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A new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever deleted scene has been released ahead of its digital release and streaming debut on Disney+.
The scene, which is called “Daughter of the Border,” shows Danai Gurira’s Okoye as she converses with her uncle played by Danny Sapani. In it, Okoye is told she should become queen of Wakanda on behalf of the water tribe.
Check out the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever deleted scene:
Ryan Coogler directed Black Panther: Wakanda Forever from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joe Robert Cole. It is produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore, with Victoria Alonso, Louis D’Esposito, and Barry Waldman serving as executive producers.
“In the film, Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death,” reads the synopsis. “As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.”
It stars several returning cast members from the first movie including Letitia Wright as Shuri, Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Angela Bassett as Ramonda, Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross, Winston Duke as M’Baku, and Florence Kasumba as Ayo. Joining them were franchise newcomers Tenoch Huerta (Narcos: Mexico) as Namor, Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You) as Aneka, Mabel Cadena as Namora, and Alex Livinalli as Attuma.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Teen Wolf: The Movie
From alpha to omega.
Teen Wolf: The Movie marked the much-anticipated return of the MTV series more than five years after it went off the air. But unfortunately, not every member of the pack survived the reunion.
While many characters experienced temporary fake out death scenes in the Paramount+ movie, a few really are dead and buried—the most notable, of course, being Tyler Hoechlin's Derek. The death scene hit particularly hard for the actor behind the series' main character, Scott.
"It's super emotional. Tyler Hoechlin is somebody that I really love and as much as I am an actor and I know that there's separateness from our characters and our human selves, it's emotional reading that," Tyler Posey exclusively told E! News ahead of the Jan. 26 premiere. "Plus, I've grown to love Derek over the years. It redeemed Derek from any bad quality, any grumpy cat quality that he had over the past 12 years."
But the actor noted it was a story decision that made a lot of sense practically.
"I think it's something that's necessary for us to have in terms of storytelling," he continued. "We as humans deal with loss of a loved one constantly, and the fans have dealt with that over the years. It's another way that we can be relatable to the fans and to anybody watching. I think it's beautiful the way that we did it. He turns into a true alpha right before he dies, his eyes glow red and it's just chills."
While Posey and Hoechlin shared the screen together often during Teen Wolf's six season run from 2011 to 2017, their co-star Holland Roden had a slightly different perspective on the latter's demise.
"It's like when a friend of a friend passes away and you really feel for the friend, but even the few interactions we had in Beacon Hills [on the] OG show, we really didn't know each other. It was like our friends knew each other," the actress, who plays Lydia, explained candidly. "So, when he passes, it's something that's obviously important to Beacon Hills and what he's done to keep Beacon Hills safe, so I think there's that connection. But there's not a guttural, personal connection [for Lydia], like for instance, [the death of] Allison."
However, Teen Wolf: The Movie reunited Lydia and Allison, as Crystal Reed returned nearly a decade after leaving the series in season three. And with a character who had previously been considered dead for good, she had a unique take on what the future could possibly hold for Derek, since she suffered a similar fate herself. As Reed put it, "Turns out, [in] Teen Wolf land, no one is really dead."
Meanwhile, Shelley Hennig, who plays Malia, told E! News what excited her about getting the chance to return for the full-length film.
"The fans wanted season seven, we knew we weren't able to do it, but let's give them a very long movie. So, we have a 2.5-hour movie that we're so excited to see," she shared. "There were so many different pairings that had never really been on the show at the same time, so that was really exciting and really cool."
But while Derek's death does seem somewhat final, Posey acknowledged that the ending did leave an opening for more potential stories out of Beacon Hills. He shared, "Hopefully it's not a conclusion, hopefully it opens up the story to keep going more."
"I want to see them handle mundane sort of adult scenarios. Not mundane, just real heavy stuff that we now experience as adults," Posey revealed. "I think it would be really cool for the fans, mostly, to see us sort of run parallel with their lives and still be a very relatable subject matter."
See how it all goes down in Teen Wolf: The Movie, now streaming on Paramount+.
