In the current ultra-managed, publicist-controlled, sound-byte-driven media atmosphere, you don’t get to hear stars really speaking their minds anymore — at least, not about anything fun, like how they really feel about their fellow stars. But occasionally a little something sneaks through the PR wall, both now and back in Hollywood’s golden age, sometimes as whispers, sometimes as gossip, sometimes long after the fact. And thus, we present another, long-overdue installment of our ongoing series (following authors, filmmakers, and musicians) of really famous people really cutting each other down.

1. Bette Davis on Joan Crawford:
“Joan Crawford — I wouldn’t sit on her toilet!”
“I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.”
“Joan Crawford — Hollywood’s first case of syphilis.”
“She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.”
“Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it’s because I’m not a bitch. Maybe that’s why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.”
“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”

2. Joan Crawford on Bette Davis:
“Bette will play anything, so long as she thinks someone is watching. I’m a little more selective than that.”
“She may have more Oscars… she’s also made herself into something of a joke.”
“Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures. She called it ‘art.’ Others might call it camouflage — a cover-up for the absence of any real beauty.”
“I don’t hate Bette Davis, even though the press wants me to. I resent her — I don’t see how she built a career out of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. She’s a phony, but I guess the public likes that.”

10. Rex Harrison on Charlton Heston:
“Charlton Heston is good at playing arrogance and ambition. But in the same way that a dwarf is good at being short.”

14. Frank Sinatra on Shelly Winters:
“A bowlegged bitch of a Brooklyn blonde.”

15. Shelly Winters on Frank Sinatra:
“A skinny, no-talent, stupid Hoboken bastard.”

16. Ava Gardner on Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra:
“I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a boy.”

21. Sharon Stone on Gwyneth Paltrow:
“[She’s] very young and lives in rarefied air that’s a little thin. It’s like she’s not getting quite enough oxygen.”

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On July 8, 2009, Reno 911! aired its season six finale, an episode titled “Wiegel’s Couple Therapy.” It concluded with Jones and Dangle telling a classroom of young children (in song!) that it’s okay to have gay parents; a fitting season finale, but not necessarily a fitting conclusion to the entire series.

After killing off series regulars Wendy McLendon-Covey, Carlos Alazraqui, and Mary Birdsong at the end of season five—a decision that some fans disagreed with—season six was the show’s most heavily debated. Still, that didn’t make it less shocking Comedy Central decided to pull the plug on Reno altogether that August.


Series creators Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon had never intended for “Wiegel’s Couple Therapy” to serve as the show’s true ending. So now, on the accidental series finale’s five-year anniversary, EW chatted with Lennon and Garant about how they’d planned to end the series, what their favorite episodes were, whether there’s hope for the future, and more.

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On how the pair wanted to end the show:


THOMAS LENNON: We had no idea we were about to be canceled, so we didn’t wrap anything up in any way.

BEN GARANT: I think if we’d known it was coming, we would’ve planned some sort of Twin Peaks end to the whole thing, but we never got a chance.

LENNON: Yeah, Ben and I had talked for a long time about doing a storyline that did wrap up, and it was inside a dream. Lt. Dangle was taking like, a Chantix, a stop smoking drug, and basically, you’d been seeing a bad trip he’d been going through for years or something.

GARANT: Yeah, the last season we were going to do, like, a six episode arc that was like Twin Peaks. In fact, we were going to try to get Kyle MacLachlan to be that sort of character as himself, and there would be a murder, and we would get to the bottom of it. But at the end, there was no Kyle MacLachlan. Dangle was on this weird smoking suppressant drug and hallucinogen.

LENNON: I wish we had known. We were plenty surprised that the show got canceled, especially because [of] the ratings. It was actually a very highly rated show for pretty much its entire run. It never really…

GARANT: It never dipped.

LENNON: Yeah, and it was a remarkably easy-to-produce show. We would shoot whole episodes of the show in the amount of time people just kind of talk about things, as you can tell because the shows look very slap-dash. [Laughs] We never thought about things for a real long time. We were just like, “Why don’t we just go out and kind of—”

GARANT: “—Do it,” yeah. You can poke a lot of holes in it if you really want to.

LENNON: Oh yeah.

GARANT: But yeah, it was really cheap. It was really fun. Everybody got to do other stuff because it basically only took up 20 shoot days for the cast. We were really surprised when they pulled the rug out.
How the show came together:

LENNON: Lately, I’ve been going back to watching some Reno 911!‘s. There have been a lot of attempts at “Reno 911! in blank,” like, what if it’s Reno 911! in a garage, or Reno 911! in an animal hospital. I think what a lot of people don’t know is, to make it look so loose and unprepared, a lot of planning went into it. We did write outlines for almost every single scene that ever happened, just so we had some sort of sense of what was going on. It was slightly more structured than it seemed.

GARANT: We really had a planned punchline for every scene. We were much more organized than you would ever think by watching the show. And the other thing I think people don’t realize is [that] to get about a minute and a half of material for Reno, we would shoot for about 40 minutes of improv. I think a lot of people think that you can just roll, and the actual take will be hilarious. But the show really did come together in the editing room. [For] “Morning Briefing,” we would shoot all day—literally 8 hours of tape—and then, at the end, edit it down to about 15 minutes of “Morning Briefing” for the season. Because it was improv and it was based on outlines instead of scripts, we never got script notes. We never had script meetings; we never had script approvals. So we were really left to our own devices, which was very, very fun.

LENNON: Once in a while, we would do stuff where there wasn’t really that much of a plan. We tried to have punchlines and such, but occasionally we would just say, “Well, what if we had, you know, like 100 stuffed animals full of cocaine, and we’ll cut them open, and we’ll shoot for like an hour?” And we did that also on something called “Arby’s Reenactment,” which was like a crime scene where the only evidence we found was Arby’s and some murdered people. So we would just keep reenacting scenarios, every one of which involved “piping hot Arby’s.”

