The expectation is that they will now return to Redick as their leading candidate, and the ESPN commentator will reportedly formally interview with Jeanie Buss and the Lakers front office over the weekend. To this point, the Lakers have been spending their time doing their due diligence on Redick (with his former coach, Mike Krzyzewski, serving as an advisor int he search). However, as Brian Windhorst explained on Get Up! Thursday morning, Redick’s “Mind the Game” podcast with LeBron James has, effectively, been part of the interview process.
Brian Windhorst on JJ Redick interviewing with the Lakers: “Frankly, his interviews have been in those podcasts with LeBron James. They’ve extensively broken down the Lakers’ offense, extensively broken down what they do. It’s been out there for the whole world to hear, including… pic.twitter.com/MTJb21htLl
LeBron may genuinely be staying away from this coaching search, and it’d make sense for the Lakers to be thinking much longer term than James’ tenure. That said, if Redick lands the job, having a podcast where he and LeBron talk X’s and O’s, with the Lakers as a frequent example, will play a major role. It has, if nothing else, given him a proving ground to show his knowledge and offer his plan for using the Lakers roster, and as Windy notes, the Lakers brass are part of the audience taking it in.
Remember The Town? You know, the 2010 Ben Affleck movie about professional bank robbers from South Boston that earned Jeremy Renner a nomination for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar? What if someone did that movie again, but just a little off-kilter?
Well, that’s pretty much the premise of The Instigators, Apple TV’s new crime comedy starring Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, and Jack Harlow. That’s right, instead of a hard-hitting family drama, the story is now a comedy. Instead of a professional crew looking for one last score, it’s an over-the-hill ex-Marine staging his first heist with the help of a young crew including Harlow, who all appear more experienced than him. And, of course, instead of a grimacing Ben Affleck, you’ve got his jaunty best friend. I need to see this, like, yesterday.
The film was originally announced last year and continues Harlow’s foray into acting, which has received … “mixed” reactions. While Harlow’s acting itself has been praised, his prior movie, a remake of White Men Can’t Jump, was widely maligned (unfairly, in my opinion) for not being as good as the original (such things so rarely are). Jack clearly has no fear of failure here; he shared the trailer on Instagram:
The rest of the The Instigators cast is an all-star roster consisting of Alfred Molina, Hong Chau, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Ron Perlman, and Ving Rhames. It’s also directed by Doug Liman, so maybe people will finally start taking all those “Apple TV has the best content” takes seriously. Someone tell Netflix this is how it’s done.
Watch the The Instigators trailer above and stream the movie in full on August 9.
Is Beyoncé Announcing Her Cowboy Carter Tour Soon?
The short answer is that Beyoncé has not announced a tour in support of Cowboy Carter, and if there is a tour to announce, we will know when Beyoncé is ready for us to know.
But the rumor mill will always churn regardless, and rumors are hot that Beyoncé will announce a tour soon. It’s mostly reckless speculation, as tends to be the case with fan activity online. Earlier this month, Live Nation posted about a “big announcement coming tomorrow,” and people assumed that it would concern a Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Las Vegas residency because the Instagram photo involved a cowboy hat, but it turned out to be about Lainey Wilson. So, yeah, take the below posts with the biggest possible grain of salt.
One of the most memorable (for better or worse) moments was a scene in which Larys Strong uses his foot fetish in an information exchange. Matthew Needham, who plays Larys, recently sat down for a roundtable interview where he told Consequence that Larys’ trauma was a lot more complex than viewers got to see.
He explained (via Decider), “I mean, I always thought part of the reason that Larys is the way Larys is is because he’s come from a very traumatic background.” Needham also revealed that he has cut scenes which helped provide a better backstory for Larys.
“There was [a deleted scene], it didn’t make the show sadly, but the first time you meet him, he is being harassed and abused by people because of his disability. And you get a sense that that’s how he grew up. Every day for him was something traumatic like that,” Needham said. “I think one of his things is to sort of re-inflict that harm on the world, the world outside of himself.” Hence his need to overpower Alicent.
This brings us to the infamous foot fetish scene, which originally had more context. “That’s another one where sort of, you know, there was stuff that didn’t make the cut unfortunately,” Needham said. “When we discussed it, it was about — because he can’t touch her, but it’s a way of making her feel as ashamed for that part of her body as he does for his.”
