When Christina Ricci needed a life lesson, Johnny Depp was there to give it to her straight.
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Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp are partly responsible for director Peter Weir’s 12-year absence from Hollywood.READ MORE: The Black Phone review: Ethan Hawke smashes it as a masked bogeymanIn a recent interview with IndieWire, Hawke was asked why the Dead Poet’s Society director, who’s set to receive an honorary Oscar, hasn’t made a film since 2010’s The Way Back.“I think he lost interest in movies,” said Hawke. “He really enjoyed that work when he didn’t have actors giving him a hard time.
Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp broke him.”Crowe starred in Weir’s 2003 period epic Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World. Depp, meanwhile, was set for a lead role in a film adaptation of Shantaram, but Weir left the project before it started in 2014. A spokesperson for Warner Bros.
said at the time: “Peter moved on from this film because his interpretation of it differed greatly than that of the studio and producers.”Hawke hasn’t worked with Weir since 1989’s Dead Poet Society, and when asked about the possibility of future collaborations, he appeared doubtful.“He’s someone so rare these days, a popular artist,” Hawke explained. “He makes mainstream movies that are artistic.“I think Harrison Ford and Gerard Depardieu were his sort of actors,” he added, in reference to the stars of Weir films Witness and Green Card.
“They were director-friendly and didn’t see themselves as important.”Back in March, Hawke admitted that he was “scared” about the future of entertainment, noting a decline in the amount of director-driven projects.“I get scared when things get less director-driven,” he told GQ. “I’m scared of streaming, I can’t stand the word content.“It starts to make me feel like we’re devising a world like Wall-E where people
.When Christina Ricci needed a life lesson, Johnny Depp was there to give it to her straight.
Johnny Depp’s ex Ellen Barkin suggested there was a “world of violence” surrounding the actor.
the $2 million verdict awarded to Amber Heard in the couple’s defamation battle.Vasquez told “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King it was “fair” to say that Depp’s team wouldn’t be seeking to appeal if his ex-wife hadn’t first filed to challenge the jury verdict ordering her to pay Depp $10 million in damages.Depp filed his notice of appeal Friday seeking to overturn the single count of defamation that Heard won at their bombshell trial last month. His filing came one day after Heard filed her own appeal.The 59-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor is hoping that the appeal will nullify the $2 million award the jury handed Heard over her claims that Depp’s lawyer made false and damaging comments about her.Depp, of course, came out victorious last month when a Fairfax County, Va., jury found that Heard defamed him in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed piece on being a victim of domestic abuse.Vasquez said Heard’s appeal was “expected.”“I mean, she’s indicated since the day she lost the trial that she was going to appeal,” the lawyer at Brown Rudnick said. Filing their own appeal is an effort “to protect our client’s interest,” Vasquez said, referring to Depp.She also told King she felt “lucky” to represent the star accused of domestic abuse. Johnny Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, tells @gayleking that their relatively young legal team was an asset in his case: “I think young people have a fresh perspective on especially these issues, the issues that we were discussing in this case — abuse, Me Too.” pic.twitter.com/dmg0TnlNZ1EXCLUSIVE: @GayleKing sits down with attorney Camille Vasquez, who represented Johnny Depp in his defamation trial win against ex-wife Amber Heard, for her first interview since Heard filed a motion to
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLast week, the French government reappointed Dominique Boutonnat for a second three-year term as president of the National Film Board (CNC), the country’s most powerful film institution, in a controversial decision that illustrates the country’s halfhearted embrace of the #MeToo movement.Boutonnat, a former producer and financier with close ties with newly reelected French president Emmanuel Macron, was indicted in February 2021 for alleged sexual assault of his 22-year-old godson the year prior. After a lengthy investigation, the prosecutor’s office has requested that the case be brought before a criminal court.
Marvel’s Moon Knight to put “food on the table”.The actor, who played religious zealot Arthur Harrow in the Disney+ series, was asked about starring in the show as he finished work directing documentary series The Last Movie Stars, which followed the lives and careers of Paul Newman and wife Joanne Woodward.Speaking to Insider, Hawke explained his decision to accept Moon Knight was inspired by Newman, believing that’s what he would have done.“I remember I was sitting at my dinner table and I had just been offered Moon Knight and I was trying to decide whether to do that or not,” Hawke said. “And my youngest, Indiana, who was 10 at the time, said, ‘Well, Dad, what would Paul do?’”Newman is known for roles in classics like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Hustler, although he starred in some blockbusters, like The Towering Inferno, later in his career.“Do I think he admired blockbusters and superhero movies? No, I don’t,” Hawke said about Newman. “He hated doing Towering Inferno.
What a year Ethan Hawke has had so far. The actor already starred in two films this year, Robert Eggers’ “The Northman” and Scott Derrickson‘s “The Black Phone.” Then “The Last Movie Stars,” his documentary series on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward premiered earlier this month.