GARANT: We would card up ideas. Our wall was just covered with little index cards, and so we would sit in the office for a few weeks and just write up these cards. Tom wrote on a card, “Someone pooped in the book donation box” and stuck it up to the bulletin board. And that was all we ever said. We never discussed it. We never talked about what that would be. But since the budget of that is a cardboard box and a little pudding, we’re like, “Yeah let’s do it.” But no one ever talked about that one. We just sort of shot it. And we shot for an hour and it turned out great. It was fun.

LENNON: We often would work like that. Kerri [Kenney] played a character on the show called “Jackie the pickle-throwing hooker,” who was a hooker who would sort of drink pickle juice, and she had an eye patch. It was based off of just titles of things. I wrote that on a card long before and just put it on the wall and was like, “Kerri, you think you could probably do this, right?” And she was like, “Oh yeah, that’s right up my alley, whatever that is, Jackie the pickle-throwing hooker.” And she actually never threw pickles, but she did drink a lot of pickle juice, as I recall. One of the great things about doing that show is sometimes, we would do long scenes where the rest of the cast would be just sort of waiting right off camera. It was very much like being in a live play where you’d kind of just wait and listen on headphones to see what was happening in the other room to see if you should come in or not. We did some long, long takes.

GARANT: You don’t see that except in actual improv shows. In actual improv shows, you wait in the wings and think of a funny idea and come in and add to the scene. One of the other tricks to doing a show like Reno is we were always in the same clothes, so you could edit together different things from different shows. If you didn’t have a line to make something make sense, you could steal it from another scene in another show. Because everybody was always in the same clothes, people could just walk in and walk out of scenes sort of at their own discretion and it never created a continuity problem.

LENNON: I will say I’m proud of all of the episodes that exist. As you can probably tell, it was a labor of love. While it’s the funnest job we’ve ever had, it’s also probably the hardest job we’ve ever had. We’d start at like five o’clock in the morning, we’d be there till 10 or 11 at night—and I remember going home every day from Reno, and you know how sometimes you can’t tell how many cuts and scrapes you have until you get soap on them in the shower? At the end of Reno days, I’d get in the shower and just go “Oh my god! Ow ow ow ow ow!” Because I’d realize my whole body was covered in like…

GARANT: Cuts and bruises.

LENNON: Yeah, from like, wrestling in gravel with Natasha, or Toby whipping a chain at me, or some dumb sh– that had happened.
The idea that they couldn’t make work:

LENNON: Cedric [Yarbrough] had a character that he kept pitching—and I think it was just because the words sounded funny—called the Naked Jamaican.

GARANT: The Naked Jamaican we never got around to.

LENNON: We tried, remember? We did end up trying it.

GARANT: Oh yeah it did work! He had a catchphrase. His catchphrase was, “I’m just letting my skin breathe.”

LENNON: “I’m letting my skin breathe, man.” [Laughs]

GARANT: But it didn’t really have much more to it than that, so that one didn’t really work.

LENNON: By the way, if something did not work at all, but it had literally one funny moment or one joke, it was usually in “Next week on Reno 911!” We used every part of the comedy buffalo on the show.

GARANT: If the actual scene wasn’t working, we would just take a sidetrack and head down that sidetrack full speed and that ended up being the scene. A lot of scenes, we would go up to a comedian who was there, and maybe the scene was kind of a dud—but then you’d go back to the car and talk about, like, the poop that you stepped on during the scene for 30 minutes, and end up with something great. So everything was always savable.
How cops felt about the show:

LENNON: I’ve actually had many, many police officers say that they felt like Reno 911! was the most accurate police show on television. I’m totally not kidding. I think the reason is because we sound very real. I think what they were always surprised by, not the sort of like foolery of Reno 911!, but the things we talked about to each other in the briefing room, for example—it just isn’t stilted.

GARANT: We don’t talk like Aaron Sorkin wrote us, you know? Everybody sounds kind of normal, and I think cops just love that. In cop shows, the police don’t get to rag on each other and rag on their commander and rag on the person they just pulled over. That was all Reno was, and I think that’s all cops do 90 percent of their day.

LENNON: There was a sketch we did called “Shoot My Dog,” where Garcia and Jones come up to this very sad man whose dog is very sick and he can’t afford to put him down. He just gives them this very sad sob story and reluctantly, Garcia and Jones go around a corner and decide, well, the only thing to do is to put the dog down. So they go back behind the garbage cans and shoot the dog. You don’t see it, of course, but you see the muzzle flash, and then seconds later, the lady comes running out of the house and she’s like, “What the f— did you do to my dog?”

GARANT: “Who shot my dog?! Who shot my dog?!”

LENNON: And the guy’s like, “I told you to shut that dog up.” It was a pretty interesting sketch, but the most interesting thing is that it’s actually used by the L.A. police department as a training video.
GARANT: Don’t believe anybody.

LENNON: I think the message they’re trying to teach people is when you pull up to a scenario, somebody’s lying. So just be careful who you believe when you pull up to a crime scene.
The movie sequel they never got to make:

GARANT: This shows you how we can over-think something and under-think something at the same time, [which] I think is sort of our craft. We were going to do Reno 911!: New York, New York, Las Vegas, which was like a Die Hard set not in New York, but in the New York, New York casino in Las Vegas. We were really excited about being locked into the one casino and doing a bad action movie.

LENNON: Yeah, it was like “Christmas, Christmas inside the New York, New York Las Vegas.” And as it was technically the sequel to Reno 911!: Miami. Reno 911!: Miami: New York, New York Las Vegas, I believe, was the full working title of that feature film we were hoping to make.
Would they revisit these characters?

LENNON: The further we get from it, the more open to it I am. There have been some discussions. Netflix had asked about us doing it, but we never really investigated it that deeply. I mean, they’re certainly very fun to play. I would be open to it at some point, the idea of revisiting them.

GARANT: We did a reunion show at the San Francisco Comedy Fest that went really, really well with everybody except Wendy [McLendon-Covey]. Carlos [Alazraqui] came, and it was after the Garcia character was dead and so halfway during the show, Carlos, wearing chains like Jacob Marley, came from the back of the theater and said [in a ghostly voice] “Jones, Jones.” And all the cops acted like they couldn’t see him except Cedric, and Cedric was freaking out, and we were all saying, “What do you mean? There’s nobody there.” And he came and haunted him, and then we all laughed and said, “Oh no, those guys weren’t dead; those guys just transferred to Carson. Oh, we told you he was dead; that was a joke.” And it went great. We did like, a full in-character drug awareness and prevention seminar as us, and we fixed the Garcia-being-dead thing, and it was really really fun.
Their biggest regret:

LENNON: A lot of fans were upset when we switched out some members of the cast. It’s certainly probably something I regret.

