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USA Today
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
B2K's 'Bump Bump Bump' performance at BET Awards has Diddy, R. Kelly connections
B2K's 'Bump Bump Bump' performance at BET Awards has Diddy, R. Kelly connections Show Caption Hide Caption SZA, Kendrick Lamar win big at 2025 BET Awards Kendrick Lamar won Album of the Year for his critically acclaimed GNX LP and Mariah Carey performed her hit song 'It's Like That' at the BET Awards. Cover Media Sunday night's BET Awards hit heavy on the nostalgia, bringing back hip-hop and R&B stars from the early aughts to revive a sound not quite like any other. To honor the "TRL"-style music video countdown show "106 & Park," a slate of big-name performers took the stage for a 20-minute beat-pounding medley. Amid mini-sets from Ashanti and Keyshia Cole, boy band B2K treated the audience to a rendition of their 2002 club anthem "Bump Bump Bump." Complete with synchronized dance moves and all white 'fits, the four-man music group leaned heavily into their classic boy band appeal. Jamie Foxx cries in BET Awards speech about health, credits daughters with recovery Eagle-eyed fans were quick to tease out a more sordid history of the track. "Bump Bump Bump" was originally released with a feature from Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is currently on trial for federal sex crimes. Combs' influence on hip-hop, especially in the early 2000s, was so far-reaching that it's hard to hit shuffle without running into one of his projects. The group is composed of J-Boog, Raz-B, Omarion and Lil' Fizz, who, rather than play an audio recording of Combs' part, rapped it in his place. The story goes deeper, though. The track was also originally written by R. Kelly, who, like Combs, faced sex trafficking and racketeering charges, and is now serving time in prison after being convicted on all counts. Several high-profile rappers also remixed the song, including 50 Cent and Jay-Z. Blue Ivy Carter reclaims her title, wins BET YoungStars Award once again amid Beyoncé tour 50 Cent is a longtime rival of Combs and has been making an internet mockery of his ongoing legal challenges. Jay-Z was looped in with Combs in a recent lawsuit that accused both rappers for rape, though the case has since been dropped, with Jay-Z denying all wrongdoing and filing a countersuit against his former accuser. As Combs, once a kingmaker in the genre, faces a reputation forever sullied, B2K's performance is a preview of how difficult it may be to avoid his art.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
X-Files' Gillian Anderson teases possible reboot role
The X-Files was the show that launched Gillian Anderson's long career on screen, even tempting her back for a revamped series in 2016 and 2018 – and now she has admitted that she wouldn't rule out a return as Dana Scully in the latest reboot. Sci-fi hit show The X-Files is getting a revamped series under Sinners director Ryan Coogler, who sent fans into a frenzy of excitement earlier in April when he claimed on a podcast that he had been in talks with Anderson about reprising her role. She starred in the original 90s series alongside David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, playing FBI agents investigating paranormal and extraterrestrial cases. One of those excited fans was This Morning host Ben Shephard, who couldn't resist asking Anderson whether it was true when she stopped in to talk about new film The Salt Path. She said she would consider an X-Files return if "it's good and it feels like the right time". Coogler caused a stir in a recent interview with The Last Podcast on the Left when he said of his forthcoming X-Files reboot: "I've been excited about that for a long time and I'm fired up to get back to it. Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will be really f***ing scary." He then added that he had spoken to Anderson and said: "She's incredible and fingers crossed there. We're going to try to make something really great, bro, and make something for the real X-Files fans and maybe find some new ones." Although Anderson was a guest on This Morning to talk about new film The Salt Path, Shephard told her he had to ask whether the X-Files rumours were true. Read more: David Duchovny lists his conditions for X-Files return (Cover Media, 1 min read) Ryan Coogler Has Spoken To Gillian Anderson About 'X Files' Reboot: 'Fingers Crossed There' (Deadline, 2 min read) David Duchovny Says He 'Can't Really Explain' 'The X-Files'' Popularity, Reveals the One 'Conspiracy' He Believes (People, 4 min read) He