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4 days ago
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Helen Mirren Was Told to Get a Nose Job in Her 20s, But Decided Not to Because She 'Didn't Want to Be a Pretty Actress'
Helen Mirren talked to Kathy Bates, Niecy Nash-Betts, Parker Posey, Cristin Milioti and Keri Russell during the Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actress Roundtable The MobLand actress recalled being told to get a nose job or else she would "never get work" Mirren recently said there are "many, many different kinds of beauty in the world"As a young actress, Helen Mirren says she was told she would never work if she didn't get a nose job. The MobLand star, 79, reflected on beauty standards in Hollywood during a recent sit-down with Kathy Bates, Niecy Nash-Betts, Parker Posey, Cristin Milioti and Keri Russell for the Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actress Roundtable — and shared how she went on to ignore the unsolicited advice. 'I was told to have a nose job in my 20s,' Mirren told the group. 'You're kidding me," a surprised Russell, 49, said. 'Someone said, 'You'll never get work if you don't have a nose job,'" Mirren replied, adding, "I said no. I didn't want to be a pretty actress anyway. I elected to be not so pretty.' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Last November, Mirren opened up about her perception of the word beauty and how she believes it has more to do with what's inside a person, during an appearance at the 2024 L'Oréal Paris Women of Worth Honoree celebration in West Hollywood, Calif. 'I've always had this issue with the word beauty because it assumes that you're looking to be beautiful in an exterior way,' she told PEOPLE exclusively. 'Of course, there are many, many different kinds of beauty in the world; it's a very broad term," Mirren continued. "Being an ambassador for a beauty products company, I always wanted to say, 'We're not trying to be beautiful, we're trying to be authentically and genuinely and happily and positively ourselves, whether that's beautiful or not.' ' Related: Helen Mirren Reveals Her Top Cannes Film Festival Tip to Make Red Carpets 'Bearable' — and It's Not About the Dress (Exclusive) The Oscar-winning actress says she appreciates the 'world of makeup and of costume and of fashion, because it's all transformative.' But there are other times when she feels like her best self. 'I think probably in a bath with a candle and a book,' she shared, adding, 'Or having a cocktail with my husband in the evening, just one!' 'Those simple moments — being out on a beautiful hillside in Scotland or in Poland or wherever I am and at one with nature,' Mirren told PEOPLE. 'I think it's when you feel yourself at ease within the natural world and simply another part of the natural world. I think that's when one feels the most authentic and at ease with yourself.' Mirren stars in Paramount+'s MobLand, which is now streaming. Read the original article on People
Daily Mail
4 days ago
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- Daily Mail
Awkward moment Dame Helen Mirren horrifies group of actresses by stating that NONE of them are 'beautiful'
She's one of the most acclaimed actresses of all time, boasting five Emmys, an Oscar, and a Tony. But early in her career, Dame Helen Mirren was warned that she'd never become a star if she didn't get a nose job. Discussing the misplaced advice on The Hollywood Reporter's Roundtable with Niecy Nash, Parker Posey, Keri Russell, Kathy Bates, and Cristin Milioti, the 79-year-old accidentally offended her fellow thespians with a remark about their looks. 'Someone said, 'You'll never get work if you don't have a nose job.' I said no. I didn't want to be a pretty actress anyway. I elected to be not so pretty,' she said. Mirren then made a sweeping statement about the group's looks - which didn't go down well with one Oscar winner. 'Looking at our faces around this table, none of us are beautiful,' Mirren remarked. 'Oh, get out of town! I feel more beautiful than I have in my entire life,' Bates snapped back. Doubling down on her position, Mirren firmly stated, 'We're not. None of us are beauties. We all have really different faces, very interesting faces.' Attempting to calm the situation, Russell chimed in, 'I know what you mean. Like model beautiful?' Mirren cooly responded 'We all know what "beautiful" is like.' Although the legendary actress has shied away from plastic surgery and conventional beauty standards, she's always maintained a fit physique through exercise. She told Woman's Weekly that she is 'a big believer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) women's exercise regime, which is 12 minutes.' The star explained: '[Exercise] doesn't mean joining expensive gyms. It is an exercise regime that starts from very low and easy, then if you follow it through it can become quite difficult. 'I've never gotten past the second level but it's a nice little exercise program,' she added. The program is called the XBX routine, which means ten basic exercises, and was created by Dr Bill Orban in the 1950s for the Canadian Air Force's new female recruits to improve their fitness levels. It includes 30 seconds each of simple exercises like toe touching, knee raises, lateral bending and arm circling. Last month, Mirren told people in midlife not to 'fear' ageing. The 79-year-old actress said people should make 'little changes now to help them later in life.' This 'doesn't have to include joining a gym' but could include short walks or yoga, the Oscar winner said. Backing Age UK's new campaign, she said: 'Whatever you may think about ageing, it's something we must all try to embrace rather than fear. 'It's no secret that for many, getting older will come with its complications - specifically there will likely be aches and pains along the way, getting out and about and living as independently as we're used to in our younger years may not be as easy to do. 'This is why I'm supporting Age UK's Act Now, Age Better campaign, they're encouraging everyone in their 50s to make little changes now to help them later on in life,' she continued. 'It doesn't have to be joining a gym; it can just be small changes like taking a short walk or yoga, which I still enjoy. 'It's never too late to start doing something, so why not give something a go while you're younger?'
