OHMYGOSSIP — Ryan Reynolds’ doctor prescribed him a “stuntman” when he broke his neck.
The 40-year-old actor no longer does his own stunts after having some “bad injuries” and realised it was time to give them up for good after damaging his vertebrae while filming 2013’s ‘Safe House’.
He said: “I’ve had some bad injuries doing stunts. I broke a couple of vertebrae in my neck. It was a bad situation.
“I remember the doctor sitting in the office – it was about the seventh time I had been there that year – and he writes on a prescription pad, rips off the note and it reads ‘Stuntman’. Point taken.
“So now I use four different guys that come with me. Thankfully nothing scary happened on this one [‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’].”
Despite his fame, Ryan doesn’t have a bodyguard and would feel “ashamed” if he did feel the need to employ protection because he is a “big guy”.
When he and his ‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’ co-star Samuel L. Jackson were asked if they employ their own protection, Ryan told Empire magazine: “Look we’re two pretty big guys. I would feel ashamed if I had a bodyguard.
“The only time I ever have security is when I go to Comic-Con because you need guys to help get you 100 feet.”
But his co-star admitted there are certain places where he needs to have someone to protect him.
He said: “Aggression changes from place to place.
“In France people camp outside your hotel and chant your name. In Germany, you wish you had a bodyguard because Germans are aggressive whenever they want their s**t signed. But most times, I’m pretty OK.
“The first time I went to Johannesburg I was riding around in a bullet-proof car and all that kind of s**t.
“Five guys met me at the airport. One guy was like, ‘Mike will always be on tour right because he draws from his right. I am left-handed. I will always be to your left. If we try and take you down, let us take you down. Do. Not. Resist.’
“I was like, ‘What the f**k? I’m here to do press, man.'”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Marisa Tomei will appear in “as many” ‘Spider-Man’ movies as Marvel are willing to cast her in.
The 52-year-old actress plays Aunt May in the recently released Marvel Comics movie ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ – which sees Tom Holland take on the role of the web slinging superhero – and has said she’s happy to keep appearing in further instalments of the franchise for as long as the studio are willing to cast her.
When asked how many ‘Spider-Man’ movies she expects to do, she said: “As many as they [Marvel] want. There will be a lot of surprises because the end of the film is a new twist. That leaves a creative door wide open. It leads to some really exciting possibilities.”
Marisa didn’t watch any previous incarnations of her character – such as Rosemary Harris in ‘Spider-Man’ and Sally Field in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ – before taking on the role herself, but believes it was “more useful” to remain in the dark about their performances.
Asked if she’d seen the previous Spider-Man movies, Marisa said: “I kept meaning to, but I guess I ultimately felt like it was more useful to not. I didn’t want to shut myself down in reverence.”
Although ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ was noticeably missing the character of Uncle Ben – as the movie is set after he has been killed so as to avoid re-telling Peter Parker’s origin story which was explained in previous reboots of the franchise – Marisa insists his “backstory” was discussed during production.
Speaking to Variety magazine, she said: “We questioned how much of the parenting did Ben do and how much did May do. It kind of seemed maybe Ben was someone she met in school. Maybe he was her professor in grad school. And she had a bit of a sisterly relationship with Peter, and took the reigns when she had to, when Ben was killed. That was kind of our backstory.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Joss Whedon will start work on ‘Batgirl’ “next year”.
The 53-year-old director is helming the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) movie, which centres around the female crime fighting superhero and her alter ego – who has had many different names including Betty Kane and Barbara Gordon – and according to DC chief Geoff Johns, the filmmaker is due to start working on the project as soon as 2018.
Speaking to IGN.com about the future of both ‘Batman’ and ‘Batgirl’, Geoff said: “But for Batman what I will say is that Batman is more than just Batman and, you know, it’s been way too long since we’ve seen, you know, an expansion of that universe, and Batgirl – we are doing Batgirl with Joss Whedon, it’s going to be super exciting. He’s going to start that next year, and that’s just the start.”