He added, “That does not translate completely, but that’s okay.” He explained that the scenes like that make a bit more sense when the character’s background was explored more. “Obviously if you cut like a line here and a line there and everything sort of ends up just like, you know, ‘It’s Tuesday!’” Needham said. “But it’s all good.”
Needham also says he does not read what the fans are saying online. “I can’t do the online thing. Just I can’t. And also I’m just crap at it, so I don’t, but people come up and tell me a lot about a lot of wild things,” he said. It’s probably for the best that he stays away from what the people are saying.
House of the Dragon season two premieres June 16th on HBO.
In the fifth-season premiere of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, out now on Netflix, Letterman asked Cyrus about her famous friends. Specifically, he asked, “That night at the [2024] Grammys, it seemed like an enormous celebration of women in music. Are you friends with all of those women?”
Cyrus candidly responded, “I am not very active, I would say, or very a part of my community of other artists and entertainers and celebrities. It just doesn’t feel like my people when I’m in that room. But there are certain artists, like Beyoncé, who — like us — we’ve known each other for a long time.”
The multi-platinum-certified singer continued, “When I was probably 15, I performed with Beyoncé. I was sandwiched between, you know, Rihanna and the Queen Bey, and they’re fully grown up, gorgeous, probably similar to my age now. Towering over me, completely stunning. I am super small, have acne, have braces on the back of my teeth, and I’m standing next to Mariah Carey, who is dripping in diamonds. Beyoncé was so kind to me, and now, just from seeing her, I’ve created a relationship — maybe a bit more in-depth. […] The kindness and the consistency is everything, so I’m a part of my community in that way, but again, it’s all quality, not quantity. I’m not very active in that.”
Letterman’s reference to the 2024 Grammys concerned Cyrus’ first-ever Grammy wins (Record Of The Year and Best Pop Solo Performance), thanks for “Flowers,” which was the root of her show-stopping performance.
Beyoncé welcomed Cyrus as a featured artist on her Cowboy Carter album, and “II Most Wanted” stands to be nominated for Record Of The Year at the 2025 Grammys.
“I wrote that song, like, two and a half years ago,” Cyrus recently told W. “My mom would always go, ‘I love that song so much.’ So when Beyoncé reached out to me about music, I thought of it right away because it really encompasses our relationship. I told her, ‘We don’t have to get country; we are country. We’ve been country.’ I said, ‘You know, between you being from Texas and me being from Tennessee, so much of us is going to be in this song.’ Getting to write a song, not just sing, for Beyoncé was a dream come true.”
Nicki Minaj seemingly tried to shut down online rumors of a pending divorce between her and her husband Kenneth Petty, posting a video on Instagram of her family — intact, contrary to the rumor — boarding a private plane.
The rumors started earlier this week, when Nicki posted a cryptic tweet reading, “Yes. Single.” Fans didn’t know what to make of this — whether it meant Nicki has a new single on the way or that Nicki herself is single — so (of course) they defaulted to the more dramatic option. It didn’t help that she also posted a tearful Instagram Story reflecting on motherhood. Taken together, they provided ample evidence for some fans that a big life shift was taking place for the “FTCU” rapper.
Whether her latest post of the family will quiet the rumors remains to be seen, but judging from the reactions on Twitter (going back to never saying “X,” even with the URL change), there are those who’d be perfectly fine with her making this change, considering the various legal and personal issues that have arisen over the last five years since they were married.
Now, if this is just a single announcement, it’s one doozy of a way to let the world know you’ve got a new song coming out, so said single had better live up to the hype.
(Spoilers for Season 4 of The Boys will be found below.)
Suddenly, several major TV shows are making much-anticipated returns at the same time. House of the Dragon will be back this weekend, and new episodes of Bridgerton and The Boys dropped overnight. When it comes to that Regency-era romance, the show’s longest sex scene has viewers salivating, and a corresponding The Boys scene doesn’t exactly boast the same variety of longevity (or consent), but it is nonetheless also sparking reactions.
This scene harkens back to Homelander’s deep twin loves of commanding people to do his bidding and also humiliating the heck out of Deep. Last season, viewers were beside themselves when Antony Starr’s character forced Chace Crawford’s Aquaman parody to eat his best friend, Timothy the Octopus, while the marine mollusk was still alive. This was a gross power move from Homelander, who will not change his ways, even if he grows visibly bored during his sadistic power moves.
As the fourth season of the Prime Video (Amazon) series began, Homelander decided — simply because he could — to order Deep to get on his knees and service A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) during a meeting of The Seven. Neither participant was into it, obviously.
