Earlier this year, Silo star Rebecca Ferguson made quite the candid, public revelation while promoting her role in Dune: Part Two. She discussed a past on-set experience wherein a mystery co-star had berated and humiliated her “in front of the whole crew and say ‘You call yourself an actor? This is what I have to work with? What the f*ck is this?’”
Ferguson also made it clear that she would never work with this person again or tolerate that treatment, and speculation ran rampant on who that insufferable former co-star might be. Very quickly, The Rock defended his “guardian angel” while simultaneously letting the world know that he was not the “absolute idiot” in question. Emily Blunt likewise made clear that she and Rebecca have always been on good terms, and the mystery still swirls.
Tom Cruise certainly doesn’t fit the bill, given that Ferguson has worked with him several times, but this week, Ferguson followed up on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show (via Hollywood Reporter). She had simply enjoyed the question (originally posed on Reign with Josh Smith) that sparked this discussion, and then all post-interview hell broke loose:
“[T]he point of the interview wasn’t about finding the person — of course, people will be interested. But I was excited about the question, which was a very good question by [Josh Smith]. Because the point was: Is there a point in your career where you were treated in a way where you changed your decision on — this is how I formulated it in myself — where you want change, or you will not accept it? And it was such a clear moment for me working with this person.”
Ferguson further revealed how she received panicked phone calls, too, and she reassured these actors that they were not part of this blind item of sorts:
“But I got phone calls from amazing co-stars who I’ve worked with going, ‘You understand what you’ve done, right?!’” she continued. “And I was like, ‘Oh my God. No, I didn’t think.’ I mean, it’s not my responsibility, to be honest. I don’t really care. You know, ‘You’re great, but my story is my story, and if you’re a good person, then don’t worry about it.’”
Now, did Rebecca receive a call from the “idiot” who was actually the subject of this conversation? She didn’t say, but I’m guessing that’s a “no.”
The Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated Nigerian artist announced the album with a trailer. The 56-second video is soundtracked by Tems singing, “Born in the wild, born in the wild / I grew up in the wilderness.” Presumably, it’s the album’s title track.
The news comes less than 24 hours after Tems’ Coachella debut on Sunday, April 14. Her set featured surprise guests Justin Bieber and Wizkid. The trio performed Wizkid’s “Essence” featuring Bieber and Tems, which peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2021. According to setlist.fm, Tems also performed “Me & U” during her set.
Every week, Billboard unveils the top 10 songs on the latest Hot 100 chart. The most recent rankings, for the chart dated April 20, are out now, so let’s run down who had this week’s biggest hits.
10. Noah Kahan — “Stick Season”
Kahan’s hit just had one of its best weeks, returning to the top 10 and matching its previous peak at No. 10.
9. Future, Metro Boomin, Travis Scott, and Playboi Carti — “Type Sh*t”
Future and Metro have been dominating the music landscape lately, and their Travis and Carti collab is one of their two top-10 songs this week.
8. Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)”
Grande’s former No. 1 single still has some life left, jumping up a spot to No. 8 on the latest chart.
7. Jack Harlow — “Lovin On Me”
Speaking of former No. 1 hits, “Lovin On Me” has been in the top 10 for seemingly forever and it doesn’t appear to be in danger of departing the region any time soon.
6. J. Cole — “7 Minute Drill”
J. Cole actually regrets this song, so much so that he took it off of streaming services, but it did well enough to debut at No. 6 on the new Hot 100. As Billboard notes, the song was removed from streaming on April 12, a day after the end of the new chart’s tracking week. So, the song’s removal didn’t have any impact on the its commercial activity during its debut week.
5. Beyoncé — “Texas Hold ‘Em”
Beyoncé’s country favorite had a noteworthy slide this week, falling from No. 2 to No. 5.
4. Teddy Swims — “Lose Control”
“Lose Control” became Swims’ first chart-topper a few weeks ago and it’s still doing well now, hanging onto a top-5 spot at No. 4.
3. Benson Boone — “Beautiful Things”
For the third consecutive week, Boone’s breakout hit has earned the chart’s top Airplay Gainer award, thanks to 57.4 million plays, an increase 14 percent.
2. Hozier — “Too Sweet”
Hozier has returned to “Take Me To Church” territory: His early-career hit previously peaked at No. 2, a feat the “Too Sweet,” his first song to debut in the top 10, has now matched.
1. Future, Metro Boomin, and Kendrick Lamar — “Like That”
For the third consecutive/total week, Future, Metro, and Lamar’s Drake- and J. Cole-dissing hit “Like That” hangs onto the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100. It’s the first song to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 since Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” was on top for its first six weeks in January and March 2023.
