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The Independent
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Pierce Brosnan ‘interested' in returning as James Bond following Amazon takeover
Pierce Brosnan has said that he would be 'interested' in returning as James Bond should he receive an offer. Shockwaves were sent through Hollywood in February when it was announced that Amazon had forged a new joint venture with producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, to hand over the James Bond intellectual property rights. While the two will remain co-owners of the franchise, the transaction leaves creative control of all future productions in the hands of Amazon. The series has gone quiet since the release of 2021's No Time To Die, which marked Daniel Craig 's final outing as 007. Since then, several actors have been rumoured to replace him in the iconic role, including Bridget Jones 4 star Leo Woodall, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, and rumoured favourite, Aaron-Taylor Johnson. Brosnan, 71, has now seemingly thrown his hat into the ring after being asked whether he would want to reprise the role. The Irish actor played Bond in four films between 1995 and 2002 – GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Speaking to GQ, Brosnan was asked about a hypothetical return to Bond, saying: 'How could I not be interested?' However, Brosnan's enthusiasm for a Bond return didn't last, adding that it would be a 'rather romantic notion and idea'. He added that it would be 'best left to another man, really'. Following Amazon's acquisition of Bond, Daniel Craig expressed his 'admiration' for Broccoli and Wilson. In a statement given to the Hollywood Reporter, the Knives Out actor said: 'My respect, admiration and love for Barbara and Michael remain constant and undiminished. I wish Michael a long, relaxing (and well-deserved) retirement and whatever ventures Barbara goes on to do, I know they will be spectacular and I hope I can be part of them.' There has been some backlash to Amazon, and specifically Jeff Bezos, now owning Bond. American filmmaker Osgood Perkins, who directed the 2024 sleeper horror hit Longlegs and new film The Monkey, was recently asked during a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' whether he'd ever consider directing a film in the long-running British spy franchise. He made his feelings known about the Amazon development with his blunt reply: 'No, because f*** Jeff Bezos.' Elsewhere, Valerie Leon, who was a 'Bond girl' in The Spy Who Loved Me and Never Say Never Again, is concerned that the films will no longer be British. She told ITV's Good Morning Britain: 'The Bond franchise was very British and it won't be anymore. 'And obviously if they make films they won't go into the cinema… everything is so changed now, it just won't be the same and I'm very old-fashioned anyway.'
The Independent
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
I'm so thankful binge-drinking, chain-smoking Bridget Jones was my Noughties role model growing up
Bridget Jones would risk 'death by chardonnay ' in real life', read one somewhat hysterical headline upon the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the fourth film in the popular franchise based on Helen Fielding 's series of books. This latest instalment, which sees Renée Zellweger return once more as everyone's favourite frazzled yet loveable lead, proved that the eponymous heroine has something quite the opposite of what that po-faced headline might suggest: longevity. It's now been almost 25 years since she first hit our screens in 2001, and the new film has recorded the highest-ever opening for a romcom in the UK. Bridget fever is clearly doing anything but diminishing as the decades roll by. I can, technically, understand the 'death by chardonnay' concerns after Dan Baumgardt, a senior lecturer in physiology, pharmacology and neuroscience at the University of Bristol, totted up Jones's annual intake. The first book in the Fielding-penned quartet states that Jones ingested 3,836 units of alcohol, smoked 5,277 cigarettes and consumed 11 million calories in one year, equating to an alarming 74 units of alcohol a week (more than five times the recommended maximum), a 15-a-day ciggie habit, and more than 30,000 calories per day – 'six to 10 times more than most competing bodybuilders', as Baumgardt pointed out in an article published by The Conversation. Which, given Jones's perfectly healthy BMI, seems nigh-on impossible. (I guess we can just chalk that one up to creative licence.) In Bridget Jones 4, she has wisely curbed some of these habits, having swapped a packet a day for nicotine patches and binge-drinking for a scaled-back night of cocktails. But honestly, the more I think about it, the more I'm glad Bridget Jones was our hedonistic Noughties pin-up girl. Yes, her chaotic lifestyle was clearly unsustainable – so much so that Fielding's publishers had to put a health warning on the books – but here was a woman who knew how to cut loose, truly enjoy herself (if sometimes to excess), and live her life with an uninhibited, reckless abandon. She provided a template of 'grown-up' life that looked genuinely