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New Indian Express
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle to star in Netflix's The Altruists
Julia Garner will continue to come for your money in a recurring collaboration with Netflix after Ozark and Inventing Anna in The Altruists. In the new limited series, she will star alongside Anthony Boyle (Masters of the Air) as the lead. The eight-episode limited series is based on the crypto fraud committed by Sam Bankman-Fried, a man who was once dubbed the poster boy of crypto, and Caroline Ellison, who will be played by Anthony Boyle and Julia Garner, respectively. In 2022, Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas and subsequently extradited to the US to face charges of fraud committed through his cryptocurrency exchange and hedge fund company, FTX. Ellison was also arrested for fraud.
UPI
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Julia Garner, Anthony Boyle to star in Netflix's 'The Altruists'
1 of 2 | Julia Garner is set to star in "The Altruists" for Netflix. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo May 30 (UPI) -- Ozark alum Julia Garner and Manhunt actor Anthony Boyle have signed on to star in Netflix's limited series, The Altruists. Garner will play Caroline Ellison and Boyle will portray Sam Bankman-Fried in the fact-based drama. "Two hyper-smart young idealists try to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye... only to seduce each other into stealing $8 billion," the streaming service said. James Ponsoldt -- whose credits include Shrinking and The Spectacular Now -- is to direct and executive produce the first episode. Ellison was sentenced in 2024 to two years in prison after she became a key government witness legal proceedings related to the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried is serving a 25-year prison sentence for various financial fraud crimes. Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle will portray Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried in the new limited series The Altruists. Two hyper-smart young idealists try to remake the global financial system in the blink of an to seduce each other into stealing $8 billion. Netflix (@netflix) May 29, 2025
Epoch Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Epoch Times
It's ‘Mission: Possible' for ‘Mission: Impossible' Star Esai Morales
Playing the arch-nemesis to one of the most beloved action heroes in film franchise history can be a thankless job, especially when the champion soaks up all the glory. But don't tell that to veteran actor Esai Morales, who returns as Gabriel, the antagonist to Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt in this summer's upcoming 'Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning,' opening May 23. The truth is, Morales appreciates the challenge presented to him by his villainous character. For without Gabriel, there would be no Ethan Hunt to root for. 'The better you play the bad guy, the better you make the good guy look,' said Morales in a recent interview with The Epoch Times. And Morales should know, having first appeared as Gabriel in 2023's spy action film 'Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One.' 'We all have a role,' Morales said mischievously. 'You don't want a bad guy who's a pushover, then what have you done as a hero? You see how that works?' Related Stories 5/16/2025 4/11/2025 Over a 40-year career, the Brooklyn born actor of Puerto Rican ancestry has stayed a chameleon, leaping from the villains into lighter parts and projects, crafting characters in big screen hits, including 'La Bamba' and 'Bad Boys' and small screen powerhouses, such as 'NYPD Blue' and 'Ozark.' There's no secret to an actor's longevity in show business, Morales emphasized. He draws a comparison of a working actor's life to a shop owner friend's reality. The store would be 'empty for hours, and then one person would come in, and for 15 minutes it was packed beyond belief,' he said. 'And then it was empty again.' Acting work, like the store's customers, 'comes in waves,' Morales said, and 'it's all about frequency.' It takes riding those 'waves' to sustain as successfully as he has since graduating from New York's High School of Performing Arts. It goes back to a dream he had as a kid. 'At about 12 or 13, I saw this film, 'Dog Day Afternoon' with Al Pacino in it. He was so mesmerizing,' Morales recalled. 'I elbowed my friend and I said: 'That's what I'm gonna do. This is what I want to do.'' To make that vision come true, Morales said it has not just been about talent. 'It's opportunity meets preparation meets luck,' he said. It's luck that brought Morales the 'Mission: Impossible' role. He said that while in Puerto Rico, 'shooting a very small labor of love indie'—which he had agreed to do in part because it allowed him to spend time with his mother, who had retreated there during an illness before she died in 2019—he got the fortuitous phone call. He recalled one of his favorite quotes to explain the situation: 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.' When another 'brilliant actor' had a contractual conflict and had to give up the role due to delays in the 'Mission' production, he said, 'that opened an opportunity' for him to jump in. 'I think my work in 'Ozark' may have had something to do with it,' Morales said, reflecting on the 'talent' part of it. 'I think they wanted to get somebody who was kind of antithetical to our hero. And who could bring the gravitas, who can bring a sense of danger,' he said. 'It was also destiny to some degree that I was able to be at the right place at the right time, and the filmmakers thought of me.' Esai Morales Courtesy of Filip Shobot In an actor's world, however, security is never guaranteed, regardless of your last great gig. In one day, out the next; hot, then cold. Morales is always thinking about his 'Plan B.' 'The great thing about being an actor is that in preparing for your roles, you get the chance to dabble in other things, you get a chance to see what it's like, you do your research, and you try other things,' he said. He's learned that he's 'a great connector of people,' which has him thinking about taking up acting coaching. 