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New York Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Dave Franco reveals he would be ‘open' to playing Luigi Mangione in a biopic under these circumstances
Dave Franco is open to scrubbing in. While on 'Watch What Happens Live' earlier this week, the actor, 40, was asked if he would consider portraying Luigi Mangione in a biopic. The 27-year-old is currently behind bars after being accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024. Advertisement 9 Dave Franco visits Radio Andy. Getty Images 'Oh, how do I answer this?' Franco replied to the fan. 'No one has approached me about it yet, I'll say that. This is something that more people in my life reached out about this exact thing than anything else that has ever happened.' The 'Together' star admitted that he would consider playing Mangione if he were offered the role. Advertisement 'Let's just say I'm open if the right people,' Franco stated, 'and let's just leave it at that.' 9 Dave Franco is seen on July 30, 2025 in New York City. GC Images Mangione is accused of gunning down Thompson on West 54th Street in NYC on Dec. 4. After a five-day nationwide manhunt, the Ivy League-educated tech whiz was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he stopped at a local McDonald's after getting off a Greyhound bus. Advertisement Authorities have accused Mangione of planning the murder months in advance over a gripe with the 'parasitic' health insurance industry. 9 Luigi Mangione at his graduation. Instagram / Kathy Mangione 9 Luigi Mangione. Luigi Mangione/Facebook He is currently facing a slew of federal and state charges, including murder with a firearm, identity falsification and forgery. Advertisement Mangione pleaded not guilty in Dec. He is set to appear in court on Sept. 16. Franco was previously asked about taking on the controversial role in January. 9 Luigi Mangione in court. POOL/AFP via Getty Images 'I've never received more texts in my life about anything,' he admitted in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Franco noted, 'Not just friends — anyone who has my phone number has reached out about it.' His wife, Alison Brie, 42, pointed out that her husband hasn't gotten 'any official offers' just yet. 9 Luigi Mangione pictured in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Instagram / Luigi Mangione 'No official [offers],' Franco confirmed. Advertisement After fans flocked to the internet to look up Franco in comparison to Mangione, the 'Neighbors' star experienced his third-most-popular week of Google searches in the last five years. The two were even mentioned in a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch where Sarah Sherman played legal journalist Nancy Grace. 9 Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old who allegedly murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO. Altoona PD Sherman's Grace joked that Mangione has 'women and gay guys alike all hot and bothered,' and said he 'looks like Dave Franco with Eugene Levy eyebrows.' Advertisement Despite no word of a movie in the works yet, director Alex Gibney is producing a documentary on the murder. 9 Dave Franco in 'Together.' NEON 9 Dave Franco and Alison Brie in a scene from 'Together.' NEON Advertisement According to Deadline, the doc will analyze 'the crime's seemingly meticulous execution to the alleged killer's manifesto and his Ivy League background to the public's unapologetic apathy towards the victim.' A second documentary from Stephen Robert Morse will 'explore the various perspectives of those embroiled in the murder and its aftermath, including the victims, their families and Mangione himself, as well as the moral complexities thrown up by Thompson's murder,' per Variety.
Buzz Feed
19-07-2025
- General
- Buzz Feed
17 Tell-Tale Signs That Signal Someone Is Ignorant
Recently, Redditor u/Rude_Beautiful_9650 asked Reddit community members to share the signs that indicate someone is "ignorant" or "uneducated" and, though you might not agree, some of them are a bit too real: "Being proud about never reading." —Clear_PR_Stunt "Using religion as a basis for argument." "Being stubborn and unwilling to change one's views, even when faced with contrary evidence. It shows a close-minded attitude." "Saying 'I could care less.' Cool, then do. It's 'I couldn't care less,' you moron." "Wearing a MAGA hat." —FluffusMaximus "Assuming you always know better or are smarter just because you're older. My dad is like this. He's Ivy League-educated but still can't tell when milk is spoiled or not. He's also a massive failure in both his marriages and his career. The dude crippled us financially." "Calling something 'woke' as a pejorative." "Using excessive profanity." "Throwing garbage in the open." —Longjumping_Turn5427 "Having a lack of empathy. If you can't put yourself in other people's shoes, your intellect doesn't reach far." "Having a general lack of curiosity and being proud of their ignorance." "Being loud in quiet places like the library and bookstores." "Leaving the bathroom after using the toilet and not washing your hands. I witnessed so many people doing it in undergrad." "Thinking that being louder makes your opinion more correct, especially if you're losing an argument. Also, attacking someone's appearance when you're losing a debate." —bigandsweaty1 "Playing music from your phone in public without wearing headphones." "Thinking that a random anecdote is just as good of an argument as actual research. Also, people who use random words that they hear online without actually knowing the meaning just because they want to sound smart or feel included." Lastly: "Trusting only one source as being the ultimate truth." What do you think is a sign of being ignorant or uneducated? Let us know in the comments, or you can anonymously submit your thoughts using the form below!
The National
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Great Gatsby at Pitlochry Theatre review – Uneven art-deco spectacle
Pitlochry Festival Theatre ELIZABETH Newman (who is now leading Sheffield Theatres) recently relinquished her position as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) following a very successful six-year stint at the 'theatre in the hills'. However, she bequeaths to her successor – the acclaimed Scottish actor Alan Cumming – a final summer programme that includes her own stage adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel The Great Gatsby. Even before we get to Newman's airy, fast-paced script, designer Jen McGinley's set – which is a maximalist, Art Deco construction – has us very firmly in the United States during the "roaring twenties'. The design – which reminds us that PFT boasts the finest carpenters since Jesus – summons up the grandeur of the conspicuously expensive home of the titular man of wealth, but it also serves a number of practical purposes. The most important of these is the platform above the stage, which the performers access by way of sweeping staircases on the left and right of the stage. This platform hosts a band made up of actor-musicians and actor-singers who play short tasters of music and songs that evoke the optimism and decadence (for the middle and upper classes, at least) of the 1920s in America. First published in 1925, Fitzgerald's tale is one in which the complex, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby is an archetypal square peg in the round hole of the Ivy League-educated upper classes. As such – as well as owing a discernible debt to Tolstoy – the novel seems almost to prophecy the devastating Wall Street Crash of 1929. In recent times, PFT has become the undisputed leader where Scottish musical theatre is concerned. It should come as little surprise, then, that Newman and director Sarah Brigham have adapted this much-loved prose fiction as a play with songs. There is a wealth of musical and singing talent in this cast (which, typically of PFT, is drawn from the theatre's summer season ensemble). Fiona Wood – who plays Daisy Buchanan (the long-suffering wife of Tyler Collins's appropriately obnoxious, snobbish bourgeois Tom Buchanan) – is especially impressive when she takes to the microphone as a cabaret chanteuse. Although the acting and singing is somewhat uneven at times, the production boasts a number of strong performances. For instance, David Rankine (in the role of the inquisitive narrator Nick Carraway) does a fine job of guiding the audience on its journey of discovery. I have always agreed with the American theatrologist Richard Schechner about the need for theatre productions to employ 'blind casting', or, at the very least, casting that goes against identity-driven assumptions about character. There is no reason why we should not have a female Hamlet or, as we have here, a Black Gatsby. However – given the accuracy of Fitzgerald's picture of US society in the early to mid-1920s – it takes considerable suspension of disbelief to imagine the east coast upper classes granting any level of acceptance to a suddenly wealthy African-American. That said, Oraine Johnson gives an energetic-yet-vulnerable performance that chimes nicely with his famous character. Various dates until September 25:
Metro
24-06-2025
- Metro
Luigi Mangione's cellmate reveals life locked up with notorious ‘hot CEO killer'
Luigi Mangione's cellmate has revealed details of the alleged CEO killer's new life as a prison shower cleaner. Inmate Michael Daddea, 29, spent two nights with the 'super nice' suspected shooter who he claimed is obsessed with scouring news reports for his name from behind bars. Daddea was briefly jailed for allegedly 3D-printing more than 25 untraceable 'ghost guns' before being bailed from Mangione's Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center's 4G unit on March 7. This is in contrast to Luigi Mangione, 27, who was arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. The arrest sparked a media and social media frenzy, with fans swooning over the 'hot' suspect. However, his looks haven't granted the Ivy League-educated suspect any privileges, as he scrubs the floors of the jail's communal showers. 'He's the guy who cleans the washrooms,' Daddea said in a video post on X: 'Not what you'd expect from someone who allegedly assassinated a CEO, right?' Other roles on offer for 'collies' – prison slang for inmates who are assigned jobs – include preparing meals and cleaning food trays, he said. He also claimed Mangione often jogs around the unit and has been caught scouring the local New York Daily News and New York Post for mentions of his name. 'He'd have me help look through some to see if there are articles about him,' he wrote in a now-deleted comment. Daddea spoke of his disbelief when a 'friendly and calm' Mangione greeted him in their secure prison unit. Daddea first described his surprise when he bumped into the infamous inmate, saying 'I look out the cell, Luigi is standing there and he's like, 'Hey, how's it going?' Like, super nice. 