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Wales Online
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Julianne Moore turned down parts over sunburn fears
Julianne Moore turned down parts over sunburn fears The 64-year-old Hollywood actress has admitted her pale skin often becomes a factor in her decision-making Julianne Moore (Image: GETTY ) Julianne Moore turns down jobs which involve a lot of filming outdoors because she's scared of getting sunburnt. The 64-year-old Hollywood actress has admitted her pale skin often becomes a factor in her decision-making when looking at prospective movie roles because she doesn't want to be forced to film outside with no shade because she would "incinerate". She told the Guardian newspaper: "I have, on occasion, turned things down if it's something that was taking place outside, like, all the time with no shade. "'Guess what? We're shooting at the beach every single day!' That would be tough. I would incinerate." Julianne has Scottish heritage through her mother, who moved from the UK to the US as a young girl, and she admits her mom's roots played a big part in her own childhood. She added: "Many of us have parents who were from somewhere else, so that meant your parents had different customs or languages. Article continues below "My mother felt very different from the American mothers I knew. She had an accent. She cooked different things: nothing weird, just roast beef, for instance. We had little kilts. I had my hair braided and American mothers didn't do that." Julianne - who is mother to Caleb, 27, and Liv, 23, with husband Bart Freundlich - also revealed she bonded with her The Room Next Door co-star Tilda Swinton over their shared heritage. She added: "I love her. She's Scottish and I'm Scottish-American. We both have red hair. Our children – her twins and my oldest – are the same age. And both of our sons have red beards. Isn't that funny?" One of Julianne's latest roles is in new movie Echo Valley opposite Sydney Sweeney, 27, as her onscreen daughter and she's praised her co-star as "so talented" and revealed they had a lot of "fun"on the shoot. She told Extra: "Sydney's so terrific, she's so available, she's so professional, she's so talented, and we just had a really good time, you know, building the relationship and being with each other. "I think we're aware of how important this relationship is, the mother-daughter bond, and how much it can hold, how elastic it is, and how far you can push it with each other. Article continues below "It can be volatile, especially when kids are younger, when girls are teenagers and you realise they've had this tremendous history. But it was fun. I think we were able to match each other's energy, and we really enjoyed each other's company, and it worked."
Perth Now
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Julianne Moore turned down parts over sunburn fears
Julianne Moore turns down jobs which involve a lot of filming outdoors because she's scared of getting sunburnt. The 64-year-old Hollywood actress has admitted her pale skin often becomes a factor in her decision-making when looking at prospective movie roles because she doesn't want to be forced to film outside with no shade because she would "incinerate". She told the Guardian newspaper: "I have, on occasion, turned things down if it's something that was taking place outside, like, all the time with no shade. "'Guess what? We're shooting at the beach every single day!' That would be tough. I would incinerate." Julianne has Scottish heritage through her mother, who moved from the UK to the US as a young girl, and she admits her mom's roots played a big part in her own childhood. She added: "Many of us have parents who were from somewhere else, so that meant your parents had different customs or languages. "My mother felt very different from the American mothers I knew. She had an accent. She cooked different things: nothing weird, just roast beef, for instance. We had little kilts. I had my hair braided and American mothers didn't do that." Julianne - who is mother to Caleb, 27, and Liv, 23, with husband Bart Freundlich - also revealed she bonded with her The Room Next Door co-star Tilda Swinton over their shared heritage. She added: "I love her. She's Scottish and I'm Scottish-American. We both have red hair. Our children – her twins and my oldest – are the same age. And both of our sons have red beards. Isn't that funny?" One of Julianne's latest roles is in new movie Echo Valley opposite Sydney Sweeney, 27, as her onscreen daughter and she's praised her co-star as "so talented" and revealed they had a lot of "fun"on the shoot. She told Extra: "Sydney's so terrific, she's so available, she's so professional, she's so talented, and we just had a really good time, you know, building the relationship and being with each other. "I think we're aware of how important this relationship is, the mother-daughter bond, and how much it can hold, how elastic it is, and how far you can push it with each other. "It can be volatile, especially when kids are younger, when girls are teenagers and you realise they've had this tremendous history. But it was fun. I think we were able to match each other's energy, and we really enjoyed each other's company, and it worked."
