Month: May 2024

Becca Moore is a popular TikToker with over 800,000 followers who’s known for her funny, laid-back takes on dating. Like any influencer-type she was at the Coachella music and arts festival in Indio, California recently. While she was at Coachella, she was robbed of her phone, rental car keys and wallet.

“I went to Coachella this weekend and I thought this guy was kinda hitting on me but then he just robbed me,” Becca says at the beginning of her three-minute TikTok video with over 3 million views. After the festival, she was left with no ride, money, or means to get in contact with friends and family. She was stranded in the desert.

Becca’s friend’s hotel called her an Uber so she could get to a local store to buy a new phone. The driver she was incredibly lucky to be connected with was a lot more than a guy with a car in a time of need, he was a guardian angel named Raul Torres from Fresno, California, six hours north of Indio.

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“A normal Uber driver takes you to a place and then drops you off. He insisted on coming in with me and making sure that I was going to have a ride after that,” Becca said.

The store wasn’t able to get her a new phone because she didn’t have access to her current plan. But Raul wouldn’t give up, so he took her to the local police station where they were able to locate the Airbnb where the thief was staying. The police let them into the room and they searched it but couldn’t find the phone.

@becccamooore

the uber driver that saved me from going missing is @buds4u559!! 😭 after spending the day w him he told me his daughter is a senior in high school & is having a hard time going through chemo. i made a gofundme, he could’ve left me and didn’t have to help me the way he did! I’d love to help his fam give his daughter a normal end to her senior year of high school this year (prom!!) i’m putting it in my bio!!

After the big let-down, Becca and Raul decided to take a break from their quest and refresh their spirits with some margaritas, on Raul. “Just because he’s an angel on this Earth,” Becca said in her TikTok video.

While the two bonded over drinks, Raul told Becca his daughter had been battling cancer and that’s why he’s been working as an Uber driver. “He told me all he wants is for his daughter to have a normal end to her senior year, and to be able to go to big events like prom and graduation,” Becca said.

Raul also revealed that his father had cancer as well.

His revelations put Becca’s troubles in perspective and made his decision to drop his driving for the day to help Becca all the more incredible.

@becccamooore

thank god he refused to leave me 😭 raul’s tiktok is @buds4u559. also you can donate to the fam in my bio!! thank you all for your donations and generosity. you today, me tomorrow!! #TipsForRaul

After the final slurps of their margaritas, Becca still wasn’t sure how she’d get home. But Raul wouldn’t give up. “We’re getting your phone,” he exclaimed. He drove her back to the thief’s Airbnb where she found the phone sitting on top of the outside gate. Becca believes the robber abandoned the phone after realizing the police were involved. Then, Raul helped Becca get a rental car so she could get home. Before saying their goodbyes, the two had spent eight hours together.

“Raul ended his Uber shift that morning to spend his day helping me, expecting nothing in return,” she said in her TikTok video. So she used her considerable audience to ask followers to help contribute to a GoFundMe page for Raul and his family. Over the first 4 days, the campaign has raised over $144,000.

“When I was in the car with him it seemed like we were both so focused on my situation. We were only talking about me getting a phone and like things that did not matter. And he completely glazed over the fact that his daughter and his dad were the ones that needed help,” she admitted.

On Friday, April 29, Raul’s dad passed away from cancer.

The story of Becca and Raul is a great reminder that no matter how big our troubles seem, it’s always important to put them in perspective.

This story originally appeared on 05.03.22

Paige Connell is a working mom of four and a popular social media personality who discusses moms’ mental load and advocates for equality in relationships. Recently, she struck a nerve on TikTok with a video where she admitted she doesn’t do her husband’s laundry and said it “brings out big feelings in people.”

Paige says she isn’t being petty. It’s “just how it functions” in her home.

She took things a step further in a follow-up video, listing all of the things that she doesn’t do for her husband. “You all know I don’t do his laundry,” she said in the video. “He can do that himself.”

“He cooks dinner every night. I do breakfast and lunch for us and our kids,” she continued. “I don’t pack him a lunch. If he’s hungry, he’ll figure out what he’s gonna eat for lunch the same way that I do.” She added that she doesn’t make his doctor’s appointments, pack his clothes for vacation, or buy him new underwear when it gets holes.

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“Is it my job? Absolutely not,” she said. “All of those are things that he’s a grown man and he can do himself.”

