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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson Got Her ‘Weekend Update' Revenge and a Standing Ovation at Cannes, All in the Same Week
We've reached the end of another week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we're giving credit where it's due. Scarlett Johansson is the latest champion in our Winner of the Week series. Is it ScarJo 2.0? 3.0? 100.0? Scarlett Johansson has been through so many career transformations, from teen queen to indie darling to blockbuster powerhouse to sex symbol and everything in between, it's hard to keep track of which version we're on. Heck, I still remember picking up her Tom Waits cover album at a coffee shop. But this week definitely marked a turning point for the actor, who has officially leveled up. She's behind the camera and in control of the narrative, going from the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update desk to the Cannes red carpet in what felt like the blink of a smoky eye. Jurassic World Rebirth may not come out until July, but her rebirth is happening right here, right now, which is why she's our winner of the week. Ego Nwodim Is Just Getting Started As she wraps another electric season of *Saturday Night Live,* Ego Nwodim opens up about her iconic characters, hosting the Met Gala, and her big plans for what's next. As of Saturday, Johansson has now hosted Saturday Night Live more times than any other female celebrity, a task no doubt made more convenient by the fact that she's married to Weekend Update coanchor and SNL head writer Colin Jost. Around Christmastime, Jost and his coanchor, Michael Che, did their traditional joke swap, which naturally involved a rather graphic remark about Johansson's vagina. Hosting the season 50 finale, Johansson got Che back, appearing at the Update desk to supervise him performing jokes about his own sexual perversions. Then there was the Cannes of it all. In a recent Vanity Fair profile, Johansson revealed that she's had directorial aspirations since she was 12 year old. Her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, just premiered to a five-minute standing ovation and is set to hit theaters in the fall. And of course, she had a style moment on the red carpet, doing a modern take on the princess look in a gauzy periwinkle gown, red lips, and sparkly earrings. She's actually got two flicks at the festival this year, with a small role in Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme. It wasn't long ago that Johansson was going the legal route to (rightfully) take back her power, suing Disney over the way they released Black Widow and taking on OpenAI for (allegedly) using her voice without her consent. The fact that she's now popping up on SNL and directing movies seems like a leap forward. No longer reactive, she's creatively empowered and telling her own stories on her own terms. Originally Appeared on Glamour
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
FA Cup hero Eberechi Eze has famous American relative as unknown family link shocks fans after Wembley triumph
It's been revealed that Crystal Palace star Eberechi Eze has a surprise family link - just days after he helped ensure their FA Cup triumph on Saturday. Eze was Palace's hero in their 1-0 win against Manchester City in the final on Saturday, his goal bringing the Eagles their first major trophy in their 120-year history. The former QPR midfielder lead the celebrations at Wembley alongside his Palace team-mates but it's clear that the festivities didn't stop there for their fans. Palace fans were seen partying in the streets of London throughout the night and, in the days that followed, a home shirt was even seen on popular American show; Saturday Night Live. The shirt was worn by SNL crew member Ego Nwodim - who was later revealed to be a cousin of the Palace and England star. Nwodim, 37, has been a member of the cast since 2018 and is also an American actress and comedian. She also wore a Palace shirt with Eze's name on it during an episode of Saturday Night Live in 2023. While the majority of Palace's team and staff enjoyed the celebrations late into the night on Saturday evening, Marc Guehi and Adam Wharton both missed the party after being taken to hospital. England star Guehi took a blow to the eye just before the hour mark and had to be substituted for Jefferson Lerma. The 24-year-old still joined his team in their celebrations on the pitch after the game, and was able to walk up the fabled Wembley steps to collect his winners' medal from Prince William. But after the fact, Guehi was rushed to hospital in an ambulance, and was not discharged until midnight, meaning he missed his team's late night party at Wembley Boxpark. Doctors were concerned that the centre back had suffered a fractured eye socket after he complained of a slight loss of sight. However, the understood prognosis is that he avoided a fracture but sustained severe bruising to his eye. Whether Guehi will be available for Palace's final two Premier League games - against Wolves and Liverpool - is currently unknown. But it is believed he will be in contention for England's World Cup Qualifiers against Andorra and Senegal on June 7 and June 10 respectively. Wharton, on the other hand, was in hospital for precautionary concussion checks after a powerful strike from City's Kevin De Bruyne hit the back of his head. He posted a photo of himself in a hospital robe late on Saturday night with the rib-tickling caption: 'Apparently we won the FA Cup EAGLESSSSSSSSSS', jokingly implying that he forgot the game because of his head injury.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Subtlety of the Macho-Men SNL Sketch
