Matthew Morrison is revealing some surprising scoop about his time on Glee.
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legal drama “Ally McBeal.”The wafer-thin actress, now 59, scooped both a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for her lead role in the smash-hit series, but was dogged by reports she was battling anorexia. “I loved working on ‘Ally McBeal,’ and it just made it sour,” Flockhart told the New York Times in an interview on Friday. “I was very sleep-deprived and I was depressed about it,” she added.
“I did think that it was going to ruin my career. I didn’t think anybody would ever hire me again, because they would just assume I had anorexia, and that would be the end of that.”Flockhart is 5ft. 5in.tall, with her weight widely reported to be around 110 lbs.
“Ally McBeal” aired on Fox from 1997 until 2002 and also starred Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski, Gil Bellows, Lucy Liu, Peter MacNicol and Courtney Thorne-Smith.For the entire five years of filming, the anorexia reports followed Flockhart. “I had days where I was really hurt and embarrassed and infuriated,” she said. “I was lucky that I had to work.
I just put my head down. I always felt like, ‘Calista, you’re a good person, you’re not mean to anybody,’ and I’m confident in that.”Flockhart told the Times that if “Ally McBeal” aired today, mean-spirited reports about her weight would not fly.“They call it body-shaming now. I haven’t thought about it in a long time, but it’s really not OK to accuse someone of having a disease that a lot of people struggle with,” the mother-of-one said.She added that she has “never been in a situation where I have to watch my weight.”“I just have small bones,” she shrugged.
Matthew Morrison is revealing some surprising scoop about his time on Glee.
Christopher Nolan has responded to Robert Downey Jr.’s recent viral comments, revealing that he was slightly “afraid” of the actor when they first met.The actor – who has been nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Nolan’s latest movie, Oppenheimer – revealed that he had met with the director in the early ’00s in hopes to play the villain Scarecrow in Batman Begins.Downey shared that Nolan didn’t seem interested in casting the future Iron Man star, saying: “He was polite and all that. But you can tell when someone is kind of like, “It’s not going to go anywhere.’”Now, in an interview with the actor for The New York Times, Nolan has confirmed the story.“I 100 per cent knew you weren’t the guy,” said Nolan, who ultimately went on to cast Cillian Murphy in the role of Scarecrow.“In my head that was already cast.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Roy Wood Jr. said on fellow comedian Mike Birbiglia’s “Working It Out” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) that he was going to remain on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” as a correspondent for more time when the plan was for Hasan Minhaj to be named the permanent new host.
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are reportedly teaming up for the fifth time to reimagine Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High And Low.The pair, whose previous projects include Malcolm X, He Got Game and Inside Man, will begin filming the adaptation in March. The original film is based on Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom and stars Toshiro Mifune as a wealthy man who is forced to pay the ransom money for his employee’s kidnapped son.In 2008, it was reported that Martin Scorsese would be developing a remake of the story, but the project never went ahead.Lee has previously spoken about his admiration for Kurosawa, claiming that his 1986 comedy She’s Gotta Have It was influenced by the Japanese director’s 1950 drama Rashomon.The remake of High And Low will be released in cinemas by A24 before heading to Apple TV+ (as reported by The Guardian).Alan Fox, a former college basketball player and model turned playwright, will write the script.
America Ferrera, Carey Mulligan and Kerry Washington stepped out for a Chanel cocktail and dinner event held on Wednesday evening (February 7) in New York City.
Frankie Bridge has opened up about the terrifying moment doctors discovered a benign tumour on her neck, leaving her fearing the worst. The former The Saturdays singer, 35, shared her harrowing experience on Loose Women, revealing that she was left feeling terrified after doctors found the mass during an MRI scan prompted by debilitating headaches. Frankie, who is a devoted mother to sons Parker, 9, and Carter, 7, underwent the scan out of precaution, especially given her mother's battle with cancer.The news came as a shock to Frankie, who initially went into the scan “just to be safe”, only to be met with the terrifying diagnosis.
“Kobe picked the pose you’re about to see,” said Vanessa Bryant at the unveiling of the statue honoring her late husband today, “so if anyone has any problems with it, tough sh*t.”
18 years after their last collaboration, director Spike Lee and Denzel Washington, one of the legendary filmmaker/lead actor duos, are teaming up again. This time, it’s for a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic crime thriller, the 1963 Japanese police procedural crime “High And Low,” which originally starred Toshiro Mifune.