@sheisapaigeturner

Replying to @rafael it’s important to show your partner, love and kindness. And I believe in small acts of kindness for a partners. However, expecting your partner to do your laundry and all of the cooking and all of the cleaning, is not the same qe small acts of kindness. All of those things are domestic labor and then when add it up, create a lot of work. #domesticlabor #actsofkindness #actsofservice #marriagegoals #fairplay #millennialmom #mentalload #laundry

However, she doesn’t want to confuse her refusal to take care of her husband’s domestic responsibilities with a lack of kindness. “That’s domestic labor. Those are chores; those are not acts of kindness,” she says.

She adds that she does plenty of kind things for him outside of the home such as buying him vinyl records or picking up a new non-alcoholic beer that she thinks he would like.

Her main point: “Small acts of kindness that are mostly domestic labor just add up to work at the end of the day.”

Paige’s post has resonated with many, garnering over 2.5 million views and a wave of support from the commenters. “Preach. Parentifying your spouse is such a turn-off,” wrote Nicki, echoing Paige’s sentiments.”’Exactly, a lot of men think that having a wife is like having a personal assistant. If that’s the case, pay me by the hour,” added iloveme_011.

Some women say that they still do their husbands’ domestic chores as a sign of love. “I do all these things because acts of service are my love language, but after a while of no reciprocation, you start to become resentful,” Soph wrote in the comments. “Times have changed for sure. I take pride in doing all of those things for my husband. In fact, I’ll do it for my grown children, too!” Brenda Castro added.

Upworthy contacted Paige to find out what her husband thinks about the arrangement. “We are in alignment on sharing the load equitably. We believe in striving for a partnership where we are both supported and neither one of us takes on more than the other when it comes to our home and kids. We work hard to share the load as equally as possible!” she told Upworthy.

She also shared why some women equate domestic labor with kindness. “I believe many women have been taught that doing labor for someone else shows your love to them. It is ingrained in us in so many ways in our society that we are raised to believe that is how you show love when in reality there are many ways to show love and doing domestic labor does not have to be one of them,” she told Upworthy.

Paige’s video proves that we all have different ways of expressing our love for our significant others and that for women, it can be a lot more than taking on more of the domestic load. As Paige notes in the video, what starts as kindness can quickly devolve into a job and then resentment.

I wonder how Yellowstone viewers would react if they stumbled upon Outer Range, hoping to get a Taylor Sheridan Fix before seeing Josh Brolin yelling at a hole in the ground that’s tied to time travel. That would be an interesting case study, although the two shows do have, on the surface, a few things in common. Obviously, there are dudes in cowboy hats. There’s also a family ranch being circled by (possibly) nefarious outside forces. Yes, there’s drama to be found as well, but Outer Range quickly veers into mystical territory and some of the strangest sci-fi currently on TV. It’s not a Yellowstone clone or a Lost tribute (comparisons have also been made there). You might feel like you’re watching the soul sister of Twin Peaks, but otherwise, this is a highly unique creation and genre mash-mash that defies (accurate) explanation.

Typing out a list of things that makes this show bonkers is a discombobulating feat, but let’s scratch the surface. In the first season, Josh Brolin’s patriarch, Royal Abbott, stumbled upon a giant void that opened up within his family’s sprawling Wyoming ranch. He was then revealed to be a portal-hopper who surfaced in the 1960s, and a mysterious woman, Autumn (who kisses like this, as portrayed by Imogen Poots), appeared right when things started running off the track. There’s a murder (the body was hidden but resurfaced) along with visions of buffalo, a singing cowboy, and a necklace that might have the same effect as medication. Hey wait, is Autumn really Amy?

There are moments where I legit had to hit the back button to make sure something actually happened because the show is that absurd. Through a deft sleight of hand, however, season 1 of Outer Range careened down an illogical hill with abandon, but it did it so gracefully. It’s such a delicate balance that I wondered if a second season could maintain that same feat.

Fortunately, my worries were unfounded. Outer Range is still kind-of a mess and sometimes feels like a full-on identity crisis, but the package is skillfully combined. It also considers enormous questions about human existence but doesn’t take itself seriously by claiming to have every answer. After thinking about the why of this show’s accomplishments (and lack thereof), I’ve decided that two especially stellar (and paradoxically grounded) performances are the key to its appeal. Mind you, the performances are strong across the board, but these two lions circling each other demand to be recognized.

