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Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
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Why Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Are the Perfect Team
Why Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Are the Perfect Team Originally appeared on E! Online Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon know how to cut loose together. It's partly why, when the opportunity to work together onscreen came up in the form of the new film The Best You Can, the pair jumped at the chance. Advertisement 'I always know that when I throw the ball, he's going to throw something back,' Kyra told E! News in an exclusive interview during the premiere of their movie June 7. 'As an actor, I think you don't always know that your partner is going to do a great job acting partner, not just life partner. But knowing that it's him, I know it's going to be exciting and fun to work with him, and we're going to keep mixing it up and having a great time.' And after 36 years of marriage, that off-camera camaraderie is easy to replicate with the camera turned on. As Kevin explained, 'I think they call it a scene partner for a reason, because you have to, in that moment, form a sort of partnership, even if the partnership is that you're two actors who hate each other.' More from E! Online Advertisement 'We've been partners for a really long time,' the Footloose star added. 'So, we take that life partnership and you know just kind of transfer it into our scene partnership.' It's that life partnership, especially, that has become something admirers are clamoring to know the secret to. But as the couple love to quip, this time Kyra sharing with a laugh, 'Secret is don't take advice from celebrities about how to stay married.'for Tribeca Festival That, and they never say no to dancing together, as seen in The Best You Can—though they have a message for viewers 'We really want to clarify,' Kevin said, 'we are playing the characters dancing. And there's a difference.' Advertisement To which Kyra added, 'And they may or may not be great dancers. So don't think, 'Oh, it's over. They've lost it. We thought they were good dancers, they're not.'' 'Exactly,' Kevin said with a laugh. 'We don't want to hear how we've lost it.' After all, with this movie making its debut at Tribeca Festival and Kevin's new series Sirens soaring to number one on Netflix, the couple haven't lost a single the success of Sirens, and whether the series might get a second season, Kevin teased, 'That'd be great. I don't know what happens to old Peter, but…' But no matter what happens with the series, he always has a supporter in Kyra. Advertisement 'Oh, it's great,' the Closer alum added. 'I always love watching him. He's always fresh and different in every role.' For more of Kyra and Kevin's sweetest moments over the years, keep reading. --Reporting by Kathy Buccio Vacation Vibes Forget about social media filters. Some classic shades, sunshine and love is all you need for a picture-perfect image. New Year, Same Love "HNY! Love to all, K and K @kyrasedgwick," Kevin shared while kissing his wife at midnight on New Year's Eve in 2015. Everlasting Love "#TBT to 1989 @sundancefest with @kyrasedgwick heading there now with @CopCarMovie," Kevin wrote before attending the film festival. XOXO "Big love for @kikkosedg today and every day for 28 years #happyanniversary," Kevin shared with followers after kissing his leading lady on the lips. Date Nights Done Right "Just saw #ColinQuinn #NewYorkStory #CherryLane," Kevin wrote after enjoying a romantic evening out with his wife. "Laughed until we cried @kyrasedgwick." Wedding Day Memories "#CutTheCake 28 years. @kikkosedg @kyrasedgwick," Kevin shared on Instagram when recalling his romantic ceremony. Hollywood Do-Gooders "#peoplesclimate waiting to march with @kyrasedgwick #NRDC," the Hollywood stars shared online back in 2014. Courtside Date In December 2023, Kyra and Kevin watched the Los Angeles Lakers take on the New York Knicks at Arena. Red Carpet Ready Kyra supported Kevin—along with their two adult kids Travis and Sosie—for the Maxxxine premiere in June 2024. For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
Mint
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Heather Burns says she would love working on third sequel of Miss Congeniality
