Black Actors Sign Letter Decrying “Twisted Ugly Abuse” Of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers After She Was Cast In ‘Romeo & Juliet’ With Tom Holland

Taylor Swift was always destined to be a poet!

Annie Potts is speaking out about the decision to end Young Sheldon.

Prince Harry detailed Queen Elizabeth II's touching act of support towards his wife Meghan Markle in his memoir Spare. The Duke of Sussex revealed that the late monarch reached out to the Duchess of Sussex during a personally challenging period.

Rawandan-British actor Ncuti Gatwa is on the rise with roles in “Sex Education,” “Barbie,” and currently, as the lead of “Doctor Who,” the wildly popular BBC sci-fi comedy series that first aired in 1963. Gatwa’s casting in “Doctor Who” saw the actor face an extreme level of racist backlash, reminding us all over again of the sexism that fellow “Doctor Who” alumni Jodie Whittaker experienced when she was hired to play the Doctor in 2017 (the role has mostly been portrayed by white men so far).

Ncuti Gatwa is sharing his experience as a Black man in Hollywood.

Alex Garland’s bold new political thriller “Civil War” won the box office this weekend, grossing $25 million, the highest opening for an A24 movie ever. Captivating the public with its visceral violence, shocking images, and frightening cautionary tale politics that mirror today’s division, the movie is also earning much acclaim for a brief but chilling performance by Jesse Plemons (“Killers of The Flower Moon”) playing a cold-blooded soldier unnervingly executing civilians at will (read our review).

Rebecca Ferguson shared what transpired after she accused an unnamed actor of screaming at her while they were filming together.

Daniel Mays remembers Michael Douglas and Timothy Van Patten, the respectively star and director of new Apple TV drama Franklin, bursting into song whenever he appeared on set.

Shucked”), will begin previews at the Booth Theatre on 45th Street in late August and then open in mid-September. Produced by Chris Harper (“Company”), “The Roommate” has signed a lease in Shubert Alley for 16 weeks.While it will certainly be a thrill to see the 79-year-old star of “Rosemary’s Baby” back on the boards for the first time in a decade (her last go-round was in “Love Letters”), what’s really piqued my interest is Patti’s Card.In July 2022, LuPone, 74, very publicly left Actors’ Equity, the professional actors union that a performer typically is a member of to work on Broadway and at many other top-tier theaters around the country. “Quite a week on Broadway, seeing my name being bandied about.

Romeo & Juliet.Following the announcement of the cast, which also includes Tom Holland, Amewudah-Rivers was subject to a “barrage” of online abuse.In response, The Jamie Lloyd Company made a statement condemning the “barrage of deplorable racial abuse online directed towards a member of our company.”They continued: “This must stop. We are working with a remarkable group of artists.

When Golden Globe winner Zendaya auditioned to play MJ in "Spider-Man: Homecoming," she was already a well-known actress by Disney fans. Production of "Spider-Man: Homecoming" was wooed by her talent but had no idea who the star was. Zendaya has starred as MJ, the love interest of Peter Parker, otherwise known as Spider-Man, in three movies to date.

Naman Ramachandran Over 800 Black women and non-binary actors have signed an open letter condemning the online racial abuse of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who was recently cast as Juliet in a London West End production of “Romeo & Juliet” alongside Tom Holland. The letter, published in The Guardian on Wednesday, was the initiative of “Enola Holmes” actor Susan Wokoma and “Crowning Glory” playwright Somalia Nonyé Seaton. It reads, “When news of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers’ casting in Jamie Lloyd’s production of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ was announced so many people celebrated and welcomed this news.

Girl, what?! Aaron Taylor-Johnson‘s wife is insisting she’s “never” noticed the massive age gap in their relationship. Even when he was a TEENAGER?!

“Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club.”But the budding actress was eager to transition to more mature roles after appearing in those coming-of-age flicks — and she came close to scoring parts in two iconic movies. In an interview with Variety, the new 56-year-old dished on the directors she met at the end of the 1980s, saying: “I got really close on a couple movies. I met with Mike Nichols for ‘Working Girl’ and Jonathan Demme for ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ but ultimately I was too young.”For “Working Girl,” which was released in 1988, Ringwald was presumably in talks to play plucky young secretary Tess, with the role eventually going to Melanie Griffith.

An open letter from the Artists Rights Alliance and signed by more than 200 major figures in the music and entertainment industries is calling on AI companies and digital music service platforms to pledge that they won’t develop or use AI tools “that undermine or replace the human artistry of songwriters and artists or deny us fair compensation for our work.”

As we mentioned yesterday, Zoe Saldana’s next movie is the gripping immigration drama, “The Absence of Eden,” Directed by Marco Perego, in the film, Garrett Hedlund plays an ICE Agent struggling with the moral dilemmas of border security, and Saldana stars as an undocumented woman fighting to escape a ruthless cartel (Adria Arjona co-stars). In the film, the two characters eventually cross paths and work together to save an innocent girl’s life (see the trailer below).

Too Hot to Handle star Francesca Farago has announced that she is expecting her first child.The reality TV personality, 29, who is best known for Netflix series Too Hot To Handle and Perfect Match, has been open about her struggles to get pregnant, having undergone IVF. She and her fiancé Jesse Sullivan, 33, who is trans, were both thrilled to share the news as they took to their respective Instagram accounts to do so.

Ugh. This sux! Tori Spelling‘s kids were “shamed” by classmates for living in an RV amid their parents’ marital struggles and alleged money problems!

Oti Mabuse has shared another honest insight into her life as a first-time mum as she asked fans for help and advice on things that are making her worry. The former Strictly Come Dancing star admitted that she had been 'constantly' waking up in the night to check on her baby daughter's breathing and feared she had 'mummy paranoia'.

after the feds raided the rapper’s homes in Miami and Los Angeles on Monday — seizing hard drives, phones and other evidence — as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation.“We believe that there is a disturbing history of sex trafficking,” a Department of Homeland Security officer told The Post Thursday without elaborating on the specific allegations.“We are responding to concrete, detailed, explicit allegations. This is not random.