This is a callback to Deep forcing Starlight to perform the same act on him during the first season, but also, look at the reaction from Ashley (Colby Minifie) before Homelander relents and calls off the act. People noticed.
(THE BOYS SEASON 4) THIS SEASON IS ALREADY SO FUCKING FUNNY OH MY GOD?????? ASHLEY WAS FUJO-ING OUT she thought she was gonna see yaoi, she’s mad as hell pic.twitter.com/oQDnuna67s
Inside Out 2 brings back the emotions from the original 2015 animated film, including Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale, replacing Bill Hader), and Disgust (Liza Lapira, replacing Mindy Kaling). But the sequel — which takes place a year later, with Riley now a combustive teenager — also new voices competing for space in her mind.
Following a trip to Pixar HQ, I spoke to director Kelsey Mann and producer Mark Nielsen about the new emotions and the voice actors playing them. Did Ayo Edebiri get the SNL hosting gig during a recording session? Find out below!
Anxiety (Maya Hawke)
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How did you settle on Anxiety being the quote-unquote “main character” of the new emotions?
Kelsey Mann: This movie, I knew I wanted new emotions to show up. One of the ideas that I was interested in was Riley becoming a teenager, and I’m like, well, a lot of new emotions kind of pop up when you’re at that age. And I made a list of all of these possible ideas of emotions that we could expand the world out. And one of them was anxiety. I was really drawn to that from the very beginning. I wrote them all on my wall, my story room, and I just kind of circled that one. That was January 2020 when I began on the film. And even at that time, anxiety was a big topic that a lot of people were dealing with, and it was certainly something that I dealt with when I was the same age as Riley. Even now. And then the pandemic hit, and it just dialed up the conversation about anxiety even more so, because we were feeling a lot more anxious as not only adults, but teenagers and kids. Everybody was dealing with that a lot more, but we had already settled on that would be the main character, the main emotion that shows up.
Mark Nielsen: We also met with experts. Dacher Keltner, who’s a professor at Berkeley, is someone that we got in a room with really early on. We talked about, what are these complex emotions that show up at this age? Dr. Lisa Damour was a big help, too. We read her books. We met with her. She’s an expert in teenage emotions, and she was super helpful. And then we auditioned a lot of emotions in the story, and some of them fell out. We had emotions like guilt and jealousy and shame and schadenfreude, but we ended with the ones that felt the most truthful to being in that new kind of awkward stage of life.
You definitely picked the right person to voice Anxiety. How did Maya Hawke’s casting come about?
KM: I absolutely adore Maya. I want to put her in anything that I work in. We had an incredible working relationship together. When it ended, she’s like, “I would love to do anything with you. I will play a bush, a tree, doesn’t matter.” She was fantastic to work with. And the casting process here at Pixar is really cool, because we usually meet with them and kind of talk about the character and what we’re thinking, and then they go on and they bring to us what they think are the best options, and we listen to it blind. We actually just have a list that says, Actor One, Actor Two, Actor Three. And I just stare at a picture of the character, and Mark and I just listen. We try to see who matches and who fits. And a lot of times I don’t know who the person is. I’m just trying to find the right character and right voice for that character. And then they tell us afterwards, when we narrow it down to our favorites, they tell us, then there’s a big reveal as to who each person is.
It’s like The Dating Game.
KM: It is a little bit, yeah. Sometimes there’s some very distinct voices, and you’re like, I know exactly who that is, and it really helps us to just focus on the character. And then Maya was one that we were drawn to immediately, because we always wanted this character to be incredibly fun and funny and appealing, but also have a sense of real humanity behind the voice. We wanted to feel like you could hear that she actually really cares, and we wanted the character of Anxiety to really love Riley. Maya was able to bring that.
MN: One of the clips I remember us listening to was, I think it might have been pulled from Stranger Things, but she’s talking really fast. It’s hard to keep up with her. And she just had this energy that was just awesome. We’re like, that is great energy. Let’s see what Maya can bring. And then you auditioned her, I think from Epcot on a family vacation.
KM: Yeah, I did. I was at Disney World when she was available for an audition, and so Mark worked with some people here at the studio who had ties at Disney World, and they made it so that I could go. I met somebody at the Mexican Pavilion and went backstage to an office where they had a computer. They had Zoom set up, and I auditioned from Epcot, and we knew right away from that first meeting with her that she was perfect for the role.
Envy (Ayo Edebiri)
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You cast Ayo as she was becoming the biggest thing in the world. Did you see her on The Bear?
