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Danica McKellar Remembers Love Triangle With Candace Cameron Bure

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Danica McKellar and Candace Cameron Bure recently discovered that their longtime friendship has an unexpected third-party connection.

“So, in 1989, I believe it was, there was this party that a teen magazine was putting on and Jeremy Miller, who was also a young actor, he was at this party,” McKellar told Fox News Digital at ’90s Con in Tampa, Florida, earlier this month of the former Growing Pains star. “I was there, and Candace was there [too] and [Jeremy] asked me to be his girlfriend. And I was like, ‘Yes!’”

What McKellar did not know at the time was that Cameron Bure, now 47, also “thought that she and Jeremy were dating.”

“[It’s] so silly. I mean, we were so young. We were like 13 years old. So, this was not any kind of serious relationship we’re talking about.” McKellar recalled. “But I found out years later on Dancing with the Stars, [and] she was like, ‘Oh, we were dating. I’m like, What?’ So, Jeremy, tsk tsk, not good. But luckily my friendship with Candace has survived just fine.”


Danica McKellar, Candace Cameron Bure, and Jeremy Miller. Michael S. Schwartz;Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images;Allen Berezovsky/WireImage/Getty Images(3)
The Full House alum and McKellar, who rose to fame as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, both competed on season 18 of DWTS. 

“They’re looking for a rivalry but the truth is we’re actually on great terms,” McKellar exclusively told Us in March 2014 after they each survived the weekly elimination. “We want to see each other do well! We’re rooting for each other, we really are!”

While McKellar and Cameron Bure — who even joined forces for a team number alongside respective pro partners Val Chmerkovskiy and Mark Ballas — were not fazed by a throwback rivalry, there was one part of their mutual childhood that bothered McKellar.

“It’s so funny because I was jealous [that] she used to have all the cool trendy outfits — in the 80s and 90s — and banana clips in her hair,” McKellar quipped to Us. “I was stuck in stupid flowered pants! I looked so lame and she looked so cool!”

Miller, now 46, even attended a DWTS taping and was spotted cheering for both of his exes.

Neither of the former child star’s romances with Miller panned out. Cameron Bure married former hockey player Valeri Bure in 1996 before they welcomed three children: Natasha, 25, Lev, 23, and Maksim, 21.

McKellar, for her part, married Scott Sveslosky in November 2014. She also shares son Draco, 13, with ex-husband Mike Verta.

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Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major, starring Tamera Mowry-Housley & Marco Grazzini, premieres Sept 22 on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries! – WATCH

Tamera Mowry-Housley and Marco Grazzini star in Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major, a new, original movie premiering September 22 at 9/8c on Hallmark Movies and MysteriesLet’s take a first look at the movie with its synopsis, cast, pictures and more!

SYNOPSIS

Former orchestra conductor Gethsemane Brown (Sister, Sister’s Tamera Mowry-Housley) moves to the Irish countryside to teach music at a boarding school. There, she meets a handsome math teacher (Virgin River’s Marco Grazzini) who helps her professionally, and a renowned composer Eamon McCarthy (The Power’s Risteard Cooper) who is rumored to be behind the death of his longtime love. Oh, did we mention that Eamon’s actually a ghost hot to solve his murder?

CAST

Tamera Mowry-Housley as Former orchestra conductor Gethsemane Brown

Marco Grazzini as handsome math teacher

Risteard Cooper as renowned composer Eamon McCarthy

Adam Fergus

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First Look at Upload Season 3, premiering Oct 20 on Prime Video! – TRAILER

Take a look and find out more about what’s coming in the much anticipated season 3 of Upload, coming to Prime Video on October 20, 2023.

First Look at Upload Season 3, premiering Oct 20 on Prime Video! – PHOTOS

SYNOPSIS

In Upload Season Three, we pick back up with Nora and freshly downloaded Nathan as they navigate their relationship, while racing to stop the mysterious conspiracy that threatens to destroy millions of lives. Can they shut down Freeyond, and finally have a real life together? Or is it just a matter of time until Nathan’s head explodes? Meanwhile, in Lakeview, a backup copy of Nathan has been activated and Ingrid’s not about to let this second chance at love slip away. Back in the real world, Aleesha rises through the ranks of Horizen by managing AI education, and falls into a new romantic relationship. And Luke, all alone in Lakeview, is forced to come up with the funds to pay for his stay in paradise, driving him to work in The Grey Zone.

