‘Golda’ Director Guy Nattiv Address Helen Mirren Casting, Details Making an ‘Authentic’ Israeli Story

Michael J. Fox is ever the optimist.

Lil Nas X has apologized after facing backlash from the transgender community over a since-deleted joke.

Katie Price’s daughter Bunny, eight, is still proudly showcasing her waist-length braids despite Kieran Hayler’s calls for them to be taken out. Kieran, who shares two kids with Katie, hit out at his ex wife’s decision to allow their daughter to get their braids done while on holiday. Katie, 44, whisked her youngest children Bunny and Jett, nine, away to Thailand last month and shared a snap of her daughter’s bold new look to Instagram.

It’s that time of the year again, the MTV Movie and TV Awards are back, and this time Drew Barrymore will serve as host for the event. “We’ll be there, will you?” Barrymore says as she channels the murderous AI doll from the film “M3gan” in a video reveal.“And now for a breaking Drew’s News report, we go to our special correspondent, M3gan,” Barrymore says in the promotional video while dressed in a M3gan. “Thank you, Drew. I actually have news for you.

Stirling Albion boss Darren Young dedicated the Binos’ latest heart-stopping win over Bonnyrigg Rose to the band of volunteers who helped the game beat the big freeze.

New research suggests that more than half of people living in Scotland are spending their time at home in the cold and dark for fear of rising household bills during the ongoing cost of living crisis.

Scotland's freezing weather is set to come to an end on this week to be replaced with torrential rainfall and gusty winds as cold Arctic air subsides.

St Mirren are set to bolster their midfield with the addition of former Middlesbrough and Birmingham talent Caolan Boyd-Munce.

Stars of 22 Kids and Counting Sue and Noel Radford have made a statement announcing that they will take a break from filming.

Vanity Fair Oscar party in a gown—but that's not the only reason she made headlines. The model is currently linked to global , however, the pair have yet to confirm the relationship publicly. But according to , Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny left the after party together in the same car.

Heize has released her take on ‘Still With You’, the solo song by Jungkook of the K-pop band BTS.For her cover of ‘Still With You’, Heize heads in a more soulful direction, with an instrumentation that places more focus on melodic piano keys. “The rain pours even when I dance alone / By the time this mist clears / I’ll run with my feet wet / So hug me then,” she sings on the chorus.Heize’s rendition of ‘Still With You’ is the latest cover she’s released, following her own version of NewJeans‘ ‘Ditto’.

Diplo has opened up about his sexuality, sharing that that he is “not not gay” and is attracted to a person’s “vibe”.The DJ – real name Thomas Wesley Pentz – was speaking on Emily Ratajkowski’s High Low podcast, when he revealed that he was reluctant to put a label on his sexuality.“I don’t want to define that I’m gay but I think the best answer that I have is I’m not not gay,” he said.He continued: “There’s a couple guys that I’d be like, ‘I could date this guy… life partner-wise’,”.While he explained that he was “not really aroused by men that much”, he did open up about previous sexual experiences.“I’m sure I’ve gotten a blowjob from a guy before. For sure,” he told Ratajkowski.

BTS‘ label HYBE, has revealed that the plan for the boyband to reunite in 2025 has not been confirmed.Earlier today, Bang made an appearance at the Gwanhun Forum, hosted by the Gwanhun Club, an association of senior journalists in Korea. During his time there, the HYBE chairman spoke about the company’s plans for BTS after the end of their mandatory military enlist, and revealed that the previously announced plan for the boyband to reunite in 2025 is not yet set in stone.“We said we ‘hope’ the members can resume in 2025, not ‘will’,” Bang clarified at the forum, per The Kpop Herald.

Eva Green wanted to pretend she was hospitalised with a rash so she could avoid filming “shitty B-Movie” The Patriot, a court has heard.Newly disclosed WhatsApp messages from the Casino Royale star brought the information to light during her ongoing legal battle with production company White Lantern, who she is suing over the collapsed sci-fi project.In a message in September 2019, she asked her agent (via The Guardian): “IF they come back to you and say they are going to go ahead with the movie, what can we say…? Could we say this situation has made me ill over the weekend? We could say I had to go to hospital as I had a serious rash all over my body?”Green then asked her agent if a doctor might help the claim, the high court in London was told.The message was referred to during closing arguments on Tuesday (March 14) by Max Mallin KC, the legal counsel for production company White Lantern Films.Mallin said Green was so concerned about having to perform in the film that she suggested her agent, Charles Collier, “invent a story about Ms Green being hospitalised”.They added that Green also “appeared to contemplate faking a broken arm” to avoid performing.Green is suing White Lantern Films and SMC Speciality finance for a $1m (£807,000) fee over the collapsed project, claiming she is still owed the payment under the terms of her “pay or play” contract.White Lantern, meanwhile, claim that Green undermined the project and walked away, causing it to collapse.On the first day of the court case, communications between Green and other individuals –including her agent – were disclosed. In them, she described the project as a “B-shitty-movie” and referred to lead producer, Jake Seal, as “evil” and “the devil”.

Nicola Peltz Beckham has shared that she and Brooklyn are “saving up money” to buy their dream home – despite Nicola’s parents being billionaires. Nicola is the daughter of businessman and investor Nelson Peltz, who is thought to be worth over £2 billion. Meanwhile, Brooklyn is the eldest child of David and Victoria Beckham, who were worth £355 million as of 2019.

Coronation Street staple Daniel Osborne has faced more than his fair share of love, loss and heartbreak on the cobbles in recent years. The popular soap character devastated fans as they watched him lose the love of his life Sinead Tinker to cervical cancer in 2019, leaving behind one child, a son named Bertie.