New York [US], June 16 (ANI): Actress Heather Burns expressed her interest in working with her dear friend Sandra Bullock on the third sequel of the hit film 'Miss Congeniality' if given a chance, reported People. In an interview with People during the premiere of her latest film, 'The Best You Can,' at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, Burns said that she would love to work on the third part of the 'Miss Congeniality' franchise, and called it "one of the best experiences" of her life. "I would love it. That was one of the best experiences of my life. It was so much fun making both of those films. I'm actually here with one of the other actresses. Melissa De Sousa, she played Miss New York, she's my date tonight, which is wonderful," said Burns as quoted by People Magazine. Even though it has been almost two decades since the release of the first instalment, certain cast members are still in touch and are good friends. "I made lifelong friends with Sandra Bullock. It's just a dream. So yes, a third [movie], I would jump at it," said Heather Burns as quoted by People. After working on 'Miss Congeniality' in 1999, Bullock and Burns worked together on 'Two Weeks Later,' a romantic comedy. Meanwhile, Burns' latest film, 'The Best You Can,' which stars Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Brittany O'Grady and Judd Hirsch follows two halves of an unlikely friendship between a security guard and a urologist whose chance encounter blooms into something deeper, as reported by Variety. Burns also opened up about her new movie and why she chose to work in it. "I loved the script, first and foremost. I love these kinds of films. I guess I would call it a dramedy. It was beautiful. I was moved by it," said Burns as quoted by People. The actress added that the all-star cast -- which also includes Judd Hirsch and Brittany O'Grady -- was also a major appeal.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
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‘The Best You Can' Review: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick Star in a Congenial but Unremarkable Dramedy About an Unlikely Friendship
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick bring their vivid screen presence and expert timing to The Best You Can, elevating this low-key, Tribeca-premiering dramedy. With strong performances and a fresh premise about an unexpected friendship in middle age, but far too many creaky comic tropes, the uneven film is always watchable but never pops off the screen in a gripping way. It's the second feature written and directed by Michael J. Weithorn, a co-creator of The King of Queens and a veteran writer on other sitcoms. It's simply descriptive and not a disparagement to say that with its often strained plot and quick-hit sitcom timing, the film is most likely to appeal to an undemanding audience and an older demographic. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Our Hero, Balthazar' Review: Asa Butterfield and Jaeden Martell in an Unnerving Dark Comedy About American Gun Culture 'State of Firsts' Review: Trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride Steps Into the Spotlight for a Doc That's More Than Your Average Political Puff Piece 'Andy Kaufman Is Me' Review: Solid but Unrevelatory Doc Uses Puppetry to Tackle the Iconic Comic Sedgwick plays Cynthia, whose brilliant husband, Warren (Judd Hirsch, reliably on point), once on the staff of the Watergate committee, is now 83 and sliding into dementia. At the start she appears overly chatty and hyper, a character trying too hard for comic effect — especially when she first meets Stan, a security guard. Bacon slides easily into the role of Stan, but his character is also introduced as a comic cliché. In the most blatant of the sitcom-style tropes, Stan has a prostate problem and while patrolling neighborhoods at night uses shrubbery as a makeshift urinal. When the alarm in Cynthia's house goes off and calls him to the scene, he urgently asks to use her bathroom — and what a coincidence, she is the perfect person to treat his problem, as she announces with fluttery, over-the-top enthusiasm. The forced comedy calms down a bit when they also begin a friendship, often through text messages, which the actors deliver in voiceover. Cynthia tells Stan about grappling with her husband's situation, and he confides in her about his fraught relationship with his daughter, Sammi (Brittany O'Grady), a struggling singer-songwriter who lacks confidence. The text technique works more gracefully than in most films, but again lame stabs at humor intrude. As they get to know each other, Cynthia asks if Stan is in touch with his ex-wife, and he texts back, 'Only by voodoo doll.' Yikes. As the friendship between Stan and Cynthia develops, it has some touching moments. Sedgwick lets us see how much Cynthia still loves and is devoted to her husband, and also how lonely his condition has made her. And Bacon is so vibrant as the intelligent, sharp-witted Stan that he makes you wish Weithorn's screenplay had done more to fill in the character's backstory. How did this guy turn out to be such an underachiever and such an awkward father? Wisely, the film acknowledges but doesn't overplay the inevitable romantic overtones the friendship takes on. And Bacon and Sedgwick never let their status as a well-known married couple in real life intrude on their character's delicate, tentative relationship. Each gets a long, emotional monologue near the end that they deliver with smooth naturalism. It's easy to imagine how much more pedestrian the film would have been with lesser actors in those roles. Weithorn gets strong performances from the supporting cast, notably O'Grady, whose brief musical scenes as Sammi are solid additions to the film. The father-daughter relationship may be the film's most believable, as we see that Stan means well and tries to encourage her but says all the wrong things. Olivia Luccardi plays Stan's younger sometime-hookup, whose sexting with him is played for some effective laughs. Ray Romano appears in a brief cameo in a video call as a doctor friend of Cynthia's who advises her on Warren's condition. And Meera Rohit Kumbhani, as Warren's caregiver, has one of the film's stronger more unexpected twists when it turns out she has recorded the memories he is still able to recapture. If only the film had risen to that level of surprise and emotional poignancy more often, with more of the wistfulness that comes to infuse Cynthia and Stan's friendship and with humor that was less eye-rolling. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
