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Daily Mail
3 days ago
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- Daily Mail
Actress Naomi Watts shares relatable parenting post as she spends time with her two teen kids Sasha, 17, and Kai, 16
Naomi Watts proved on Tuesday she is just like every other mother when she shared a very relatable parenting post while spending time with her children Sasha and Kai. The British-Australian actress, 56, who shares her teenagers with ex partner Liev Schreiber, posted the heartwarming photo of the kids to her Instagram. In the snap, the King Kong star said she was 'happy' as she showed her son and daughter getting along and talking to one another during a family stroll. The image was taken by Naomi, who hung back while Sasha, 17, and Kai, 16, walked ahead of her down the street, seemingly engrossed in a conversation. 'Nothing makes me happier than when they talk to each other,' Naomi captioned the photo. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The outing came after Naomi and her ex Liev, 57, reunited this week to celebrate their son Sasha's milestone prom night in America. The former couple, known for their amicable co-parenting, were all smiles as they proudly posed alongside Sasha in pictures shared to social media. Sasha looked dashing in a classic tuxedo, flanked by his proud parents who beamed with joy as they captured the special occasion. Naomi kept things effortlessly elegant in a tailored black blazer, while Liev matched the formal vibe with a black tee and warm grin. Another heartwarming photo captured Naomi and Sasha out celebrating at a restaurant with her daughter Kai, which she captioned: 'Dinner with my teens.' Earlier this month, the Mulholland Drive star also shared never-before-seen photos of Sasha and Kai on Mother's Day. 'My heart is so full. Thank you Sasha and Kai for giving me motherhood,' she said. Naomi went on to also thank her current husband Billy Crudup for organising the family day: 'And to Billy for the most wonderful day. Feeling so grateful.' Kai came out publicly as transgender in 2025 on Instagram after making her runway debut for Valentino during Paris Fashion Week in March. 'I'm so eternally grateful that I'm so supported as a young transgender girl,' the up-and-coming model and activist wrote. 'But there are so many boys and girls like me who can't say they have the same blessing. 'Our job is to stand up and support those young beautiful lives, and the @aliforneycenter is helping us to do so.' The Ali Forney Center is a New York City non-profit which provides shelter and healthcare services to LGBTQIA+ youth experiencing homelessness.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Friendly exes! Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber reunite to celebrate son Sasha's big prom night alongside their daughter Kai
Naomi Watts and her ex-partner Liev Schreiber were all smiles when they recently reunited to celebrate their son Sasha's milestone prom night in America. The former couple, known for their amicable co-parenting, radiated happiness as they proudly posed alongside Sasha in pictures shared to social media, showcasing a picture-perfect family moment. The 17-year-old looked dashing in a classic tuxedo, flanked by his proud parents who beamed with joy as they captured the special occasion. Naomi, 56, kept things effortlessly elegant in a tailored black blazer, while Liev, 57, matched the formal vibe with a black tee and warm grin. Another heartwarming photo captured Naomi and Sasha out celebrating at a restaurant alongside her daughter Kai, 16, which she captioned with, 'Dinner with my teens '. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. In another candid moment, Sasha and Kai were seen walking down the street together, seemingly engrossed in conversation. Naomi captioned the image with some heartfelt words: 'Nothing makes me happier than when they talk to each other.' The touching moment offered a rare glimpse into the family's tight-knit dynamic - and highlighted the former couple's continued commitment to raising their children amicably. The outing comes after the Mulholland Drive star shared never-before-seen photos of Sasha and Kai on Mother's Day earlier this month. 'My heart is so full. Thank you Sasha and Kai for giving me motherhood,' she said. Naomi went on to also thank her current husband Billy Crudup for organising the family day: 'And to Billy for the most wonderful day. Feeling so grateful.' Kai came out as transgender in 2025 on Instagram, after making her her runway debut for Valentino during Paris Fashion Week in March. 'I'm so eternally grateful that I'm so supported as a young transgender girl,' the up-and-coming model and activist wrote. 'But there are so many boys and girls like me who can't say they have the same blessing. 'Our job is to stand up and support those young beautiful lives, and the @aliforneycenter is helping us to do so.' Kai's father Liev Schrieber also stood by her side at the Ali Forney Center's A Place at the Table gala at The Glasshouse. The Ali Forney Center is a New York City non-profit which provides shelter and healthcare services to LGBTQIA+ youth experiencing homelessness. 'This isn't just about representing the trans community,' he said. 'These are people who are being rejected. These are people who are experiencing the harshest version of humanity that we can offer, and some of them are not surviving it.' 'We got to bear that in mind when we go out there and glam ourselves up and get ready to be seen, you know?' Schreiber continued. 'That what we're doing is actually raising money for a community that desperately needs it.' 'Kai is embracing her space in the trans community like never before. Such a fighter,' Liev said.
