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18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Eiza González's Scrutiny Over Her Body Image As A Teen
Fountain of Youth star Eiza González shared how she was brought back to a difficult moment as a teenage actor when Millie Bobby Brown called out journalists for their "disturbing" comments about her appearance. During a May 26 appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson's podcast Dinner's on Me, Eiza recalled facing scrutiny around her appearance like Millie did earlier this year. "It really made me sad because... when I was like a teenager, you know, I broke into the industry," Eiza recalled. From 2007-08, Eiza starred in a Mexican remake of the Argentine telenovela Floricienta called Lola, érase una vez (Lola: Once Upon a Time). "They were waiting for the reveal of this character, and I came on stage, and I sang a song, whatever," she recalled. "The next morning, I'm watching the version of Today Show in Mexico, and they're gonna talk about it. I'm like, I'm 14 'Oh my God, it's just happening, this is crazy.' I'm doing what I wanna do. And the presenters came on, and they're 40 and 50-year-olds, and they're like, 'Ugh, she's so ugly. She's so fat. They could have gotten anyone, like why would they get her?'" Eiza became a bit emotional as she recounted the harsh experience. "I remember even right now, I'm just like, 'Oh my God, it was just so jarring," she said. "And I was just like sitting there, like embarrassed with myself. Like even [now] it makes me tear up." Earlier, Eiza explained that she suffered a "deep depression" after the death of her father in a "tragic accident" when she was only 12, which made this experience even harder to navigate as a teen. "Now you become this child where you're chasing approval, and now you're like completely lost of identity. And you're also completely lost because you're mourning and you're grieving, so you're sad. And then I'm touring and having to smile and be a role model and pretend like I'm okay when everyone's bombarding you. What you're supposed to do, what you're not supposed to do." But, support from her "amazing mother" being there for her through it all helped Eiza persist. "I definitely got lost. I was very unkind to myself, my body, my thoughts, my soul, because I just never felt good enough," she continued. "And it's something that stays with you forever because it's sort of brands you, it marks you for life. And so it becomes a catch-up." Millie's clapback by calling out the "disgusting" headlines resonated with Eiza, reminding her of her own experience as a teenage actor. "I really identified with what she was saying because she was reading this, she was explaining about her terrifying [experience] and I just found that really interesting because she was talking about being a grown woman and sort of finding the way she wants to dress and act and be, and she doesn't have to do it under other people's terms. It's under her terms." If you remember, back in March, Millie, who started at age 12 on Stranger Things, faced nasty comments from certain media during her press tour for Electric State. On March 3, Millie called out the problematic headlines and discourse. "We always talk about supporting and uplifting young women, but when the time comes, it seems easier to tear them down for clicks. Disillusioned people can't handle seeing a girl become a woman on her terms, not theirs. I refuse to apologize for growing up. I refuse to make myself smaller to fit the unrealistic expectations of people who can't handle seeing a girl become a woman. I will not be shamed for how I look, how I dress, or how I present myself," Millie wrote. It's truly heartbreaking that Millie, Eiza, and many entertainers of all ages experience such nasty critiques on their appearance, whether from social media or, in some cases, professional media. Hopefully, the fear of being called out by name will start deterring the culprits. Listen to the Dinner's On Me episode here.
