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BBC Studios Unscripted Boss on Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci Series and the Recipe for U.S. Success
The Americas, narrated by Tom Hanks, on NBC. [Stanley] Tucci in Italy on National Geographic. Walking With Dinosaurs, narrated by Bertie Carvel (The Crown, HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series), on PBS. These series are just the latest star-studded factual offerings from BBC Studios Productions, one of the British and global media industry's most respected production outfits that is part of BBC Studios, the main commercial arm of U.K. public broadcaster BBC, that have taken the U.S. by storm. Of course, there has also been Prehistoric Planet, executive produced by Jon Favreau, and OceanXplorers with James Cameron. And there is more to come involving big names, as Disney has unveiled that National Geographic has greenlit a new documentary series under the working title Meet the Planets, that is being developed by Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort and BBC Studios. More from The Hollywood Reporter Busan Film Festival to Honor Jafar Panahi as Asian Filmmaker of the Year Anne Hathaway Shares First Look at 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' 'Dune' VFX House DNEG's Immersive Experiences Unit Names NBCU's Jeff Lehman Exec Producer (Exclusive) Bottom line: Shows from BBC Studios Productions, which includes the world-renowned Natural History Unit, the Documentary Unit, the Science Unit, wholly owned label Voltage, and third-party distribution relationships, regularly feature Hollywood creatives and do well on U.S. screens, as well as worldwide. And they have just received six Primetime Emmy nominations and 11 Daytime Emmy nominations. Secrets of the Neanderthals and The Secret Lives of Animals are nominated for the latter. In terms of Primetime Emmy nominees, The Americas are in the running for the Outstanding Narrator Award for Hanks and the Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special Emmy for Hans Zimmer. Tucci in Italy is up for the honors for outstanding hosted non-fiction series or special and outstanding cinematography. And Planet Earth – Asia was nominated in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special category and Outstanding Narrator for Attenborough. But what is the recipe for factual success at BBC Studios Productions? Key ingredients are scale and breadth, collaborations and partnerships, and specialism, or craft, Kate Ward, managing director, Unscripted Productions at BBC Studios Productions, tells THR. 'I think that factual programming is really having a moment, and we're really seeing that moment,' she argues. 'Big dramas have incredible power and zeitgeist and are, obviously, a huge part of the ecosystem. But what factual does as a genre is that we really passionately believe it's there to change perspectives and start conversations. And because it hasn't always been at the front of the schedule in the U.S., when it does, it feels really special.' Take The Americas, for example. 'We hope it's giving Americans a shared view of the natural world of life on their doorstep, sometimes at the end of their street, which in a world that can feel fragmented and challenging is something that brings people together,' Ward argues. 'Bringing people together is something that is core to our values and our mission at the BBC.' So, how is her unscripted team at BBC Studios trying to succeed in a crowded marketplace? First, 'we're excited about the scale and the variety of work we're doing for the U.S. market,' Ward shares. 'Our shows represent a range of different styles of factual programming for a range of different broadcasters with a range of different models.' In terms of the scale of productions, she lauds BBC Studios' 'unmatched ambition' and ability to pull off 'epic' shows. 'If you look at The Americas, for example, it took five years to make 180 filming expeditions,' she explains. 'So, we are working at epic proportions in terms of production. How many protein bars did the team have to eat over five years to make this show? As a result, you get that infectious curiosity that just draws you in as a viewer.' The second ingredient of success is expertise. 'We can bring the specialism, the craft we are known for,' to ensure high-quality programming, Ward explains. 'Walking With Dinosaurs can bring real value and an education for children and adults. It's rooted in real science. So it is entertainment and education together, and I think that means it can reach a really, really large audience.' Finally, Ward says it's about collaborations with creatives, producers and distribution partners rather than going it alone. 