'I coach my friends for free. And a lot of them say, 'Dude, I paid $500 for what you just gave me an hour,'' Morales said. 'I'm good at what I know, which is creating characters and bringing veracity and responding truthfully under imaginary circumstances.' Outside of show business, Morales also sees a place for himself in the information world. He wants to create an online space for people to come to, and to be a resource of knowledge and truth. 'I'm talking to people about promoting my own line of products or other people's products that I live by,' Morales said. 'I'm a certain age—62—that is not supposed to be running around and playing tennis as long and as hard as I play. I wear out people half my age, and that's valuable,' he said. 'I want to help create a store of sorts. 'This is what works for me, what works for you, a clearinghouse of information I can share.' No matter what lies ahead for Morales, whether on the big screen, small screen, or out in the coaching, business, and information world, he's certain of his future. 'My plan is to grow, to love, to achieve, to be surprised, to leave myself a little open for the unexpected, to have a bit of a plan—which is to do as much as I humanly can, to bring as much love and joy to the people around me, and to make a living while I do that.'
Sydney Morning Herald
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Actors revealed for Harry, Hermione and Ron in Harry Potter TV series reboot
Like the films, the series is sure to be a Who's Who of A-list talent, with budgets that dwarf almost everything else on TV. The first performer to confirm their participation was Conclave star John Lithgow, cast as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Lithgow, 79, said that he did not expect to be asked to follow in the footsteps of Richard Harris, Michael Gambon and Jude Law (who all played Dumbledore in the Wizarding World films). 'Well, it came as a total surprise to me. I just got the phone call at the Sundance Film Festival for yet another film, and it was not an easy decision because it's going to define me for the last chapter of my life, I'm afraid,' he said in February. 'But I'm very excited. Some wonderful people are turning their attention back to Harry Potter. That's why it's been such a hard decision. I'll be about 87 years old at the wrap party, but I've said yes.' Loading I May Destroy You star Paapa Essiedu has been cast as potions master Severus Snape, while Ozark 's Janet McTeer is to play deputy headmistress Minerva McGonagall, a role that was made famous by the late Dame Maggie Smith and was previously rumoured to be going to Sharon Horgan and Rachel Weisz. Other stars confirmed to have signed up are Shaun of the Dead 's Nick Frost succeeding Robbie Coltrane as gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid, while the role of cantankerous caretaker Argus Filch will be filled by comic performer Paul Whitehouse. We also have our first villain. Quirinus Quirrell, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone who is later revealed to be under the control of the evil Lord Voldemort, will be portrayed by Luke Thallon. The 29-year-old is best known as a stage actor. Who will play Voldemort himself in later series is being kept under wraps, but those said to be in the frame include Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy. How will the series be different from the films? HBO boss Casey Bloys has said the series will be a 'very, very specifically British 1990s production'. It is being overseen by Gardiner and Mylod, Britons who are both alumni of HBO's Succession. One need only look at their track record to know that the series will not merely be a rehash of the films. Gardiner worked on the TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; while Mylod's hits include Game of Thrones and The Menu, a Ralph Fiennes horror satirising fine dining. It is expected that the series will be darker than the films, with HBO looking for a slightly older viewership than the pre-teens who were the primary target of the cinematic pictures. Friends of Gardiner – who wrote her master's thesis on the importance of darkness in kids' stories and has spoken of her dislike for patronising children – say she wants to bring a grittier, ' Wednesday /Tim Burton vibe' to the series. Perhaps most notably, the characters will be the same age as they are in the books, with each series presumably following the school year. That means, for instance, that Severus Snape (played by the inimitable Alan Rickman in the films) will be in his early 30s on the small screen. Essiedu is 34; Rickman, by contrast, was 55 when the first film was released. The exception is Dumbledore, who lived to the ripe old age of 115. Lithgow is unlikely to want to be working in his 12th decade. Is J.K. Rowling involved? Despite selling more than 600 million Harry Potter books and amassing a fortune of almost £1 billion ($2 billion) according to The Sunday Times' Rich List, Rowling has become a polarising character for her public contributions to the transgender debate. 'That's a very online conversation, very nuanced and complicated and not something we're going to get into,' Bloys said at an investor presentation in April 2023. 'Our priority is what's on the screen.' The 59-year-old author is key to the whole series: she serves as its executive producer and will have the final say on all the casting choices. Rowling praised HBO for 'preserving the integrity' of her books and said the new adaptation would 'allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long-form television series'. Will the original stars return? Probably not. Many of the original cast members – including Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson – have criticised Rowling's trans views, and sadly others (including Gambon and Rickman) have died. Jason Isaacs, who played the villainous Lucius Malfoy in the films, was asked whether he would mount a comeback at the premiere of The White Lotus in February. 'I'm hoping to come back as Hermione,' he said, not entirely seriously. 'I sent my audition tape in and I've yet to hear. But they have my number.' When will the series be broadcast?