enticing to a moody teenager with braces, glasses and uncontrollable hair; occasionally falling out of cabs, making your friends eat blue soup or exposing your arse on national telly seemed a small price to pay for the joyful abundance, no-holds-barred fun and wine-fuelled escapades that Jones and her urban family represented. In fact, it was the one blueprint for life that suggested being an adult was not about suddenly morphing into a serious and exhaustingly 'perfect' woman who'd stepped straight out of a catalogue: skeletally thin, immaculately dressed, poised, never pissed, loud or crass, always witty and well informed. That it could be about continuing to make mistakes, learn from them, keep going and keep growing. You didn't have to have your s*** together in order to find a relationship, build a successful career and be a good daughter, friend or – in the case of Mad About the Boy – mother. There was no need to put your dreams on hold indefinitely until you'd got it all 'right'. The imperfectly authentic version of you could continue stumbling forward and finding her footing – and having an enviably good time featuring unlimited bottles of white wine, M&S mini pizzas and party-size tiramisus in the process. It's hard not to contrast the fictional Jones with her real-life, modern-day equivalents when thinking of today's poster girls for young women. It's a world in which health and wellness are akin to a religion, and puritanical influencers with poreless foreheads and curated-to-the-hilt content featuring raw foods are often the aspirational role models for the next generation. No, there's nothing wrong with prioritising your health. But these unattainable idols feel like they go hand in hand with a social media culture that breeds timidity and uptight control, in which everybody is terrified of making a single mistake for fear it'll be recorded and forever documented online. Worst still, if you do f***-up publicly, it's become seemingly mandatory to turn it into some sort of transformational content, à la How to Fail 's Elizabeth Day – or an overly earnest and tearful POV video about how you've been 'humbled' and 'will learn and heal from this experience going forward'. There is real freedom in watching a woman who never loses the ability to laugh at herself One of the charms of Jones is her frequent and unapologetic embarrassment. The series charts a never-ending litany of compromising situations, from singing ear-shatteringly bad karaoke at the work Christmas party, to falling face-first into a sea of mud while dressed in head-to-toe white, to, in her latest outing, having a severe allergic reaction to a plumping lip treatment. There is real freedom in watching a woman who never loses the ability to laugh at herself and see the funny side, who never lets shame or fear hold her back, who refuses to say sorry for the crime of simply being human. It's why she can believably have a red-hot summer fling with a man 20 years her junior (a perfectly cast Leo Woodall as Roxster) – here is a fiftysomething who, though she might have all the usual hangups about her body image and ageing, would never dream of letting them impact on her unadulterated enjoyment of sex. Jones is susceptible to embarrassing set-ups because she takes risks, tries new things, says yes to life. And the truly inspirational thing about embarrassment? It engenders fearlessness. After all, if you're not afraid to make a total tit of yourself at any given moment, what else could possibly scare you? That's why Bridget Jones will always be my OG role model. While DBC (Death by Chardonnay) is clearly best avoided, spending our one wild and precious life pursuing joy over perfection seems a more worthwhile endeavour than ever.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
If You Swooned Over Leo Woodall in ‘Bridget Jones,' Watch This Netflix Romance Next
Bridget Jones is back where she belongs: on our screens and in our hearts. With 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,' which debuted Friday on Peacock 24 years after the original rom-com introduced us to Renée Zellweger's Oscar-nominated performance as the lovingly bumbling heroine, one thing remains as true as ever: men can't get enough of Bridget's unwitting charm. Now in 'Bridget Jones 4,' Leo Woodall — previously a breakout heartthrob (and criminal) in 'The White Lotus' Season 2 — lays on the dimpled charm as Roxster, Bridget's younger, magnetic love interest, and competing suitor to Mr. Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor), teacher of Bridget's children. If you found yourself swooning for the 28-year-old London-born actor, we know just the project you should watch him in next. Premiering last year on Netflix, 'One Day' shows Woodall in a softer light than his bad boy 'White Lotus' rabble-rouser, but his sex appeal and leading man charm are still off the charts. Here's everything you need to know about the acclaimed British drama from last year. 