GARANT: I’ll say that I’m really glad that we added Joe [Lo Truglio] and Ian [Roberts], [but] I wish that we’d kept everybody.

LENNON: I agree. It was a mistake. But it was also just in a sort of passionate creative time, it’s like being in a band. I guess that’s the closest I can equate it to. But certainly, I regret it in hindsight.

GARANT: Yeah I agree with that.

LENNON: I feel like season 3 was really solid. I have some favorite episodes. Brian Phelps from Mark and Brian did an episode where he played Gigg LeCarp, who was a reverend who came back to do a show from our jail.

GARANT: So funny. Yeah.

LENNON: It’d be really hard to pick. There’s a lot of moments. Anytime you got to do a scene with Jim Rash was really wonderful.

GARANT: Oscar Nunez auditioned for us. He just talked really funny. He was a UPS guy and he “has a lot of uniforms.” What he auditioned with was just sort of a fast-talking con man, and we said, “Well, what if this guy came in as Homeland Security, and he’s teaching us Homeland Security?” And that was season one. It became like a two-episode thing just because he was so weird and funny. That was the first time that during the shooting, we all realized, “This doesn’t make any sense that he’s from Homeland Security. What if he’s not? What if he’s lying?”

LENNON: Without even telling him, we decided about halfway through shooting that he was going to be a con man.
GARANT: So at the very end, right before he left, we told him, “Hey we need to take your mug shot because you’re not really with Homeland Security.” And he thought that was hilarious, and so he became Spanish Mike Alvarez. He became our super villain.

LENNON: One of my favorite scenes we ever shot, it’s the least a guest star ever did. Zach Galifianakis played a character named Frisbee. He lived in a school bus. He was basically like a David Koresh type character who had a little compound and some child brides, and we did a full scene with him where we pulled up to his weird bus with his child brides. We walk up to him for a long time and we say, “Hey Frisbee, you haven’t seen those young civil rights workers who were walking around trying to get some…” [Laughs]

GARANT: Signatures.

LENNON: Yeah. And he just shakes his head no, in the most suspicious way ever, and we walk back to the car.

GARANT: And we say, “All right, okay.”

LENNON: Basically you know in that moment he killed them and buried them somewhere on his property. But no one ever said anything. It was just one of those great little moments. That was one of my favorite things.

LENNON: All the stuff where Patton Oswalt played the D&D.

GARANT: The Boozehammer of Galen, man. Wow.

LENNON: It was always really fun to fight and wrestle with Natasha Leggero. Those were always great moments. She would always put up a really great fight to not get in a police car. George Lopez as…

GARANT: Mayor Hernandez, yeah.

LENNON: [He] would come in with his hand bandaged up and weeping, saying, “Anybody can make an allegation.” Those were really fun.

GARANT: We just pitched to him, “Hey George, what if you came in as our Mayor, and you just were going to tell us not to believe the stuff that was just about to come out about you?” And he said, “Okay, great.” So he came in and gave those wonderful speeches with a bandage on his hand.

LENNON: He’s got like, blood on his hand. [Laughs]

GARANT: Toby Huss was always great. Toby Huss, Big Mike—we’ve known him for a long time, and we told him when we were just starting to develop the show, “Yeah, it’s like Cops, so we need to run into sort of characters in Reno.” All he said was, “What if I had a do-rag and like a wife beater with a pack of cools down the front of my shirt?” And that’s all he told us. And we said, “Yeah, okay, great. We’ll see what happens.” And then he became Big Mike. After season 2, the very first day of every single shoot every season was always Big Mike because we knew we would get something. We knew that it would kind of warm us all up and remind us what the show was.

LENNON: A really great moment I remember was, we had Nick Swardson who played Terry—one of the greatest characters ever. He had been bragging about his beautiful, super hot girlfriend. Christina Applegate said she wanted to come in and play Terry’s girlfriend. She was waiting in, like, a fancy car down the street with headphones on, just listening to what Terry was saying about her, including what her name was. She had never heard any of the stuff about the character, so she was just waiting in a car around the corner with headphones on so that she could drive into the scene and then corroborate everything he was saying.

GARANT: What she did for a living, her name.

LENNON: Seeeemji with four E’s and a silent J.

GARANT: Paul Rudd was so tricky because he’s so busy, and so whenever Paul Rudd came as the weird creepy Lamaze instructor who was very, very into pregnant women, that was always wonderful.

LENNON: Those were always really fun. We really had a lot of exactly who you would want on the show.

GARANT: Drew Carey really wanted to do it, but every time we were shooting—like, one time he was off doing USO stuff. We almost got Drew Carey a bunch of times, and that would’ve been really fun. But we got almost everybody.


GARANT: Oh my God, yeah. Kenny Rogers wrote a blurb in TV Guide. They asked random celebrities what they’re watching on TV, and he had a little blurb that said that Reno 911! was the best show on TV right now, and so we called him and he said, “Great, I would do it.” So he came as himself. He had such a good time, and he had such a great sense of humor about himself. Kerri dressed up as like the decoy Kenny Rogers.

LENNON: Kerri dressed as Kenny Rogers making out with Carlos, who had fallen in love with her because she was dressed like Kenny Rogers. That was one of my favorite…if you recall, Patton Oswalt assassinates Kenny Rogers and he walks up to him and says, “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” Boom. And then assassinates him. That was a great episode.
The reunion they’d want to do:

LENNON: I would like to [bring everybody back]. It’s actually not a hard show to do.

GARANT: It’s not a hard show to do. There’s a reunion that you can see online of The Andy Griffith Show—the tone of it is really funny. They’re all really old, and they’re sitting up in this panel giving this really heartfelt discussion, but they’re in character. It’s really weird. I think I would love to do a show like that years and years and years in the future—that we’re still doing it, that you’re catching up on us. We never went anywhere, it’s just the documentary crew went away.