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pedro Almodóvar's Next Movie ‘Bitter Christmas' Set for Spanish Theaters and Streamer Movistar Plus+
Pedro Almodóvar has found his next project. The auteur is now at work on 'Bitter Christmas' for Spanish streaming platform Movistar Plus+. Almodóvar also collaborated with the platform on his English-language feature debut, 'The Room Next Door.' 'Bitter Christmas,' or 'Amarga Navidad,' stars a slew of Almodóvar newcomers and staples, including Bárbara Lennie ('Petra'), Leonardo Sbaraglia ('Pain and Glory'), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón ('Parallel Mothers'), Victoria Luengo ('The Room Next Door'), Patrick Criado ('Riot Police'), Milena Smit ('Parallel Mothers'), and Quim Gutiérrez ('Darkbluealmostblack'). The film will be released in Spanish theaters in 2026, with Warner Bros. Pictures Spain distributing. It will then debut exclusively on the Movistar Plus+ platform. More from IndieWire Studio Ghibli at 40: Can an Ethical Animation Studio Still Exist, or Even Survive? 'Eddington' Trailer: Ari Aster's Western of Pandemic Paranoia Hits Theaters After Dividing Cannes IndieWire has reached out to Almodóvar's representatives for details about a possible U.S. release, though it can be assumed Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in North America, as it has all of Almodóvar's recent outings. We're told that festival play and a U.S. release will take place before the Movistar+ premiere. 'Bitter Christmas' centers on advertising director Elsa, now mourning the loss of her mother over a December holiday weekend. The official synopsis, as shared by Variety, reads: 'She throws herself into work as a form of escape, not realizing she's denying herself the time to grieve. Her relentless pace is interrupted when a panic attack forces her to take a break. Her partner, Bonifacio, becomes her anchor in this moment of crisis. Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote with her friend Patricia, who is also looking to get away from Madrid, while Bonifacio stays behind in the city. The story of these three characters, and several others, runs parallel to that of screenwriter and film director Raúl Durán, intertwining fiction and reality. 'Bitter Christmas' explores how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.' The project is currently filming in Madrid and Lanzarote. Almodóvar and his brother, Agustín Almodóvar, produce through their El Deseo banner in collaboration with Movistar Plus+. Almodóvar won the 2024 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for 'The Room Next Door,' distributed stateside by Sony Pictures Classics. 'I was very concerned about the English,' Almodóvar told IndieWire about his first film in English. 'We wanted an English that should sound American. My films have never been naturalistic. I have never aspired to the mumbling or babbling or pausing or some of those things that happen in regular language. I like my language to be concentrated and precise. In Spanish, it has worked well.' Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie Nicolas Winding Refn's Favorite Films: 37 Movies the Director Wants You to See
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tilda Swinton to Star in David Lowery's Adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh Novel ‘Death in Her Hands'
Tilda Swinton is set to lead another literary adaptation: Ottessa Moshfegh's psychological thriller 'Death in Her Hands,' with auteur David Lowery directing. Swinton, who most recently led Pedro Almodóvar's English feature debut 'The Room Next Door,' will star as widow Vesta Gul, who may or may not have stumbled upon a crime scene. The character finds a handwritten note while walking in the woods, with the letter reading, 'Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.' Yet without a corpse in sight, recluse Vesta becomes obsessed with solving the would-be murder. The book's official synopsis reads, 'As her inner world begins to eclipse reality, the mystery of Magda threatens Vesta's grip on her own life — until, in a spellbinding operatic climax, we realize that Magda's death may finally allow Vesta to live.' The novel was published in 2000. More from IndieWire 'The Plague' Review: Charlie Polinger's Debut Takes Body Horror and 'Lord of the Flies' Into Extraordinary, Emotional Spaces Adam Sandler Pays Tribute to 'Happy Gilmore' Gator Morris, Who Died at Age 80-Ish: 'We Are All Gonna Miss You' Lowery will adapt the novel for the screen, with See-Saw Films producing. Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Jeanie Igoe are producing, with the executive producers including Simon Gillis and Ann Phillips. See-Saw's sales division Cross City Films and WME Independent are set to secure financing for the feature at Cannes. 'I am a devoted fan of Ottessa Moshfegh, and the opportunity to translate 'Death in Her Hands' to the big screen has been, in some ways, a subterfuge for getting to spend a great deal of time obsessing over her prose. But now the ruse is up!,' Lowery said in a press statement. 