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Snoop Dogg Broke Stoners’ Hearts Everywhere By Announcing He’s ‘Giving Up Smoke’

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Snoop Dogg, who is arguably hip-hop’s most famed stoner (no offense to Method Man, Redman, or Wiz Khalifa), has apparently decided to give up smoking weed.

Or at least, that’s what baffled, befuddled, and outright confused fans determined he meant when he posted on his social media channels, “After much consideration & conversation with my family, I’ve decided to give up smoke. Please respect my privacy at this time.”

Considering the random and at times chaotic nature of Snoop’s social media presence, some confusion or skepticism would be warranted. After all, Snoop had previously changed his name to “Snoop Lion” and made a reggae album, and is known for trolling his fans, offering midnight musings, and generally goofing off on Instagram and Twitter. Not to mention, this isn’t the first time he’s “quit” smoking weed, and we all know how long that lasted.

His announcement could also just be set up for a rollout; he has been teasing an album called Missionary — a follow-up to his star-making debut Doggystyle — for some time. Heck, he could just be publicly announcing his advocacy for edibles. But given his request for privacy, it’s probably best to keep speculation to a minimum and let him release details on his own time — and hope that he’s in good health, physical or mental.

In the meantime, let’s all enjoy looking back on some of our favorite Snoop Dogg smoke stories from Ed Sheeran, Rob McElhenny, Matthew McConaughey, Seth Rogen, and Willie Nelson.

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The 1975’s Matty Healy Thinks It’s ‘A F*cking Outrage’ They Didn’t Get A 2024 Grammy Nomination: ‘Are They F*cking Mental?’

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Matty Healy took the stage during The 1975’s second night at Madison Square Garden to share his thoughts about the 2024 Grammy Award nominations. More specifically, the band wasn’t nominated for their recent album, Being Funny In A Foreign Language.

“The fact we didn’t get nominated for a Grammy is a f*cking outrage,” Healy said. “And the reason people don’t say that is ’cause it’s not a very tasteful thing to say. But I’m way past tasteful.”

“Are you f*cking mental?” he continued. “Are they f*cking mental? A Brief Inquiry…, I Like It When You Sleep… — nothing. F*ck off! Dickheads. What the f*ck are they on about?”

Healy then went on to point out in his speech that one of the fan-favorite songs from the album, “About You,” should’ve received a nod as well.

“I mean, ‘About You’ just on its own merits deserves a f*cking Grammy,” Healy added. “I mean, I don’t really care that much but it just winds me up.”

However, it’s not completely gone unacknowledged. The album’s producer, Jack Antonoff, was nominated for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical. The 1975 have also been nominated in previous years, including for Best Rock Song (“Give Yourself A Try”) — so it seems it was just another one of Healy’s on-stage sarcastic moves.

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John Krasinski Immediately Started Trending After That Report About Pedro Pascal In ‘Fantastic Four,’ And People Sure Have Thoughts

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With Marvel Studios apparently eager to move past the box office failure of The Marvels, the highly-anticipated Fantastic Four reboot may have finally locked down a major casting decision. Wednesday evening saw numerous trade reports that Pedro Pascal is in talks for the role of Reed Richards a.k.a. Mister Fantastic.

However, should Pascal take the part — which is not a done deal yet — his portrayal will not be Reed Richards’ first appearance in the MCU. John Krasinski brought a long simmering piece of fan-casting to life by appearing as the classic Marvel character in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Despite the fan reception to Krasinski’s alternate reality version of the Fantastic Four patriarch, the actor has heavily hinted that the cameo was a one-time thing. Krasinsksi has also expressed apprehension to locking himself into the comic book role.

That said, Marvel fans are hoping the studio will change its mind and find a way to bring Krasinski back as Reed Richards. Shortly after the Pascal news broke, Krasinksi began trending on Twitter as fans reacted to the casting decision.

