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Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
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‘Thunderbolts*' Post-Credits Scenes Explained: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Marvel Studios has conditioned audiences to stay through the end credits and 'Thunderbolts*' is no different. The latest MCU entry unites a ragtag band of misfits, led by Black Widow Yelena (Florence Pugh) and including Bucky (Sebastian Stan), the Red Guardian (David Harbour), U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) as they face a bigger, badder threat that will take all of them, working together, to take it down. 'Thunderbolts*' is one of the better Marvel movies of the past few years, full of inventiveness and a shocking frankness when it comes to discussions of mental health and depression, and the story doesn't end when the credits start. But that is a pretty good place to begin. Let's talk about the movie's post-credits there are! Two in fact – one mid-credits scene and one post-credits scene. The team, which had been going by the Thunderbolts (a nod to Yelena's youth soccer team), is given a new moniker by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). That moniker? The New Avengers. Yeah. There is. In the mid-credits scene, we are in a traditional United States grocery store. A woman is in the cereal aisle, trying to figure out what to get for breakfast. She is approached by a man with a giant mustache. It's Alexei Shostakov aka Red Guardian (Harbour) who suggests she get a box of Wheaties, because the Thunderbolts aka the New Avengers are on there. They are heroes! Yes, earlier in the movie, Red Guardian says that if the team really works, then one day they might be on a box of Wheaties. His prophecy has been fulfilled. Well, in the background, faintly playing in the supermarket, is Starship's 1987 single 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now,' which was the theme song to the movie 'Mannequin' (Google it) and appeared on the band's album 'No Protection.' After the Red Guardian has his little moment, the song overwhelms the scene and plays during the next little phase of credits. It's nice to have a bop when you're sitting through credits, waiting for the next scene. Oh there is one. And it's a whopper. The sequence is set 14 months after the events of 'Thunderbolts'/'The New Avengers.' They are fully a team now, with some nifty black outfits with a new take on the classic 'A' logo. But there are some issues – as they talk about in the scene, Sam Wilson aka the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie) is suing the New Avengers and issued copyright protections on the name the Avengers. (Red Guardian's solution? They become the AvengerZ. Makes sense.) The New Avengers are headquartered in the former Stark Tower/Avengers Tower from 2012's 'The Avengers' and 2015's 'Avengers: Age of Ultron.' Bob aka Sentry (Lewis Pullman) hasn't been using his powers because he said that if he does, he taps into the stuff that made Void, a supervillain that threatened the city. Fun bonus detail: Bob is reading Rick Rubin's 'The Creative Act: A Way of Being.' Yelena says that there is something happen in space. This is news to us and maybe points to the inciting incident of next year's 'Avengers: Doomsday?' Whatever it is, it's not good. They get alerted that there is something entering our atmosphere, not from space but from another dimension. They ask for a satellite image of the object. And they get it. Well, if you've seen the trailer for 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps,' the MCU movie that opens in just a couple of months, you'll recognize it right away. If you don't, the ship rotates and you see a giant '4' on the site. You also hear the familiar strains of Michael Giacchino's 'Fantastic Four' theme, which has been teased since last year's San Diego Comic-Con. It kind of does. We haven't seen the new movie but it seems to suggest that, yes, Galactus destroys the Fantastic Four's universe and they are the sole refugees, coming to the mainline MCU dimension. A super strange choice! It is weird. Maybe Marvel just thinks this is a foregone conclusion and they really, really are ready for the Fantastic Four to meet the New Avengers? It's sort of unclear. Yeah. There's one more thing. After it cuts to black, we get a message like the old James Bond movies: 'The New Avengers and Bob will return.' Actually yes! 'Avengers: Doomsday,' the 'Avengers' movie that will debut next May, has confirmed Pugh, Harbour, Stan, Russell, Pullman and John-Kamen will all be back. Huzzah! 'Thunderbolts*' is in theaters now. The post 'Thunderbolts*' Post-Credits Scenes Explained: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kim Cattrall Swears by Good Lighting and a ‘Very Small' Makeup Bag
All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by Glamour editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Charlotte Tilbury We tend to play a little fast and loose with the word 'icon,' but when it comes to Kim Cattrall, there's no question: The woman is iconic. And for her latest act she's teaming up with a titan of the beauty industry, Charlotte Tilbury, for the new Pillow Talk Beauty Soulmates campaign. After all, who better than Samantha Jones herself to front the sexiest makeup line in the biz? 'I'm having too much fun. I'm really enjoying myself,' Cattrall, 68, says of doing the boudoir-set shoot at this moment in her career. 