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Displaying all articles tagged:
Real Talk
real talk
Nov. 6, 2019
Lady Gaga Says She Sees ‘a Lot of Pain’ When She Looks at Her Oscar
“I kept going.”
By
Zoe Haylock
real talk
Oct. 28, 2019
Selena Gomez Loves Taylor Swift So Much It Moves Her to Tears
“She was sad when I was sad.”
By
Jordan Crucchiola
real talk
Aug. 6, 2019
An Interview With the Iron Giant About Where He’s Been All These Years
We haven’t seen the star of
The Iron Giant
since 1999. In this exclusive interview, find out where he was before his
Ready Player One
cameo.
By
Jesse David Fox
real talk
May 10, 2019
The
Game of Thrones
Coffee Cup Breaks Her Silence
An interview with the Westerosi craft services cup that’s caused all this commotion.
By
Hunter Harris
movies
Sept. 26, 2018
Night School
Director Malcolm D. Lee Is Making an Old School Hip-Hop Comedy
The
Girls Trip
director is teaming up with a writer from
Empire
.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
real talk
Aug. 9, 2017
Dan Harmon Admits
Community
Died When Donald Glover Left
Troy and Abed in the afterlife.
By
E. Alex Jung
real talk
June 14, 2017
Elizabeth Banks Is Wrong About Steven Spielberg, But She’s Also Not That Wrong
Banks on the lack of female leads in Spielberg movies: “I don’t mean to call your ass out but it’s true.”
By
Jordan Crucchiola
real talk
Feb. 18, 2016
Adele Cried All Day After Her Grammys Performance; Don’t Cry, Adele!
“I kept spontaneously bursting into tears.”
By
E. Alex Jung
real talk
Jan. 11, 2016
Watch: Bowie Criticizes Racism at MTV in 1983
“There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I’m surprised aren’t being used on MTV.”
By
Ira Madison III
real talk
Nov. 11, 2015
Winslet: Talking of Gender Pay Gap Is ‘Vulgar’
“I find all this quite uncomfortable.”
By
E. Alex Jung
real talk
May 5, 2015
Noel Gallagher Thinks Zayn Is an ‘Idiot’ for Quitting One Direction
“Who wants to be a normal 22-year-old?”
By
E. Alex Jung
real talk
May 1, 2015
Robert Downey Jr. Doesn’t Want to Star in Your Crappy Indie Film
“They’re exhausting, and sometimes they suck.”
By
E. Alex Jung
real talk
Jan. 24, 2015
Bill Maher Thinks the
American Sniper
Is More Like a ‘Psychopath Patriot’
Maher doesn’t think Chris Kyle is very Christian.
By
E. Alex Jung
invasion!
Nov. 16, 2014
The Paparazzi Make Jennifer Lawrence Feel ‘Scared’ Every Single Day
“I feel anxiety every time I open my front door.”
By
E. Alex Jung
real talk
Oct. 25, 2014
Jenni Konner on ‘Horrible’ Women and Viola Davis
“I’m in!”
By
Marcus Jones
Oct. 13, 2014
John Cleese Is Done Making Movies, ‘Looking Forward’ to Death
The 74-year-old actor says he’s “only got five or six years left.”
By
Nate Jones
this thing looks like that thing
Oct. 13, 2014
Did Burger King Rip Off Billy Eichner?
The comedian accused Burger King of stealing his schtick for a chicken-nugget commercial.
By
Nate Jones
real talk
Oct. 12, 2014
Transparent
Launches ‘Trans-Affirmative Action’
Jenji Kohan and Jill Soloway disagreed about a few things at a Saturday New Yorker Festival panel.
By
Vicky Gan
real talk
Oct. 12, 2014
Mindy Kaling Talks About the ‘I Slipped’ Scene
Thankfully she didn’t have to talk about it with her dad.
By
Kylie Gilbert
real talk
Oct. 11, 2014
Marvel Editor Sana Amanat:
Ms. Marvel
Is ‘an Anthem Against Hate’
Intersectionality was a big theme.
By
E. Alex Jung
real talk
Oct. 11, 2014
Lena Dunham on How Amanda Bynes Is Like Hannah Horvath
She also wants to adapt
Catherine, Called Birdy
into a movie.
By
Samuel Anderson
real talk
Sept. 14, 2014
Martha Stewart Thinks Gwyneth Paltrow Should Stop Trying to Be Martha Stewart
She also thinks that
Orange is the New Black
’s Taylor Schilling was miscast.
