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New York Post
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Emma Stone attacked by bee at Cannes with Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler
Taking Cannes by swarm! Emma Stone looked picture-perfect on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday — until one bee found a liking to her. Wearing a sleek white gown with a bib-like neckline to the premiere of her upcoming film 'Eddington,' the actress, 36, appeared calm and collected while posing for photos with her co-stars Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler. Advertisement However, all hell broke loose when a bee almost landed on the Oscar winner. 11 Emma Stone's bee attack. CLEMENS BILAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock 11 Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal. CLEMENS BILAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Advertisement 'Is that a bee?' she asked Pascal as it buzzed around their heads. The irritating insect wouldn't leave the A-listers alone. In a video of the incident posted to MTV's Instagram, Stone can be heard warning Butler, 'It's a bee. There's a bee.' Advertisement 11 Emma squirmed away from her co-star while trying to avoid being stung. REUTERS 11 Her reaction was priceless. REUTERS The 'Elvis' actor, 33, then tried to blow the bee away, only seemingly infuriating it and escalating the scary situation. The bee began buzzing incessantly above the superstars but took an interest in Stone. Advertisement Lunging backwards in sheer panic, Stone's face said it all as she squirmed out of Pascal's grasp in an attempt to dodge the pesky insect. 11 The star lunged backward when the irritated bee wouldn't leave her alone. REUTERS 11 Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal laughed as they watched the bee above. CLEMENS BILAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock 11 But it was no laughing matter to Emma. REUTERS At one point, the 'Kinds of Kindness' actress even cowered down on the red carpet, sinking low toward the ground to avoid it as Pascal and Butler tried to swat it away while laughing at their co-star's dramatic reaction. Thankfully, no one was hurt — and the bee made a buzz at Cannes, popping up on social media with several declaring it was the true star of the film festival this year. 'The bee wants a good close up of the stars,' one person declared. 'Oh hello, basically stalking,' joked another. 'All the wishes to be a fly on the wall answered,' a third responded, while someone else wrote that Pascal 'is sweet like honey. That's why bees follow.' 11 The actress appeared terrified. REUTERS Advertisement 11 Her co-stars laughed as they stepped in and helped her. REUTERS Their movie 'Eddington' is a Western drama that takes place in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with tensions coming to a head when neighbors are pitted against each other in their small town. Pascal plays the mayor Ted Garcia, who has a stand-off with the town's sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix). Stone stars as Joe's wife, Louise, and Butler plays the mysterious character Vernon Jefferson Peak. The Ari Aster-directed movie hits theaters July 18. Advertisement 11 Cannes had a new dress code this year. WireImage 11 Due to the rules, Halle Berry was forced to change her look last minute. Niviere David/ Stone's bee freak-out wasn't the only highlight of the Cannes Film Festival. After the festival organizers implemented a new dress code, banning nudity and or 'excessively voluminous' clothing, Halle Berry was forced to change. Advertisement The ex-'Bond' actress revealed she had a different dress in mind during the event's opening night gala on Tuesday but it didn't follow the guidelines. 'I had an amazing dress by Gupta that I cannot wear tonight because it's too big of a train,' Berry said ahead of opening night. 'I'm not going to break the rules.'