The Age
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
Actors revealed for Harry, Hermione and Ron in Harry Potter TV series reboot
Like the films, the series is sure to be a Who's Who of A-list talent, with budgets that dwarf almost everything else on TV. The first performer to confirm their participation was Conclave star John Lithgow, cast as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Lithgow, 79, said that he did not expect to be asked to follow in the footsteps of Richard Harris, Michael Gambon and Jude Law (who all played Dumbledore in the Wizarding World films). 'Well, it came as a total surprise to me. I just got the phone call at the Sundance Film Festival for yet another film, and it was not an easy decision because it's going to define me for the last chapter of my life, I'm afraid,' he said in February. 'But I'm very excited. Some wonderful people are turning their attention back to Harry Potter. That's why it's been such a hard decision. I'll be about 87 years old at the wrap party, but I've said yes.' Loading I May Destroy You star Paapa Essiedu has been cast as potions master Severus Snape, while Ozark 's Janet McTeer is to play deputy headmistress Minerva McGonagall, a role that was made famous by the late Dame Maggie Smith and was previously rumoured to be going to Sharon Horgan and Rachel Weisz. Other stars confirmed to have signed up are Shaun of the Dead 's Nick Frost succeeding Robbie Coltrane as gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid, while the role of cantankerous caretaker Argus Filch will be filled by comic performer Paul Whitehouse. We also have our first villain. Quirinus Quirrell, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone who is later revealed to be under the control of the evil Lord Voldemort, will be portrayed by Luke Thallon. The 29-year-old is best known as a stage actor. Who will play Voldemort himself in later series is being kept under wraps, but those said to be in the frame include Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy. How will the series be different from the films? HBO boss Casey Bloys has said the series will be a 'very, very specifically British 1990s production'. It is being overseen by Gardiner and Mylod, Britons who are both alumni of HBO's Succession. One need only look at their track record to know that the series will not merely be a rehash of the films. Gardiner worked on the TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; while Mylod's hits include Game of Thrones and The Menu, a Ralph Fiennes horror satirising fine dining. It is expected that the series will be darker than the films, with HBO looking for a slightly older viewership than the pre-teens who were the primary target of the cinematic pictures. Friends of Gardiner – who wrote her master's thesis on the importance of darkness in kids' stories and has spoken of her dislike for patronising children – say she wants to bring a grittier, ' Wednesday /Tim Burton vibe' to the series. Perhaps most notably, the characters will be the same age as they are in the books, with each series presumably following the school year. That means, for instance, that Severus Snape (played by the inimitable Alan Rickman in the films) will be in his early 30s on the small screen. Essiedu is 34; Rickman, by contrast, was 55 when the first film was released. The exception is Dumbledore, who lived to the ripe old age of 115. Lithgow is unlikely to want to be working in his 12th decade. Is J.K. Rowling involved? Despite selling more than 600 million Harry Potter books and amassing a fortune of almost £1 billion ($2 billion) according to The Sunday Times' Rich List, Rowling has become a polarising character for her public contributions to the transgender debate. 'That's a very online conversation, very nuanced and complicated and not something we're going to get into,' Bloys said at an investor presentation in April 2023. 'Our priority is what's on the screen.' The 59-year-old author is key to the whole series: she serves as its executive producer and will have the final say on all the casting choices. Rowling praised HBO for 'preserving the integrity' of her books and said the new adaptation would 'allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long-form television series'. Will the original stars return? Probably not. Many of the original cast members – including Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson – have criticised Rowling's trans views, and sadly others (including Gambon and Rickman) have died. Jason Isaacs, who played the villainous Lucius Malfoy in the films, was asked whether he would mount a comeback at the premiere of The White Lotus in February. 'I'm hoping to come back as Hermione,' he said, not entirely seriously. 'I sent my audition tape in and I've yet to hear. But they have my number.' When will the series be broadcast?
