These are some new photos of Freida Pinto in New York City yesterday, where she's been making the promotional rounds for The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. James Franco has been around too, but I feel like Freida has been more visible, perhaps because James is too busy being an ARTIST to promote the film, or perhaps because Freida seems happy to promote her work, unlike James. I absolutely hate that terrible pea sh-t dress, but I love the vivid purple-aubergine dress.
In a recent interview with The Independent, Frieda talked about something that is rather taboo for Indian actresses to discuss - the obsession, amongst Indian women, for lighter skin. The entire Independent interview is interesting - go here to read it - but I was fascinated by Freida's thoughts:
At college in her mid-teens, Pinto had realised that theatre and literature were her “calling”. To earn some money, she began modelling. The well-mannered, inquisitive youngster found it easy working with photographers, but it was far from satisfying. Nor was the advertising work which followed.
“There were some very silly, stupid auditions that I had to go for. Like, there’s this girl who walks into college and nobody’s paying any attention to her because she is not using this particular cream – some kind of moisturiser or fairness cream, which I’m completely against. Then she’d put on the cream and all the boys would turn to her. And, I was like, ‘Arrgh, this is so bloody cheesy!’ If I ever got shortlisted for any of those parts I’d feel this sudden burden: ‘Oh my God, if I do this, they’ll pay me and I’ll earn my pocket money – but then it’s gonna be history.’ Some of my ads are now on YouTube and it’s just so embarrassing.”
Embarrassing, yes, but she can laugh about them. “There is a silly Wrigley chewing-gum ad you should check out. It’s so stupid. This guy pops a gum in his mouth and I fall from a tree on to his bike! Then he’s got a girl!” Pinto cracks up with laughter at the memory. “So from doing cheesy stuff like that to doing something as fulfilling as Miral – I think I’ve come a long way.”
She has, but Pinto can’t, and won’t, forget where she has come from. She despairs at the popularity of those “fairness creams” in Southeast Asia – bleaching potions to lighten the skin. “It’s completely wrong medically – and culturally, of course, because it’s giving people the wrong idea. My friend who’s a doctor told me that she’d have parents come in with kids who were three years old, saying, ‘Do something – I want my baby to be fair.’ It’s just this thing that people [in India] are so fascinated by white skin. There’s a lot of people there who are naturally really pale. But the whole idea that you have to be fair – without naming actors, but there are actors who admit it – the fairer you are, the easier it is.”
Even within Bollywood? “Oh yeah, absolutely. The amount of pancake cream on your face is ridiculous. I don’t think it is required, by the way. If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.”
But Pinto herself is a bright beacon for Indian actors. Slumdog Millionaire showed that European and American audiences could be receptive to non-Western stories. And with her nonstop career since, this proudly Indian actress has succeeded in Hollywood without having to compromise by changing her looks or the way she speaks.
“Yeah,” she nods, “but it’s so funny. I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don’t really have is also very American in a way. They love tanning! Why the hell are you tanning that much? Then in my country people want a fairer skin tone! It’s just crazy. So when I was that Indian export that went to America and people were wanting that natural tan – which I don’t really have to go through tanning [to acquire] – they were excited to include something in their culture, into their film industry, that was not really there already. Or not properly or appropriately represented. So I just feel that this was a change.
“And I embrace the change and am hopeful it brings in more actors from Southeast Asia, without [them] having to do stereotypical roles. To be able to do something like Rise of the Planet of the Apes that is not concentrating on ethnicity – I’m so glad that is changing in the West.”
I remember the first time one of my Indian aunts told me that I had the "right" kind of complexion, because I'm mixed, my skin is much lighter than that of my Indian father's. My Indian relatives always remark on it now - I have lightest-skin of anyone in my family. It's a weird thing to remark on, but Frieda is right, there is a lot of emphasis on lighter skin amongst Indians. Personally, I prefer when I'm darker, and I'm totally not above going to a tanning bed to get some color. I can feel my aunts gasping from here.
