No offense, gentlemen of
#CrazyRichAsians
, but we just reaaaally wanted the ladies for this one.
Gaze upon the first of
@EW
's Entertainers of the Year covers (out of four! on stands Friday!), in which I wrote about CRA's glorious heroines:
#CrazyRichAsians
"is the first film with an Asian-American lead since 'Ghost in the Shell' and 'Aloha.'" -Sandra Oh
"I'm sorry!" screams Emma Stone, but ACTUALLY
#GoldenGlobes
"If there's a way of saying to a young girl, 'You can do this, you can be a part of culture in this way,' I hope to be a part of that." — Sandra Oh, on potentially making representation history at the
#Emmys
tonight
Why are Asian actors regularly ignored for awards, when their projects are not? For
@TheAtlantic
, I look at their invisibility as, in a painful year for Asians in America, Hollywood has a chance to undo the damage with the wonderful, wonderful
#Minari
:
"[
#BTS
] speaks to an unprecedented kind of global currency — one where pop music moves without barriers or borders, even as geopolitics seem to retreat further behind hard lines and high walls."
@Leahbats
'
@EW
cover story is — what's the word? — DOPE:
everything about
@dansnierson
's
@EW
#KillingEve
cover is PERFECTION
look at this MASTERPIECE
jodie comer should hold sharp objects in EVERY SHOOT </rant>
Elizabeth Olsen (!) and Kelly Marie Tran (!!) play sisters (!!!) in SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS, a new series coming this fall!
@EW
has an exclusive first look! I’m excited for this one, can you tell!
This week's
@EW
features our annual post-
#Oscars
portraits by Art Streiber (and interviews by yours truly):
This one of Spike Lee recreating Faye Dunaway's poolside morning-after shot in Beverly Hills is my favorite for a few reasons...
Look who's back in black.
@EW
has new photos from
#Daredevil
season 3, and showrunner
@erikoleson
reveals details on Matt's risky (and Fisk-y...? sorry) return:
@Daredevil
Hi! So, I'm leaving
@EW
. It's been a wonderful run—almost five years!—but I'm off to somewhere new.
I'm joining
@TheAtlantic
's culture team as a staff writer, and I'll be helping to expand their coverage to the west coast.
I can't wait to get started. 😎
#TheFarewell
is about a lie, but it captures so many truths—truths about Asian American identity, familial love, and grief.
For my first feature on
@TheAtlantic
, I talked to
@thumbelulu
about her breakout film and its profound effect on viewers so far:
Look who's back with the Time Team!
@EW
has exclusive photos and a dispatch from the set of the
#Timeless
finale to tide you
#Clockblockers
over until Dec. 20: (Full story in this week's issue, on stands Friday!)
FOLKS I am pleased to announce that after months of Henry Cavill Mustache Watch, I finally got to ask Henry Cavill about his mustache! Watch (I mean read), on
@EW
:
But wait, there's more! We're also honoring Cardi B (by
@PatrickGomezLA
), Darren Criss (by
@EWTimStack
), and the women of Wakanda (by
@Breznican
) with some 🔥🔥🔥 covers:
CEEEEEELEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON
Greta Gerwig picked up the phone mid-ugly-crying-screaming-laughing to talk about
@LadyBirdMovie
's
#OscarNoms
, being the fifth woman to be nominated for Best Director, and also
@JordanPeele
. Guys, this is the best version of the Oscars.
@EW
Obsessed with
#LosEspookys
. Today on
@TheAtlantic
, my interviews with the team behind the ~magical new comedy that hooked me pretty much immediately but, like, REALLY did with this joke
the answer to "which little woman are you?" is "all of them" because women, they—they have MINDS and they have SOULS as well as just hearts and they've got amBITION and they've got TALent as well as just beauty, and I’m so SICK of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for
Calling all
#Clockblockers
:
@EW
has a new batch of exclusive photos from the two-hour finale of
#Timeless
, featuring way more Flynn, Jiya, Emma, and more:
If I had my way, my review of Decision to Leave would just be this emoji,🥵, over and over, but that wouldn't be fair to Park Chan-wook, whose latest film is top-to-bottom sensual cinema perfection. My latest, for
@TheAtlantic
:
#TheCrown
's sharp, splashy, and foreboding fourth season is more critical of the royals than ever, painting the queen as an out-of-touch traditionalist. It's terrific. For
@TheAtlantic
:
Our
#CrazyRichAsians
Entertainers of the Year shoot was an embarrassment of riches. (Pun fully intended! I'm so sorry!)
Here's a gallery of additional 🔥 shots on
@EW
, plus more from our interview: 💃💃💃💃
'Past Lives' is soaring and sensitive—and perhaps my favorite film of the year so far. For
@TheAtlantic
, I spoke with its writer-director, Celine Song (
@helloellephanta
), about how she created a love story that's timed to perfection.
happy thanksgiving! i could write thousands of words on this, but i'll just say that this year, i'm thankful for more than i ever thought i would (or could!) be in pop culture. this one's for
@jonmchu
@jennyhan
@lanacondor
@awkwafina
+ many, MANY (!) more
My latest for
@TheAtlantic
, on
@TraceeEllisRoss
, the actor, entrepreneur, and Girlfriend through thick and thin. She's the captain of her own ocean liner of a career now. (You'll see.)
“For so much of my life in the public eye, when I get sad or angry or go through a really difficult time, I feel like people lean in... and you never did that to me... I want to thank you for that.” — Taylor Swift, to
#MissAmericana
director Lana Wilson
#Sundance2020
Kingpin-sized thx to
@chancelloragard
for handling all things
#Daredevil
for
@EW
while I was out. If you binged the excellent—I loved it, save for a few issues we'll discuss on
@EWlive
this week—season 3, def read his postmortem w/ showrunner
@erikoleson
:
Explaining Brat is not very brat, but the Harris campaign's embrace of Brat is extremely brat. On how Charli XCX just put the lime (green) in the coconut (tree), for
@TheAtlantic
:
"I hope we have cracked the floodgates open, so now the flood [of other Asian stories] will come pouring out." —
@ConstanceWu
, the first Asian nominee in *56* years in her
#GoldenGlobes
category.
Full story on
@EW
: (again: congrats congrats congrats!!)
The morning of
#Barbie
's release, I spoke to Greta Gerwig about how girls learn to become women. Why does her work often examine childhood touchstones? Who are her films for?
You could say there's more than one answer to these questions...🎶
@TheAtlantic
Between that gut-punch of a last line, those end-credits scenes, and [spoiler]'s comeuppance, there's plenty to parse from the
#SharpObjects
finale.
@TheGillianFlynn
and
@martinoxon
break it all down, for
@EW
:
(Just don't tell mama.)
When I interviewed Bill Skarsgård in his trailer on the set of
#CastleRock
, I felt like he stared into the depths of my soul, and I thought, "I'd like to write more about this guy!"
So I wrote more about this guy:
@EW
Comedians have been making fun of the president for ages, but
@sarahcpr
has truly aced the art form with her series of TikToks. For
@TheAtlantic
, my chat with Sarah about finding humor—and going viral—in quarantine:
"If the industry was Eleanor Young saying, ‘No, you’ll never be enough,’ I think [these nominations] show that we were always enough." —
@jonmchu
, on
#CrazyRichAsians
'
#GoldenGlobe
nods.
Full story, now on
@EW
: (also: congrats congrats congrats!!)