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Naomi Watts proudly supports model daughter Kai, 16, as the pair host LGBTQ fundraiser in NYC - following the teen coming out as trans
Naomi Watts proudly supported daughter Kai Schreiber as the pair hosed an LGBTQ in fundraiser New York City on Thursday, following the teen coming out as trans. The actress, 56, was towered over by her by her youngest child, 16, who she shares with ex Liev Schreiber, 57, and they matched in gold metallic ensembles for the sold-out Mother Daughter Holy Spirit party. Naomi looked every inch the proud parent as she wrapped an arm around Kai's waist and flaunted their mother-daughter likeness for the cameras. Kai was every inch the supermodel as she flaunted her slender physique and shielded her eyes behind chic shades. The two also sported matching dramatic makeup with bronzed cheekbones, heavy eyeliner, as well as plum lipsticks, and both wore their blonde locks out. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Naomi finished her look with a pair of black leather trousers and a smart blazer, while Kai let her gold sequins do the talking. In snaps shared to her Instagram Stories, Naomi revealed the packed crowd at One for One – a new private venue in Midtown East created as a collaborative space for artists and culture makers. 'We are so pleased to introduce Naomi Watts as a host of Holy Spirit, a party by to fundraise for the Trans Justice Funding Project,' an announcement shared earlier this week read. 'A parent's love is important to every human on earth. 'For trans people, the love and support of a parent can be absolutely crucial. Pictured, Naomi Watts is with her daughter in ...owning MOTHER DAUGHTER.' The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative that was founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the United States. Tickets for the event were priced at US$30 for trans people and US$65 for allies. Naomi played the mum-of-Instagram as she snapped a photo of Kai cuddled up to Hari Nef, an openly transgender model and actress at the event. The outing comes after the Mulholland Drive star shared never-before-seen photos of her daughter, Kai, and son Sasha, 17, on Mother's Day earlier this month. 'My heart is so full. Thank you Sasha and Kai for giving me motherhood,' she said. Naomi went on to also thank her current husband Billy Crudup for organising the family day: 'And to Billy for the most wonderful day. Feeling so grateful.' Kai came out as transgender in 2025 on Instagram, after making her her runway debut for Valentino during Paris Fashion Week in March. 'I'm so eternally grateful that I'm so supported as a young transgender girl,' the up-and-coming model and activist wrote. 'But there are so many boys and girls like me who can't say they have the same blessing. 'Our job is to stand up and support those young beautiful lives, and the @aliforneycenter is helping us to do so.' Kai's father, actor Leiv Schrieber, also stood by her side at the Ali Forney Center's A Place at the Table gala at The Glasshouse. The Ali Forney Center is a New York City non-profit which provides shelter and healthcare services to LGBTQIA+ youth experiencing homelessness. 'This isn't just about representing the trans community,' he said. 'These are people who are being rejected. These are people who are experiencing the harshest version of humanity that we can offer, and some of them are not surviving it.' 'We got to bear that in mind when we go out there and glam ourselves up and get ready to be seen, you know?' Schreiber continued. 'That what we're doing is actually raising money for a community that desperately needs it.' 'Kai is embracing her space in the trans community like never before,' Liev said. 'Kai is such a fighter,' he added. 'It's important that she goes, "Hey, I am trans," and, "Look at me."'
Reuters
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Reuters
Bills to be featured on 'Hard Knocks' during training camp
May 21 - The Buffalo Bills will make their "Hard Knocks" debut on HBO this summer, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced Wednesday. Also, Goodell announced that the NFC East will be featured on the in-season edition of Hard Knocks, the long-running documentary series that began chronicling NFL teams in training camp with behind-the-scenes access in 2001. The in-season version debuted in 2021. The Bills' five-part documentary will premiere on Aug. 5 on HBO and Max. Both series will be narrated by Liev Schreiber. The Bills fit the criteria for selection: They don't have a first-year coach; they haven't appeared in the last eight years; and they won't be part of the in-season edition in the next two seasons, which means the AFC East will not be featured in 2026. Nine teams were automatically eliminated as choices for this summer, given their appearances over the last eight years: Chicago Bears (2024), New York Jets (2023), Detroit Lions (2022), Dallas Cowboys (2021), Los Angeles Chargers (2020), Los Angeles Rams (2020), Raiders (2019), Cleveland Browns (2018) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2017). --Field Level Media
New York Times
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Creditors' Review: Who Pays the Price for a Bankrupt Marriage?