'One Day' is a romantic British limited series starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod as a pair of longtime friends-turned-lovers and everything in between. Each episode checks in on the pair on the same day each year over two decades, showing how they enter and exit and ultimately come to define one another's lives. If Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew hadn't met and spoken to each other for the first time on July 15, 1988, they would have gone their separate ways after graduation and lived their whole lives not knowing each other. Adapted from David Nicholls' bestselling, decades-spanning novel, 'One Day' chronicles the interwoven lives of Ambika Mod's Emma and Leo Woodall's Dexter over 20 years and 14 episodes. According to the show's logline, 'Each episode finds Dex and Em, one year older, on this one particular date, as they grow and change, move together and apart, experience joy and heartbreak.' The two oscillate between friends, lovers and everything in between. 'One Day' starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod debuted on Netflix one year ago, just in time for Valentine's Day 2024 on Feb. 8. 'One Day' is streaming now on Netflix. Leo Woodall stars as Dexter and Ambika Mod stars as Emma. The limited series also features U.K. actors Amber Grappy, Brendan Quinn, Tim McInnerny, Jonny Weldon, Eleanor Tomlinson and Essie Davis in recurring roles. Watch the trailer for 'One Day' below: The post If You Swooned Over Leo Woodall in 'Bridget Jones,' Watch This Netflix Romance Next appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
If You Swooned Over Leo Woodall in ‘Bridget Jones,' Watch This Netflix Romance Next
Bridget Jones is back where she belongs: on our screens and in our hearts. With 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,' which debuted Friday on Peacock 24 years after the original rom-com introduced us to Renée Zellweger's Oscar-nominated performance as the lovingly bumbling heroine, one thing remains as true as ever: men can't get enough of Bridget's unwitting charm. Now in 'Bridget Jones 4,' Leo Woodall — previously a breakout heartthrob (and criminal) in 'The White Lotus' Season 2 — lays on the dimpled charm as Roxster, Bridget's younger, magnetic love interest, and competing suitor to Mr. Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor), teacher of Bridget's children. If you found yourself swooning for the 28-year-old London-born actor, we know just the project you should watch him in next. Premiering last year on Netflix, 'One Day' shows Woodall in a softer light than his bad boy 'White Lotus' rabble-rouser, but his sex appeal and leading man charm are still off the charts. Here's everything you need to know about the acclaimed British drama from last year. 'One Day' is a romantic British limited series starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod as a pair of longtime friends-turned-lovers and everything in between. Each episode checks in on the pair on the same day each year over two decades, showing how they enter and exit and ultimately come to define one another's lives. If Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew hadn't met and spoken to each other for the first time on July 15, 1988, they would have gone their separate ways after graduation and lived their whole lives not knowing each other. Adapted from David Nicholls' bestselling, decades-spanning novel, 'One Day' chronicles the interwoven lives of Ambika Mod's Emma and Leo Woodall's Dexter over 20 years and 14 episodes. According to the show's logline, 'Each episode finds Dex and Em, one year older, on this one particular date, as they grow and change, move together and apart, experience joy and heartbreak.' The two oscillate between friends, lovers and everything in between. 'One Day' starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod debuted on Netflix one year ago, just in time for Valentine's Day 2024 on Feb. 8. 'One Day' is streaming now on Netflix. Leo Woodall stars as Dexter and Ambika Mod stars as Emma. The limited series also features U.K. actors Amber Grappy, Brendan Quinn, Tim McInnerny, Jonny Weldon, Eleanor Tomlinson and Essie Davis in recurring roles. Watch the trailer for 'One Day' below: The post If You Swooned Over Leo Woodall in 'Bridget Jones,' Watch This Netflix Romance Next appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Leo Woodall and Meghann Fahy's relationship: Inside their White Lotus romance after Bridget Jones UK premiere
Although Leo Woodall has built up a legion of female fans over the past few years, the British actor is firmly loved-up with US actress Meghann Fahy. The 28-year-old met The Perfect Couple star Fahy, 34, on the set of The White Lotus in Italy in early 2022 and the pair have been together ever since. Woodall cemented his heartthrob status with his turn as Dex in the Netflix adaption of One Day last year and is set to play the love interest in Bridget Jones 4. Fans will next see the Londoner star play Renée Zellweger's love interest in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, which held it's UK premiere on Wednesday night. Following the film's after-party at London's Brasserie Zedel, Woodall was spotted hand-in-hand with Fahy as they arrived back to his hotel after his big night. As excitement builds for the next installment of the beloved Rom-Com to drop on February 12, we take a look at his Transatlantic love life with