LENNON: Oh, we talked about that, right. There had just been a couple years where we weren’t being documented.

GARANT: I love the idea that we weren’t a show that got canceled, it’s just Comedy Central stopped filming us.

LENNON: [You] stopped looking at us.

GARANT: Yeah, you just stopped looking at us.


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An emotional Neymar cried as he recalled the challenge that ended his World Cup and said he felt blessed not to have ended up in a wheelchair.



Colombia defender Juan Zúñiga kneed the Brazil forward in the back in the closing stages of the hosts’ 2-1 quarter-final victory, ruling him out of the tournament before the team’s traumatic 7-1 semi-final defeat by Germany.

“I won’t say he came to injure me, I don’t what was going on in his head but everyone who understands football can see that it wasn’t a normal challenge,” Neymar told reporters at Brazil’s base camp just outside Rio de Janeiro.

“When you want to foul someone to stop a game or stop a counterattack, you kick their ankles, you push, you pull, but the way the ball was falling, it wasn’t a normal game situation.

“Many of you say I am a diver and I don’t care that you say that. I can defend myself when I can see what’s going on around me,” he added. “But I can’t defend myself from what comes from behind. What defends me in that situation is the rules and I couldn’t defend myself from that and I was injured.

“God blessed me,” Neymar said, breaking down in tears. “If it had been another two centimetres I could be in a wheelchair today.”

Neymar said Zúñiga called him the next day to apologise but he stopped short of forgiving his rival for the challenge.

“I don’t hate him, I don’t hold a grudge,” Neymar said. “But I don’t feel anything.”

Colombia’s football federation have since pledged to protect Napoli defender Zúñiga after he was subjected to a fierce backlash from Brazil fans for injuring Neymar. “FCF rejects all threats and insults against the player Juan Camilo Zúñiga and his family,” the national body said in a statement.

“It [FCF] will continue taking all actions with the appropriate security and government organisations to give the necessary guarantees to the player, for both his time in Colombia and his permanent residency in Italy.”

Sporting a Brazil shirt signed by his team-mates, Neymar also distanced himself from comments made by his agent, Wagner Ribeiro, who called coach Luiz Felipe Scolari “old, arrogant and ridiculous”. “I don’t agree and I don’t accept what he said about Felipão,” he said.

Germany will face Argentina in Sunday’s final at the Maracanã in Rio and hope to be able to call upon Real Madrid midfielder Ángel di María after he took part in light training on Thursday. Yet with the majority of Brazil expected to throw their support behind Germany, Neymar has admitted he will be cheering on Barcelona club-mates Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano as they attempt to win football’s biggest prize.

“I always said I wanted Argentina to get to the final because Brazil would be there but it never worked out like that,” he said. “I still want them there because my two team-mates are there, Messi and Mascherano, and I hope they win.”

Neymar singled out Messi for special praise and said the World Cup trophy would be a fitting addition to his bulging trophy cabinet.

“He’s won almost everything and I think he deserves to be champion and I am cheering for him to be champion,” he said. “He is my team-mate and my friend.”

The 22-year-old watched the 7-1 mauling by Joachim Löw’s side at home as he begins his recovery but refused to criticise their performance despite the embarrassing scoreline.

“At 6-0, 7-0 down, they could have given up. But they kept running, kept trying. I’m proud of every one of them,” he said. “I’m not ashamed to be Brazilian. I’m not ashamed to be part of this team. I am proud of my team-mates.”

Here's a video of him visiting the Brazil NT and some of his press conference at the end.



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Twentieth Century Fox's television plans for SDCC have already been announced, with the network bringing 13 shows including 24, American Horror Story and their animated lineup of The Simpsons and Family Guy (crossover time!) among others. On the film side, only the first day’s (Thursday, July 24th) schedule has been released so far – unveiled today – but we know at least one thing Fox will be presenting to Comic-Con attendees: the new Fantastic Four.

We’ve learned from an insider that the five young leads of director Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four Reboot will be making an appearance and that must mean the following talent will show up on stage: Jamie Bell (Ben Grimm – The Thing), Kate Mara (Sue Storm – The Invisible Woman), Michael B. Jordan (Johnny Storm – The Human Torch), Miles Teller (Reed Richards – Mr. Fantastic), and Toby Kebbell (Victor von Doom – Doctor Doom).

The big movie panels traditionally occur on the Friday and Saturday in Hall H of the San Diego Convention Center. Last year, Fox held their grand presentation on the Saturday where they made a splash by bringing out almost the entire cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past, preceded by a little love for The Wolverine. Fox’s Marvel’s brand is important to their future tentpole lineup and they have big plans for the Fantastic Four, having already dated a sequel for 2017 with consistent rumblings that they could eventually crossover with their X-Men franchise.

[Update: Moments after publishing, Fox announced their official Comic-Con movie plans which includes Book of Life, The Maze Runner, Hitman: Agent 47, Let's Be Cops, and Kingsman: The Secret Service. No mention of Fantastic Four so assume it's their surprise bookend.]

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Shahs Of Sunset star Golnesa 'GG' Gharachedaghi treated herself to a little makeover during a recent break from filming her hit Bravo reality show. While the petite Iranian American beauty has never looked in any need of having any cosmetic procedures, she underwent a minimally-invasive Airsculpt Laser Liposculpture treatment at Elite Body Sculpture in Beverly Hills.

According to TMZ, Dr Rollins, who performed the surgery, removed as much as 1 litre of pure fat
from her abdomen, which was then transferred into her bottom for an added boost.




The 32-year-old first revealed the results of the procedure in a photo taken from behind that perfectly showcased her impossibly trim waist as she sat poolside in an itsy bitsy gold bikini in Las Vegas to celebrate the Independence Day holiday last week.

'Happy 4th of July everybody! I'm in Vegas showing off my new body, thanks to Dr. Rollins at @elitebodysculpture I have a tighter waist and thicker hips!!!' she informed her more than 195,000 Instagram followers.