CAST

The series was created by Greg Daniels, who also serves as executive producer along with Howard Klein. Series stars: Robbie Amell as Nathan, Andy Allo as Nora,Kevin Bigley as Luke, Allegra Edwards as Ingrid, Zainab Johnson as Aleesha, and Owen Daniels as A.I. Guy.

Upload boss previews season 3’s ticking time bomb

There’s a ticking time bomb hanging over Nathan Brown’s head. Or rather, the ticking time bomb is Nathan’s head.

When Upload season 2 ended, Nathan (Robbie Amell) had successfully downloaded himself into a new physical body, which for the most part, is a great thing! He was finally able to be intimate with Nora (Andy Allo)! But, there’s also a downside to downloading in that it isn’t a perfect science, and notably, sometimes downloading causes the subject’s head to explode. So when Nathan got a nose bleed at the end of season 2, well, let’s just say things weren’t looking good. That’s precisely why season 3 will pick up in the almost immediate aftermath of that nose bleed.

“One of the really fun things in season 3 is that there is a ticking bomb. And that bomb is the lead of the show,” director and executive producer Jeffrey Blitz tells EW.

But even with a bomb taking center stage, things aren’t all bad. For one thing, Nathan and Andy can actually date now. “This season takes what was a very abstract and even strictly futuristic kind of romance and it turns it into a real world love story. Blitz promises.

And yet, the real world isn’t the only place to find Nathan.

At the end of season 2, Tinsley (Mackenzie Cardwell) secretly rebooted another version of Nathan within Lakeview, which means Amell is pulling double duty in season 3.

“Part of the fun of it is to see what this split path is — what life and love is like for Nathan in the real world and what life and love is like for Nathan in the upload world,” Blitz says.

Speaking of the many Nathans, we can’t forget about Ingrid (Allegra Edwards), and according to Blitz, there’s some juicy stuff coming for fans of Nathan’s strong-willed ex-girlfriend:

“I am very curious if, by the end of season 3, there are lots of people out there who end up feeling like one of the great pleasures and torments of the show is that they may end up shipping as hard for Ingrid as they do for Nora.”

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Condition of Return, starring AnnaLynne McCord & Dean Cain, hits theatres on Sept 22! – TRAILER

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Stonecutter Media is ramping up for the September 22, 2023, premiere of Condition of Return in North American theaters and on Cable VOD and Vudu.

The drama, directed by Tommy Stovall from a script by John Spare, stars AnnaLynne McCord (68 Kill, 90210), Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, God’s Not Dead), Natasha Henstridge (Species, Diggstown), and James Russo (Django Unchained, Not a Stranger). The film has also announced it has entered into an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA, allowing talent to promote the independent film and attend events for it.

SYNOPSIS

McCord, who plays Eve Sullivan, a churchgoing schoolteacher arrested for committing a mass shooting, says, “While I continue to stand in solidarity with my fellow SAG members, this film has been such a passion project of mine from the start, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to be able to promote such a timely and important message.”

At the heart of Condition of Return is a question: what happens if you get what you wished for? As Eve explores the answer, she encounters supernatural elements that are grounded in realism. The Devil, with whom Eve makes a deal to reclaim her life, is disguised as an actual person, as is God. The supernatural is implied, allowing viewers to find their own meaning and answers to the film’s questions.

McCord, who plays Eve Sullivan, a churchgoing schoolteacher arrested for committing a mass shooting, says, “While I continue to stand in solidarity with my fellow SAG members, this film has been such a passion project of mine from the start, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to be able to promote such a timely and important message.”

At the heart of Condition of Return is a question: what happens if you get what you wished for? As Eve explores the answer, she encounters supernatural elements that are grounded in realism.

The Devil, with whom Eve makes a deal to reclaim her life, is disguised as an actual person, as is God. The supernatural is implied, allowing viewers to find their own meaning and answers to the film’s questions.

When we were casting Condition of Return, everything depended on finding the right actress to play ‘Eve,'” Stovall says. “We admired AnnaLynne and her performance in Excision, so much so that I gave her manager the script and extended an offer. Only one day later, we learned that she wanted to do it. We were very fortunate to have an actress who could not only play a very complicated character but also make the audience empathize with her and care about her. She was excellent at hitting the right emotion at the right time.”