Last month, tabloids revealed something that many of you had assumed for a while: that the father of Linda Evangelista's 4-year-old son Augustin is Francois-Henri Pinault, best known in American circles as "Salma Hayek's French billionaire husband". Linda had never publicly revealed her son's paternity, and it's believed that Pinault fathered Augustin while he and Salma were "on a break". At least, that's the official version that Salma Hayek wants us to know. Anyway, as it turns out, Francois-Henri had barely given Linda any child support for little Augustin, and so Linda is in the process of taking Pinault to court, which is how this scandal went public. Now the New York Post reveals that Linda's child support negotiations have taken an odd turn: Linda wants $46,000 a month in child support. Er…
It’s not cheap being a supermodel mommy! Glamorous cover girl Linda Evangelista came to Manhattan Family Court yesterday — and slapped her deadbeat billionaire French baby-daddy with a $46,000-a-month support request.
“That would probably be the largest support order in the history of the Family Court,” noted Support Magistrate Matthew Troy, who is expected to decide on an amount when the parties return to Family Court next month.
The demure but towering Evangelista, still stunning at 46, is demanding the cash from Francois-Henri Pinault — CEO of the Paris-based luxury conglomerate that owns Gucci, Yves St. Laurent and Bottega Veneta — who is the father of her 4 year old, Augustin James, to whom he has not paid a penny since the boy’s birth.
Pinault is married to Salma Hayek, with whom he has another child of nearly identical age — 3-year-old Valentina. While Pinault lavishes Valentina with luxuries — he even spends $50,000 a month for a $12 million Los Angeles estate held in trust in the girl’s name — Evangelista has been saddled with the entire cost of caring for and protecting little Augie, complained the model’s lawyer, William Beslow.
“He’s just been sitting back, paying zero,” Beslow told the magistrate yesterday.
The majority of the monthly sum Evangelista is requesting would cover the round-the-clock nannies and gun-toting drivers that are simply the due of any son of a single mom and an overseas billionaire, her lawyer argued yesterday. But Pinault, whose family is worth an estimated $11.5 billion, is fighting the expenditures tooth and nail.
During a lengthy deposition last Tuesday, Pinault’s lawyer grilled her on just why she needs a team of heat-packing drivers who are former police detectives — at a whopping cost of $175,000 a year.
Evangelista also wants $80,000 a year for a nanny, Pinault lawyer David Aaronson complained to the judge yesterday.
“She testified that she wants to have a 24-hour nanny because she does not want to be alone with the child . . . Miss Evangelista, you should understand, has a worth of more than $8 million, and she earned, last year, $1.8 million.”
The judge immediately scratched out the $7,500 Evangelista was seeking for monthly “vacation” expenses, but ultimately seemed very sympathetic to the security and nanny costs, noting that these may simply be prudent expenditures for raising a high-profile, high-risk Manhattan scion.
“These are the extraordinary expenses that may be a part of the child’s life,” the judge said. “And if there is a trial [in the support case] with a lot of publicity, there will probably be a need for two detectives to drive this kid around.”
It’s understandable, too, for Evangelista to want another adult — a nanny — to be on hand given her security concerns and travel requirements of her job, the judge said.
“How many hours a week do you work?” the judge asked the model at one point.
“On days when I do not work, I am working on my image,” Evangelista answered, her voice soft, and tinged with defensiveness. “I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image,” she said, “just like an athlete.”
“When I work, it can be a 16-hour day,” she added. Both lawyers and Evangelista declined comment after the proceeding.
My first thought was that Linda isn't doing much these days, and hasn't done much for the past decade, but that was before I knew that she was still working 16-hour days (doing God knows what) and "working on her image." I too can understand wanting security and a nanny and such, but $46,000 a month does sound extreme, to put it mildly. To me, the funniest part is that she was asking for $7500 a month - in vacation expenses. A MONTH. Dear God, I've always sort of liked Linda, but she's gotten pretty crazy, right? I guess it's to be expected, though. You can't get knocked up be a billionaire without this kind of junk going down. *plotting*
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie can't swing their dicks into a new city without the tabloids screaming that they are going to buy some palatial estate or kazillion-dollar condo. I've lost track of how many alleged properties they reportedly own - but I've also lost track of all of their actual properties too. They have the French chateau, the NOLA property, and lots of stuff in California, in LA and Santa Barbara. Is that all? Something in Berlin too, right? And I still don't know if Angelina has kept her English farmhouse, the one that she purchased right after she and Billy Bob Thornton split. I liked the idea of her in a farmhouse, but I have no idea if she sold it at some point. Anyway, the British tabloids claim that Brangelina are once again in the market for some property, this time in Richmond, England, where Brad is filming World War Z:
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have their sights set on a mansion in the posh neighborhood of Richmond-On-Thames in London, RadarOnline.com has learned. Pitt has fallen in love with the scenic area while filming his new movie World War Z and is looking to buy the property where Angelina and their six kids have been staying.