said: "I was listening to The Last Podcast on the Left and the director Ryan Coogler, I got very excited about this because he says he's very excited, they've talked about it, they're going to do the reboot and they have spoken to Gillian about coming back in some capacity. Have you spoken to him, might you be involved?" Anderson laughed and seemed reluctant to answer, but eventually replied: "I spoke to (Coogler) and what I said was, if anyone were to do it, I think you are the person and best of luck. Best of luck! Call me! "At some point, if the phone rings and it's good and it feels like the right time, perhaps. That's what I said. But he's amazing." Trying to steer the conversation back to The Salt Path, she added: "Oh boy, this is all that anyone's going to talk about, they're going to forget about the lovely film." She might have started out in sci-fi drama, but in recent years Anderson has put in some acclaimed performances as real people. She played Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, Eleanor Roosevelt in The First Lady, Emily Maitlis in Scoop, and is now about to be seen as Raynor Winn in the film adaptation of her bestselling memoir, The Salt Path. The film follows Winn and her husband Moth's 630-mile journey along the South West Coast Path after they were made homeless and Moth was given a life-limiting diagnosis. Winn appeared alongside Anderson on This Morning, where the actor talked about the pressures of playing real people. She said: "I've played real-life people who have passed and recently I did Emily Maitlis (for Scoop, the drama about the Newsnight journalist's infamous interview with Prince Andrew) who's more present. I think that was probably the most intimidating because she's so well-known and people listen to and see her daily. "So actually, for me it was less about whether people would think that I portrayed Ray accurately (in The Salt Path), but more whether Ray would think that I would portray her accurately, which I'm not sure was necessarily what I cared about with the other ones as much. It was more about public opinion. But it was important to me that Ray felt like I'd captured an essence of her." Winn said: "Obviously I was quite shocked when I was told it was going to be Gillian because my vision of her is as she is, absolutely perfect, beautiful, glamorous. How is she going to capture me at my most raw moments?" But she added that the screen relationship between Anderson and Jason Isaacs, who plays Moth, was "completely believable". This Morning airs on ITV1 at 10am on weekdays. The Salt Path comes to UK cinemas on 30 May.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jonathan Pryce reveals animal co-star 'kept walking away' while filming The Penguin Lessons
Jonathan Pryce has revealed his penguin co-star kept going off-script and "walking away" from him while filming their scene in The Penguin Lessons. In the 1970s comedy-drama, Steve Coogan plays a teacher in Argentina who rescues a penguin from an oil slick and reluctantly takes it back to the boarding school as his pet. Pryce, who plays Headmaster Buckle, shared one scene with the penguin, and he admitted it refused to do what it was supposed to. "I had one scene with the penguin really. An intense scene where I'm using the penguin as kind of a therapist figure, to tell him about my woes and my problems," he explained in an interview with Cover Media. "The penguin refused to stay in the room with me and kept walking away as soon as I started speaking. Of course, when you see the film, you won't be aware of that. It was funny rather than trying, seeing the penguin walk away." Coogan, who had significantly more scenes with the penguin, noted that it didn't do what the team needed 85% of the time, so they had to be patient and be "ready" for when their co-star acted on cue 15% of the time. The Game of Thrones actor quipped, "It's not unlike most of the actors I've worked with." Speaking about their on-screen collaboration, Pryce told Cover Media that he knew he'd get along well with Coogan upon their first meeting on set, while the Alan Partridge star praised Pryce for raising his game. "When you're in a scene with someone who you know knows what they're doing and is good at it, it just raises your game. You concentrate," he shared. "You also trust that the person you're working with, like Jonathan, you know he knows what he's doing and therefore you sort of feel secure in that scene because you think, 'I'm dealing with someone that's good so I better be good' so it all becomes a virtuous circle." The Penguin Lessons is only in cinemas from Friday 18 April.