This week’s #Hot100 top 10 (chart dated April 20, 2024).
Will Ospreay didn’t come to AEW to wait patiently and work his way up. On Sunday, April 21, at AEW Dynasty, he’s aiming to jump to the front of the championship line with a dream match against Bryan Danielson.
“The respect I have for Bryan Danielson, I don’t have the vocabulary to be able to tell you how meaningful this match is to me. But it doesn’t mean that I’m starstruck by Bryan Danielson. I do see him as somebody that is reachable. I can take anything that Bryan Danielson has ever done, whether it’s in Ring of Honor or the other company, and do it better,” Will Ospreay tells Uproxx Sports.
“You want this next generation to kick your ass, and here I am. I’m ready to take the reins from you. You’ve been the greatest wrestler of all time for god knows how long. But like you said, you’re coming to the end of your full-time career. I’m here to take the throne from you now, mate.”
Ospreay feels that he’s grown into one of the best wrestlers in the world. That’s a long road from when he joined New Japan Pro Wrestling at 22 years old.
“You’re gonna crash and you’re gonna fall and you’re gonna hit certain bumps in the roads. And I’ve hit those bumps in front of every single pro wrestling fan if you’ve followed New Japan or even followed my career,” Ospreay says.
He speaks of being an “immature man” until 2021, when he began seeing his girlfriend, Alex Windsor, and took on the responsibility of being a step parent to her son.
“It’s been one of the most rewarding things that I’ve ever done in my life. I’ve completely changed my mindset because there’s so much more to life than just wrestling. Wrestling has given me everything — my house, my upbringing. Japan taught me how to condone myself, even as a man and the people that I surrounded myself with,” Ospreay continues. “I don’t know what I was put on this world for. I know wrestling was one of them. But maybe, I was put on this world to give this kid the best life that I physically can. I love him with all my heart, man. I love her. We are a great little family and I wouldn’t change it for the world. It’s the best feeling that you could ever get.”
Ospreay’s decision to join AEW took everything into account. It was opportunity to provide for his family and to test himself — not just against some of the best wrestlers in the world, but also in learning what it takes to appear on weekly television for the first time in his career.
His move also came with immense pressure. Whether fans had seen his catalogue of matches around the world, or they got to know him from one-off classics, there began to be an expectation that if Ospreay is wrestling, he could steal the show. Judging by what he’s done since he began wrestling in AEW, he feels like he’s already delivering on those promises.
He took AEW by storm with a standout match against Kenny Omega last summer, which he calls “one of the biggest accomplishments of my life, because he is, this generation, maybe the greatest wrestler to ever do it.” Ospreay’s match at AEW Revolution against Takeshita in March drew high praise as well thanks to a hard-hitting, full-throttle effort. He gives Takeshita his flowers for being “one of the greatest wrestlers in the game today” as well.
With victories over the likes of Omega, Dax Harwood, Orange Cassidy, Chris Jericho, Takeshita, and Kyle Fletcher, Ospreay believes a win over Danielson should propel him into the title picture.
“How many more of these matches, how many more names, if you want to put a number on it, do it?” Ospreay says. “But I think that, all those names that I’ve mentioned, you’ve got two world champions there and one half of the greatest tag team that’s ever done it. The longest reigning AEW international champion, one of the best wrestlers to ever come from Japan, one of the future up-and-coming wrestlers, and after I beat Bryan Danielson, that is the greatest wrestler in the world. Is there any more of a point that needs proving? I don’t really think so.”
As for when a title match happens, it’s hard to say. Samoa Joe will defend his belt against Swerve Strickland at Dynasty. Should Ospreay be able to overcome Danielson on Sunday, a title showdown this summer makes a ton of sense. After Double of Nothing in May and Forbidden Door in June, AEW returns to Wembley Stadium for All In, and that sure feels like the perfect moment.
“I’m glad I delivered,” Ospreay says about taking part in last year’s All In.
“I’m glad I got to have my match with Chris Jericho that I really wanted, glad I got to do it in Wembley Stadium. It was 81,000 people in there. My music hit, people knew who I was. The night before, I was performing in RevPro for 4,000 people. To be on that show was incredible. But this time it’s going to be different. This time I’m signed to the company. That’s a lot of responsibility. I am the English man, signed to AEW. I am spoken about as one of the best wrestlers in the world. I want to be in another prominent match.”
