Rebel Wilson calls out Sacha Baron Cohen, Euphoria drama, and more from this week in entertainment

Mark Wahlberg is still complaining about his hair extension battle with Martin Scorsese on The Departed

Can you imagine being Oscar-nominated for a film directed by the most esteemed director of his generation and complaining about the experience? That’s Mark Wahlberg on Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, a set Wahlberg hasn’t stopped shit-talking since 2007. In fairness, 17 years later, he softens his complaints by saying, “I was a little pissed about a couple things but look, it all worked out in the end, I think.” But that didn’t stop him from bringing up, once again, the fight over his hair extensions. – Mary Kate Carr Read More

Isabella Rossellini corrects the record on Blue Velvet

Considering the constant stream of actresses speaking out about the ways they were made to feel uncomfortable and exploited by male directors during past shoots, it’s nice to hear at least one account where the feeling went the other way. In a recent interview, Isabella Rossellini opened up about the response to her breakout role in the controversial 1986 film Blue Velvet—directed by her then-partner David Lynch—in which she plays a lounge singer held captive by a psychopathic gangster. “I remember I was told that Roger Ebert said that [Lynch] exploited me, and I was surprised, because I was an adult. I was 31 or 32. I chose to play the character,” she said (via IndieWire). – Emma Keates Read More

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively to reunite for A Simple Favor 2—despite events of A Simple Favor 1

Looking back 6 years later, there’s something almost bizarre about the existence, and success, of Paul Feig’s dark comedy thriller A Simple Favor. A $20 million movie making a nice $100 million return, based pretty much entirely on the concept “People might like to watch Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively tear each other (and the concept of mommy vloggers) apart”? In theaters, not streaming? What miraculous world is this? – William Hughes Read More

Zendaya and HBO both shot down Sam Levinson’s Euphoria season 3 ideas

Things are not well in the world of HBO’s hit “teen” drama Euphoria, per a new report from Variety. The high school series, one of the semi-recent crown jewels of the network’s prestige TV offerings, hasn’t released new episodes since February 2022—a.k.a., enough time for even more of its less-young-by-the-minute leads to become massively huge stars, and for multiple people associated with the production to outright die, and for creator Sam Levinson to make a whole other TV show that was, by all accounts, a huge, expensive, and embarrassing mess. This week, HBO announced it was delaying the start of production on the show’s third season (while still reassuring audiences that said third season will be made), and now there’s this Variety report, which says that both HBO, and series star Zendaya, have expressed unhappiness with some of Levinson’s proposed story ideas for a third season, forcing him back to the drawing board multiple times as he works to find something that’ll make everybody happy (in a provocative, genre-defining TV sort of way). – William Hughes Read More

Maksim Chmerkovskiy on So You Think You Can Dance and meeting John Travolta

Chmerkovskiy also discusses what surprised him the most about the show

Scott Foley didn’t know he was the killer in Scream 3

The actor also discusses The Girls On The Bus and his time on Grey’s Anatomy