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Barbie featuing an elderly woman on a bench to remain in the final cut of the film.While Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) are in ‘the real world’, they pass by an elderly woman on a bench, and Barbie stops to tell the woman she is beautiful. Gerwig faced pressure to cut the scene because it didn’t add to the plot.Gerwig stood her ground, however, maintaining that the scene was ‘the heart of the movie’. “I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is now playing in theaters nationwide, but one if its most emotional scenes might not have made it to the big screen had the filmmaker not held her ground against studio executives. In several interviews before the comedy’s theatrical release, Gerwig revealed that it was suggested she cut out the scene where Barbie (Margot Robbie) meets an elderly woman on a bench and tells her she’s beautiful. “I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone. “And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it. And actually, the story would move on just the same.’ And I said, ‘If I cut the scene, I don’t know what this movie is about.'”

We’re all belting Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Vampire” now, but the singer revealed her new song almost had a very different lyric.

A blind woman says she was forced to walk a mile in the rain after being told she would have to wait for a ‘dog-friendly taxi’.

The life of a teenager murdered by her parents in an 'honour' killing was being remembered this week on what would have been her 37th birthday.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses the ending of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” currently playing in theaters. “Dead Reckoning,” the seventh installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, is the latest Hollywood blockbuster to be split into two movies, but Tom Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie tried their hardest to give “Part One” a non-cliffhanger conclusion. The filmmaker recently told Total Film magazine that thinking about how to conclude the first of two movies kept Cruise up at night during the filming of “Part One.” “Where we ended the movie was always where we were going to end it,” McQuarrie said of the train action sequence. “How we ended the movie was a big, big mystery for us. It kept Tom awake at night throughout production. He would come in all the time and say, ‘This can’t be a cliffhanger, it’s got to be satisfying.’ The audience has to feel a sense of completion.”

Christopher Nolan has revealed that Al Pacino once turned down a directing note on set, insisting to the filmmaker that he’d “already done that”.The acclaimed director – who is preparing to release his new biopic Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy – recalled filming 2002 thriller Insomnia with Pacino.“I had gone up to Pacino after a series of takes and given him a note on what I wanted,” he told The Los Angeles Times.“He told me, ‘I’ve already done that. You can’t see it to the eye, but I’ve done it on the dailies.’ I looked for it and I was like, ‘Oh, my God,’ because there it was.”Nolan added: “Great film actors can do that, and that’s what I had with Cillian.”Elaborating on Murphy’s challenging role of playing J.

Love Island star Montana Brown has spoken out about being “so against induction” after giving birth last month. During a question and answer with fans on Instagram, the first time mum was asked “Did you go into labour naturally?” by a follower who said that they were 40 weeks pregnant and didn’t want to be induced. Montana, who gave birth at the end of last month to son Jude, shared a picture of herself in labour on the sofa with her dog, and replied: “I went into labour naturally, my waters broke 6am ish.

not fantastic. “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig has revealed her refusal to CGI a certain body part of the famous doll in the upcoming film, calling the very idea “terrifying.” “There was a big discussion in the beginning,” Gerwig, 39, told the hosts of Australian talk show “The Project.” “Everyone said, ‘Are you going to CGI all the feet?’ And I thought, ‘Oh god, no! That’s terrifying! That’s a nightmare.’ Also, Margot [Robbie] has the nicest feet. She has these beautiful dancer feet.

Dolly Parton clearly works longer than "9 to 5," but she still can't get any "Satisfaction" from Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger. Parton has been slowing releasing information about "Rockstar," her upcoming rock album that's set to release in November, and she just revealed that although she tried her best to get Jagger to make an appearance, he declined.

We could’ve gotten an iconic ’90s collab back in the day — but Will Smith was reportedly very against it!

Don Lemon is making it clear what he stood for while on CNN.

A bid to change the use of a former shop in Ardrossan's Rowanside Terrace into a hot food takeaway has been refused by North Ayrshire Council.

Chris Brown signed up with tragic pal Hamish Harding, 68, after a 'few beers' while holidaying on Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island but later claimed scaffolding poles were used as ballast and the vessel was 'shoddy'. MailOnline has revealed that Vegas financier Jay Bloom and his son Sean also declined a voyage with his son Sean - even when they were offered a $100,000 discount off the $250,000 price by OceanGate CVEO Stockton Rush. And another explorer, David Concannon, was slated to join the trip but was forced to cancel at the last minute due to a work meeting.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Tom Cruise will ride a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff, but kicking a co-star in the chest is apparently where he draws the line. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” co-star Pom Klementieff said she practically begged him to kick her in the stomach for real while they were filming a fight scene. Cruise refused to do so. “I kept telling him to just kick me here,” Klementieff said while pointing to her stomach. “I was squeezing abs. [I said], ‘You can just go for it.’ He was like ‘No, no, no, no, no.’ I was like, ‘But it’s going to help me!’ But he wouldn’t do it.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Josh Gates, an explorer and the host of “Expedition Unknown” and more shows on the Discovery Channel, revealed on Twitter that he turned down a chance to visit the wreckage of the Titanic using OceanGate’s now-missing Titan submersible. Gates was supposed to film on the submersible but decided against it after discovering “safety concerns.” “I had the unique opportunity to dive in the OceanGate Titan sub with [company CEO] Stockton at the helm in preparation for its maiden mission to Titanic,” Gates wrote. “I pray for a positive outcome to the rescue efforts of those aboard, including fellow ‘Explorers Club’ member Hamish Harding.”

Uh-oh! Dorit Kemsley is under fire for allegedly stiffing a nurse of her pay!

Neighbour wars are unfortunately a common occurrence - whether it's arguments over fences or wheelie bins, some people can be difficult to reason with.

Zendaya is not having it! The actress has seemingly responded to reports that on Saturday June 10, she was denied entry to a restaurant in Italy because of her outfit. DailyMail reported Monday that she showed up to the Terrazza Borromini, in Rome, where she had a reservation, and was refused entry.In photos published by the outlet, Zendaya, who recently celebrated Tom Hollands birthday, is seen wearing an amazing outfit, which included a black cropped tube top, that showed off her toned abs.

A couple have sworn they will 'never fly with TUI again' after they were turned down from checking into their flight.

The X Factor star Rebecca Ferguson has claimed that ITV allegedly "refused" her request to investigate allegations of mistreatment towards contestants on reality shows. In a series of tweets posted on her Twitter account this week, the singer (who was a runner-up on the ITV show back in 2010) alleged that she sent an email to the network in 2021 asking for a review into conduct and aftercare procedures for reality show contestants.