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Dear Amy: Thank you for the comic relief with all of the questions about brides forcing wedding guests to dress a specific way.
Almost 59 years ago, I walked down the aisle to start a life with my hubby. We were in our late teens.
Naysayers thought we were doomed from the start. Even my parents disagreed with my choice to marry. I paid for my own modest church wedding.
Afterward, as I looked at the amateur pictures, I caught a glimpse of the pastor’s wife in hair curlers.
She thought there would be a need for a witness at this “teen marriage.” (The church was full.)
We’re still married, and I still smile at that memory.
My advice is for guests to “come as you are,” and to be supportive.
A Sweet Home Bride
Dear Bride: These goofy questions would be flat-out funny, if they weren’t so oppressively sad.
Dear Amy: My husband and I have been married for 10 years. We each have two grown children from previous marriages.
My children love and accept my husband as family. My husband’s children have never accepted me.
I met their father years after their parents divorced, so I was in no way a cause of their break-up.
An example of their behavior toward me is when they visit for Christmas each year: They bring their father a gift and wish him a merry Christmas, while they completely ignore me.
I am left sitting there in disbelief.
I’ve spoken to my husband about my feelings, but it doesn’t really help. He says his family is dysfunctional.
What should I do?
Simply Hurt
Dear Hurt: Your husband’s astute observation is that his family is dysfunctional. I assume you’re thinking: “That’s right, Einstein.”But an accurate description is not a solution.
Your husband seems to be passively standing by while his children humiliate you — and in your own home. You also seem to have lost your own voice.
His children obviously want to have a relationship with him, so he should convey to them that he won’t tolerate this rudeness toward you. If he had done this at the outset of your relationship, they might have been retrained by now.
You’ve asked what you should do about their behavior.
You have absolutely nothing to lose, and so you might take advantage of this post-holiday period to email both of them and say, “I’ve been married to your father for 10 years. I had no role in the breakup of your parents’ marriage, which happened before he and I met. I regret that I’ve been tolerating your rudeness toward me for a decade. I’d like to have a positive relationship with you, but at the very least I do expect you to be polite toward me when you’re a guest in our home.”
Dear Amy: My 98-year-old father died recently. At the graveside service, our business associate (and family friend) of 45 years would not shake hands with my son’s boyfriend.
My son had to introduce his boyfriend twice before our family friend eventually shook his hand.
I’ve always suspected that he is homophobic, though he has never said anything out loud.
I did not witness the interaction, but I know how disrespected my son felt. It was an added anguish to an already stressful day.
And of course, I am outraged and want to contact the family friend and question him about this blatant bigotry.
He usually seems kind and thoughtful, in all other interactions.
My question to you is how should I respond/deal with a close business associate and family friend who demonstrates behavior that I believe needs to be called out?
I am considering sending an email to him, but would like your advice.
Incensed Mother
Dear Incensed: I can think of a couple of legitimate reasons (aside from homophobia) for why someone might choose not to shake someone else’s hand, but your son obviously interpreted this choice as stemming from homophobia — and you do, too.
If you continue to stew on this, you should contact your friend, tell him what your son has told you, tell him that this is upsetting to you, and ask for an explanation.
He might tell you that he didn’t hear your son’s introduction, or that he is reluctant to shake hands these days for fear of passing along or contracting an illness.
You should accept whatever explanation he has offered, with the understanding that you have already conveyed your distress about this.
You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.
WALTERBORO, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Court is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday for the first day of testimony in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh.
On Wednesday, both legal teams selected a jury and gave opening statements.
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Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife, Maggie, and his youngest son, Paul. The victims were shot to death on the family’s hunting property in Colleton County in 2021.
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COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - In the most recent filing in the highly anticipated Alex Murdaugh murder trial, the presiding judge has ordered all crime scene, autopsy photos and videos into sealed evidence.
The filing, which is a joint motion from the state and defense, seals photos and videos that would graphically depict the victims.
The media can still be offered as evidence by either party as seen by the jury; however, prosecutors will have to describe generally the nature of the photo or video being introduced under the seal.
Signed by Judge Clifton Newman, the one-page document states the reason for this order is to provide a fair trial for both parties and to prevent further emotional distress to the victims’ families.
Any evidence offered or accepted under the seal cannot be copied, reproduced, disseminate photographed, or otherwise made available to the public.
It is possible for the court to later unseal any sealed evidence.
The 54-year-old Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife, Maggie, 52; and their youngest son, Paul, 22; at the family’s rural hunting property on June 7, 2021.
His trial continued Wednesday afternoon with opening statements from the prosecution and defense after 12 jurors and six alternates were selected earlier in the day.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus supports her son's career, even when it means watching uncomfortable scenes.
The Veep alum, 62, visited Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday, where she told the talk show host what it's like watching son Charlie Hall — who is currently on HBO Max's hit series, Sex Lives of College Girls — in sex scenes on the show.
"That's a racy show," Kimmel commented.
"It's a very racy show," the actress, 62, agreed, revealing she had seen him in the series.
"I did watch the show and I think he was, you know, really great," she shared. "He was adorable. He was f------ some girl in the library and I thought it was dynamite."
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The Seinfeld alum shares Charlie, 25, and son Henry, 30, with her husband of over 30 years, Brad Hall.
Earlier in 2020, Hall dipped his toes into the acting pond with a four-part comedic web series, Sorry, Charlie, which he also wrote and directed alongside his friend and former Northwestern University classmate, Jack Price. He later made his film debut in the Amy Poehler-directed movie, Moxie in 2021.
Last month, Charlie joined his mom at the State dinner in Washington D.C., hosted by President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.
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The Bidens welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, for the first State dinner of the administration. The actress and her younger son were two of 400 VIPs who attended the event.
For their evening out, the actress looked chic in a floor-length, black velour gown which she paired with gold accessories and a matching clutch. Charlie kept it classic in a black tuxedo and bowtie.
In sweet photos from the night, Louis-Dreyfus and her son smiled and held hands as they entered the event.
Nata Talikishvili never wanted to be a comedian. With a career that ranges from sex worker to club bouncer, Talikishvili uses her acerbic humour to expose society's hypocrisy, telling true stories that make light of her own difficult experiences as a trans woman in the transphobic culture of Georgia. She turns up to her interview with BBC Culture an hour late, waving a fan coquettishly, and her comic talent oozes out to such an extent that the translator keeps bursting into laughter during our conversation.
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One of the main targets of her stories are the country's Orthodox priests, who according to Talikishvili are both key culprits in whipping up Georgian society's hatred, and at the same time, she jokes, make up a large chunk of her client base. An annual march for family values organised by the Church is one of her busiest working days she says, because so many priests visit Tblisi from the countryside. "I bless them in the morning and then send them to the demonstration," she quips.
Comedian Nata Talikishvili uses her acerbic humour to highlight Georgian hypocrisy (Credit: David Koridze)
In Georgia violent marches against LGBTQ+ people attract tens of thousands on to the streets, and hateful diatribes on TV and social media. According to a recent survey, 84% of Georgians think same-sex relations are always wrong, making it, according to these survey results at least, one of the most homophobic countries in Europe, even more than neighbouring Turkey.
Yet in the Georgian capital Tblisi there is a thriving, tight-knit underground LGBTQ+ scene, spearheaded by techno clubs such as Bassiani but also spreading into cinemas and galleries and onto stages. Georgia's vibrant and hedonistic culture was moulded and repressed by the socially conservative Soviet Union that it became a part of in 1922 until its disbanding in 1991. It is only now that people are reclaiming and reviving this heritage in Georgian culture and art.
When Talikishvili was five, living in a remote Georgian village, she announced to the world that she was a girl. In such a traditional and religious country, it was considered remarkable that her grandparents supported her decision and raised her happily as a girl. But when they died, she had to move to the capital of Tblisi to make a living. Aged just 14, she says she felt she had no option but to start sex work.