'She really puts so much confidence out there for young women,' Cattrall says of Tilbury, whose newest Pillow Talk products have a costarring role in the campaign. The latest collection features the Pillow Talk Love Effect Matte Revolution Lipsticks, Pillow Talk Love Effect K.I.S.S.I.N.G. lip colors, and Pillow Talk Beauty Soulmates Face Palette. Cattrall admits to being drawn to the packaging, all of which is adorned with pink heart-shaped crystals: 'I am a girl. I like the sparkles,' she says. Ahead, Cattrall talks more about working on the campaign, how she learned to speak up for herself in the makeup chair early, and the beauty wisdom she picked up from her 1987 cult hit Mannequin for Glamour's Big Beauty Questions. : The campaign is about being bold, beautiful, and unapologetically yourself. What does that mean to you? Kim Cattrall: There's a feeling when someone is being authentic because it's coming uniquely from them. You sense that instinctually, in a kind of primal way. I think what Charlotte is trying to encourage women to do is to try something bold, to be confident enough to try something. Maybe it doesn't work. Who cares? There's another product that you can try. There's another color you can try. But in [that process], you become more and more confident in finding out what you want. The photos are gorgeous! How did you feel working on it? It was glowing. I was glowing. I like what Charlotte does. In my toolbox, in my makeup box, I have her products. So as one independent woman to another, I thought, yeah, I can get behind women feeling confident enough to mix it up. You've always exuded confidence. When it comes to beauty, and makeup in particular, what makes you feel most confident? For me, especially as I get older, less is more. When I was younger, I felt a real need to, in some ways, put up a mask of who I was or what I wanted people to perceive me as. But the older I've gotten and the more comfortable I've gotten with myself, that's been less of a priority. Meeting people without pretense, without hiding, it takes vulnerability, but it's worth it. There is a vulnerability in beauty, right? There is. People think, Oh, you're good-looking. What have you got to worry about? [Laughs.] Excuse me. We all are going through whatever crap in our lives and in our jobs. What's your personal approach to makeup? It depends on what my day is, but on a regular basis, I just put a little bit of makeup on—lipstick, concealer for any little new friends that have appeared at night. But for my job, it's completely different. Makeup plays such a big role in being an actress. And you literally can change who you are playing that character between takes. As an actress, to be able to access something like makeup to help me create a character is such an essential tool. Most of the parts, or a lot of the parts that I have played, are very sophisticated, smart women who know how to take care of themselves. And part of that has to do with—it's almost like a preparation, putting the makeup on, creating that person. That is a big part of it. $35.00, Ulta What are the products you use every day? My makeup bag in life is very small because most of the bags that I own are very small. So a lot of it's lipstick, a lot of it's powder. I have a pencil if I have a little red something popping up or whatever. And I have a little comb that folds up. It's all easy maintenance. Is there a beauty tip you've picked up on set that you've used ever since? I wear a lot less makeup in real life. I remember as a young contract player at Universal Studios, I would sit in the makeup chair and I would just hate what was going on because the makeup, especially in the '80s, was so much. And I would go back to my dressing room because I was a little bit nervous—I didn't want to upset the makeup artist or the hairdresser—and I would tone down my makeup and I would come to set and I'd sort of avoid the hair and makeup people. One of the things that I learned was to stand up for myself and say, 'This doesn't feel right.' I want to be the most relaxed, the most comfortable. So I needed to take it down. On a set is like any workspace, so I think the lessons learned there are valuable for life because it's about taking care of you, taking care so you can do what you need to do at the best of your ability and not letting other people get in the way. It's pretty amazing that really from the beginning you had that gumption to say, 'This isn't me.' Because ultimately, I hope that I'm more interesting than a movie or a TV character that I play. I'm multidimensional. Whereas those characters are not always written that way or come across that way. So yeah, it takes confidence and it takes bravery to say, 'My opinion counts. I'm the person driving this bus. This is me.' What's the beauty secret you swear by? Good lighting. I always say this to people: Know your light, know where you look good. It's priceless. Look at pictures of yourself, see what you like. I remember early on when I did a film called Mannequin, they had a DP—a director of photography—and he kept saying, 'Three-quarter, not dead on,' and I didn't know what he meant. He said everybody looks better [with their faces turned] three quarters; it just makes your face more interesting on camera. And he was right. I went to see the rushes and I thought, Yeah, my face does look more interesting. I just saw that is kind of . That movie got absolutely panned when it came out. Such a sweet, lovely little movie. I don't know why anyone could be malicious in any way about it. It was a fairy tale. The weekend it came out, it was up against a Sylvester Stallone film, which was about arm wrestling. And every film that Sylvester Stallone had ever done was number one at the box office. So I thought, Well, we would be number two. And we won over Sylvester Stallone. This little movie with no big stars. Then it went to DVD and people watched it, and their kids watched it, and then their kids watched it. I would have meetings with execs at different movie studios, and they'd say, 'My favorite movie was Mannequin.' Well, that's good. That's what you hope for in a career in film and television, to be remembered and to entertain people. And those moments, you look back on them and you think, Yeah, it was good to be part of that at the time. Lindy Segal is a freelance lifestyle writer and editor whose work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Fast Company, InStyle, and others. She also writes the Substack newsletter 'Gatekeeping.' Originally Appeared on Glamour
Axios
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Mannequins and merch at major discount as Macy's empties Center City store
Everything must go from Macy's flagship store in Center City — including the mannequins. Why it matters: Shoppers can score deep discounts — and listen to Wanamaker Grand Court Organ performances — ahead of the department store's permanent closure in the coming weeks. Between the lines: The final date for the closure remains uncertain. But a company spokesperson told Axios in early January that sales would run through March or April. Thought bubble: I stopped by the store this week and was a little freaked out by the dozens of mannequins for sale on the first floor (starting around $100 for a full-sized model). Fun fact: The 1987 flick " Mannequin" had a filming location in Wanamaker's Department Store.