Jolie is said to like Richmond, an area rich in history dating back to the 16th Century and known as one of the Britain's most exclusive areas. The notoriously private Salt star has been spotted taking her kids to the local cinema in the plush area where the average price of a detached house is $2.2 million.
A source told the UK newspaper The Sun: "Brad is keen to shoot more movies in the UK with his company Plan B Productions and thinks that the mansion in Richmond is the perfect place to live."
Richmond — which has a population of just 21,221 — is a town which is situated around 8 miles south-west of central London.
It is incorporated in the London Borough Of Richmond-On-Thames and received its name following the construction of Richmond Palace in the 16th century. The development of Richmond as a London suburb began with the opening of the railway station in 1846. Located on the River Thames, Richmond has an active commercial center with a number of parks and open spaces with several authentic pubs and restaurants.
And if they do decide to settle in the posh suburb they will be in fine company: Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger, Pete Townsend and Richard E Grant all have homes in the area.
Meanwhile, Brangelina and their brood are due to travel to Scotland this week as Pitt continues to shoot scenes for his new movie.
Sounds nice. And then when they get to Scotland, suddenly Brad will fall in love with Balmoral Castle and he'll try to get Queen Liz to sell. By the way, I want Angelina to go to Scotland and get wasted with lots of Scotsmen. I want to live vicariously through her for that, because I would imagine it would be lots of fun.
Archive photos of Brangelina in England over the years, courtesy of WENN.
Kaiser pointed me to this story on Radar which I will admit not having read up until now. I just saw the title and assumed someone asked this poor twit if she planned to have kids and she said “not at the moment” or something. The real story is that the mother of 16 year-old aspiring actor/singer/model/reality star Courteney Stodden confirmed that her daughter is on birth control, so her little girl doesn’t get knocked up by the super skeevy 51 year-old character actor she married her off to. That’s some fine parenting right there. In case, like me, you were praying that this is a huge publicity stunt and that this guy is gay or that these people made up this relationship to try to score a reality show, her mom at least seems to be in on it.
In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com the 16-year-old bride’s mother Krista Stodden revealed that her daughter, who was a virgin when she got married, is practicing safe sex and isn’t planning on having a baby right away.
“She’s making sure as much as she can at this time that it isn’t happening,” Krista said about her newlywed daughter, who tied the knot Hutchison in Las Vegas in May.
“She’s on birth control because she would prefer to wait for children,” her mom said. Her husband might have a different idea though. “I think Doug would love to have children, but Courtney wants to wait a few years.”
“Courtney wants to work on her career,” Krista explained, but knowing that accidents do happen, she said it would be a joy to the family if her daughter did fall pregnant.
“If something happens we do not believe in abortion, so if God blesses them that would be ok, but they’re not trying for a baby now,” she says.
As a would be doting grandmother, Krista said that if Courtney and Doug did have children: “the baby would be so creative. Doug is brilliant, so creative and they both would pass on so many creative genes.”
Meanwhile, married life is treating her daughter well Krista told RadarOnline.com. “Doug and Courtney have a lot of exciting projects they’re working on and their home life is wonderful.
“Courtney never showed any interest in cooking or cleaning, she always wanted a career so Doug takes care of all of the housework. He’s so sweet he’s teaching her how to boil an egg!”
Isn’t that nice? The mom never showed her daughter how to cook an egg and never required her to lift a finger around the house. Instead she got her daughter a boob job and helped launch her music career, eventually signing off on her marriage to a guy older than her dad. It’s ok though, because the old dude is teaching Courtney basic life skills and doing everything for her just like her parents did.