'Introduced himself to me first thing. I've been in the unit for 10 minutes.' He said the pair quickly palled up: 'I go to shake Luigi's hand, I'm like, ''Yo, it's an honour to meet you.'. . . He turns around and he goes to me, 'You two are the first kids that came in here who knew who I was or even cared about it'.' The 29-year-old even said they shared meals together and, both Catholics, 'did Ash Wednesday,' with a priest putting charcoal crosses on their foreheads on March 5. 'So we sat together. Luigi would come sit with us every day. We would just eat,' he added. The original video has now gone viral on TikTok, after first racking up 800,000 views on X. Mangione's lawyers have painted the suspected killer as a 'model prisoner' during his 175-day detention before his trial. At the beginning of June the accused CEO shooter wrote a letter listing things he was thankful for on his 27th birthday. The 27-point list included 'Chicken Thursdays and Sweet Baby Ray's bbq sauce' and his cellmate J, who he said 'tolerates the clutter of all my papers, shares his unique wisdom, and doesn't hesitate to humble me when I need it'. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after Thompson was gunned down while walking to his company's investors' conference at the New York Hilton Midtown. CCTV footage appears to show a man alleged to be Mangione shooting at the healthcare CEO. Mangione has pleaded not guilty and is due to appear in court again on Thursday, June 26. check our news page.
Metro
24-06-2025
- Metro
Luigi Mangione's cellmate reveals life locked up with notorious 'hot CEO killer'
Luigi Mangione's cellmate has revealed details of the alleged CEO killer's new life as a prison shower cleaner. Inmate Michael Daddea, 29, spent two nights with the 'super nice' suspected shooter who he claimed is obsessed with scouring news reports for his name from behind bars. Daddea was briefly jailed for allegedly 3D-printing more than 25 untraceable 'ghost guns' before being bailed from Mangione's Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center's 4G unit on March 7. This is in contrast to Luigi Mangione, 27, who was arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. The arrest sparked a media and social media frenzy, with fans swooning over the 'hot' suspect. However, his looks haven't granted the Ivy League-educated suspect any privileges, as he scrubs the floors of the jail's communal showers. 'He's the guy who cleans the washrooms,' Daddea said in a video post on X: 'Not what you'd expect from someone who allegedly assassinated a CEO, right?' Other roles on offer for 'collies' – prison slang for inmates who are assigned jobs – include preparing meals and cleaning food trays, he said. He also claimed Mangione often jogs around the unit and has been caught scouring the local New York Daily News and New York Post for mentions of his name. 'He'd have me help look through some to see if there are articles about him,' he wrote in a now-deleted comment. Daddea spoke of his disbelief when a 'friendly and calm' Mangione greeted him in their secure prison unit. Daddea first described his surprise when he bumped into the infamous inmate, saying 'I look out the cell, Luigi is standing there and he's like, 'Hey, how's it going?' Like, super nice. 'Introduced himself to me first thing. I've been in the unit for 10 minutes.' He said the pair quickly palled up: 'I go to shake Luigi's hand, I'm like, ''Yo, it's an honour to meet you.'. . . He turns around and he goes to me, 'You two are the first kids that came in here who knew who I was or even cared about it'.' The 29-year-old even said they shared meals together and, both Catholics, 'did Ash Wednesday,' with a priest putting charcoal crosses on their foreheads on March 5. 'So we sat together. Luigi would come sit with us every day. We would just eat,' he added. The original video has now gone viral on TikTok, after first racking up 800,000 views on X. Mangione's lawyers have painted the suspected killer as a 'model prisoner' during his 175-day detention before his trial. At the beginning of June the accused CEO shooter wrote a letter listing things he was thankful for on his 27th birthday. More Trending The 27-point list included 'Chicken Thursdays and Sweet Baby Ray's bbq sauce' and his cellmate J, who he said 'tolerates the clutter of all my papers, shares his unique wisdom, and doesn't hesitate to humble me when I need it'. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after Thompson was gunned down while walking to his company's investors' conference at the New York Hilton Midtown. CCTV footage appears to show a man alleged to be Mangione shooting at the healthcare CEO. Mangione has pleaded not guilty and is due to appear in court again on Thursday, June 26. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Four arrested after London scientist found dismembered in suitcase MORE: Two arrested after 'hardworking peacemaker' stabbed to death outside prayer centre MORE: Residents evacuated and bomb squad called after 'unidentified liquid' found in Eastbourne house
