign. After insisting on not doing any sort of action movie-like stunts, Ford is seen meditating, riding a bike and sipping whisky in front of a cozy fire. At one point, he even slips into a kilt. More from Variety 'Train Dreams' Review: A Landmark Homage to the Unsung Workers of the American West Plays Out Across Forests and Joel Edgerton's Face Tom Blyth on Playing a Closeted Gay Cop in 'Plainclothes' and His 'Intimate, Really Vivid' Sex Scenes With Russell Tovey Russell Tovey Says 'Plainclothes' Co-Star Tom Blyth 'Is Full of Stardust' and Teases 'Doctor Who' Spin-Off 'The War Between the Land and the Sea' Feels 'Like an Indie Film' The campaign, titled 'Once Upon a Time in Scotland' and consisting of several video spots, plays into Ford's reputation of being a bit of a curmudgeon. 'I'd watched a lot of his interviews, and I realized that true or false, there's a persona of Harrison's that is quite gruff and, you know, grumpy, but he's a bit like an avocado,' Edgerton tells me. 'He's rock solid on the outside but he's very soft in the middle. He has an emotional softness and a sensitivity and a humanity that he then covers with this sort of prickly outside.' This Q&A with Edgerton has been edited for length and clarity. What's your favorite Harrison Ford movie? That's very hard. If you ask 12-year-old Joel, it would be 'Indiana Jones.' But as I grew up, I think 'The Fugitive' is one of the most excellent thrillers made of all time. He does the empathetic every man. Weirdly, my other obsession in the '80s were Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But you never thought those guys wouldn't get through the mess. You always assume there's no way they're going to lose but I love that Harrison made us feel like he didn't know the answer. He had to work it out, and I think that's why we all connected with him. I will say Harrison definitely is one of my heroes. There is a photo that exists somewhere of me with a brown, sort of fedora on my head and a brown sort of plastic leather jacket that I found somewhere. And I rubbed dirt on my face to look like stubble. I am aware that you got to be careful about meeting your heroes. I did wonder, 'Is Harrison best left as a hero in my mind?' There's a certain actor in Hollywood who said, 'Never meet your heroes unless they're Harrison Ford' and he was fucking right, man. He was such a legend in person as much as he lives as a legend in my mind. What was it like meeting him for the first time? We had lunch. I was with this gang when he got there. While he was shaking my hand, he said, 'I heard they want me to ride a horse and fly a plane, and I'm not doing any of that.' I felt good because that's exactly what the first spot was going to be about — him going, 'I don't want to do what they want me to do.' We hit it off and by the end of the meeting, he was like, 'I'll do whatever you want me to do.' What was it like telling Harrison Ford to do another take on something? He was awesome. We shot a lot in three days. We shot a lot of material, like 20 to 30 minutes of him doing things. But I was terrified because most campaigns you shoot are a 60-second spot in two days. We were doing four separate stories each day. I thought I was going to have a heart attack before I even got there. But he was often ready before the camera was ready. He would change in a cupboard if he needed to. How many kilts did he try on before you found the right one? We had a beautiful kilt made. When I was younger, I never thought I'd ever have lunch with Harrison so I certainly could never have imagined that one day I'd be working with Harrison Ford and that these words were going to come out of my mouth, 'Harrison, can I get you to wear a kilt?' He seems to have bed head throughout the campaign. Was that on purpose? One of the great things for me is I didn't come from a world of advertising and I've never worked in that world before, I only know about being the receiver of so many ads throughout my entire life. Campaigns are usually about beautification and wish fulfillment, and we often then get actors or celebrities, and we try and age them down or we make them more beautiful. There's an aspect to this campaign that is super subtle, which I think is about embracing who you are and acknowledging your fears, whether you're scared you're not cool enough or you're an older person now and you just want to avoid certain things. I was like, 'Harrison is an older dude. Let's not try and hide it.' And by the way, we didn't have enough time to spend on all that crap. But, yeah, be who you are. We should love everybody for who they are, whatever their age, shape, whether their hair is tussled or not. How much whisky was being consumed while you were shooting? It is important to know your product. We had a couple of amazing tastings with Dr. Bill Lumsden, who creates the whisky. We had a tasting of the full gamut, but we didn't let it get too much in the way of shooting. It is important to relax at the end of the day, and what a great way to do it. They gifted Harrison, myself and all the crew and team special bottles of whisky. I think Harrison got one of the oldest bottles ever — from the year I was born. I have to ask you about voicing Policeman on 'Bluey.' How did that come about? 'Bluey' has been in my life since my niece became obsessed with it, and then, because I'm an actor and I'm Australian, and those guys operate out here, they asked me to do a voice. Now my kids are 'Bluey'-obsessed so it gives me a lot of credibility. But also they hear your voice but they can't quite put it together. I walk around bragging it's me, but they're like, 'No, it's not.' Watch the 60-second Glenmorangie spot below. Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Anora,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Nickel Boys' and More Could Use DGA, PGA and WGA Noms for Big Boosts in Oscar Race