Giorgi Kikonishvili founded Tblisi's first LGBTQ+ club night – he says that the city is becoming gradually more open-minded (Credit: Iris-saane van der Aar)
"It was really difficult," she says, dropping her jokey manner for just a moment. Many landlords refuse to rent to trans people, she explains, and so a lot are forced to live on the street. There was even a lot of division among the trans sex workers. "Back then it was wild, everyone was against each other. I was just trying to survive." And though the red light district was far from safe, it was also the only place Talikishvil could express herself as a woman.
On the street, things are now much safer for LGBTQ+ people in Georgia, but much of the public debate takes place on Facebook. Someone will share a transphobic video saying that they will kill trans people and threatening their lives, says Talikishvi, then she will comment and post a screenshot of them asking her for sex. "The videos usually disappear afterwards," she notes wryly. "These men [clients] are not from an alien planet, they are part of Georgian society."
Alongside sex work, Talikishvili worked for years as a club bouncer, earning just 60 lari (the equivalent of about £20) for a whole night shift, which could last until 11am. "I did it to show the people who would come that there is nothing scary about being trans. I did it as [a kind of] activism. Even inside the queer community, and queer groups on social media, there was a lot of transphobia before. The community has to overcome [that] because if even the queer community can't then who can."
One evening while working as a bouncer at a club, she went inside to see some friends and started chatting and gossiping. A crowd gathered organically, listening to her tales. The club's owner went looking for Talikishvili, and when she saw the throng of people around her, she knew that she had to get Talikishvili on stage. She is now performing fortnightly. That club was Bassiani, a hub for Tblisi's underground scene.
"Our original goal was not just a techno club," says Giorgi Kikonishvili, founder of Georgia's first LGBTQ+ event, Horoom Nights at Bassiani, which started in 2016, "but a kind of underground base for all sorts of social movements in Georgia… those of queers, women, the left, the green movement. So the DNA of the club is not just music and techno, we see the club as a political place."
Though named after an all-male Georgian martial dance, Khorumi, the nights, soundtracked by house and techno, wouldn't be out of place in Berlin. Kikonishvili tells BBC Culture he was inspired by a huge homophobic counter-demonstration in 2013, when 20,000 protesters trapped him and about 30 other activists in a bus. "I knew at that moment I had to emigrate or change my country." He opted for the latter, launching an array of cultural and political projects. "Half of Georgian society now thinks gay people should be allowed to protest publicly," he says. "Ten years ago we could have fitted all the people who thought that in this room."
Bar owner and drag-show director Nia Gvatua is a central figure in Tblisi's thriving LGBTQ+ scene (Credit: James Jackson)
During the day, Kikonishvili works with artist and activist Tekla Tevdorashvili and others at the Fungus Gallery, an LGBTQ+ art collective and gallery in a quiet corner of Tblisi that invites artists from across the Caucasus region. Tevdorashvili says it is hard to understate the importance of club culture in these social changes. "Nightlife changed the whole context of how Georgian society perceives queer people. Clubs were the first place to offer them a safe space, and now the attitude people have in the clubs is shifting to daylight."
Another hotspot for Tblisi nightlife is Success bar, the only gay bar in the entire Caucasus. Its owner Nia Gvatua initially just wanted to redecorate the somewhat dingy place so that she could make it worth visiting for the local community. Five years ago, after asking around, she was invited to meet with a local businessman, who proceeded to open his safe and gave her $20,000 cash on the spot. She set about transforming the bar into a cultural hub. "When I began, it was more about aesthetics. I was really into electronic music for many years, so when I began, I was more focused on which DJs I wanted to book and what cocktails I wanted to make." A linchpin of the Tblisi LGBTQ+ scene who has shared style tips with Vogue, Gvatua documents the scene with photography, and directs drag shows at Success, Bassiani and other venues.
Resistance and resilience
But Tevdorashvili and others wanted to get involved in more than just clubs, so they set up Fungus, where they recently put on Resilience, a group exhibition of photography and multimedia art dedicated to trans women. Named as such because fungus comes from the dark underground, Fungus's motto is "we thrive wherever we get even a little chance to grow," and it's located next to Clara's bar, where Talikishvili performs fortnightly. Though the reception from the locals was initially awkward, things have warmed up a lot recently, with one man coming recently to tell them "respect from the neighbourhood!".
