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Perth Now
4 days ago
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Your Friends and Neighbours star Amanda Peet faked being waitress to land job at Italian restaurant
Amanda Peet once faked being a waitress to get a job in an Italian restaurant. The 53-year-old actress "made up" a name for a restaurant in San Francisco and put her then-boyfriend's phone number "as the reference" to land the job, but the 'Your Friends and Neighbors' star soon got fired after she warmed bread in the pizza oven. Amanda told PEOPLE magazine: "I had never waitressed, so I put that I had and then made up a restaurant that was in San Francisco, even though I was from New York, and then gave my boyfriend's number as the reference. "Then, on my first day, it was like an Italian restaurant where they had a pizza oven. "A lovely couple whose table I was assigned to asked me if I could warm the bread, which was in a bread basket. I put the whole thing in the pizza oven. "I didn't start a fire, but the dude was like, 'You're fired, you dumb, actress type.'" Amanda plays Mel Cooper - a therapist who has separated from her former former hedge fund manager husband, Andrew 'Coop' Cooper (Jon Hamm), after it was revealed he had been having a fling with his best pal and NBA player, Nick Brandes (Mark Tallman) - in the Apple TV+ thriller series, 'Your Friends and Neighbours'. The show sees Amanda's alter ego take part in steamy sex scenes with Coop and Nick, but Amanda is not fazed by the intimate performances. The 'Something's Gotta Give' actress explained: "Dude, I've been doing this for so long, I'm just like, 'Show me where to be. Show me who to kiss. Who do I have to make out with today?' "Whenever I see Lizzy [Talbot], the intimacy coordinator, I'm like, 'Wait, I have a sex scene?' And she's like, 'No, dear. It's somebody else.' It's so funny when I see her, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I forgot I have a sex scene.' " As well as Amanda, 44-year-old actress Olivia Munn, who plays Samantha 'Sam' Levitt in the show, also had to do intimate scenes with Jon, 54. Their characters had a secret fling while he was navigating his divorce from Mel, and Olivia was so nervous about pushing her teeth into the Hollywood legend's skin when filming the intimate scene. The 'X-Men: Apocalypse' star told the same outlet: "My character had to bite him, and I was nervous, but he just kept saying, 'It's okay. You can bite really hard.' "And then I did. And he's a pretty tough guy. He's a very tough guy."
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How ‘Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong freshly explores mega wealth through tech bro one-upmanship in ‘Mountainhead'
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong is continuing to use his distinctive satirical tone to explore how the 1 percent wields power over the world. In his directorial debut Mountainhead, Armstrong hones in on the oversized influence of a group of tech bro billionaires played by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef, and Cory Michael Smith. The HBO film, which will premiere on HBO and Max on May 31, finds the four friends tucked away in a modern mansion in the snowy Utah mountains as one of their social media apps spurs global unrest and violence due to unrestricted generative AI. More from GoldDerby TV composers roundtable: 'Adolescence,' 'Day of the Jackal,' 'Interview With the Vampire,' 'Your Friends and Neighbors' 'Your Friends and Neighbors' composer Dominic Lewis on matching the show's tonal shifts and writing the catchy theme song 'The Joneses' Composer Volker Bertelmann on the shifting tempos and percussive sounds that punctuate 'The Day of the Jackal' At the Mountainhead premiere held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Thursday, Carell spoke to reporters on the red carpet about the "overwhelming" experience of slipping into the identity of a billionaire. Early in the film, his character Randall, who ranks highest in the group in terms of seniority, is embittered when his net worth falls below that of Youssef's Jeff, who's created tech that safeguards against the dangers of AI. "When somebody is worth 60, 200 billion dollars, the actual amount doesn't even mean anything anymore, I think, to these people. It's a number," Carell said. "But the number itself kind of means something, if that makes any sense. There is a hierarchy within that, even though the actual physical ability to buy things doesn't really change between 60 and 200 billion. But the fact that within this hierarchy of four people, he's second and may end up being third is not a good thing. So that's a huge component of all of this." Armstrong, who traces his script inspiration back to writing a review of Michael Lewis' book about Sam Bankman-Fried, explained to Gold Derby why he's keen on examining the lives of the ultra wealthy. "I guess it's not especially the 1 percent-y wealth that interests me — I think it's the power that comes with that. So for myself, I wouldn't tend to write things that were necessarily just about rich people. It's the fact that they have that power on the world. And that's what Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his family had, and it's what these guys have, or at least some of them. And that's the bit that I'm really interested in: Why is the world the way it is, and who's shaping it?" SEE HBO unveils trailer for Jesse Armstrong's Mountainhead In the film, the four protagonists are decidedly separate from the rest of the world as they stay put at the titular Mountainhead mansion that belongs to Schwartzman's character (who is nicknamed Souper for having the lowest net worth in the group with nary a billion to his name). Armstrong detailed how the secluded property was found and its significance to the storyline. "Paul Eskenazi, location manager from Succession, helped us find it. We looked at a lot of places in Canada and