Previously, Joss admitted he was “obsessed” with the character of Batgirl because he can’t turn his attention away from how “intense” the superhero’s life is in the comic book.
He said : “She came up, and I started getting obsessed with how a young woman could get hardcore enough to need to put on the cowl. Like, what’s her damage?
“She didn’t have her parents killed in an alley. Who is this person, who decides – rather than being forced to by their childhood trauma – decides to pick up this life?
“How intense and driven that person is … I just couldn’t stop thinking about it.”
Meanwhile, Joss said he wants to develop the character before he starts thinking of people he could cast in the role.
He said: “I don’t have my eye on anybody. I feel like I’m creating this character, I’m gonna dialogue with her and then we’ll see who joins that later on.”
And the ‘Avengers’ director admitted he “doubts” he will cast a big name in the role, as he wants audiences to focus on the character, rather than the name attached to her role.
He explained: “I doubt it will be a name. This is somewhere where you go and find Batgirl and then you cast her. I’m not against movie stars, they’re great, but you need somebody who’s going to be just right. And a situation like this, the name carries a lot of weight so its not as critical.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Zoey Deutch is to star in ‘Richard Says Goodbye’.
The 22-year-old actress has landed a role in the drama movie alongside Johnny Depp, who is expected to play the titular Richard, a college professor who decides to live life on the wild side after he is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
According to Variety, Deutch will portray one of Richard’s students.
Production on the motion picture is set to begin next month and will be directed by Wayne Roberts.
Deutch appeared in ‘Before I Fall’ earlier this year and will next be seen playing Oona O’Neill, the daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill, in J.D. Salinger biopic ‘Rebel in the Rye’.
Salinger will be portrayed by Nicholas Hoult, while Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson and Victor Garber are also part of the cast.
As always, Depp is set for a busy year. He will appear in ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ in late 2017, and ‘LAbyrinth’, in which he has been cast as Russell Poole, the detective who headed the investigation into the murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
The 54-year-old actor will voice the role of Sherlock Gnomes in ‘Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes’ in 2018, and earlier this year, he reprised his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Laurie Holden has signed up for ‘Dragged Across Concrete’.
The ‘Walking Dead’ actress will appear alongside Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn in the crime thriller, which is being directed and written by ‘Bone Tomahawk’ filmmaker S. Craig Zahler.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Holden will play a former police officer, the wife of Gibson’s character.
‘Hacksaw Ridge’ co-stars Gibson and Vaughn will play a detective duo who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes a media storm.
With not much going for them, the pair will turn to the criminal underworld but things don’t go according to plan.
Keith Kjarval of Unified Pictures will produce the Lionsgate/Summit motion picture along with Zahler’s frequent collaborators, Dallas Sonnier of Cinestate and Assemble Media’s Jack Heller.
‘Dragged Across Concrete’ will also reconnect Vaughn and Zahler who last year wrapped shooting on upcoming prison drama ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ which also stars Jennifer Carpenter and Don Johnson.
What’s more, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones and Shafin Diamond will be executive producers on the project.
Holden, 47, is known for her three-year portrayal of Andrea in 31 episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’, and she also played Adele Pinchelow in ‘Dumb and Dumber To’, Debbie McIlvane in 2005 fantasy movie ‘Fantastic Four’ and Cybil Bennett in 2006’s ‘Silent Hill’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Channing Tatum “begged” for a role in ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’.
The 37-year-old actor was such a huge fan of the first installment, ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ – which was released in 2014 – that he pleaded with director Matthew Vaughn to let him have a part in the project.
Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con in California on Thursday (20.07.17), Tatum – who portrays Tequila, a Statesman secret agent in the upcoming motion picture – said: “I was just begging to be in this movie.”
The ‘Magic Mike’ star’s character makes a brief appearance in the trailer for the film in which he is wearing a cowboy hat and introduces Taron Egerton’s alter-ego Eggsy to Statesmen, the HQ of a titular group of US secret service agents.
‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ looks set to be action-packed, and Tatum has admitted he’s never filmed fight scenes quite like it before.