Mint
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
What to watch this week: ‘Eileen', ‘Karate Kid: Legends'
Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is a shy secretary at a corrections facility in the early 1960s, starved of excitement in a small town, having to take care of her alcoholic father. Her life changes when she comes under the spell of a mysterious and glamorous psychologist, Rebecca (Anne Hathaway). Hathaway radiates old-movie star charisma, Shea Whigham is wonderful as Eileen's father, and the atmosphere is straight out of Patricia Highsmith novel. Directed by William Oldroyd. (Netflix) A still from 'Our Unwritten Seoul'. Mi-ji and Mi-rae (played by Park Bo-young) are identical twins but differ in temperament. While Mi-ji lives with her mother, Mi-rae works in Seoul but is going through a rough patch, facing harassment from her boss. The sisters decide to switch places. The K-drama also stars Jinyoung. (Netflix) A still from 'Fountain of Youth'. An archaeologist teams up with his sister, a museum curator, to look for the fabled fountain of youth. This globe-trotting adventure stars Natalie Portman and John Krasinki, with a supporting cast of Eiza González, Arian Moayed and Stanley Tucci. While it doesn't exactly promise a deep philosophical experience, this sort of material is custom-made for director Guy Ritchie. (Apple TV+) A still from 'Karate Kid: Legends'. A potentially awkward merging of the universes of The Karate Kid, a 2010 film with Jackie Chan, and Cobra Kai, a spinoff series from the original trilogy that had its sixth and final season this year. Chan and Ralph Macchio star in Jonathan Entwistle's film along with Ben Wang, the latest kid who'll receive an exacting but life-changing training in martial arts. Also starring Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley and Ming-Na Wen. (In theatres)
The Advertiser
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Guy Ritchie's fun and brainless crime caper may well have legs
Fountain of Youth (M, 126 minutes) 3 stars The recent and final chapter of the Indian Jones films, The Dial of Destiny, was the close of a 40-plus-year film journey, and as nature abhors a vacuum, Guy Ritchie's Fountain of Youth comes along from Apple TV+ hoping to fill that vacuum. Ritchie is a talent, to be sure, but while he used to come up with refreshing original material, his recent fare consists of what is referred to as IP films. That is, films that exploit existing intellectual property, like the 2019 live-action Disney remake of Aladdin, his 2015 reboot of the 60s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. or even recently adapting his own movie The Gentlemen for a streaming series. They're inventively directed but don't give you anything you don't expect, and that is Fountain of Youth, a film desperately hoping to become a film franchise and exploitable IP. Ritchie, Apple TV and the cast of big names give it everything they've got trying to make that happen. Luke Purdue (John Krasinski) is a professional adventurer and as the film opens he is being chased through the Bangkok markets by a cadre of villains trying to recover a painting he has stolen from them - and so perhaps Luke is actually the villain. Among those in pursuit is Esme (Eiza Gonzalez), seemingly pursuing Luke separate to the other bad guys, and almost successful at getting the painting back. Eventually escaping, John visits his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) at her work at one of London's major art galleries, where he brazenly steals yet another painting and runs off with Charlotte on his heels. Charlotte is furious with her brother, as well you might be when you'll likely lose your career thanks to his light fingers, but it seems the Purdue siblings grew up the children of an adventurer thief, like the filmic children of Nicholas Cage's National Treasure hero or Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft. Luke has assembled his late father's old team of assistants, spending the money of billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson) on the hunt for the mythical fountain of youth. Carver claims to have a terminal illness and is prepared to spend whatever is necessary, and so the team has bought and robbed a collection of priceless art that have clues to the location of the mythic fountain. As her career has been now tanked, Charlotte may as well come along for the ride. Guy Ritchie's film is certainly fun, there is certainly big big money being spent on filming in exotic locations and some of the action set-pieces are very well executed. He goes for practical stunt work over CGI where he can, and the action has a believability to it, with Krasinski not trying to be Jason Statham with a PhD, and limping away painfully from each fight scene. But James Vanderbilt's screenplay is fairly paint-by-numbers, and if you've seen any of the National Treasure films you could confidently predict most of the plot and dialogue. There's even Stanley Tucci as the head of a secret organisation that exists to protect the location of the fountain of youth, though he's only on screen for about as long as you can say 'Hey, isn't this eerily similar to the plot of The Mummy?' Frankly the only thing about he film with a ring of authenticity to it is the snarky dialogue between the two siblings, and Krasinski and Portman play well together. In fact, if this is just the first in an ongoing franchise, perhaps the filmmakers' biggest mistake was just calling it Fountain of Youth and not "Luke Purdue and the Fountain of Youth" or "Charlotte Purdue and the Fountain of Youth", as either character could take the Indiana Jones mantle. Fun and