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‘Inside' Review: Guy Pearce Is a Lit Fuse of Internal Contradictions in Haunting Australian Prison Drama
The suffocating environment of a prison system depicted with maximum authenticity makes a combustible setting for Inside, a drama exploring inherited damage via three different convicted felons, each of them trying in his own way to circumvent a fate seemingly written in their DNAs. Offering further evidence that Guy Pearce, following The Brutalist and The Shrouds, has become one of our most gifted and versatile actors, Charles Williams' feature debut shapes a volatile triangle of broken men, fleshed out by an astonishing Cosmo Jarvis and impressive newcomer Vincent Miller. While not directly inspired by his own experiences, Williams drew on his working-class upbringing with family members in and out of prison and a father who disappeared from his life at age 12 to shape a view that's honest and unflinching but also tempered by compassion. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'The Best You Can' Review: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick Star in a Congenial but Unremarkable Dramedy About an Unlikely Friendship 'Our Hero, Balthazar' Review: Asa Butterfield and Jaeden Martell in an Unnerving Dark Comedy About American Gun Culture 'State of Firsts' Review: Trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride Steps Into the Spotlight for a Doc That's More Than Your Average Political Puff Piece Inside is not the usual story of damnation or redemption, of the unbreakable cycles of crime or even the virtues of rehabilitation, like Sing Sing. Nor is it another attempt to grapple with the legacy of Australia's penal colony history. Instead, it's a bleak, often intensely heavy psychological character study, though not without fully earned glimpses of hope. The narrator whose voiceover passages bind the drama is 18-year-old Mel Blight (Miller), who has aged out of the juvenile detention center where he killed another kid in a violent outburst. A wobbly home video shows the wedding of Mel's mother (Georgia Chiara) and father (Angus Cerini) in the prison where the latter was serving time. He recalls his father telling him that being conceived behind bars was a sure sign that Mel would turn out bad. 'And he was right.' While prison staff admit that the situation is far from ideal, Mel is required to share a cell in his new home with Mark Shepard (Jarvis), a lifer whose conviction for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl when he was 13 made him one of the country's most hated criminals. Shepard, too, is a recent transfer to the lower-security facility after decades in maximum security, much of that time spent in solitary confinement. With his hunched shoulders, shuffling gait and mumbled speech, Shepard is clearly a troubled man, his mental stability an open question. But he believes he has found a spiritual path to salvation as a born-again Pentecostal. He enlists Mel to play electronic keyboard at the religious services where he preaches to a mostly jeering assembly of prisoners. They look on slack-jawed during the moments of rapture in which he speaks in tongues. Jarvis' performance is transformative, making Mark both pathetic and feverishly alive, his corrosive remorse seemingly genuine. (The English Shogun star's Oz accent is impeccable.) One scene is especially riveting, in which he indirectly explains a shocking act of self-mutilation by sharing the discovery that it's the spirit, not the flesh, that must change. There's remarkable empathy in Williams' writing and direction as Mark insists that Mel needs to be baptized to free himself from pain and guilt. The triangle's third point is Warren Murfett (Pearce), who is days away from parole eligibility after 15 years of incarceration and every self-help program on offer. Sporting a bushy salt-and-pepper beard and a world-weary look in his eyes, Pearce finds dimensions both tragic and devious in what could have been merely the stock character of the wily long-term inmate whose isolation has cost him his humanity. When he assaults his cellmate, a convicted pedophile Warren catches with a photo of his son as a boy, the tough warden (Tammy MacIntosh) suspects he is deliberately sabotaging his parole chances, as is often the case with prisoners who come to fear being