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David E. Kelley says new ending for ‘Presumed Innocent' on Apple TV+ ‘wasn't mandatory'
David E. Kelley adapted Scott Turow's bestseller Presumed Innocent as an eight-episode series for Apple TV+ last year. Between the book and the 1990 movie adaptation, the original revelation of the murderer might no longer be a surprise. So, Kelley chose a different character to be the killer in his season finale. 'It wasn't mandatory,' Kelley told Gold Derby on the red carpet at Apple TV+'s FYC space at the Hollywood Athletic Club. 'I was open to the idea that it could still be the same killer but we kind of let the story speak to us. As it was unfolding, we settled on the route we took.' More from GoldDerby Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Fiona Shaw, and every 'Bad Sisters' Emmy acting submission How David Bowie inspired Eddie Redmayne's 'Day of the Jackal' transformations D'Arcy Carden on her 'dream come true' joining 'The Handmaid's Tale' and Phoebe's 'different Aunt energy' Jake Gyllenhaal plays Rusty Sabich, a lawyer accused of slaying his colleague, Caroline Polhemus (Renate Reinsve), with whom he was having an affair. Rusty's nemesis, Tommy Molto (Peter Sarsgaard), prosecutes Rusty despite a clear conflict of interest. Though the killer is only revealed to Rusty's family, Sarsgaard suspects the ending still validates Tommy's suspicions. Apple TV+ 'I think Tommy always knew who was involved and he was correct about that,' Sarsgaard said, without giving away the spoiler. 'He wasn't incorrect [about] the person he suspected who was covering something.' Now that all eight episodes are available to stream, it's well-known the show ends differently. Other updates Kelley made to Turow's 1987 debut novel included combining characters and incorporating 2024 elements like DNA evidence and cellphone technology. 'I think what was more important is that we declared ourselves out of the gate that we were going to take departures from the underlying material,' Kelley said. 'So at least the viewer would not feel comfortable that they knew the outcome.' Bill Camp plays Rusty's lawyer, Raymond Horgan, who is so troubled by the case that he has nightmares about Rusty committing the murder. Though Raymond is unaware of the final revelation, Camp said the damage is done regardless of who did it. 'I think he'd find it heartbreaking,' Camp said. 'The darkness that everyone's living in now, not knowing who that murderer is except for that family, I think it would be heartbreaking for everyone to find out.' Finding out the new identity of the killer in Episode 8 reminded Sarsgaard of another mystery show he appeared in. In Season 3 of The Killing, Sarsgaard recalled his costar being devastated to find out he was the killer. This moment drove home for Sarsgaard the nature of episodic television with ongoing writers' rooms. 'We got the final episode, he came up to my trailer really upset,' Sarsgaard said. 'He said, 'Oh, it's me. I'm the killer.' I thought, 'F--k.' Movies is just all preparation from the beginning.' Apple TV+ Kelley acknowledged that he was asking a lot of his lead actor. Viewers would judge Rusty for cheating on his wife, Barbara (Ruth Negga), and possibly suspect him of murder — yet he remains the protagonist of the series. 'He had a heavy lift in this series,' Kelley said of Gyllenhaal. 'A writer can put that on the page all he wants but it's up to the actor to inhabit those qualities to make the audience care. So I think viewers were condemning Rusty on a lot of fronts but rooting for him just the same.' Episodic directors said the series benefited from Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard's real-life relationship. They are brothers-in-law, as Sarsgaard is married to Jake's sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Greg Yaitanes directed Episodes 3-7, culminating in the scene where Tommy cross-examines Rusty. 'They can practice,' Yaitanes said. 'They were roommates as well so they were staying with each other so they just worked at that scene. There was this added intangible benefit of their trust and closeness that they got into every scene.' Anne Sewitsky directed the first two episodes and the final one. She also benefited from Sarsgaard and Gyllenhaal's familial friendship in her episodes. 'There was kind of a shortcut or shorthand into the way we played with those scenes,' Sewitsky said. 'They like to throw things around. I love that so we were doing a lot of improv and we were adding a lot of stuff.' Best of GoldDerby Samantha Hanratty on Misty stepping 'into her own' in 'Yellowjackets' Season 3: 'She is a lot more useful than I think a lot of people give her credit for' How Madeline Brewer gets the power back in the final seasons of 'You' and 'The Handmaid's Tale' 'I fully expected to be killed off!' Helen Mirren on her twin roles in '1923' and 'MobLand' Click here to read the full article.