Stovall is equally complimentary of Cain, who “knocked it out of the park with bringing out the subtle emotions of Dr. Thomas,” and co-star Natasha Henstridge, who plays Liza, a pivotal character. “Natasha was phenomenal, especially since all of her scenes had to be shot in one day,” Stovall reveals. “It was so exciting to see her bring her character to life. Really, all three actors brought so much more to Condition of Return than we ever expected and were a joy to have on set.”

The script’s focus on authentic characters and realism meant that despite the supernatural theme, the production crew did not have to contend with many special effects.

Instead, the suspense is largely psychological, which fit in with the independent film’s limited budget and resources. Sound was also used to build tension, including the incorporation of the subtle hum of a Coke machine throughout the movie to signify a spiritual presence.

“We also tapped composer Ceiri Torjussen to create our musical score,” Stovall states. “His unique style and intuitiveness helps give Condition of Return its overall aesthetic.”

Stovall and the film’s production team invite everyone interested in deep questions to turn out for the September 22, 2023, release of Condition of Return.

“What if after you sold your soul, you decided you wanted it back?” he asks. “While we want audiences to be entertained, first and foremost, we hope that people talk about the bigger meaning of Condition of Return. Remember: be careful what you wish for because there’s always a cost when you get what you want.”

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First Look at Found, premiering Oct 3 on NBC! – PROMO

On October 3, a brand new series entitled Found is premiering at 10/9c on NBC. Let’s take a first look at the show with the synopsis, photos, and trailer!

SYNOPSIS

NBC has released a synopsis that teases what we can expect from Found Season 1. Let’s take a look! Keep following us for more news, we’ll upload more as asoon as available!

Crisis Management Specialist Gabi Mosely and her team find missing persons the authorities are unable or unwilling to locate. The search for Camilla, a missing 14-year-old in foster care, becomes more complicated than the team initially suspected.

In the opening moments of the chilling new drama Found, a desperate, scantily clad Gabi Mosely (Shameless’ Shanola Hampton) bangs on a metal door asking the man who answers for help.

Once inside, it’s clear she’s no damsel in distress: She delivers a right hook to the man and quickly reunites the young boy he’s kidnapped with his grateful parents. All in a day’s work.

“Gabi and her team look for the missing people that the rest of the world seem to not care about,” explains executive producer Nkechi Okoro Carroll. “Gabi finds the ones who have slipped through the cracks and fights to bring them home.”

A public relations specialist privately hired in missing-persons cases (and often at least one step ahead of the police), Gabi also brings a very personal skill set to her crisis management work.

“Gabi is a victim herself who was abducted [20 years before]; no one came to look for her and she had to save herself. It’s her life’s mission to make sure no one has to go through what she went through,” said Hampton in a pre–actor’s strike interview.

Her four colleagues — compassionate Margaret (Kelli Williams), sharp Zeke (Arlen Escarpeta), fearless Dhan (Karan Oberoi), and fierce Lacey (Gabrielle Walsh) — are equally astute and committed. Expect to learn their own personal ties to these types of heinous crimes.

And it’s Gabi’s traumatic backstory (through which we meet Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s Sir character) that gets revealed in the show’s eerie flashbacks.

“You will see how Gabi was abducted, how she saved herself, and other key moments throughout the first season that help you understand her as a character,” Hampton said. That’s abundantly clear in the first episode’s frightening final scene.

Found introduces Gabi Mosely, TV’s latest justice-seeking maverick

If you or a loved one ever goes missing, you’ll want Gabi Mosely (Shanola Hampton) on the case. 

NBC drama Found follows Gabi and her team as they work to find missing people that are overlooked by the system. Using their array of skills, Mosely and Associates set the law aside in order to help their clients find missing loved ones. Often clashing with the authorities and manipulating the media to her whim, Gabi is a formidable opponent, and one who is unapologetic about her calling. 

Her determination comes from past trauma. When she was kidnapped as a teenager, she had to free herself.

“Some people call her a vigilante because she’s not going to be tied down by laws and rules. Her job is not complete until they’ve been returned to their loved ones. It’s a calling that she takes very seriously and permeates her entire life,” creator Nkechi Okoro Carroll explains. We will see glimpses of her time as a captive (Azaria Carter plays a teenage Gabi) with her kidnapper, Sir, played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar in a role unlike anything he’s done before. “The time she spent with Sir has shaped who she is today,” Carroll explains. 

Mosely’s team does important work, but you will not hear their leader call herself a hero.

