OHMYGOSSIP — Clive Owen is desperate to star in a comedy film.
The 52-year-old actor – who is known for playing the lead role as the Roman cavalry officer Arthur in ‘King Arthur’ – is eager to move away from action movies to appear in a “really good” humorous movie, which has his audience in hysterics.
Speaking about his future career plans, the dark-haired hunk said: “I’d like to do a really good comedy.”
Although the ‘Children Of Men’ star has been approached to star in the genre of films, he has declined them because he did not find the projects were “particularly funny”.
He continued: “The odd scripts do come my way but I’ve not found any of them particularly funny – and that’s obviously a problem when it comes to comedy. I like really blatant obvious laughs. So it would have to be something like that. Basically, I need to be in ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, that’s the bottom line here.”
And the Coventry-born star believes the key to a successful movie is the director, and he has claimed a “good script” can make a terrible production if the filmmaker leading the project is “bad”.
He said: “To believe the story. I have to empathise with the character to understand the decisions they make. Obviously the director is an important consideration too. A bad director with a good script is still a bad movie.”
Meanwhile, Clive has praised the film industry for enabling him to acquire more life skills.
He told Metro newspaper: “Well that’s the great thing about acting, you learn so many different skills along the way. When I was in ‘Croupier’ they sent me to croupier school; when I was in ‘King Arthur’ I learnt to ride a horse like a pro. Even with [hospital drama] ‘The Knick’ [Steven] Soderbergh brought in a medical historian and we had to learn all of these complicated operations from scratch. As an actor, you’re continuously walking into these completely different worlds, and you have to adapt.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jaime King is set to star in ‘Escape Plan 2’.
The 37-year-old actress has signed up to take on the role of Abigail Ross – who was originally played by Amy Ryan – in the prison-break action movie, which is the sequel to 2013’s ‘Escape Plan’.
Also revealed in the same casting announcement was 41-year-old rapper 50 Cent – real name Curtis Jackson – who will be joining the cast to reprise his role as Hush from the first movie.
King and Jackson join returning cast member and Hollywood heavyweight Sylvester Stallone, who played Ray Breslin in the original prison thriller.
Also confirmed to be appearing in the sequel is ex-MMA fighter Dave Bautista, who is known for his appearance as Drax in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and the upcoming ensemble movie ‘Avengers: Infinity War’.
‘Escape Plan 2’ is being directed by Steven C. Miller, using a script written by Miles Chapman, who also penned the first instalment.
Plot details for the sequel are remaining under wraps, and little else is known about the characters, or how it will tie into the original movie.
‘Escape Plan’ followed the story of Stallone’s Ray Breslin – a structural engineer who is incarcerated in the world’s most secret and secure prison – and his attempt to escape his imprisonment with the help of fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As of yet, it is unknown whether Schwarzenegger is set to reprise his role.
Randall Emmett, George Furla, Mark Canton, Zack Schiller and Robbie Brenner are returning to produce having previously worked on ‘Escape Plan’.
Ted Fox, Mark Stewart, Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb will executive produce along with the Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Joan Collins wants more films to be made for older viewers.
The 83-year-old actress doesn’t feel there are enough movies out there made for older men and women.
Speaking of her movie ‘The Time Of Their Lives’, she told London’s Evening Standard newspaper: “This is a role that would be great to have at any stage in your career. I just don’t think there are any roles for women over the age of about 40 anymore.
“Hopefully, people will see this movie and see that there is this audience. Let’s face it, there are three million people in this country over the age of 65, and a lot of them want to go to the movies. And they don’t necessarily like guns and blood and gore, and creatures from outer space.”
Meanwhile, Joan is hopeful people will still like her film – which also stars Pauline Collins – despite it not having any “blood, sex or violence”.
She said: “I hope people love it because it hasn’t got blood, sex, violence and guns and gore and swearing, however, I do use the F-word twice and the S-word once.”
And the former ‘Dynasty’ star claims the secret to looking fabulous at her age is living life to the full.