“Huh. I love Pedro, but John Krasinski made a perfect Reed Richards, I thought,” comics legend Gail Simone tweeted.

“Personally we should have got Ioan Gruffudd Reed Richards variant in [Multiverse of Madness] and John Krasinski as the main MCU Mr Fantastic going forward, but that’s just me of course,” Darth Thunder wrote.

“What is Marvel doing? Look at John Krasinski, he’s literally Reed Richard,” Jason wrote.

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Macaulay Culkin’s ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ Appearance Was Greeted With A Lot Of… Thirst

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Famously salty Jeopardy! champ James Holzhauer went on record to declare that he was not impressed by this season’s Celebrity Jeopardy! lineup. Come on, who doesn’t like some Christopher Meloni on their TV screen? I guess he’s not a fan. Lisa Ann Walter (Abbott Elementary), Brian Baumgartner (The Office), and an array of other contestants were lined up, but what really seems to get the people going is some Macaulay Culkin.

You read that correctly. The year is 2023, and people are here for the former Home Alone star and Pizza Underground vocalist/kazooist, and this is probably an overdue move for him. As the show highlighted on Twitter, Mr. @IncredibleCulk has been a clue on Jeopardy! over 40 times.

If you missed the episode, it’s now available to stream on Hulu. As Access Hollywood noted on Twitter, he makes these faces.

Granted, Culkin did not win. He lost to Rachel Dratch, but people were still here for the first Culkin who ever became famous. From remarks like “b*tch he look GOOD! Is he canceled? or can I stare alittle bit?” to “drooling over how healthy and gorgeous Macaulay Culkin is,” the thirst ran rampant.

Mayim Bialik sure is missing out on a lot these days.

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Is Beyoncé Performing At The Sphere In Las Vegas?

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Once upon a time, if an artist was booked to do a residency in Las Vegas, it meant they were getting older, past their prime, or otherwise washed up. Not so, these days.

After hit makers like Adele, Christina Aguilera, and Usher made Las Vegas a hotspot for performers at the heights of their careers, more acts than ever are looking to get in on the action — including, reportedly, Beyoncé.

According to The New York Post, the Las Vegas Sphere owner James Dolan (who also owns Madison Square Garden and the Knicks basketball team) is in talks with the Renaissance singer to have her own residency at the brand-new venue when U2’s own run ends next year.

The Post notes that both Jay-Z, Beyoncé’s husband, and her mom, Tina Knowles, have toured the Sphere, but her team wants $10 million for the residency — the same amount U2 earned for their own 36-date stay. While this would seem to be good for the venue’s operators, because of the upfront payments, they could actually make much less money than they would for a usual concert. The majority of the Sphere’s revenue comes from suite sales and advertising on the LED exterior of the venue, and it’s already lost a little under $100 million since it was completed and opened earlier this year.

Still, a Beyoncé residency would be nothing to shake a stick at, as her fans have already proven they’ll collectively shell out the GDP of a small country to see the Queen live.

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What To Watch: Our Picks For The TV Shows And Movies We Think You Should Stream This Week

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Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.

20. The Golden Bachelor (Hulu)

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What we have on our hands here is a Bachelor spinoff about an older gentleman looking for love from a group of similarly aged ladies. Which is… honestly kind of adorable. Good for them. And good for us, too, especially if one of the episodes features a date where they eat dinner at a diner at 4:45 and then go watch an episode of Columbo in matching recliners. This was written as a joke but honestly sounds kind of wonderful. That’s true love right there, people.

Watch it on Hulu

19. Invincible (Amazon)

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Robert Kirkman’s other most beloved comic book series proved that Amazon really is doing superheroes and supervillains better than anyone else right now. When this round of episodes begins, Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) will need to fully reckon with the implications of that climactic fight in the sky with his dad, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons). Additionally, his love life will receive new wrinkles, and Walton Goggins will be back, meaning that the man who would be Boyd Crowder again is achieving TV supremacy with every passing year. New characters shall be portrayed by Ben Schwartz and Tatiana Maslany.

