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Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Global stars
Several actors from B-Town have made it big in Hollywood. Here is a list of some such actors for whom the world is an Chopra broke ground internationally with Quantico in 2015, becoming the first South Asian lead in a US network drama. Her bold Hollywood movie continued with Baywatch (2017), where she played the villain opposite Dwayne Johnson, solidifying her status as a global entertainment icon bridging East and Khan gained international acclaim through roles in The Namesake (2006), Life of Pi (2012), Jurassic World (2015), and Inferno (2016). His calm authority and nuanced acting style earned praise from global audiences and critics alike, making him a rare crossover success from Indian arthouse to Hollywood Kapoor played a supporting role in Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011), sharing screen space with Tom Cruise. Already globally recognised from Slumdog Millionaire (2008), his Hollywood appearance proved that age and experience could bring Indian actors into high-profile global productions with charm and charisma Puri appeared in several Hollywood productions, including Gandhi (1982), City of Joy (1992), and The Ghost and the Darkness (1996). His intense performances and gravitas brought Indian cinema sensibility to international screens, making him one of the earliest Indian actors to earn consistent Hollywood Padukone starred in xXx Return of Xander Cage (2017) alongside Vin Diesel, making a splash as an action heroine. Her seamless shift from Bollywood blockbusters to Hollywood action franchises showcased her versatility and marked her as one of the few Indian actresses to command global screen time.
Hindustan Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Priyanka Chopra almost made her Hollywood debut with Divergent, reveals Neil Burger: 'She auditioned, but...'
Neil Burger's latest film, Inheritance, was partially filmed in India. The filmmaker, known for edgy thrillers like Limitless, was in India in 2022 with his star Phoebe Dynevor for the 'guerrilla-style' shoot. Even as it was shot in India, the film didn't feature many Indian actors, and certainly no known names. But in an interaction with HT ahead of the film's India release, the director revealed that he had come close to working with an Indian star. When asked if he would like to work with Indian actors in the future, having filmed in the country, Neil said, "It's funny but I was just looking at the poster of Divergent here (in the Lionsgate office in Mumbai where we met him), and Priyanka Chopra auditioned for it." Divergent, a 2014 thriller based on the book series by Veronica Roth, starred Shailene Woodley. But Neil revealed that Priyanka was also in the running for the role at a time. "That was the time when she had just moved to the US and was trying out for something in Hollywood. So she came in and auditioned for the lead role, but that did not work out, for a number of reasons," he said. When pressed on elaborating, the filmmaker said, "I'd rather not get into that, but yes, she auditioned and impressed everyone. Pity, it didn't work out. But, in the future if things fall into place, I would love to work with her or any of the so many talented Indian actors." Priyanka Chopra eventually made her international debut with the series Quantico in 2015. She went on to appear in supporting roles in Baywatch, The White Tiger, and The Matrix Resurrections, before starring in the Prime Video series Citadel alongside Richard Madden. Priyanka will next star in Heads of State, an action film that also stars Idris Elba and John Cena. Inheritance, Neil's latest work, also stars Rhys Ifans, Ciara Baxendale, and Kersti Bryan. The film was released in the US in January this year and made its way to the Indian audiences on May 23 to largely positive reviews. It is streaming on Lionsgate Play.
