Russell Crowe Recalls ‘Sticking to His Guns’ About No Sex Scenes in ‘Gladiator,’ Discusses ‘Fantastic’ ‘Highlander’ Reboot, Finding Success…
Russell Crowe proudly recalled “sticking to his guns” about not having sex scenes with Connie Nielsen in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator.” Speaking at the Taormina Film Festival, the New Zealand-born actor was asked about a “certain attitude” he showed about the 2024 sequel to his…
EntertainmentRussell Crowe Says ‘Gladiator II’ “Failed” Because It “Lacked A Moral Core” – Taormina
Russell Crowe has suggested Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II failed to ignite audiences in the same way as the original film because it lacked a “moral core”. He recalled how he had pushed back against studio moves to give his Gladiator character Maximus sex scenes back in 2000, in…
EntertainmentClaire Danes Says Leonardo DiCaprio Told Her Not to Play With Prop Guns on ‘Romeo + Juliet’ Set: ‘Claire, We Don’t Do That’
Claire Danes got some very valuable advice from a future Oscar winner. In her Variety Actors on Actors conversation with “Half Man” star Richard Gadd, the “The Beast in Me” performer reminisced about shooting 1996’s “Romeo + Juliet” with Leonardo DiCaprio. While the shoot — like…
EntertainmentTrump Is Throwing Himself a UFC-Themed Birthday Party. Actors and Activists Are Fighting Back
The "Rise Up Sing Out" concert will be headlined by Jane Fonda, who relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment — a McCarthy Era protest group founded by her father — last year
EntertainmentJeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan Talk Season 3 of ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ and Maggie and Negan’s Relationship: ‘This Is Our Best…
Beware: AMC’s “The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 3 is coming. And it might be the best one yet. “This is our best season – by far. This is such a different relationship now,” said Jeffrey Dean Morgan at Monte-Carlo Television Festival on Saturday, following the premiere of the…
Entertainment‘You Mastered the Guttural Sob’: Claire Danes and Richard Gadd on Body Transformations, Acting Nerves and Moving Past ‘Baby Reindeer’
This interview is part of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series. Watch the full video interview now at CNN.com/Watch (or on the CNN app) and on Variety’s YouTube channel starting at 11:59 pm ET. Claire Danes and Richard Gadd both flirted with madness in high-profile acting…
EntertainmentThe Gospel of Erika Kirk: Leaning In With the Christian Women of TPUSA
At the Turning Point USA Women’s Conference, Kirk presented her vision of a more religious nation: “It’s not political, it’s biblical.”
EntertainmentJeffrey Dean Morgan On ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 3: “It Was So Different From Anything We’ve Done Before” — Monte-Carlo TV…
After a glitzy Monte-Carlo premiere of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan broke down the evolution of the relationship between their characters, Negan and Maggie, and promised the upcoming season of the show breaks new ground. “I think we…
EntertainmentWorkers Start Removal Of Trump’s Name From Kennedy Center
A crew started the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center early in the morning on Saturday, installing a tarp so a crowd watching in person and online couldn’t see the moment. Some photographers could view through cracks in the plastic covering to observe workers…
EntertainmentGore Verbinski Says We Need a ‘Rating System’ for AI Use in Films: ‘If You Use AI to Write a Script, You Get an F’
American director Gore Verbinski, who is at the Taormina Film Festival in competition with “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” spoke about the challenges of labelling the use of AI in films as the technology continues to grow exponentially. Verbinski’s latest, a genre-bending…