'Creators bring their own way of storytelling, ambition, passion, and together, we can do extraordinary things. We also have deep partnerships producers, with platforms and broadcasters, from our long-standing, unbelievably special relationship with PBS that we value so deeply to NBC and Universal Television Alternative Studio (UTAS), which was a great experience for us. We also have a whole range of programming for National Geographic and Disney, and we have done great work with the likes of Apple and Netflix.' Strong relationships not only give existing shows a good audience platform but can, of course, also lead to the development of further shows, and shows that stand out, she argues. 'These deep collaborative relationships help us shape and do new things for the U.S. market that's really distinctive,' concludes Ward. Now, how about those Hollywood stars collaborating with the BBC. 'We're working with a range of amazing Hollywood talent – actors, directors, auteurs,' she tells THR. 'Why have these people, often known for their fictional work, been drawn to the factual genre? I believe it's because it allows them to explore the subjects about which they're genuinely passionate and to innovate in a different way of storytelling than they do in their other work, which may predominantly be in scripted. We're super excited about that melding of worlds and that sharing of experience.' How does BBC Studios attract such big names in the always-fierce battle for talent? 'It's about storytellers, trust and mutual respect,' Ward tells THR. 'I believe that they are coming to the BBC, because we have the trust, the legacy, the consistent quality, and the specialism that we have built over the years. 'That is really, really important and critical when we're working with other storytellers.' For BBC Studios Productions, working with famous personalities with a shared passion, along with fan appeal and bases, is key too, not least to give series the desired broad reach. But importantly, the creative collaborators must make real sense – or viewers will smell a rat. 'We're looking for those meaningful connections and that creativity,' Ward explains. 'But it is important to approach this through the lens of two storytellers coming together in true partnership, and it always has to be authentic.' Take Tucci, for example. 'Stanley is an incredible storyteller, and to be part of that storyteller's journey through Italy, which he is passionate about, is so exciting, and we're so proud of what we were able to create together,' Ward says. 'Or when you think about Tom Hanks' role on The Americas: Tom's passion for the subject really shines through. If that wasn't the case, the audience would know the difference.' In other words: you couldn't just take a random famous face and attach it to a BBC Studios Productions documentary or other factual series without a real interest or connection. 'This is factual programming. So, there have got to be real, authentic, passionate connections to the subjects, storytellers who immerse you and take you on that journey,' Ward explains. 'These storytellers can start those conversations, change perceptions, take you to worlds and times that you didn't know about. So, we will always be looking for that authenticity and that connection between us and storytellers in a creative partnership.' Thanks to BBC Studios, U.S. audiences, along with British and global viewers, have also fallen in love with such British voices as the legendary naturalist David Attenborough and historian Lucy Worsley (Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle). 'She also brings that authentic connection,' highlights Ward. 'Lucy is so popular in America, and she does it so brilliantly.' Ward vows to continue on the path of bringing factual hits to the U.S. and the world. 'Scale, specialism, and collaboration are part of the secret sauce of how we're approaching the business,' she tells THR. 'And we feel super privileged to be able to bring those together and provide a melding of creativity and what that does for people who love factual storytelling or find it. That is a really, really powerful and exciting proposition.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
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Guillermo del Toro's ‘Frankenstein,' Benny Safdie's ‘The Smashing Machine,' Kathryn Bigelow's ‘A House of Dynamite' Among Stellar Venice Lineup
Oscar season starts here. With its 2025 line-up, announced Tuesday, the Venice Film Festival has (again) taken the award season pole position, with a program packed with a frankly absurd number of must-see movies. More from The Hollywood Reporter BBC Studios Unscripted Boss on Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci Series and the Recipe for U.S. Success Busan Film Festival to Honor Jafar Panahi as Asian Filmmaker of the Year 'Dune' VFX House DNEG's Immersive Experiences Unit Names NBCU's Jeff Lehman Exec Producer (Exclusive) Among the hot awards titles heading to the Lido are Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine, from A24, featuring Dwayne Johnson as two‑time UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife Dawn; Luca Guadagnino's #MeToo–inspired thriller After the Hunt, for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, will premiere out of competition; and Guillermo del Toro's dark reimagining of