Watch it on Amazon

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18. Living for the Dead (Hulu)

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Kristen Stewart’s gay ghost hunting show has everything: slayances, spook-kikis, haunted strip clubs, and comedian Roz Hernandez snacking on donuts while she yells at homophobic poltergeists. The group – a hodgepodge of paranormal experts that includes a psychic, a witch, and a tarot card reader – road trips across the country in this docuseries produced by the Queer Eye creators, chatting it up with demonic entities and benevolent spooks to get to the root of some very real, very human problems. If there’s a better way to spend your weekend than watching a group of well-dressed Queer spiritualists commune with the dead while cracking jokes and busting stereotypes, we don’t want to know about it.

Watch it on Hulu

17. Quiz Lady (Hulu)

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The important stuff here:

— This movie stars Sandra Oh and Awkwafina and Will Ferrell, which is a good start

— This is the official summary: “Anne and her estranged train-wreck of a sister, Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother’s gambling debts. When Anne’s beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild cross-country trek to get the cash.”

Yes, this will do just fine.

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16. Rick and Morty (Adult Swim)

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Rick and Morty used to take notoriously long breaks between seasons, but not this time. Season seven of the animated sci-fi comedy series returns less than a year after the season six finale. There have been big changes behind the scenes, however: co-creator Justin Roiland, who also voiced the title characters, was fired from the show. Tricky line to straddle going forward, but the show has rarely let us down before.

Watch it on Adult Swim

15. Rap Sh!t (Max)

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Rap Sh!t has returned for a second season which means there is a new batch of episodes that follow the consistently entertaining lives of Shawna and Mia as they rise up the ranks in Miami’s rap scene. Season one of the Issa Rae-led series was all about establishing their rap careers, and now in season two, the duo looks to take things beyond South Beach. With new heights come new struggles as Shawna and Mia will have their integrity tested over and over again in exchange for quick success. Through it all, you can expect to laugh and cheer on the duo all while enjoying the show’s stellar soundtrack which features appearances from real-life hip-hop stars and up-and-coming acts who fit the show’s aesthetic.

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14. Rustin (Netflix)

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Rustin is all of the following things:

— A biopic of Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin, who helped MLK organize the 1963 March on Washington but whose efforts were minimized at the time and therefore largely forgotten since because he was openly gay at a time when that was not convenient for public figures

— From Higher Ground, the production company helmed by Barack and Michelle Obama

— Loaded with talent like Colman Domingo and Chris Rock and Jeffrey Wright and Audra McDonald

Learn something cool this week. Check it out.

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13. Pain Hustlers (Netflix)

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Emily Blunt portrays a down-on-her-luck single mom who launches a new career alongside Chris Evans’ pharmaceutical sales rep. Not a great idea, ultimately, given that she becomes involved in a racketeering scheme. And of course, she begins to realize that this company’s success is coming at a ghastly price for humanity. This is a dramatized version of the rise and fall of Insys Therapeutics, which no longer exists, and yeah, you will definitely find out why.

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12. Fingernails (Apple TV)

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Apple TV+’s Fingernails turns love into an equation that can only be solved by, you guessed it, AI. Jessie Buckley plays Anna, a woman in a long term, algorithmically-sound relationship with Ryan (The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White) that’s been verified and sterilized by something called The Love Test – a machine that demands a couple’s fingernails in order to qualify their relationship’s percentage of success. When Anna meets her new co-worker Amir (Riz Ahmed), numbers give way to actual chemistry, causing her to doubt everything she thought she knew about love. It’s probably the most interesting soft-fi romance drama you’ll see this year.

Watch it on Apple TV Plus

11. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix)

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Nearly every actor from the original, cult-favorite Scott Pilgrim film is back for this anime-inspired Netflix series that also functions as a clever remix. Is it as good as the actual run of sequels we should have been given over the last 15 years? Noting could be, but it comes close, leaning on its all-world voice cast and the very specific charm that drove the film and Bryan Lee O’Malley’s original graphic novels.

