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Natalie Portman is starting a new chapter of her life. The Hollywood star is embracing change following her divorce from Benjamin Millepied after 11 years of marriage, and it seems she is ready for a fresh start in her personal and professional life.Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millipied finalize divorce after 11 years of marriageNatalie Portman channeled Grace Kelly in head-to-toe Dior during latest outing in ParisJulianne Moore proves she is learning Spanish while working in Spain ahead of Pedro Almodóvar’s new filmThe pair reportedly separated last year, as confirmed by Us Weekly in August 2023, after rumors of an alleged romance between Natalie’s husband and 26-year-old activist Camille Étienne.

Jack Dunn The Newport Beach Film Festival will return to London Feb. 13 2025 for its U.K. Honors, recognizing outstanding work by British and Irish actors across film and television.

Rebel Wilson has opened up on the debate surrounding straight actors playing queer characters.The actor shared her thoughts on the topic during her recent interview on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.Speaking in response to a question surrounding double standards in comedy – for example with people who are not overweight making jokes about being overweight – Wilson shared: “I think that’s hard.”The Pitch Perfect star, who is engaged to a woman, expanded: “It’s going into this territory of saying, ‘Well only straight actors can play straight roles and gay actors can play gay roles’, which I think is total nonsense.”The topic has been circulating the entertainment industry recently, with some actors defending the view that straight actors should be able to play queer characters.For example, Paul Mescal defended his portrayal of a gay man in All Of Us Strangers, saying: “It depends who’s in charge of telling the story”He continued: “The issue is that there have been so many queer performances in cinema that have been offensive, but that’s because the filmmakers and the actors have been careless.Earlier this year, Will & Grace star Eric McCormack, weighed in on the topic: “I would like to think in general that the best person for the role, the one that comes in and knocks it out of the park, is the one that gets the part.”Last July, Stanley Tucci reflected on his portrayal of queer characters in Supernova and The Devil Wears Prada, sharing his view on straight actors playing queer roles. “Obviously, I believe that’s fine,” he said.

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones have finally revealed what their Normal People-related tease earlier this week was all about.Earlier this week, the pair of Mescal and Edgar-Jones took to social media to tease something related to Normal People, with the latter writing “We’ve got some news to share!! Watch this place,” alongside a photo of them on her Instagram Story.Now, the duo have finally opened up about the tease, shutting down speculation that the show is returning for a second season anytime soon. Instead, the two have announced a special charity screening of the entire show set to take place on June 16 at a Central London cinema that has yet to be revealed.Mescal and Edgar-Jones will raffle tickets to a special marathon screening of Normal People on the big screen.

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones have teased the potential return of Normal People.The duo starred in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel in 2020, which went on to become the BBC iPlayer’s most popular series that year.Now, Edgar-Jones has shared a photo on her Instagram story, hinting at a potential second season of Normal People.“We’ve got some news to share!! Watch this place,” they wrote alongside the photo, which you can view below.No further details about a potential second series have been released by Edgar-Jones or Mescal.The 12-part series followed Connell Waldron (Mescal) and Marianne Sheridan (Edgar-Jones) as they fall in and out of each other’s lives from school into university and beyond.They previously hinted at a potential second series shortly after the first series aired telling NME that things had been deliberately left open. “Series one is the book,” Mescal added.

After announcing the title for the new Knives Out installment last week, the first big names to join Daniel Craig in the next installment are Josh O’Connor and Cailee Spaeny. They are both set to join Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Rian Johnson is returning to direct from a script he wrote. He will also produce the pic with his partner, Ram Bergman through T-Street Pictures.

CMAT has spoken to NME about the impressive cultural footprint of her native Ireland, as well as plans for her next album – which could arrive sooner than you think.Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson was speaking to us on the red carpet of the Ivor Novellos in London this week (Thursday May 23), where she was nominated for Best Album for the acclaimed ‘Crazymad, For Me‘ – but was already convinced that she wouldn’t win due to the competition she faced. The award was later picked up by Yussef Dayes.“Lankum are nominated for the award, who’ve already beat me for Irish album of the year – also RAYE, who won 75million awards at the BRITs and I just sat through that, twiddling my thumbs, not winning anything,” Thompson told NME.

Paul Mescal to play one of the Fab Four in his upcoming Beatles biopic.Mescal first gained attention for his award-winning role as Connell Waldron in the 2020 drama miniseries Normal People. He was also nominated for Best Actor at the 95th Academy Awards for his portrayal of Calum in 2022’s Aftersun.The actor is set to star as Lucius Verus in Ridley Scott’s upcoming Gladiator II. Verus is the nephew of the original film’s villain Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) but grows up idolising deceased gladiator Maximus (Russell Crowe).Now, The Hollywood Reporter has released a new feature highlighting 10 young movie stars who are taking Hollywood by storm.

Salma Hayek is celebrating an incredible evening at Cannes. The actress and producer shared a post on social media, recapping some of the highlights of Kering’s Women in Motion event. The program, founded around a decade ago, seeks to highlight inequalities of in culture and the arts.

