February 25, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Sonja Flemming/CBS В©2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(NEW YORK) — Actor and Oscar winner Walton Goggins has appeared in dozens and dozens of films and TV shows over his lengthy career, and in many, he plays the heavy. 

He’s been seen as a corrupt cop in The Shield, the villain in Tomb Raider, and an arms dealer in Ant-Man and The Wasp, among other memorable roles.

However, all that changed when he was cast against type as a grieving dad in CBS’ hit series The Unicorn.

Created by Bill Martin and Mike Schiff, and produced by Goggins’ pal and Ant-Man director Peyton Reed, Goggins says the show’s pitch struck a chord with him: “The story is based on one of their best friends who lost his wife to cancer and is raising two daughters…and I thought, ‘I can tell this story and we could tell this story in a way, if you let me do my thing.’ You know, I’m only going to do it one way: where we can make people laugh for sure. But but we can also touch their touch, their heart — and not gratuitously, but because. Because the story’s about life. 

He adds, “Here we are two years into it…and people appreciate the laughter and people…can relate to the small victories and the small setbacks…And I think that’s what I’m most proud of.”

Goggins, however, explained while laughing heartily, that there was an adjustment period. “There’s this whole scene in the pilot where I have to get this food out of the freezer and I’m using an ice pick. And then the director says, ‘OK, cut, cut. Walt, do you think you could do that in a way that it doesn’t look like you’re the one who killed your wife?'”

Walton laughs, “Oh, my God, really? My resting face looks like I’m killing people?!”

Two seasons in, he’s proven he can play the nice guy. 

Goggins adds of the show, “I just love it. I really do.” 

The Unicorn airs tonight at 9:30 p.m. Eastern on CBS.

February 25, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Marvel Studios(LOS ANGELES) — Fans recently got their first glimpse of a superpowered Teyonah Parris in the latest episode of WandaVision, where her character Monica Rambeau showed her “Photon” potential when she returns to Westview.

Parris tells ABC Audio that becoming the butt-kicking S.W.O.R.D. captain has actually been her “most physical role to date.”

“I’ve had roles that were physical, but in a very different way. Not like action physical, just stamina, physical,” she explains.

Parris admits that she didn’t appropriately train for her role of Monica because “no one told [her] it was going to be physical.”

“I did not prepare,” she reveals. “[But,] since I’ve gotten the role, I just try to work out, run, jog, just to have that sort of stamina.”

Now, with Parris’ character possibly going toe-to-toe with not only Wanda, but Westview’s real villain Agatha Harkness — and others in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — the actress says she’s going to have to step up her workout game.

“I didn’t do any combat training or anything like that,” Parris says. “But I will be moving forward because it’s very important. It’s a whole other skill set and I’m a work on that.”

New episodes of WandaVision launch Fridays on Disney+.

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February 25, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Courtesy of Karamo(LOS ANGELES) — After breaking up with longtime love Ian Jordan, Queer Eye star Karamo Brown revealed how he’s getting back into the dating game a year after the heartbreak.

Previously, the Dancing with the Stars alum joked he was willing to jump onto another ABC show, The Bachelor, but tells Just the Sip podcast, “That will not be happening.”

“For me, being 40 now, dating is such an intimate thing,” Karamo said Tuesday, explaining that he wants something that is built to last.

“I was in a place where I was ready to get married and I’m still in that place,” the TV personality confessed. “I just broke up the man I was with, but I wake up every day and I literally yearn. I’m that guy who wants marriage.”

As it turns out, he wants to be married sooner rather than later.

“I need to know that whoever I’m dating, we’re on the same page because truth be told—and you’ll hear this first—by 2023, I gotta be married,” Brown laughed. “I want to be married… I don’t have time to play.  I know what I want.”

Still, he is not looking forward to dating again, noting the landscape has drastically changed over the past decade.

Beyond marriage, Karamo revealed that he wants to have more children so that his sons Jason and Chris can have siblings.

“You know, I didn’t get the opportunity to have my son when he was a baby; I got him when he was 10,” he said. “I want a little baby, and now I have the financial resources, I have security in my life, I could do it.”

If he could pick, the Emmy nominee wants to add twin girls to his family, gushing, ” think they’d be so cute… I’d spoil them.”

By Megan Stone
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February 25, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Brooke Palmer ©2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved(NEW YORK) — The Walking Dead and Southland vet Michael Cudlitz stars as straitlaced FBI Agent Paul Krendler in CBS’ new Silence of the Lambs spin-off, Clarice. And while fans may be pulling for Rebecca Breeds’ newbie agent Clarice Starling right off the bat, Krendler doesn’t trust her.

“And why should he at this point?” Cudlitz asks ABC Audio rhetorically.

The show takes place in 1993, a year after the events of Lambs, in which the young trainee Starling ended up finding and killing the serial killer dubbed Buffalo Bill, with the help of Hannibal Lecter, the brilliant incarcerated psychiatrist with a taste for human liver.  

“She’s just had one lucky thing, she’s been foisted on him and his group, his hand-picked group,” Cudlitz says of his character’s relationship with Clarice. “He doesn’t want her there…And he’s the guy in charge.” 

Fans of the show have playfully taken the actor to task for it on Twitter, Cudlitz laughs, adding, “Some of ’em ask, ‘Are you going become less of an a-hole?’ And I was like, ‘Watch the show!'” 

Incidentally, although the show is produced under strict COVID-19 protocols, it’s a period piece, so viewers won’t be seeing any masks on its leads.

“Somebody actually tweeted about that and they say, ‘Oh, my gosh, it’s so nice to be in a world where they don’t even address the COVID,’ and I understood it,” Cudlitz says.

“…You live your whole life in reality every day with the masks in and out…But you don’t necessarily want to come home and see it on your entertainment…And so we are an escape from that.”

However, he adds with a laugh, “I don’t know if it’s the laugh riot you’re looking for tonally!”  

Clarice airs tonight at 10 p.m. ET on CBS.

By Stephen Iervolino
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February 25, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

ABC(NEW YORK) — Zendaya made it known during a recent interview with Vanity Fair that she didn’t appreciate how a certain question was worded.  Before answering, the 24-year-old Euphoria star then offered her own correction before sharing her thoughts.

Sitting down for 35 questions for the publication’s “Hollywood Issue,” Zendaya put on the brakes when asked “What is the quality you like most in a man?”

The Euphoria star instead amended, “What I most like in a person, how about that” before charging straight into her thoughtful response.

Zendaya says the trait she values most is “kindness” before continuing, “Some people are just good people and you can just feel it.”

While Emmy Award-winning actress admitted to having a hard time explaining what she meant, she described, “There’s this little spark they have, or this little special thing that they have, that just you feel safe and happy around them.”

“I don’t know what that is, but some people have it and it’s special,” she concluded.

Of course, the next question then asked, “What is the quality you most like in a woman?”

“Well, I guess that’s the same answer,” Zendaya replied with a smile.

The publication also tried to gain a little insight into the young actress’ love life by asking, “What or who is the greatest love of your life” — to which she diplomatically responded with, “My work, my job.”

“I’m so grateful that I get to do what I love to do,” she continued. “But it doesn’t even feel like a job.”

By Megan Stone
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