Fahy. The pair met while filming series two of Mike White's hit murder mystery, The White Lotus, on the Italian island of Sicily. Fahy played Daphne Sullivan, the wife of Theo James' character, Cameron, while Woodall played Jack, the 'nephew' of Tom Hollander's character, mob leader Quentin. The cast reportedly stayed at the lavish Four Seasons San Domenico Hotel in Taormina, where the series was filmed. It was rumoured that Fahy and Woodall became an item pretty soon into production, meaning they began dating in February or March 2022. In April 2022, Fahy shared a photo with Woodall as well as their co-stars Haley Lu Richardson - who played Woodall's onscreen love interest - and Adam DiMarco. In September of that year, Woodall included photos with Fahy in a photo dump from The White Lotus filming with the caption: 'That's amore.' In one snap, she had her eyes closed and was sucking Woodall's finger during what looked like a wild dinner with the cast. In another, she posed seductively on an electric scooter in front of a huge art installation on a night out. Fahy commented on the post, 'I love you! I love these! I love you!' to which Woodall responded, 'Love you right back,' with a heart. After the show's series finale in December 2022, Fahy shared her own behind-the-scenes round-up with the cast, which featured several snaps of Woodall. 'Sizzley Sicily,' she captioned the post, which Woodall commented on with a bomb and shell emoji, seemingly calling his co-star a bombshell. Fahy teased their relationship publicly for the first time during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in January 2023. When asked about the dating rumours, she said: 'Oh, I don't kiss and tell. Come on, guys.' Cohen pressed the topic and she replied, 'For you, I'll say sure,' before hastily adding, 'I was kidding! Just because you wanted me to say it, so I said it. We're friends.' In February 2023, Fahy and Woodall made their first red carpet appearance together at the 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. They also attended the South Bank Sky Arts Awards together in London in July. When an Entertainment Tonight reporter asked, 'Have you seen romance come out of The White Lotus?' Fahy jokingly replied, 'I don't know anything. Never heard of it. Never seen it. What is that show?' The couple eventually confirmed their romance during a getaway in New York in November 2023. They were spotting kissing while walking under an umbrella during a rainy day in the Big Apple. The duo were also pictured enjoying strolls around the city the rest of that week. Fahy and Woodall reportedly had a PDA-packed date at The Bowery Hotel, Page Six reported. A source said Fahy was 'sitting comfortably' on Woodall's lap as they kissed at the lobby bar. 'The kisses were a little much, but their chemistry was very cute. You can tell they're definitely in love,' the insider added. The couple were spotted dancing up a storm at an Emmys after-party in Los Angeles in January 2024. Woodall was seen with his arms wrapped around Fahy, who was wearing his black jacket, as they partied at the HBO Post Emmys Reception at San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood. A month later, Fahy confirmed their romance on Instagram by sharing a photo of her and Woodall on a stroll with their arms around each other. He jokingly commented on it: 'Who is he?!' Her post was in the same month that Woodall's drama with Ambika Mod, One Day, aired and he gained one million followers on Instagram. Fahy and Woodall continued to make their long-distance romance work with a trip to Vienna, Austria, in March 2024. The Bold Type actress shared several snaps from their holiday, including a photo of their matching white Nike trainers positioned next to each other. She also post a snap of herself posing in a black leather jacket front of the historic Hochstrahlbrunnen fountain with a rainbow behind her. 'The fountain was happy to see me and Vienna really was waiting!!' Fahy wrote alongside it. Fahy publicly praised her boyfriend in a rare comment about his role in One Day in August 2024. 'I thought it was incredibly well done from top to bottom, and obviously the performances were my favourite part,' she told Vanity Fair. The series is an adaptation of David Nicholls' 2009 bestselling novel following the slow-burning, two-decade-spanning relationship between Emma and Dexter Mayhew. Her praise came several months after Woodall shared his own thoughts about the project. 'It's just a beautiful, beautiful story, and it has this legacy already,' he told Tudum about the book, which was also adapted into a 2011 film with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. 'Both characters are so well-formed. There's a huge [amount] of joyfulness.' The couple jetted off on a stunning beach holiday in an undisclosed tropical location to ring in the New Year. Fahy shared several photos from their trip on January 8 on Instagram, including a photo of their shadows as they kissed on the beach. The duo also enjoyed boat trips and bike rides around their exclusive beach resort. Fahy posted snaps of herself having cocktails while sunbathing, taking a dip in an infinity pool, and having wine at dinner.
