OHMYGOSSIP — Laurence Fishburne gets to bring out his bravado in the ‘John Wick’ franchise.
The 61-year-old actor reprises his role as The Bowery King in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ and believes that the role gets the best from him as an actor.
Laurence told ComicBook.com about playing the character: “It was pretty easy, man. It was on the page.
“That whole opening thing with the speech about, ‘I was here before the beginning of time!’ The way he gets to set the table, and it allows me to use my voice in a really beautiful way in the tunnel with all the reverberation. The way Chad (Stahelski) shot it, it was really mysterious and cool.
“I love this movie because it’s so much fun. Just playing The Bowery King, I get to have so much fun doing it.”
Laurence also believes that the new film will be a fitting tribute to Lance Reddick, who plays Charon, after he tragically passed away at the age of 60 last week.
‘The Matrix’ actor told The Hollywood Reporter: “We love Lance. We miss Lance. He’s the heart of these movies in many movies. We lost our brother, but we made a beautiful movie and it’s the best of all of them.
“I think people are going to love it and, you know, that’s what it’s about. At the end of the day, he wouldn’t want us to not do this.”
Fishburne has previously starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ and is looking forward to the upcoming flick ‘Captain America: New World Order’.
He said: “You know, I’m a big MCU guy. I love the Marvel Cinematic Universe and as much as I would love to be in it, I’m happy being a fan and waiting for whatever’s coming. Yeah, man like I just heard in Atlanta, I heard they’re getting ready to do another Captain America!… Bring it, I’m buying tickets dude!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Florence Pugh was wary of playing an addict in ‘A Good Person’.
The 27-year-old star features in the new drama film as Allison, a woman struggling to overcome an opiate addiction after being involved in a terrible accident, and knew that it was essential to portray the issue in the correct manner.
Asked if she was hesitant about playing the part, Florence told Collider: “If it doesn’t work, it’s offensive. It’s disrespectful. It’s embarrassing. It’s all the awful things that an actor, performer, or director never wants to feel.
“I think that’s why it is so crucial that we did deep, deep, deep diving, and deep background checks on what it is that these people are going through.
“You can’t make a movie like this with this topic and this unbelievably sensitive and delicate storyline without doing our research, and without talking to the right people, and that’s just something that, you know, it was obvious that you need to do.”
The ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ star revealed that she relished the short shoot on the film – which was directed by her ex-boyfriend Zach Braff.
Florence said: “I thrive under pressure, and I love being put to the test, and I completely come alive when we are telling a story in a short amount of time. I love a short shoot. I find it so exhilarating and thrilling, and everybody is so focused because we need to get it done.
“And you know, this is how I grew up in the industry, this is how I learned, was small indies with not a lot of time, tiny budget, an amazing cast, and a fantastic crew, and you’ve just got to make it work.”
She added: “And I think for me, I love the aspect of filmmaking. There’s nowhere to hide. There’s no day that you can figure something out. If you don’t get it, you lose it from the movie, and that’s how I learn.
“I really like stepping up to the challenge with these kinds of movies.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Nicolas Cage would love to revisit Dracula for a ‘Renfield’ sequel.
The 59-year-old actor loved putting his own spin on Bram Stoker’s iconic vampire creation for the new movie, while the movie has also given him a chance to work with Nicholas Hoult again after first teaming up on ‘The Weather Man’.
Asked if he’d return for a follow up, he told Collider: “If there’s room for it. I mean, I’m happy with the time that I had to play Dracula for Universal in this film, and I’m very happy I got to support Nic.
“I’ve been wanting to work with him for a while again. You know, I enjoyed our time on ‘The Weather Man’.
“I think it plays beautifully. I think what he brought to this character is totally brand new, and I’m very happy to be a part of that.”
However, Cage described the opportunity to take on such a legendary role as a once in a lifetime offer.
He made the point while noting he “wasn’t intimidated” by working on what director Chris McKay referred to as a direct sequel to 1931’s ‘Dracula’.
He said: “Well, I think that whenever – ;Whenever?’ I mean, that sounds ridiculous. When do you get a phone call from Universal saying, ‘We want you to play Dracula?’ That’s never gonna happen again. It’s like every, maybe, 100 years?
“I wasn’t intimidated by it because my Dracula’s — you know, I’m sure Bela Lugosi’s great in the role and he launched a billion viewers, but he wasn’t my Dracula.
“My Dracula was Christopher Lee in the Hammer Horror films. So I thought, ‘what can I do, and contribute, and bring my own special sauce?’
“So I wasn’t challenged by being asked to be the Dracula that we’ve seen so many times before. I thought there was something I could bring to it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jeff Goldblum has confirmed he will star in ‘Wicked’.
There had been speculation that the 70-year-old actor would play the Wizard in Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical and Jeff is now admitting he is part of the project.
Speaking during an appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, he said: “I was just on this set of ‘Wicked’. I’m not supposed to talk about that, but it’s been out and about.”
