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New York Times
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Kyra Sedgwick Wants More Middle-Aged Sex Onscreen
Kyra Sedgwick can relate to the Upper West Side matriarch she portrays in her latest film, 'Bad Shabbos.' 'I very much have all the trope attributes of Jewish motherhood,' she said. 'I really want to know that you've eaten, and if you're hungry I'll make you something. I want to make sure you're not too cold or too hot. I want to know what you had for breakfast.' 'Bad Shabbos' centers on a Shabbat dinner that goes spectacularly off the rails, but Sedgwick finds the sentiments it evokes to be universal. 'Like them or not, they're your family,' she said in a video call from Austin, Texas, where she and her husband, Kevin Bacon, and their children, Travis and Sosie, are making a comedy-horror movie about a family of filmmakers. 'It is not us, but it is inspired by us,' she said before elaborating on why '90s rock, 'All Fours' by Miranda July and the meditation teacher Tara Brach are among her must-haves. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. Bess Wohl is extraordinary. Basically it's about this woman who's now in her 30s trying to figure out who her mother was in the genesis of women's lib. And she's imagining what that was like and asking, 'What did we get wrong?' I think the message of the play is: We didn't get it wrong. The world got it wrong. I'm just heartbroken because they stopped making it. I'm not a big perfume person, but I've been wearing it for 20, 25 years, and all of a sudden they're putting it in the vault. And there's really not much to say except that I just loved it. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Bad Shabbos' Review: Guess Who's Kvetching About Dinner?
Those who have attended a Shabbat dinner — which occurs on Friday and kicks off the Jewish Sabbath — know that the traditional greeting is 'good Shabbos.' The ensemble comedy 'Bad Shabbos' telegraphs its silliness right from the title. Directed by Daniel Robbins, the movie takes place over a disastrous dinner on the Upper West Side, where David (Jon Bass) and Meg (Meghan Leathers) — a newly engaged Jew and gentile — plan to introduce their parents for the first time. But before they can start, a disturbing prank by David's brother, Adam (Theo Taplitz), goes awry, causing an emergency that the family must hide from the Midwestern in-laws. The crisis involves a body and a ticking clock, as well as a zany, meddlesome doorman (Method Man, always welcome) added for good measure. 'Bad Shabbos' overflows with the kvetching, nagging and nit-picking endemic to the Jewish movie canon. It also contains an overused trope: the domineering Jewish mother harboring animus toward her son's shiksa fiancée. Despite Meg's efforts to connect, Ellen (Kyra Sedgwick) repeatedly slights her future daughter-in-law. Ellen's flat sitcom character finds a match in some of the movie's aesthetic choices, like the framing and the pizzicato strings making up its score. These style elements can feel grating. But as the jokes continue to land and the wine continues to flow, you grow used to the tone. This is, after all, a situational comedy, in which the laughs spring from reaction shots and line deliveries. Luckily, the actors prove up to the task.
Daily Mail
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Kevin Bacon hit with shock career blow
The Bondsman, starring Golden Globe-winning actor Kevin Bacon, has been cancelled by Prime Video after one season. The blow to the 66-year-old Hollywood vet's career was announced by Deadline on Friday, and it came one day after he took to Instagram to share a behind-the-scenes look at the show. All eight half-hour episodes of the Blumhouse Television series came out on April 3 following a SXSW premiere. According to the outlet, the Bondsman earned a spot on the Nielsen Top 10 streaming rankings in its premiere week, sitting at number nine on the Originals chart with 563 million viewing minutes. But by its second week on the streamer, The Bondsman had tumbled off the chart altogether. However, the show has stayed on Prime Video's Top 10 list, holding the number five slot in the US. Despite impressing critics and viewers and averaging 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, the series has not been able to create momentum online. The short-lived program followed resurrected bounty hunter Hub Halloran, who 'gets an unexpected second chance at life, love and his nearly forgotten musical career —only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist,' according to an IMDb synopsis. Bacon engaged his Instagram audience of 4.6 million this week, sharing a video showing how makeup artists apply his character's tattoos and scars. He captioned the post, 'TV magic: Hub's tattoos in #TheBondsman.' Kevin has been married to wife Kyra Sedgwick since 1988. They're parents to 33-year-old daughter Sosie and 35-year-old son Travis. The movie star used social media to give a shoutout to his spouse on Mother's Day, sharing throwback photos of her with their kids and writing, 'I'll take any excuse to celebrate you. Happy Mother's Day @kyrasedgwickofficial, I love you and our family.' While appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show in April, the proud husband revealed he first met his wife when she was just 12-years-old and he was 19. It happened in 1978 when they first crossed paths as young actors. He recalled, 'I will tell you that I was doing a lot of Off-Broadway, many years before that. I was 19 so she was 12, I think. 'Her mom had seen me in some plays Off-Broadway, and she knew that little 12-year-old Kyra wanted to be an actor.' Sedgwick's mom bought tickets to attend one of his shows, and they ran into him while he was on a lunch break. 'I was buying a sandwich in the deli around the corner. This 12-year-old girl came up and said, "Hi, I liked you in the play."' The couple met for the second time in 1987 when they were cast in the movie Lemon Sky.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NEWS OF THE WEEK: Kevin Bacon reflects on Bernie Madoff ponzi scam
Speaking with Esquire, the actor said, "There's not that much to say, really. If it seems too good to be true, then it's too good to be true." He added that he and his wife, actor Kyra Sedgwick, aren't "jaded" from the experience. "More careful, but not jaded," the Footloose star shared. Bacon said he even uses the frustration in his gym routine. "The machine is right next to a window, and when I look out that window, I'm looking right at the building where Madoff was.".