Yahoo
20-05-2025
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‘Matlock' acting Emmy submissions include Kathy Bates and Skye P. Marshall, plus these 3 guest stars
CBS will submit nine cast members from Matlock Season 1 for Emmy consideration, Gold Derby has learned. Kathy Bates is entering the Best Drama Actress category for playing Madeline Kingston, a wealthy woman who's masquerading as a kind-hearted lawyer named Madeline "Matty" Matlock. Madeline uses her manipulation skills (and an assist from Werther's Originals) to try to uncover which partner at Jacobson Moore covered up evidence that could have prevented the opioid epidemic that led to her daughter's death. Bates, an Oscar winner for Misery (1990), has already won two Emmys in her career, for Two and a Half Men (guest actress, 2012) and American Horror Story: Coven (supporting actress, 2014), but this would be her first lead Emmy victory. More from GoldDerby Ramón Rodriguez on the power of vulnerability and grit in 'Will Trent': 'that combination of toughness and tenderness really drew me in' 'Industry' star Sagar Radia on his standout episode, 'White Mischief,' and if Rishi knows about 'Uncut Gems' 'The Four Seasons' star Erika Henningsen on the 'biggest opportunity' she's ever been given and what might happen in Season 2 Five performers are campaigning in the two featured categories: Sam Anderson as Edwin Kingston, David Del Rio as Billy Martinez, and Jason Ritter as Julian Markston in Best Drama Supporting Actor; and Leah Lewis as Sarah Yang and Skye P. Marshall as Olympia Lawrence in Best Drama Supporting Actress. Finally, three memorable guest stars from Season 1 will appear on this year's Emmy ballot: Beau Bridges as Howard "Senior" Markston in Best Drama Guest Actor; and Yael Grobglas as Shae Banfield and Julie Hagerty as Bitsy in Best Drama Guest Actress. Bates has led her category all season long, per the Gold Derby odds. If she prevails on Emmy night, she would be the oldest person ever to win Best Drama Actress, at age 77. (Damages star Glenn Close currently holds that record, at age 62.) Marshall, fresh off of her Critics Choice nomination, is now in the Top 20 for her Emmy category, while Matlock is in 16th place for Best Drama Series. Matlock is developed by Jennie Snyder Urman, and loosely inspired by the 1986 legal drama of the same name that was created by Dean Hargrove. "I wanted it to be a love letter to women in the workforce, that you can really have passion about your career, and you don't have to feel guilty about that," Urman recently told Gold Derby. Below is the list of Matlock's acting submissions for the 2025 Emmys. Note: These entries are being submitted by CBS; additional actors from the series may still choose to submit independently. Drama Actress: Kathy Bates Drama Supporting Actor: Sam Anderson, David Del Rio, Jason Ritter Drama Supporting Actress: Leah Lewis, Skye P. Marshall Drama Guest Actor: Beau Bridges Drama Guest Actress: Yael Grobglas, Julie Hagerty SIGN UP for Gold Derby's free newsletter with latest predictions Best of GoldDerby Michelle Monaghan reveals the sweetest unscripted moment in 'The White Lotus' Season 3 (and the ladies' water aerobics instructor) 'The Four Seasons' star Erika Henningsen on the 'biggest opportunity' she's ever been given and what might happen in Season 2 TV makeup and hair panel: 'Bridgerton,' 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' and 'The Wheel of Time' Click here to read the full article.
