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3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Pedro Pascal Explains Why He'll Never Shave Again After This Film: 'I Was Appalled'
We may all know and love Pedro Pascal as the internet's favourite incredibly charming moustached man, but there's one role that the Fantastic Four star says made him swear off the clean-shaven look forever – Wonder Woman 1984. The 50-year-old's facial hair is a key part of his trademark look but when he took on the part of television-personality-turned-villain Maxwell Lord in Patty Jenkin's 2020 clean-shaven sequel, the star was required to shave the lot off. In an interview with LADbible, alongside his Marvel co-star Vanessa Kirby, he was asked which was sexier, moustaches or beards. 'I grow such s*** facial hair,' Pedro commented. 'I were to shave it all off, I really look very [awful]. Strongly disagree with a clean-shaven me. 'I was so appalled by the way I look in Wonder Woman 1984. I loved the movie, but I was so appalled by the way that I looked that I never have gone back unless it were completely necessary. 'If they asked me to be clean-shaven for , and insisted, then I would've done it. But it was a very collaborative creation for all of our looks in the movie.' Fortunately for Pedro (and let's be real, for us too), he wasn't required to reach for the razor for the role of Reed Richards – although some Marvel fans weren't happy with the Mandalorian actor's casting. 'I'm more aware of disgruntlement around my casting than anything I've ever done,' he previously told Vanity Fair. 'He's too old. He's not right. He needs to shave,' Pascal said, sharing the swathes of online complaints surrounding his latest role. While the movie hits UK cinemas this week, it's been confirmed that the quartet will also be appearing among the all-star cast of Avengers: Doomsday MCU on screen for the first time.
UPI
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Noah Hawley cast Timothy Olyphant in 'Alien: Earth' to make up for 'Fargo' U.S. Marshal role
BANGKOK, July 17 (UPI) -- Alien: Earth creator, executive producer and writer Noah Hawley says he wanted to collaborate again with Timothy Olyphant after casting the Mandalorian, Justified and Deadwood icon as another lawman in Season 4 of his anthology drama, Fargo. "I always assume that if you're talented, you can do anything and, so, I like people to prove me differently," Hawley told UPI during a recent press conference in Bangkok, where the sci-fi drama was filmed. "And I wanted to make it up to Tim for casting him as the U.S. Marshal the same way that everyone else has cast him as a U.S. Marshal, so I decided to make him a completely different character. He's so versatile and he underplays everything anyway. That wasn't a big step to see him in this role." Premiering Aug. 12 on Hulu, FX and Disney+ internationally, the eight-episode series takes place two years before the events of the 1979 sci-fi classic Alien. The ensemble includes Sydney Chandler, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay and Alex Lawther. "In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans," according to a synopsis. Previews have shown the residents -- including a group of exceptional kids -- at the futuristic Neverland Research Island facility trying to find and neutralize the terrifying monsters who escape in a spaceship crash on Earth. Olyphant plays one of the synthetics, but specific details about most of the characters, including his, have been closely guarded. "The key has been finding what are the affectations that feel human versus synthetic," Hawley said. "If you look at the movie, Alien, they made Ian Holm the only British character because then you thought, 'Well, he's not a robot, he's just British.' So, we had to find that with the American version and I like playing against that. Timothy is such an American actor presence." The new show also reunites Hawley with David Rysdahl, one of the stars of Fargo Season 5. "He was just, really, a stand-out to me, in terms of the work experience with him," Hawley said. "I just really like his presence. He's very human. He brings a real warmth and kindness wherever he goes and I like that he has this relationship with these kids that they just really feel cared for," he added. "I'll always call somebody I work with before." While Hawley took inspiration from Alien and its 1986 sequel, Aliens, he wanted the series to distinguish itself by being the first to actually take place on Earth. "The first one is such a 1970s movie and the second was such an '80s movie," Hawley said. "The first film, really, was [about] 'space truckers,'" he added. "It has that blue-collar [feel]. These are people who work for a living. The second film, they're grunts. You introduce Paul Reiser, but he's middle-management, at best. So, I wanted to keep some of that identity, which we get in through Alex's character, Hermit, and the