Saturday Night Live opened by addressing one of the most concerning stories yet of the second Trump administration: top officials discussing war plans in a group chat that mistakenly included a journalist. Rather than texting only the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), Vice President …
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Saturday Night Live host and recent Academy Award winner Mikey Madison portrayed the wife of a fatally wounded crime boss who, in his final moments, wants to hone his stand-up comedy routine alongside her. After patriarch Marco (Andrew Dismukes) is shot through a window by unseen assailants, he admits to …
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Saturday Night Live has booked Mikey Madison, Jack Black, and Jon Hamm to host the next three episodes of the show. They’ll be joined by musical guests Morgan Wallen, Elton John with Brandi Carlile, and Lizzo. Madison recently won a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in Anora, which …
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Is it us, or has this year’s lead-up to the 97th annual Academy Awards been a bit of a roller-coaster ride? After the nominations were announced roughly a month ago, we knew going in that there wouldn’t be a clear front-runner like last year, when Oppenheimer entered the competition with …
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M ikey Madison has come bearing snacks. The Anora star and I are scheduled to meet in Woodbridge Park — a blip of a green space in Studio City, California, with picturesque benches, a sprawling playground, and plenty of trees. Toddlers wobble about the play area with their moms (or …
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A rich guy purchases the services of a sex worker for a one-week “girlfriend experience,” which turns into something even better than the real thing — does this sound familiar? Rewind back to 1990, and you can see how, given the right combination of casting, sitcom-level humor and materialistic wish …
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In the Anora trailer, Mikey Madison (Better Things) stars as a sex worker who impulsively marries a filthy rich man, who happens to be the son of a Russian oligarch. “What do you do to get all this?” Madison asks him in the trailer. In the Sean Baker (Tangerine, The …
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