Speaking about his co-stars, he said: “You should see our witches, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, very good.”
He went on to add: “I shouldn’t talk about it, but I was shooting one day, and I found myself tearing up in fear, a childhood fear came back to me.”
He explained that he told his co-star Cynthia – who plays Elphaba – about a childhood nightmare he had about a “very scary queen/witch,” who tied him to a tree stump and was “going to chop off my head”.
Goldblum said his older brothers teased him for weeks but “witches scare me”.
The actor joins a host of stars in the movie alongside Cynthia as Elphaba, Ariana as Glinda, and Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero.
Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, Aaron Teoh and Colin Michael Carmichael also make up the ensemble cast of the two-part movie.
Marissa will be playing Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose, and like her character, the actress is a wheelchair user.
Bowen and Bronwyn will be playing classmates of Elphaba and Glinda at Shiz University, while Keala will play Miss Coddle, Aaron will portray Avaric and Colin will be Nikidik.
Michelle Yeoh will play Madame Morrible, the Headmistress of Crage Hall at Shiz University who convinces Elphaba to create the flying monkeys, while she sings in the ‘The Wizard and I.’
Ethan Slater was also recently unveiled as Boq.
Director Jon Chu decided to make the movie into two parts because it would be “impossible” to put the complex story into a single film.
He said: “Thank you for all the support these past several months in anticipation of the ‘WICKED’ movie. Here’s what happened: as we prepared this production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of ‘WICKED’ into a single film without doing some real damage to it. With more space, we can tell the story of WICKED as it was meant to be told while bringing even more depth and surprise to the journeys of these beloved characters.”
‘Wicked: Part One’ is set to be released in December 2024, with the second following in 2025.
Jeff Goldblum has confirmed he will star in ‘Wicked’.
There had been speculation that the 70-year-old actor would play the Wizard in Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical and Jeff is now admitting he is part of the project.
Speaking during an appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, he said: “I was just on this set of ‘Wicked’. I’m not supposed to talk about that, but it’s been out and about.”
Speaking about his co-stars, he said: “You should see our witches, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, very good.”
He went on to add: “I shouldn’t talk about it, but I was shooting one day, and I found myself tearing up in fear, a childhood fear came back to me.”
He explained that he told his co-star Cynthia – who plays Elphaba – about a childhood nightmare he had about a “very scary queen/witch,” who tied him to a tree stump and was “going to chop off my head”.
Goldblum said his older brothers teased him for weeks but “witches scare me”.
The actor joins a host of stars in the movie alongside Cynthia as Elphaba, Ariana as Glinda, and Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero.
Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, Aaron Teoh and Colin Michael Carmichael also make up the ensemble cast of the two-part movie.
Marissa will be playing Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose, and like her character, the actress is a wheelchair user.
Bowen and Bronwyn will be playing classmates of Elphaba and Glinda at Shiz University, while Keala will play Miss Coddle, Aaron will portray Avaric and Colin will be Nikidik.
Michelle Yeoh will play Madame Morrible, the Headmistress of Crage Hall at Shiz University who convinces Elphaba to create the flying monkeys, while she sings in the ‘The Wizard and I.’
Ethan Slater was also recently unveiled as Boq.
Director Jon Chu decided to make the movie into two parts because it would be “impossible” to put the complex story into a single film.
He said: “Thank you for all the support these past several months in anticipation of the ‘WICKED’ movie. Here’s what happened: as we prepared this production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of ‘WICKED’ into a single film without doing some real damage to it. With more space, we can tell the story of WICKED as it was meant to be told while bringing even more depth and surprise to the journeys of these beloved characters.”
‘Wicked: Part One’ is set to be released in December 2024, with the second following in 2025.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Liam Neeson has exceeded his own expectations in the movie business.
The 70-year-old actor joined the Lyric Players’ Theatre in Belfast in 1976, and at the time, he never imagined becoming a huge star in Hollywood.
Liam – whose new movie, ‘Marlowe’, is the 100th of his career – told HeyUGuys: “You know, I was delighted to become a professional actor in 1976, in a theatre in Belfast and then moved down to Dublin.
“I think my ambitions then would’ve been, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to be in the National Theatre of Great Britain’. That would’ve been my ambition.”
Liam’s career was transformed by his starring role in the Sir John Boorman-directed medieval fantasy film ‘Excalibur’.
The movie was released in 1981 and it helped to propel Liam towards success in the American film business.
He recalled: “We did ‘Excalibur’ with the wonderful Sir John Boorman … knights in shining armour and riding horses and stuff … and it was like, euphoric, the feeling. It was euphoric, and John was a fantastic mentor.”
Liam previously described making the movie as a “great” experience.
The veteran actor shared: “That was extraordinary, because it had Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson, who is dead now, God rest his soul. An extraordinary actor. There we are, all dressed in shining suits of armour and on horseback. It was like a dream come true, you know? Telling this Arthurian myth, this story that’s thousands of years old. It was just something.
