OHMYGOSSIP — Brett Goldstein only had two weeks to prepare for his cameo in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’.
The ‘Ted Lasso’ actor makes a brief appearance as Hercules in the mid-credits scene of the recent Marvel blockbuster and he admitted he thought studio executives and director Taika Waititi were joking when he approached him about the role.
He told The Playlist: “It was literally out of the blue one night, and I was very busy, and it was like, ‘Can you make time for a Zoom?’ ‘Yes, sure.’ And they go on Zoom, and they just told me what you see in the film, which is they sort of opened with, ‘So Russell Crowe is Zeus,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, OK, go on.’ And blah, blah, blah.
“And then they turn around, and they reveal, ‘It’s Hercules; it’s you.’ And I went, ‘What?’ Just like, ‘Are you serious? Are you f**king with me? Is this a wind-up?’ So yeah, it was as surprising to me as I think it has been to other people.”
Brett admitted he was concerned he wouldn’t be in the shape that was required for the role in such a short space of time.
He continued: “I said, ‘You know I’m basically like a skinny comedian?’
“I said, ‘When is this filming?’ It was like in two weeks, and I was like, ‘I mean, I’ll do my best, but two weeks feels…’
“I said, ‘He doesn’t have to be as big as Thor, does he?’ And look, on the day, I mean, I’m doing 400 pushups that day. I was fit to explode. I did the best I could on that day, yeah.”
But Brett, who is also a writer, enjoyed being involved with the film, though he’s unsure if it will lead to further appearances in the MCU.
He said: “[It was an experience] I haven’t had for a long time, where I had no involvement in the behind-the-scenes of it.
“Look, you’re in f***ing good hands. They make really good s***. Do you know what I mean? And Taika Waititi’s f***ing brilliant, so it was like, ‘I’m in the best hands possible.’
“But it’s amazing. Who knows if anything will come of it? Who knows, but it was a fun thing to do, and I’m pleased that people seem to have enjoyed it.”
And the 42-year-old actor joked he’ll definitely be in shape if Marvel call again.
He quipped: “I’m going to eat 30 chickens a day from now on. It will be fine.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Billy Eichner wouldn’t have signed up for ‘Bros’ if it wasn’t “authentic to gay audiences”.
The 43-year-old comedian was first approached about the movie by producer Judd Apatow and director and co-writer Nicholas Stoller and insisted he was “not interested” in taking a typical romance tale and making it about two men.
He told Britain’s Esquire magazine: “When Nick told me he wanted to do a gay romcom, I said to him, ‘If you think we can just do ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and swap out the man and woman for two men, then I’m not interested.’
“While I wanted the story to be accessible to everyone, it also had to be authentic to gay audiences.
“To his credit, Nick immediately said,’Whatever is honest will be best.’ “
In the movie, Billy plays podcaster Bobby, whose anti-relationship stance changes when he meets Luke Macfarlane’s Aaron.
And the ‘Billy on the Street’ star – who also co-wrote the film – insisted it was “important” to incorporate their sex lives into the film.
He said: “For so many years, the world turned a blind eye to LGBTQ people and the way we live our lives.
“And, as offensive and traumatising as that it, it can also be liberating.
“If you didn’t consider us part of ‘normal society’, then we didn’t have to operate by your old-fashioned, heteronormative rules.
“We made up our own rules. Our friendships, sex lives and relationships are different.
“I thought it was important to show these two men being physical with each other.
“I think sex is hilarious, absurd and awkward.
“I understand there is a shock value to it, because people have been so scared to go there in the past.”
Billy admitted it was daunting trying to get the movie off the ground.
He said: “Nick and Judd, as straight white men, I guess, have a certain confidence.
“But although I’ve had success, I’ve never been able to make something at this level.
“I’ve never even starred in an indie movie.
“A lot of that is because, up until very recently, Hollywood did not embrace openly gay actors and comedians.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Idris Elba asked his personal chef to help him look “the bee’s knees” in the ‘Luther’ movie.
The 49-year-old actor is set to reprise his role as tough cop John Luther in a big-screen spin off of the BBC drama series and has ditched junk food in order to be “nice and lean” in a topless scene he appears in in the film.