Utah, and we wanted to be somewhere sequestrated away from other people. And that's a common thing about wealth, right? Private planes, gated communities. So it needed to feel isolated. It also needed to feel isolated for some of the action that happens in the movie. I wanted them to feel like they were almost like a horror movie removed." Notably, Mountainhead came together in less than a year's time. Executive producer Will Tracy sees the project as "the perfect thing" to release in our current sociopolitical climate. "In many ways, that was part of the appeal, is the urgency of it, that we can maybe get it out very soon, before anyone else had a crack at this fairly new world of government that has in some ways been captured by the techno-futurists, by the Musks and so forth of the world," he said. "It's changing so rapidly, what's happening in the government, so hopefully we got it right." Tracy also spoke to the appeal of telling stories spotlighting the 1 percent. "I think it starts with the characters and the kind of small, more human stories we want to tell about those people — Succession being kind of a family story, and this being kind of a story about male friendship, in a way. And we tell those stories on a very small level," he said. "But the finance and the money and the power just raises the stakes of what these, I think, very emotionally difficult people, the ripple effects they can have on our world, which, as we're seeing right now, those ripple effects can be quite large ripples — waves even. Tsunamis." Mountainhead premieres Saturday, May 31 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and Max. Best of GoldDerby TV composers roundtable: 'Adolescence,' 'Day of the Jackal,' 'Interview With the Vampire,' 'Your Friends and Neighbors' 'Your Friends and Neighbors' composer Dominic Lewis on matching the show's tonal shifts and writing the catchy theme song 'The Joneses' Composer Volker Bertelmann on the shifting tempos and percussive sounds that punctuate 'The Day of the Jackal' Click here to read the full article.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
From courtroom to karaoke, ‘Matlock' Season 2 shakes things up: ‘Anything's up for grabs at this point'
Madeline 'Matty' Matlock conquered the bar exam long ago, but in Matlock's second season, she's about to take on a very different kind of bar: a karaoke bar. 'I want her singing karaoke this year!' the hit series' executive producer and showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman told Gold Derby at an FYC event at the Directors Guild Theater. It was an unexpected nod to star Kathy Bates' wide-ranging talents — Bates is also an accomplished singer. More from GoldDerby Golden Globes add Best Podcast category to 2026 ceremony Tonys: 'Buena Vista Social Club' choreographer Justin Peck would be the 5th person to win in consecutive years Amanda Peet will campaign for lead actress at the Emmys for 'Your Friends and Neighbors' as Apple TV+ sets acting submissions for Jon Hamm drama 'I think it would be fun,' chuckled Bates, considering the idea. 'I think as far as Jennie's concerned, anything's up for grabs at this point.' Urman, Bates, and the rest of the cast and creative team gathered to celebrate the success of CBS' thoroughly reimagined legal drama, based on the popular Andy Griffith series from the '80s and '90s. A rare blockbuster on broadcast TV in the streaming era, the show is already gearing up for a second season, with the creators teasing what's to come. Michael Yarish/CBS 'We're going to see Matty now get more blindsided about things that she didn't realize,' Bates hinted. 'She's gotten invested in these people. Now, she's being taken along for the ride. These are things that she hasn't prepared for, so I think that's what's going to be exciting about the second season.' 'Matty, in this second season, is not in control the way that she was — in the first season she was the puppet master,' Urman revealed of the series which also stars Skye P. Marshall and Jason Ritter. 'And so what happens to a character like that when suddenly they're out of control? And that's going to be really interesting to watch.' Creating emotional tension and moral dilemmas is part of the thrill for Urman and the writers. 'It's really exciting to paint characters into a corner and then figure out smart ways that they escape from it, and how their relationships continue to build and grow in moments of extreme tension,' she said. 'I'm just excited to put Matty into different positions and situations and watch her charm or trick her way out of them.' Urman shared that she's already deeply immersed in planning for the second season — even before production has resumed. 'We do such a long, detailed season break before we come in, then I pitch to the studio and network,' she explained. 'It's about 40 pages. It takes me over an hour to tell them the story of the season, and it's every character and it's got a lot of twists and it's got a lot of layers and it's all ready, so we have a really meaty, meaty spine. And then we just keep layering on top of that so that we can make them as complex, and yet you can follow them. That's what we want. We want emotional complexity, but we want you to be able to follow the thought.' 'Jennie's got a mind like a Rubik's Cube,' marveled Bates. 'I still can't believe any of this. I never expected this to happen at the end of my career, or something this wonderful that I could dig into and really love doing, and love talking about, and get so excited about the fact that everybody loves it. … I'm living the dream.' Best of GoldDerby MrBeast reveals the machine-gun stunt he had to cut from 'Beast Games,' says he wants to do competition series at least 10 seasons 'What is it that's creepy about Tommy?' Peter Sarsgaard defends his 'Presumed Innocent' character 'The Pitt' star Isa Briones loves the discourse around Dr. Santos: 'I just want people to feel something viscerally' Click here to read the full article.
