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Forbes
an hour ago
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- Forbes
Why Does Maje From Netflix Hit ‘A Widow's Game' Look So Familiar?
Ivanna Baquero in "A Widow's Game." Ivana Baquero — the star of Netflix's No. 1 movie A Widow's Game — got her showbiz break in 2006 thanks a lead role in a Guillermo del Toro classic. What else has she starred in? Baquero stars as Maje in the A Widow's Game, which is currently the No. 1 film on the streamer's top 10 list of movies on the platform in the U.S. Netflix reported Tuesday that A Widow's Game also earned spots on Top 10 most-watched movie lists in 90 countries worldwide, amassing 15.4 million views since its debut on the streaming service on Friday, May 30. A Widow's Game is based on the real-life case known as "The Black Widow of Patraix.' The official summary for the film reads, 'August 2017. In a parking lot in Valencia appears the body of a man, stabbed seven times. Everything points to a crime of passion. Ivanna Baquero in "A Widow's Game." 'The Homicide Group of the city, with a veteran inspector at the head, starts an investigation against the clock that soon leads them to a suspect that no one expected: Maje, the young widow, sweet and serene, who had been married to the victim for less than a year.' Born June 11, 1994, in Barcelona, Spain, Baquero made her screen debut in a supporting role in the 2004 Spanish-UK supernatural thriller Romasanta, which was followed by roles in two more feature films and two TV movies. Baquero's breakthrough role, however, happened in 2006 when del Toro cast the young actor in the lead role in a film that went on to receive six Oscar nominations at the 2007 Academy Awards. Set in 1944, Pan's Labyrinth stars Ivana Baquero as Ofelia, a 10-year-old girl who moves with her ailing, pregnant mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil) to the Spanish countryside to live with Carmen's new husband, the brutal military dictator Captain Vidal (Sergi López). As Ofelia befriends a mythical creature known as the Faun (Doug Jones), she learns that she is a reincarnated princess who is saddled with completely three daunting tasks before she can once again assume the throne. Jones also plays the haunting creature the Pale Man in the film. Director Guillermo Del Toro and cast members Maribel Verdun, Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi Lopez ... More and Alfonso Cuaron at the photocall of "El laberinto del fauno" during the 59th Cannes Film Festival. (Photo by Eddy LEMAISTRE/Corbis via Getty Images) Produced in Spain, Pan's Labyrinth was nominated for six Oscars in 2007, including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Score for Javier Navarette and Best Original Screenplay for Guillermo del Toro. Pan's Labyrinth won Oscars in the three other categories it was nominated in, including Best Makeup, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Baquero was also honored for her role as Ofelia, winning the Best New Actress honor at the Goya Awards, which is Spain's equivalent to the Oscars. Baquero also won a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA and was nominated for Best Young Actress at the 2007 Critics Choice Awards. Based on the best-selling The Sword of Shannara Trilogy of books by Terry Brooks, The Shannara Chronicles stars Ivana Baquero as Eretria opposites future Elvis and Dune: Part Two star Austin Butler. In the series, Eretria is a human who teams with the Elven Princess Amberle (Poppy Drayton) and a half-human/half-elf, Wil (Butler) to fend off demons from taking over the environs known as the Four Lands. Created by Wednesday creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, The Shannara Chronicles ran for two seasons on MTV from 2016 to 2017. The series also starred James Remar (Dexter) and John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings/Indiana Jones series). Alejandra Onieva and Ivanna Baquero in "High Seas." A Netflix original Spanish series, High Seas stars Ivana Baquero as Eve Villanueva and Alejandra Onieva as her sister, Carolina, who while on a luxury cruise from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s investigate a series of mysterious murders aboard the ship. High Seas ran for three seasons on Netflix from 2019 to 2020. The first and second seasons each featured eight episodes, while the third season concluded the series with six episodes. Ivana Baquero stars opposite Evil Dead icon Bruce Campbell in the horror comedy Black Friday as Marnie, one of a small group of a large retail toy store who must fight off blood-thirsty shoppers infected with a parasites as the annual day-after-Thanksgiving sale gets underway. Black Friday also stars Devon Sawa (the first movie in the Final Destination franchise) and Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight). A Widow's Tale, starring Ivana Baquero, is now streaming exclusively on Netflix.
Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jacob Elordi On Playing A Haunted POW In ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North' And His Growing Zeal For Acting As He Tees Up ‘Frankenstein' & ‘Wuthering Heights'
Jacob Elordi keeps waiting for the day he might lose his love for acting. It hasn't happened yet, and he hopes it never will. In fact, the Australian actor, who most recently played a haunted prisoner of war in Justin Kurzel's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, feels like he's just getting started. More from Deadline Jacob Elordi & Lily-Rose Depp To Star In Cormac McCarthy Adaptation 'Outer Dark' — Red Hot Project Bubbling At The Cannes Market Guillermo Del Toro's 'Frankenstein' Debuts First Teaser At Netflix Tudum 'Carrie' Series Officially Sets Summer Howell As Lead; Samantha Sloyan, Josie Totah & Amber Midthunder Among Cast 'I'm just incredibly open to being a part of the circus right now, in a way. I really love being an actor. I don't know, silly as that it may sound, the love for it just keeps going deeper and deeper,' he tells Deadline. In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, adapted from Richard Flanagan's novel, Elordi stars as Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans, a celebrated World War II hero who is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young) that sustained him through the darkest of times. In the interview below, he breaks down his process for Narrow Road and also speaks about his upcoming roles in Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights. DEADLINE:Snowtown. JACOB ELORDI: Well, the whole movie was something I hadn't seen before. The kind of loose, handheld, intimate way that it was shot … and those colors and those kinds of houses, it all kind of had a great impact. But there's a couple of scenes that stand out. There was this one incredible moment where his brother comes home and something happens in the living room of their home, and Justin, just kind of sat on the door with the camera. He didn't move from the door. He didn't cut. He just sat on the door and he let this kind of horrific, Cain and Abel act play out just in this one shot. I remember never really being able to forget that shot. DEADLINE: The Narrow Road to the Deep North? ELORDI: I think the intrigue to me from working with him was how much space and freedom he gives the performer. He doesn't let the camera or the lights or the sound get in the way of the performance, which is not to say that happens all the time, but he's very particular about the performance coming before everything, which as an actor is like as close as you can get to a theater experience on screen. I was taken by how kind of gentle he was. It all makes sense after meeting him and then watching his films back. But he has such a sensitivity with his actors and with the frame and with his work. DEADLINE: ELORDI: Just as an actor, yeah, I think you always want to have time to obsess over the script and get your little mind map going and see how many things you can join and what you can come up with. But I have to also say I've learned from experience now, like Frankenstein, for example, I only got cast in that just before the film. So you kind of hit the ground running. It was figuring the film out as we shot a little bit. That, in its own way, was a totally freeing experience as well. So I kind of don't know which I prefer. I think it depends on the project and where you're at. DEADLINE: ELORDI: Well, Dorrigo is, on paper, the embodiment of stoicism and stillness. I was glad to have like a year to prepare to sort of slow my internal world down a little bit and try and find that kind of patience. I'm glad that I didn't have to rush into that. DEADLINE: ELORDI: We shot separately. We shot what we called, on the set, the 'Summer of Love.' That was the first portion of filming, and that was a few weeks, which was pre-war. So I still had relatively okay body weight, and I was given the opportunity as a performer to have all of the memories that Dorrigo takes with him into the camps for real. We wrapped that and had a six-week break over Christmas, in which all the boys had to go into a boot camp, and we lost all our weight. Then towards the end of January, I believe, we came back in and then shot the prisoner camps. So I was lucky enough to have this long run of experience as the character, and then be met with the contrast of the death camps. So I got to play it chronologically, which is not something you get to do often when you're shooting. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I mean, for me, it was so immediate, because I'd spent the years stripping my life back a little bit so that when I got to filming, I just got to live in it every day. My reality really was what was sort of happening for him in the story and and in his life — not in some way where it was like some hokey pokey method thing, but more just when everyone around you all put our central focus into achieving this one goal, something happens on a production, and it happens rarely, and you fall into this kind of fugue state together. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I mean, not necessarily challenging. It's a rewarding process to sort of internalize things and contemplate things and just watch for a while and listen. There's a great gift in listening. As an actor, when you think about the craft of acting, to be able to just sit there and actually force yourself to listen instead of trying to do something or be something, is a really freeing experience. What I found in the silence is that when you do hold things in, and when you consider things, the weight of them feels so much more present than when you kind of just say how you feel all the time. So it was kind of cathartic in a way, I suppose. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I mean, it's interesting, because it is ever-present in men, especially from that generation, and especially Australian men from that generation, our fathers and grandfathers. I think a lot of people can see the similarities there, and especially in return from war as well. Some people's dads came home and never spoke again. I don't have a social comment on it, but it's interesting. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I mean, either fortunately or unfortunately, as a performer, you end up becoming like a cliché performer. So I spend a great deal of time, probably far too much time, sitting and looking inward. The best thing about performance for me, is the cliché — to lose yourself in somebody else's life. And I always told myself I would punch myself if I said that, but there is this very real thing that happens when you slow down and you consider things from places that you wouldn't usually. You have the liberty to consider, and then you get to attempt to experience them. There's no way you get to do all of that and it doesn't affect you in some kind of way, either like a therapy or, for some people, maybe like a curse. I don't know, but I find it incredibly cathartic. DEADLINE: ELORDI: The funny thing is, they keep changing — the experience that I had seven years ago on a film, how I felt about it immediately to how I feel about it now, and what I've sort of learned from it. The moments where I didn't think I was learning something, I was. For example, I just worked with Guillermo del Toro, and it feels like he planted these unconscious Easter eggs in my brain. So it's an ongoing thing, but the kind of filmmakers that I've worked with whose work I love, they're the people that have made the greatest change in me. I think it's just because you're a part of somebody's singular artistic vision, you know? There's no feeling quite like that for me. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I get more and more intrigued every day by the freedom that I have to act at the moment. So, it's nothing specific. It's more just every day I keep thinking I'm going to not feel like it, and every day I wake up and I just want to keep acting. So I'm just incredibly open to being a part of the circus right now, in a way. I really love being an actor. I don't know, silly as that it may sound, the love for it just keeps going deeper and deeper. I hope I can keep working with filmmakers that I love, and then also find new filmmakers and new ways of making movies. It's endlessly exciting. DEADLINE:Frankenstein? ELORDI: I mean, I think Frankenstein is an epic fairy tale. I genuinely don't think I've seen something like this. It's beautiful. I'm quite anxious for people to see it. I'm intrigued for everybody to see the creature for the first time. It's really, really beautiful work by Mike Hill. DEADLINE:Wuthering Heights? ELORDI: I've only seen small clips of it and still photos, but it's one of the most pleasingly photographed films that I've ever seen. It's genuinely astonishing. The screenplay that Emerald wrote is genius, and Linus Sandgren's work on the camera is untouchable. I'm so excited by the size of these movies. They're movies that make you want to go to the cinema. I haven't seen something that punches that big in a really long time. DEADLINE: ELORDI: This thing kind of just happened naturally, where I got the books again, because I've read them in my life, and something happened in this process where I just I read them brand new, each page with a pencil out. It just brought fresh ideas to my mind. I didn't have any kind of preconceived ideas. They're just these really rich characters, and I was really just excited to play them. I remember I went to Guillermo, and I said, 'Which version of the book should I read?' He sent me all this stuff. And then I was like, 'and do you think I should watch the movies?' And he looked at me like I was crazy. He was like, 'They're just movies. They can't f*cking hurt you.' I remember him saying that. Then I just dove in and realized that nothing could bog me down or get in my way, because I was so excited by the process. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More Everything We Know About 'Happy Gilmore 2' So Far