MN: Season one had been out, so we knew her from season one of The Bear.
KM: We played a lot of clips from her stand up, which I didn’t know she did. That’s always important, especially in the Inside Out movies, for our cast to have comedy chops behind them. It’s so helpful.
MN: The quality of her voice was just great. And all the clips we listened to, we could hear that voice working in the smallest character that we have of Envy, who’s this tiny little thing. But she was also able to bring this kind of ferocious kind of attitude and energy through that little body of that model that was just awesome.
KM: And she literally did blow up right in front of us when our last record with her, she got an urgent phone call that she had to take in the middle of the recording, and she came back and was like, “That was SNL. They just offered me to host,” so she got that booked in the middle of our recording with her.
Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser)
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To go from the smallest to the biggest of the new characters, what about Paul Walter Hauser? In the clips we’ve seen, he’s mostly mumbling, but he has such a big personality. He’s literally a wrestler.
KM: He not only has wrestler qualities, but I wanted that character to be really sweet. And a lot of that character is based on my own kids. Embarrassment’s definitely at the console of my teenagers, and most teenagers, especially when they’re around their parents. I got this idea that Embarrassment should be too embarrassed to even speak, because I could kind of see that in my own kids, especially when we go into public places. Our first recording with Paul was so fun because he’s too afraid to talk because he’s embarrassed about it. And so he was going to do a lot of vocalizations, which was really fun to record.
MN: The funniest session I’ve ever been to because it was literally three and a half hours of Paul Walter Hauser just doing vocalizations. Kelsey would be like, “All right, if you could say something, here’s what you would say,” and then he would riff and do like 10 or 15 different takes for what that sound could be.
When you were deciding which characters made the cut, did you think of it in terms of how they would play off each other? Like: Embarrassment, very quiet; Anxiety, talking a mile a minute.
KM: It’s the same thing with their design. You carry that over into their voices and what they sound like. So with their design, each character has this very specific color, and then along with that, each character has a very specific shape. In fact, Jason Deamer, our production designer, followed in the footsteps of the original film of Albert Lozano, who was the character architect on the first film. He boiled the characters down, those five main emotions, into a very basic shape and a single color, and then he designed that way. And so Deamer took those original five basic shapes and added to them. It’s the same thing with the voices. In fact, not only would we listen to them individually, we would play them against each other, so that each character was playing a different note. Sometimes Mark and I would pass on somebody because they sounded too much like another character. Like, play Actor 8 against Actor 80, and then we listen to it, and we’d be like, “That’s too similar. I can’t tell the difference.” They each need to have their own lane.
Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos)
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How does it feel knowing you’re teaching an entire generation of children the word “Ennui”?
KM: It’s fantastic. Even from the very first teaser trailer, we kind of hinted at the other emotions that were there. And there’s a really great fact, I believe the Google search of the week that we released the teaser trailer, “ennui” went to, like, the top 10 Google searches. So I’m very excited for it. It’s super fun, and I love that character and what I love about that character is she doesn’t care if you love her or not. She’s just like, “Whatever. I could care less.”
MN: We couldn’t think of a good pairing for Ennui, but she doesn’t care to be part of a pairing anyway.
Have either of you gone on the Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind ride at Disneyland?
KM: 100 times yes. In fact, I even went there and took a picture. I think it was within the first year of working on this movie, a lot of our crew would send us pictures in front of the ride. That ride is super fun. It also reminds me of A Bug’s Land.
MN: That’s where it lived originally.
KM: Yeah, and I loved A Bug’s Land. It’s near and dear to my heart with my whole family, so much so that when I knew they were going to shut it down, I fought to get the Heimlich train here. I remember Jason Katz, who’s a story supervisor, the two of us were like, we will get a U-Haul and we will drive down to Disneyland, and we will get Heimlich ourselves and bring it up. And then they’re like, “Kelsey, you can’t do that. That’s like a terrible idea. That thing is like thousands of pounds. You cannot do that. We’ll do it for you.” And so they got that ride up here at Pixar, and riding the Emotional Whirlwind just reminds me not only of A Bug’s Land and my kids, but now it’s a part of this world, and it’s super fun. You can hear all the voices. It’s really fun. I love that.
The oldest published version of the melody to the “Alphabet Song” was in 1761. However, because it’s the same melody as “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep,” it’s hard to trace it to its original composer.