Indeed, the before and after pictures shared by Dr Rollins show a dramatic difference, with the beauty previously having a noticeably flat derrière and a slightly protruding stomach.



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Brace yourselves, Whovians: Long-running cult obsession Doctor Who returns to BBC America on Aug. 23 with a new star, Peter Capaldi, and a new attitude. Compared with Matt Smith’s previous Doctor, Capaldi’s lead character is “a lot fiercer,” says Jenna Coleman, who plays his traveling companion, Clara Oswald. “This man is a total adrenaline junkie.”

If you don’t count John Hurt’s one-and-done performance in last year’s 50th-anniversary special, Capaldi is the 12th actor to play the show’s Doctor, a two-hearted alien who travels through space—and time—in his ship, the TARDIS, and periodically regenerates his outward form. The announcement that Capaldi would replace Smith was simulcast last August on Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor. For the most part the casting was received warmly by fans thanks to Capaldi’s Who-tastic résumé, including an appearance in a 2008 episode of the show and in the 2009 spin-off miniseries, Torchwood: Children of Earth. As one EW.com commenter wrote at the time, “If you’re a Doctor Who fan, you already know him.”

The Scottish actor—whose other credits include World War Z and The Fifth Estate—then made the briefest of cameos in the anniversary show before debuting properly at the end of the 2013 special Christmas episode. His first official ep—the feature-length season premiere titled “Deep Breath”—is set in Victorian England and promises the return of the so-called Paternoster Gang, a trio of detectives made up of the dome-headed alien Strax (Dan Starkey), the lizardlike Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), and her human wife, Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart).

But that’s almost beside the point. “It’s a big introduction—he’s the new Doctor,” says executive producer and head writer Steven Moffat, who penned the premiere. “There’s no point pretending that it’s not the most interesting, dynamic thing that you’ve got to sell in that first episode. It’s going to be about ‘What’s he like? How’s he different?’ I suppose it feels a bit like a character piece, but there’s plenty of action and nonsense and jeopardy, as there ever is in Doctor Who.” (Moffat is full of good news these days, having just announced that Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman will be reteaming for a fourth season of his beloved BBC/PBS drama, Sherlock.)

While the showrunner is being tightlipped about Who’s 12-episode season, we do know it will culminate in a two-part finale directed by Rachel Talalay (Tank Girl) featuring the Doctor’s frequently encountered foes the Cybermen. Both the 50th-anniversary special and the Christmas episode left some fans a bit teary-eyed—so how will folks feel by the end of this run? “Like they want Doctor Who to come back very, very quickly,” says Moffat with a chuckle.

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Following the news that Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes are expecting their first child, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the biggest Baby Goose-related news of the day was to do with the happy couple, and their imminent bouncing bundle of tabloid-pleasing joy.

Which, of course, it isn't. Why? Because Mendes' pregnancy might just impact on the chances of Gosling playing a superhero in the near future. In response to the news, Latino-Review's one man rumor mill El Mayimbe had this to say:

Ryan Gosling is gonna be a daddy? Time to rethink that offer for the big superhero movie on the table. He's now got a family to think about.

— Umberto Gonzalez (@elmayimbe) July 10, 2014

Which we think could well be taken two whole different ways. Either:

a) El Mayimbe is under the impression that Gosling was about to take a major role in an upcoming superhero movie, but might now be rethinking. What with the wanting to spend time with his family and all.

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b) El Mayimbe is under the impression that Gosling has recently turned down a major role in an upcoming superhero movie, but might now be rethinking. What with the extra mouth to feed and all.

Now, either way, there's nothing close to official word about this - though Gosling has previously reflected that if he was going to play a superhero, it would probably have to be The Flash - so it should be taken for what it is: a hint, not a solid rumor. That being said, it's never too early to start thinking about who Gosling could - and should - play, whether in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, or elsewhere. So, of course, we did.

The Flash



Pros: What with Gosling having previously (sort-of) linked himself to the part, surely there's no one more likely for him to play than Barry Allen/Wally West himself? With The Flash being a major part of DC's forthcoming movie plans, and the DC television universe apparently being completely severed from the movies, there's no real reason it couldn't happen.
Cons: Would Gosling really sign up to the likely seven picture deal that playing a character like The Flash would require?

Green Lantern



Pros: Ryan Reynolds is reportedly no longer playing the part, leaving it wide open for a Baby Goose takeover.
Cons: Green Lantern comes with the same level of commitment as The Flash - along with a whole bunch likely fan anger over Reynolds' dismissal.

Green Arrow



Pros: He's blonde, edgy, and a fan favorite - as is Green Arrow. His public awareness has never been higher thanks to the CW TV series Arrow - and he wouldn't require a huge time commitment, being unlikely to get his own spin off movie.
Cons: Everyone already loves Stephen Amell in the role - and would the character have enough to do to justify the paycheck Gosling would command?

Steve Trevor



Pros: The part of Wonder Woman's traditional love interest is complex, unlikely to require too many appearances, and in the more modern interpretations, pleasingly feminist. Gosling taking the role would - for DC - add the kind of star power a Wonder Woman movie may well need.
Cons: Nathan Fillion was born to play the part - and already did in the Wonder Woman animated movie.

Doctor Strange



Pros: Marvel need a name to play one of their least well-known upcoming heroes - and he's a seriously interesting part to play.
Cons: Gosling looks nothing like the comic's - or fan's - image of the hero - and those time commitment issues wouldn't go away.

Bonus Villain Option



Pros: The Joker has been proven to be one of the coolest and potentially critically acclaimed parts in comic-dom.
Cons: Gosling would be the subject of major fan hatred, he's too serious an actor to don that much make-up, and surely he's too big to play a villain? No, wait, that just describes Heath Ledger going into The Dark Knight...

All of which leaves us...right about where we started. Which means it's probably time for a reminder of the superhero Gosling has, in his words, already played - just to reassure ourselves that all is right in the universe: "Here's the thing. 'Drive' was my attempt at the superhero movie. I had a costume and everything. The scorpion jacket. It was like my cape. It was like the idea of a guy that had seen too many superhero movies and then decided that he was going to make himself one."

