Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Anya Taylor-Joy is hoping to shave her head for her starring role in “Furiosa,” George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel. “She wants to, but George doesn’t want her to,” the movie’s costume designer, Jenny Beavan, tells me. “So I don’t know whether she will or not.”Charlize Theron famously buzzed her locks for her turn as Furiosa in “Fury Road.”I’ve asked Taylor-Joy about her hair plans a couple of times since she signed onto the project.
She has always politely declined to comment.…It’s been a little over three years since “Bird Box” became a bona fide hit on Netflix, with Nielsen reporting that 26 million viewers watched the Sandra Bullock horror thriller in its first week of release.
So where in the world is the sequel? Josh Malerman, author of the “Bird Box” novel, claimed in July 2020 that Netflix was developing a second film.
Director Susanne Bier tells me she’s ready to work on a follow-up. “I want to,” she said at the premiere of her latest project, Showtime’s “The First Lady.” When I asked Bier when the sequel was happening, she replied, “Good question, right?”…How do Kristen Stewart and fiancée Dylan Meyer relax? “We hang out with the dog, there’s some golfing — classic chilling stuff,” Meyer tells me.
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