Peter Isherwell: Last News

Jordan Moreau Director Adam McKay’s Netflix film “Don’t Look Up,” which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance and more A-listers, made a splash last winter for how the dark, political comedy eerily mirrored real life. The film tackled issues of climate change and media misinformation, and one fictional tech billionaire character hit even closer to home after Elon Musk and Twitter agreed to a $44 billion deal on Monday.“It’s dangerous,” Blanchett told Variety about Musk’s Twitter takeover, at the Chaplin Award Gala in New York on Monday. “That’s all I have to say, it’s very, very dangerous.”Rylance’s character, Peter Isherwell, an eccentric tech CEO who profits off a comet hurtling toward Earth, was based partly on Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs.

Mark Rylance has said that he took a “garlic solution” instead of the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic.Rylance told The Sunday Times: “I was not convinced I needed it. I took a very distilled garlic solution every morning, and vitamin C, and I sailed through [Jez Butterworth’s] Jerusalem [play].”He also spoke about the response to the coronavirus, saying: “Science started to sound like a religion.

Oscars for being “really boring”.The actor will not be attending this year’s ceremony, later this month.Rylance, 62, has admitted that he finds the annual Academy Awards ceremony “really boring” in a refreshingly honest interview. The acclaimed actor said: “‘I don’t think awards are a serious marker of what the greatest or most inspiring things are, but it’s nice to be celebrated.“I won’t be going this year,” Rylance continued in his interview with the Radio Times. “To be honest, they’re actually really boring.”Rylance previously won the best supporting actor Oscar in 2016 for his performance in Bridge of Spies, alongside Tom Hanks.When asked if his award was on display at his home, he replied that he "didn't like to be ostentatious about that kind of thing".The actor added that the Oscar had been "in a box" for some time, and he estimated that it was now on a shelf somewhere.Aside from his previous Oscar win, the Dunkirk star has also won three Baftas, three Tony awards and two Olivier awards. Rylance stars in Oscar-nominated Netflix film Don’t Look Up, which is an environmental catastrophe comedy about what would happen if we were told the world was actually ending.The film is nominated for four awards, including Best Picture, at the 2022 Academy Awards and also stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence.Rylance plays eccentric tech billionaire Peter Isherwell, who blocks the destruction of the comet hurtling towards planet earth in order to mine it for precious elements. The Academy will host its 94th annual ceremony on March 27 at the Hollywood & Highland Centre.Nominees for Best Actor include Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Garfield and Will Smith, who won a BAFTA for his King Richard performance on

Oscars this year because they are “really boring”.The actor, currently starring in sports comedy The Phantom of the Open, shared his thoughts on awards season and explained why he’ll sit this year’s Academy Awards out.“I don’t think awards are a serious marker of what the greatest or most inspiring things are, but it’s nice to be celebrated,” he told Radio Times, according to the Independent.Rylance has declined his invitation to the Oscars, at which Adam McKay’s film Don’t Look Up – in which he stars as tech mogul Peter Isherwell – is nominated for four awards.“I won’t be going this year. To be honest, they’re actually really boring,” Mark Rylance said.The actor had previously won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2016, for his work in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies.

K.J. Yossman Fresh from appearing in Netflix hit Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” Mark Rylance’s latest big screen outing is “The Outfit,” in which he stars as Leonard, a 1950s tailor. It is a role that could not be more dissimilar to the fictional megalomaniac billionaire Peter Isherwell, whom Rylance plays in McKay’s disaster movie.Written and directed by Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning scribe behind “The Imitation Game,” “The Outfit” sees Rylance star as a Savile Row tailor who has fled across the Atlantic to escape his tragic past.

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet seen “Don’t Look Up.”At the beginning of Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” Michigan State astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers that a comet is heading toward Earth, and will cause an extinction-level-event for the entire planet in a little over six months: something she duly reports to her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio).