Faced with the surge of racist hatred against the presence of a black actress to embody Ariel in the live-action The Little Mermaid, it is necessary to remember that Hollywood erased, until recently, racialized characters from its films, by casting white actors and actresses in their place… You couldn’t miss this week: the emotional reactions … Read more
Shia LaBeouf (Image via Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images) If the cinema, like advertising, has become an integral part of authorized propaganda, it can sometimes reveal certain good surprises. From Hollywood nanars to those more intellectuals of the Cannes festival, from the climb of the steps on the Croisette to those of paradise, the ways of the Lord … Read more
Do you remember the night that Leonardo Di Caprio passed through the carcass of an animal to prepare the Revenant ? This is called “method acting”. Also called the Stanislavski System, this technique invented by a Russian drama teacher assumes a total assimilation of the character by the actor. In recent years, the method has … Read more
presley3.jpg Priscilla and Elvis Presley. According to the biography ‘Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley’, by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske, Albert Holmanvery close to Presley’s mother, Gladys, confronted Presley before the wedding. She said she found him crying and asked him why he didn’t … Read more
It is, sadly, a story repeated in that factory of nightmares that Hollywood also knows how to be: the story of a rising star, with everything to succeed, who collapses between scandalous accusations. Last on that list is Ezra Miller. The 29-year-old actor received a complaint for breaking into a house in Vermont, United States. … Read more
from Francesca Scorcucchi In the US, film production companies are increasingly attentive to minorities There was a time when Native Americans called themselves Indians or Native Americans, and in the cinema they represented the wild past, while whites were the bright future. Then things changed and the “natives” stopped rhyming with “bad guys”. Films like … Read more
The film starring Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen premieres on Prime Video this Friday, August 5. thirteen lives narrates the shocking real case of the children of Thailand who were trapped in a cave in 2018. Everyone turned to try to save the 12 children who entered the cave with their young soccer coach and … Read more
We mentioned two weeks ago the 20th anniversary of the marriage of Princess Martha Louise of Norway, daughter of King Harald (first cousin of King Albert II) with the Norwegian writer Ari Behn then literary star in vogue. A union that ended in divorce in 2017 after the birth of three daughters and by the … Read more