Evan Rachel Wood to Play Madonna in Roku's Weird Al Movie - See the First Photo!

Gillian Anderson may have lost her usual composure as she searched for words on stage in Cannes on Friday to express what she felt about being given Variety’s 2022 Icon Award.Taking to the stage at the opening ceremony of French TV festival Canneseries to pick up the award, the star – soon to be seen in Showtime’s “The First Lady,” where she plays Eleanor Roosevelt – accepted Variety’s 2022 Icon Award with a mixture of elation and humility. Sporting an elegant multicoloured leather dress, she’d been greeted when walking to the stage by an enormous, heartfelt roar of applause from the packed main auditorium at Cannes’ legendary Palais des Festivals, also site of the Cannes Festival.  “I Googled what ‘icon’ actually meant to see how I identified with being given this award,” she said hesitantly, beginning her speech.“What I can certainly say is that I have played a lot of iconic women in my very long career. Women who have come through barriers and decades to stand above the rest in dramas and in our hearts,” Anderson said. And she listed just a few:: Dana Scully, Miss Havisham, Margo Channing, Blanche DuBois, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Margaret Thatcher, Eleanor Roosevelt and David Bowie.

Liam Gallagher and grandson of Ringo Starr, respectively – were criticised by a judge over their alcohol-fuelled “bad behaviour” during an alleged fight inside a Tesco store, in a case that saw all charges dropped.Gallagher, Starkey and model Noah Ponte were all accused of assaulting staff at the Hampstead supermarket in May 2019. Gallagher, 20, was charged with a racially-aggravated assault on shopkeeper Hiran Rajput, with Starkey, 21, charged on two counts of assault by allegedly beating on Rajput and his colleague, Shvium Patel.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced a brand new Overwatch anniversary event that will feature new and returning skins.The Overwatch Anniversary Remix: Volume One event has been confirmed to be running from April 5 to April 26 and is the first of three Remix events set to arrive sometime this year.Each Remix event will also feature a set of legendary skins for players to get their hands on. In Volume One, those include Demon Genji, Evermore Reaper, Zealot Zenyatta, Mage Mercy, White Cat D.Va, and Steelhardy Reinhardt.In addition to a collection of skins, Blizzard will be enabling brawls on a rotating schedule over the next three weeks.

M&D’s Scotland’s Theme Park has organised a weekend of free family fun for the Easter school holidays where visitors will have the chance to meet favourite story book characters.

Millions of motorists have a safety feature in their cars that they know nothing about.

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Louise Thompson has shared heartwarming swimming snaps with baby Leo-Hunter amid her battle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The former Made in Chelsea star, who recently enjoyed a trip with fiancé Ryan Libbey for their first getaway as parents, took to her Instagram to share with her 1.4million Instagram followers a set of sweet swimming snaps.

“For once in my life, I wanted to make a movie without having all the responsibilities.” So moans Jeff, the director on the film-within-a-film in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Beware of a Holy Whore.” The West German drama sequesters a movie crew in a coastal Spanish hotel, where the combination of cabin fever and psychological discord between a group of insecure, neurotic people breeds the rarefied level of hysteria only found in show business.

Will Smith has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. The announcement comes less than a week after the actor walked onstage and struck Chris Rock across the face, minutes before Smith won the Oscar for Best Actor (King Richard). “We have received and accepted Mr.

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EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Robespierre (Obvious Child, Landline) and Mathilde Dratwa (Milk and Gall) have been tapped to executive produce and pen the adaptation for Separation Anxiety, a limited series based on Laura Zigman’s bestselling novel, from independent studio wiip. Robespierre also will direct the pilot for the project starring Julianne Nicholson.

maybe 72 hours tops without giving in to the urge to google, "When is coming back?" Ugh, I miss it so much. But yesterday brought good news! No, still no word on the new season — but one of its biggest stars, Evan Rachel Wood, has been keeping busy doing something extremely awesome: looking exactly like Madonna.Wood posted a photo of herself to Instagram on Wednesday, March 2, in which she's dressed and made up to uncannily resemble Madonna circa 1984.

Recently, it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe would portray Weird Al Yankovic in a rock biopic, “Weird,” about the artist. Then they released an official look at the actor in his makeup and it is glorious.

Cue “Material Girl” and prepare to be hung up on Evan Rachel Wood’s latest transformation.

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Evan Rachel Wood's latest transformation. The actress has time-traveled for her new role as Madonna in the upcoming Roku Original biopic, . In a first-look photo of the star in her new role, fans can see Wood channeling the «Like a Virgin» singer's classic '80s look in a tulle skirt, lace gloves, plenty of jewelry and bleached blond hair. Along with Wood, 's Julianne Nicholson has been cast as Yankovic's mom, Mary Yankovic, while Toby Huss will play his father, Nick.

Wyatte Grantham-Philips editorThe Roku Channel released a first look image of Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”) as Madonna in “Weird: The ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Story.”The upcoming biopic will dive into all aspects of the legendary comedian and recording artist’s life and career — including his rise to fame with early hits like “Eat It” and “Like a Surgeon,” which he famously parodied from Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” (with permission from the Queen of Pop).In addition to the first look of Wood as Madonna, Roku also announced multiple additions to the “Weird: The ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Story” cast on Wednesday. Rainn Wilson (“The Office”) portrays radio broadcaster Dr.

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic biopic.Daniel Radcliffe’s lead role as the titular musician and actor in WEIRD: The Weird Al Yankovic Story was confirmed last month (January 14), with production already underway.Now Wood is set to join the cast as Madonna, whose 1984 hit ‘Like A Virgin’ became a hit parody for Yankovic in the form of ‘Like A Surgeon’, which the pop star herself praised upon its release.The Office star Rainn Wilson has also been cast as Dr.

Evan Rachel Wood (HBO’s Westworld, Phoenix Rising) will star alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Roku announced today, stepping into the role of Madonna.

Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Black and Conan O’Brien have been spotted filming their upcoming Weird Al biopic in Los Angeles. The actors got into character in wigs and garish costumes as they transformed themselves for the movie based on the American comedy musician. Radcliffe was far from incognito as he donned a big curly wig, a Hawaiian print shirt, a moustache and round wire-frame eyeglasses for the title role.