Edinburgh Live
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
First trailer for chilling Frankenstein adaptation filmed in Edinburgh
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info A first trailer has been released for Guillermo Del Toro's chilling Frankenstein adaptation, which was filmed here in Edinburgh. The movie, which is hitting Netflix in November, stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein's monster. Cast and crew took over the capital back in September. Mia Goth, who also stars in the film, was spotted with Del Toro on set by locals. Now, a trailer has been released - and it certainly sticks to the creepy vibe of Mary Shelley's classic novel. During filming, actors fully clad in period costumes descended to the Royal Mile. Parts of the Canongate were closed off for filming, with horse-drawn carts and actors sporting top hats spotted making their way through the Old Town. A group of actors were seen standing together in costume with what appeared to be blood-stained aprons - possibly a nod the gruesome story. Local photographer Peter Fraser managed to catch some snaps of the actors while they took their breaks. He told EdinburghLive: "Guillermo Del Toro, The Director was more than happy to pose for a photograph between sets of Frankenstein, on Friday September 13. "I also managed to some photographs of some other character actors and actresses, walking from one set to the next set, in period costume, giving a ghostly feel as they tread on Edinburgh cobbled streets once again. Sign up for Edinburgh Live newsletters for more headlines straight to your inbox "Guillermo Del Toro certainly brought the City of Edinburgh's past alive." Del Toro has previously spoken of his interest in Shelley's work. He said: 'The most important figure from English legacy is, incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she were family. "And so many times when I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when people tell me that dreaming of the movies and the stories I dream are impossible, I think of her."
Geek Tyrant
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Trailer for the New JAWS Documentary JAWS @ 50 About the Making of the Classic Film — GeekTyrant
National Geographic has released the first trailer for Jaws @ 50 , a great-looking new documentary about the making of the classic Steven Spielberg-directed movie. Jaws @ 50 Definitive Inside Story is the 'authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Alongside Steven Spielberg, Jaws @ 50 charts the extraordinary journey from Peter Benchley's bestselling novel to one of the most iconic films ever made. 'Featuring rare archival footage and interviews with acclaimed Hollywood directors, top shark scientists, conservationists, the film uncovers the behind-the-scenes chaos and how the film launched the summer blockbuster, inspired a new wave of filmmakers, and paved the way for shark conservation that continues today. The doc comes from the acclaimed behind-the-scenes documentary filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau, who previously worked on Five Came Back , Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind , Mama's Boy , 40 Years of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial , The Fabelmans: A Family in Film , Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford , and The Bloody Hundredth . It also features interviews with Jordan Peele, Guillermo Del Toro, George Lucas, and many others. It's set to be released on Disney+ and NatGeo starting July 10th, 2025, and I can't wait to watch this!
South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Netflix trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein with Oscar Isaac wows fans
Even as Netflix teased the long-awaited final seasons of Stranger Things and Squid Game, fans appeared to be also transfixed by the trailer of the streaming platform's upcoming Guillermo del Toro film Frankenstein. Advertisement Watched some 3 million times on YouTube within hours of its release at the weekend, the trailer prompted much excitement among fans, but also some fears that the adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel might not get a cinematic release. 'My jaw was on the floor the entire time. It's chillingly gorgeous, can't wait for this one,' one person commented. ' Guillermo Del Toro is too good for Netflix. This needs a theatre release asap,' another wrote. The scientist Dr Frankenstein is played by Oscar Isaac, while his creature made up of corpse parts is embodied by Saltburn star Jacob Elordi. The trailer suggests that the Mexican director is interested in both powerful imagery and telling an emotional, intimate story. 'Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation,' Netflix writes.