Roya News
11-05-2025
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Maggie Gyllenhaal's daughter arrested during pro-Palestine protest at Columbia
The daughter of Hollywood actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard was among several students arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University. Eighteen-year-old Ramona Sarsgaard, a Columbia freshman, was taken into custody during Wednesday's protest and charged with criminal trespassing, according to a New York Post report citing informed sources. Sarsgaard's arrest came as students took over part of Butler Library, transforming it into what they called the "Basel al-Araj People's University"—named after a Palestinian activist. Demonstrators unfurled banners, handed out flyers calling for divestment from companies linked to the Israeli Occupation's genocide efforts, and chanted, 'We have nothing to lose but our chains!' University officials called the police, which resulted in several arrests. Columbia's acting president, Claire Shipman, responded with a statement emphasizing that 'disruptions to our academic activities will not be tolerated,' especially as students approach final exams. Meanwhile, protest organizers criticized what they described as an aggressive crackdown: 'We are facing one of the largest militarized police forces in the world. Deputized public safety officers have choked and beaten us, but we have not wavered … We will not be useless intellectuals. Palestine is our compass, and we stand strong in the face of violent repression.' Adding to the controversy, four student journalists—covering the protest for Columbia Spectator and campus radio station WKCR—were temporarily suspended by Columbia and its affiliate Barnard College. The students reportedly identified themselves as the press but were still sanctioned under claims of participating in the occupation. According to Columbia Spectator, suspensions were issued via email by university rules administrator Gregory Wawro and Barnard Dean Leslie Grinage, who wrote that their alleged actions 'pose an ongoing threat of disruption.' One of the suspensions was lifted within five hours. The remaining three were reversed by Friday morning. These events come amid heightened scrutiny of campus activism across the US, as federal authorities continue to target student protesters. Among those impacted is Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi, recently released after detention, while graduate Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE custody in Louisiana.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Politics
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Maggie Gyllenhaal's daughter Ramona Sarsgaard arrested during Columbia protests
Maggie Gyllenhaal's daughter Ramona Sarsgaard was arrested during the chaotic anti-Israel protests at Columbia University on Wednesday, police sources said. Sarsgaard, 18, who attends Columbia College, was slapped with a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespassing, the sources said. The actress's daughter — who Gyllenhaal shares with husband Peter Sarsgaard — was one of nearly 80 agitators arrested while storming the university's Butler Library on Wednesday evening as students prepared for final exams. At least two school safety officers were injured in the melee, officials said. As of Thursday, the elite Morningside Heights school had handed down at least 65 interim suspensions to students who were part of the chaos, pending further investigation, a school official said. It's unclear if Sarsgaard was one of those suspended. Video obtained by The Post showed a line of protesters led out in zip ties by NYPD officers and onto waiting police buses following the ruckus, which started when demonstrators shoved past a security guard at the library's front entrance, disrupting focused students. Once inside, they draped large signs over bookshelves, scrawled 'Columbia Will Burn' on a glass case inside the library, and marked tables with colored tape. Another 33 individuals, including those from affiliated institutions, and an unspecified number of alumni, were also barred from campus, the official said — as Columbia faced public pressure to take strong action against the rabble-rousers. Little is known about Sarsgaard's personal life and she doesn't appear to have ever publicly spoken out about the Israel-Gaza war or the ensuing protests that have roiled college campuses nationwide. It's also not known what she is studying at Columbia, but she follows in the footsteps of her famous mother, who graduated from the Ivy League school with a bachelor's degree in English literature before appearing in dozens of films including the 2008 blockbuster 'The Dark Knight.' Her uncle, Jake Gyllenhaal, attended the prestigious university for two years before dropping out to concentrate on his acting career. And her grandmother, Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, is also a Columbia alum, according to reports. Naomi's first husband, American history expert Eric Foner, is currently listed as a professor within Columbia's Department of History. Her second husband, Stephen Gyllenhaal, is Maggie and Jake's dad. Sarsgaard's parents have had roles