King The Chef, aka King Enekeme, told The Sun on Sunday newspaper’s Bizarre column: “I got him nice and lean — the ladies will love him. Idris wanted to lean up in particular for that film because there’s a topless scene he’s got to do, so he was like, ‘I’ve got to look the bee’s knees’. ”
The chef explained he made a short-term change to Idris’ diet and insisted the ‘Mountain Between Us’ star didn’t work with a trainer to achieve his body goal.
He continued: “We put him on smoothies, lots of greens, kale and spinach, all that stuff, and avoided junk food.
“Everybody wants a good-looking plate of food. However, you’ve got to be realistic. If you want to get down to this weight in the next two to four weeks, it’s not only going to be dazzle dazzle.
“Bear with me for that period of time, after that you can have all the steaks and butter you want.
“There was no personal trainer on Luther, that was more food focused — I’m gonna take credit for that one.”
Idris has been tipped to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond, but King – who has been friends with the actor for years – doesn’t think it would be the right move for his pal.
He said: “Whether he is or not I don’t know, I think there’s other things he’s got up his sleeve.
“I personally don’t think he should take Bond. It’s too obvious, it’s been around him for years. It’s time to move on.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Michael Shannon has confirmed ‘Eric LaRue’ moved locations because of Arkansas’ stance on abortion.
The ‘Shape of Water’ star will make his directorial debut with the film, and while he had a number of ideas in the pipeline that he was “excited about”, he realised it would be morally wrong to work there after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade – which gave women the right to seek a termination – and the state initiated a quick change of their own laws to ban abortion.
He said: “We were all set to go in Arkansas and looking forward to it. We had some locations I was excited about, and locations are the name of the game right now.
“Then the Supreme Court did what they did, and Arkansas is a trigger state.
“So immediately the trigger laws went into effect, which prohibited abortion of any kind in any circumstances.
“I was talking to a friend of mine and she said, ‘You know you probably shouldn’t shoot there.’
“And I thought, Well gee, that would be a drag to try and move at this point. But the more I thought about it, the more I realised I agreed with her. So I called my producer and he agreed as well. And so we did it.”
The 48-year-old star acknowledged the decision won’t have a big impact on the state, but it felt important to move the production anyway.
He added in an interview with The Rake: “It hasn’t necessarily been easy. It’s not like we were going to bring billions of dollars to the state of Arkansas, so it’s more of a gesture than anything.
“The movie to me is the most important thing.
“But I couldn’t imagine waking up and going to work every day in a place where a woman doesn’t have the right to do what she wants with her own body – particularly as the main character in my movie is a woman.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Maggie Q thinks there’s “no better person to work with” than Tom Cruise.
The 43-year-old actress starred alongside Tom, 60, in ‘Mission: Impossible III’, and Maggie relished the experience of working with the Hollywood star.
She shared: “Tom is always trying to make everything better … Say what you will … I mean, people say what they want about everyone, but I know for me when I work it’s great if you like each other, it’s great if you develop a friendship out of a professional working environment, but at the end of the day you really just want to work with professionals who want to achieve the best work.
“If that’s what you want, there is no better person to work with than Tom Cruise. There’s no one on the planet who fights that hard, who’s always thinking, who cares as much as he does. There just isn’t. And who’s genuinely passionate about the product.”
Maggie explained that Tom is always in a good mood on set because he’s so passionate about his work.
She told the ‘Light the Fuse’ podcast: “I mean, he loves what he does, which is why when he’s at work he’s in a really good mood.”
Earlier this year, Simon Pegg described Tom as an “incredibly generous performer”.
The actor hailed the attitude of his ‘Mission: Impossible’ co-star, saying he “cares a lot about everybody else”.
Simon said: “It’s always fun. He’s an incredibly generous performer. He cares a lot about everybody else.
“He’s always hanging out around the monitor … after hanging off an airplane, he’s worried about me doing a fistfight which isn’t particularly scary.”
Simon also revealed that Tom has high standards and an impressive work ethic.
He explained: “I’ve always had a good experience with Tom. You know you’re working on something which is going to be executed with 100 percent commitment and enthusiasm. It’s nice to have that as the standard.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Jurassic World Dominion”s feathered dinosaurs were included for the first time to update the movie according to the latest scientific findings.