There's a low-stakes thrill in eavesdropping on strangers from afar, especially if the exchange descends into chaos. Yet a sketch in last night's season finale of Saturday Night Live—which revolved around two couples at a bar boisterously fighting for a preferred table as two men watched nearby, whiskies in hand—raised the stakes of voyeurism in fascinating ways. The sketch began with Ego Nwodim and Marcello Hernández's characters having glasses of wine at a bar; she was ready to move in after three weeks of dating, and he was sweatily trying to steer the conversation elsewhere. He got a break when another woman, played by this week's host, Scarlett Johanssen, insisted that their table belonged to her and her man—played by the musical guest, Bad Bunny. After Nwodim urged Hernández to defend her honor, he got in Bad Bunny's face—shouting 'Ay!'—and they erupted in loud Spanish. But here's what he really said: 'I'm sorry, but my woman is a pain in my ass!' Picking up on the stray mention of 'culo,' Nwodim jumped in: 'That's right, he's about to beat your ass!' The table argument was a flimsy premise, but it established Johanssen's character as territorial and, crucially, inspiring terror in her paramour. Instead of demanding the table, Bad Bunny commiserated with Hernández: 'Well mine too—and I'm afraid of her!' He looked back at Johanssen nervously, then confessed: 'I know we're not supposed to say that women are crazy. But this one? She's crazy!' Hearing him say 'loca,' Johanssen chirped up: 'Do you hear that? He's gonna go loca on you!' Meanwhile, the eavesdropping barflies (played by Andrew Dismukes and James Austin Johnson) looked on with glee at what looked like a raging bar fight: 'I feel like I'm watching a telenovela,' Johnson said, scratching his chin and practically licking his chops. Dismukes hoped it would end in a 'slap and kiss': 'See, in their culture, the line between passion and violence is paper-thin.' Johanssen's botched attempts at Spanish ('I'm about to asparagus nothing more and your ankle!') made for good comedy, but the sketch's best work wasn't done by the peeved girlfriends or the barflies' misbegotten commentary. Instead, it lay in the gap between what these non-Spanish speakers were confidently reading into the situation, casting these men as macho Latino guys in some exotic melodrama, and what the men were actually saying. They were not only misunderstanding the words; they were missing the subtext. And so might have some viewers. [Read: How Colin Jost became a joke] For those onlookers, the boyfriends were assuming archetypal roles that were completely at odds with how they actually felt, and their conversation deepened into a heart-to-heart between two strangers who didn't know how to quit a relationship they knew was bad for them. As the argument grew more heated between Nwodim and Johanssen, Bad Bunny reassured her: 'Baby, baby, baby, you're talking about asparagus. Let me handle this.' He let out a little 'heh'—in a moment that displayed his natural comedic timing. Instead of puffing his chest out, he went even deeper with Hernández: 'Why do you think we have such bad luck in love?' he cried out. Hernández took the opportunity to confess a hard truth about himself, bellowing: 'Honestly, I think I seek it out!' In fact, the sketch was even more nuanced than non-Spanish-speaking SNL viewers could know, in part because of the live show's limitations. The terse subtitles elided the subtleties of Hernández and Bad Bunny's banter in Caribbean-inflected Spanish. (Hernández is Cuban and Dominican, and Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican.) When Hernández admitted that 'in his heart, I think I want a woman who's off her rocker'—his literal phrase was 'crazier than a coffee maker.' The subtitles neutered the sarcasm entirely, reading: 'Because deep down I want a woman who is not mentally stable.' At other points, the subtitles arrived too late, for instance making Bad Bunny's expertly delivered lament—'Instead of thinking with our head, we think with the other one!'—land with a slightly awkward thud. Some parts of their dialogue weren't even translated, such as when Bad Bunny said: 'I feel you, brother.' [Read: Bad Bunny has it all—and that's the problem] The gag at the end was that no one got the table at all. Hernández and Bad Bunny agreed that there were some perks to their current circumstances, particularly in the bedroom. They cackled and bro-hugged, confusing Johanssen. 'Why are you two laughing? What did you just say?' She didn't know what was going on after all, because just like the barflies, she thought she was watching a telenovela: A machista argument about honor resulting in blows and a triumphant return to their favorite two-top. On the surface, this was just another SNL sketch about messed-up relationships and whether straight men are okay. But in its deliberate and inadvertent mistranslations, it also posed an intriguing question to its audience: How much truth can we really discern from a stranger we watch from across the distance of a bar table or a language barrier? Not much, it turns out. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Grazia USA