Kate Moss opened up about her decision to testify in the explosive defamation trial between her ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
Maya Hawke has learned a lot from her parents.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticUntil quite late in the process of crafting “The Last Movie Stars” — a six-hour deep dive into the on- and off-screen lives of Hollywood golden couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, now streaming on HBO Max — director Ethan Hawke resisted the notion that he was making a TV series.“I don’t like episodic. I don’t like the nature of false cliffhangers.
The ubiquity of Paul Newman endures, from his iconic performances in films like “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” to his charity food line Newman’s Own, to his voice performance in Pixar’s “Cars.” But what of his wife and longtime creative partner, Joanne Woodward? You might know his famous quip about their long-lasting marriage, “why go out for hamburger when I have steak at home?” — but for an actress whose impact on the craft of screen acting was as Earth-shattering as fellow Actors Studio classmate Marlon Brando, Woodward’s legacy remains somewhat obscured by Newman’s starshine luster. READ MORE: ‘The Last Movie Stars’ Exclusive Clip: Ethan Hawke’s Doc Shows The Intimate Truth Of An Iconic Hollywood Marriage Taking its name from a moniker bestowed on the couple by their good friend Gore Vidal, Ethan Hawke’s mosaic-like six-part docuseries “The Last Movie Stars” not only chronicles the life, work, and everlasting love of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, it sets out to balance the scales.
Ethan Hawke dropped by “The Late Show” on Tuesday, where he shared his unorthodox idea to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
There’s no denying that Marvel Studios is able to attract the biggest A-list actors in Hollywood to appear in its films. Just look at any of the recent projects coming out of the MCU and it’s likely littered with ridiculous top-tier talent.
Russell Crowe is enjoying an incredible family holiday with his girlfriend Britney Theriot, 31, his sons Charles, 18, and Tennyson, 16, and his mother Jocelyn in Rome, Italy, and couldn't help but share an incredible story with his fans on social media.MORE: Russell Crowe shares heartbreaking family news with his fansOn Tuesday, he took to Twitter to reveal that his mother had been moved to tears after feeling the presence of her late husband, Russell's father John, and pleaded with fans to "look, call and visit" their parents and "show them love".There’s noise and birds , but you can hear the unmistakable refrain as it floats up to us… pic.twitter.com/hp1oINTBZlRussell shared a video taken during the family's visit to the Vatican"A very special experience as a family yesterday. Got to walk through the Vatican Museum by ourselves.
Ethan Hawke’s relationship with “Stranger Things” goes way back. In an new interview, the actor discussed his daughter, Maya Hawke, why she was meant to star in the successful Netflix series and why the show has a special connection to his childhood.
Since the 1980s, there are few filmmakers to have as much of a highly-regarded filmography as Peter Weir. We’re talking about films like “Dead Poets Society,” “Green Card,” “Witness,” “The Truman Show,” and more.
IndieWire.Hawke noted that he feels that he’s “definitely made the turn from being an old young person to being a young old person.”“I prefer this. I feel like playing John Brown in ‘The Good Lord Bird’ was that for me: the beginning of my ‘old man’ career, the beginning of my last act,” the father of four went on.Hawke starred in, created and produced the 2020 Showtime miniseries about Brown, a slavery abolitionist in the 1850s.He continued: “But it’s the beginning of it, you know? I definitely find myself looking over a filmography and thinking about which ones I could’ve cut out, because I only have so much time left.
IndieWire about his new six-part Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward HBO Max documentary, “The Last Movie Stars,” Hawke was asked about his “Dead Poets Society” director, who is receiving an honorary Oscar. Why hasn’t the director of “Witness,” “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” and “The Truman Show” made a movie since 2010’s “The Way Back”?“I think he lost interest in movies.
Something that is often said about relationships is that unless you’re one of the people actually in the relationship, you will never understand it. We even hear this in the trailer for “The Last Movie Stars,” as Laura Linney says “that only the two that are involved know what binds that relationship together.” Normally, though, the only people looking at someone’s relationship under a microscope are one’s friends and family…unless you’re famous, then it’s the world.
Zack Sharf Ethan Hawke joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe earlier this year in the Disney+ series “Moon Knight,” where he played the villainous cult leader Arthur Harrow. For fans of the actor, Hawke’s decision to join the MCU was a surprise given that he spoke critically of the comic book genre in the past. The actor’s main gripe was with critics for propping up comic book films as if they’re art films. Hawke said in a new interview with IndieWire that it’s not “stuck up” to think this way.“It needs to be somebody in the community saying, ‘Hey, everybody, this is not ‘Fanny and Alexander,'” Hawke said, noting that he doesn’t mind directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola being critical of Marvel movies.