Los Angeles Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Free association with Yorgos Lanthimos: The filmmaker on his first photography show
Yorgos Lanthimos needed to relieve stress while filming 'Poor Things' on soundstages in Budapest and 'Kinds of Kindness' on location around New Orleans. So the Oscar-nominated auteur of such unnerving, challenging movies as 'Dogtooth,' 'The Lobster' and 'The Favourite' took up art photography. 'Something clicked in me while making 'Poor Things': I went 'OK, why don't I just enjoy this?' ' the filmmaker told The Times at the opening of his first gallery exhibition, 'Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs,' at Webber 939 gallery in L.A.'s Arts District. The show will be there through May 18. That impulse translated into nights developing stock in a makeshift darkroom Lanthimos rigged in his Budapest apartment's bathroom. Emma Stone, who would go on to win an Oscar for her performance in 'Poor Things,' often joined him after extended workdays at Origo Studios. 'We learned how to process both black-and-white and color,' Lanthimos explains. 'It became like our meditation, our relaxation.' A capacity crowd of art fans and industry folks gathered last weekend to check out the entirely photochemical-made prints — not a single digitized step was involved — lining the gallery's white and red brick walls. Predominantly monochrome photos taken during the 'Kindness' production feature Stone, co-star Jesse Plemons and sometimes random Louisianans posing, often, with their faces obscured or turned away from the lens. These works are featured in the book 'I Shall Sing These Songs Beautifully.' A three-sided black box in the back of the gallery showcases rich color tableaux and classic black-and-white portraits from 'Poor Things,' the latter taken the old-fashioned way with insertable plates of Ilford HP5 film in a wood-and-carbon-fiber Chamonix 4x5 camera. Collected in another art book, 'Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken,' the photos depict co-star Margaret Qualley with paint smears on her face, Stone as Bella Baxter in Victorian period garb on the hood of a production vehicle beside a coffee cup and foam food container, and the radiantly hued seascape on a volume stage with a dormant fog machine in front of it. The rubble of the struck set for the Baxter home in that movie, a fully laid-out, purpose-built filming environment, is particularly heartrending: through Lanthimos' still lens, it looks like it was hit by a tornado. Such images may infer that the director is deconstructing his work in one medium with another, but there was nothing so intentional on his mind. 'It was, 'Why don't I see if, with my photography, I can find something here which is a different perspective from what is happening in the film?' ' says Lanthimos, who learned basic photography skills at film school in his native Athens, and snapped publicity shots for his early Greek features when there was no money for set photographers. 'I also had this privilege of being able to go wherever I want, in corners that nobody would ever be while they're watching the film,' he adds. 'Everything was a built set on 'Poor Things.' I was able to go behind and on top of it, see the construction and demolition, which were quite interesting for me to photograph both visually and emotionally. Having built whole houses to film in and then seeing them demolished, it's quite brutal.' The photographer took a different tack during the 'Kindness' shoot, turning his Mamiya 7 or Pentax 6x7 away from the production's real locations to capture life — or a dejected semblance of it — beyond the movie's mise-en-scene. In one large, redolent print, a woman in a white coat stands beside a deserted stretch of road, gazing beyond a patch of grass while the shadow of a utility pole bisects her body from head to heels. 'That image does what all great still photography does, which is suggest a narrative way beyond the frame and the subject,' observes Michael Mack, whose eponymous London publishing company made the 'Song' book. ('Parthenon' is from Greek publisher Void.) 'It has this drive that makes you question precisely what it is, what's happened, why is she there? You elaborate, manifest all these possibilities — it's close to his filmmaking in that sense. You have these ideas welling up, whether you like them or not.' As do such films as 'The Lobster,' Lanthimos' New Orleans images defy what you'd expect to see from the project. He's not about to articulate what we're supposed to make of them, either. 'I can't really, because it's mostly an exploration,' he says. 'How can you see this world in a different way? What else is there to reveal? 'I just enjoyed experimenting,' he elaborates. 'Filming a scene at night and then looking up and seeing a tree, imagining what it would look like if I flashed the tree and revealed all the details which I couldn't see with my eye.' Lanthimos also took out his camera while filming the upcoming 'Bugonia,' also starring Stone and Plemons. He doesn't know if if they will be part of another book or exhibition, but is certain that his new creative outlet is here to stay. 'You have a freer association,' Lanthimos says of this camera work. 'For some reason, we're more lenient with photography being less narrative, which is something that I love.'