He told ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “I don’t think I have ever shot a fight scene like this. It is so stylised and very different from what I am used to.
“You run the fight all the way through. You shoot it from different angles and shoot the fights in basically, like, two shots, two angles and Matthew is completely at the opposite end of the spectrum.
“It is so unbelievably manicured and sort of just designed. I have never done a fight scene like that before.”
‘Kingsman: The Golden Cirle’ features the likes of Colin Firth and Mark Strong reprising their roles as Eggsy’s former mentor and trainer respectively, and also stars Halle Berry and Jeff Bridges.
The movie – which is based on the comic book ‘The Secret Service’, created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar – sees the Kingsman agents join up with the Statesmen to try to defeat a common enemy.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Daisy Ridley could barely hold a cup when she filmed ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ because she was so nervous working with the all-star cast.
The 25-year-old actress is starring as Mary Debenham in Kenneth Branagh’s big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novel of the same name and the film has a stellar ensemble cast which includes Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Dame Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad and Michelle Pfeiffer among others.
Ridley admits she found it difficult to nail her scenes due to her excitement at working with so many major names.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, Ridley said: “Before a scene my heart is pondering, every time. But my first scene on ‘Orient’ had to be in front of everyone, didn’t it? I couldn’t hold a cup, because it was rattling. But I got through it.”
Depp, who is cast as Ratchett, jumped on-board the project after holding discussions with the director and reading the script penned by Michael Green that he adapted from Christie’s novel.
Pfeiffer portrays Mrs. Hubbard and Dench has been signed to the role of Princess Dragomiroff, while Lucy Boynton is Countess Andrenyi.
Christie’s novel, which was published in 1934, follows the brutal murder on-board the famous train as Belgian detective Poirot attempts to solve the mind-boggling case.
Announcing the project last September, Branagh said: “Christie’s ‘Murder…’ is mysterious, compelling and unsettling. I’m honoured to have this fantastic group of actors bring these dark materials to life for a new audience.”
James Prichard and Hilary Strong, both of Agatha Christie Ltd., will executive produce, while Sir Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Mark Gordon and Branagh are also producers.
‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is slated to be released this November.

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OHMYGOSSIP — A Doctor Doom film is in the works.
Showrunner Noah Hawley has confirmed he is working on a standalone movie for Fox about the ‘Fantastic Four’ villain, who is the alter-ego of scientific genius Victor Van Doom.
Speaking on the panel for FX show ‘Legion’ – of which Hawley is the creator – at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday (20.07.17), he said: “Two words. Doctor. Doom.”
Sources have told The Hollywood Reporter that Hawley has an eye on directing the project.
Doctor Doom is the traditional enemy of the Fantastic Four but he has also gone up against the Avengers, and specifically Marvel Universe characters Iron Man and Black Panther in the past.
He is a sorcerer but also knows a thing or two about inventing, wears a metal mask to hide his disfigured face caused by an industrial accident, and is the ruler of fictional country Latveria.
The third and latest ‘Fantastic Four’ movie was released in 2015 starring Toby Kebbell as Doctor Doom, alongside the likes of Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell.
Julian McMahon played Doom in the 2005 original ‘Fantastic Four’ and he reprised the role two years later in ‘Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer’.
Fox have the rights to the characters, who were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jason Flemyng made a “friend for life” in Sir Sean Connery when the pair filmed ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ together.
The 50-year-old actor appeared with the James Bond legend in the 2003 adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s comic book series which unexpectedly performed poorly at the box office and was panned by many critics, despite bringing together great literary characters such as Dorian Gray, Tom Sawyer, The Invisible Man and Captain Nemo.
Flemyng – who portrayed Dr. Henry Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego Edward Hyde – admits the movie suffered due to Connery’s poor working relationship with the director Stephen Norrington but he personally had a great time making the movie and became great pals with the now 86-year-old screen icon.