For Tevdorashvili, this need for safe spaces is all too real. A few years ago she put an art installation up in a public park days before the annual church-organised "day for family purity". The installation was a rainbow-coloured box entitled "Closet", with handwritten notes from the LGBTQ+ community, which played a speech and then the Diana Ross song Coming Out. She had only told a few trusted blogs about it in advance, but it was attacked by a far-right activist within just a few hours of being up. Tevdorashvili recognised him from demonstrations. The police came but they advised against putting the artwork back up. This was a setback, she says, but not a defeat: "What we artists and activists has gone through have only made us stronger."
Kikonishvili agrees. "It's not like homosexuality was invented in Georgia after the breakup of the Soviet Union," he laughs. Though it was briefly made legal after the October revolution, Joseph Stalin (born in Georgia as Iosip Jugashvili) criminalised homosexuality again in 1934, with the strong support of author Maxim Gorky. (The freedom of same-sex sexual activity was not officially enshrined in law in Georgia until 2000, and, of course, despite that legality, social acceptance has been another matter.)
Kikonishvili points to the Berikaoba festival, which he says is celebrated across the country by cross-dressing, drinking and feasting, as well as the popularity of gay Georgian cultural figures like the famed Tblisi-born director Sergei Parajanov and traditional dancer Vakhtang Chabukiani, as evidence of the shallow roots of contemporary homophobia in Georgia. "Chabukiani is the most beloved Georgian dancer ever, and he was gay and everyone knew it." Parajanov, however, was persecuted by the Soviet authorities for his sexuality as much as for his subversive filmmaking.
Sandwiched between Russia and Turkey, with its own alphabet, and a long history of visiting traders from the Silk Road, Georgia was known for scenes of hedonism at its sulphur baths in Tblisi, and has the oldest wine culture (viniculture) in the world.
David Apakidze is an art historian and co-curator of Fungus art collective and gallery (Credit: James Jackson)
David Apakidze, co-curator of Fungus and art historian, agrees. "We are trying to tell the true history of our art. In the Soviet Union a lot of queer artists were hidden. Some art researchers reclaimed them and took their art from archives, but no one says they're queer." Apakidze's book, 100 Years of Georgian Queer Art, is due to come out later this year.
"There are a lot of things that can be reclaimed as queer," says Apakidze. "Theatre and costume designer Petre Otskheli was killed in the 30s by the Soviet regime. Elene Akhvlediani, a famous Georgian painter, was a lesbian woman wearing men's clothes, and no one says she's queer."
Many of the most famous LGBTQ+ Georgian artists today find themselves living outside the country, though they sometimes take their experiences of homophobia with them. Balenciaga's lead designer Demna Gvasalia, recently told New York Times Style "growing up in a country where I couldn't say I was gay, I always tried to look like the kind of tough guy who would survive in the neighbourhoods where I lived. I can't go back to Georgia because people have threatened to kill me if I return… my own uncle is one of them."
Levan Akin's 2019 film, And Then We Danced depicted a gay romance among young dancers at the prestigious Georgian National Ensemble. Like Giorgi Kikonishvili, he too was inspired by the homophobic riot in 2013. By origin Georgian, Akin was a frequent visitor there growing up and speaks the language, but grew up in Sweden, where he still lives now. His film scandalised conservatives in Georgia by combining the national dance with a gay coming-of-age drama, inspiring protests across the country. While filming they had to lie about the film's content because the plot was so controversial.
His new film Passage, which comes out later this year, tells the story of a Georgian woman who travels to Istanbul to find her niece, a trans woman. "The genesis of the idea came when I heard a story while doing research for And Then We Danced about the relative of a trans woman who was the only one standing by her. This made me think of telling a story from the perspective of a family member, showing their journey and growth." He notes that the success of And Then We Danced has made it harder to film surreptitiously this time.