Los Angeles Times
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Hunter Schafer reveals new passport misgenders her: Trump's anti-trans orders ‘not just talk'
For 'Euphoria' star Hunter Schafer, the Trump administration and its rollout of anti-transgender executive orders now has her mulling the possibility of 'having to out myself to Border Patrol agents' as she revealed her new passport misgenders her. In a TikTok video shared Thursday, the 26-year-old 'Cuckoo' and 'Kinds of Kindness' actor showed off her new booklet, which incorrectly identifies her as male. 'I filled everything out just like I normally would. I put female,' she explained, 'and when it was picked up today and I opened it up, they had changed the marker to male.' Schafer, who is openly transgender, attributed the discrepancy to the Trump administration's efforts to implement anti-transgender policies and roll back protections for the LGBTQ+ community. Within his first week back in office, President Trump signed executive orders declaring that the U.S. government recognizes only two sexes that are 'not changeable.' As part of the orders, government-issued identifications, including passports and visas, must reflect a person's sex at birth. In her video, Schafer said she first dismissed Trump's orders, saying, 'I'll believe it when I see it.' She first changed her gender marker to female a decade ago, she said, and her forms of ID have reflected that ever since. She had sought to replace her temporary booklet, which she received after losing her old passport last year while filming in Barcelona. Now, she says it's important to acknowledge that Trump's policies are 'actually happening.' Schafer said she was 'shocked' upon receiving her new passport this week and acknowledged that her celebrity status doesn't insulate her from transphobic policies. 'I do believe it is a direct result of the administration our country is currently operating under,' the model-actor continued. 'I guess I'm just sort of scared of the way this stuff like slowly gets implemented.' In his first month in office, Trump has also signed executive orders seeking to restrict gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth and ban transgender athletes to compete in women's sports. Schafer said in her video the administration's attack on transgender people and their identities is 'not just talk, that this is real and it's happening and no one ... is excluded.' Ultimately, Schafer said she could not care less about the incorrect gender on her passport — 'It doesn't change anything about me or my transness.' Despite the difficulties that might come with explaining her gender to government officials, Schafer said, 'Trans people are beautiful' and 'We are never going to stop existing.' 'I'm never going to stop being trans,' she said. 'A letter and a passport can't change that, and f— this administration.'
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Hunter Schafer Says She Was Issued A Passport With A Male Sex Marker, Thanks To Trump Order
Hunter Schafer had 'a bit of a harsh reality check' thanks to an upcoming trip. The 'Euphoria' star — who is one of the most prominent transgender women in Hollywood — posted a series of TikToks on Friday in which she says her new passport was issued with an 'M,' or male, legal sex marker, even though she listed her legal sex as female on her application. In a roughly eight-minute video, which was also uploaded and shared in full to X, formerly Twitter, the 'Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' star, 26, noted that her gender has been listed female on all her government-issued IDs since she applied for a driver's license as a teenager. She later noted that she never had her gender changed on her birth certificate, however. The switch in Schafer's gender marker is likely a result of President Donald Trump's executive order declaring the government will now only recognize 'two sexes, male and female.' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NOTUS in January that the order will not impact passports that were issued prior to Trump taking office. But she also said that any passports issued after Trump signed the order, including those being renewed, will show the marker that reflects a person's sex assigned at birth. Schafer said that she recently had to renew her passport because it was stolen while she was working in Barcelona, Spain last year. Schafer said that since it was stolen she was issued a temporary passport, which had a female marker, but it expired. Schafer said she had to renew her actual passport because she's traveling abroad next week. 'I'm sure most of us remember on, I think, the first day of Trump's presidency, he signed an executive order to declare only two genders recognized by the state, male and female assigned at birth,' Schafer said in the video. She appeared to quote a page from Advocates for Trans Equality advising transgender travelers: 'The Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications requesting a gender marker change or renewals or new applications with a gender marker differing from an applicant's gender assigned at birth.' HuffPost has reached out to the Bureau of Consular Affairs for comment, but did not receive an immediate response. The 'Kinds of Kindness' actor said that she decided to speak out about her experience because she wanted to make others aware of 'the reality of the situation, in that it is actually happening,' and not because she wants to 'create drama or receive consolation.' 'I was shocked, because, I don't know, I just didn't think it was actually going to happen,' she said. Schafer went on to admit some of the reasons why she initially thought this new policy wouldn't directly affect her. 'I want to acknowledge my privilege, like not only as a celebrity trans woman who is white, and thin, and can adhere to contemporary beauty standards, and I can participate in all of that, and I 'pass.' And it still happened,' Schafer said. Schafer went on to say that she personally doesn't 'give a fuck that they put a 'M' on my passport.' 'It doesn't change really anything about me or my transness. However, it does make life a little harder,' Schafer said. She continued, 'It's going to come along with having to out myself to, like, border patrol agents and that whole gig, much more often than I would like to or is really necessary.' Schafer also acknowledged that even though she's making assumptions about what her personal experience may be like, other trans people may have similar or even more extreme issues while traveling internationally. 'Thinking about other trans women who this might also be happening to, or other trans people,' Schafer said, 'the list only gets longer, as far as the intricacies that come along with the difficulty that this brings into real life shit.' Schafer attempted to conclude her video on a slightly more positive note — though she got in one last jab at Trump. 'Trans people are beautiful,' Schafer said. 'We are never going to stop existing, I am never going to stop being trans. A letter on a passport can't change that. And fuck this administration.'
