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John Travolta has reflected on the "planetarily epic" 'Pulp Fiction' three decades on from its release. The 70-year-old actor experienced a career renaissance after portraying hitman Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film and recalled how audiences were key to the film's slow-burn success. Speaking to People at the 30th anniversary event in Hollywood on Thursday (18.04.24), John said: "It was epic and it evolved. "The audiences made this movie what it was, and it wasn't overnight. It took about a year of evolution. In those days, movies stayed in the theatres for over a year. So, by the...
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George Clooney says there aren’t “enough drugs in the world” to get him to reprise his role as Batman. The Oscar-winner, 62, was savaged by critics for his portrayal of the vigilante in 1997’s ‘Batman and Robin’ movie alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Uma Thurman. He did return to the role earlier this year when he made a cameo in ‘The Flash’, with Michael Keaton, 72, who played the comic book hero in Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ in 1989, also featured in the June movie. But he told Entertainment Weekly about the chance of him taking a full feature role as Batman in the future: “I don't think there...
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Nicol Paone believes Uma Thurman is the perfect person to play Patrice in 'The Kill Room'. The 53-year-old actress has been reunited with Samuel L. Jackson for the new thriller film, and Nicol - the movie's director - believes Uma is perfectly suited to the role of Patrice, an art dealer who gets involved with a money laundering scheme. Nicol told Collider: "It was because I was hounding Danielle Thomas, who is a partner at Untitled, to read the script. I just was bothering her for about a year thinking it's right up her alley. I know she'll love it, she's an art collector, she’s a big Broadwa...
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'The Kill Room' was rewritten in a day for Samuel L. Jackson. Director Nicol Paone has revealed how finding out Jackson was available meant the script needed reworking just before Christmas to make the character more suited to the Hollywood megastar's style of acting. She told Collider: "That role is really interesting because it was written as Herschel, a 72-year-old Jewish man. "And when we were discussing the casting, Uma [Thurman] texted me, 'Is Sam Jackson an option?' And I was like, 'Are you kidding? Of course.' "And so Jonathan and I had a day to rewrite the script before the Christmas ...
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Ethan Hawke has declared himself to be a proud "nepo dad". The 'Black Phone' actor wrote and directed 'Wildcat', which is about US novelist Flannery O’Connor, and though he cast his daughter Maya Hawke in the lead role, he insisted the 25-year-old actress was the driving force behind the project, though he understands why they may experience a backlash. He joked to Variety: “Put simply, I’m a nepo dad! And I’m not embarrassed about it.” He then more seriously added: "If someone wants to criticise us for working together, that’s totally fair. You have to let people have their opinion. You just ...
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Robert De Niro celebrated his 80th birthday by gathering his celebrity friends for a lavish dinner party. The 'Casino' star reached the milestone on Thursday (17.08.23) he hosted a bash at swanky Italian restaurant Locanda Verde in New York City for friends including Sir Paul McCartney - who attended with his wife Nancy Shevell - as well as fellow actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Uma Thurman and De Niro's 'The Godfather Part II' director Francis Ford Coppola. 'Star Wars' creator George Lucas also attended the bash along with director Martin Scorsese, movie veterans Bette Midler and Christopher Wal...
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Quentin Tarantino is facing a claim from a strip club manager called NorCal Lowlife he once splashed out $10,000 to lick a woman’s feet until they wrinkled like “prunes”. Lowlife – also known as Page Rad – was apparently a senior worker at Hollywood nightspot Crazy Girls, and told the tale about the ‘Pulp Fiction’ director – who is said to have a foot fetish as he often lingers on his leading ladies’ toes in his flicks – on a podcast called ‘Get in the Car’. He said when Quentin apparently visited the club – without specifying when – the filmmaker requested a VIP room and the company of the d...
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Johnny Depp is said to have focused on his “health and rest” instead of partying at the Cannes Film Festival. The ‘Donnie Brasco’ actor, 59, used to be renowned for his love of a late-night bash during the spring event, but last week chose a quiet night at his hotel over attending the after-party following the premiere of his new movie ‘Jeanne de Barry’. A source told TMZ after the showing “he made the decision to head back to his room early to make sure he got enough rest and to prepare for another day of media interviews”. The insider added Johnny has experienced “an evolution in terms of pr...
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Ethan Hawke is directing his daughter Maya Hawke in the film 'Wildcat'. The 52-year-old is working on the movie based on the life of novelist Flannery O'Connor and the biopic will star Maya as the Southern writer. 'Wildcat' will follow O'Connor as she struggles to get her first novel published. A devout Catholic from Georgia, she is invited to the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop. The author was famous for her fiction about the American South and her faith but she was plagued by lupus for much of her life and died aged just 39. Her work continues to be read, studied and admired. Principal ph...
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Maya Hawke's fashion sense is "inspired" by her mom. The 24-year-old actress is the daughter of Hollywood stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman and explained that she has always been "influenced" by her mother's culture and sense of style. She said: "All of the most stylish people I know have a uniform, and mine is blue jeans, t-shirts and jackets. It's that thing of wanting to dress more like the designer themselves than the clothes they've designed. In terms of inspiration, I definitely inherited tonnes from my mom. I am totally inspired by her. We were just talking about it yesterday, how she h...
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