Frankenstein, featuring Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth, a Netflix production. This will mark the Venice festival debut for both Roberts and Johnson. Netflix, which sat out Vence last year, is back in force for 2025. Alongside Frankenstein, the streamer has Noah Baumbach's comedy‑drama Jay Kelly, co-written with Emily Mortimer, and headlined by George Clooney, premiering in competition, and Kathryn Bigelow's ticking bomb geopolitical thriller A House of Dynamite, starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Greta Lee, Gabriel Basso, and Jared Harris. The Venice line-up is an embarrassment of riches, for award-watchers and regular film fans alike, with the competition selection including the latest from A-list auteurs Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice), François Ozon (L'Etranger), and Laszlo Nemes (Orphan). A year after Brady Corbet's The Brutalist launched in Venice, en route to three Oscar wins, the film's co-writer (and producer) Mona Fastvold arrives in competition with The Testament of Ann Lee, a historical drama musical film starring Lewis Pullman, Amanda Seyfried, and Tim Blake Nelson, that she co-wrote with Corbet. The Voice of Hind Rajab, the new film from Four Daughters director Kaouther Ben Hania, is certain to be one of the most talked-about films in Venice this year. The film tells the true story of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old girl who, on January 29, 2024, was trapped in a car on fire in Gaza. She called Red Crescent emergency workers, who kept her on the line while they tried to get an ambulance to her. The Party Film Sales is handling worldwide sales on the film and co-representing North American rights with CAA Media Finance. Another politically-charged title in competition is Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin, starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin and Paul Dano as the fictional Kremlin insider Vadim Baranov. Yorgos Lanthimos, a Venice Golden Lion winner for Poor Things, returns in competition with Bugonia, an adaptation of Jang Joon-Hwan's 2003 South Korean sci-fi film Save the Green Planet!, featuring his frequent collaborator Emma Stone. Focus Features will release the film stateside, with Universal Pictures handling internationally outside of Korea, where CJ ENM will release. And iconic indie director Jim Jarmusch, a Cannes regular, will bring his latest to the Lido this year, premiering Mubi's Father Mother Sister Brother, a triptych with an all-star ensemble cast including Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Indya Moore, Vicky Krieps, Tom Waits, Luka Sabbat, and Charlotte Rampling. The 82nd Venice competition line-up also includes the latest from A-list auteurs Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice), François Ozon (L'Etranger), and Laszlo Nemes (Orphan) Italian Oscar-winning Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) will open this year's festival with La Grazia (Grace), a love story starring his long-time collaborator Toni Servillo. La Grazia, co-starring Diamonds actor Anna Ferzetti, will premiere in competition on Aug. 27. Mubi picked up the film ahead of its Venice bow. Dog 51, a new action-packed French sci-fi thriller from Bac Nord director Cedric Jimenez will close the festival, out of competition. Gus Van Sant's return to feature films, Dead Man's Wire, starring Bill Skarsgard, will also screen out of competition. Other out-of-competition highlights include Anders Thomas Jensen's Danish dark comedy The Last Viking starring Mads Mikkelsen, Julian Schnabel's long-awaited The Hand of Dante, and Scarlet, the first anime feature in four years from Japanese master Mamoru Hosoda. Venice has selected four TV series for its small-screen sidebar: Etty, a limited series from Israeli showrunner Hagai Levi (In Treatment, The Affair), loosely based on the diary of Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum, starring Julia Windischbauer and Sebastian Koch, which Studio TF1 is selling worldwide; Portobello, the first Italian original production for HBO Max in which Italian director Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor), follows the true story of the downfall of one of Italy's most beloved TV hosts; Studiocanal's A Prophet – The Series, a TV reboot of Jacques Audiard's classic French prison drama from 2009, directed by Enrico Maria Artale; and Il Mostro (The Monster), a true-life serial-killer drama from Gomorrah series director, Stefano Sollima, made for Netflix. This year's Golden Lion career achievement honorees are legendary German director Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man) and Vertigo star Kim Novak. Venice's Classic sidebar, which includes a selection on documentaries about cinema, this year includes Mike Figgis' Megadoc, a behind-the-scenes look at Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-the-making Megalopolis. Two-time Oscar-winner Alexander Payne heads up this year's competition jury as president, and together with international film talents including Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, French director Stéphane Brizé, Italian director Maura Delpero, Chinese actress Zhao Tao, and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, will pick the 2025 Golden Lion winner. The 2025 Venice film festival runs Aug. 27 to Sept. 9. Opening Film La Grazia, dir. Paolo Sorrentino (Italy) (In competition) Closing Film Dog 51, dir. Cedric Jimenez (France) Competition The Wizard of the Kremlin, dir. Olivier Assayas (France)Jay Kelly, dir. Noah Baumbach (USA, UK, Italy)The Voice of Hind Rajab, dir. Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, France)A House of Dynamite, dir. Kathryn Bigelow (USA)Sun Rises on Us All, dir. Cai Shangjun (China)Frankenstein, dir. Guillermo Del Toro (USA)Elisa, dir. Leonardo Di Costanzo (Italy, Switzerland)À pied d'œuvre, dir. Valérie Donzelli (France)Silent Friend, dir. Ildikó Enyedi (Germany, France, Hungary)The Testament of Ann Lee, dir. Mona Fastvold (UK)Father Mother Sister Brother, dir. Jim Jarmusch (USA, Ireland, France)Bugonia, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (United Kingdom)Duse, dir. Pietro Marcello (Italy)Un film fatto per Bene, dir. Franco Maresco (Italy)Orphan, dir. László Nemes (Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany, France)The Stranger, dir. François Ozon (France)No Other Choice, dir. Park Chan-wook (South Korea)Sotto le nuvole, dir. Gianfranco Rosi (Italy)The Smashing Machine, dir. Benny Safdie (Canada, USA, Japan)Girl, dir. Shu Qi (Taipei)La Grazia, dir. Paolo Sorrentino (Italy) Out of Competition (Fiction) Boşluğa xütbə (Sermon to the Void), dir. Hilal Baydarov (Azerbaijan, Mexico, Turkey)L'isola di Andrea, dir. Antonio Capuano (Italy)Il Maestro, dir. Andrea Di Stefano (Italy)After the Hunt, dir. Luca Guadagnino (USA)Hateshinaki Scarlet, dir. Mamoru Hosoda (Japan)The Last Viking, dir. Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark, Sweden)Chien 51, dir. Cédric Jimenez (France)In the Hand of Dante, dir. Julian Schnabel (USA, Italy)La valle dei sorrisi, dir. Paolo Strippoli (Italy, Slovenia)Dead Man's Wire, dir. Gus Van Sant (USA)Orfeo, dir. Virgilio Villoresi (Italy) Out of Competition (Non-Fiction) Kabul, Between Prayers, dir. Aboozar Amini (The Netherlands, Belgium)Ferdinando Scianna – Il fotografo dell'ombra, dir. Roberto Andò (Italy)Marc by Sofia, dir. Sofia Coppola (USA)I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti. Capitolo terzo, dir. Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi (Italy)Ghost Elephants, dir. Werner Herzog (USA)My Father and Qaddafi, dir. Jihan K (USA, Libya)The Tale of Sylian, dir. Tamara Kotevska (North Macedonia)Nuestra Tierra, dir. Lucrecia Martel (Argentina, USA, Mexico, France, The Netherlands, Denmark)Remake, dir. Ross McElwee (USA)Kim Novak's Vertigo, dir. Alexandre Philippe (USA)Cover-up, dir. Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus (USA)Broken English, dir. Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth (United Kingdom)Notes of a True Criminal, dir. Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov (Ukraine, USA)Director's Diary, dir. Alexandr Sokurov (Russia, Italy)Back Home, dir. Tsai Ming-liang (Taipei) Out of Competition (Series) Un prophète – La série, dir. Enrico Maria Artale (France)Portobello, dir. Marco Bellocchio (Italy, France)Etty, dir. Hagai Levi (France, Germany, The Netherlands)Il mostro, dir. Stefano Sollima (Italy) Out of Competition – Film & Music Nino. 18 giorni, dir. Toni D'Angelo (Italy)Piero Pelù. Rumore dentro, dir. Francesco Fei (Italy)Newport and The Great Folk Dream, dir. Robert Gordon (USA)Francesco De Gregori Nevergreen, dir. Stefano Pistolini (Italy) Venice Spotlight Hijra, dir. Shahad Ameen (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom)Un cabo suelto (A Loose End), dir. Daniel Hendler (Uruguay, Argentina, Spain)Made in EU, dir. Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic)Motor City, dir. Potsy Ponciroli (USA)It Would Be Night in Caracas, dir. Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás (Mexico, Venezuela)Silent Rebellion, dir. Marie-Elsa Sgualdo (Switzerland, France, Belgium)Calle Malaga, dir. Maryam Touzani (Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium)Ammazzare stanca, dir. Daniele Vicari (Italy) Horizons Competition Divine Comedy, dir. Ali Asgari (Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey)Hiedra, dir. Ana Cristina Barragan (Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain)Il rapimento di Arabella, dir. Carolina Cavalli (Italy)Strange River, dir. Jaume Claret Muxart (Spain, Germany)Lost Land, dir. Akio Fujimoto (Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany)Grand Ciel, dir. Akihiro Hata (France, Luxembourg)Rose of Nevada, dir. Mark Jenkin (United Kingdom)Late Fame, dir. Kent Jones (USA)Milk Teeth, dir. Mihai Mincan (Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria)Pin de Fartie, dir. Alejo Moguillansky (Argentina)Father, dir. Tereza Nvotová (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland)En el camino, dir. David Pablos (Mexico, France)Songs of Forgotten Trees, dir. Anuparna Roy (India)Un anno di scuola, dir. Laura Samani (Italy, France)The Souffleur, dir. Gastón Solnicki (Austria, Argentina)Barrio triste, dir. Stillz (Colombia, USA)Mother, dir. Teona Strugar Mitevska (Belgium, North Macedonia, Sweden, Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina)Human Resource, dir. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand)Funeral Casino Blues, dir. Roderick Warich (Germany) Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Greatest Needle Drops in Film History The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best Solve the daily Crossword