Glastonbury’s Palais Cinema has unveiled its line-up for this year’s edition of the festival and it features a star-studded list of guests including Paul Mescal, Florence Pugh and Andrew Scott.In a video unveiling the line-up with Radio 1’s Ali Plumb, EMPIRE’s Helen O’Hara and Bastille’s Dan Smith who is a patron and supporter of the area, it was revealed that film showings at the event include a mixture of pre-released screenings, recent cinema hits, music documentaries and classic film showings.Some of those on show include Despicable Me 4, Furiosa, Dune Part Two, All Of Us Strangers, Barbie, The Fall Guy, The Greatest Showman, Baby Driver and Shaun Of The Dead in its 20th anniversary year.Guests at the event include Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright who will be taking part in a Q&A about Shaun Of The Dead; Wright will also introduce his film Baby Driver.Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott will reunite with director Andrew Haigh for a Q&A about their emotive film All Of Us Strangers, which was released earlier this year, while Florence Pugh will speak about Dune Part 2 ahead of the screening.Other guests there include Tilda Swinton, who will take part in a Q&A for Only Lovers Left Alive and will introduce her new film Problemista while Cate Blanchett will talk about I’m Not There, the film she starred in about Bob Dylan.Both Swinton and Blanchett also appeared at last year’s Glastonbury, with Swinton joining Max Richter on stage while Blanchett danced on stage with Sparks. There will be a screening of the first two episodes of new Star Wars series The Acolyte, while Kneecap will talk about their new documentary film.

Ireland’s screen industry is having a moment. With the Cannes Film Festival well underway, there’s a notable strong Irish presence in this year’s line-up including Element Pictures’ three entrants – Competition title Kinds of Kindness from Yorgos Lanthimos, Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore feature On Becoming A Guinea Fowl and Ariane Labed’s directorial debut September Says (both in Un Certain Regard). There’s also Competition title The Apprentice, which is co-produced with Irish outfit Tailored Films and Lorcan Finnegan’s Nicolas Cage starrer The Surfer premiering in the Midnight Screenings strand. Even Andrea Arnold’s Competition title Bird is rich with Irish talent with star Barry Keoghan and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Robbie Ryan both having worked on the film. 

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. When it comes to shorts discourse, there is one preeminent question to consider: how short is too short? In womenswear, it seems, the cheek is the limit. Micro-shorts took off as a trend this past spring, with everyone from Emily Ratajkowski to Hailey Bieber to Sydney Sweeney being photographed in the leg-baring style.

stars look like they forgot that filming for Hulu's hit show wrapped in 2019 in this cute new video that has quickly gone viral.The duo, who starred as Connell and Marianne in the wildly successful adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel of the same name, were caught exchanging glances while sitting in the same front row at the Gucci cruise 2025 show at the Tate Modern in London on May 13. It's a classic case of a missed connection: Mescal looks at her, she catches him looking away, he looks back just as she's turned her attention elsewhere… Mescal laughs sheepishly when they finally acknowledge each other, and it's cute and flirty and aren't they just adorable silly goofy sweeties!But that's not even the best part of the seven-second clip.

The stars are stepping out for the latest Gucci Fashion Show!

A 2022 movie starring Daisy Edgar-Jones that has recently arrived on Netflix is causing viewers to take to social media and share their emotional experiences watching it. Based on the novel by Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing is a mystery that stars Daisy as Kya, a young woman who has been raised in a shack by her family on a North Carolina marsh.The movie begins in 1953, as Kya’s mother and her older siblings leave the home one by one until she is alone with her alcoholic father, who has gambled away any money that the family had.

Martin Freeman is set to make a welcome return to TV screens in the second series of hit crime drama The Responder, which will begin airing on 4 May.The actor stars alongside the likes of Adelayo Adedayo, Ian Hart, and MyAnna Buring in the BBC One series. Martin, 52, is arguably best known for his roles in The Office, Sherlock and The Hobbit, having become one of the UK's most famous actors. His glittering career has seen him take home two Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and he's even been nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Universal Pictures has tapped renowned British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers) to write and direct a Leonardo da Vinci film based on Walter Isaacson‘s bestselling 2017 biography of the artist, Deadline can confirm.

Cillian Murphy has secured another award win for his performance in Oppenheimer.The actor was recently named Best Lead Actor at the Irish Film and TV Academy Awards on Saturday (April 20) for his portrayal of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed biopic.This follows an impressive list of wins for the actor this award season, having been recognised at the Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes and SAG awards.The Irish actor, who has collaborated with Nolan on six films, including the Dark Knight trilogy, acknowledged the significance of receiving the award on home soil.Having been presented his award by Killers Of The Flower Moon star and nominee for Best International Actress, Lily Gladstone, Murphy accepted the honour with: “God, I’m still so brutal at this.”He continued: “But being in this room is so special — being at home, with people that I love and admire amongst my fellow nominees and some of my favourite people.”According to Variety, the Peaky Blinders star spoke backstage after the ceremony at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre, sharing: “It feels lovely being home with so many friends and colleagues.”Nominated alongside Murphy in the category were All Of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott and Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan.

The 21st Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards, which highlight Irish filmmakers, television creators and performers, saw Pat Collins’ That They May Face The Rising Sun win Best Film in an upset. Despite earning a second-best 11 nominations, the top award was its only win.

Taylor Swift has a long history of writing about her exes on her albums — or so we think — from John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal to Joe Jonas and Harry Styles.But it’s Joe Alwyn, the British actor who the singer dated from 2016 to 2023, who is the object of the 34-year-old pop superstar’s wicked wordplay for a good — or for him, not so good — part of “The Tortured Poets Department,” which dropped on Friday.There’s even one song called “So Long, London” — a goodbye to the city where they once lived together. And just to show you how deep those Swift Easter eggs can be hidden, that track is 9 minutes and 28 seconds — which happens to line up with when the exes are rumored to have started dating on Sept.

Taylor Swift is set to release her 11th studio album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ this week – and there has been much speculation amongst fans over its title.The pop star will release the follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-winning ‘Midnights’ on Friday (April 19). It’ll feature collaborations with Florence + The Machine (on ‘Florida!!!’) and Post Malone (on ‘Fortnight’).Other song titles on the imminent record include ‘My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys’, ‘Down Bad’, ‘But Daddy I Love Him’, ‘I Can Do It With A Broken Heart’ and ‘The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived’.