New York Post
5 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Ex-NY Rep. Joe Crowley's 25yo standout son dies from rare cancer: ‘Genuine love of life'
Ex-New York Rep. Joe Crowley's 25-year-old son — a Marine and Naval Academy grad — has died from a rare cancer, his grieving dad revealed over the Memorial Day weekend. The Democratic former Big Apple congressman disclosed in 2023 that his oldest son, Cullen, had been diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumors just seven months after he graduated from the prestigious military academy as a second lieutenant. 'With heavy hearts, Kasey, Kenzie, Liam, and I share the passing of our beloved son and brother, Cullen Crowley,' Joe Crowley posted to X on Sunday, referring to his wife and two other kids. Advertisement 'When we think of Cullen, we can't help but smile. He radiated an infectious and genuine love of life — one that lifted the spirits of everyone around him,' Crowley wrote. Former New York City Rep. Joe Crowley's 25-year-old son, Naval Academy grad Cullen, passed away Sunday after a battle with cancer. '[Cullen] became a Midshipman in 2018, a Marine in 2022, and continued his service at Quantico until retiring in 2024 following his diagnosis,' Crowley wrote. Advertisement Cullen retired from the Marine Corps last year as a first lieutenant. Crowley repped the Bronx and Queens before being shockingly trounced by then-political newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Cullen Crowley retired from the Marines last year as a first lieutenant. Crowley lost the primary to AOC the same night he first dropped Cullen off at the Naval Academy, the ex-rep told The Hill in 2022. Advertisement In 2023, Cullen underwent '15 hours of surgery' to remove tumors in his abdomen and kidney. The cancer had already spread to the young man's bones, but his dad said they believed he still had a fighting chance. 'He stayed strong throughout — just as he has since his diagnosis,' Crowley wrote at the time of his son after surgery. 'He's a Marine after all.' Advertisement On Sunday, the father said of Cullen, 'He never let the odds define him. 'Instead, he met each day with the same joy and gratitude for life.'
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First Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- First Post
Sophie Turner gives shoutout to former husband Joe Jonas months after filing for divorce
Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas announced their divorce in 2023 that upset their fans. It was reported Priyanka Chopra was having a tough time as the mediator between the estranged couple read more Singer Joe Jonas is gearing up for his next solo album and his former wife Sophie Turner gave him a shoutout as she wrote 'Go Go' on her Instagram story to extend her support. The album dropped on May 23. This marks the singer's comeback after 15 years. Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas announced their divorce in 2023 that upset their fans. It was reported Priyanka Chopra was having a tough time as the mediator between the estranged couple. It was also been reported Sophie and the Quantico star unfollowed each other on social media. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Sophie on Priyanka While speaking to Ellie, Sophie said, 'With Pri, especially, it's kind of crazy. You have to remind yourself that she's basically had a 20-year career in Bollywood already. She's like the biggest thing in India right now… When we went there for her and Nick's wedding, we were treated like royalty. They worship her over there.' Statement from Joe and Sophie on their divorce Statement from the two of us: After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage. There are many speculative narratives as to why but, truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children. There are many speculative narratives as to why, but truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children. Sophie Turner sues Joe Jonas Page Six reported, the Game of Thrones alum filed the lawsuit in a Manhattan court requesting to secure 'the immediate return of children wrongfully removed or wrongfully retained. Turner claims in the filing that the 'wrongful retention' began Sept. 20. Turner also claimed she and the Jonas Brothers band member agreed over Christmas 2022 that they would make the UK their 'forever home' and would begin looking for schools for their older daughter, Willa, in the country.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Duster's premiere brings '70s flair to the buddy-cop formula