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Ashley Benson’s been a busy girl: she’s currently starring on TV’s biggest teen soap opera/guilty pleasure of twenty-somethings everywhere (ahem), she just got back from a whirlwind trip to Hawaii with on-screen/off-screen BFF Shay Mitchell, she’s on the cover of some of our favorite magazines — and now, she can add “the face of H&M Divided” to her already extensive resumé. That’s her latest gig, and she’s been doing it with some major aplomb.

There are a lot of reasons why she and H&M make a great match — and chief among them is her cool-girl style, both in fictional Rosewood and very-real LA. Her character on Pretty Little Liars is currently experiencing something of an identity crisis — a crisis that extends to acting out in the form of shoplifting, and a dramatically different new look (which I’m a huge fan of, by the way). Hanna’s always been up on the latest trends (at least since Mona gave her an “Ali upgrade,” anyway), but her edgier new look is, if possible, even more fitting for H&M’s teen-targeted Divided line.

Benson recently signed on to join the cast of Pixels, a comedy about a group of '80s video game characters starring Adam Sandler.












On Pretty Little Liars:“Well, I’m going through a darker period of Hanna at the moment; she’s going to go through an edgy phase. I’m going to have black hair and she’s going to, like, change clothes and be grungier, which I love! So I’m super excited to see where my storyline goes.”

On her amazing fans:“When I went to Europe for the Spring Breakers tour, that was nuts because I also had Selena [Gomez] and Vanessa [Hudgens] with me. It just created a whole craze! I remember being in Paris, and we were at a mall shopping, and we looked out the windows and there were just thousands of people waiting outside. Like we were The Beatles. It was, like, ‘woah, this is crazy’.

On her pup, Olive:“I love hanging out at home! I have a dog – her name is Olive, and she’s the best thing in the world. She’s like my daughter. So I love hanging out with my dog.

On fashion: “It is fun to dress up, but I’m always like, ‘I’m so tired, I just want to put on sweats!’. But, recently, I’ve been trying to dress more girly with the help of my stylist, Jamie Schneider. But, at the moment, I just don’t have the things. I’m more of a laid-back type of person, so I love jeans and a tee!”

On what’s next:“Film is where I want to head towards, and every year I try. I’d love to do independent films; I think there is more freedom and more of a challenge. Because, on the show, I’ve played the same character for five years, any chance I get to play someone completely different from who I am or what I’ve played before, I’d like to jump on that.”





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Writer/director Shane Black’s long-in-the-works 1970s-set noir film The Nice Guys could finally be coming to fruition. Last month, we learned that the Joel Silver-produced project was picking up steam with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe circling the lead roles of a private detective and a muscle-for-hire who are brought together to investigate the suicide of a fading porn star. It’s the kind of hard-boiled, noir-tinged project that seems a perfect fit for Black, so fingers were crossed that the pic could finally come together. Evidently all that wishing and hoping paid off, as Warner Bros. has now closed a deal to acquire the project, bringing it that much closer to being a reality.

THR reports the news that The Nice Guys has found a home in WB. Written by Black and Anthony Bagarozzi, the story was initially envisioned as a TV series, but was repackaged as a film when the pilot never moved forward. Neither Gosling or Crowe is officially signed on at this point, but they appear to have been part of the lucrative package that caught Warner Bros.’ eye. The two certainly seem like swell fits, and the prospect of seeing them spout off Black’s dialogue in a 70s-infused world makes me very, very happy.

It’s unclear if this would be Black’s next project, but it’s certainly a possibility as he juggles a few highly intriguing properties after helming Iron Man 3 to $1.2 billion last year. He’s been developing an adaptation of the 1930s-set pulp series Doc Savage for a bit, reportedly meeting with Chris Hemsworth for the lead role. And he’s also working on this thing called Predator, as he’s attached to co-write and direct a new installment in the action franchise that he describes as an “inventive sequel”.

Again, we’re not sure which of these three projects will go first (though of the trio, Predator seems to be in the earliest stage of development), but The Nice Guys being set up at Warner Bros. gives that project significant momentum. Whatever his next project is it’ll still be a Shane Black movie, and that in and of itself is reason to be excited.

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A look at 50 years of female sexuality on the small screen fromI Love Lucy and Bewitched to Game of Thrones and Masters
of Sex

We live in a culture consumed by sex, and yet it is still rare to see realistic portrayals of female sexuality. That’s starting to change, thanks to shows woman-produced shows like Girls, Orange Is the New Black and Masters of Sex (which begins its second season on Ju
ly 13). But the struggle to make women’s desire less taboo on TV has been a long and slow process: Mastersof Sex owes much of its success to groundbreaking shows like Sex and the City, Seinfeld and even I Love Lucy. Here’s a short history of female sexual empowerment onscreen (in reverse chronological order):

Masters of Sex (2013 – )

Despite taking place in the 1950s, Masters of Sex may be the most progressive show on TV when it comes to women and sex. Based on the real sex research of Virginia Johnson and William Masters, the show extensively explores the science of sexuality—and female sexuality especially. In an early episode, Virginia explains to William why a woman might fake an orgasm. The resea
rchers go on to study topics ranging from female masturbation to the merits of the clitoris versus the G-Spot. “The sex is so integral to our story that [the producers] have had to come up with really clever ways to braid it in there,” Lizzy Caplan, who plays Johnson, tells TIME. “I think they’ve managed to do that where it doesn’t feel like it’s being made for 14-year-old boys.” (Read this magazine behind-the-scenes feature on the show’s all-female team of writers and producers.)

Orange Is the New Black (2013 – )

Netflix’s prestige series about a women’s prison is the first show to delve into all types of female sexuality. Too often shows like The O.C.or Weeds create a plot line in which a straight woman “experiments” with being gay. Orange Is the New Black cleverly turns that trope on its head by pursuing a story in which the main character—Piper, a spoiled New Yorker—falls back in love with her ex-girlfriend while in prison (despite having a male fiancé waiting for her on the outside). The other characters on the show range from bisexual to lesbian to straight. It’s also the first mainstream show to feature a transgender female character played by a transgender woman.