In an interview with E! last month, Courtney and Doug discussed their sex life. Courtney was allegedly a virgin when they met and Doug said “If there is only one caveat to the ocean between our age difference, I wish that I was a virgin when we met.”
“That’s fine that he wasn’t, he’s good. Whatever, he’s a tiger!” she countered.
Yesterday, we heard about Fantasia Barrino's latest pregnancy, this one by her long-time married lover, Antwaun Cook. Go here to read my recap of the situation, which some of you thought was incomplete, considering it's widely believed that Fantasia was pregnant when she attempted suicide by overdosing on aspirin and sleeping pills, and that's why she had the abortion with her last pregnancy. Yesterday, I was writing from memory, and from what I could remember, I don't think it was ever established when Fantasia was pregnant and when she decided to have the abortion…? Correct me if I'm wrong, of course.
Anyway, considering that Fantasia was all "I'm pregnant, y'all, hater gonna hate" in her announcement video, I wondered exactly what was the state of Antwaun and Paula Cook's marriage. As it turns out, they still aren't divorced yet, according to Radar. Sigh… 'Tasia really needs to quit that man.
Former American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino is pregnant by her boyfriend Antwaun Cook, but RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned he's still married to his ex!
Fantasia made headlines when she got Antwaun's last name tattooed on her shoulder and first stepped out with the married man, but now that she's pregnant by him, it's adding to the heartache for Antwaun's wife, Paula Cook.
The 27-year-old singer announced her pregnancy over the weekend during her Jacksonville, Florida, concert and although she didn't say who the father is, RadarOnline.com can confirm it is in fact Antwaun.
"Antwaun told Paula that Fantasia was pregnant early on," a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com. "He wanted her to hear it from him before word got out in the press. Paula was really hurt when he left her for Fantasia, so it's like the knife that was already in her back is being twisted now."
RadarOnline.com has learned that Antwaun and Paula are set to meet in a North Carolina courthouse on Wednesday, August 10 to try and sort out their accurate date of separation. Antwaun maintains the two were already separated when he started dating Fantasia, while Paula insists he cheated on her.
The separated lovers were in court last year for the same thing and a judge found in favor of Antwaun, but their legal issues have started all over again because the original judge had to recuse herself.
While in court last November, Fantasia took the stand and admitted not only to having been pregnant by Antwaun, but then aborting the unborn child.
Fantasia has a nine-year-old daughter from a previous relationship and this will be her first child with Antwaun.
The thing about Paula and Antwaun's marriage is that they really were still together when he started up with Fantasia. Like, Antwaun was still living in the same home as Paula, and Fantasia would call up and harass Paula when Antwaun wasn't around. Reportedly, Fantasia would demand that Paula leave Antwaun and that she (Fanny) was the only one who could make Antwaun happy. So even if Antwaun began the affair with Fantasia under false pretenses, as the affair went on, Fantasia knew exactly what was going on.
Last night, NBC held a press-friendly party for all of their hit shows, and since NBC owns Bravo, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills came out. My eye went to Camille Grammer, of course. CB and I were debating whether or not Camille has been freshly tweaked - CB thinks that it's just makeup, and that all of the Real Housewives have been tweaked at various times. I don't know, though. Camille looks different to me. I think it's a combination of weight loss (she looks slimmer) plus something "extra" for the party to give her the attractive "super-surprised" look. Here's Camille from a few months ago:
And here's Camille last night:
By the way, have you seen the photos of Camille hanging out in Malibu with Brandi Glanville? Go here to see the pics - I guess they're friends? Interesting.
Also - Camille's ex, Kelsey Grammer has been talking about his dream of running for political office. He wants to run for New York City mayor! Kelsey told the NY Post, "I have had a great career and extraordinary opportunities. But I look at my political aspirations as that last piece of my life — where I hope to do something good for people and pay back a little.” He also said that to get into politics, you need a "narcissistic personality" and "You certainly have to have a resilient ego." He's a conservative Republican too - "It is not unfamiliar for me to have a point of view that might be considered out of the norm in my community." Eh. I mean, NYC has a history of elected Republicans as their mayor, but I don't think Kelsey has a snowball's chance in Hell's Kitchen.