The current trend in prestige TV is to be topical—to weigh in on contemporary issues, peel back untold history, or metaphorically reflect on the woes of modern life. Max's new crime thriller Duster has a bit of that in its DNA: It's interested in exploring what it was like to work for the FBI in the 1970s if you weren't a white man. But that's not the primary drive of the series. No, the main point of Duster is to cut loose and have some retro-inspired fun. The result is a premiere that's confident, a little goofy, and a whole lot groovy. That might not be what people expect from a series that reunites co-creator J.J. Abrams with Lost breakout Josh Holloway. Though Sawyer is certainly on the brain here, there are no echoes of Lost's mystery-box structure, nor the genre approach of co-creator LaToya Morgan's work on Into The Badlands and The Walking Dead. Instead, the series tries to evoke the vibe of a show made in the 1970s, not just set there. That makes it a little bit Starsky & Hutch, a little bit Police Woman, and a little bit Sheba, Baby. In an era when The Pitt has made old-fashioned medical dramas cool again, Duster wants to do the same for old-fashioned action-crime series. That starts not with Holloway but with Rachel Hilson, who I know from her great work on This Is Us but who has also popped in roles on Love, Victor and Red, White & Royal Blue. Here she plays Nina Hayes, a Baltimore-born Black woman who's just graduated from Quantico in 1972. An opening speech to her supervisors establishes everything we need to know about Nina. She's driven, direct, level-headed, and logical, but also fiercely tenacious when it comes to getting what she wants. The FBI doesn't have much interest in nurturing or supporting her career. Nina's supervisors scoff that she was only let into the academy on her third application because J. Edgar Hoover wanted Black agents who could infiltrate radical Black Power groups. But they still reluctantly give her the assignment she requests: a gig in Phoenix tracking down criminal kingpin Ezra Saxton (Keith David). 'Be careful what you wish for,' they warn. 'Right on,' she replies. Hilson makes Nina a delightful mix of quiet intensity, pragmatic intelligence, a dash of overconfidence, and some slight social awkwardness. She quickly finds some kindred spirits in Arizona, including Navajo agent Awan Bitsui (Asivak Koostachin), who also faces racial microaggressions, and secretary Jessica-Lorraine (Sofia Vassilieva), who also faces casual sexism. But Nina is singular in her self-possession. One of the best scenes of the episode lets Hilson play some welcome notes of vulnerability as Nina calls her mom to share all her new job anxieties. Yet as her mom reminds her, 'You always get down like this, then you get a hold of yourself.' Naturally, Duster makes Holloway's Jim Ellis the exact opposite type of person. If Nina is a woman of words and thought, Jim is a man of action and impulse. He's introduced skidding his cherry-red Plymouth Duster up to a desert payphone to get his latest criminal assignment: pick up a bag from a fast-food restaurant and bring it to Saxton's safe house. Inside is—shockingly enough—a human heart. Before the show's title sequence rolls, Jim has bested his rivals in a car chase, blasted The Sonics, and calmly stuck his hand inside a man's chest to help with an in-home organ transplant. It's quite the character intro. A mob driver with a heart of gold, Jim keeps Holloway solidly in the Sawyer mold. Only where that Lost castaway was tortured and prickly, Jim is more playfully charismatic. (He can say 'thank you, babe' to a secretary and somehow not make it creepy.) One of his defining relationships is with a little girl named Luna (Adriana Aluna Martinez), who we soon come to realize is his daughter, even though he's agreed to pretend he's just her uncle at the request of her mom Izzy (Camille Guaty). That paternal dynamic adds a core of softness to the character. Jim has no qualms transporting thugs or drugging a union man named Bob Temple (Kevin Chamberlin) to get sexually explicit blackmail photos. But he'll also stop at nothing to make sure Luna gets all the lucky pandas her heart desires. That sense of sweetness and joy fuels Duster as a series. Though the show ostensibly touches on some dark topics, it approaches everything with a light touch and an upbeat score. This is a world where people earnestly deliver lines like 'Sorry to blow your 'fro' and 'I've got my PhD in seeing through your bullshit.' One of the funniest moments of the episode comes after Jim drives Saxton's bruiser Billy (Evan Jones) to beat up a source. Just as they're about to drive away, the bloody victim pops out to thank Billy for going easy on him. It's a quirky tone that could wear itself thin over time, but serves as a refreshing change of pace here. In a world where half of TV's most-hailed comedies are basically just half-hour dramas (I'm looking at you, The Bear), it's fun to watch an hour-long drama that sometimes plays more like a comedy. That's also