“[Gabi] is fully aware of all her flaws more than anyone else, even her team,” Carroll says. “Everyone for the most part knows each other’s secrets, although they don’t know the extent of Gabi’s.” Might that include the fact that Gabi is keeping her kidnapper locked up in her basement for insight on her cases?

Secrets aside, Gabi has formed a strong team, some of whom embody Gabi’s by-any-means-necessary approach while others are concerned with staying on the right side of the law. Lacey (Gabrielle Walsh) is a law student dedicated to Gabi’s mission, agoraphobic tech genius Zeke (Arlen Escarpeta) uses his family money to bankroll the operation, Dhan (Karan Oberoi) is the muscle of the team who works hard to keep his own demons at bay, and Margaret (Kelli Williams) is the mother of the group and who Carroll calls “the heart” of Gabi’s family. “Episode 3 in particular had me in the fetal position in the editing room watching Kelli work,” she teases.  

Rounding out the cast is Mark Trent (Brett Dalton), an officer drawn to Gabi both professionally and personally.

“Gabi’s mission is bringing the person home and what happens to the bad guy, if they don’t make it through the exchange, is secondary,” Carroll says about Gabi’s approach. Not only is Mark infatuated with Gabi, but he also believes in her mission while also wanting her to keep things legal so criminals can be convicted.

Found is a crime drama, but Carroll doesn’t see it as a procedural.

“There’s a case-of-the-week, but there’s no formula to the cases because there’s no telling whether Gabi will or won’t solve the cases,” she says. “Even more so, the lives of our main characters drive so much of the story and the complicated nature of how they are connected play a big role in the story.” The cases come from walk-ins — like the young boy who comes into their office for help finding his foster sister in the pilot — referrals, and on occasion, Gabi inserts herself when she hears about a situation that she knows she can assist with. 

Bringing this story to life is important to Carroll’s mission as a storyteller. “I truly believe that my keyboard is my weapon that helps me contribute to trying to make the world a better place,” she shares. The idea for Found was born out of frustration about the lack of attention missing people of color receive from mainstream media and how viral posts from within the community are how these stories get to people. 

Carroll remembers a story almost a decade ago about 14 missing Black and brown girls in Washington D.C. “The community felt like they weren’t being heard,” she recalls about their disappearance. Keeping tabs on the case and ones like it, including the rate at which indigenous women have gone missing, helped the show take shape. “I was trying to understand from a human perspective and a parent perspective how this could be happening and isn’t being addressed on a wider scale,” she explains. 

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The Changeling: Preview on Episode 5! – SYNOPSIS & PHOTOS

On September 22, Episode 5 of new drama series The Changeling, starring LaKeith Stanfield (Knives Out) and Clark Backo (The Handmaid’s Tale), entitled This Woman’s Work, is airing on Apple TV+. Let’s take a look at what we can expect!

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The Changeling: Preview on Episode5! – SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS

Apple TV+ has released the synopsis for The Changeling Episode 5, This Woman’s Work. Let’s take a look and keep following us for more news on the show, we will upload more details as soon as available!

The mysterious washerwoman’s ominous words leave a lasting impression. Apollo comes face-to-face with his true enemy.

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First Look at Apple TV+’s Still Up, starring Antonia Thomas! – TRAILER

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Antonia Thomas headlines Still Up, an “almost-romantic comedy” about “insomniac friends who have no secrets — except for their feelings for each other,” according to the official logline, premiering September 22 on Apple TV Plus. Let’s take a first look!

First Look at Apple TV+’s ‘almost-romantic comedy’ Still Up, starring Antonia Thomas! – TRAILER

SYNOPSIS

Apple TV+ dropped the first trailer Tuesday, which establishes the after-hours world of insomniacs Lisa (Thomas) — a free-spirited, aspiring illustrator who is raising her young daughter alongside loving partner Veggie — and Danny (played by Red Oaks‘ Craig Roberts), an online content writer who suffers from extreme anxiety.

The half-hour series premieres Friday, Sept. 22 with three episodes, followed by one new episode every week through Oct. 27.

CAST

In addition to Thomas and Roberts, the cast includes Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners) as Veggie, Lisa’s reliable, kind, eternally optimistic partner; Lois Chimimba (The Outlaws) as Amy, the forthright and funny woman Danny meets on a dating app; Luke Fetherston (Pandora) as Adam, Danny’s helpful fireman neighbor who lives across the hall; and Rich Fulcher (Kidding) as Cat Man, Danny’s strange neighbor with a penchant for cats.

