Director Sebastián Lelio On ‘The Wonder,’ Post-Factual Belief, Working with Florence Pugh, & Scarlett Johansson In The Future

Yes, everything old is new again.

On second thought, we may have let our collective nostalgia for erotic thrillers get a tad out of hand. Chloe Domont’s “Fair Play” seems, at least at the level of its inception, to be a thought exercise: what would it look like to make something like “Disclosure,” but from the perspective, and with sympathy towards, the Demi Moore character? That Barry Levinson adaptation of a Michael Crichton thriller has aged like a bottle of milk on a radiator, a baffling stew of corporate intrigue, shitty special effects, and spectacularly terrible sexual politics.

GEMMA Atkinson and Gorka Marquez are expecting their second baby. The actress, 38, and her Strictly Come Dancing star partner, 32, announced their happy news on Instagram this morning. Alongside a picture of her cradling her baby bump, Gemma wrote: "Impossible to hide my belly any longer.

LOVE Island fans are nothing short of vocal when it comes to their opinion on controversial decisions made on the show. And this year's contestants are no exception if their reaction is anything to go by, after Tanyel Revan broke girl code by choosing Ron, who Lana had set her sights on. Tanyel, 26, who is a hair stylist from London, decided to dump her former squeeze Kai in favour of Ron in the show's first recoupling.

CORONATION Street actress Vanessa Hehir has confirmed she has left the soap. The actress, who has played Esther Hargrave since September, paid tribute to the soap and her co-stars on Instagram in a farewell post. She wrote: “And just like that the Corrie adventure is over.

LOVE Island's Tanya Manhenga is already well known to certain celebs - from a Strictly star to ex-Islanders. The biomedical student, 22, appeared to have caught the eye of dancing professional Neil Jones last year.

EASTENDERS star Kelsey Calladine-Smith looks worlds apart from character Jada in stunning Instagram pictures. The 17-year-old is far cry from the single teen mum and instead leads a very glamorous life.

KENDALL Jenner has highlighted her teeny tiny waist in a set of new photos as she partied in Dubai on Friday night. Kendall, 27, took to Instagram in the early hours of Saturday and shared snaps of herself ahead of the grand opening of the new hotel Atlantis The Royal.

STUCK in a rut after her husband's health mishaps, Sally Metcalfe was able to spice up their sex life. But when she helps another Coronation Street resident with their own issues, she has no clue it could create more drama. In early 2022, Tim Metcalfe was shocked to discover he was encountering cardiac problems again, years after a horrific heart attack.

STRICTLY Come Dancing star Ola Jordan today looked unrecognisable after her three and a half stone weight loss. The professional dancer and her husband James, 44, have been showing off their new enviable figures after releasing an exercise programme after gaining a collective 7 stone.

Florence Pugh opted for stylish comfort in fashionable jeans and a blouse as she dropped off a variety of bags and luggage in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The Midsommar actress, 26, could be seen quickly unloading suitcases from a parked car while sporting sleek boots. The talented star has been hard at work and recently made an appearance in a new first look trailer earlier this month from her ex-boyfriend, Zach Braff's, directorial debut called, A Good Person.  Stylish: Florence Pugh, 26, showed off her sense of style as she dropped off a number of suitcases and bags at a friend's house in Los Angeles on Tuesday The Little Women actress slipped into a pair of loose-fitting, ripped blue jeans with a fringed hem for a stylish flare.

, they're colleagues.On December 15, the Garden State director and Scrubs star shared a trailer for his latest film starring , Morgan Freeman, and Molly Shannon. Written and directed by A Good Person will be released in March and features an almost unrecognizable version of the Midsommer and star. Previously in February 2021, Pugh plays Allison, a woman who “falls apart” after being involved in an accident that killed her would-be sister-in-law.

It’s been 18 years since writer/director/actor Zach Braff’s directorial debut, “Garden State,” the twee emo-ish Sundance film that taught mainstream audiences to love indie rock or whatever. Braff’s directed lots of things since—2014’s “I Wish I Was Here,” lots of “Scrubs” episodes, 2017’s “Going In Style“—but it’s safe to say none of them captured the zeitgeist in the way “Garden State” did and maybe that’s just a one-time lightning in a bottle event.