the case for Saxton, who straddles the line between cool and scary in that classic '70s villain way. While we don't spend a ton of time with the character this week, Keith David is enough of a presence that a little goes a long way. That Saxton built his criminal empire trafficking weapons and drugs and is now known as the 'Southwest Al Capone' is an evocative character sketch. And the inclusion of both his son/heir apparent/heart transplant recipient Royce (Benjamin Charles Watson) and his bar-owning daughter Genesis (Sydney Elisabeth) offers more corners of the universe for the series to explore down the road. Indeed, the idea of Jim as a white lackey within Saxton's world of Black opulence is a clever contrast with Nina's story as the only Black agent in a predominantly white FBI hierarchy. And that's not the only thing linking our two leads together. Though Jim initially turns down Nina's request to inform on Saxton—who he's been driving for since he was 16 years old—Nina has an ace in the hole. She pulls security footage that seems to suggest Saxton had Jim's beloved brother Joey killed in a car explosion. And she's adamant about taking Saxton down because she thinks he did the same thing to her father Virgil in Philly two decades ago. That's right: There are some patented Abrams Daddy Issues in the Duster formula. Jim is only in the crime business because his dad Wade (Corbin Bernsen) served with Saxton in World War II. Jim wants to think of Saxton as family and tells Nina he's only signing up as an informant to prove his boss' innocence in Joey's death (and so he doesn't have to flee to Mexico and be away from Luna). But when he hears Saxton talk about how much easier it is to kill people than blackmail them, there's clearly some doubt in his eyes too. And that's just the kind of doubt Nina can use to her advantage. Though Hilson and Holloway only share three scenes in this premiere, they've got a strong sense of chemistry the show could take in any number of different directions moving forward. Indeed, given all the intros and table-setting here, we don't really know what Duster will look like as a weekly series or how much Nina and Jim will be regularly interacting. But there's a ton of potential to the central duo, who feel well-matched in confidence even if they couldn't be more different in life experience. The show's ongoing structure is for next week's episode to sort out, though. For now, what this premiere has is vibes—whether that's slow-mo hallway struts, a mob contract literally signed in blood, or Jim's classic Sawyer-esque nickname for Nina ('Baltimore.') Duster isn't great TV (at least not yet), but it is fun TV. That will hopefully make for some groovy summer counterprogramming. • An unrecognizable Donal Logue plays the Phoenix police officer on Saxton's payroll who sees the informant deal go down. We saw him ogling some high-school girls earlier, so we know he's no good. • Other potential troublemakers: Jim's vengeful stepmom Charlotte (Gail O'Grady) proves more than happy to rat him out at the drop of a hat. And Nina's predecessor Leland Breen seems to have taken off with a bunch of files related to the Saxton case. • Unlike with his previous shows Lost and Alias, Abrams didn't direct this pilot. Instead, those duties went to Steph Green, with Abrams and Morgan co-writing the episode. • We learn Jim signed up to serve in Vietnam two days after Joey enlisted and that he was awarded an Army Commendation Medal for Meritorious Achievement but refused it because he was just doing his job. I have to assume that means the character is supposed to be way younger than Holloway's actual 55 year age, right? Or did Jim enlist in his forties? • Nina's workplace rivals include Agent Chad Grant (Dan Tracy) and Agent Henry Minor (Jamie H. Jung). Plus Abrams' lucky charm Greg Grunberg is on hand as Nina's squad supervisor Nathan Abbotts. I'm curious if any of them are secretly on Saxton's payroll. • In case you didn't know this show is set in the 1970s, Jim flips past a radio story on the Watergate scandal to listen to Rare Earth's 'I Just Want To Celebrate' instead. • I love the runner about fired FBI secretary Diane, who only ate broccoli and didn't know how to organize anything. • Nina is loosely inspired by a real-life woman named Sylvia Mathis, who became the FBI's first Black woman Special Agent in 1976. • I get what they're going for with Holloway's hair, but I think they need to refine the cut a bit. Maybe a little shorter? Or more of a Farrah Fawcett feathered look? A bit more volume at the roots would do wonders. • Remarkably, this show was first greenlit back in 2020. They shot an initial pilot in 2021 before reshooting it in 2023. Let's hope the wait was worth it! More from A.V. 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