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10. Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (Peacock)

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The blurring of the barrier between comedy and drama has been good for all of us, but occasionally we just need someone to throw a bunch of weird, wild, crap at the screen without there needing to be a message or a point. Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain (a film about some 20somethings getting lost in the woods while hunting for treasure), feels like exactly that kind of film, leaning toward comedy chaos with the Please Don’t Destroy comedy trio (of SNL digital short fame), Bowen Yang, Meg Statler, and late night comedy GOAT Conan O’Brien.

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9. Lawmen: Bass Reeves (Paramount Plus)

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Taylor Sheridan currently has 6666 in the works on the Yellowstone side, but first, he’s taking viewers back to the real Old West. David Oyelowo portrays the legendary Black U.S. Deputy Marshal. This series will harken back to the Post-Reconstruction era, in which Bass Reeves became a notorious frontier hero by capturing thousands of the most frightening criminals in the land. Oyelowo will be accompanied by Dennis Quaid, Garrett Hedlund, and Donald Sutherland.

Watch it on Paramount Plus

8. Big Mouth (Netflix)

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The seventh season of Big Mouth ties Orange is the New Black and Grace and Frankie as Netflix’s longest-running scripted series (it will break the record in its eighth and final season). Not bad for an animated show about horny teenagers and hormone monsters. Guest stars this season include Megan Thee Stallion, Lupita Nyong’o, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda as a pubic hair. Good show.

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7. Monarch: A Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters stars Kurt Russell and Godzilla and… are you already sold? You should be. The first live-action TV show in the MonsterVerse — which also includes Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla vs. Kong — makes you care as much about the humans, including Kurt and his son Wyatt, as Godzilla and his “Titan” friends. In an up-and-down year for genre shows, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is a highlight.

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6. The Curse (Paramount Plus)

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There are cringe comedies and then there’s Showtime’s The Curse, a limited series about a married pair of alt-HGTV home flippers gentrifying their New Mexico neighborhood via eco-friendly monstrosities and calling it philanthropy. Created by two masters of squirm – Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder – the show is a voyeuristic exercise that tests fans’ capacity for second-hand embarrassment as its main characters, the affluent Asher (Fielder) and Whitney (a shockingly unlikable Emma Stone) bulldoze the soul of their small, impoverished community with just a few reality TV cameras and a staggering amount of white privilege. It’s the best, most uncomfortable TV show you’ll watch this year.

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5. The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)

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Mike Flanagan fans, get ready. The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass showrunner is back along with Carla Gugino, who will spook your soul right out of your bod and deliver a “consequential” evening to “a collection of stunted hearts” that is the Usher family. Yikes. Do not expect a literal adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story. The story focuses here on the hell created by ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher, who built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power. Horrible secrets shall surface when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman, portrayed with glee by Gugino.

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4. For All Mankind (Apple TV)

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Somehow, Joel Kinnaman has now been physically transformed to barely look like Joel Kinnaman while still starring in this alternate-history space-race series, and in the year 2003, the Earth’s nations are competing like hell to capture and mine asteroids full of precious minerals. That doesn’t sound ominous at all, and of course, there’s still plenty of beefing between nations after Happy Valley has grown in size on Mars’ surface.

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3. A Murder at the End of the World (Hulu)

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There’s some Glass Onion flavor to this mystery series that follows Darby (Emma Corrin) accepting an invitation to visit a reclusive billionaire with an assortment of other guests. One of the lucky participants will be not-so-lucky and end up dead, and at that point, Darby must use her amateur-sleuth abilities (including hacking and being a typically astute Gen Z-er) to solve the case before anyone else ends up dead. Along with Corrin (The Crown), this show also stars Harris Dickinson of the upcoming The Iron Claw and Clive Owen, who is already so many projects and yet who should be in more.

