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Senior Awards Correspondent at @VanityFair . Previously @THR . LA-based world-wanderer.
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During this break, Denzel pulled Will aside to talk to him and they walk away from their seats together. Denzel now has his arm around Jada and is kneeling next to her even though the show has started.
#Oscars
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The Crazy Rich Asians sequel has stalled after co-writer Adele Lim exits because of a massive pay parity issue. (Warner Bros.' starting offers were $800,000 to $1 million for Chiarelli and $110,000-plus for Lim.)
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Opening weekend box office is very important to the success of a film. See
#CrazyRichAsians
in theaters THIS weekend if:
- You want more romantic comedies.
- You want more movie stars who look like this.
- You want more diverse stories, of any kind, on the big screen
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Some history makers: Steven Yeun is the first Asian American to be nominated for lead actor and Chloe Zhao is the first woman of Asian descent to be nominated for director.
#OscarNoms
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This is a fascinating issue. Yes, the old system for writers’ rates is based on quotes, which are based on experience. But Lim, the film’s only Asian writer, brought an authenticity to this project that it would have failed without.
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She's going to play Maria is the new WEST SIDE STORY. Listen to this voice!
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Disney launched a global search to find the right actress to play Mulan. Liu Yifei is one of the most popular actresses of the current generation in China today. She's nicknamed "Fairy Sister" by the Chinese public.
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First full-house standing ovation of the night for the stars of Game of thrones. Gwendoline Christie gets the biggest applause.
#emmys
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All I’m saying is don’t wear blue velvet onstage in the coming months…
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The sudden cleaning up of all the subtle ways Hollywood was failing at inclusion is so fascinating -- and also proof that these fixes could have happened a long time ago.
Jenny Slate: "Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people." See her full statement here:
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Ruth Carter and Hannah Beachler are BOTH the first black women to win in their categories.
#BlackPanther
continues to make history.
#Oscars
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A reporter started "I have a questions from the fans..." And Jennifer Lawrence immediately said "I'd choose Peeta."
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When a reporter backstage asks Keira Knightley how she balances her work and personal life. "Are you going to ask all the men that tonight?"
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was a friend of Bruce Lee’s, weighs in on Once Upon a Time. Found the below paragraph especially powerful.
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Disney is struggling to find its male star for Aladdin, a man who can dance, act & take on such an iconic character.
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I am watching a Chinese female director give a speech in Chinese after winning the directing Oscar. I’m not sure I can express how big that is, especially this year. Congrats, Chloe Zhao.
#Oscars
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Not only has Singer been accused of rape, but he also went missing on the last movie he directed and was fired... I can think of 50 talented female directors who could have helmed this "female-empowered remake" and deserve this payday.
Bryan Singer nabs huge payday for directing 'Red Sonja'
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Here’s Zendaya’s mom watching her daughter win her second Emmy. She was wiping away tears.
#emmys
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Olivia Munn was supposed to do a group interview for Predator but the cast all bailed. Here’s
@chrissgardner
’s full Q&A with her.
#TIFF2018
.
@OliviaMunn
: "It's not an easy thing to be the one to speak up. There are people who get mad at you for not helping them bury it ... I'm sitting here by myself when I should be with the rest of the cast"
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At the very special
#TellurideFilmFestival
brunch today, we spoke with Robert Downey Jr., who first attended the festival with his dad in the 1970s, and is back this year with SR., a doc about his late father. More here:
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Frances Mcdormand says she just found out about inclusion riders last week. "The fact that I just learned that after 35 years in the film business – we aren’t going back."
#oscars
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Kristen Stewart snuck around the corner to change her shoes as soon as her photos were done.
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Post-screening Q&A for Bohemian Rhapsody. Rami is fantastic, and very passionate about telling Freddie’s story.
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Kenneth Branagh talked to me about BELFAST, a personal film based on his own childhood. We've also got exclusive images of stars Jamie Dornan and Caitríona Balfe
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Spike Lee was asked about his reaction to GREEN BOOK's win. First he said "no comment!" and then he said "The ref made a bad call."
#Oscars
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Backstage, Bong gives
@thumbelulu
a shoutout for winning yesterday at the Indie Spirits. "I really love her work." "But I don't think it's necessary to separate all the borders and divisions, whether it's Asia or the U.S. Me and Lulu -- we just makes films."
#Oscars
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I’ve been to lots of awards parties over the years. But tonight, at the
#Parasite
party, was the first time I’ve been to one where the most important people in the room were all Asian. Where the victories being celebrated were by Asians. It’s a new level of representation.
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Lots of people are pointing out Caitriona Balfe's desire to direct on OUTLANDER from my piece. But what I thought was pretty great was that she and Sam Heughan sat down with the show's leadership to demand a more diverse crew. That's allyship.
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Yes that’s Shape Of Water’s Doug Jones eating the cat that “Agnes Varda” has. Nice call back to the film.
@RealGDT
thinks it’s hilarious.
#NomineesNight
@THR
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The photography for
@awkwafina
's
@THR
cover shoot is some of the most beautiful I've seen in our magazine. (She also was game to pose with the random dogs at the mansion we shot at!) I'm so happy I got to write this piece on her meteoric rise.
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“I met George when I was 35 and was quite resigned to the idea that I was going to be a spinster.” -Amal Clooney
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In less than one year,
@awkwafina
has starred in Crazy Rich Asians, hosted SNL, starred in The Farewell, landed her own show, booked The Little Mermaid and now been cast in a Marvel movie.
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Backstage, Emma Stone says she had her best actress card in her hand when the whole flub went down. But she adds "I fucking love Moonlight."
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Daniel Dae Kim has been a big advocate for Asian American representing on film and TV.