If a man hates women but also everyone else, is he still a misogynist? I ask for an acquaintance: August Strindberg, the Swedish playwright whose three tempestuous marriages were not enough to exhaust his fury at wives, muses, temptresses and others. Also, it would seem, at himself. His excess of rage found its way into plays — 'Miss Julie' (1888) and 'The Dance of Death' (1900) are today the most famous — that feature male characters only slightly less awful than the women in their lives. That ought to be unbearable, and not just as an affront to feminism; his pox-on-both-your-genders cussedness can sometimes feel self-canceling as drama. Still, Strindberg sticks to the canon of European classics like a tick: ugly, bloodthirsty, alive. The contradiction is at its most vexing in 'Creditors,' a follow-up to 'Miss Julie' that flips the earlier play's love-triangle geometry so that one woman and two men stand at its vertexes instead of one man and two women. Believe me, two men are worse: The lone woman, in this case a writer named Tekla, is literally outmanned. When Adolph, her second husband — having fallen under the influence of Gustav, his new friend — prosecutes Tekla for the theft of his happiness, Strindberg barely allows a defense. That 'Creditors' is nevertheless wretchedly compelling has previously been sufficient to keep it onstage. Perhaps in a post-#MeToo age no longer. At any rate, the production that opened Sunday at the Minetta Lane Theater — starring Liev Schreiber as Gustav, Maggie Siff as Tekla and Justice Smith as Adolph, now called Adi — sets out to shift the play's balance of power and mostly succeeds. In Jen Silverman's thoroughgoing adaptation, Tekla is given full voice, and the men are finally held to account. The new version, set in a vague present, opens like the original in the parlor of an out-of-season seaside hotel. There, Adi, a young painter, and Gustav, a teacher of 'dead languages,' are discovered in the depths of a whiskey-enhanced discussion of women and art. At first idly, then with what appears to be solicitude, and finally with the glee of a cat cornering a mouse before killing it, Gustav pokes into Adi's professional failures, connecting them to Tekla's galling success. Having dumped her first husband after humiliating him in a popular roman à clef, what's to stop her from doing the same to her second? The author of dramedies that foreground women — among them 'The Roommate,' 'The Moors' and 'Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties' — Silverman is not about to let that wife-as-witch framing stand. Still, Strindberg's three-part structure, with its bear-trap teeth, is too ingenious to mess with. In the second part, Adi, empowered or perhaps just empoisoned by Gustav, confronts Tekla with his newfound and possibly bogus insights into what he had thought was a happy marriage. Because Smith is so sincere and appealing, his vulnerability reading as openness instead of petulance, we are at first willing to allow his line of thought. But this is where the adaptation begins a slow turn. As written, and as played quite winningly by Siff, Silverman's Tekla is neither a kitten nor a harridan. She is confident and positive and, quite obviously, in love with her husband, at least as she has known him until now. Still, alert to his newfound possessiveness and jealousy, which eventually expresses itself in an act of violence, she draws a line in the sand of their marriage. The act of violence, so viscerally damning, is not in the Strindberg. But the fragility of traditional marriage certainly is, and Silverman underlines it. Every feeling and its opposite are readily available to either partner, so that even a slight disruption of their equilibrium can result in wild swings toward loathing. Adi sputters; Tekla snarls. What he once loved in her, and vice versa, quickly becomes what neither can abide. Still, in this version, Tekla remains the more sensible spouse, far abler in dealing with disputes. Her strength is further tested when she is forced, in the third part, into a final face-off with Gustav, the expert underminer. In the Strindberg, Gustav is coolly victorious; he destroys Tekla emotionally and her husband physically. That's almost the reverse of what happens now, both in plot and tone. Not cool at all, Schreiber's fascinatingly peculiar Gustav is incandescent with wrath, but also deeply depressed. How Silverman uses this to argue for the antithesis of Strindbergian revenge makes for a weird if wonderfully surprising kicker. Some will complain that this 'Creditors' is therefore not Strindberg at all, that Silverman's alterations run directly counter to his intentions. Both statements are true, but I'm not sure why they have to be criticisms. Yes, something of the brisk inevitability of the original is lost in the revision's strengthening of Tekla and softening of the others, and yes, the dialogue leans occasionally into feminist sloganeering. There is even a nod toward a form of marriage that the original, even if it imagined it, could not have dramatized. But the play is, as Silverman pointedly puts it on the title page of the script, 'after Strindberg' — more than 135 years after. If it detracts from 'Creditors' or its bleak realism about men and women, no harm done; the original still exists. And if it instead enhances 'Creditors' for contemporary audiences and refutes a false idea about men and women, it may do some good. Certainly Ian Rickson's direction does. His 'Creditors' staging is as trenchant, smooth and unburdened by overproduction as is his concurrent staging of 'Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes' with Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty. (The two shows alternate at the Minetta Lane through June 18.) The same design team — sets by Brett J. Banakis and Christine Jones, costumes by Ásta Bennie Hostetter, lighting by Isabella Byrd, sound by Mikaal Sulaiman — achieves a similar less-is-more effect, supporting the story without becoming the story. The understated visuals do for the eyes what the sonic hush (there are no microphones) does for the ears, forcing the audience to concentrate on the words and to find the spectacle within them. The specific merits of 'Creditors,' numerous though they are, are similarly in service to something larger. Like 'Sexual Misconduct,' it is part of an experiment called Audible x Together, which aims to reinvigorate the Off Broadway ideal of engaging theater with excellent actors for diverse audiences at reasonable prices. Though half of the 400 seats for any single performance are sold at market rates — and it must be said that the market is not, in fact, very reasonable — a quarter are given free to community groups through the Theater Development Fund and a quarter cost $35 if you can find them. Quibble with the model; pick at the play. But in imagining a way forward instead of whimpering in despair, Audible x Together is doing something akin to what Silverman does with 'Creditors.' You might say they both look for the value in the past but don't get stuck in it. They play it forward.