Perth Now
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
James Marsden reveals 'crazy' connection with Olivia Munn
James Marsden had a "crazy" connection with Olivia Munn when he was younger. The 51-year-old actor recalled the early days of his career when he was trying to make it and went home to visit his family where he discovered that his sister was friends with Olivia, 22, in the years before she found global fame herself. He told People: "About four or five years after I moved to L.A., I found some success. I was on a TV show. And I was kind of known around town back home as someone who had moved to LA and and, you know, made it or whatever. "So, I went back home to see my sister, and she was like, 'You mind coming to dinner with me and some of my girlfriends from school?' I was like, 'Yeah, sure, sure, sure,' you know, you go and take some pictures or whatever. Olivia [Munn] was one of those girls. "Olivia ran up to me at a GQ party in LA years later, and she said, 'I'm friends with Jenny, your sister, we went to Applebee's back in the day!' And I was like, 'Wait, what, I would have remembered you!' It's just so funny. And now we're doing this show together, it's crazy." The Hollywood stars are now set to appear alongside each other in 'Your Friends and Neighbors' for Apple+, and have both starred in the 'X-Men' universe. Meanwhile, the 'Hairspray' star will also reprise his role as Cyclops in 'Avengers: Doomsday' - which is set for release in May 2026 - and is looking forward to going back to the part. He said: "I'm gonna enjoy the good stuff while we're firing on all cylinders, it's been a lot of good stuff. It's all good man, all good stuff.'
Perth Now
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Olivia Munn never felt 'betrayed by her body' after breast cancer diagnosis
Olivia Munn never felt like her body was "betraying" her after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The 44-year-old star - who was diagnosed with the disease in 2023 and is now cancer free - has opened up about her relationship with her own body during and after her health battle. She told Extra: "People have asked me this question a lot... They'll say it like as an assumption. "They'll say, 'Did you feel your body betrayed you when you were diagnosed with breast cancer?' "Not once did I ever think that my body was betraying me because my body is the thing that is going to get me through this. Together, my spirt, my soul, my energy and my body, that's what's carrying me through." However, Olivia - who has Malcolm, three, and six-month-old Mei with husband John Mulaney - admitted becoming a mother did give her some body hang-ups. She explained: "My stomach didn't go back to the way it used to look [after I had my son]. "At first I was hard on myself, because I would look at other people — especially on Instagram — who had just had babies around the same time as me, and, like, they're back to wearing midriffs, and I still can't do that. 'But I look at my baby boy and I'm like, 'He wouldn't be here if my body didn't bring him into this world.' " The 'Your Friends and Neighbors' actress pointed out that every change in her body is a reminder of her motherhood. She added: 'Every little, you know, saggy part of my skin or my stomach, or how everything looks different — I just, I am so grateful for my body and I love my body for being able to bring my son into this world.' Meanwhile, Olivia is also glad to be able to use her platform to help others, while still embracing her own acting career. She said: "I'm juggling being a mom with my new baby girl and then, you know, doing the show ['Your Friends and Neighbors'] that I love so much and then promoting it... "Ad then to be able to be here, and having people still spread the message about the lifetime risk assessment test, and helping to fund research for breast cancer... "It's a big ball of emotions of gratitude right now.'
