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Hindustan Times
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Speed stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock to work together after 20 years in a romantic thriller
Hollywood stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are officially reuniting on screen for the first time in nearly two decades. According to a report in Entertainment Weekly, the two actors, who famously co-starred in Speed more than 30 years ago are attached to a new romantic thriller currently in development at MGM Studios. The upcoming project, which remains untitled, is described as a 'propulsive' romantic thriller. It's being penned by screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, known for Jackie and The Maze Runner. The film will also bring back Speed producer Mark Gordon, whose producing credits include Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot. In addition to starring, Keanu and Sandra are listed among the producers, along with Oppenheim, Bibby Dunn, and Sarah Bremner. Released in 1994, Speed was a box office smash, grossing approximately $350 million worldwide against a $30 million budget. The high-octane action film helped cement Keanu as a top-tier action lead following his role in Point Break, while also catapulting Sandra into the spotlight after several smaller film appearances. The film also marked the feature directorial debut of Jan de Bont. Keanu and Sandra reunited once before, in 2006's The Lake House, a romantic fantasy and remake of a South Korean film. Due to the story's unique time-bending premise, the two leads had minimal on-screen interaction. The plot centers on two people communicating through time via a mysterious mailbox linked to the same house. During a screening of Speed at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles last year, the actors playfully floated the idea of a third installment. 'The geriatric version. It won't be fast,' Sandra quipped. While Keanu replied with one word: 'Retirement.' Sandra expressed that she couldn't envision revisiting the Speed franchise without Jan de Bont, who was in attendance at the screening. 'All these things happened because the crazy man in the greenish jacket over there,' she said, pointing to the director. 'He's so soft and gentle today and I'm like, that's not the man I remember. But he's the man who put the energy and the idea together and knew what the audience wanted and demanded it from everyone and everyone stepped up to plate,' she added. Sandra also suggested that making a new Speed film would be a major undertaking: 'would require a lot from everybody,' adding that she wasn't sure if today's film industry would be 'willing to tolerate it and be brave enough to do it.' Keanu, meanwhile, has several projects lined up, including John Wick 5 and Good Fortune, a comedy directed by Aziz Ansari. Bullock, though currently keeping a lower profile, is expected to reprise her role in the much-anticipated sequel to Practical Magic, where she'll reunite with Nicole Kidman.
New York Post
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Karoline Leavitt, influencer run into Hollywood Trump critic Jason Isaacs visiting White House in behind-the-scenes video
One of Hollywood's most vocal critics of President Trump was spotted grinning at the White House as Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave a behind-the-scenes look into her day-to-day life there. 'White Lotus' star Jason Isaacs was seen lingering in the background of a shot in a TikTok video by influencer Kate Mackz, known for interviewing celebrities and politicians while running with them, as she finished an interview with Leavitt outside the White House. 'Hi guys, look who we ran into,' Mackz said as she pointed her camera at 'The Patriot' actor. Advertisement 6 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt giving a briefing on April 29, 2025. Getty Images 6 Running influencer Kate Mackz interviewed Karoline Leavitt. @katemackz/Instagram The running influencer pointed out that she had just interviewed Isaacs' 'White Lotus' co-star Patrick Schwarzenegger a week earlier during the brief engagement. 'We've got to get you on the running show,' she told Isaacs. Advertisement 'Sure, I'm in,' The grinning A-lister responded. 'Wait, running and talking at the same time? Sh-t.' The pair then continued onward, with Leavitt pointing out how special a place the White House is. 6 Jason Isaacs was seen at the White House. @katemackz/TikTok Advertisement 'You just never know who you're going to run into,' the 36th White House press secretary said. Last week, Isaacs, 61, was seen across Washington, DC with several celebrities ahead of the White House Correspondents' Dinner and was also lobbying for National Endowment for the Arts funding. @katemackz From being at the White House last year speaking on a mental health panel and meeting President Biden, to being back again this year — thank you for having us. Truly surreal to walk through a place with so much history and meaning. 