Zack Snyder would like to clarify his headline-making remarks about how Rebel Moon is actually more successful than Barbie if you go by the size of their audience. The divisive filmmaker stopped by The Joe Rogan Experience in early March where he essentially argued that more people saw the first installment of his burgeoning sci-fi franchise than Barbie. Naturally, this raised a lot of eyebrows considering Barbie is an Oscar-nominated, billion dollar success, and Rebel Moon is a streaming movie that quickly vanished from the cultural zeitgeist following a wave of dismal reviews.
In a new interview with Gizmodo, Snyder set the record straight by acknowledging that, of course, Barbie is a cultural juggernaut thanks to its theatrical release and has undoubtedly racked up a sizable amount of streaming reviews once it hit Max and VOD. When it comes to impact, Snyder readily admits there’s no comparison between theatrical and Netflix:
“The cultural significance of Barbie was happening when it was in the theaters,” Snyder said. “That’s when we all took a bite of the Barbie apple, and happily. And so my only point is that I think there is a theatrical zeitgeist [and] even though maybe more people have eyes on something, the actual sort of cultural significance is dictated still by the theater.”
However, Snyder defended his assertion that more people viewed Rebel Moon than Barbie going off the numbers he was given and Netflix’s internal calculations that asserts one view is actually two views.
“People are like, ‘Oh, well, Snyder’s crazy’ but literally I just am doing [math] with this, not anything else,” Snyder said. “If now we’re close to 100 million viewers, 100 million views times two is 200 million views … So, people are like, ‘Snyder’s delusional,’ and I am just like ‘I don’t know what to tell you.’”
In Snyder’s defense, the barrier to entry for watching Rebel Moon is much lower than going to the theater. If you have a Netflix subscription, you can turn the movie on anytime you want. However, there’s no guarantee that people are actually watching the entire film or with another person because Netflix’s metrics are notoriously murky.
So while Snyder might be correct that Rebel Moon had more views than Barbie, he seems to acknowledge that those streaming numbers don’t always translate to cultural impact.
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver starts streaming April 19 on Netflix.
Did you somehow miss out on the Summer of Suits? It’s okay, there was a lot of other stuff going on around that time. Suits is the witty legal drama that became America’s Favorite Background Show last summer when it took the top spot from The Office. Nobody cares about Michael Scott anymore, they want a bunch of hot lawyers.
If you happened to miss out on Suits when it first aired or when all your friends were watching it last summer, then you’re in luck! The series will make its broadcast debut on MyNetwork TV, also known as the channel that is always airing Law and Order.
According to Variety, this is the first time a show began on cable, syndicated to streaming, and then headed to a broadcast run. It’s like the sisterhood of the traveling Suits. Frank Cicha, executive VP of programming for Fox Television Stations, described how rare it is. “It’s become increasingly more difficult, if not impossible, to launch obscure product on broadcast TV. Suits is arguably the most buzzworthy scripted series of the last half decade, and MyNet looks forward to amplifying its success by introducing it to the broadcast television audience. And we’re discussing some fun ways to do just that.”
This is just the latest in the Suits saga. Stars Patrick J. Adams and Sarah Rafferty are set to host their own rewatch podcast on SiriusXM, and there is already a Suits spinoff in the works.
What could be next? A Suits theme park? That would just be going to the dry cleaner.
Blur performed at the festival on April 13, and Albarn seemed perturbed by the audience’s level of enthusiasm and participation. At one point, he tried to get the audience to sing along with “Girls & Boys,” but after that didn’t work out too well on multiple attempts, he eventually said, “You’re never seeing us again so you might as well f*cking sing it, know what I’m saying?”
Albarn actually may have seen this coming, though. As Consequence notes, in a pre-show interview with KROQ, he said, “It’s a weird one, Coachella, when it comes to audience. They’re quite so on their own planet.”
Things went better when the band played “Song 2,” a more recognizable hit among American audiences. Albarn said (as the Independent notes), “This song has been so good to us. But I did get shown a TikTok of it being kind of performed by a vacuum cleaner which is you know… it is humbling and inspiring at the same time.”
Here’s the video in question, by the way:
Damon Albarn introducing Song 2 at Coachella: “This song is being so good to us. But I did get shown a tiktok of it being kind of performed by a vacuum cleaner which is you know…. It is humbling and inspiring at the same time.” Here’s the tiktok.https://t.co/MckbIeF8nepic.twitter.com/0ECm0h6RKH
— Damon Albarn Unofficial (@DamonUnofficial) April 14, 2024
Check out the band’s full Coachella setlist below, via setlist.fm.