a bit brainless, Ritchie's film is worth the price of the AppleTV+ free trial. Fountain of Youth (M, 126 minutes) 3 stars The recent and final chapter of the Indian Jones films, The Dial of Destiny, was the close of a 40-plus-year film journey, and as nature abhors a vacuum, Guy Ritchie's Fountain of Youth comes along from Apple TV+ hoping to fill that vacuum. Ritchie is a talent, to be sure, but while he used to come up with refreshing original material, his recent fare consists of what is referred to as IP films. That is, films that exploit existing intellectual property, like the 2019 live-action Disney remake of Aladdin, his 2015 reboot of the 60s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. or even recently adapting his own movie The Gentlemen for a streaming series. They're inventively directed but don't give you anything you don't expect, and that is Fountain of Youth, a film desperately hoping to become a film franchise and exploitable IP. Ritchie, Apple TV and the cast of big names give it everything they've got trying to make that happen. Luke Purdue (John Krasinski) is a professional adventurer and as the film opens he is being chased through the Bangkok markets by a cadre of villains trying to recover a painting he has stolen from them - and so perhaps Luke is actually the villain. Among those in pursuit is Esme (Eiza Gonzalez), seemingly pursuing Luke separate to the other bad guys, and almost successful at getting the painting back. Eventually escaping, John visits his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) at her work at one of London's major art galleries, where he brazenly steals yet another painting and runs off with Charlotte on his heels. Charlotte is furious with her brother, as well you might be when you'll likely lose your career thanks to his light fingers, but it seems the Purdue siblings grew up the children of an adventurer thief, like the filmic children of Nicholas Cage's National Treasure hero or Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft. Luke has assembled his late father's old team of assistants, spending the money of billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson) on the hunt for the mythical fountain of youth. Carver claims to have a terminal illness and is prepared to spend whatever is necessary, and so the team has bought and robbed a collection of priceless art that have clues to the location of the mythic fountain. As her career has been now tanked, Charlotte may as well come along for the ride. Guy Ritchie's film is certainly fun, there is certainly big big money being spent on filming in exotic locations and some of the action set-pieces are very well executed. He goes for practical stunt work over CGI where he can, and the action has a believability to it, with Krasinski not trying to be Jason Statham with a PhD, and limping away painfully from each fight scene. But James Vanderbilt's screenplay is fairly paint-by-numbers, and if you've seen any of the National Treasure films you could confidently predict most of the plot and dialogue. There's even Stanley Tucci as the head of a secret organisation that exists to protect the location of the fountain of youth, though he's only on screen for about as long as you can say 'Hey, isn't this eerily similar to the plot of The Mummy?' Frankly the only thing about he film with a ring of authenticity to it is the snarky dialogue between the two siblings, and Krasinski and Portman play well together. In fact, if this is just the first in an ongoing franchise, perhaps the filmmakers' biggest mistake was just calling it Fountain of Youth and not "Luke Purdue and the Fountain of Youth" or "Charlotte Purdue and the Fountain of Youth", as either character could take the Indiana Jones mantle. Fun and a bit brainless, Ritchie's film is worth the price of the AppleTV+ free trial. Fountain of Youth (M, 126 minutes) 3 stars The recent and final chapter of the Indian Jones films, The Dial of Destiny, was the close of a 40-plus-year film journey, and as nature abhors a vacuum, Guy Ritchie's Fountain of Youth comes along from Apple TV+ hoping to fill that vacuum. Ritchie is a talent, to be sure, but while he used to come up with refreshing original material, his recent fare consists of what is referred to as IP films. That is, films that exploit existing intellectual property, like the 2019 live-action Disney remake of Aladdin, his 2015 reboot of the 60s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. or even recently adapting his own movie The Gentlemen for a streaming series. They're inventively directed but don't give you anything you don't expect, and that is Fountain of Youth, a film desperately hoping to become a film franchise and exploitable IP. Ritchie, Apple TV and the cast of big names give it everything they've got trying to make that happen. Luke Purdue (John Krasinski) is a professional adventurer and as the film opens he is being chased through the Bangkok markets by a cadre of villains trying to recover a painting he has stolen from them - and so perhaps Luke is actually the villain. Among those in pursuit is Esme (Eiza Gonzalez), seemingly pursuing Luke separate to the other bad guys, and almost successful at getting the painting back. Eventually escaping, John visits his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) at her work at one of London's major art galleries, where he brazenly steals yet another painting and runs off with Charlotte on his heels. Charlotte is furious with her brother, as well you might be when you'll likely lose your career thanks to his light fingers, but it seems the Purdue siblings grew up the children of an adventurer thief, like the filmic children