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First Look at All of Us Strangers, starring Andrew Scott & Paul Mescal! – TRAILER

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Andrew Haigh’s new film All of Us Strangers parallels a steamy romance between Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal with an aching reunion of the dead and the living. Together, they make for an emotional epic. Let’s take a first look!

SYNOPSIS

The film follows Adam (Andrew Scott), a 40-something writer living alone in a nearly deserted high-rise outside of London. His neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) drunkenly flirts with him one night, a steamy, if messy, meet-cute that develops into a tender relationship. Between encounters with Harry, Adam finds himself drawn back to where he grew up.

In that house left behind by the family long ago, he finds his parents (played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) getting on with life. Odd, as his parents died in a tragic accident when he was a child. He’s hardly thrown off by their presence or their youthfulness; he finds comfort in merely being able to see them again. To tell them he’s gay, to understand them as adults, to imagine their bond that never could be.

“It’s an opportunity to revisit your parents long after they might have passed and to have a dialogue,” says Oscar nominee Graham Broadbent (The Banshees of Inisherin), who, alongside producing partner Sarah Harvey, first brought Haigh the book to adapt. “What would you tell your parents about your life if you were an adult and they were no longer with us?”

That question of infinite possibility meets compelling answers in Haigh’s hands.

“I wanted it to all feel very integrated, like our memories do and like how we go through life—the pain we carry around is always just there, hidden, and it can come up and feel incredibly real,” the director says. “It was always about that feeling when you’re just about to fall asleep or you just wake up from a dream—when everything feels a little bit strange.”

As such, he’s reluctant to call this a ghost story—so save your “Weekend with ghosts” memes, Haigh fans—even as his trademark naturalism gets challenged by the film’s conceit. On the one hand, sure, we have a character speaking directly with his deceased parents. On the other, we have a familiar Haigh setup rendered in a bracing new context—the hookup that turns into something more.

Sex and strangers have long been intrinsic elements of Haigh’s filmmaking.

In Weekend, a one-night stand provides the impetus for a spellbinding saga of longing and intimacy; HBO’s Looking charts the growth and regression of its single gay San Franciscans through raw, honest portraits of their sexual experiences. Yet in All of Us Strangers, it all hits differently—becoming more emotional, more revealing, definitely more mysterious.

“I’ve been more objective in how I’ve shot sex scenes in the past,” Haigh says. “Here, I really wanted to feel the subjective nature of having sex and what it feels like—the nervousness and the excitement and the physical sensation of being touched by someone else, and what that does to you.”

The two performers at the romance’s center bring that intention to beautiful life.

Scott inhabits a character just coming to terms with his buried shame, while Mescal takes on a more enigmatic figure who unveils himself carefully. The actors commit wholly—sweetly, deeply, explicitly—to the intensity of the physical connection that develops between Adam and Harry.

“There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together,” Haigh says. “Both of them were pretty fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching those scenes. They knew how important they were.”

That importance particularly relates to Adam’s greater journey in All of Us Strangers. It’s no coincidence the sex feels unique, even special, with Harry. That bond proves inextricably linked with his posthumous family reunion.

The romantic story and the family story don’t compete for space in All of Us Strangers; rather, they deftly coexist in a kind of metaphysical harmony.

“I wanted everything we see to feel like it is a manifestation of Adam’s state of mind,” Haigh says. He executed this goal carefully and thoroughly—from his striking use of nostalgia-friendly 35mm film to his playfulness with perspective—but Scott’s skill as a performer serves as the real glue. His work is openhearted, incredibly poignant, and dramatically rigorous. And somehow it’s his first true lead role in a film, following years of lauded stage work and that fan-favorite turn as Hot Priest in Fleabag. 

“This whole film sits squarely on his shoulders, and he clearly had it in him, but it’s beautiful to see it,” says Broadbent. Haigh adds that Scott “hasn’t had this kind of central role—and I always felt like he should have that central role.”

Haigh made no secret during filming of the personal stakes within All of Us Strangers. 

The feeling of growing up gay in the ’80s weds the movie’s two strands as Adam grapples with coming out to his parents at long last. Haigh intended to capture that period not only as he remembered it, but also as Scott, who is gay as well, could reflect on it too.

“I’m not one of those people who thinks you have to cast a queer actor in a queer role, but for this role, I did want to because I was trying to unpick some nuances of a certain generation of gay people,” he says. “I needed someone that could understand that and have those conversations with me. I didn’t want it to feel like I was trying to explain what it was like.”