The sixth installment in the ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise starring Chris Pratt hit cinemas earlier this year and it introduced audiences to a number of dinosaurs covered in feathers which were seen for the first time in the movie series – and now visual effects supervisor David Vickery has explained director Colin Trevorrow wanted the film to give a more accurate depiction of what many dinos actually looked like.
He told Screenrant.com: “I think one of the … (instructions from Trevorrow) was not sort of correcting the sins of the previous films, because not having feathers on dinosaurs in ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Jurassic World’ was because science didn’t believe that dinosaurs had feathers at the time that those movies were created.
“So the characters have been established, but to try to give back to the fanbase and establish that, ‘Okay, we can have feathers in a ‘Jurassic’ franchise.’ That’s something that people have been crying out for for a long time …”
He added that it was also a huge technical achievement to put feathers on the dinosaurs.
Vickery said: “Technically, ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ really pushed the envelope in terms of feathers. That’s a huge creative and technical challenge that we had set before us on the film, but also just trying to realise these creatures in so many different environments, in snow and ice and in the forest and in the hot desert sun, in Malta and in really urban environments, as well as the sort of traditional jungle environments that we’re used to seeing them … ”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chad Stahelski has revealed that ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ will feature plenty of mythology and ninjas.
The 53-year-old director is returning to helm the fourth movie in the action franchise and revealed that the movie will use its extra runtime to cram more plot in.
Chad told Variety: “I love mythology. I love a good myth. I don’t really believe – at least for the ‘John Wick’ movies – in a three-act structure. I believe in storytelling and leaving it.
“You know, we’ve always seen ‘John Wick’ as Odysseus. So we take the time we need to tell the story. As long as we don’t fall asleep watching it, we keep it going. But I guess there is a bathroom limit.”
The last movie in the series – ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum’ – featured a wide variety of action sequences, including ninjas on motorcycles, and Chad isn’t sure how to top it with the new movie, which is set to be released in March 2023 and sees Keanu Reeves return in the titular role.
The filmmaker said: “Ninjas in cars, I guess. I don’t know! It’s always ninjas, man.”
Stahelski has produced the new Netflix film ‘Day Shift’, which stars Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg and is helmed by debutant director J.J. Perry. Chad first met Perry over 30 years ago when they did stunts together on ‘The King of the Kickboxers’ and is thrilled to see his friends make the step into directing.
He said: “That’s the thing about our circle of friends. Everybody’s their own guy. Everybody helps everybody. The hierarchy is circular. Look, we came up with one of the best generations that have been in stunts for a long time.
“So for a bunch of us that used to get hit by cars for a living here on the red carpet, it’s pretty awesome.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lauren Lapkus is to executive produce and star in the postpartum comedy ‘Another Happy Day’.
The new movie will be helmed by Nora Fiffer in her feature directorial debut and is currently in production in Chicago. The plot is loosely based on her experiences of becoming a mother.
Lauren will play Joanna, a “total nut” who is so awkward about motherhood that she remarks candidly, “I’m not really a mom, I just have a baby, you know?”.
The new mother is also an artist who isn’t making any art and feels truly terrible at taking care of her newborn.
Joanna struggles to get her old job back, her friends have moved on without her while her husband thinks he’s a better mother than she is. In her desperate search for a friend, she stumbles into an unlikely bond with an estranged aunt-in-law she barely knew.
Lapkus, 36, said: “Nora’s script is so moving and funny, and getting to make this film as a new mom feels really meaningful.
“The early weeks of parenthood can be so isolating, and that can be jarring no matter how prepared you think you are for it. I think Nora has captured that feeling in a unique way and I’m really excited to share this story.”
Fiffer added: “I’ve often thought that my transition into motherhood would have been a lot easier if I’d had a clearer picture of new parenthood.
“The aim here is to capture this raw, tense, and absurd time that is so rarely represented in film.”
Inherent Films’ Jessie Holder Tourtellotte will appear alongside Lapkus in the flick and is producing. Lauren has been joined as an executive producer on the movie by Eugene Sun Park.

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