of Nicholas Cage's National Treasure hero or Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft. Luke has assembled his late father's old team of assistants, spending the money of billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson) on the hunt for the mythical fountain of youth. Carver claims to have a terminal illness and is prepared to spend whatever is necessary, and so the team has bought and robbed a collection of priceless art that have clues to the location of the mythic fountain. As her career has been now tanked, Charlotte may as well come along for the ride. Guy Ritchie's film is certainly fun, there is certainly big big money being spent on filming in exotic locations and some of the action set-pieces are very well executed. He goes for practical stunt work over CGI where he can, and the action has a believability to it, with Krasinski not trying to be Jason Statham with a PhD, and limping away painfully from each fight scene. But James Vanderbilt's screenplay is fairly paint-by-numbers, and if you've seen any of the National Treasure films you could confidently predict most of the plot and dialogue. There's even Stanley Tucci as the head of a secret organisation that exists to protect the location of the fountain of youth, though he's only on screen for about as long as you can say 'Hey, isn't this eerily similar to the plot of The Mummy?' Frankly the only thing about he film with a ring of authenticity to it is the snarky dialogue between the two siblings, and Krasinski and Portman play well together. In fact, if this is just the first in an ongoing franchise, perhaps the filmmakers' biggest mistake was just calling it Fountain of Youth and not "Luke Purdue and the Fountain of Youth" or "Charlotte Purdue and the Fountain of Youth", as either character could take the Indiana Jones mantle. Fun and a bit brainless, Ritchie's film is worth the price of the AppleTV+ free trial. Fountain of Youth (M, 126 minutes) 3 stars The recent and final chapter of the Indian Jones films, The Dial of Destiny, was the close of a 40-plus-year film journey, and as nature abhors a vacuum, Guy Ritchie's Fountain of Youth comes along from Apple TV+ hoping to fill that vacuum. Ritchie is a talent, to be sure, but while he used to come up with refreshing original material, his recent fare consists of what is referred to as IP films. That is, films that exploit existing intellectual property, like the 2019 live-action Disney remake of Aladdin, his 2015 reboot of the 60s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. or even recently adapting his own movie The Gentlemen for a streaming series. They're inventively directed but don't give you anything you don't expect, and that is Fountain of Youth, a film desperately hoping to become a film franchise and exploitable IP. Ritchie, Apple TV and the cast of big names give it everything they've got trying to make that happen. Luke Purdue (John Krasinski) is a professional adventurer and as the film opens he is being chased through the Bangkok markets by a cadre of villains trying to recover a painting he has stolen from them - and so perhaps Luke is actually the villain. Among those in pursuit is Esme (Eiza Gonzalez), seemingly pursuing Luke separate to the other bad guys, and almost successful at getting the painting back. Eventually escaping, John visits his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) at her work at one of London's major art galleries, where he brazenly steals yet another painting and runs off with Charlotte on his heels. Charlotte is furious with her brother, as well you might be when you'll likely lose your career thanks to his light fingers, but it seems the Purdue siblings grew up the children of an adventurer thief, like the filmic children of Nicholas Cage's National Treasure hero or Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft. Luke has assembled his late father's old team of assistants, spending the money of billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson) on the hunt for the mythical fountain of youth. Carver claims to have a terminal illness and is prepared to spend whatever is necessary, and so the team has bought and robbed a collection of priceless art that have clues to the location of the mythic fountain. As her career has been now tanked, Charlotte may as well come along for the ride. Guy Ritchie's film is certainly fun, there is certainly big big money being spent on filming in exotic locations and some of the action set-pieces are very well executed. He goes for practical stunt work over CGI where he can, and the action has a believability to it, with Krasinski not trying to be Jason Statham with a PhD, and limping away painfully from each fight scene. But James Vanderbilt's screenplay is fairly paint-by-numbers, and if you've seen any of the National Treasure films you could confidently predict most of the plot and dialogue. There's even Stanley Tucci as the head of a secret organisation that exists to protect the location of the fountain of youth, though he's only on screen for about as long as you can say 'Hey, isn't this eerily similar to the plot of The Mummy?' Frankly the only thing about he film with a ring of authenticity to it is the snarky dialogue between the two siblings, and Krasinski and Portman play well together. In fact, if this is just the first in an ongoing franchise, perhaps the filmmakers' biggest mistake was just calling it Fountain of Youth and not "Luke Purdue and the Fountain of Youth" or "Charlotte Purdue and the Fountain of Youth", as either character could take the Indiana Jones mantle. Fun and a bit brainless, Ritchie's film is worth the price of the AppleTV+ free trial.
