Coronation Street star Tina O'Brien has cheekily made a demand for a 'new man' for her on-screen alter ego as her love life continues to be just as complicated as we enter a new year.
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A popular star of Hindi films for a decade with over 80 million Instagram followers, Alia Bhatt, best known internationally for her 2022 double Gangubai Kathiawadi and RRR, has fast become one of India’s hottest exports.
“Any international recognition of an actor from India is recognition of India,” Bhatt told Deadline of her rising stardom as she sat attentively in the center of a grand drawing room at the Ritz-Carlton in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Bhatt was among a series of high-profile names, including Halle Berry, Andrew Garfield, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Nic Cage, who were announced as late additions to the popular ‘In-Conversation’ sidebar at KSA’s Red Sea Film Festival.
Upon arrival at the on-stage Q&A, she would be met with cheers that far exceeded her Hollywood counterparts. Here in Jeddah, there is no competing against the power of India’s biggest stars. Below, Bhatt speaks to us about the buzz surrounding her career, including the experience of shooting Netflix’s Heart of Stone, her first English-language project, joining Yash Raj Films’ popular universe of spy movies, and whether she plans on returning to English-language filmmaking.
DEADLINE: A lot has happened for you over the last few years, including your first English-language part in Netflix’s Heart of Stone. How did you find the process of that production and the reception the film received?
ALIA BHATT: Coming on to Heart of Stone at that time as an actor, I was looking for something that would be new, unchartered, uncomfortable territory, and working in Hollywood on an English language movie for me sort of means starting from scratch, reaching out to an audience that is perhaps not familiar with my work, having worked ten years in the Indian film
Coronation Street star Tina O'Brien has cheekily made a demand for a 'new man' for her on-screen alter ego as her love life continues to be just as complicated as we enter a new year.
Paris Fury says she's been feeling like The Grinch as she prepares for Christmas Day with husband Tyson and their seven children. The TV star, 33, took to Instagram to share that she had been left wrapping presents until the early hours of the morning, just hours after she had taken a "last minute" shopping spree with her daughter Venezuela.Taking to her Instagram Story, Paris had complained: "It's Christmas Eve Eve and I'm not finished." And hours later she revealed that she been wrapping presents, as she shared a snap of her Grinch themed wrapping paper, to which she added: "The Grinch. Is how I'm feeling about now [snoring emoji]." She then added a clock showing that it was 00:31 and she was still wrapping presents.
A female prison officer exchanged explicit messages with three serving prisoners and also sent money to one inmate when he was transferred to prison in Manchester.
Christine McGuinness believes she and ex-husband Paddy need to "move on" despite still living together. The pair went their separate ways in the middle of 2022 after over a decade of marriage, but are co-parenting their three children - five year old Felicity and her older siblings Leo and Penelope, who are twins - and ahead of the big day next week, the 35 year old model told Closer all about their difficult situation as they look to maintain a sense of harmony around the festive season.
Emma Atkins has said whether she thinks her Emmerdale character Charity Dingle could kill as her husband Mackenzie Boyd finds himself in deadly danger. It had already been revealed that Mack would find himself in a precarious situation this festive season.
Peaky Blinders spin-offs are in development at Netflix, according to reports.As reported by Bloomberg, the company is planning two spin-offs based on the British gangster series, which came to an end in 2022 after six seasons.One of these shows is said to be “set in Boston during the middle of the 20th century”, a couple of decades after Peaky Blinders. The other, meanwhile, is believed to be centred around Shelby family matriarch Polly, who was originally played by the late Helen McCrory.The only confirmed continuation of Peaky Blinders on-screen is an upcoming sequel movie, written by the show’s original creator Steven Knight.Speaking to Radio Times recently, Knight said filming on the movie should commence in the middle of 2024.“I’m just working on the final bits of it at the moment,” Knight said.
Breakout Australia comedy Colin From Accounts is back in production.
Naman Ramachandran Top Indian celebrity management firms Matrix IEC and Bling Entertainment are merging, bringing their roster of A-list talents under one roof. Matrix was founded by Reshma Shetty and Vivek Kamath. It represents popular actors including Abhishek Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, Dulquer Salmaan, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Ram Charan, Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan and Vicky Kaushal among others.
Emma Stone is opening up about her fears surrounding her new movie Poor Things!
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan and lead star Cole Hauser reportedly got into a fight the second time they met.Sheridan recently filed a lawsuit against the actors’ coffee company over “trademark infringement”, but according to reports, this isn’t the first time the pair have had their differences.In a recently resurfaced Men’s Journal interview from April 2022, Hauser opened up about the alledged fight with Sheridan.Before sharing the revelation with the outlet, Hauser said that he’d been involved in his fair share of bar fights.“Does a bear shit in the woods?” he said, laughing. “I’ve probably been in one on every continent.”The actor then explained: “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with fighting.
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There were a bunch of Hollywood A-List stars in Saudi Arabia today for the closing night gala of the 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival!
Dani Imbert has jetted off to Turkey for more cosmetic surgery, despite being left "crying every day" after undergoing a Brazlian bum lift in 2022. The Only Way Is Essex star Dani, 24, took to Instagram on Wednesday, 6 December to reveal she'd jetted to Istanbul to visit the same cosmetic surgery clinic she's attended twice in the past. "I'm back for another procedure.
filed a suit against Hauser’s new company.“Morning cruise @freereincoffeecompany get up and get after it!” the “2 Fast 2 Furious’ actor, 48, penned on social media.He shared the post alongside a snapshot of himself drinking a cup of Joe while riding a sailboat by the sunrise.The picture was posted on Nov. 22 — just one day after Sheridan, 53, registered his case on Nov.
“Yellowstone” creator sued the show’s lead over his coffee brand.On Dec. 5, news broke that Sheridan’s ranch, Bosque Ranch, is suing Hauser’s coffee brand, Free Rein.
Nicolas Cage doesn’t really care if you know he’s related to Francis Ford Coppola.
“Entrepreneurship and acting are very similar. Both require the same kind of energy,” Goop CEO and Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow told a crowd during a career retrospective this evening at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia.
Fred Sirieix has become the latest - and third - campmate to be evicted from this year's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! The French maître d'hôtel, known for his leading role in Channel 4's First Dates and his travel shows with Gordon Ramsay and Gino D'Campo, was one of the biggest names to enter the jungle. But unfortunately for him, his time in camp was cut short.
Katya Jones has shared another 'blow' following her unexpected Strictly Come Dancing exit in a post on social media. The professional dancer was forced to withdraw from the competition just before the quarter-finals after celebrity partner Nigel Harman suffered an injury.
and she's busy. Be patient.The TV star recently revealed where music is on her list of priorities during a chat with , explaining that the rigidly defined schedule of acting is currently more compatible with her lifestyle.“I always am thinking about [music]. I never want to blame my kids for this, but I’m so immersed in motherhood right now and it’s so much easier to book an acting job and be like, okay, I have to be at work at 6:00 am and I’ll be done by 9:00 and then I’ll be home,” she said.The “So Yesterday” songstress also cautioned, “It’s hard to talk about it because the second I talk about it people are like, it’s happening!” so please don't post this with that caption.It's happening eventually.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Right now, said, she's got projects to act in, scripts to read, and she wants to produce more.