Josh Brolin

As stated above, there are many reasons why this show could be laughable. That giant hole stands out, of course, and the fact that Brolin’s character harbors so many secrets that it’s a wonder he never publicly melted down before this story began. The show is filled with unreliable narrators, and we find out about the true nature of Brolin’s Royal Abbott in such a painstakingly slow manner that the reveals should be infuriating. Brolin, however, sells every inch of what this giant riddle is peddling. He is the glue.

Much of that is owing to his gruff and stoic air. He is also right at home in the Western genre, both after growing up on a California ranch and starring in both True Grit in No Country For Old Men. That second selection, in particular, provides a comparison point in Brolin’s skill at portraying no-nonsense types who end up in over their heads. Could anyone else have pulled off the “from the gettin’ place” line like Brolin did in that Coen Brothers movie? What a silly set of words, but Brolin infused the moment with layers that revealed volumes about the inner workings of a marriage. Here, we’ve got similarly simple yet expansive moments in the beautifully shot Outer Range.

It’s hard to imagine another actor besides Brolin stapling the entire mess into a singular piece of art in a believable way.

Imogen Poots

Then there’s Autumn. While Royal is the character who holds this impending disaster together, Autumn is the chaos. Whether she is “bad chaotic” or “good chaotic” still remains to be seen. Imogen Poots’ character could have ended up coming across as a femme fatale caricature (fortunately, though, nothing sexy is going on between her and Royal) in less deliberate hands than those of the Vivarium and The Art Of Self Defense actress. Her Autumn is charismatic and unnerving, but she’s also so much more.

She is a literal and figurative poker player. She is both in command and out of control, at once enthralling and frightening, and the second season takes this character further into every angle that has been teased so far. The mystery of her identity never seems to stop yet never expands into a subject that grows old. Imogen Poots adds incredible depth, elevating the character beyond what could have been a stock anti-hero role. Her character seemingly holds every answer in this show without revealing her hand, even when she appears to lose grip of a situation. Long story short (to avoid spoilers), I simply cannot wait to see the audience’s reactions to where Autumn goes.

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With all of that said, how does the second season’s continuation of the story measure up? Many more challenges lie along the way, and Royal must mend his fractured relationship with Cecilia (Lili Taylor), who is now learning that her husband has been hiding his secret time-traveling identity for decades. We will also find out what happened to Perry Abbott (Tom Pelphrey) after he dove into the hole and screwed the whole family over.

Expect a heavy focus on what happens with Deputy Sheriff Joy Hawk. She becomes a much larger piece in this puzzle, and I suspect that — when it’s time to start postulating about the third season — her character will figure into plenty of fan theories. Her second-season arc is a perfect example of how this series tackles history and the American identity without attempting to hammer home the significance of every detail. The show doesn’t demand too much mental energy, only that a viewer hop on the ride and be carried along.

Prime Video/Amazon’s ‘Outer Range’ returns to Amazon on Thursday, May 16.

Nikola Jokic had one of the best games of his already incredible career on Tuesday night, leading the Nuggets to a Game 5 win over the Timberwolves and a 3-2 lead in the series.

Jokic sent a message with the performance, as he flipped the script from the first two games in Denver where the Wolves depth at center seemed to frustrate the MVP. In Game 5, it was Jokic who has Minnesota’s bigs frustrated, most notably Rudy Gobert, who had no answer for Jokic in the post. Jokic hit Gobert with seemingly every move in his arsenal, and left the DPOY struggling to figure out what to do in response.

Beyond a masterful display of post skill, Jokic also showed how important the game was with an extremely rare two dunk night, throwing down a pair of dunks when he got an open lane. Jokic is known for his incredible ability to dominate with a floor-bound game, so seeing him get up for two dunks was rather surprising. After the game he got asked about those dunks — and one he had in Minnesota — and quipped he was just showing his incredible athleticism, calling himself a “freak of nature.”

It’s a very funny line from Jokic, who occasionally flashes that dry humor in pressers. While he brushed off the idea he was doing anything particularly remarkable with his dunks.with this joke, they are an indicator of his level of aggression to get to the rim that strongly, even if he tends not to go for dunks in traffic. Beyond those dunks, Jokic was attacking the rim constantly and finishing in a variety of ways. That is where he truly is a freak of nature, not so much as a high flyer.