The “Alphabet Song” is so deeply entrenched in American culture that it almost seems sacrilegious to change a piece of music that’s one of the first most of us ever learned. But after all these years, some educators are altering the classic melody so that there is a variation when the letters L-M-N-O-P are sung.
This change shocked popular TikTokker Jessica Skube, who documents life raising 7 children with her 2.6 million followers. Nearly 10 million people have watched her video revealing the significant change, and it’s received over 56,000 comments since first being published in late 2020.
“You guys, I have huge, huge, huge, huge, huge news,” Skube told her followers. “I have a fifth grader, a fifth grader, a fourth grader, a third grader, a third grader, a first grader, and a preschooler and I just got news that the ‘Alphabet Song’ is changing.”
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The big reason for the change is that people learning English, whether young kids or those who speak it as a second language, often get confused because L-M-N-O-P can sound like one letter, “elemenopee.” So, the new version breaks up that part of the alphabet, making the letters easier to understand. There has been a “surge” in the number of students learning English as a second language over the past decade, so it only makes sense to alter the song to help them learn the fundamentals of the language.
A viral video showing a woman preparing nachos for her “picky” spouse after he refused to eat the salmon dinner she cooked has sparked a contentious debate on TikTok. The video was shared on April 26 by Brianna Greenfield (@themamabrianna on TikTok) and has since earned over 2.5 million views.
Brianna is a mother of two who lives in Iowa.
The video starts with Brianna grating a massive hunk of cheese with a caption that reads: “My husband didn’t eat the dinner that I made…So let’s make him some nachos.”
“If I don’t feed him, he literally won’t eat,” she wrote. “This used to irritate me. Now I just blame his mother for never making him try salmon,” Greenfield wrote. The video features Meghan Trainor’s single “Mother” playing in the background.
At the end of the video, she hands her husband a huge plate of nachos while he lies on the couch under a blanket.
The video received over 11,000 comments on TikTok, primarily people saying that she shouldn’t have made a second meal for her husband and that he appears to be entitled.
Moral of the story: always serve your kids allllll the food, even if they say they dont like it after the first time. 25 years from now your child’s spouse will thank you. 😉 #momsoftiktok #momtok #momlife #workingmom #sahm #marriedlife #marriage #marriagehumor #wifelife #wivesoftiktok #happywifehappylife #pickyeater #pickyhusband #nachosfordinner #wivesoftiktok #cuisinartairfryer #humpday #guesswhatdayitis🐪 #guesswhatdayitis #eattherainbow
“If my husband came home after I cooked dinner and told me he wasn’t eating it to make something else I’d laugh in his face,” Rebecca Rose wrote. “This ain’t a marriage it’s a caretaker internship,” Ad Trèz added.
“It got worse with him wrapped in the blanket being served,” Lauren Becker wrote. “Ohhh…now I know what people mean when they refer to ‘the ick,'” Tara Townsend commented, referencing the moment when people realize that their attraction to someone has turned to repulsion.
However, Brianna believes that people are missing the point of her video. “Moral of the story: always serve your kids allllll the food, even if they say they don’t like it after the first time. 25 years from now your child’s spouse will thank you,” she captioned the post.
Brianna wasn’t trying to paint her husband as infantile but call attention to the fact that when parents don’t expose their children to different types of food, they can wind up with a relatively unsophisticated palette. She knew he didn’t like salmon when she made the dinner for her and her kids, so it wasn’t a surprise that he didn’t want it.
“If you have parents who don’t really like to try anything new, you will also be exposed to fewer new foods,” Marcia Pelchat, Ph.D. told Self—adding that the reverse is also true. When we have positive experiences with new foods, we are more likely to try unfamiliar tastes in the future.
Even though many took shots at Brianna and her husband, they took it all in stride and aren’t bothered by people who don’t know them.
“Thankfully, my husband and I have an excellent sense of humor and know the truth (that he is a wonderful husband and even better father), so we just think the reaction is genuinely entertaining,” she told Newsweek. “Some of the rude comments are hilariously clever!”
After the first video went viral, she posted another where she serves him macaroni and cheese, while he lays on the couch, under a blanket with numerous electronic devices around him.
Replying to @cokedoutsoccermom hot damn🔥 #momsoftiktok #momtok #momlife #workingmom #sahm #marriedlife #marriage #marriagehumor #wifelife #wivesoftiktok #happywifehappylife #pickyeater #pickyhusband #eattherainbow #macandcheese
This article originally appeared on 7.16.23
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