in films that explore parts of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Gyllenhaal, 47, starred as a British-Israeli billionaire who uses her family business to promote peace and resolution between Israel and Palestine in Sundance TV's spy thriller miniseries 'The Honorable Woman.' The series was released in July 2014, in the midst of a bloody, 50-day long battle launched by Israel in the Gaza Strip that left over 2,250 people killed on both sides. At the show's premiere in the Big Apple on July 23, 2014, Peter Sarsgaard wore a peace sign T-shirt and told his two daughters – who were seven and two years old at the time – that there was 'a lot of war going on,' Variety reported. In an interview about the series with the Hollywood Reporter, Gyllenhaal said the war 'feels like an impossible situation.' 'I just mean it can be so difficult to have a conversation about what is happening in Israel and Palestine right now. [The show] very consciously does not take a side; it doesn't say, 'We believe this, and we don't believe that.' We lay out aspects of the conflict, and we ask the audience to think and feel for themselves. I'm really hungry for that, and I bet a lot of other people are too,' she told the outlet. Just last year, Peter Sarsgaard, 54, starred in 'September 5,' a movie based on the true story of the 1972 Munich Massacre, in which a group of Palestinian terrorists stormed the Olympic Games, taking Israeli athletes hostage. While filming the movie in 2024 – just months after Hamas's vicious, Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel – onlookers would yell 'Zionist propaganda' in the film crew's direction, the Irish Times reported in February. The film 'has a Swiss director. We have German producers and we have American producers, but I don't think any of them are Zionists so far as I know,' Peter Sarsgaard told the outlet. 'My position has always been that what was true in 1971 is still true today – about the Palestinians and the Israelis,' he said. Reps for Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard did not immediately respond to requests for comment. When The Post paid a visit to Sarsgaard's ritzy Cobble Hill townhouse on Friday, an unidentified woman swiftly shut the front door after a reporter identified herself and asked for Ramona. A Columbia spokesperson declined to answer questions about Sarsgaard's role in the protest and whether she faced disciplinary action, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. — Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Politics
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Daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrested at Columbia University protests
The daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard was among those arrested at the latest Columbia University protests, marking the latest development in the anti-war demonstrations that also led to the temporary suspension of student journalists. On Friday, the New York Post reported that 18-year-old Ramona Sarsgaard – a Columbia freshman – was arrested during Wednesday's campus protests where students demonstrated against Israel's deadly war in Gaza. Sarsgaard was given a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespassing, the outlet reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Post's report. Related: Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after Columbia calls in police The arrest of Sarsgaard, along with dozens of others, came after anti-war student activists occupied part of the main Butler library building on Columbia University for several hours in a show of solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Renaming the space the Basel al-Araj People's University, the students hung a sign that read 'Strike for Gaza' while others distributed pamphlets calling on the university to divest from funds and businesses involved in Israel's war there. Videos posted on social media showed students also locking arms and chanting: 'We have nothing to lose but our chains!' In response, university officials called in the police, leading to many students being forcefully arrested. A statement on Wednesday from the university's acting president, Claire Shipman, said: 'Disruptions to our academic activities will not be tolerated and are violations of our rules and policies; this is especially unacceptable while our students study and prepare for final exams.' Meanwhile, a separate statement on social media from student activists said: 'We are facing one of the largest militarized police forces in the world. Deputized public safety officers have choked and beaten us, but we have not wavered … We will not be useless intellectuals. Palestine is our compass, and we stand strong in the face of violent repression.' After the protests, Columbia University and its sister school Barnard College issued temporary suspensions to four student journalists who reported on the demonstrations at the library for Columbia Spectator and WKCR. The Columbia Spectator reported that the students identified themselves as press to public safety officers. According to the outlet, the students received email notices of their temporary suspensions on Thursday afternoon from rules