Speaking to the Metro newspaper, Flemyng said: “Like anything, it has its day. Why wasn’t it successful at the time? It think it was surrounded by controversy. Sean Connery and the director famously didn’t get on. Connery didn’t really want to promote it. But for me, I made a friend for life and I’ve got some great Sean Connery stories and I’ve got some that are too rude to repeat. Any day you go on set and find Sean Connery there is a success. It’s like going diving and seeing a dolphin.”
The ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ star is also grateful to the movie for making him the go-to guy for prosthetic work as his portrayal of Mr. Hyde earned him roles in movies such as ‘X-Men: First Class’ and ‘Clash of the Titans’.
Talking about his work in rubber and makeup, he said: “My first one was probably ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’. After that the studios would look at a film, look at the cost of it and go ‘that’s a bloody nightmare, who will do that with a smile on their face?’
“Then they go ‘Flemyng!’ Actually, they don’t even know I’m called Flemyng. They go ‘that block who was in Lock, Stock!’
“And for about four or five years I was so flattered they’d asked, I was doing ‘X-Men’, ‘Clash of the Titans’… I was never out of full-body prosthetic make-up.”
Joking about the physical and mental toll that type of acting takes on a performer, he added: “There’s a group of actors who have prosthetic depression – it’s a thing. We go to Prosthetics Anonymous meetings and talk about it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Will Smith has likened his new movie ‘Bright’ to a fusion of ‘Training Day’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’.
The David Ayer-directed fantasy crime movie boasts a star-studded cast that also features the likes of Joel Edgerton and Noomi Rapace – and Will has urged moviegoers to prepare for something special, likening it to two of the most popular films of this century.
Summarising ‘Bright’, Will told Empire magazine: “It’s ‘Training Day’ smashed together with ‘Lord Of The Rings’.”
Will’s thoughts were echoed by the director, who was given complete creative freedom of the project by Netflix, the streaming service which financed the movie.
David said his latest effort is unlike any movie he’s previously made.
He explained: “This isn’t like some bull**t PG-13, standard-issue studio story.
“You haven’t seen this before. This is a new kind of thing we’re doing.”
Will and David previously worked together on ‘Suicide Squad’, with the actor admitting he appeared in that movie instead of starring in ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’.
Will previously explained: “I had the two screenplays in front of me for the ‘Independence Day 2’ and for ‘Suicide Squad’. I had to choose between the two of those.
“Even the choice of going to ‘Suicide Squad’ – nothing about the qualities of the movie – but the choice of trying to go forward versus clinging and clawing backwards.
“I do want to aggressively go forward and do new things and create and hopefully be able to stumble upon a new heyday.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Charlize Theron rejected a role in ‘Wonder Woman’.
The 41-year-old actress has admitted she was asked to star in the recent DC Extended Universe movie, which sees Gal Gadot take on the titular character as the Princess of the Amazons, because her busy work schedule meant the projects she was working clashed with shooting scenes for the fantasy film.
Speaking about her career opportunities and being approached by filmmaker Patty Jenkins to star in the production on ‘The Howard Stern Show’, the blonde-haired beauty said: “No, I’m not in ‘Wonder Woman’.
“[Patty] She did come to me, and at the time I was either working on something or I don’t know. There was a reason I couldn’t do it.”
However, it is unknown what character Theron would have been cast as.
Theron and Jenkins worked together on the popular crime film ‘Monster’ in 2003, and ever since the pair have become great friends.
Speaking about the 45-year-old director, the ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ star said: “[Patty and I] we’re friends. I think the world of her.”
And Theron believes the duo share such a great relationship because they have a “mutual respect” for one another.
She continued: “We have a mutual respect for each other. ”
Meanwhile, there has been growing speculation that Theron will take on the role as James Bond in the action movie franchise, but the fashion icon has dismissed the idea as crazy.
Speaking previously about taking on the role of Bond and following in the footsteps of Pierce Brosnan, Sean Connery and the late Roger Moore, she said: “Oh wow. That’s so insanely generous and nice. I don’t even know what to do with that. That’s really sweet.”
Theron reassured Daniel Craig she would not be stealing his work.
She added: “Daniel, you got the job. I am not going to take that job away from you.”

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