grunts that he is with." Although it is set in space and in the future, the filmmaker compared the first Alien movie to Samuel Beckett's 1953 play, Waiting for Godot. "We're going to a place, we don't know where, to do a thing, we don't know what, for people, we don't know who," Hawley summed up the similarities. "There's a little bit of that 'individual getting lost in the system' that I think is a big theme for us." Hawley also noted that the films were prescient about how powerful technology and corporations might some day become, but even they couldn't have accurately predicted the advances and challenges we are actually dealing with today. "I don't think that, in the 1980s and the '70s, they could have envisioned the Elon Musks of the world," he said. "So, corporate, yes, but we're in a different era, and, in order to make it feel contemporary, we needed to sort of address that idea that this whole thing is sort of the whim of this prodigy," Hawley added. "You get in a corporation as a 'diffused decision system' where nobody actually decides and it's nobody's fault." Hawley, who has also worked on The Unusuals and Legion, said that when he is hired to create a fresh adaptation of a movie or comic book, he studies the original to see how it makes him feel and why. "Then, I try to make you feel similar things while telling you a completely different story," he said. "When I look at that first [Alien] movie, it's not just a monster movie. It's about humanity trapped between the primordial, parasitic past and the AI future and they're both trying to kill us," Hawley added. "Even if I have 60 percent of the best action or horror on TV, I still have 40 percent of, 'What are we talking about?' I like that idea of picking a moment in Earth history, which is a bit like the Edison/Tesla/Westinghouse moment where everyone knows that electricity is the thing and everyone's fighting to control it." That's where the show -- and real-life society is now -- with artificial intelligence, he observed. "Everyone's trying to figure out how humanity transcends to the next level of artificial intelligence," Hawley said. "Is it enhancing the human body mechanically? Or, is it this trans-human idea and, so, that felt like a really interesting conversation to have and then bring the monsters into it because the show, and a lot of science-fiction, is really about the idea of, 'Does humanity deserve to survive?'" He emphasized that the space monsters aren't the only thing that people have to fear in the Alien universe. "To be able to bring in, not just the physical or the body horror, but sort of the moral horror of humanity, the things that we do to each other, was really a driving force," he added.
Courier-Mail
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
Stars of Marvel's new movie spotted on a stroll in Bondi
Don't miss out on the headlines from Entertainment. Followed categories will be added to My News. Vanity Fair said it best when they ran a brilliant cover story on Pedro Pascal last month. Pedro Pascal on the cover of Vanity Fair in June. Now, Aussies can have their chance at a piece of Pedro with the beloved actor arriving in Sydney, Australia for the launch event of Marvel's new offering Fantastic Four: First Steps. Pascal, 50, was spotted enjoying a stroll in Bondi on Sunday ahead of his appearance on the red carpet at the Entertainment Quarter this Tuesday. The Mandalorian star rugged up for the winter chill, embarking on the Bondi to Coogee coastal walk in a smart beige jacket, white pants and trendy glasses. Pedro Pascal took in the beauty of Sydney on the Bondi to Coogee coastal walk on Sunday. Picture: The actor rugged up in a smart outfit. Picture: Joined by his longtime friend Coco Ullrich, the Game of Thrones star embarked on the Bondi to Coogee coastal walk shortly after arriving from the UK. His Fantastic Four cast mates were also in tow, including Vanessa Kirby, her husband Paul Rabil, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Pascal was joined by his longtime friend and personal groomer Coco Ullrich. Picture: Vanessa Kirby with her husband Paul Rabil. Picture: The first film in Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Fantastic Four: First Steps finally introduces fans to comic heroes Mister Fantastic (Pascal), Invisible Woman (Kirby), Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and The Thing (Moss-Bachrach). The cast of Fantastic Four: First Steps: Julia Garner, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ralph Ineson. Picture: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for The Walt Disney Company Limited Pascal's arrival down under comes as the actor enjoys somewhat of a late career frenzy, hooked on starring roles in hit shows like The Last of Us and The Mandalorian. But it's his 'rizz' (that's Gen Z slang for charisma) that has granted Pascal his cultural status, similar to that of notorious Hollywood nice guy Keanu Reeves. Most