And so you get Adam and Harry softly discussing their upbringings, past partners, understandings of love and sex, that pang of regret they can’t seem to shake.

You get a dizzying scene in a pulsating gay club that seems to throw both of them out of time. You get a distinctive slice of queer life, realized by a director who’s learned how to carve them out without compromise.

“I make no bones about the fact that this is a specific experience I’m telling, of a man in his late 40s who’s gay,” Haigh says. “I’m trying to tell something that I understand, that is my experience of the world, and that is authentic to me.”

This is a hallmark of Haigh’s filmography. Extrapolating his past through that lens, however? Very new territory.

“I didn’t have the happiest of childhoods—childhoods are complicated, especially when you’re gay, and I think a lot of the story is dealing with those elements,” Haigh says. “You have to deal with those things when you’re back in that environment.”

All of Us Strangers is not autobiography—Haigh’s parents are not dead, for one thing—and it’s also infused with the memories of Scott and the rest of the cast.

Yet the fuel here is Haigh going on the same kind of quest as his hero: to return to where he came from and unearth the stuff bubbling from within. An old photo of Adam’s mom in the film is in fact a photo of Haigh’s mom, with Claire Foy photoshopped in. Foy and Jamie Bell both bear a certain resemblance to their real-life counterparts.

“I was trying to cast someone that made sense for Adam’s parents, but I was also trying to cast someone that made sense for my parents,” Haigh says. “And I wanted it to be Claire’s story, and I wanted it to be Jamie’s story. It’s not just about being a child, it’s also about being a parent and about being a lover and being loved.”

Foy and Bell play the parts with a kind of impenetrable affection, processing everything they learn about their son as they vie to comfort him, beyond the grave, in adulthood.

The notion of Scott playing the child of Foy and Bell, who are younger than him, could sound gimmicky or even ridiculous.

One fascinating scene finds Adam in his kiddie pajamas late at night, crawling into bed with his parents like a child shaken by a nightmare. It’s surprisingly resonant. Adam asks, “Is this real?” His mother replies, “I don’t know. Does it feel real?” To reiterate, this takes place on a set meant to resemble Haigh’s parents’ bedroom. “It was a very unusual, emotional experience, filming a scene that was in my parents’ old bed,” the director says. Scott exudes a miraculously devastating, childlike pain through it all.

“I was amazed by the way that he fluctuates between being an adult and a child,” Haigh says. “When he’s in the scenes with his parents, he feels young; when he’s not, he’s older again. That’s a very hard thing to pull off.”

The vulnerability of Adam is a testament, perhaps, to Haigh’s vulnerability in making this movie, all the way through to the explosive twist of an ending.

The director wasn’t afraid of showing that part of himself to allow his collaborators to similarly open up and reach that level of artistic transparency. He wanted to make a movie about “the nature of family,” of how those relationships shape us into adulthood, and about a love affair—and in turn, about “how those things inform each other and how they affect each other.” It’s an epic meditation on how love, however fleeting or lasting and in whatever shape it takes over time, makes up who we are—a theme Haigh has been working toward for his whole career.

“Weekend was about relationships, and 45 Years was about families,” Broadbent says. “In this one, he brought them together.”

CAST

Andrew Scott as Adam, a 40-something writer living alone in a nearly deserted high-rise outside of London.

Paul Mescal as Harry, Adam’s neighbor

Claire Foy as Adam’s mother

Jamie Bell as Adam’s father

PREMIERE DATE

All of Us Strangers will screen at the New York Film Festival before Searchlight Pictures releases the film in theaters on December 22

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Grey’s Anatomy – How much do you know about Jo Wilson? – QUIZ

Josephine Brooke Wilson (Jo Wilson), formerly Brooke Stadler, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a character from the medical drama television series Grey’s Anatomy, which airs on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States.

The character was created by series producer Shonda Rhimes and is portrayed by actor Camilla Luddington. She was introduced in the ninth season premiere episode “Going, Going, Gone” as a surgical intern at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, later renamed Grey Sloan Memorial in the same season.

Luddington’s character was conceptualized as the new love interest for Justin Chambers’ character, Alex Karev.

How much you remember about Jo Wilson ‘s personal, love and working storyline on Grey’s Anatomy? Find out with our quiz!