administrator Gregory Wawro and Barnard dean Leslie Grinage. In his email to one of the student reporters, Wawro said the student may have 'participated in a disruptive protest in 301 Butler Library'. Grinage wrote to the three other student reporters saying that their 'alleged actions at Butler Library pose an ongoing threat of disruption of, or interference with, normal operations at both Barnard and Columbia'. Columbia University lifted its temporary suspension of one of the student reporters approximately five hours after the initial notification, the Columbia Spectator reports. At about 9am on Friday, Barnard College lifted the suspensions of the three other student journalists. The latest wave of student-led anti-war demonstrations at Columbia University come amid the the Trump administration's sweeping crackdowns on student protests and free speech across US universities as Israel continues its deadly attacks on Gaza. In recent months, federal officials have detained numerous students for their anti-war activism, including Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and green-card holder who was recently released. Others detained include Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate who remains in custody at an immigration detention facility in Louisiana.
The Guardian
10-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrested at Columbia University protests
The daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard was among those arrested at the latest Columbia University protests, marking the latest development in the anti-war demonstrations that also led to the temporary suspension of student journalists. On Friday, the New York Post reported that 18-year-old Ramona Sarsgaard – a Columbia freshman – was arrested during Wednesday's campus protests where students demonstrated against Israel's deadly war in Gaza. Sarsgaard was given a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespassing, the outlet reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Post's report. The arrest of Sarsgaard, along with dozens of others, came after anti-war student activists occupied part of the main Butler library building on Columbia University for several hours in a show of solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Renaming the space the Basel al-Araj People's University, the students hung a sign that read 'Strike for Gaza' while others distributed pamphlets calling on the university to divest from funds and businesses involved in Israel's war there. Videos posted on social media showed students also locking arms and chanting: 'We have nothing to lose but our chains!' In response, university officials called in the police, leading to many students being forcefully arrested. A statement on Wednesday from the university's acting president, Claire Shipman, said: 'Disruptions to our academic activities will not be tolerated and are violations of our rules and policies; this is especially unacceptable while our students study and prepare for final exams.' Meanwhile, a separate statement on social media from student activists said: 'We are facing one of the largest militarized police forces in the world. Deputized public safety officers have choked and beaten us, but we have not wavered … We will not be useless intellectuals. Palestine is our compass, and we stand strong in the face of violent repression.' After the protests, Columbia University and its sister school Barnard College issued temporary suspensions to four student journalists who reported on the demonstrations at the library for Columbia Spectator and WKCR. The Columbia Spectator reported that the students identified themselves as press to public safety officers. According to the outlet, the students received email notices of their temporary suspensions on Thursday afternoon from rules administrator Gregory Wawro and Barnard dean Leslie Grinage. In his email to one of the student reporters, Wawro said the student may have 'participated in a disruptive protest in 301 Butler Library'. Grinage wrote to the three other student reporters saying that their 'alleged actions at Butler Library pose an ongoing threat of disruption of, or interference with, normal operations at both Barnard and Columbia'. Sign up to Headlines US Get the most important US headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion Columbia University lifted its temporary suspension of one of the student reporters approximately five hours after the initial notification, the Columbia Spectator reports. At about 9am on Friday, Barnard College lifted the suspensions of the three other student journalists. The latest wave of student-led anti-war demonstrations at Columbia University come amid the the Trump administration's sweeping crackdowns on student protests and free speech across US universities as Israel continues its deadly attacks on Gaza. In recent months, federal officials have detained numerous students for their anti-war activism, including Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and green-card holder who was recently released. Others detained include Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate who remains in custody at an immigration detention facility in Louisiana.