By
E. Alex Jung
real talk
July 13, 2014
Soloway Talks About Writing Female Characters
The
Transparent
director on imagining “women who are facing true challenges.”
By
Denise Martin
real talk
Mar. 11, 2014
Lily Allen Is Not Too Fond of Her New Music
“The labels and the radio stations won’t play the better stuff.”
By
Amanda Dobbins
real talk
Oct. 18, 2012
Michael Bay Is Sick of Grumbling
Transformers
Actors
“I have a wonderful idea for all those whiners.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Sept. 24, 2012
Nikki Finke Has Some Thoughts on Women in Comedy
“Beautiful actresses are not funny. They don’t know how to do comedy.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Sept. 18, 2012
Ellen Pompeo Agrees That
Grey’s Anatomy
Is Crazy
“That’s a difficult thing to believe when I’m playing it, but I’m just a paid employee who has to do what they say.”
By
Margaret Lyons
real talk
Aug. 27, 2012
Shia LaBeouf Really Dropped Acid for His Next Movie
“Sometimes it does get real. Too real.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Aug. 15, 2012
David Cronenberg Doesn’t Love
Dark Knight Rises
So Much
“It’s for kids.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Aug. 15, 2012
Things May Still Be Awkward Between Shia LaBeouf and Steven Spielberg
The actor used to think of Spielberg as a “sensei.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Aug. 6, 2012
Paul Verhoeven Not As Sex-Obsessed As You Thought
“In my opinion, having sex with a woman is not much different than having a coffee with a woman.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
July 30, 2012
Courtney Love to Lana Del Rey: ‘Think About My Vagina’
Valuable advice.
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
July 26, 2012
Why Keira Knightley Went Indie
“I became aware of how much I was complaining about [fame].”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
July 25, 2012
Why Spielberg Cast Wayne Knight in
Jurassic Park
It’s an amusing,
Basic Instinct–
related anecdote.
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
July 23, 2012
Why Woody Allen Rarely Casts Woody Allen These Days
“You can imagine how frustrating it is when I do these movies with Scarlett Johansson and Naomi Watts and the other guys get them.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
June 5, 2012
David Simon Enjoyed the
Wire
Musical
“Someone hand me a burner and Sondheim’s number.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
May 9, 2012
Robert Pattinson Is Older, Wiser, and Thicker
“This year they won’t even notice me: ‘We don’t care, he’s not in
The Hunger Games
!’”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Apr. 30, 2012
The Wanted Were Not Allowed to Look at Britney Spears
First their Christina Aguilera burn, now this.
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Apr. 27, 2012
Which Episodes Do TV Showrunners Regret?
Damon Lindelof, Shonda Rhimes, and Bill Lawrence indulge in some real talk.
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Apr. 26, 2012
Now Benedict Cumberbatch Is Harshing on
Downton Abbey
Season Two
“I thought the first series was good. That’s what I’ll say.”
By
Amanda Dobbins
real talk
Apr. 6, 2012
Universal Chief Prefers Watching 2-D Movies to 3-D
“I don’t like wearing the glasses over my glasses.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Apr. 5, 2012
Billy Zane Is Totally Cool With ‘My Heart Will Go On’
“It’s not annoying, it’s endearing.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Apr. 3, 2012
January Jones: Sally Draper Will Grow Up to Be Anna Wintour
“She’ll probably be fine.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Apr. 3, 2012
Claire Danes Has Also Noticed Some Changes in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appearance
She and Winslet agree.
By
Amanda Dobbins
real talk
Apr. 2, 2012
Kate Winslet: ‘Leo’s Fatter, I’m Thinner’
Kate continues her
Titanic
publicity tour of real talk.
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Mar. 30, 2012
‘My Heart Will Go On’ Makes Kate Winslet Want to Puke a Little
Harsh.
By
Amanda Dobbins
real talk
Mar. 28, 2012
WWE Superstar Very Upset About Chuck and Blair From
Gossip Girl
John Cena has some strong thoughts.
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Mar. 28, 2012
Chris Klein Explains His ‘Dreadful’
Mamma Mia
Audition
“I can’t sing!”
By
Kyle Buchanan
Nov. 28, 2011
Terry Gilliam Was Not a Fan of
Transformers
“People can slide down the side of a building that’s falling and they don’t get ripped to shreds?”
By
Kyle Buchanan
real talk
Nov. 22, 2011
The Roots Did Not Pick the Nicest Walk-On Song for Michele Bachmann
Not at all.
By
Amanda Dobbins
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