In the ninth season, Jo is an intern who clashes with Alex. At Bailey’s wedding, they eventually form a bond over their similar childhoods. As the season develops, their friendship enhances as Alex develops feelings for Jo.

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First Look at Griselda, Netflix limited series starring Sofia Vergara premiering Jan 25, 2024! – TEASER

Sofía Vergara is ready for her next chapter: She stars in Netflix’s Griselda, a new six-episode limited series from the team behind Narcos. EW can exclusively reveal that the series will premiere January 25, 2024. Though Vergara made a name for herself with comedies like Modern Family and Hot Pursuit, she’s diving headfirst into drama as Griselda Blanco, the infamous drug lord who rose through the ranks of Miami’s criminal underworld in the 1970s and ’80s. She also serves as executive producer on the series, which she has been developing for almost 10 years. Let’s take a look!

SYNOPSIS

GRISELDA is inspired by the life of the savvy and ambitious Colombian businesswoman Griselda Blanco, a devoted mother who created one of the most profitable cartels in history. Blanco’s lethal blend of unsuspected savagery and charm helped her expertly navigate between business and family, leading her to become widely known as “the Godmother.”

Vergara first approached Narcos creator Eric Newman with a desire to play Blanco while still in the midst of Modern Family, which ended in 2020.

“She had collected tons of images and stories and people who knew [Griselda Blanco],” Newman, creator and executive producer of the series, tells EW. “And she had really gone deep on someone who felt the pressure that she felt. I think that she really understood what it was like. She’s got a son and she came to this country as a young mother with not much of a plan.”

Director Andrés Baiz recognized Vergara’s drive to show off her dramatic chops. “This was a chance to reinvent herself and step out of her comfort zone, which was very brave of her,” the Narcos director tells EW. “She knew she had to dive in completely into this role and feel insecure and afraid, but she knew that all she had was her work, that she had to push herself to the limit.”

Baiz met with Vergara at her house multiple times a week to flesh out her character.

“She wanted a Griselda that didn’t feel like Sofía Vergara,” he says. “So for example, she had to learn how to smoke. Sofía had never smoked in her life… We came up with a bunch of questions. What are Griselda’s dreams, what does she think about at night, what drives her, what car does she drive, what cigarettes does she smoke? What is her favorite food? Where does she want to go on vacation again? How does she move? Does she like to dance or not?”

Once Vergara introduced the idea, Newman realized that Blanco is an even more complicated figure than the subjects of the Narcos series.

“Based on [Vergara’s] commitment and passion for it, I felt like it was something that went beyond Narcos, that while it was an evolutionary cousin of sorts… this felt like a great transition away from these characters like Gallardo and Escobar who are complicated, certainly, but don’t have the same level of complexity that Griselda has,” Newman says. “Because if we’ve learned anything about the narcotics world, what it takes for a woman to reach the level that she reached… it’s difficult to fathom what it would take in that culture to reach the top.”

Baiz says that the creative team had to be intentional about differentiating Griselda from their previous projects.

“The stylistic landmarks of Narcos are not in Griselda,” he says. “Griselda has its own identity … its own style.”

Newman points out that there are thematic similarities between the two shows, however.

“There is a rise and fall structure to these stories, and we like to think that they sort of mirror the effects of drugs in the beginning,” he says. “This is going to be great, and we’re riding high, and there’s this sort of euphoria that then starts to churn about halfway through when you realize you’ve gone too far and now you’re going to start paying for it.”

Newman sees the series as a creative experiment to test how far audiences’ sympathies will go — and thinks Vergara’s inherent charisma helps push those limits.

“What Sofía brings to the role is, you just like her,” Newman says. “You’re like, ‘I like this person and I hope good things happen to her.’ And then she’s doing really bad things… terrible things, to the point where you are wondering if you really want her to get away with this anymore. And so that, for us, was something that you can only achieve in a six-hour format, [because] if you saw her do the thing she does in a movie, she’d lose you right away.”

Ultimately, the creators hope the series will complicate the narrative around Blanco’s reputation and legacy.

“There is that adage that is used all the time in our world that ‘a badass man is a boss, but somehow a badass woman is a bitch,'” Newman says. “This was someone who I believe has suffered in the telling of the Griselda Blanco story historically, [because the story] has been ‘She’s an ugly, a merciless, cruel, cruel [person], and no one is.”

“This show is very much about a woman in a man’s world — in a toxic man’s world,” Baiz says. “You’re always with her and rooting for her in this world that is trying to push her down and aside.”

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