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The Atlantic Festival Announces New Events Across New York City
July 22, 2025—Today The Atlantic is announcing more speakers, events, and the agenda for the 17th annual Atlantic Festival, taking place September 18–20 for the first time in New York City. This year's festival will be anchored at the Perelman Performing Arts Center along with venues around the city, including the Tenement Museum, the Town Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hauser & Wirth, and McNally Jackson Seaport. Among the speakers announced today: actor Robert Downey Jr. and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, in conversation with The Atlantic 's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg; actor Tom Hanks, who voices several historical figures in the new Ken Burns documentary series The American Revolution and who will join the premiere screening of the series at the Town Hall; comedian, writer, and director Richard Ayoade in a conversation moderated by talk-show host, comedian, and producer David Letterman; Executive Producer of The Apollo Kamilah Forbes; Professor of Marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur Scott Galloway; clinical psychologist and Founder and CEO of Good Inside Becky Kennedy; and TV personality, chef, author, and activist Andrew Zimmern. Previously announced Festival speakers include Mark Cuban, Jennifer Doudna, Arvind Krishna, Monica Lewinsky, Tekedra Mawakana, H.R. McMaster, and Clara Wu Tsai. The Atlantic Festival will also host an exclusive first look for Season 3 of Netflix's The Diplomat, which debuts this fall, followed by a conversation with the show's stars Keri Russell and Allison Janney and creator and executive producer Debora Cahn; a sneak peek screening of FX's The Lowdown, along with a talk with creator, executive producer, writer, and director Sterlin Harjo and executive producer and star Ethan Hawke; and a screening of The American Revolution, followed by a discussion with directors and producers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, along with actor Tom Hanks, who voices several historical figures, and historian Annette Gordon-Reed. New this year: The Atlantic Festival introduces Out and Abouts, intimate events around the city that are ticketed individually. Among the events announced today: Atlantic Reads book talks at McNally Jackson Seaport. Featuring Walter Mosley for his new novel Gray Dawn; Susan Orlean for her memoir Joyride; and a poetry conversation around The Singing Word: 168 Years of Atlantic Poetry, featuring the book's editor and Atlantic contributing editor Walt Hunter, with Singing Word contributor and MIT professor Joshua Bennett. Premiere of Dread Beat an' Blood at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), featuring a live performance by legendary poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. The Big Story Live events, across downtown venues: 'What Does it Mean to Be an American?,' at the Tenement Museum, featuring staff writers Xochitl Gonzalez and Clint Smith, plus more speakers to be announced. 'The Future of the Arts in a Changing World,' at Hauser & Wirth, featuring Jeffrey Goldberg, Noah Hawley, and Kamilah Forbes, with more speakers to be announced. With more to be announced, including a live taping of the Radio Atlantic podcast. The festival's Single-Day Passes and Out and About tickets will go on sale this Wednesday, July 23, at 11 a.m. ET. Atlantic subscribers receive an exclusive 30 percent discount on festival passes and select Out & About programming. Festival sessions will be led by Goldberg and many of The Atlantic 's writers and editors, including Adrienne LaFrance, Tim Alberta, Ross Andersen, Anne Applebaum, Gal Beckerman, Elizabeth Bruenig, Sophie Gilbert, Jemele Hill, Walt Hunter, Shirley Li, Ashley Parker, and Clint Smith. The 2025 Atlantic Festival is underwritten by Microsoft at the Title Level; CenterWell, Eli Lilly and Company, and Scout Motors at the Presenting Level; and Aflac, Allstate, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Destination DC, Diageo, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, Hauser & Wirth, KPMG, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation at the Supporting Level.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
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She was in Sleepless In Seattle, is married to an Oscar winner and has a WILD reality TV star son, who is she?
