As pop culture lookalikes take over city parks and social feeds around the globe, among them emerged Jack Wall O’Reilly — Paul Mescal‘s doppelgänger who won a lookalike contest with his impressive shorts, baseball cap, and hoodie earlier this month. While stopping by Zoe Ball’sBBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show alongside …
Read More »Saoirse Ronan on 'Wild' Reaction to Viral Comment About Women's Safety
Saoirse Ronan said she was surprised by the response to her viral comment about violence against women on The Graham Norton Show, but glad it seemed to be “opening a conversation again.” In a new interview on the Ryan Tubridy Show on Virgin Radio UK, Ronan called the reaction “wild,” …
Read More »Those Paul Mescal Date-and-Dash TikTok Rumors Made His Mom Sad
Late last year, TikTok, as often happens, became saturated with wild celebrity speculation. This time the gossip was about Paul Mescal and the allegations thatour guy was out here, waltzing around London, looking for hook-ups, then taking his date on a walk the next day and running away from her. …
Read More »Paul Mescal's Villain Origin Story Takes Shape in New 'Gladiator II' Trailer
Paul Mescal‘s Lucius is just like his father in the latest trailer for Ridley Scott‘s Gladiator II. In the new clip from the film, the sources of the gladiator’s hunger for vengeance and violence are revealed as he battles inside and outside of the Colosseum. “I don’t fight for power,” …
Read More »Ridley Scott Already Wants to Start Working on 'Gladiator III'
Ridley Scott may be two months away from the release of Gladiator II and his 87th birthday, but he’s already cooking up an idea for a third Gladiator flick. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmaker was asked about next projects and flat-out said, “I’d rather get on …
Read More »Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal Enter the Arena in Bloody 'Gladiator II' Trailer
Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal grab their swords and prepare for battle in the new trailer for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. The three-minute (!) clip offers a comprehensive and intriguing look at the long-awaited sequel to Scott’s 2000 historical epic. It’s stuffed with grudges and revenge fantasies, political intrigue and …
Read More »'All of Us Strangers': Inside the Year's Most Haunting Love Story
Unlike the scores of paranormal investigators on reality TV, Andrew Haigh has made a career as a successful cinematic ghosthunter, chasing after entities whose presence is unquestionably felt. The British filmmaker’s apparitions take the forms of suppressed pain, unresolved trauma, unspoken resentment, and earth-shattering secrets in movies often, though not …
Read More »'All of Us Strangers': Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott's Ghostly Love Story Will Break Your Heart
Andrew Haigh‘s All of Us Strangers has its share of mysteries and dreamscapes and detours into the mystical, but it drops a breadcrumb morsel of a clue to viewers early on. You don’t know it on a first viewing — and this is the sort of rich, layered, remarkable work …
Read More »Ridley Scott Is Terrified of AI: 'It's a Technical Hydrogen Bomb'
Ridley Scott has the giggles. The revelation that I’m a New Yorker has prompted the legendary director to launch into a winding tale of the time he was on a traveling scholarship after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. “They said, ‘Where do you want to go?’ And, being …
Read More »'Foe': No Film With Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan Should Be This Boring
You have an Oscar-nominated actor who’s played everything from queens to killing machines. You’ve paired her with a performer who is arguably the hottest, most in-demand next-gen leading man of the moment. The source material is the second novel from an acclaimed writer, whose first book (I’m Thinking of Ending …
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