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Grazia USA
Met Gala 2025: The Boldest Beauty Looks on the Red Carpet
Teyana Taylor at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images It's the first Monday in May, which can only mean one thing! As night falls, the A-list of style, including actors, models, musicians, sports stars and the world's top designers, will hit the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side for the 2025 Met Gala. The theme of this year's benefit on May 5, which raises money for the iconic New York City institution's Costume Institute, is 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,' which explores the role of fashion and dandyism in shaping Black culture. Luminaries rocked interpretations of the dress code 'Tailored for You.' Hosts Coleman Domingo, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour stunned in expertly fashioned pieces, as did host committee members Doechii, Tyla, Usher and Ayo Edibiri. While the chic suits and impeccable corsetry had impressed, it was the hair and makeup that really had us swooning. Swooped edges and major lashes turned out to be the biggest trends of the night and looks that will no doubt inspire street style for seasons to come. Cheeky temporary face tattoos also had a moment (case in point: Doechii's LV logo and Cynthia Erivo's heart beauty mark.) Here, without further ado, our picks for the most memorable beauty looks on the 2025 Met Gala red carpet: Lupita Nyong'o Lupita Nyong'o at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Megan thee Stallion Megan Thee Stallion at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images DUA LIPA Dua Lipa at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images DOECHII Doechii at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Halle Bailey Halle Bailey at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Simone Biles Simone Biles at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images ZendayA Zendaya at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images CHAPPELL ROAN Chappell Roan at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Zoe SaldañA Zoe Saldaña at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Coco Jones Coco Jones at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Gigi Hadid Gigi Hadid at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images ANgela Bassett Angela Bassett at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images DEMI MOORE Demi Moore at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images CARDI B Cardi B at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images JENNIE Jennie at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Ego Nwodim Ego Nwodim at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Sydney Sweeney Sydney Sweeney at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images ALICIA KEYS Alicia Keys at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images DOJA CAT Doja Cat at the 2025 Met Gala / 2025 Teyana Taylor Teyana Taylor at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Kim kardashian Kim Kardashian at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images Pamela Anderson Pamela Anderson at the 2025 Met Gala / Getty Images topics: 2025 Met Gala, celebrity beauty, red carpet beauty, Met Gala, red carpet hair, red carpet makep, Black Dandyism, Sydney Sweeney, Teyana Taylor, Ego Nwodim, Emma Chamberlain
Express Tribune
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Best looks from the 2025 Met Gala celebrate Black style and tailored elegance
The 2025 Met Gala brought high fashion and cultural storytelling to the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, as celebrities showcased their interpretations of this year's theme, 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.' The exhibit and theme explore Black dandyism and its role in shaping Black identities across the Atlantic diaspora. This year's dress code, 'Tailored for You,' encouraged guests to lean into custom suiting and structured silhouettes, nodding to the enduring legacy of menswear in Black fashion. Notable arrivals included: Teyana Taylor , in a symbolic red pinstripe suit and cape embroidered with 'Harlem Rose.' Colman Domingo , in a layered, pearl-embellished custom Valentino look. Zendaya , channeling '70s glam in a white Louis Vuitton three-piece suit. Diana Ross , in a feather-trimmed silver gown with an epic train. Venus Williams , in a sculptural tailored couture gown. Pharrell Williams , with a sleek spin on dandy dressing. Lewis Hamilton , in head-to-toe white with cowrie shell detailing. Bad Bunny , in custom Prada with a relaxed, sharp vibe. Emma Chamberlain, in a pinstriped asymmetrical Courrèges dress. Gigi Hadid, dripping in gold from head to toe. Sydney Sweeney , in a vintage-inspired beaded Miu Miu gown. Coco Jones , in a bold, high-shouldered black ensemble. Saquon Barkley , embracing clean, confident suiting. Kwame Onwuachi , with culinary cool meets red carpet edge. Sadie Sink, Jodie Turner-Smith, La La Anthony, and Ego Nwodim, all served tailored elegance with unique flair. Jodie Turner-Smith La La Anthony Ego Nwodim Hosting duties were shared by Teyana Taylor, Ego Nwodim, and La La Anthony, all dressed impeccably and perfectly on theme. The Met Gala's 2025 exhibit, inspired by Monica L. Miller's Slaves to Fashion, offers a powerful look at fashion as both resistance and self-expression in the Black diaspora.