Viewers of the 2019 film may be able to recognise Nata Talikishvili, who plays herself in a cameo role. Akin told BBC Culture that Talikishvili is "a natural actress" as well as "very witty, and candid", and while researching the film he talked with her to learn more about queer life in Tblisi.
Discussing the possibility in the future of joining the many trans people who have left Georgia for asylum in Europe, Talikishvili mentions how she loves Ireland's pub storytelling tradition. When I mention that Ireland is quite a conservative country, she smiles – "that's fine. I am a conservative woman".
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Nothing in this crazy thing called life is perfect.
But when it comes to the worlds and stories thrown onto the big-screen, there have been those few movies that have come very darn close to that sought-after perfection.
Even some of the greatest features ever to grace theatres have found themselves just coming up short of being 100% flawless, with the odd moment of dodgy CGI or one particularly weird narrative detour unfortunately leaving them with one god-awful blemish on an otherwise immaculate film.
Again, these brief faults didn't manage to derail the whole experience of watching these unquestionably brilliant pictures, and haven't stopped fans going back to relive the entire tale on more than a few occasions over the years.
Yet, there's still no arguing with the fact that each and every one of these dreadful cinema moments left an unwanted sour taste in fans' mouths mid-way through what was otherwise a rather sweet and near-perfect affair.
So, from some of the worst fights the gangster genre has ever seen, to the sort of digital effects that leave you giggling for all the wrong reasons, these are those truly horrendous film scenes that popped up in some of the greats.
The de-ageing technology on show throughout Martin Scorsese's 2019 gangster epic The Irishman is up there with some of the best the movie industry has unleashed to date.
However, for every utterly convincing moment of Robert De Niro and co. seemingly being chucked into a time machine while the cameras were rolling, there were those few beats where all the tech in the world couldn't paper over the fact that these were all stars very much in their seventies.
Specifically, the jarring scene that sees De Niro's Frank Sheeran beat the crap out of a shopkeeper for shoving his daughter is enough to take anyone out of the gripping tale.
And while the quick beatdown had clearly been blocked in a way that wouldn't force the septuagenarian to overexert himself, the resulting awkward kicks, stomps, and attempts to stay balanced felt like the equivalent of watching your grandfather attempting to roll back the clock with a VR headset on.
The surreal pavement battering is soon forgot about and it's easy enough to slip right back into the modern classic. But few would argue with this being the absolute worst element of the 209-minute saga.
The Last of Us HBO series was one of the most anticipated projects ever since it was announced and the audience was eagerly waiting for it. Initially, the casting of the series raised some eyebrows. However, it was later well-received by the fans and currently, the death scene of Tess has set the internet on fire.
Interestingly, the HBO series, The Last Of Us has once again proved that when it comes to heartbreaking death scenes, no one can do better than HBO. The cycle started with Game Of Thrones which somewhat mastered the art of killing major characters. The second episode of the ongoing series (The Last of Us) has brought back the memories from the dark past but it’s the kissing scene that took away all the limelight. Scroll below to read why the viral kissing scene is making noise on the internet.
As soon as the death scene of Tess surfaced on the internet, the gross kiss, in the end, went viral. To simply put, Tess’s character was already infected so she stayed back to hold back the zombie fleet while Ellie and Joel went ahead with their mission. As soon as Tess covers herself and the whole Capitol building she was unable to light the lighter. Soon after that, one of the monstrous creatures spots her and the fans get to witness one of the most ‘disgusting’ moments where a zombie pushes its tendrils into Tess’s throat. The scene took the internet by storm and fans have some epic reactions to it.