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This is huge. Ed Skrein has left the HELLBOY reboot after the whitewashing controversy
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Good morning to my favorite movies and actors who may be unjustly snubbed today and no one else.
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I wrote the cover for
@VanityFair
’s awards special on
@caitrionambalfe
, the breakout of Outlander whose stunning work in Belfast has put her on the road to Oscar.
Presenting
@VanityFair
’s Awards Insider issue, starring Caitríona Balfe ✨
Already beloved thanks to Outlander, Balfe took a step toward movie stardom as the luminous and fiercely protective mother at Belfast’s heart. Now, the Oscars are in sight.
🔗:
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This story about
@TiffanyHaddish
leaving her phone in the room after auditions so she could hear what they really thought is amazing.
"It was my like M.O."
#TheLastOG
star
@TiffanyHaddish
reveals her "sneaky" way of getting true feedback after an audition
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This singalong now involves Inarritu, del Toro, Diego Luna, Salma Hayek, and Gael garcia bernal
#cannes
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#BlackPanther
also has as great villain, which can been tough for superhero movies to get right. Actually, I cared a lot about many of the characters.
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One of the questions we asked everyone was “who else in hollywood is driving change?” Many, many, many people brought up
@ava
. Here’s one story from
@Lin_Manuel
. More here:
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The Keanuaissance is the best thing to happen in 2019.
Keanu: The feeling of being there, of walking the streets of the future is really going to be breathtaking.
Audience member: YOU’RE BREATHTAKING!
Keanu: (laughs) You’re breathtaking. We’re all breathtaking.
#MondayMotivation
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My first cover story for
@THR
! Here,
@therebeccasun
and I dig into the making of
#CrazyRichAsians
- they turned down Netflix to ensure this movie would be seen in theaters. "The biggest stage with the biggest stakes — that’s what we asked for."
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This EW anonymous ballot from this terrible person who says "Viola and the lady director" referring to Gina Prince-Bythewood made me think about how choosing not to learn people's name is such an insulting thing to do.
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Is everyone paying attention to the looks that Greta Lee has been giving us this season!
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For my final Oscar piece in the magazine, I hopped on the phone with Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan, who were like giggly best friends as they talked about their paths to each other.
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So, Sharon Choi (Bong's translator) has had the most lines of dialogue of anyone tonight, yes?
#Oscars
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Riz Ahmed and Dev Patel were considered but he will likely be an unknown.
Disney is struggling to find its male star for Aladdin, a man who can dance, act & take on such an iconic character.
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Causing women to crack their retainers and doing his part to change the system.
In support of the women & men who are leading this fight, I will be adopting the Inclusion Rider…
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Backstage, Brad Pitt was asked about his political statement: “I was really disappointed with this week. I think when gamesmanship trumps doing the right thing... I don’t think we should let that slide. I’m very serious about that.”
#Oscars
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History has just been made: Mudbound's Rachel Morrison becomes the first female cinematographer to ever be nominated.
#OscarNoms
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I don’t know how Director Bong keeps delivering hilarious new stories for every acceptance speech. This one is about the first q&a he did for Parasite in New York.
#SpiritAwards
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It's happening! Here's our exclusive on Warner Bros.' plans for the
#CrazyRichAsians
sequel. They plan to get the team back together with
@jonmchu
returning to direct!
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Only in
#cannes
can you be having lunch and look up to see Robert Pattinson doing a photoshoot.
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Oh hey it’s The Rock and Octavia Spencer. They ran into each other on the way into the show.
#goldenglobes
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Timothee Chalamet, Chadwick Boseman, Mahershala Ali! So much talent on
@THR
’s actors roundtable. Read it here:
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Warner Bros. presentation: Kevin Tsujihara confirms they're working on a stand-alone Batman movie with Ben Affleck.
#CinemaCon
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“What a moment. This is history. And we are here together for it.” -
@jonmchu
#CrazyRichAsians
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Feel free to revisit the cover story I wrote with
@therebeccasun
last year ahead of the release of Crazy Rich Asians, which mentions what Adele Lim brought to that script.
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Hustlers premiered tonight. I saw it a while ago and haven’t stopped talking about how empowered it will make women feel. Spoke to Jennifer Lopez earlier today about how she prepared.
#TIFF2019
"I had to learn this is 6 weeks and look like I had been doing since I was 18 years old." Jennifer Lopez (
@JLo
) details just how hard it was learning how to strip for
#HustlersMovie
#THRatTIFF
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Kristen Stewart and CODA director Sian Heder chatting during cocktail hour.
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I look forward to
@HarryShumJr
's leading man movie career (and the Crazy Rich Asians sequel).
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Here she is. Lady Gaga with her Globe entering the Warner Bros. after party.
#GoldenGlobes
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@ava
My mother moved from Jakarta to the US to go to college when she was just 18. Her bravery is the reason I get to live the life I do. She was (and still is) my world. I can't imagine being separated from her at this young age.
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This might be the best thing I've ever booked... the comedy actress roundtable group is the stuff of dreams: Jane Fonda, Tiffany Haddish, Regina Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alex Borstein and Maya Rudolph. Buckle up!
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Kelly Marie Tran, Disney princess. Photography by Dyan Jong.
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A Korean film has never been nominated for the foreign language Oscar (Burning was robbed last year). Perhaps Palme d’Or winner Parasite will be the first.
#cannes
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge got the biggest applause and several people gave a standing ovation when she was announced as the winner.
#Emmys2019
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#moonlight
playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is wearing Elizabeth Taylor's original ribbon.
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Hearing lots of people got Covid at the BAFTAs. They should likely test negative before Oscars. One rep tonight told me, by her calculations, yesterday was the last day you could get it and maybe be better before the Oscars. This is not a scientific calculation
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In honor of the
#CrazyRichAsians
premiere two years ago, a throwback to my first cover story for
@THR
.
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