Los Angeles Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
2025 Emmys predictions: best drama actress
The panel was flabbergasted when Britt Lower wasn't nominated for her work in the first season of 'Severance'; they have her near the top of the Round 1 list this time. But she may be in for misery as Kathy Bates barely edged her out for the No. 1 spot for her unique spin on 'Matlock.' 'Fun fact: It's been a full decade since an actress on a broadcast TV show won in this category (Viola Davis, for ABC's 'How to Get Away With Murder'),' says Kristen Baldwin. 'Kathy Bates could (and should) break that dry spell.' Glenn Whipp agrees, quoting Bates' character: ''There's a funny thing that happens when women age … We become damn near invisible.' Unless, of course, you're Kathy Bates, in which case, you become the odds-on favorite to win a third Emmy.' But 'while she missed out last time around,' writes Trey Mangum, 'Britt Lower is also a top pick here.' Even 'Matlock' booster Matt Roush says, while Bates' performance requires constant trickery, 'Don't count out Britt Lower ('Severance') as the equally two-faced Helly R./Helena Eagan, a role with an even higher degree of emotional difficulty.' At No. 3 is Bella Ramsey, stepping into the solo spotlight in one of TV's buzziest shows. ''The Last of Us' Season 2 shifts its focus to Ellie, and Bella Ramsey has shined as they move from angsty young adult to goofball with a crush to grief-stricken warrior driven by revenge,' says Tracy Brown, also praising Ramsey's featured guitar-and-singing skills. More predictions: Drama actor / Drama series 1. Kathy Bates, 'Matlock'2. Britt Lower, 'Severance'3. Bella Ramsey, 'The Last of Us'4. (tie) Lashana Lynch, 'The Day of the Jackal'4. (tie) Melanie Lynskey, 'Yellowjackets'6. Keri Russell, 'The Diplomat'7. Kaitlin Olson, 'High Potential'8. Sharon Horgan, 'Bad Sisters'9. Keira Knightley, 'Black Doves'10. Zoe Saldaña, 'Lioness'
Yahoo
19-05-2025
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‘Matlock' creator drops juicy Season 2 spoilers: Twists, turns, and working with Kathy Bates
"I am thrilled, grateful, happy ... and crippled with anxiety," says Matlock creator Jennie Snyder Urman. Her CBS drama is the No. 1 new show on television — and with success comes pressure. "I want to keep giving these amazing actors good work. I want it to continue to do well." In Matlock, Kathy Bates plays Madeline "Matty" Matlock, a widowed lawyer returning to the workforce after her late husband's gambling debts leave her in financial ruin — or so it seems. As revealed in the pilot, none of that is true. She's actually Madeline Kingston, a wealthy, happily married grandmother grieving the loss of her daughter to an opioid overdose. Now, she's on a quest for answers and justice within the law firm she deems responsible. More from GoldDerby The asterisk, Bob, and end credits: All your burning 'Thunderbolts' questions answered (spoilers!) 'The Last of Us' introduces Jeffrey Wright's Isaac: 'He takes steps to reinvent himself, maybe at the expense of others' 'The Last of Us' star Isabela Merced on the moment Dina realizes she loves Ellie "When you say her name, people just have a reaction," Synder Urman says of the show's star. "I love Kathy Bates. It comes with just a real respect for all the characters that she's played and all the ways that she's transformed herself. I've never seen anything like it. From the beginning, I would say her name and people would be like, 'Oh wow.' And then I got to work with her. You realize she phones nothing in. Every moment is layered and detailed and thought about. She's so fun to work with and she's so giving as an actor. It's just really beyond my dreams. I feel so lucky every day." Snyder Urman recently spoke to Gold Derby about the success of Matlock, the debut season's biggest twists, and what fans can expect to see in Season 2. Read our Q&A below. SEE 'Matlock's' Skye P. Marshall on manifesting her dream job: 'You have to be delusional to succeed in this industry' Gold Derby: Bates won a Critics Choice Award and now she's a front-runner for the Emmy. What does that say about the idea that a 76-year-old can be the biggest star on TV? Jennie Snyder Urman: That's the biggest gift of the show. If you talked to Kathy, I don't think she would say she could do this part however many years ago. This is a part that's come to her now, and she always talks about all the tools that she's using and all of the ways in which she's looking back through her life to mine for all these different moments. It's just so awesome that she responded to this as a platform to show us how vital and incredible she is at the age of 76. I want to be that excellent at my job at that age. I think we have so many older women that are so excellent and are so underused. Part of it is because we're just used to always seeing older men in positions of authority and they're our presidents and they're regal. We look to them for wisdom. We just haven't had those models for women — and I just want more of it. In Episode 17, titled "I Was That, Too," Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) locks Matty in a room and interrogates her about the lies she's told. What was it like to shoot that pivotal episode? Originally, when I was looking at our whole season and looking at the budget that we had, I was like, "We are going to need to make some money back because budgets are tight and I have these two monster actors." I'd originally conceived it because I thought it would be a great episode to make up some money, honestly, and it would take place in this one room. I couldn't do that on any other show. I could do that on this show because of these two actors and how compelling they were together. It was in our head initially as like, oh, that'll be help on the budget. The more I thought about that episode, it was the episode that we were just waiting to write, waiting to write, waiting to write. We were going to be answering so many questions for the audience, so many questions for Olympia, and then all of a sudden we were going to change the point of view and really hold the audience's feet to the fire and say, "This woman that you've been really