shoved back out into the world after long sentences. As a disciplinary measure, she swaps out Mel as his cellmate, instructing Warren to keep the unpredictable livewire kid out of trouble. Warren's mentorship takes a tough-love approach, perhaps a reflection of his desire for reconciliation with his now-adult son, who has agreed to see him during a monitored day-release. But he also has his own selfish needs. Deep in gambling debt and unable to pay back prison thugs unlikely to let him be released alive, Warren manipulates Mel into killing Sheperd for the bounty on his head, instructing him on how to carry out the murder while making it look like self-defense. He even fashions a shiv for Mel in the prison workshop. Like Warren, Mel has his own motives for agreeing to the proposal, not for his share of the cash but perhaps in a cleansing attempt to rid the world of an evil human being and dissuade himself from the idea that people like him are infected with poison and should not be allowed back out into society. In his first screen role, Miller holds his own alongside his seasoned co-stars. He smartly underplays the twitchy nervousness that causes Mel to blink constantly, instead conveying his unease in more subtle ways, swinging between rage episodes and moments of quiet in which he looks like a lost child. His suppressed hunger for connection adds to the unpredictability of Mel's scenes with both Warren and Mark. There's a direct line from Miller's performance to that of Raif Weaver as the young Mel in the most unbearably tense of his triggering flashbacks. His mother informs Mel and his sister that their father will be out on day release but urges them not to share their address with him. From the moment his dad picks Mel up from school it's clear the boy won't be able to keep the secret. The car journey to the house, with a sheet of plastic taped over a broken window flapping noisily, is nerve-rattling, even more so because what follows is played out offscreen. Another standout scene — arguably Pearce's finest work here — is Warren's visit to the home of his son Adrian (Toby Wallace, terrific), during which his effortful geniality crumbles in the face of cold distance that builds into cruel betrayal. It's one of many instances in the film that force us to consider hardened criminals from different angles — as victims as well as perpetrators — and it adds shading both to the violent climactic developments and the surprising optimism of a poignant coda. Inside is not an easy movie. Its feeling of claustrophobia is amplified by the discomfit of being confined with messed-up men liable to do anything, and its brooding mood is deepened by the chilly, institutional blues and grays of Andrew Commis' cinematography and the enveloping somberness of Chiara Costanza's synth score. But the superbly acted drama yields rewards, making astute observations about mental health, inherited trauma, self-determination and absent or unfixable fathers. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
AsiaOne
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
Kyra Sedgwick felt emotional shooting break-up scene with real-life husband Kevin Bacon for new movie, Entertainment News
Kyra Sedgwick felt "emotional" while shooting a break-up scene with Kevin Bacon for The Best You Can. The couple — who have been married for 36 years — star in the new rom-com movie, and Kyra admits that one scene proved to be particularly difficult to shoot. Kyra, 59, said at the Tribeca Festival in New York: "There was a moment in the break-up scene where I could not — I was very emotional. I knew [my character] would be emotional, but I had a little crossover of like, 'Oh my god, what if this had happened [in real life]?' "Instead of what happened, which is that we're still together, but 'What if this had happened?' And I got very emotional about it." Kevin recently admitted that he relished the experience of working with his wife. The 66-year-old actor told People: "As soon as you get into a scene, you have a responsibility to your partner to make that scene work, and we've had a partnership for 37 years. "To be able to take some of that time that we've had together and put it up on the screen is just really fun." Meanwhile, Kevin revealed earlier this year that he's tried to shield his children from fame. The Hollywood star — who has son Travis, 35, and daughter Sosie, 33, with Kyra — never took his kids to movie premieres during their younger years and he's always tried to shield them from the pressures of fame. Speaking on Mythical Kitchen's Last Meals, Kevin shared: "We really avoided it. I think we really felt like it would be nice for them to have some… we knew how weird this life was. "When you realise that you will always… that there's always a chance that you're gonna walk out of the house and somebody is going to know who you are or look at you or have some kind of point of you about you from a piece of work that you've done, you start to go, 'Okay, it's great. This is what I always wanted, but it's a weird way to live. Ninety-nine per cent good, but a little weird.'" [[nid:718901]]