🩵 ♬ original sound – KATE MACKZ The 'Black Hawk Down' actor had met with firefighters and first responders of the tragic mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at the White House Correspondents' Brunch on Sunday when he lashed out at Trump, referring to the president as a 'scumbag,' according to The Daily Beast. Advertisement The British star hasn't shied away from his feelings about President Trump. In March, he told 'The News Agents' podcast that while promoting 'The White Lotus,' he was advised to 'completely wipe my social media history' since Trump was back in office and he was working in America on a visa. 'I don't know whether my clear dislike for the current president of America will affect me in future, whether I'm allowed to work there at all,' The 'Harry Potter' actor said. 6 Jason Isaacs spoke out about President Trump. REUTERS In February, Isaacs — who plays wealthy businessman Timothy Ratliff on the hit HBO show — also appeared on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' and said there was a 'tie-in' between Trump and his character. 'Sorry, we're talking about a television show, but there is a tie-in,' he said. 'I am playing an enormously wealthy and self-centered person who has really only thought about himself for most of his life.' 6 Jason Isaacs most recently starred in the latest season of The White Lotus. Photo Image Press via ZUMA / While the actor didn't make any remarks about Trump during his brief interaction with Mackz at the White House, Leavitt did give the TikToker an exclusive view of her day-to-day. Advertisement Leavitt, 27, showed off the White House press briefing room before taking her into her office — where she had an issue of the New York Post from April 25 on her desk. 6 The New York Post's cover from April 25, 2025. 'I obviously have photos of myself with the President,' she said, showing off the pictures hanging on her office wall. 'And that's my baby, my nine-month-old son from our senior staff swearing-in ceremony.' The 36th White House press secretary also pointed out a picture of her 'baby on his first Air Force One flight.' Advertisement Leavitt is the youngest person ever to serve as White House Press Secretary and was given the position after serving in the White House during Trump's first term as assistant press secretary. During her interview with Mackz, Leavitt said serving as White House Press Secretary is a 'dream come true' and a 'full circle moment' in the Trump administration.
Khaleej Times
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
The White Lotus: Jason Isaacs has tricks up his sleeves
'Storytelling is magic,' Jason Isaacs said. 'It's sleight of hand, it's delivering a surprise ending that people don't see coming.' Isaacs, 61, best known for playing villains in The Patriot, Peter Pan and the Harry Potter films, was speaking via video call a few days before The White Lotus Season 3 finale. A keen amateur magician, he had already performed a couple of onscreen card tricks. His work on The White Lotus is also a kind of conjuration. He plays Tim Ratliff, a Durham, North Carolina, financier. Tim's blood runs blue, as do the letters on his Duke T-shirt. (Duke is reportedly upset at the association.) Confronted with past malfeasance and facing the loss of all he has inherited and worked for, Tim spends his Thai vacation overdosing on his wife's benzos and contemplating murder-suicide. That he can make Tim engaging even in the sweaty maelstrom of an entirely internal crisis speaks to his actorly gifts. Not least among them is a way with misdirection. (Spoilers start now.) In Sunday's season finale, Tim sets out to poison his family with a fatal batch of piña coladas only to change his mind a sip or two in. (Even his youngest son, Lochlan, played by Sam Nivola, who later took a dose via a protein shake, was spared.) Though Tim had spent the whole of the season running from his fate, he ultimately accepted it and trusted that his family would accept it, too. So that's a nice surprise. Isaacs, of course, knew this from the start. 'I read all the scripts,' he said. But watching the finale with his castmates on Sunday, he felt strangely moved. 'We were all of us holding each other's hands and watching and crying our eyes out in a rather embarrassing way,' he said. In a lengthy chat before the finale and a rushed one just after it had aired, with Isaacs still wiping away tears, he discussed villainy, accents and the awkwardness of onscreen nudity. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. Why does Tim ultimately decide not to poison his family? Because he looks at them and he realises how much he loves them. The actuality of it breaks through the fog of the drugs and terror and catastrophe that had been filling his head for so long. In that moment, he loves them more than he wants them to die. The title of the finale, 'Amor Fati,' references the Nietzschean concept of accepting your fate, which is maybe not so different from certain Buddhist teachings. How does that resonate with Tim? I think he accepts it completely. Ironically, of all the characters who arrive in Thailand, he's the one that becomes closest to those Buddhist principles. He gets massive spiritual enlightenment. Is Tim a villain for most of the season? What's a villain? Tim is Tim. He did a deal that went wrong. It was technically illegal. Many people do illegal things all around him, I'm sure. It wasn't even a big deal to him. Is he a villain when he fantasises about killing his family because he thinks that's an easier way out for them, because of the shame that he knows he's going to face? I think any talk of villains around Mike White's writing is to misunderstand how humanist he is as a writer. Why can't Tim confide in his family as he is falling apart inside? Because what are you going to confide? Our life is over, as we know it. We are all going to be broke and poor. We won't have a house, a car, a phone. I will be in prison. Our family name will be in tatters. I mean, it's unimaginable to him. This is a man who's always been able to fix every problem, because no problem was so big that money and power couldn't crush it. But there is no way out of this. He just is trying to obliterate his brain. He's trying to get himself as close to a coma with the pills and the alcohol as he can. Those drugs, for most people, they make you relaxed. For Tim, these drugs are not working. He gets no peace. How do you act that? Because we shot completely out of order, that was my particular job, to work out how out of his head he is at any point. I needed to have my head exploding with terror and yet layer on top of it a drug that was trying to blur things. I do whatever prep I can, research, accents. Then I just try and be that person. I don't know what acting is, and I don't know how I do it. It's an animal instinct. How did it feel to do nudity at 61? Oh, I have no idea. I can't even think about it, let alone talk about it. Sex is embarrassing; nakedness is embarrassing. It's embarrassing at any age. But it's harder to be heartbroken, terrified, homicidal, suicidal — to be at the edge of life and think that I would be better not existing. Taking my clothes off is just a physical thing. I mean, it's as horrible and awkward as someone asking me to get naked in the street. But it's all part of the job. Has playing Tim made you think about your own family, your own fate? I didn't need The White Lotus to make me think about those things. I think about them constantly, particularly as my children grow. It's impossible not to think about, as a parent and as someone getting older, being aware that you're closer to the end than the beginning. Will Tim ever stay at a White Lotus resort again? I doubt he's going have the resources. I think he's going to be completely wiped out, which at that moment feels OK to him. He's looking forward to being a member of the human race and not feeling like he needs to be better than anyone else. When he looks at the water, right at the end, the water flying in the air and joining the ocean again, there's some part of him that feels less alone than he's ever felt.
New York Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘The White Lotus': Jason Isaacs on His Character's Fate in the Finale
'Storytelling is magic,' Jason Isaacs said. 'It's sleight of hand, it's delivering a surprise ending that people don't see coming.' Isaacs, 61, best known for playing villains in 'The Patriot,' 'Peter Pan' and the Harry Potter films, was speaking via video call a few days before 'The White Lotus' Season 3 finale. A keen amateur magician, he had already performed a couple of onscreen card tricks. His work on 'The White Lotus' is also a kind of conjuration. He plays Tim Ratliff, a Durham, North Carolina financier. Tim's blood runs blue, as do the letters on his Duke T-shirt. (Duke is reportedly upset at the association.) Confronted with past malfeasance and facing the loss of all he has inherited and worked for, Tim spends his Thai vacation overdosing on his wife's benzos and contemplating murder-suicide. That he can make Tim engaging even in the sweaty maelstrom of an entirely internal crisis speaks to his actorly gifts. Image 'I don't know what acting is, and I don't know how I do it,' Jason Isaacs said. 'It's an animal instinct.' Credit... Chantal Anderson for The New York Times Not least among them is a way with misdirection. (Spoilers start now.) In Sunday's season finale, Tim sets out to poison his family with a fatal batch of piña coladas only to change his mind a sip or two in. (Even his youngest son, Lochlan, played by Sam Nivola, who later took a dose via a protein shake, was spared.) Though Tim had spent the whole of the season running from his fate, he ultimately accepted it and trusted that his family would accept it, too. So that's a nice surprise. Isaacs, of course, knew this from the start. 'I read all the scripts,' he said. But watching the finale with his castmates on Sunday, he felt strangely moved. 'We were all of us holding each other's hands and watching and crying our eyes out in a rather embarrassing way,' he said. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jason Isaacs: ‘The White Lotus' & His Surprising Career Pivot