She had a role opposite Meg Ryan in the movie Sleepless In Seattle. And this brunette beauty has appeared in several other films such as Volunteers, Jingle All The Wat and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. When she popped up in a small role in the Yellowstone prequel 1883 with pals Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, fans were surprised. This looker is also a talented singer who has come out with many albums, and has a new song named It's Too Late out this summer. She is perhaps best known for being married to an A-list Oscar-winning movie star. On Thursday the Los Angeles resident shared a flashback photo from her youth where she wore a sunny smile and fresh tan along with a white tank top and cut-off blue denim jeans. Who is she? She is Rita Wilson, 68, who is married to Tom Hanks. It's Too Late is a redo of the Carole King version. Along with her flashback photo Rita shared a look at her new song cover and added this caption: 'Yep, This is me back when I was wearing out Carole King's Tapestry record! 'Now I have my own version of It's Too Late out in the world. Never thought that would happen! You can stream it wherever music is available!' Wilson's music career includes the albums AM/FM (2012), Halfway to Home (2019), and Now & Forever: Duets (2022). Rita also works as a film producer; she's credited with the box-office hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and involvement in the Mamma Mia! film series. Tom we d Rita in 1988. Hanks already had two children from a previous marriage, Colin and Elizabeth Hanks. She has two sons with Hanks, Chet (a reality TV star and actor) and Truman. Wilson was born in Los Angeles to Greek parents who raised her in the Greek Orthodox faith. Her career began with a guest appearance on The Brady Bunch in the 1972 and she also twice appeared on M*A*S*H in 1982 as Nurse Lacey. Next came Three's Company and Bosom Buddies starring her future husband Tom and Frasier. She has appeared in numerous films, including Volunteers, Barbarians at the Gate, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mixed Nuts and Sleepless in Seattle. Then came Now and Then, That Thing You Do!, Jingle All the Way, Runaway Bride, Invisible Child, The Story of Us, Raise Your Voice, It's Complicated and Larry Crowne. In 2006, Wilson made her Broadway debut when she performed the role of Roxie Hart in a revival of Chicago. Wilson's debut solo album AM/FM was released in 2012. In 2016, Wilson released her self-titled album. With her third album, Bigger Picture, Wilson drew directly from her personal life for its theme; it was released in 2018. In 2019, Wilson released her fourth album, Halfway to Home. In 2022, Wilson announced her duets album Now & Forever, a collection of 70s covers with male vocalists.
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Netflix's 'Aap Jaisa Koi' star R. Madhavan on 'Dhurandhar' co-star Ranveer Singh's flops: 'A couple of not-so-good films...'
The actor continued, 'If you see the great actors in Hollywood like Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, they don't do 50-60 films in their lifetime.' read more Netflix's 'Aap Jaisa Koi' star R. Madhavan on 'Dhurandhar' co-star Ranveer Singh and stood by him amid his flop films like Jayeshbhai Jordar and Cirkus. The actor said in an interview with Siddharth Kanan, 'I don't think Ranveer Singh has ever been written off. A couple of 'not so good' films doesn't end an actor's career.' Madhavan added, 'He's truly good and an extraordinary actor. But, it makes a good copy in the press and media to keep writing people off and bring them back.' STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The actor continued, 'If you see the great actors in Hollywood like Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, they don't do 50-60 films in their lifetime. They barely do 14-15 movies in their entire life. Even the biggest of stars, they also don't do beyond 15 films in their lifetime. That is the pace of doing good stories. Here we think that if we are not shooting for three months, it means we are losing our market. Both Ranveer and I don't come from that insecurity.' On the language debate Madhavan has commented on the on-going Hindi-Marathi language row and said this to IANS in an interview, 'I speak Tamil. I speak Hindi. And I have studied in Kolhapur also. I have learnt Marathi also. So, I have never had any problem because of language. Neither because of knowing it nor because of not knowing it.' In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, the actor spoke about how much he relates to his character and said, 'Touchwood, for what you have just said! I have seen that in my grandparents. They grew up in a very different society. Everybody's role was cut out and my grandmother was probably fourteen or fifteen when she got married. And my grandfather was probably 21 or 22. That was the norm then and they had babies.'