“And to be shooting it in Ireland, it was just great.
“John Boorman, who was the director, was a wonderful mentor to us, Gabriel Byrne, Ciaran Hinds, myself. He’d bring us behind the camera, show us what he’s looking at, give the reason why he’s shooting it this way, and just explaining what the camera does, the different ways he was going to shoot us.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jon Hamm has joined the cast of the ‘Mean Girls’ musical movie.
The 52-year-old actor will take on the role of Coach Carr, the gym coach and incompetent sex-ed teacher, in the upcoming movie adaptation of the Broadway musical, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Meanwhile, Busy Philipps recently joined the cast as Mrs. George, the mother of Regina George, who will be played by Renée Rapp in the film.
Philipps shared a Deadline article revealing her casting, and wrote on Instagram: “You know something? I really never have been a regular mom… #meangirls (sic)”
Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, and Jaquel Spivey are also set to star in the movie, which will be directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.
Tina Fey and her husband Jeff Richmond are adapting their musical for the big screen, and they want the ‘Mean Girls’ musical movie to have a “fresher palette”.
Composer Richmond told THR previously: “Right now, the day-to-day is more about the movie adaptation that we’re working on. We’re super involved with that. What we’re trying to do [with the movie] is take the score that sounds like a Broadway score – in a good way – and [give] the movie a fresher palette. To make it sound more like stuff you want to listen to on Spotify, as opposed to when you’re sitting eighth row at a Broadway show or the Pantages. It’s kind of making it a fresher, younger take on the whole thing. We’re kind of reinvented the music for the movie, so it’s really fun.”
Lorne Michaels is producing the movie for Paramount Pictures, with Fey penning the script and Richmond and lyricist Nell Benjamin working on the music.
Richmond admitted he and Fey love working together.
He said: “We know when to get out of each other’s way when we’re working together. Like who’s taking this part? Who’s doing that? Who needs to push harder on getting the script done for this? We’re just around each other all the time. Same office, all the time. She’s a hilariously fun person to be around.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rege-Jean Page was “surprised” by the script for ‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’.
The 34-year-old actor plays Xenk Yendar in the action-comedy film, and Rege-Jean admits that he never expected the script to have such a “human” element to it.
The actor – who features in the movie alongside the likes of Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez – told SFX magazine: “I don’t think anyone knew quite what they were getting into when they picked up a ‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ script.
“I surprised was at how there was a very human throughline to the story. We all put it down smiling, having laughed and cared about this world, which is quite a delicate balance to strike.”
Rege-Jean also enjoyed working with Chris, Michelle and his other co-stars, who included Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis and Hugh Grant.
He said: “These are very talented, very intelligent, very funny people, but also vastly different – a finely balanced orchestra of very odd instruments.”
Rege-Jean is, of course, best known for starring in ‘Bridgerton’.
And the actor previously admitted that he found it “overwhelming” to watch his steamy scenes from the show.
Rege-Jean – who played the Duke of Hastings in the hit Netflix period drama – told The Hollywood Reporter: “No one was sufficiently prepared. I wasn’t sufficiently prepared, and I was there.
“I think people were grateful for the intensity of the romantic aspects of ‘Bridgerton’; I’m not sure how grateful I was to watch it for myself.
“It was overwhelming. But I think people were looking to be overwhelmed.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Florence Pugh found it “liberating” to cut off her hair in ‘A Good Person’.
The 27-year-old star features in the new drama film as Allison, a woman struggling to overcome an opiate addiction after being involved in a terrible accident, and early in the movie, her grief-stricken alter ego impulsively chops off her locks, and the actress admitted the scene was the “final key” to understanding her character.
While it was suggested she wear a wig, Florence was adamant she cut her own hair.
She recalled to USA Today: “Everyone was really anxious that it was the only take we’d have, but I found it really liberating.
“If anything, it was like the final key to unlocking this character. It took vanity out the window.”
Florence could understand Allison’s impulsive reaction because she’s previously cut her own hair when feeling “low”.
She said: “For me, whenever I was particularly low as a teenager, I would do lots of quick fixes.
“I would buy things like nail kits or scissors and go onto YouTube and find out how to do it. I was just looking in any direction but the thing that was making me sad.”
The ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ star has also admitted director Zach Braff was against her cutting her own hair.
She recalled on ‘The Tonight Show’: “I was like, ‘Zach, I think I should chop my hair off at the beginning of the movie.’ And he was like, ‘The beginning of the movie – cool. That’s not gonna work.’ ”
She told how Zach and the crew were worried about shooting the film in order if she cut her hair early in filming but she insisted: “You’ll figure it out.”
The team had a big conversation and told the director: “This is insane. She can’t do this. This is not helpful at all.”
But Florence stuck to her guns and was allowed to chop her locks for the shoot.

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