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Jamie Lee Curtis just knew she would be in The Bear, long before she got the part of Donna Berzatto, the alcoholic, unstable mother of the restauranteur siblings at the show's center. While watching Season 1, Curtis had an eerie feeling. "I went, 'I'm going to play her.' I swear," she says. And then she…

In the first few episodes of Apple TV+ series Palm Royale, Carol Burnett is entirely horizontal. And rightly so, since her character Norma Dellacorte in a coma. Fortunately though, Norma recovers in time to rip through some seriously juicy scenes with Kristin Wiig, who names Burnett, who turned 91 in…

Annette Bening still likes to swim, despite the brutal eight hours a day she spent in the water for her Netflix film Nyad. Bening stars as Diana Nyad, who, at 64, became the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Bening trained for a year to perfect her stroke, and got to…

Following her Best Original Screenplay win for Promising Young Woman, Saltburn, Emerald Fennell's sophomore feature, presents a gothic tale of obsession and excess, starring Barry Keoghan as Oliver, a social-climbing Oxford student obsessed with the aristocratic Felix (Jacob Elordi). The multi-hyphenate…

In the second and final season of Showtime series Your Honor, Bryan Cranston reprises the role of disgraced judge Michael Desiato. At the end of Season 1, Desiato's son was murdered by the Baxter crime family, and fresh out of prison himself, Desiato not only seeks to avenge his son's death but to…

When Kerry Condon heard her Oscar nomination announced in the early hours of the morning in LA, she was clustered around the television with a group that included her Banshees of Inisherin co-star Colin Farrell. "I remember thinking, 'Oh Jesus, hang on though. What if it's bad for one of us?'" Condon…

In Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Daniel Radcliffe steps into a surrealist, fictionalized take on the rise to fame of the quirky accordion player and singer. "Being British, I think the first time I ever heard him referenced was in The Simpsons," Radcliffe says. Featuring a cast of cameos so unexpected and…

Jennifer Coolidge is fresh from shooting Season 2 of The White Lotus and she's on a high. Having made such an indelible mark in Season 1 of Mike White's limited series set in a luxury Hawaiian resort, she's the only main character returning for a second shot. For now, she's having to keep plot details under wraps, but…

Mass might be Jason Isaacs' most powerful role to date, as he expertly authors a father's grief alongside Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton and Reed Birney. But Fran Krantz's film is just the latest in perhaps one of the world's most varied acting careers, that has covered the gamut of human—and otherworldly—experience. As…

Simon Rex arrived at the Cannes film festival this year as an outsider: it's pretty unlikely that any other actors in this year's heavyweight competition line-up could boast a recurring role in the Scary Movie franchise, a hip-hop career as Dirt Nasty, and a successful transition from adult film. But after the…

Topher Grace has had a charmed few years, with roles in BlacKkKlansman, The Hot Zone and Black Mirror under his belt. And he returns to sitcoms this season with Home Economics, about a group of adult siblings dealing with very different financial situations. It's his first sitcom lead since breaking through with That '…

Now in its third and final season, Netflix hit comedy The Kominsky Method sees Michael Douglas resume his role as acting teacher Sandy Kominsky, only this time Sandy is without his best friend, king of the sardonic aside, Norman Newlander, played by Alan Arkin. Douglas says it was "delicate doing without Alan for this…