Scarlett Johansson hasn’t shied away in recent months from sharing frustrations about being typecast in blonde bombshell roles early in her career. Now, EW reports the actress brought up the topic again on the latest episode of the “Table For Two With Bruce Bozzi” podcast.

Florence Pugh has been seen for the first time in ex-boyfriend Zach Braff's directorial debut A Good Person.Sky Cinema tweeted a picture of Pugh's character on Wednesday, promising that the acclaimed English actress would be like we have 'never seen her before' in Braff's 'story of loss and hope.'Florence, 26, confirmed in August that she and the Scrubs star, 47, had quietly parted ways earlier this year.    A glimpse of their movie: The first look at Florence Pugh, 26, in ex-boyfriend Zach Braff's directorial debut A Good Person has finally been released after the English actress parted ways with the Scubs star, 47, earlier this yearIn the new image of Pugh in character, she is seen wearing a patterned sweater, gazing through a window with a boyish coif of short brunette hair.   '@florencepugh as you've never seen her before in #AGoodPerson,' tweeted Sky Cinema. 'A Story of loss and hope directed by @zachbraff.

Hollywood career, having even been named in the Forbes 100 most influential people list last year.The A-lister has admitted in a recent interview that she was "groomed" into becoming a "bombshell-type" actress, leaving her feeling like she had no escape from such a fate.Scarlett spoke on the Table for Two podcasts on Tuesday, where she touched on her early acting career.The actress used the opportunity to claim that she felt that she was "groomed" as a teenager to become a Hollywood "bombshell".The Black Widow star was only 19 when she was cast as the sophisticated Nola Rice in Woody Allen's psychological thriller Match Point.Having starred in this and movies like Girl With the Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation, Scarlett said she continuously saw herself playing the object of male desire during a time she was trying to cultivate star power in the industry.She explained: "I did ‘Lost in Translation’ and ‘Girl With the Pearl Earring,’ and by that point, I was 18, 19 and I was coming into my own womanhood and learning my own desirability and sexuality."I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type actor."I was playing the other woman and the object of desire and I suddenly found myself cornered in this place.

played so many “provocative” roles when she was young is because she was “groomed” to do so. “I kind of became, like, an ingénue,” Johansson told host Bruce Bozzi in an episode released on Tuesday, December 13.  “Young girls like that are really objectified and that’s just a fact, so I think whatever box they’re put into, it sort of sets you on this trajectory for how your life will go. Now, obviously, women really are able to choose their own path,” she said.  said that as she got older, she realized she was being typecast, but there wasn't much she felt she could do.

Scarlett Johansson claimed her old management team pressured her into provocative roles. During an appearance on iHeartRadio’s Table for Two podcast with Bruce Bozzi on Tuesday, the Black Widow star recounted being “groomed” into “bombshell” acting roles early in her career. “I kind of became, like, an ingénue,” Scarlett recalled, via Page Six.

Two months after claiming she was 'pigeonholed' as 'hypersexualized' early in her career, two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson now says she was 'groomed' in as a teenager to become a Hollywood 'bombshell.''I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards - I really got stuck,' the 38-year-old former child star said in the new podcast Table for Two on Tuesday.'I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type of actor.' Choices: Two months after claiming she was 'pigeonholed' as 'hypersexualized' early in her career, two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson now says she was 'groomed' in as a teenager to become a Hollywood 'bombshell' (pictured November 2)Scarlett was only 19 in 2004 when she began her role as the older, more sophisticated, and sexy Nola Rice in blacklisted director Woody Allen's psychological thriller Match Point.In his 2020 memoir Apropos of Nothing, the 87-year-old filmmaker wrote that Johansson was 'not only was she gifted and beautiful, but sexually she was radioactive.'The native New Yorker's character is murdered with a shotgun by her lover (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) after confessing she became pregnant during their torrid affair in the morally-bankrupt movie.Scarlett said 'playing the other woman and the object of desire' left her feeling 'cornered in this place like I couldn't get out of it.'  The 38-year-old former child star said in the new podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi (L) on Tuesday: 'I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards - I really got stuck.