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2. The Killer (Netflix)

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David Fincher — director of movies like Fight Club and The Social Network — is back with another uplifting tale about a well-adjusted dude. From the official description: “Solitary, cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, a killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. Yet, the longer he waits, the more he thinks he’s losing his mind, if not his cool.” Jokes aside, Fincher does these kinds of movies as well as anyone and usually makes them compelling, so give it a go if you want to spend a few hours with a murderous sociopath in the safest possible way.

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1. The Crown (Netflix)

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The final season of this royal soap opera is upon us, and this half-season confronts the royal elephant in the room while finally giving Diana her due during an exploration of her final year of life. Sadly, the world already knows how a car chase between the paparazzi and Diana/Dodi Fayed ended, but the show pulls off these four episodes with stunning grace. So much could have gone wrong here with the recounting and dramatization of tragic events that shook the world, but Netflix does the thing here. Not an easy feat for sure.

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Dolly Parton Thinks There Have Been ‘Enough Boobs In The White House’ Without Her Running For President

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33For decades, fans have loved Dolly Parton, both for her great country hits and her outspoken attitude. It’s for this reason that some have wondered if she’d ever try running for President, given she is a pretty unifying figure.

During a new interview with Metro tied to her album Rockstar, Parton was posed with the question of whether she’d consider heading for the White House. The topic started given that Parton’s “World On Fire” single found her upset with the current politicians.

“No,” she said. “I don’t think anybody could actually do a great job at that. I think we’ve had enough ‘boobs’ in the White House.”

“I would have no interest in politics,” she added. “I try to do my thing through my songs, through the way I accept people, and the way I try to make a difference. I’m not smart enough to be in politics, or maybe I’m too smart.”

Parton also made it clear that she is not at all qualified for politics, as she continued to point out that her job is to melt hearts and inspire change through music.

“Either way, I’m not qualified for that type of a job,” she shared. “But I’m pretty qualified to do what I do, which is to point people in the right direction, to write about it in songs or speak about things.”

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With ‘Saltburn,’ Director Emerald Fennell Wants To Be A Villain

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Emerald Fennell isn’t having any of that talk about any kind of pressure to deliver with her second film, Saltburn. She says the standards she sets for herself are so far and beyond what anyone could come up with anyway. Though, not a lot of filmmakers had the success she did with her first movie, Promising Young Woman. It’s hard to judge based on box office since it was a 2020 release, but it does seem like a movie everyone has now seen. And then there are the accolades, which include an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and an Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay. It might not get to her standards, but there is certainly anticipation for a second film.

With Saltburn, set in 2006, Fennell introduces us to Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan, who is fantastic). At first, Oliver seems nice enough (this becomes an interesting point of contention in the interview ahead), but does tell some untruths to win the friendship and affection of his Oxford classmate Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). Over break Felix invites Oliver to spend time at his parents’ estate, Saltburn, where Oliver’s deceptions, let’s say, start to escalate. Though, there’s one pretty amazing scene where Keoghan’s Oliver Quick dances fully naked throughout Saltburn and looks like he’s having the time of his life.

But is Oliver Quick nice at first? Or is he just vulnerable, which makes him seem nice? Is Emerald Fennell nice? Or does she want to be the villain? Let’s find out.

I remember being at the premiere of Promising Young Woman at Sundance in 2020. When you introduced the movie I remember thinking, “Well she seems nice,” not knowing yet what that movie would be or the the kind of movies you’d be unleashing onto the world.

Yeah, but isn’t it really an important part of the process that I seem really nice?

But I’m under the impression you are nice. I’ve never heard a bad word about you.

Well, I spend a great deal of my time making people think that I’m nice.

I see.

I mean, look, no, it’s interesting for you to say because I think that’s so much about everything that I’m interested in, is how slippery all that is.

Slippery is a good word.