Who can forget Jason Isaacs with his icy blonde 'do and menacing demeanor as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series? While we loved the way he brought the Death Eater to life, these days, he's swapping out robes and wigs for Southern Tide Polos and linen shirts while he enjoys (or tries to) a stay at The White Lotus Thailand. In the hit HBO anthology series, Isaacs brings to life Timothy Ratliff, the patriarch of a certainly unique family consisting of his wife, played by Parker Posey, a wealthy, prescription pill-reliant mom of three. Their kids, played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook also possess their unique set of quirks (Schwarzenegger's character of Saxon being without a doubt the most unsettling), making for a family dynamic that is all too enthralling. While this new role is a breath of fresh air from the villainous roles he's mastered over the years, Timothy isn't entirely off the hook, as recent episodes have revealed some shady business dealings of his past coming back to haunt him. Here, take a look back at the early career of Jason Isaacs prior to his White Lotus stay. Plus, what he's said about his latest character. Before he became a face we saw acting alongside some of the biggest faces in Hollywood up on the big screen, Isaacs was pursuing law. However, this particular season of his life left him feeling somewhat unfulfilled. "I went to university and was surrounded where everybody sounded like Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley,' he told The Record-Courier back in 2015. 'I was born in Liverpool, and that was not the world I grew up in." A drunken attempt at impressing his peers led him straight into an audition for a play, persuaded by an advertisement looking for someone who could do a northern accent. When he was cast, the shift he felt was a singular experience. 'When I was rehearsing for the first time, I felt completely at home, truly comfortable and able to express myself,' Isaacs shared with Nitrate Online back in 2000. 'Not necessarily to do with the acting, but the ready-made family unit, like I belonged. It was free of a sense of class, and history, and ethnicity, and gender, almost, as well.' Though he shared that he never anticipated being on television and acting in films, the actor certainly did something right. Over the years, he has shined in countless television series, as well as films like The Patriot (2000) with Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger, Black Hawk Down (2001), the ever-iconic Peter Pan (2003) where he played Captain Hook and countless others. However, it was in 2002 when he first originated the part of Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and it remains one of his most iconic roles. 'There was a weight of such expectation on the film. The fans are rabid all over the world,' Isaacs shared in an unpublished interview with Ed Gross in the wake of the first film. 'I was thinking of not doing it, because I was offered Captain Hook at the same time, and my friends' children called up, livid; just spitting blood, because they'd heard I was thinking of not doing it. Only because they wanted to go to the premiere and visit the set, not because they cared about my career [laughs]. But it was an absolute joy. The kids were fantastic, very skilled and seasoned. Plus I got to sit in the green room with the cream of British theatrical royalty. Just to sit in the dressing room with people like Richard Harris and Maggie Smith and watch them being made up—just a thrill.' After his Harry Potter success, Isaacs also appeared in series like Dig, Star Trek: Discovery, The OA, Sex Education, Good Sam, and has additionally lent his voice to countless animated series. These days, however, it's his stay at The White Lotus that has people talking. While his role as the Ratliff patriarch differs from his past, more outwardly villainous roles, it still required some serious preparation—in the form of reality television. "Mike [White] had asked us to watch Southern Charm, a great reality show, and somebody in it, people from Southern Charm went, 'He's clearly doing Thomas Ravenel,'" the actor told Good Morning America. "And Thomas, I am doing you, mostly, but not for two vowels, which are completely English." Catch Isaacs in season 3 of The White Lotus, with new episodes airing on HBO and streaming on Max on Sundays at 9 p.m. Stream the first few episodes on Max now. Looking for more entertainment stories? Click through below! Ilona Maher on Body Confidence, Rugby's Power and Why She Doesn't Believe in Imposter Syndrome (EXCLUSIVE) The 'Suits' Cast's Real-Life Romances—From Royalty to TV Stars, See Who They're With! The Sweetest Oscar Couples of 2025: Kieran's Baby Talk, Kylie and Timothee's PDA and More!