After witnessing the gross kissing scene in the death scene of The Last of Us surfaced on the internet, fans were quick to respond with memes. While some of the fans said that grossness was unnecessary, some even used their humour to express their disgust. Check out the reactions below:
Shit was so unnecessary. I did not have to see that, they couldve gotten the point across with just an explosion đ
— Jordy (@JordyD127) January 23, 2023
i was okay with the whole kissing scene thing in the last of us episode last night until i heard the commentary on it and now i want to throw up
— ivy ✧.* (@ivylvsdilfs) January 23, 2023
The way Joel didnt even get to kiss Tess meanwhile the infected did I WANT TO SCREAMMM THIS IS EVIL#TheLastOfUs#TheLastOfUsHBO pic.twitter.com/G3Mju4eWyr
— may (@gongjicheoIs) January 23, 2023
#TheLastOfUs is so damn good! i love that they kept the feel of the game.
but that kiss at the end of ep. 2?! that’s nightmare material đ«đ«đ« pic.twitter.com/eCmelMDX4B
— your fav papi đ (@itserok) January 24, 2023
Why did the infected kiss tess? That was fucking dumb and weird #TheLastOfUs #TheLastOfUsHBO
— GraphicWolf (@John72050202) January 24, 2023
*SPOILER ALERT TLOU HBO* Tess kissed a zombie and she… wait too soon? đȘ #TheLastOfUs #TheLastOfUsHBO #HBOMax #HBO #HBOTheLastOfUs #Tess #tessdeath #tlou #TLOUSpoilers #edit #editing #edit #Editor #edits pic.twitter.com/bshxTCoLjg
— DarkKittenz (@DarkKittenz) January 23, 2023
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The River Phoenix Scene That Proves How Truly Great He Was ColliderPARK CITY, Utah — It’s easy to forget that actress Brooke Shields was performing nude scenes in major films at 11 years old.
But the new Hulu documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, reveals the actress was objectified and mistreated by Hollywood and the media in a manner that would be unconscionable today for a kid.
At 15, a director aggressively twisted her limb to get her to make an extreme face during a sex scene; her Calvin Klein jeans ads were called “child sex exploitation” by the papers; and the actress was raped by a filmmaker in LA shortly after she graduated from Princeton.
“Sometimes I’m amazed I survived any of it,” Shields, now 57, said in the doc.
Her modeling career began in New York City in 1966 when she was barely a year old, with her mom Teri Shields acting as her manager. She worked frequently, and was featured in TV and magazine ads for BandAid, Bounce, shampoo products, and many other products. The little girl was the family breadwinner.
One publication called her: “America’s newest sexy kid.”
“I remember thinking, ‘I hope she’s OK,” childhood friend Laura Linney said in the documentary. “She was a young girl in an all-adult world.”
Her big break came in French director Louis Malle’s controversial 1978 film “Pretty Baby,” in which Shields played a 12-year-old New Orleans prostitute when she was 11 — and had to shoot several nude scenes.
In the doc, she calls the movie “a real artistic endeavor,” but still uncomfortably recalled her kiss scene — her actual first kiss — with actor Keith Carradine, who was nearly 30 at the time.
“I’d never kissed anybody before,” she said, adding that Carradine told her, “This doesn’t count. It’s pretend. It’s all make believe.”
“I think I learned how to compartmentalize at an early age,” Shields added. “It was a survival technique.”
Her clothes were off again during 1980’s “Blue Lagoon,” a sex-heavy teen romance film in which her character got hot and heavy with her cousin, played by Christopher Atkins, on a deserted island. Shields was 14 then.
The next year brought one of her worst on-set experiences during shooting of “Endless Love.” Shields, who was a virgin at the time, had to shoot a sex scene with co-star Martin Hewitt. Italian director Franco Zeffirelli was unhappy with her facial expressions, so he got physical with the actress.
“Zeffirelli kept grabbing my toe and twisting it so I had a look of, I guess, ecstasy,” she said. “He was hurting me.”
Shields added: “I really shut down after that.”
(Zeffirielli, who died in 2019, told this same story blithely during a TV interview at the time.)
Escaping the film industry for a while, Shields attended Princeton as an undergrad. But when she graduated, having been absent from Hollywood for four years, she found it impossible to book gigs outside of foreign commercials. So, a friend called her to discuss a project she’d heard he was making.
“We had dinner and I thought it was a work meeting,” she said. “There was to talk about the movie, the part in the movie.”
The man, who Shields does not name, said to come back to his a hotel to call a cab, and then told her to wait in his room.
“The door opens, and the person comes out naked,” she said. “He’s right on me … just like wrestling.