And how much of what we do is presenting ourselves in a certain way. I mean, look, to be honest, I am quite nice, which is actually very boring. I do try to be a reasonably decent person. But everything that I like to do is to sort of … the weaponized charm of the captains is not something I’m unfamiliar with.

I mean, to your point, Oliver Quick seems nice too, at first.

Does he?

Kind of.

But does he? Does he seem nice?

Well…

Or does he seem vulnerable?

Well, that’s interesting because I think vulnerability can create a sense that they are nice.

Sure. But he’s not nice.

He’s not nice. No, he’s not. I read him wrong. I was off base on him. He is not nice.

But what I mean is that isn’t it all a question of framing? Because, actually, the first moment we meet him, we know he’s a liar.

Sure, but…

We know he’s probably not nice from that opening moment of the movie. And then, actually, what we are shown is not him, but other people’s reaction to him. He himself is always a kind of an enigmatic presence-

But we do feel for him though, at first.

Totally, we feel for him. Absolutely.

Because we’ve all been in those positions where we want to be liked. And maybe you say something that’s not 100 percent true to get someone to like you.

Oh, a thousand percent. I suppose the thing is that it’s always really interesting, it’s always about why we give people a sort of moral judgment. But, actually, it’s interestingly not necessarily based on fact. But that’s why I hope, it’s why it’s so fun making the movie is all the things – it’s like we think of Felix as being really nice, such a nice guy, when actually in every scene he does something really shitty. From genetic or spoiled or capricious … or racist. But we leave thinking he’s nice. So yeah, I mean, that’s the fun of it, really.

I don’t know how much you think about this, but you’re in a really interesting position because very few people have the success that you had with your first movie. And now Saltburn is only your second feature film but there are expectations.

No, because I also have the highest possible standards, making it excruciatingly difficult. I myself am only interested in making the best possible thing. So, the external expectation is nothing compared to the excruciating nightmare-ish burning kind of self-motivation that I have. So, I think really early on, the response from Promising Young Woman was so incredible. It was so out of all context. It was just incredible that really quite early on, I sort of had to just say, “I can only just make the things I want to make.” And if people like them, that’s incredible. And if they don’t, there’s nothing I can do about that. I can only really try and make something that I believe is really, really good and that I really like. Otherwise, I think you just drive yourself completely mad.

You’ve mentioned seeing Barry Keoghan in The Killing of a Sacred Deer and knowing you wanted to work with him. He’s really terrific in this. He reminds me of a young Dustin Hoffman in this.

Interesting. I think he’s a kind of Robert Mitchum to me.

Oh, that’s interesting.

He’s got that kind of charisma, which is unmatched. It’s unmatched. He is an unprecedented person. It’s not just of our time, but I think of any time. I’ve never really seen anyone like Barry. I like to go in really, really, really close – love the closest closeups. And I’ve never … Barry is exactly what I always wanted Oliver to be, which was somebody that we can try and get inside and we will never, ever know, the closer you get.

Well, he seems fearless. I don’t think it’s giving anything away to say he does a very interesting dance at one point in this movie. I don’t think a lot of actors would do that.

I think that’s the thing about this movie – and the whole cast, honestly, and the whole crew – it’s we were all dedicated. We all wanted to make the thing that provokes a physical response as much as an emotional or intellectual one. This movie is a physical experience, I think. And Barry is one of the greatest physical actors. All of them are. That’s why I loved working with him so much, we are just, both of us, determined to jump off a cliff, even if it means we end up smashed on the rocks on the bottom. Or even if that is, in fact, the most interesting outcome: to be smashed up on the rocks. That’s what we want. And so, working with him is so thrilling because we’re always pushing each other to be more interesting, more difficult, more complicated, more excruciating. All of that stuff.

Saltburn is set in 2006. So no iPhones or real social media. If it were set today someone would put on Instagram that this Oliver Quick guy was acting weird.

But think about catfishing today. Think about how slippery all of our identities are now.