The show—which has the most diverse cast on television in terms of race, sexuality and body type—approaches women’s sex realistically and unforgivingly, the way other shows might approach male sexuality. Memorable scenes include a character using a dog to masturbate, a woman who has just had a baby lactating during sex and a competition between two inmates to see who can bed the most women.

Game of Thrones (2011 – )

Game of Thrones has a complicated relationship with women. Many fans were outraged this year when the show’s writers added a rape scene that didn’t exist in the book. And in just about every episode, the HBO show finds a way to flash women’s breasts onscreen. But these degrading sex scenes are balanced by some particularly powerful moments for the female characters: at the end of this season, Daenerys Targaryan, a
queen, ordered one of her followers to strip so that she could have her way with him (consensually) in the same manner that many men have ordered women to sleep with them on the show before; and a rape victim, Cersei, similarly seduced her brother, Jaime in a moment of particular power and passion. Women on the show are beginning to learn to take what they want—just like their male counterparts. Game of Thrones is a cruel world, but it is one where women often have equal opportunity to manipulate and murder their way to the top

Sex and the City (1998 – 2004)

Sex and the City has often been credited with bringing frank discussions about (and depictions of) women’s sexuality to the forefront of popular culture. Carrie and her friends discussed everything from vibrators to circumcision to sex positions over cosmos. Then they went home and practiced what they preached—all had multi-season love arcs but would date and sleep with many different men in between.

Every woman could see something of herself in one or all of the ch
aracters: Samantha, the one who was as sexually liberated as a man; Miranda, the one who prioritized work over men; Charlotte, the one who just wanted a happily ever after; and Carrie, the sex columnist who was a conglomeration of the other three. Their glitzy power was intimidating, and they disposed of men like men disposed of women. They got their hearts broken, but moved on. Their revolutionary dating strategies arguably jumpstarted the infamous “hookup culture” of Millennials. The liberating assertion that men were dispensable was undermined towards the end of the series when each lady traded in Mr. Right Now for Mr. Right. But the sexual liberation of Sex and the City still paved the way for shows like Girls and Orange Is the New Black.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 – 2003)

Buffy Summers is often credited as pop culture’s prototype for great female characters. She was both superhuman and truly human, vulnerable and witty and stubborn. Her strength was the keystone that held the show together. But Buffy didn’t fight bad guys alone, and she wasn’t the one who helped Buffy break boundaries when it came to representing female sexuality on the small screen.

Buffy’s bestie Willow started the show as a quiet school-focused girl struggling for the romantic attention of the boy who was her best friend. By the time the show ended, she was a powerful woman who had been half of one of the earliest positive portrayals of a lesbian relationship on mainstream television. Other characters treated the relationship between Willow and her girlfriend and fellow witch Tara as a big deal not because of their genders but because of their love. Joss Whedon, Buffy’s creator, made the show a masterpiece of metaphor, and those two were no exception: high school is hell, college roommates are demons, growing up feels like dying — and Willow and Tara worked magic

Crackle, the online network of Sony Pictures Television, announced that the first six episodes of original drama series “Sequestered” will debut Aug. 5, holding the back half of the series until October.

The 12-episode series follows a jury sequestered in a hotel while deliberating a high-profile kidnapping-murder case. “Sequestered” stars Jesse Bradford (“Bring It On”), Summer Glau (“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”) and Patrick Warburton (“Rules of Engagement,” “Seinfeld”).

Series is directed by Shawn Ku (“Beautiful Boy”) and Kevin Tancharoen (“Fame,” “Motral Kombat: Legacy”) and was created by Aaron Tracy. “Sequestered” is produced by Lifeboat Prods.

After the first half of the episodes bow Aug. 5, Crackle will roll out the last six Oct. 14. The gap is designed to get viewers hooked on the show — so they’ll be primed to binge on the series’ denouement.

In the show, which Crackle announced this spring, Bradford plays Danny Firmin, a young attorney who uncovers a conspiracy in his case defending the alleged murderer of Gov. Mark Bennett’s (Warburton) 8-year-old son. Sequestered juror Anna (Glau) is forced to choose between her convictions and the safety of her family, as she deliberates the fate of a potentially innocent man.

Crackle, available in 21 countries, focuses on action, comedy, crime, horror and sci-fi programming. The service’s original series include Emmy-nominated “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” from Jerry Seinfeld — Crackle’s most popular series — as well as thriller “Chosen,” starring Chad Michael Murray and Rose McGowan, and “Cleaners,” starring David Arquette and Gina Gershon.

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Our favorite Jap-pop metal trio, BABYMETAL (who if you're really not hip to yet, check out our archives) have been on tour in Europe and naturally running into many other metal bands. As a result, their Facebook page has been constantly updating with photos of the trio with various metal bigwigs and I just can't. Metal has never been so cute, everybody looks so happy and fun, it's so un-metal that it goes back around to being metal again. Here are some of our favorite photos:



SLAYER!



Kirk Hammett




Chino from Deftones



Photobombed by Joey Belladonna (Anthrax)



With Dragonforce



With Matt from Trivium



With Jeff from Carcass


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The madness of San Diego Comic-Con is upon us, and that means it’s speculation time. Marvel is always a highlight of the event, and this morning the studio “announced” that its Hall H panel is set for Saturday from 5:30-6:30pm. I say “announced” because the official description of the panel is as follows: “Marvel Studios President and Producer Kevin Feige and special guests will provide an inside look at the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe.” That’s incredibly vague, but not altogether surprising given that Marvel loves to keep things under wraps.

However, even though no official Comic-Con announcements have been made, we actually have a pretty good idea of what the panel will entail. Much more after the jump.

With Guardians of the Galaxy being a focus of last year’s panel, and given the fact that it opens on August 1st, Marvel has already said it won’t be featuring that film during its Hall H panel. Clearly the studio will be highlighting at least one of its upcoming projects, and since Avengers: Age of Ultron is the next Marvel pic set for release on May 1, 2015, that’s our prime candidate. For further confirmation, Mark Ruffalo recently revealed to us that he and the entire Avengers 2 cast are flying down to San Diego to Comic-Con, so you can bet that Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, and their fearless leader Joss Whedon will appear on the Comic-Con stage in Hall H.