As we talked about yesterday, Jennifer Lopez managed to score the September cover of Vanity Fair. There were rumors that it was going to Linnocent, so I don't know what happened there. As for Jennifer and this "exclusive"… keep in mind that Jennifer and Marc just announced their split on July 15! Yes, Us Weekly and People Magazine reportedly got the heads up on their split days before the official announcement, and yes, Jennifer already gave a back-handed "exclusive" to Us Weekly when she let her people talk freely about the problems in her marriage. Still, what immediately comes to mind is how quickly Jennifer acted to give away her "exclusive first interview" to VF. Vanity Fair had to shoot their cover and get their cover story written all by last week. Which means that Jennifer and VF basically negotiated this cover within a matter of days (if not hours) after the split announcement. E! News claims that Jennifer actually did the interview before the split announcement… which means that it's possible that Jennifer was going to dump Marc via Vanity Fair. Anyway, I had high hopes that Jennifer would really be telling all, but she's not really:
“This was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to face,” Lopez says in the new issue of Vanity Fair (on newstands this week). “I really wanted this family to work. That was my biggest dream, and I worked hard at it. We both did. Sometimes it doesn’t work—and that’s sad. But I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love…It’s still my biggest dream. It's still my biggest dream. I am positive—determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person. I now look forward to new challenges. I feel strong."
Lopez opens up to contributing editor Lisa Robinson about her life with Anthony and the example she hopes to set for her children; she talks about her relationship with P. Diddy and breaking off her engagement to Ben Affleck; she's honest about the diva rumors that surround her, and shares her attitudes toward money, fame, and especially love.
"I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love," Lopez explains, describing the passage that has brought her to her current state of mind. "It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself—if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now."
"I will always respect Marc as a singer and performer," Lopez tells Vanity Fair. "We actually work great together, and he was always very supportive. Together we could make magic—and we did. He will always be in our lives. He will always hold a special place in my heart as the father of my children."
“We try, we try,” she said when asked about balancing their work life, their children and their marriage. “[But] it’s getting increasingly harder. When we were [first] married, most of the time, and even before the babies were born, we were able to go everywhere together. I wasn’t working as much. So we kind of had that. I went on tour with him a few times in the first few years of our marriage, and we did a film [El Cantante] together. It’s hard, and we’re figuring it out. It’s tough. And… everything is ramping up in a way. Like I said, we had the first three years of our marriage just for us. I wasn’t working, it was mainly about him. Then we got pregnant. Then it became about the kids. And then I started working again.”
She said she and Marc fought about everything. “Marriage is tough,” she said. “It’s not going to be perfect…It’s definitely challenging.”
Love aside, Lopez also reveals she tried using nannies for twins Max and Emme, but “it wasn’t for me.” Instead, family and friends help with the kids.
The American Idol judge (official word of her return is coming any day now) insists she didn’t have fertility treatments (”Twins run in my family,” she said). She also said hasn’t had any plastic surgery. “But I don’t know how I’ll feel about it when I’m 50,” she admitted.
She also admits that she knows she’s not the best of singers. “I think I’m a really great performer,” Lopez said. “I think I’m a really great actress. I feel confident in those things—that’s a better way to say it. I’m not as gifted a vocalist as some of the girls that are out there, but I know I communicate.”
And sells a ton of records. Her eight albums and numerous hit singles have a sold a combined total of—ready for this?—55 millions copies. She will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year. “It’s like all that hard work and now something permanent is going to be there,” Lopez said. “I made my mark.”
Hm… very interesting. In some passages, it does sound like the interview came before she announced the split, and she's trying to communicate how their marriage has problems. I suspect that there were two interviews, one before the split announcement, and one after. Even though I think Jennifer is trying not to have her name attached to publicly bashing Marc, you can tell that she no longer gives a crap, before or after their split. She's been over it for a long time. And I have my fingers crossed that she moves on in spectacular fashion.