Blur’s 2024 Coachella Setlist, Weekend 1
1. “St. Charles Square”
2. “Popscene”
3. “Trouble In The Message Centre”
4. “Beetlebum”
5. “Goodbye Albert”
6. “Trimm Trabb”
7. “Out Of Time”
8. “Bird Song” with Torres Martinez Cahuilla Bird Singers
9. “Death Of A Party” with Torres Martinez Cahuilla Bird Singers
10. “Girls & Boys”
11. “Song 2”
12. “The Narcissist”
13. “Tender” with Torres Martinez Cahuilla Bird Singers
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
All the evidence was there, but Laroi has finally publicly commented on the matter.
Are The Kid Laroi & Tate McRae Dating?
During his The First Time Tour show at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday, April 14, Laroi told the crowd, “I need everybody in here to sing this as loud as they can because my girlfriend is here tonight, and I don’t want to look lame.” The fan-recorded video panned over to the side of the stage, where a smiley McRae stood.
The Kid LAROI officially announced he’s dating Tate McRae during Dublin show. pic.twitter.com/EHwRvsrCny
In case anybody needed further proof that Laroi was referencing McRae, she posted a video to her Instagram Story from her side-stage vantage point. Her video showed Laroi performing “Without You” and his audience dutifully singing along loudly.
PAIS!!!! Tate McRae acompanhou o show de seu namorado The Kid LAROI hoje na Irlanda.
The European leg of Laroi’s The First Time Tour will continue until April 27. Clearly, opener Sam Tompkins is not his only special guest. The North American leg is due to begin on May 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets will be the 2-seed in the Western Conference Playoffs, as they get set to try and defend their championship against some traditional West powers and a few up-and-coming threats.
After missing seven games with a knee injury late in the year, Murray returned to Denver’s lineup for their final five games, quickly picking up where he left off and looking like his normal self as the playoffs arrive. Murray has proven to be a reliable playoff performer, and when he’s been healthy for a Nuggets playoff run alongside Nikola Jokic, they’ve tended to be a threat. That’s largely because those two create an immense headache for opponents and have the best guard-big man chemistry in the NBA, working off of each other in the pick-and-roll/dribble-handoff game better than just about anyone in recent memory.
Ahead of the playoffs, we got a chance to speak with Murray as he promoted his new ad campaign with Cheetos over Zoom after the Nuggets arrived in San Antonio following their thrilling win over the Timberwolves in a battle of top seeds that served as a nice dress rehearsal for the postseason. We talked about the growth of some of Denver’s youngsters they’ll lean on for playoff minutes, what they learned from their title run, the difference in playoff preparation to a regular season game, what makes Denver’s late-game offense work so well when other teams tend to bog down, and what he’s learned about being in control of the game’s pace in crunch time.
How are you feeling back from injury these last few games, and just how’s everything feeling as you get ready for this playoff run?
Feel really good, man. Obviously big win last night. Everybody is in rhythm and in sync. So we’re just trying to be healthy and just some minor tune ups for what’s coming.
I’m gonna start with the new Cheetos campaign you’ve got here, and it seemed like you had some fun with this one. How did this partnership come about and how much fun was it shooting this this other hand ad with them?
We thought it’d be a lot of fun, man. You know, using the other hand, obviously a lot of different instances — high fives, eating, playing video games, tying shoes — we thought it’d be fun to use the other hand and not the dominant hand. So we got some good content coming out, a nice commercial hopefully next week. But, yeah, it’s just supposed to be just fun, light, and who doesn’t love Cheetos, you know what I’m saying? I got a big box of Cheetos back home.
You mentioned the [Timberwolves] game, and something that I thought was particularly important was Peyton Watson and Christian Braun playing big minutes and playing kind of key roles down the stretch. Christian was in the rotation last year, but he was in a little bit of a different role, and then Peyton this year getting into a bigger role. How big is it to have guys like that contribute in that way going into the playoffs and get that experience and confidence up because you’re going to need their contributions?
Yeah, for sure. Like you just said, getting the confidence up and getting used to the type of pressures that we’re relying on them to have or that they will see from the other team is gonna be huge. So, you know, I think they’ve done a great job of just embracing the role. As a young guy, you want to come in and you want to do everything that you dreamt of doing in the NBA. And I think they’ve done a great job of just learning and trying to grow game by game and not getting frustrated with the process. And CB sits right next to me in the locker room, so I tell him, if he’s not shooting enough or not shooting well, I tell him he’s got to get used to missing like three, four shots in a row, just so that later in the game as you get another one or next two, you’re ready to shoot those and there’s no hesitation. So I think he’s been just trying to learn and grasp as much information as possible because he cares about the game, he cares about winning, and it’s just nice to see not just him but P-Wat as well just embrace all the learning and growth that comes with the game.
