EXCLUSIVE: Universal International Studios’ SVP/Head of UK Creative Thomas Daley is leaving the company after two years, we’ve learned.
19.05.2022 - 21:17 / variety.com
Gregg Goldstein Australian native Thomas M. Wright is no stranger to dark material.
He portrayed a haunted ex-con in Jane Campion’s series “Top of the Lake,” wrote and directed fierce plays for his Black Lung theater company and examined a twisted relationship in his 2018 directorial debut, the black comedy “Acute Misfortune.” But few of his past projects approach the level of anguish and suspense in his sophomore feature, “The Stranger,” which plays in Un Certain Regard May 20. “I certainly grapple with difficult ideas and truths in my work,” Wright says.
“But the world is a dark place.”Though he directed plays for years, Wright felt he “didn’t have any right to do it” onscreen until he was cast in “Lake” by Campion. “At the end, I said to Jane, ‘I’m thinking of writing and directing,’ She said, ‘You need to learn to write first, and when you’ve written something, send me the third draft.’ She was a generous supporter of mine.” He credits her and directors like Garth Davis and Warwick Thornton for teaching him by studying their work on set.Wright based “Stranger” on an infamous 2003 child murder investigation, and centered his fictionalized script on two duplicitous men (played by Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris) whose seemingly chance encounter sets the story in motion.
“I wanted it to be like a dark room with a crack of light in the far corner,” he says. “Through the whole film, you’re walking toward that light.”He met with Edgerton for a possible role in the 2018 drama “Boy Erased.” Though “Misfortune” took Wright out of the running, Edgerton asked to watch his finished film. “He immediately said, ‘Whatever you want to do, I’ll make myself available.
EXCLUSIVE: Universal International Studios’ SVP/Head of UK Creative Thomas Daley is leaving the company after two years, we’ve learned.
Lizzo and her new boyfriend, stand-up comedian Myke Wright, have made their red carpet debut as a couple for the screening of her Amazon Prime Video series, Watch Out for the Big Grrrls. The “About Damn Time” singer stepped out on the red carpet dressed in an all-pink Valentino look, including matching tights, gloves and shoes. She posed with one arm around Wright, 34, who beamed the cameras as he supported his girlfriend publicly for the first time.
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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticRay Liotta, who died Thursday at 67, was a great actor who was second to none when it came to playing hoodlums, scoundrels, rotters, psychopaths, and cool jerks. To put it that way sounds reductive, of course, since that was far from the only thing he could do. Just think of his beloved performance in “Field of Dreams,” where he played Shoeless Joe Jackson as the impish ghost of baseball past.
Emmerdale star Rosie Bentham looked worlds away from her character Gabby Thomas as she shared a collection of holiday snaps. Taking to Instagram, the bikini-clad soap star, 20, posted photos from a visit to the picturesque Adonis Baths Waterfalls in Cyprus.
Zeinab Abu Alsamh has only been general manager of MBC Studios Saudi Arabia for a year but with the blazing speed at which the local industry is growing, she says it has felt more like five.
Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure, Fugue) makes her english language debut with The Silent Twins, the strange and remarkable story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who only communicated with each other from 8 to later teen years when drugs and drinking led to petty theft and an arson charge that landed them in the tightly secured medical ward of Broadmoor for 11 years before being released in the 1980’s. Creating their own puppetry and dolls, poems, and music which they only broadcast for each other on a fake radio program, the “twinies” as they were called by family fell into an odd void that became more pronounced, even when they were forced to go to separate schools at one point, and they carried on this way until becoming young women landing into legal troule until incredibly being incarcerated for over a decade, five or six times as long as the longest sentence for the petty crimes of which they were accused.
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Thomas Markle, who is Meghan Markle‘s dad, had a medical emergency on Monday evening (May 23) in Mexico.
Meghan Markle‘s father, Thomas Markle, was rushed to a hospital following a “possible stroke,” according to TMZ.