Glee’s Dianna Agron (Quinn Fabray) was on The Late Show last night. I have to say I found her more confident than I expected. I’ve never seen her interviewed before and prior to this my impression was that she’s a little geeky and different. Her red carpet fashion is usuallyconservative and not that fashionable. Plus she penned a long impressive blog entry defending that racy GQ photoshoot with her Glee costars by explaining that she was a “sheltered child” and that “if you asked me for my dream photo shoot, I'd be in a treehouse, in a wild costume, war-paint and I'd be playing with my pet dragon.” So I thought she would be a little shy, since she seems to be a thoughtful person and not your typical starlet, but she wasn’t. She was completely at ease talking to Dave. (You can watch part of the video here if you’re in the US.)
On the Late Show, Agron told a story about how her nose was broken twice. It was implied that she was explaining her nose job since she said she had a deviated septum fixed and that a doctor told her she was a mouth breather. The words “nose job” or “rhinoplasty” were not uttered though:
My Freshman year of high school… I convinced my mom to let me go to my first party. I was able to be there for an hour… instead of the girl punching the guy she wound up to the side and punched me. So that was broken nose number one…
I didn’t go to a doctor because I didn’t want to tell my mom what happened…
Apparently I found out about a year ago, because my nose was getting worse… I went to the doctor and he said “When did you break your nose? You have a horrible deviated septum. You’re a mouth breather, aren’t you?” I said “Yes I am…”
[I couldn't get it fixed at the time] because we were filming.
We were in the middle of doing this concert tour… [in NY]. We had a day off the next day so I met some of my friends out and we were dancing. And again, there was a collision of sorts. I must be turning too quickly, people don’t see me or something like that. But it’s fixed now. I’m no longer a mouth breather.
I usually hate doing these nose job and plastic surgery stories, because I’ll spend ages finding photos with the same aspect ratio to show the difference in someone’s face. Then I’ll line them up and size them the same. A change in nose shape that looks very obvious to me across multiple photos always has commenters who say there’s no difference or that it’s due to makeup or lighting. In this case the person admitted to it, though, and she had a very good explanation that seemed plausible. Plus if you look at her old nose it’s clearly broken-looking and smooshed to the side. She looks better now and her nose is shaved well. It’s not too small for her face like Jessica Biel’s new nose.
Here are photos of Dianna outside the Late Show yesterday. That dress looked better when she was sitting down. At least she wasn’t hanging out of it at the top or bottom.
At this point, I am literally using any excuse to write about Jason Momoa. I mean, why not? MOMOA. He's six feet, 4 inches of MEAT. Throbbing meat. What's interesting is that Momoa is everywhere these days, probably because he's promoting Conan the Barbarian. But every time he opens his mouth, everyone pays rapt attention. He's like the anti-Kellan Lutz. Women take one look at Momoa Meat and we're like, "Hold that thought, sweetheart, let me take off my panties. Okay, continue." Which is the perfect segue to this Vanity Fair video with Jason at Comic Con. He sits there with his shirt almost completely undone, his hair looks damp, and he's flirting with this poor Vanity Fair woman (Krista Smith) who is… so much stronger than me. I mean, I wouldn't be able to sit that close to him without gnawing on him a little bit. This video is HOT:
Just tell me now, ladies: is Jason Momoa the perfect man? I can handle it if you say "yes." Michael Fassbender is MY perfect man (dirty, drunk, Irish, sexypants), but this Jason Momoa thing is taking on a life of its own. Is it time for a cool down? Here's one: did you know that Jason is father to a two-and-a-half year old son named Nakao-Wolf? Nakao-Wolf's mom is professional lucky bitch Lisa Bonet. AND they have another kid, 4-year-old daughter Lola Iolani! Gah!
Jason Momoa's son Nakoa-Wolf is only 2½, but the toddler is already taking after his action star dad.
"My son loves swords and shields and dragons," the Conan the Barbarian star told reporters at a press event for the film at San Diego Comic-Con. "So he loves the Conan stuff … he just grabs sticks and [makes swords]."
Nakoa-Wolf is Momoa's second child with actress Lisa Bonet. Their daughter, Lola Iolani, turned 4 last month.
"They love the action figures," Momoa, who also stars in HBO's Game of Thrones, says of his kids.
Unfortunately for the duo, the plastic dolls may be as close as they get to experiencing Dad's version of Conan for quite some time.
While Momoa allowed his children to view the trailer for his upcoming film – "not the [restricted] one," he clarifies – the actor is adamant his offspring keep away from the full product.