She added: “Maintenance, keeping out of the sun, eating good food, very positive attitude towards life. When life gives you lemons, which in my case it has a lot, then you have to make lemonade and I think I squeezed the most out of life and living life to the full is also a gift.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir Ridley Scott has teased a possible ‘Gladiator’ sequel.
The 79-year-old director helmed the critically acclaimed 2000 historical drama movie – which starred Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius – and has revealed he’s figured out a way of creating a sequel, despite the fact that Maximus dies at the end of the original movie.
He said: “I know how to bring him back. I was having this talk with the studio — ‘but he’s dead.’ But there is a way of bringing him back.”
Ridley isn’t convinced fixing the plot holes will work, however, as he admits 52-year-old Russel has “changed a little bit” in the 17 years since the first movie.
He added to Entertainment Weekly magazine: “Whether it will happen I don’t know. ‘Gladiator’ was 2000, so Russell’s changed a little bit. He’s doing something right now but I’m trying to get him back down here.”
The news comes after Russell reportedly commissioned musician Nick Cave to write a sequel script which had Maximus travelling through the afterlife in 2009, but it is unknown whether Ridley’s idea is linked to this in any way.
The original ‘Gladiator’ movie also featured talent from the likes of Joaquin Phoenix, Derek Jacobi, Connie Nielsen, and Oliver Reed, who filmed his role in the project prior to his death in 1999.
Oliver was posthumously nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 2001 Oscars for his performance.
At the same ceremony, ‘Gladiator’ took home five gongs in total for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Russel Crowe, Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, and Best Sound Mixing.
Ridley himself received a nomination for Best Director, but lost out to Steven Soderbergh for ‘Traffic’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Samuel L. Jackson was “uncomfortable” on the set of ‘Kong: Skull Island’ but feels like it informed his performance.
The 68-year-old actor – who stars as United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard in the adventure film – wasn’t too pleased with the amount of bugs he encountered whilst filming around Hawaii, Australia and Vietnam.
He said: “We were in different locations; we shot in Hawaii, Australia and Vietnam so we explored all kinds of jungle. We got introduced to lots of different kinds of bugs that we didn’t appreciate.
“They pretty much kept us as uncomfortable as they could. We stayed hot, we stayed muggy and we stayed buggy but the locations were beautiful, especially Vietnam. Vietnam was almost otherworldly.”
And Samuel praised his fellow cast members – which includes Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson – and the CGI team who worked on creating Kong for creating some “pretty out of your seat moments”.
He added: “We’ve got a great cast of people … The human element was great. So for us, we always knew we could pull off our jobs; it was about them being able to create these believable and fantastic things that are attacking us whilst we’re out there. There’s some pretty out of your seat moments in it.”
Meanwhile, Jackson previously opened up about seeing a rainbow every day whilst filming in Hawaii.
He said: “Some scenes you’d look at it and go, ‘ah that was a beautiful place’ and then some scenes you’d go, ‘oh it was so miserable that day.’ … But every day in Hawaii we had rainbow which was fine.”
Whilst his co-star Larson added: “Over the course of six months we dealt with every type of weather – so there’s like one scene every time I look at , I’m like, ‘That was 120 degrees’ I remember we were all dying and other scenes I remember it hailing and being freezing cold but it all looks the same scene.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Barbara Crampton’s recent roles are “more interesting than ever before”.
The 58-year-old actress made her name starring in a series of 80s horror flicks including ‘Re-Animator’, ‘Chopping Mall’ and ‘From Beyond’ before deciding to take a “self-imposed retirement” after finding work had dried up.
However, she is now back working again, having appeared in a number of modern horror movies including ‘You’re Next’, ‘We Are Still Here’ and ‘Sun Choke’.
She said: “I think the kind of roles I’m getting are probably, to me collectively, more interesting than I’ve ever had before. Of course, when I was younger I loved the parts I played, especially in ‘Re-Animator’ and to a larger degree ‘From Beyond’.