The NFL will continue expanding its footprint on streaming services in 2024. The league has been dabbling in more streaming exclusives in recent years, from moving Thursday Night Football to Amazon to adding an ESPN+ regular season broadcast. But after moving a playoff game to be a Peacock exclusive this past year, they showed that they’ll offer up some of their biggest games to the highest bidder.

With the NFL schedule getting set to release in full on Wednesday night, they started to offer up some key dates early, including the plan for this year’s Christmas Day slate. After seeing success with weekend Christmas games recently, the league decided to stick with having games on the holiday even when it falls in the middle of the week, like this year when it’s on a Wednesday. The four teams playing on Christmas in 2024 are the Chiefs at Steelers and Ravens at Texans, but the bigger news is that those games will stream on Netflix, which is entering the live sports fray with a top league for the first time.

This is part of a three-year deal between the NFL and Netflix, which will guarantee the streamer one holiday game each year through 2026.

The league is almost assuredly getting a crazy amount of money for these games — the Peacock playoff game fetched over $100 million — but fan response will likely be similar to how folks felt about that game. Fans will now need four separate services to watch every game in 2024, which is quite the departure from how the NFL operated even five years ago.

The Game of Thrones showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, turned down boatloads of money to continue participating in HBO’s Westeros franchise with their names in the credits as producers. That gamble might not totally be paying off, although perhaps it will after all? The relevant news coming out of Netflix’s Wednesday Upfront presentation isn’t entirely clear, but there’s a suggestion that not everything with 3 Body Problem is going as planned.

The good news, however, is that the sci-fi show has received a renewal order (albeit of unclear duration). Netflix tweeted that development with a joint quote from Benioff, Weiss, and scribe Alexander Woo, who are “thrilled that we get to tell this story through to its epic conclusion.”

How much more of this series has actually been ordered, though? Benioff and Weiss were previously clear about their hopes for four seasons to go as in-depth as they felt necessary, but Hollywood Reporter‘s take on the renewal is that the streaming service “has greenlit additional episodes that will eventually wrap the acclaimed sci-fi epic.” Additionally, “[t]here’s no word yet, however, how many seasons or episodes the order will entail.”

In other words, it sort-of sounds like there was a renewal to conclude the show but probably not as a three-season addition. Or perhaps that would be reading too much into what is ultimately a very vague announcement from Netflix. And perhaps Liu Cixin’s book series won’t receive a fully detailed ending onscreen, so that we see the nuances of how humanity ultimately decides to deal with invading aliens, but maybe the team will decide to tuck in some sex scenes while also diving further into the Wallfacer Project from the Planetary Defense Council. Because priorities.

(Via Netflix & Hollywood Reporter)

Oh, what a day, what a lovely day: the Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga reviews are here (still waiting on the Garfield movie). And would you believe it? Director George Miller has added another classic to his wild filmography. I believe it.

The prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road is being hailed as a “masterpiece” and “astonishing” by critics. Miller and the cast, including Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth (sadly, Piss Boy couldn’t make it), were also greeted with a nearly eight-minute ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. That’s enough time for Adam Driver to smoke two cigarettes!

Let’s get to the reviews.

David Ehrlich for Indiewire:

Rather than reaching for — and failing to clear — the impossibly high bar that he set for himself, Miller has chosen to do something even crazier and more rewarding: He’s created a symphonic, five-part, decades-spanning revenge saga so immense and self-possessed that it refuses to be seen as the mere extension of another movie, even though it manages to deepen the impact of Fury Road at every turn.

Hoai-Tran Bui for Inverse:

Miller has always been a maximalist auteur, but he takes his visually bombastic sensibilities to new heights with Furiosa — a spectacular, utterly deranged epic that is unlike any Mad Max movie ever made. Furiosa trades in the franchise’s western vistas and lone-wolf narrative for a heavy-metal riff on Homer’s Odyssey, delivering a sprawling, immersive saga that manages to outdo its predecessor for the most bonkers action that’s ever been injected into your eyeballs.

John Nugent for Empire:

There is, once again, an astonishing standard of stunts and visual effects sustained throughout these 148 minutes, with at least six audacious set-pieces — including a three-day chase across a desert, and a staggering airborne assault on a War Rig — that must be seen to be believed.