notably, Pascal has shown an unwavering support of minority communities, often sharing his progressive values online. Swinging in to support his beloved younger sister Lux, who came out as a transgender woman in 2021, Pascal shared this viral post in February: 'I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorising the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.' King Pedro, also known as the 'internet's daddy'. Picture: Rhianna Chadwick/AFP He also took aim at J.K. Rowling amid her ongoing stance against the transgender community, after the Harry Potter author gleefully reacted to a U.K. court decision that did not recognise transgender women as women. Pascal dubbed her celebrations 'heinous LOSER behaviour.' Speaking to Vanity Fair in his June cover story, Pascal said of the situation, 'The one thing that I would say I agonised over a little bit was just, 'Am I helping? Am I f**king helping?' 'It's a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected. Listen, I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. 'Bullies make me f**king sick.' Originally published as Beloved Hollywood star spotted at Sydney beach
Geek Feed
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Feed
Jude Law Allegedly Reprising Jod for Other Star Wars Projects
Jude Law entered the world of Star Wars in Skeleton Crew as a pirate with Force powers, and while a second season hasn't been announced, it does sound like we could be seeing more of Crimson Jack/Jod Na Nawood. According to insider Daniel RPK (via @screentime), Jod is expected to appear in other Star Wars projects. It's not clear which ones yet, but it's possible that he could appear in something close to the Mandalorian timeline since Skeleton Crew takes place only a few years after Return of the Jedi , but way past The Force Awakens . Personally, I was hoping for Jod and the kids to have their story take place after The Rise of Skywalker , but it's possible that Lucasfilm may want to keep expanded material away from that era in the meantime, since they're trying to rebuild a new trilogy with Rey Skywalker. As far as Jod's story goes, it looks like he's going to be taken into custody after the first season of Skeleton Crew , but there are some fans (specifically myself) who are almost positive that Jod is going to have some kind of redemption because the series is very specific about him wanting the treasure but not wanting to hurt any of the kids. We don't know when Jod is going to appear again, but you can check him out on his own space adventure with a bunch of silly kids in Skeleton Crew which is now streaming on Disney+.
Perth Now
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Some of Supanova's best dressed share highlights of event
Pop culture fans descended on the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre for the first day of Supanova. The gates flooded with pops of colour as fans rocked up in epic costumes including Xena Warrior Princess, an NCR Ranger from Fallout, and characters from manga series Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch. Jessica Lynne cosplayed as Red Sonja, who is Conan the Barbarian's battle maiden. 'People really love the costumes even if they don't know who exactly I was, they have liked the detail in it,' she said. 'It's taken a few months to put together. It's always about getting the right wig, making sure you've got the right material because she needs to look rough like a barbarian.' More than 135,000 super-fans are expected to pass through the event over the weekend, with an action-packed program including celebrity meet and greets, collectables, artists and more. Celebs who met with fans and did Q&As included Billy Zane (The Phantom, Titanic), Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER), Evangeline Lilly (Ant-Man, Lost) and Temuera Morrison (Once Were Warriors, The Book of Boba Fett). Jessica Lynne as Red Sonja. Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper / The Sunday Times Meeting Mandalorian stunt double Brendan Wayne was a highlight for Star Wars fans Matthew McCracken , Jordan Davis and Brandon Davis. They were dressed as Kylo Ren, the Mandalorian and Anakin Skywalker, respectively. 'We've been watching Star Wars together since we were two years old,' Brandon said. Matthew McCracken (Kylo Ren), Jordan Davis (Mandolorian) and Brandon Davis (Anakin Skywalker). Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper / The Sunday Times 'One of the first movies I ever watched with my older cousins and then that was probably where the obsession started. 'It's fun getting out of your normal day-to-day job and doing something a bit different.' 'I guess it's just the fan interactions that we really love and seeing the young ones like light up as well that's always been fun,' Matthew added. Supanova will be back on Sunday at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre for one more day of everything sci-fi and fantasy.