Academy Award winner Helen Mirren has gotten candid about her experience on Shazam! Fury of the Gods, discussing everything from an on-set injury to her struggle to bear the weight of her costumes and her limited understanding of what the DC superhero pic is actually about.

Much to the chagrin of fans around the world, there are plenty of actors who sign on for superhero films and aren’t massive fans of the properties. Sometimes, these actors are just professionals who get paid to show up and do their job.

“Shazam! Fury of the Gods.”“Don’t ask me about the plot, it’s too complicated,” the 77-year-old actress said on Friday’s episode of “The Graham Norton Show.”The Oscar winner is playing the villain, Hespera, in the “Shazam” sequel, alongside Lucy Liu, 54, as Kalypso, both daughters of Atlas and foil to the story’s hero, Shazam. “[Lucy Liu and I] are angry goddesses wearing unbelievably heavy costumes,” Mirren explained about filming.

Helen Mirren is taking risks in her acting career.  The 77-year-old actress candidly spoke out about performing her own stunts while filming "Shazam! Fury of the Gods.""I did some of my own stunts, but I broke my finger," Mirren revealed during an appearance on "The Graham Norton Show." "I was incredibly brave and didn't say anything or complain because I wanted to be a real 'stunty' person." Despite not being a huge fan of superheroes, Mirren challenged herself by not using a stunt double for the action film.  She continued to discuss why she wanted to be cast in the "sweet and funny" superhero sequel. "Loved the first Shazam… I am not a big superhero type person, but I loved the idea of it and happily signed up for the second one… It is great," she admitted on the show.

Helen Mirren suffered an accident while doing her own stunts on “Shazam! Fury of the Gods”.

Helen Mirren is a classic beauty on the red carpet for the premiere of her upcoming movie, Golda, during the 2023 Berlinale Film Festival in Germany on Monday (February 20).

War is perhaps cinema’s most enduring — and prolific — muse. From Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” to Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr.

Dame Helen Mirren ditched her signature bob for ageless platinum waves as she attended the Berlin premiere of Golda.The actress, who last year admitted to still loving her former boyfriend, Liam Neeson, stunned as she attended the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on Monday and was pictured with long flowing hair extensions. Helen, 77, sported an off-the-shoulder floor-length black dress that featured a low-cut ruffled neckline, which she paired with gold chandelier earrings as she walked the red carpet.

Golda, in which she plays Israel’s first female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, Mirren wore a fitted black dress and new hairstyle: .To enhance her glamorous red lip and bare décolletage, the actor wore her silver hair in long, cascading waves. Chest-skimming, super-smooth, and parted slightly to the side, Mirren’s new look was very much on trend. Everyone from to has been sporting ultra-long waves recently.Helen Mirren on the red carpet. But Mirren wearing her hair this long represents more of a statement than it perhaps should.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Golda,” Helen Mirren, acting with deft skill and control beneath one of those startling transformative prosthetic makeup jobs, portrays Golda Meir during the three-week cataclysm of the Yom Kippur War, which shook Israel to its bones in the fall of 1973. As the actor stands (or, more often, stoops) before us, we can believe our eyes that this is the Iron Lady of Israel. For here is that frown, those beetle brows, that coarse wavy hair tied into a bun like challah bread, that pugnacious nose, that stare of implacability designed to bore a hole in its beholder. Here, as well, is the woman who lit a thousand cigarettes, chain-smoking her way through the war-room anxiety and through the secret medical treatments she was undergoing at the time for lymphoma.

Prince William is still hurting over the loss of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.

War is coming in Guy Nattiv’s Golda, onscreen and off. But despite the media’s best efforts to turn the casting of British, non-Jewish actor Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir into an explosive example of cultural appropriation, both Nattiv’s direction and Mirren’s performance are low-key and careful enough to rise above the controversy. In retrospect, it does seem a little strange that no other candidate was deemed suitable, and the movie won’t do much extra business on account of Mirren’s star power, but those anticipating a tone-deaf disaster will be sorely disappointed.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Oscar-winning actor Helen Mirren refused to address the controversy around her casting as Israel’s iconic Prime Minister Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv’s biopic during the movie’s press conference at the Berlinale. When asked to comment on the backlash and the issue of authentic casting, Mirren left it to Nattiv and her co-star Lior Ashkenazi (“Footnote”) to stand up for her while she smiled shyly. Mirren is neither Israeli nor Jewish, and critics have argued that she shouldn’t have been cast as Israel’s most important female figure. Nattiv said that when he met Mirren, he instantly felt like he was in the presence of a “family member” — an “aunt” who had the “Jewish chops to portray Golda.”

Israeli director Guy Nattiv has defended his casting of non-Jewish actress Helen Mirren as iconic Israeli Prime minister Golda Meir in his biopic Golda, which world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival on Monday.

On Sunday, Helen Mirren led a special tribute to Queen Elizabeth II during the 76th annual BAFTA Awards that moved Prince William to tears.

Helen Mirren led a special tribute to Queen Elizabeth II during the 76th annual BAFTA Awards that moved Prince William to tears.«Cinema at its best does what Her Majesty did effortlessly – bring us together and unite us through a story. Your Majesty, you were our nation's leading star,» the actress, who previously won a BAFTA for her portrayal of the late royal, said of the Queen, who died at the age of 96 on Sept.

passed away in September of 2022 surrounded by family members at Balmoral castle. Upon learning of the Queen’s death, Mirren issued a statement saying that she was “the epitome of nobility.” “I am proud to be an Elizabethan.

The fondest memories! Liam Neeson reflected on his relationship with Helen Mirren — and only had nice things to say about his ex.

Liam Neeson still has a lot of love for his ex Helen Mirren.

2023 BAFTA Awards will pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died at the age of 96 on Sept. 8, 2022.