Bilge Ebiri for Vulture:

This wouldn’t be the first time Miller has taken a big franchise sequel and turned it into something strange, sublime, and potentially off-putting. He is, after all, the man who almost ended an entire Hollywood studio with Babe: Pig in the City. Still, whether the new movie is deemed a hit or not, it’s nice to know that, after all these years, George Miller seems determined to stay true to his mad self.

Siddhant Adlakha for Mashable:

A bombastic wasteland folktale, George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is an ingenious, eye-popping prequel to his near-perfect action romp Mad Max: Fury Road. While it revisits several characters and locations we’ve already seen, it’s also a wildly different beast, one that replaces its predecessor’s mile-a-minute chase structure with a years-spanning story that elevates the series’ operatic imagery to the level of biblical myth.

Hannah Strong for Little White Lies:

Furiosa is still miles better than the dreck Hollywood usually treats us to over the summer, and provided it doesn’t take another decade to get the Fury Road sequel that Miller has been promising, perhaps we’ll reach Valhalla yet.

Manohla Dargis for the New York Times:

Miller is such a wildly inventive filmmaker that it’s been easy to forget that he keeps making movies about the end of life as we know it. It’s a blast watching his characters fight over oil, water and women, yet while I’ve long thought of him as a great filmmaker it’s only with Furiosa that I now understand he’s also one kick-ass prophet of doom.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opens in theaters on May 24.

Nikola Jokic has three NBA MVP awards, an NBA championship ring, and an NBA Finals MVP award somewhere rattling around his house. He has done incredible things on the basketball court and put up some monster performances over his career, but what he did in Game 5 against the Timberwolves may very well be his masterpiece.

Jokic put up 40 points, 13 assists, seven rebounds, and zero turnovers, completely dismantling the Minnesota interior defense that had him flustered in the first two games of the series. Jokic put Rudy Gobert in the blender, leaving the 4-time DPOY seeking help from his teammates or perhaps a higher power, as Jokic gave him work for four quarters.

Jokic spent an entire game testing the will and spirit of the Timberwolves, and it felt that by the end of the game he had broken it, one pivot at a time. Gobert could only toss his hands in the air after Jokic would flip the ball into the basket, and after showing off ever post move in his bag, he had one last trick left, sinking a stepback three as the dagger. It was as demoralizing an individual performance as you can have, as he took the Wolves best defender and repeatedly showed there’s nothing he can do to slow him down, much less stop him. He never showed the same move twice, hitting Gobert with counters and then counters to his own counters, keeping him just enough off balance to create angles and windows to flip the ball into the basket — over, under, around, and through Gobert.

A night earlier, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander put the Oklahoma City Thunder on his back to lead a second half comeback that evened their series with the Dallas Mavericks at 2-2. After the Dallas defense had seemingly shut off the Thunder’s water for Games 2, 3, and the first half of Game 4 with hard closeouts on shooters and walling off the rim, Gilgeous-Alexander decided he needed to do it himself, going to work in the midrange where he hit all 14 of his shots.

For Gilgeous-Alexander, his performance was borne out of necessity. The Thunder had spent two games hoping they would break out of their struggles by sticking to the game plan, but sometimes the playoffs won’t allow you to play the beautiful game. Oklahoma City seemed obsessed with creating the perfect shot, regularly passing up good looks, thinking a great one was around the corner. Dallas preyed on that, sending hard closeouts to create hesitation from shooters and knowing where that next pass was going to recover and extend possessions, forcing the Thunder into desperate late clock shots over and over.

Eventually, Gilgeous-Alexander recognized his team needed someone to go make shots to bend the Mavs defense out of shape, and he obliged with one of the great shot-making performances of this postseason. He showed he too has a wide array of moves and tricks to create separation and hit shots over even the best efforts of Dallas defenders. Even when Dallas did send extra bodies and forced him to go where they wanted him, he would still rise up and hit a shot over the corner of the backboard.

Both performances by Jokic and Gilgeous-Alexander were vital to their teams getting critical wins. A win down 2-1 and a win tied 2-2 are, historically, near-necessities to win a playoff series. It wasn’t just what they did, but how they did it that matters beyond those games by reminding their opponents and themselves that when they’re at their best, there simply are no answers.