Calista Flockhart is addressing rumors that she suffered from anorexia during her time starring in the legal comedy drama series, Ally McBeal.
While Scandoval undoubtedly was one of the hardest things Ariana Madix had to go through, she has so much to be grateful for following that chapter in her life. Not only has her career flourished due to the cheating scandal, but it also saved her spot as a cast member on Vanderpump Rules?! Yeah, you read that right.
romp through New York society.“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” based on journalist Laurence Leamer’s non-fiction book, focuses on author Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and a group of high society New York City socialites that he dubbed “The Swans.”Capote won critical acclaim for his 1965 book, “In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences,” which delved into the violent murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas.The following year he hosted a now-legendary masked ball, called the Black and White Ball, at the Plaza Hotel, in honor of The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham.
Comedian Mark Normand nearly left audience members scrambling for the exits when he was rushed off stage by security in the middle of his set, forcing the show to abruptly end after it was interrupted by a “planned ‘surprise’” that neither he nor the club appeared to know about.Normand, 40, was performing at the New York Comedy Club Wednesday night when an unknown man in a yellow beanie jumped onstage in the middle of his set, leaving the comic and the audience confused about the strange stunt, a video shared on X shows.“Oh hey … how are you? What do we got, a migrant here?” Normand joked as the man got up on stage.“Oh jeez, everything alright? Just want to make sure everybody is good here.
“Ally McBeal” alum, 59, recently teased that a reboot of her hit ‘90s legal drama could be in the cards.“I think there are some people talking about a reboot, but I don’t know much about it,” she told Entertainment Tonight at the New York City premiere of “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” on Tuesday.She added that she “would be game to revive the show.” “Sure, I’m always game.”Talk about a possible reboot was reignited after the “Ally McBeal” cast reunited at the Emmy Awards earlier this month.The series aired on Fox from 1997 until 2002 and also starred Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski, Gil Bellows, Lucy Liu, Peter MacNicol and Courtney Thorne-Smith.The show followed lawyer Ally McBeal (Flockhart) as she worked in the Boston law firm Cage and Fish.At the Emmy Awards ceremony, Germann, 65, MacNicol, 69, Bellows, 56, and Flockhart (who was in attendance with husband Harrison Ford) reunited on stage.She first appeared at the podium solo, with the show’s theme song, “Searchin’ My Soul” by Vonda Shepard playing in the background.The three men then came out dancing and joined her.
As shocking as it may seem to people who are having trouble admitting they’re old (myself included), Denzel Washington’s post-apocalyptic action film, “The Book of Eli,” is turning 14 this year. Yes, that means there are kids who will attend high school this year that were born the same year ‘Eli’ was released.
Kerry Washington is responding to people who are curious about why she tends to go for “political work.”
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kerry Washington joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at the Sundance Film Festival, where she is an executive producer on the documentary “Daughters.” The movie centers on four girls in Washington D.C. as they prepare for a Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers. “People always ask me why I’m drawn to political work,” Washington said about boarding the documentary.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jodie Foster graced the cover of Time magazine in 1991 when she was 28 years old and set to direct her first feature, “Little Man Tate.” She said at the time that “this is not a business that is kind to women” who aspire to be directors, but her tune has changed 32 years later. “Sometimes I read things I said in my 20s and I’m like, really? But that’s a pretty good one,” she recently told Time in 2023 during an interview for her role on HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country.” “When I was young, there were really no American women directors, maybe a few,” she said. “I didn’t think I was allowed to be a director.
Sofia Vergara is opening up about her divorce from Joe Manganiello, following the media attention and online speculation about their unexpected split. The Colombian icon revealed that she thought the reaction would be different.SOFÍA VERGARA SHARED THE REASON HER RELATIONSHIP WITH JOE MANGANIELLO ENDED: ‘I DIDN’T WANT TO BE AN OLD MOM’INSIDE SOFÍA VERGARA'S SHOCKING PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION FOR ‘GRISELDA’SOFIA VERGARA STEPS OUT IN LONDON WEARING HEAD-TO-TOE SCHIAPARELLI “I knew it was gonna happen,” Sofia said about the struggles in her relationship during a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning.
Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are heading out after the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards!
Four original Ally McBeal cast members, star Calista Flockhart as well as Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol and Gil Bellows, reunited Monday night during the Emmy broadcast on Fox more than 26 years after the debut of the legal dramedy, which aired on the network for five seasons, from September 1997 to May 2002.