rooting for this whole time has been hurting this other woman." You're going to see it now and you're going to feel it. It's going to change the way that you feel about her. And that was exciting. The season ends with Alfie's (Aaron D. Harris) potential biological father arriving at Matty's door. Will he be a pivotal character in Season 2? The first thing they're going to do is obviously a DNA test, but the door has been opened to looking for the father and whether it's him or someone else. Alfie's father is going to play a role in the second season. I think what's really interesting as we go into our second season is — we have this character who we built the whole show around as a person who was always in control, she was the puppeteer — and now we have Olympia who knows about her scheme, so she does not have all the power anymore. Now she has this other person who's coming into her home life too — that's an out of control element. So what's exciting to me about the second season is that you have this character who we've seen operate when she had all the cards in front of her. Suddenly, she can't be in control of everything. What is that like for this character under that kind of pressure? Alfie is Matty's whole entire world and they have been in lockstep the whole time. So what happens when they're not? That's another thing that she has not experienced yet. Whoever the father is is going to open an avenue into Ellie, to Matty's daughter. We had a lot of the pain of what it was like living with an addict. That is something that we're going to continue to investigate, but we're also going to see some of the joy of what their relationship was like — Ellie and her mom — and I think that's going to give us more layers and more colors. Matty also loves being back in the workforce. Will this take a toll on her marriage to Edwin (Sam Anderson)? Matty really loves what she does and she feels vital. She feels seen — she feels like she's helping people. She also is doing litigation, which she never did in her career. So suddenly at 76, her world is opening up when she was expecting it to be starting to close in a little bit. And that's so exciting and revitalizing for her. She wants to keep working as a lawyer and they're going to have to negotiate that. And what I'm interested in — it probably is a spoiler — what happens when you want different things after 50 years? How do you negotiate? I think we have a line coming up in the next season that's like, "You're going to what? Go to the pickleball courts and find another lady and she's going to massage that spot on your shoulder? ... We're in it. You're married to me. I want to work. You don't want me to work. So now we have to figure out how much I'm going to work." They start negotiating on details and other things that he wants that are surprising as a result. That forces our story into new areas. Conflicts don't necessarily have to stop us in our tracks, but they can lead us to really new, fresh, dramatic territory if we follow them honestly. We found out Julian (Jason Ritter) was the one holding the secrets Matty was looking for. Now Olympia is in a predicament — do I try to protect my kids from their father's mistake or am I going to be honest with Matty? How will this transpire in Season 2? It was challenging to figure out what Olympia was going to do and how it was going to create drama for not just that episode, but for a season. She's in a real pressure cooker, Olympia. And now, whereas we came into the first season with Matty having a secret, Olympia has a secret and what she does with it will be — you'll find out in the first episode back. Did you know it was going to be Julian hiding the evidence the whole time? We debated Julian in the writer's room quite a bit. Once we came to him, we stayed there. But we did debate it quite a bit. We do a really long, long, long detailed series pitch that's like a 40-page document. It takes the studio and network through every episode and what's going to happen. We stay pretty close to it. I'm starting to think Senior (Beau Bridges) could be worse than we imagine. Is there going to be more exploration of that father-son relationship? Yes. More of the father-son dynamic. You're going to meet Senior's third ex-wife, which is the only woman he married for brains. He will never do that again. You will get to know the power structure of Jacobson Moore a little bit more — the other power players in the law firm. We're going to be defining that a little bit more specifically and you will learn more about Senior. SEE Kathy Bates wants Dolly Parton to join Season 2 cast of 'Matlock' — and she has the perfect role for the iconic performer You also teased a continuation of the rivalry between Sarah (Leah Lewis) and Simone (Andrea Londo). Simone is a really competitive person. Simone's way of getting under Sarah's skin is to pretend like she's not competitive while being really competitive. So that's their backstory — and they just f---ing hated each other in law school. You are going to see what comes of that. There will be a consequence. Billy (David Del Rio) learned his ex-girlfriend is pregnant in the season finale. What's next for him? Billy is a real people pleaser and now this person who he thought he finally got over has come back and said she's pregnant. Is she going to keep the baby? Is she not? What is he going to do about it? It just throws his life into a good kind of chaos. At the end of the season, I really have [Billy and Sarah] learn and grow and then threaten it all. Kathy said she would love for Dolly Parton to guest star as Cindy Shapiro. Has the request been sent out to Dolly? That is the deepest dream. Kathy knew that it was my deepest dream, too. But no, we're too early. I'm still in pre-production. Season 2 of Matlock starts filming in July. Season 1 is currently streaming on Paramount+. SIGN UP for Gold Derby's free newsletter with latest predictions Best of GoldDerby 'I fully expected to be killed off!' Helen Mirren on her twin roles in 1923 and MobLand Is 'SNL' new tonight? Host, musical guest details 'The Pitt' star Shawn Hatosy loves 'ER cowboy' Dr. Abbot as much as you do Click here to read the full article.