Wales Online
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Natalie Portman still feels like people 'treat her like a child' on set
Natalie Portman still feels like people 'treat her like a child' on set The 43-year-old actress - who rose to fame as a child in 1999's 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' - insisted that despite growing up in the spotlight and developing a "serious persona" to combat people's perceptions of her, she is still fighting against it (Image: Getty Images ) Natalie Portman thinks people still "treat her like a child". The 43-year-old actress - who rose to fame as a child in 1999's 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' - insisted that despite growing up in the spotlight and developing a "serious persona" to combat people's perceptions of her, she is still fighting against it. During a conversation about Jenna Ortega, Natalie told Harper's Bazaar magazine: "We're both physically tiny, so people will often treat you like a child forever. "I'm 43 now, and people kind of pat me on the head. I don't look like a child, but I often feel like I'm treated like a kid. "Child actors often cultivate a serious persona because otherwise they'll get treated like kids forever. "When you start working as a kid, you kind of always feel like a kid in the workplace. Having some of that seriousness helps remind people, 'I'm a grown-up.' " Natalie and Jenna have worked together in new comedy thriller 'The Gallerist', and the 'Fountain of Youth' actress noticed they have a similar process in between takes. She explained: "We don't sit in a chair; we just kind of squat in the corner. "Catherine Zeta-Jones, who was also a child actress, said she did it too - that it's a way of grounding yourself. "There'd be all these chairs, but we'd just squat and look at each other and be like, 'Wow, this is weird.' " Meanwhile, Jenna opened up on how much it's helped her becoming friends with the likes of Natalie, Winona Ryder and Natasha Lyonne, who all understand the journey she's on. She said: "It's been so beneficial and so cozy. They've seen it all, and, honestly, during a much darker time in Hollywood. Article continues below "We've all got this jaded way about us that I don't think we'd have if we hadn't started so young and had so many brutal realisations and experiences... "But they turned out all right."
Perth Now
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Natalie Portman still feels like people 'treat her like a child' on set
Natalie Portman thinks people still "treat her like a child". The 43-year-old actress - who rose to fame as a child in 1999's 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' - insisted that despite growing up in the spotlight and developing a "serious persona" to combat people's perceptions of her, she is still fighting against it. During a conversation about Jenna Ortega, Natalie told Harper's Bazaar magazine: 'We're both physically tiny, so people will often treat you like a child forever. 'I'm 43 now, and people kind of pat me on the head. I don't look like a child, but I often feel like I'm treated like a kid. "Child actors often cultivate a serious persona because otherwise they'll get treated like kids forever. "When you start working as a kid, you kind of always feel like a kid in the workplace. Having some of that seriousness helps remind people, 'I'm a grown-up.' ' Natalie and Jenna have worked together in new comedy thriller 'The Gallerist', and the 'Fountain of Youth' actress noticed they have a similar process in between takes. She explained: 'We don't sit in a chair; we just kind of squat in the corner. "Catherine Zeta-Jones, who was also a child actress, said she did it too — that it's a way of grounding yourself. "There'd be all these chairs, but we'd just squat and look at each other and be like, 'Wow, this is weird.' ' Meanwhile, Jenna opened up on how much it's helped her becoming friends with the likes of Natalie, Winona Ryder and Natasha Lyonne, who all understand the journey she's on. She said: 'It's been so beneficial and so cozy. They've seen it all, and, honestly, during a much darker time in Hollywood. "We've all got this jaded way about us that I don't think we'd have if we hadn't started so young and had so many brutal realisations and experiences... 'But they turned out all right.'