“But as I’ve matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too may regrets. I’ve been lucky to tackle big issues in films like ‘We Are Still Here’ and ‘Sun Choke’ that really speak to me on a very human level.”
And Barbara has expressed her disappointment that women don’t appear as much in “common and often used movie themes” like films about superheros.
She told Collider.com: “There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You’re no longer the young, cute thing anymore and maybe you’re not quite old enough to play [what others think of] in terms of women in charge. I guess in society there’s no place for women in their older thirties. We’re supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point … and wait. Maybe for others, they found continuing work at that age. I didn’t.
“But being an older person now, I’m finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organisations and things like that. For some people, I’m finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they’re a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it.
“Women don’t seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes. Superhero roles seem to be popular. I’d like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I’d pay good money to see that.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kristen Stewart was “really scared” of ‘Personal Shopper’.
The 26-year-old actress plays Maureen, an American in Paris trying to make contact with her recently-deceased twin brother, in her latest movie and though she herself has experienced sleepless nights in the past, she admits she has never had it as tough as her character.
Kristen – who is alone in many scenes in the movie – said: “I was really scared of this movie.
“[Maureen] is just the most lonely person I’ve ever played. I’ve had some spiral periods where the unanswerable questions keep you up at night to a vaguely debilitating degree, but nothing like this girl.”
Despite the gruelling schedule of making the film, Kristen enjoyed the experience because director Olivier Assayas allowed her a lot of freedom and valued her input on the production.
She told Entertainment Weekly: “I’m used to directors really knowing what they want to say and making sure those concepts are displayed by the actors. In this case, all Olivier wants to do is ask you questions and see you flop around and figure them out. It’s really cool.”
And the filmmaker – who previously worked with the actress on ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ – credits his leading lady for making the finished work what it is.
He said: “This film in many ways belongs to Kristen. I was directing it from the outside, but she was directing it from within.”
The blonde beauty recently moved into directing, with a music video and short film ‘Come Swim’ to her name, and she loves the feeling of having an entire project of her own.
She said: “It’s so amazing to have something that exists because you protected it and invested in it all the way to the end.
“I don’t think there’s a huge separation from acting and directing for me.
“I come at it with the same intention. I’m pretty obsessed with the process of how things are put together.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Emma Watson thinks Josh Gad’s “subtle” performance in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is “fantastic”.
The 26-year-old actress – who plays Belle in the new live-action version of the fairytale – has heaped praise on her co-star for his portrayal of LeFou, Disney’s first openly gay character, and the way he has made it so it isn’t entirely clear whether or not he has a crush on his friend Gaston [Luke Evans].
Speaking in a SiriusXM Town Hall interview with Entertainment Weekly’s Anthony Breznican, she said: “I think that’s what’s so fantastic about Josh’s performance is that it’s so subtle.
“It’s always like, ‘Does he idolise Gaston? Is he in love with Gaston? What’s the relationship there?’
“I think it’s incredibly subtle, to be perfectly honest. I don’t want people going into this movie thinking there’s a huge narrative there.”
Elsewhere during the interview, Emma admitted she was frustrated about reports that claimed she had turned down Emma Stone’s Oscar-winning role in ‘La La Land’, insisting she had been committed to ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for such a long time, it would have been impossible for her to appear in the Hollywood musical too.
She said: “It’s one of these frustrating things where names get attached to projects very early on as a way to kind of build anticipation or excitement for something that’s coming before anything is actually agreed or set in stone.
“But it was one of those situations where I had been committed to Beauty and the Beast at that point for…years. And I had to be where I had to be, and scheduling conflict wise it just didn’t work out.”
Director Bill Condon previously admitted ‘Beauty and the Beast’ features a “nice gay moment”, and also praised Josh for his “subtle” performance.
He said: “LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston. He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realising that he has these feelings. And Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. And that’s what has its payoff at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.”

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