In Jokic’s case, it was a message sent (and seemingly received) by Minnesota that they don’t have a defense that can take him out of his game. After the first two games, the Timberwolves were brimming with confidence after frustrating Jokic with their waves of length. After Game 5, they’re left to search for answers, none of which seem readily apparent or attainable. While his effort to turn Gobert into BBQ chicken drew headlines, Karl-Anthony Towns and Naz Reid were on the receiving end of plenty of buckets themselves (or foul calls trying to stop him).

In Oklahoma City, I felt like Gilgeous-Alexander’s performance was more important internally. The Nuggets know Jokic can turn into that kind of playoff monster, but the Thunder hadn’t yet seen SGA completely take a game over this postseason when they absolutely needed it. His aggression was something the rest of OKC’s squad fed off of, and it raised their entire level on both ends of the court. When shots aren’t falling and guys get hesitant, the entire energy level drops for a team, but you could see their confidence and belief build as SGA went into bucket mode in that second half. Eventually, Jalen Williams started to shake out of his funk, becoming more assertive in his offensive movements, and guys like Chet Holmgren, Lu Dort, and Cason Wallace got good looks from three and knocked them down.

That brought the life back into this young Thunder team, and it carried over to the defensive end, where they were able to start getting the stops that got them in transition and made things even easier. The Mavs will certainly have to consider some adjustments to SGA, but I doubt they make any sweeping changes before Game 5 given how well they’ve been playing defensively. The difference going forward for the Thunder should be that belief that even if the Mavs are swarming them, they can be aggressive and attack because their star proved it can be done. He pried the lid off the basket and created some gaps in the Mavs’ armor, attacking the area of the floor Dallas is more willing to concede.

The Nuggets and Thunder are both teams that play a very fluid style, wanting the ball to move and pop, but sometimes in the playoffs you have to have a great Plan B when a defense gets locked in on how to slow your Plan A. Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander are those Plan Bs, and they reminded everyone on both sides that on some nights, there’s not an answer to the question they can pose.

Unlike Happy’s golf ball, Happy Gilmore 2 has found its home. Variety reports that the sequel to the 1996 comedy starring Adam Sandler was officially ordered by Netflix, where many of Sandler’s other films have premiered, including Sandy Wexler and You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.

Earlier this year, actor Christopher McDonald, who plays sh*t-eating antagonist Shooter McGavin in the original, was the first to confirm the existence of Happy Gilmore 2. “I saw Adam about two weeks ago, and he says to me, ‘McDonald, you’re gonna love this.’ I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘How about that,’ and he shows me the first draft of Happy Gilmore 2,” he said in a radio interview. “Maybe you should cut that out [of this audio] because I don’t wanna be a liar, but he did show me that, and I thought, ‘Well, that would be awesome.’ So, it’s in the works. Fans demand it, dammit!”

Sandler wants the sequel to be a tribute to original cast members Carl Weathers, Joe Flaherty, and Bob Barker, all of whom have passed away since 2023. “I would love [The Price is Right host] Drew Carey to be in this movie out of respect to Bob,” he said on The Dan Patrick Show. “When we were writing stuff, Bob was alive. When we were writing stuff, Carl Weathers was alive. When we were writing stuff, Joe Flaherty was alive. It sucks, we love those guys. They were such a big part of the movie and just great people. But we’re going to get them involved somehow. They’ll be involved.”

Happy Gilmore 2 does not currently have a release date.

(Via Variety)

Still salty that Danny DeVito didn’t voice Pikachu in Detective Pikachu? I am (let DeVito take over as the spokesperson for Mint Mobile while we’re at it). Hopefully, the same mistake won’t be made again with another movie based on a Nintendo property. The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia legend sounds interested in voicing Wario in the sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

“You never know what happens in the world. I’m up for a lot of things… I’m ready to do a lot of things,” DeVito said in an interview with The Movie Dweeb while promoting Poolman. “Whatever’s coming, you know, I look at, I see, I evaluate.” When the interviewer joked that he’ll tell Chris Pratt, the voice of Mario, about who should be cast as his garlic-loving nemesis, DeVito replied, “Tell [him] I’m going to take him to the cleaners but I should be in the movie.”

Pratt recently teased that there could be a “Nintendo Cinematic Universe” and how “there are decades worth of [games] to explore… with Mario and Peach and Donkey Kong and Luigi and Bowser and Yoshi.” But what about Wario? Forget the Switch 2 — the Nintendo news I want is Danny DeVito Announced As Wario. And who’s playing Waluigi? Glenn Howerton, of course.

(Via The Movie Dweeb)