Oh yeah, that’s true.

Because I actually thought so much about this film. I’ve been thinking about Saltburn for seven or eight years now, but it makes total sense to me that it was written during COVID, where there was never a time that we were more voyeuristic. And more obsessively looking at other people’s lives and more incapable of touching. We were forbidden from touching each other. Fluid was terrifying. We were bleaching our groceries. And so, this is just honestly a film about looking at people and not being able to touch them. But at the same time, everyone is engaged profoundly in what Oliver is engaged in now.

No, that kind of just hit me. I was in New York City during COVID and it was obviously pretty bad. And I think that’s why this movie hit me the way it did. And I didn’t realize that until you just said that, but that makes perfect sense.

Yeah, sort of longing to touch and what happens when you can’t touch the thing you want to touch, what that does to you. It makes you completely insane.

And you know what? Despite what you were trying to convince me, I do think you’re nice.

Oh, good. No, I am nice, unfortunately. It’s really boring. But I am nice. I wish I was a villain! I’m not.

‘Saltburn’ opens in select theaters this weekend. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.

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Will André 3000’s ‘New Blue Sun’ Album Be On Apple Music?

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André 3000’s last album release of any kind was Outkast’s Idlewild in 2006, and that will finally change on Friday, November 17. Earlier this week, André 3000 (real name André Benjamin) confirmed his New Blue Sun project in an interview with NPR Music. The album is billed as an instrumental record.

“I’ve been interested in winds for a long time, so it was just a natural progression for me to go into flutes,” André 3000 said in a statement. “I just like messing with instruments, and I gravitated mostly toward wind.”

According to Sony’s pre-save link, New Blue Sun will be available on Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Spotify.

Check out the artwork and tracklist below.

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1. “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time”
2. “The Slang Word P(*)ssy Rolls Off The Tongue With Far Better Ease Than The Proper Word Vagina. Do You Agree?”
3. “That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh¥t Was Wild”
4. “BuyPoloDisorder’s Daughter Wears A 3000™ Button Down Embroidered”
5. “Ninety Three ‘Til Infinity And Beyoncé”
6. “Ghandi, Dalai Lama, Your Lord & Savior J.C. / Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, And John Wayne Gacy”
7. “Ants To You, Gods To Who?”
8. “Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens”

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Jimmy Kimmel Weighed Those Trump And Hitler Comparisons In A Brutally Backhanded Way

Jimmy Kimmel sort of came to Donald Trump‘s defense after the former president was accused of using Nazi terminology. Although, by the time the late night host was done, Trump was more roasted than vindicated. Kimmel’s backhanded argument that the former president isn’t copying Hitler came while addressing Joe Biden‘s reaction to Trump’s increasingly antisemitic rhetoric.

“Biden, last night, weighed in on the furor over recent comments by Donald Trump vowing to root out what he called the ‘vermin’ in our country, which is everyone who opposes him,” Kimmel quipped. “Joe pointed out that vermin is a specific word with a specific meaning that echoes the language of Nazi Germany.”

Kimmel, however, isn’t fully convinced that Trump is like Hitler, and the late night host offered a pretty compelling case.

“I know a lot of people have been comparing Trump to Hitler lately, but there are some major differences between them,” Kimmel said. “For instance, Hitler was married to a woman who who loved him.”

After landing the zinger, Kimmel laid out his brutal argument for what he thinks Trump is really doing.

“I get why people believe Trump is intentionally using words that Nazis used. I just don’t agree that he is,” Kimmel said before dropping his thesis. “In order to know what words the Nazis used, you’d have to read, OK? You’d have to have some basic knowledge of history. Trump thinks Frederick Douglas is alive and doing an amazing job. He thinks Lincoln invented the Town Car, OK? He isn’t echoing Nazi terminology. He’s coming up with it all on his own. And you have to give credit where credit is due.”

(Via Jimmy Kimmel! Live on YouTube)