"They'll never see it till they're 19," he says. "They don't need to see those parts of Daddy!"
The Momoa kids will have to settle for their memories of helping their dad get into character.
"My image of him was this lion or this panther," Momoa says of playing Conan. "He was just this big cat, so I'd go to the zoo with my kids and I'd just watch and study lions."
Does that help or hurt your lady-wood? It kind of deflates mine. Granted, it's great to see that Jason is a lovely man, a complete partner to a cool woman like Lisa Bonet, and a loving father. But it kills the lady wood to think of him already absorbed in his family. I need the fantasy. Oh, well.
Ryan Reynolds was on The Tonight Show last night promoting The Change Up, which is one of those body switching movies about a single guy (Reynolds) changing places with a married guy (Jason Bateman). It looks dumb and predictable, and it’s written by the guys who brought us the Hangover movies. The director, David Dobkin, did Wedding Crashers and Fred Claus so it’s not like this is going to be groundbreaking or particularly funny, but I could be wrong.
During his interview Ryan told so many funny self deprecating stories. (You can watch it on NBC.com if you’re in the US.) It’s been a while since I’ve seen an interview with him, and he was just so entertaining. First he talked about how he had some trials and tribulations while filming The Change Up in Atlanta. His first trailer caught fire, his second trailer flooded, his hotel room flooded, then he very quickly glossed over the detail that he split up with then-wife Scarlet Johansson at the time. It was clever the way he rattled it off. “It snowballed. My hotel room flooded, my dog got sick, came down with a slight case of divorce and I broke my pinky finger.” He said it like that very quickly as if it were his dog that got divorced and not him.
He told another story about how he got hit by a drunk driver and sent to the hospital with broken bones when he was 19 - after he had decided to walk home from the bar instead of driving. (He was in Canada at the time, where the “drinking age is six,” he explained.) Then we heard about how he jumped off a bridge in Zurich and broke a vertebrae in his back. His friend jumped, but “I dove, because I’m clinically dumb.”
The best anecdote from Ryan was about how Olivia Wilde’s pasties came off during a sex scene he was filming with her. “In the scene I take her top off… She has these pasties, but she’s drawn these adorable little smiley faces on them. And I forget every line in the scene… I’m nervous… At some point at the end of the scene she takes my hands and puts them on her breasts. So they’re there, palms are a little sweaty. At the end of the scene I take them off. I’m trying not to look at her like a 14 year-old boy who just won the lady lottery.
“I take my hands away and I look down at my hands and there’s two frickin’ smiley faces. I have no idea what to do, so the scene is over now. I reflexively like an idiot just put my hands back on her breasts. I think I’m doing it like to cover them up, but I’m realizing right now it’s a very fine line between chivalry and workplace sexual assault. Thank God someone comes in with a towel.”
The dude is a natural entertainer that’s for sure. He surely practiced all those stories but he came prepared and his delivery was excellent.
At the premiere for the movie last night, Ryan’s maybe ex-hookup and good friend Sandra Bullock came to support him. (She also could have been there for a producer named Jonathon Komack Martin, who works on The George Lopez show, which she also producers.) The two looked very comfortable together and happy to see each other. Bullock wore a black jumpsuit. I’m not a fan of that look for her, particularly the boob ruffle, but at least the pants aren’t baggy as we’ve seen with so many other jumpsuits lately. The shoes are gorgeous and understated too. Her hair and makeup were so pretty.
Olivia Wilde wore this red Antonio Berardi dress with pointy shoulder pads. The dress itself is bizarre but not that bad. The bright red shoes have got to go. This isn’t a wedding or a prom, you don’t need to match your shoes to your dress! Plus the color is off. She’s cute though. Kaiser wants me to mention the bangs trauma. I’m not a bangs fan either but it’s a decent look for her.
And Leslie Mann wore this gladiator-style white dress with a matching braided belt. Why are sparkly shoulders so popular? At least this isn’t as bad as the dress Anna Paquin wore to the 2010 Emmys. I’m always reminded of that dress when I see this style.
Oh and I can’t forget Jason Bateman!
Photo credit: WENN and Fame
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