Milos Bicanski/Bravo(GEORGIA) — COVID-19 has done what nobody else ever could: It’s stopped the cast of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta from fighting.
Deadlinereports that after a member of the production tested positive for the virus, shooting on season 13 of the show was halted for 14 days, “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a set source.
However, the insider insisted, “The set follows rigorous COVID-19 safety protocols, including contact tracing.”
Season 13 of the reality series features Kandi Burruss, Kenya Moore, Porsha Williams, Drew Sidora, and Cynthia Bailey.
Courtesy of HBO(LOS ANGELES) — Euphoria star Zendaya was recently voted one of the most influential celebrities of her generation. The 24-year-old Emmy Award winner says she is hoping to use her voice to inspire future leaders.
Namely, her nieces.
In a Tuesday interview with Elle, Zendaya praised her generation for taking an active role in demanding meaningful change in the world.
“I find hope in my peers, the people who are out there on the streets doing the work—people I admire and I go to for advice and information on what’s happening, so that I can make sure I’m using my platform in the most strategic way I can to help,” Zendaya explained. “There is so much hope in young people, and when I say young people, I do mean myself—people my own age—but I also mean younger.”
Elaborating on how even young children have developed “a clear understanding and plan for how they want this world to change,” she says her little nieces are no exception.
“They are so aware, and I mean, I can take credit for some of that, because I’ve been schooling them. But they also have their own point of view,” Zendaya noted as she detailed how she’s helping to encourage their developing activism.
“We have discussions about [the world]. They know what’s up, and they want to be part of that change,” she commended.
Zendaya also reflected on why people — namely the Black community — have been inspired to speak up and out, saying, “I know a lot of my peers feel enraged and exhausted and tired of living and growing up in a system that feels like it wasn’t built for us.”
“Black people need to embrace joy and not let it be taken away from us,” she concluded.
Courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films(NEW YORK) — In the new comedy Dating Amber, Fionn O’Shea and Lola Petticrew play gay classmates in mid-90s Ireland who pretend they’re dating in order to avoid ridicule from their peers. Along the way, they help each other come to terms with who they are.
O’Shea and Petticrew, who became best friends in real life during the making of the film, tell ABC Audio it was important for them to portray a hopeful queer coming-of-age story on screen.
“You don’t want to scare people out of coming out of the closet, you want to show them that, you know, especially within the LGBTQ+ community, your family can be the family that you choose and that there are going to be people there that will love you and accept you,” Petticrew says. “And I think that was always in the back of our mind when we made this film.”
In fact, making the film helped Petticrew come to terms with her own sexuality.
“During filming, before and after, I had realized that I’d given Amber and her journey all of this weight and I hadn’t done it for myself,” she says.
“It sort of gave me this sort of re-coming out in a way, and I found the label queer to fit me most,” she adds. “It really was a completely sort of life-transforming experience for me, playing Amber.”
O’Shea, who most people know as the much-hated character Jamie in Normal People, was happy to play someone a little more likable this time around. He says he felt a connection to his character, Eddie.
“I absolutely felt from the moment I read it that I really understood Eddie and just knew that I wanted to play him,” he says.
2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LONDON) — On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night, Hugh Grant revealed that he and his wife, Anna Eberstein, contracted COVID-19 in February, and since have fully recovered.
However, the battle wasn’t pretty, Grant joked to the chat show host. “It started as just a very strange syndrome where I kept breaking into a terrible sweat…It was like a poncho of sweat, embarrassing really.”
He quipped, “Then my eyeballs felt about three sizes too big and this…a feeling as though an enormous man was sitting on my chest, Harvey Weinstein or someone.”
However, when Grant realized he’d lost his sense of smell — which many have found to be a telltale sign of infection — the actor admitted he began to “panic.”
Grant told Colbert, “By then people were just starting to talk about this as a symptom. And I started sniffing flowers, nothing. And you get more and more desperate. I started sniffing in garbage cans. You know, you want to sniff strangers’ armpits because you just can’t smell anything.”
He joked, “I eventually went home and I sprayed my wife’s Chanel No. 5 directly into my face,” Grant continued. “Couldn’t smell a thing, but I did go blind,” he laughed.
By now, the pair have fully recovered. “We’ve got antibodies,” Grant declared of him and his wife, quipping “I’m rather proud of them.”
For now, Grant says he’s “been locked up” with his two daughters, who are four and two years old and has become “all about Barbies” from playing with the girls. He even admitted to making the dolls get into compromising positions and sending pictures of them to his friends — after his daughters went to bed.
ABC/Rick Rowell(LOS ANGELES) — Jason Momoa isn’t lacking for work these days, but the Aquaman star says it was a different story when he left HBO’s Game of Thrones in 2011.
The 41-year-old actor, who played Khal Drogo during the show’s first season, tells In Style that he, wife Lisa Bonet and their two children, Lola and Wolf — now 13 and 11, respectively — “were starving.”
“I couldn’t get work,” he adds. “It’s very challenging when you have babies and you’re completely in debt.”
Momoa’s financial troubles are far behind him now. His upcoming projects include Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, set to open in October of 2021, and Zack Snyder’s re-cut Justice League, premiering on HBO Max, also in 2021.
Milos Bicanski/Bravo(GEORGIA) — COVID-19 has done what nobody else ever could: It’s stopped the cast of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta from fighting.