It seems like that’s been the culture in Denver. How have you established that? And how has the organization as a whole been able to bring in guys that seem to be able to really buy into this? Because it’s not easy, like you said, to be a young guy and buy in to that team aspect in the way almost everybody that’s come into this franchise over the last few years has been able to do.
I think that the main thing is that we’re a contender. We’re a team that’s trying to win and we’re not waiting around for anything, you know what I’m saying? Guys got to catch up and fit in where they fit in. So we’re just trying to give them confidence and the leeway to make mistakes and grow from it and all that. But I think they’ve just gone about it the right way in terms of like, you know, they might get nine minutes one game and then they played 40 minutes the next. That’s just the territory comes with being a rookie, and they just did a great job of handling those highs and lows individually. And knowing that there’s a greater picture in mind and that we’re going to need in the playoffs. And it’s a different beast in the playoffs. I think everybody’s excited and we know what we’re capable of and everybody’s willing to sacrifice for the win.
A championship run last year — what are the things that you think you can really take away from that as a team and lessons that you learned about navigating through the four rounds of the playoffs and keeping that consistency you need to win a title?
You’re answering your own questions here, man [laughs]. I think that [consistency] is the biggest thing. Like, you got to build good habits. Every possession matters, you know, but at the same time, you got to be confident to risk and make a nice pass or tough thread the needle pass or whatever it is. You got to clamp down on defense for a couple possessions even if that might not be your forte. I think everybody understands now what it’s going to come to. You face the same team at least four times, it could be seven times in a row, so you have a pretty good idea what’s coming and when a team finds something that’s working, they normally go back to it. So, we’ve just done a great job of just countering their counters and playing free and still trying to play the way that we play, knowing that every team demands a different type of challenge. So I think we’re just prepared for whatever challenges is thrown our way right now.
How different is the preparation in the playoffs? Because like you said, in the regular season you’re going you know city to city — you just flew into San Antonio today — and you’re bouncing around. But when you know you’re facing this team four to seven times, how different is the level of preparation and the level of detail that goes into the game planning?
It’s major, man. I think that’s the toughest part about the playoffs. It’s not like you just play one game and it’s over with. Like you’re playing them over and over and it’s the same actions you get. You’re memorizing their plays. You’re memorizing what this guy likes to do, which way he likes to go, which way he likes to finish. So it’s just a lot of intent, a lot of detail, and all that matters. That could be the difference between a guy getting separation and making a shot or him getting blitzed and not being able to pass the ball. I think everybody just being on the same page is super key and that can cover a lot of mistakes. You know, guys are gonna make tough shots, guys are gonna go on scoring runs and do what they do. That’s why we’re in the playoffs. But I think the moment can be detailed with what we do and build good habits, and I think, especially us, that makes us tough to guard and stop.
I think the thing that’s been the separator for you guys the last couple years has been late game execution. You seem to be able to get create good shots when you need them in the fourth quarter, when the other team is putting forth that maximum effort. What is it that allows you guys to do that and what has gone into building an offense that is able to thrive in those moments?
I just think the poise. You know, Jok and I, we know how to get everybody organized and we both can score one-on-one. We don’t need to go into a pick-and-roll to score, but just us being in an action together brings a lot of help. And if you don’t bring help, then even better, you know what I’m saying? Yeah, I just think that it’s tough to guard us in the pick-and-roll two-on-two without bringing that third defender and then you have the greatest passing big man ever making passes four-on-three. It’s just tough. And to do that over and over and over again, it definitely causes defenses to scramble and we just keep them on the toes. And then, you know, you could play great defense and then I’ll hit a step back or Mike will hit a tough shot. We know what we can get to and we know if he trust our offense and play free and free flowing like we’ll find what we need.
What have you learned about pacing, especially in those moments? Because it seems like some teams get too caught up in playing the clock game but you guys do a really good job of working the clock but still making sure you have time to run whatever action you want to run. What’s the process been for you as a point guard of learning that little balance and the give and take required to say hey, I want to work some clock but also we’ve got to get a good shot still?
I mean, I think this is all situational. So it’s tough for me to answer in one … you know what I’m saying? It’s more of a general. But, I think it doesn’t take long for — what I’m looking at as a whole, and when I have the ball, I can score off one dribble and create enough separation that it’s a good enough shot. Where it’s a shot I’ve practiced over and over. It’s still a shot the defense doesn’t want to give up. I think the same thing for Jok. He can catch the ball, he can just turn around on one foot and throw it up over two guys and it can go in, or a one-hand or he can float or he can get doubled and throw a lob to AG. Like, I think the quick thinking and the IQ of the team is just very, very high. And it’s, like I said, we play the game within the game as a unit.
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