“I didn’t fight that much. I didn’t. I just absolutely froze,” she added of the rape. “I cried all the way to my friend’s apartment.”
Shields had never publicly discussed the alleged attack before this documentary.
Today the actress, who is married to husband Chris Henchy and has two teen daughters, speaks with pride about her career, but also rejects the way she was discussed, behaved toward and looked at in her youth.
“The entirety of my life was always, over and over and over again, ‘she’s a pretty face,’ ‘she’s a sex symbol,’” Shields said. “And that just seared me.”
“Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” his Hulu later this year.
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Rita Moreno is happy to talk about sex.
During the EGOT winner's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live with 80 For Brady costars Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Lily Tomlin Thursday, the group revealed that Field, 76, "doesn't like it" when Moreno discusses sex — leading Moreno, 91, to discuss a scene in the movie in which she "got turned on."
"I simply want to say that my favorite scene in the movie takes place in the locker room where the guys are," Moreno told host Jimmy Kimmel. "You know, [Rob Gronkowski], all these guys."
"I entered the room, and it's a real locker room, and I swear to God, like, in seconds I got turned on," she continued, making Kimmel, 55, and his audience laugh.
"You're saying a room full of naked men excited you for some reason?" Kimmel asked.
"Not only excited me, I kept grabbing myself," she added, this time making her costars laugh too. "I kept saying to myself, 'What is wrong with you? You are 90!' I'm 91 now. ... Then I thought, 'There's nothing wrong with that.' "
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Elsewhere during the talk show appearance, Moreno, who told Kimmel she is a football fan, said their other 80 For Brady costar Tom Brady is "a little old" when the late-night host asked whether she "started touching [herself] all over" upon meeting the NFL superstar.
In November, Moreno told PEOPLE she was stoked to work with her three "fine women" costars on the upcoming film due to "their professionalism and their delicious sense of humor and their ability to improvise."
"What I found most interesting of all was how different we all are from each other. Our very first meeting together at rehearsal was pretty funny since we all seemed to feel obliged to talk about our physical replacements," Moreno joked at the time. "Jane won!"
Brady, 45, had nothing but kind words for Moreno, Fonda, Tomlin and Field as he told PEOPLE last fall, "The opportunity to work alongside these four amazingly talented women has truly been a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
The new movie, which is based on a true story, follows the four actresses as their characters embark on a trip to see Brady play in the 2017 Super Bowl, the year the quarterback (who now plays for Tampa Bay) led the New England Patriots to a victory over the Atlanta Falcons. Brady appears in the movie alongside his former Patriots teammates Gronkowski, Danny Amendola and Julian Edelman.
80 For Brady is in theaters Feb. 3.
During a TCA panel for "Shrinking" attended by /Film's Vanessa Armstrong, Lawrence revealed what Harrison Ford said about Segel's big scene in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." In a text that Segel now apparently has hanging on his wall, Ford said something along the lines of "nice nude body." Of course, those weren't his exact words, but it was specific as Lawrence and Segel were initially willing to get, beyond saying Ford had actually said something else. When questioned again about the specific nomenclature Ford used — inquiring minds want to know! — a few descriptors were thrown about, with Segel seeming to admit that the text said "nice penis."
Since the text in question was sent from Harrison Ford to Jason Segel, we'll probably never know what words were used. And because Ford was on a family vacation, he was not present at the panel to confirm. At least Segel will always have a reminder of the actor's text hanging on his wall. Wouldn't you frame that too?
Lawrence also talked about starting out with Michael J. Fox (in "Spin City") when he was 25, saying the actor was "kind, lovely, and hyper-talented." He discussed how amazing it is to "repeat that experience with an icon from all of my life," calling it "an absolute treat," and describing Ford as "equally generous" and "kind to everybody." When doing reshoots in Lawrence's backyard, he said that the actor was having such a great time that he jokingly asked if they could shoot all of his scenes there. Sounds like the set of "Shrinking" was a fun place to work!
"Shrinking" premieres on Apple TV+ on January 27.