'The script begot by the novel will soon become a film, and I am suddenly aware more than ever that adapting this particular work represents a devious challenge (anyone who's read the novel will understand why)! But I'm ready for it, and am emboldened to have such wonderful collaborators at my side: the whole team at See-Saw, Jeanie, and of course, the incredible Tilda Swinton, who I know will illuminate Ottessa's story in ways I could only dream of.' Producers Canning and Sherman added, 'David Lowery is a master of crafting striking, atmospheric stories, and there's no one better to bring Ottessa Moshfegh's haunting and brilliant novel to the screen. We can't wait for audiences to step into the world he creates and be swept away by Vesta's story, played by the incomparable, magnetic, and endlessly compelling Tilda Swinton.' Lowery next has 'Mother Mary' in the works starring Anne Hathaway, which is currently in post-production. 'Death in Her Hands' isn't the only Moshfegh adaptation in the works: Author Moshfegh, who also collaborated with Hathaway for her adaptation of 'Eileen,' told IndieWire that she hand-selects who will adapt her work for the screen. 'I wouldn't just sign the rights over to a novel to anyone,' she said. 'There are people who have some doings around other IPs. I trust them, but that isn't to say I'm not good at detachment. I don't actually want to control other people's work. An adaptation is just an adaptation. It's not supposed to be a carbon copy. That's impossible. It's a reinterpretation, it's a translation, and it's a really creative process.' Moshfegh added at the time that the adaptation of 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation,' to which LuckyChap optioned the rights to in 2018 and Yorgos Lanthimos was rumored to be attached to direct, is still 'underway.' No director has been announced yet. 'I have no idea about the timeline on that, but hopefully sometime,' 'Causeway' screenwriter Moshfegh said in of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pedro Almodóvar calls Trump ‘greatest mistake of our time' as he receives Chaplin award
Pedro Almodóvar described US president Donald Trump as the 'greatest mistake of our time', while accepting the prestigious Chaplin Award in New York. The celebrated Spanish director spoke on stage at Manhattan's Lincoln Center on Monday, where he was presented with the award. 'I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authoritarian leader who doesn't respect human rights, and whom it seems nothing can stop on his race to change fragile world balance,' The Room Next Door director said. 'Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do.' Almodóvar's speech, delivered on the eve of Trump completing 100 days in office, referenced the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants and transgender rights. 'Immigrants are not criminals, even though the United States treats them as such. [Ukraine's president] Zelensky is not a dictator, Putin is. And however much Trump denies it, it was Russia that invaded Ukraine. Hunter Schafer, the wonderful co-protagonist with Zendaya of Euphoria, is a woman. Even though she was assigned male while renewing her passport.' In February this year, Schafer, 26, shared in a TikTok video that her renewed passport came back with her sex marked as M for male, even though she had filled out the forms marking her gender as female. 'Mr Trump, I'm talking to you,' Almodóvar continued. 'Mr Trump, I hope that you hear what I'm going to say to you. You will go down in history as the greatest mistake of our time. Your naiveté is only comparable to your violence. You will go down in history as one of the greatest damages to humanity since the beginning of the century. You will go down in history as a catastrophe.' Almodóvar went on to express his gratitude for the award, and dedicated it to the 'thousands deported in recent weeks', Schafer, and to Harvard University for its 'determination to not surrender to Trump's war on knowledge and culture'. Harvard University is suing the Trump administration for cutting $2.2bn in federal funding, alleging retaliation over its refusal to punish pro-Palestinian student protests and comply with demands to end DEI programmes and favour conservative applicants. Almodóvar brought up his experiences growing up in Spain under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, crediting the shift to democracy with his growth as a director. 'It is impossible to explain what that feeling of absolute liberty meant for a young person who wanted to make films,' he said. Dua Lipa, John Turturro, John Waters, Rossy de Palma, and Mikhail Baryshnikov also attended the ceremony to present him with the award, while Martin Scorsese, Tilda Swinton, and Antonio Banderas shared pre-recorded tributes. 'He has a unique vision and his own brand of irreverent humor and a vibrant sense of color that lets you know you're in for a wild ride, driven by an expert driver,' Turturro said. 'I especially love how you just completely normalised trans and gay roles or storylines, something that feels these days like quite a radical act. And yet there's a lightness and a heart to everything you do,' said Dua Lipa.