I’d also imagine that Marvel will want to show off a bit of footage from the film. Even though Iron Man 3 had only been shooting for a short while, Marvel teased a sizeable portion of that film during Comic-Con 2012. We’ll likely get to see the first footage from Age of Ultron this year, but given that Marvel is one of the only studios that keeps its Comic-Con footage exclusive, don’t expect it to pop up online anytime soon.

Another project that will be highlighted is Ant-Man. Marvel is going to have to work hard to win back fans who were justifiably upset that the studio somewhat forced co-writer/director Edgar Wright to walk away, and Michael Douglas recently revealed to us that he is also coming to Comic-Con. That means some or all of the cast of Ant-Man—Paul Rudd, Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Patrick Wilson, and Michael Pena—could grace the stage, as well as director Peyton Reed. Filming hasn’t yet begun so there won’t be any footage to show, but maybe we’ll get a sneak peek at Rudd in costume for the first time? Again, Marvel has a lot of work to do in order to get the fans back on it side for Ant-Man, but this would be a start.

As far as news goes, Marvel will also likely be unveiling its official lineup for Phase Three. This current Phase Two closes out with Avengers: Age of Ultron next May, kicking off the third phase next July with Ant-Man. A couple of years ago, Marvel unveiled logos and titles for all of its Phase Two movies, and I’d be surprised if they didn’t do the same for Phase Three here. We know that Captain America 3 is slated as the second Phase Three film, and Doctor Strange now has a director in Scott Derrickson, so I imagine the studio has gotten its ducks in a row and is ready to set official release dates.

Speaking of Doctor Strange, many are also expecting Marvel to bring Derrickson onstage and possibly reveal the actor who will be taking on the lead role. Rumors have run rampant as to whom the star might be, but so far Marvel has done an incredibly swell job of keeping things under wraps. Either that or they really haven’t started casting yet. Derrickson only recently got the job so it’d be understandable if they didn’t have much to show, but it would be neat to hear him talk briefly about his take on the material and unveil a logo of some sort.

While all of the above sounds entirely plausible, Marvel is also known for surprises. Last year, Whedon took the stage to introduce a short video teaser that revealed the subtitle for Avengers 2. In 2010, the entire cast of The Avengers took the stage and tore the house down. Marvel is anything but predictable, so be prepared for something unannounced or unanticipated to occur.

San Diego Comic-Con runs from July 23rd to July 27th.


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"We're dirty people," said Steven Goode in tonight's show and boy was he telling the truth.

The entrepreneur and Playboy model Kimberly Kisselovich got down to business on Friday night's recap show and became the first couple to have full sexual intercourse on the Channel 5 reality show.

Earlier in the day the pair clashed over Kimberly's admission with Steven becoming emotional and saying he could cry over them.

“I’m just confused because my idea of going on a break is that you don’t sit there and look at pictures of the person you’re on a break with," he told Kim.

"You’ve been hiding them a little bit; you should have just been like ‘just to let you know I did bring photos of him in’. If it was me, I wouldn’t have even told me about that, I would have chopped them up and chucked them straight in the bin.

"That’s just how I would deal with it.”

But Kimberly wouldn't accept that, replying: “I’m sorry I’m not a psycho like that.”

Steven: “You’ve just showed me a photograph of him. I could cry my eyes out right now here Kim.”

Thenas the pair continued to argue about who should be more upset and who gets who better, the conversation became very vivid and strange with Steven comparing his emotions to something very rude indeed.

He said: “No I do get you. I just don’t understand your decisions at all, I think they’re terrible, I think they are really bad and I feel like someone w***** all over my face, that’s how bad I feel.

He added: "I feel like someone’s j***** *** all over my face and said ‘there you stupid fool’ that’s how I feel."





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Ed Sheeran has topped 1Xtra's Power List to find the most important and influential artists in contemporary black and urban music. BBC 1Xtra breakfast show hosts Twin B and Yasmin Evans revealed the list this morning (July 11).

Sheeran beat Disclosure, Rudimental and Rita Ora to the top spot. 1Xtra listeners submitted suggestions before a panel of BBC 1Xtra DJs and industry experts together voted on the list.

Sheeran spoke to Twin B and Yasmin Evans during the show, saying: "Thank you so much guys, you guys are legends!" His second studio album, x, became the UK's fastest-selling album of 2014 upon its release in June. The album reached number one in the UK and US charts.

Sheeran recently wowed the crowd at Glastonbury festival with a stripped back set.

See '1Xtra's Power List' in full below:

1. Ed Sheeran
2. Disclosure
3. Tinie Tempah
4. Sam Smith
5. Rudimental
6. Emeli Sande
7. Naughty Boy
8. Katy B
9. Krept & Konan
10. Fuse ODG
11. Boy Better Know
12. Rita Ora
13. Lethal Bizzle
14. DJ Fresh
15. Jessie J
16. Wiley
17. Giggs
18. Laura Mvula
19. Wretch
20. Dizzee Rascal

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San Diego Comic-Con announces Game of Thrones Panel and Q&A

The Friday schedule for San Diego Comic-Con was released today, and it includes some details on this year’s Game of Thrones panel!

Game of Thrones will return to Hall H on Friday, July 25 from 1:40pm – 2:40pm, for a panel and Q&A session. The following details accompanied the schedule:

Based on the bestselling fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, HBO’s Game of Thrones concluded its 10-episode fourth season in June and will begin filming its fifth season this summer. The series, executive produced and written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, is an epic story of treachery and nobility, set on the continent of Westeros, where summers and winters can last years. Featured cast include (in alphabetical order) Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister, Natalie Dormer as Margaery Baratheon Tyrell, Kit Harington as Jon Snow, Rose Leslie as Ygritte, Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane (“The Hound”), Pedro Pascal as Oberyn Martell, Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark, and Maisie Williams as Arya Stark.

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Great lineup this year. Sadly no Emilia, Lena, or Peter, but everyone else more than makes up for it. I hope Gwendoline gets to talk a bit about Star Wars, tbh.