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In Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell play two cannibals who fall in love. No spoilers, but the pair did not eat human meat (“mmm… human meat”) during the filming of the coming-of-age movie. Otherwise, a certain someone who worked with Chalamet and Guadagnino might have been more interested.

“On a very practical note, Luca said that we were eating corn syrup,” Russell told Slash Film. “But I know that I wasn’t, because I remember the incredible effects team and the team who were handling all of that sort of stuff told me that it was maraschino cherries, dark chocolate, and Fruit Roll-Ups.” She added that it was “very sweet and [tastier] than anything else maybe you could imagine.”

Apparently cannibals have the same diet as me in fourth grade. Here’s more:

Bones and All is a story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.

Bones and All, which also stars Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon Green, and Jessica Harper, opens in theaters on November 18.

(Via Slash Film)

Last month, Taylor Swift dropped her delightful video for “Anti-Hero,” which included a comedy sketch featuring Mike Birbiglia, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia‘s Mary Elizabeth Ellis, and John Early as her future relatives. It was a fun moment, and now Birbiglia has revealed that when Swift first reached out to him about it, he figured there was a decent chance he was being catfished by somebody who wasn’t actually Swift.

In a Late Show interview last night (November 8), he told Stephen Colbert that he and Swift were first connected via mutual friend Jack Antonoff, who Birbiglia has known for a long time after initially meeting at Bonnaroo “about 15 years ago.” He continued, “It just so happened she was writing the music video the day that we happened to meet, and we were having pizza with Jack and a bunch of folks, and then she thought, ‘Oh, you…,’ apparently, in her mind, she thought, ‘This is the dystopic version, the nightmare version of what my son would be.’”

As for how they got in touch about the video, he said, “I got a text from her… I don’t know, a month or two later. […] I thought maybe I was just being catfished: It’s just a number. […] I just thought, it’s either Taylor Swift — that’d be cool — or it’s someone catfishing me who’s an excellent writer! Because she sent the script to the video that’s wonderful and very funny, and I thought, ‘This is fantastic. Either way, it’s sort of a win-win.’ I go, ‘Count me in, either Taylor Swift or a catfish person!’”

Check out Birbiglia’s Late Show interview below.

Not everyone is up for the challenge of being a Marvel villain. It comes with a lot of negativity, the occasional bad costume, and, worst of all, you need to be pretty jacked up. So this sounds perfect for Jimmy Kimmel, who said he wishes he would be a Marvel villain, instead of just your typical run-of-the-mill late-night host. It’s only natural to graduate from one thing to the other!

Kimmel recently had Jonathan Majors on his show, who plays an actual Marvel villain, Kang the Conqueror, in the upcoming Ant-Man sequel. Though Majors doesn’t seem too confident about Kimmel’s desire to be a villain. “Yeah, it’s great, it’s great,” Majors said, adding “I wonder if you’d be as happy being Kang the Conqueror when you gotta wake up at 4:30 and go to the gym, and then go back to the gym at 7.” Are you interested in having a Kang body? It’s really easy! Just wake up before the sun and follow these stressful steps to gain 21 pounds of pure muscles (give or take a few). The movie offers will come rolling in, probably.

Majors and his muscles are gearing up to lead the next Marvel phase with Kang as the Big Bad Guy and will reprise his role in Avengers: Kang Dynasty in 2025. So he will probably have to wake up at 4 am for the next few years, which seems like it would be enough to make anyone a villain. Speaking of villains, remember when Mark Wahlberg had to wake up at 2:30 am for a morning prayer/ workout before his 9:30 am cryotherapy chamber session? Why hasn’t he been recruited by Disney yet?!

As for Kimmel, he said he’d rather be Kang the Relaxer, which is definitely the preferred role. You can check out Majors’ remarks around the 5:50 mark above. And then he starts juggling! He really is a man of the people.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will be released in theaters on February 17th, 2023.

On his new single, “I Know Nothing,” British rapper Slowthai aims to empower the younger generations. As part of a partnership with Beats By Dre and their Defy The Noise campaign, “I Know Nothing” is accompanied by a short film featuring footballers Bukayo Saka, Serge Gnabry, Kingsley Coman, and Ritsu Doan.

In the short film, the footballers are seen practicing and playing games, while these clips are juxtaposed with screenshots of criticism and scrutiny they’ve received from social media.

“My whole generation misguided / We are one and the same / It cuts me deep / I pray understanding that I won’t be heard,” Slowthai raps on the rock-influenced rap track.

“‘I Know Nothing’ is a fight back against those people who are so quick to put the blame on the younger generation,” Slowthai said in a statement. “In a world full of misinformation and judgment it only reveals the true intentions of how miserable people’s lives must be as they are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and applaud or point out people’s failures or vulnerabilities. Instead, we should be lifting people up when we see them fall. social media can and should be used as a tool for connection and good but instead, it serves to gloat and punch down. It fails to show the harsh reality we live in, which can lead to isolation and depression. Let’s lift each other up.”

Check out “I Know Nothing” above and the Defy The Noise short film below.

Early yesterday morning, Jason Isbell was asked by a fan if he’d ever have any interest in running for office as election day had arrived. The country musician has frequently been vocal about his political stances and interactive on social media — so naturally, Isbell shared his answer. And the truth was: he had.

“I have considered it, but I’m gonna need about another ten years of study and I’d like our kid to be settled into her self before she has to deal with a politician parent,” he responded. “We’ll see if we still have a democracy in a decade.”

“I wouldn’t run for anything unless I knew every detail of the job in advance,” Isbell added.

Isbell, who is based in Nashville, has also supported a number of candidates over the years, including Alabama’s Democratic senator Doug Jones, Beto O’Rourke, and more. Last November, he even promised to drop a Texas cover album if O’Rourke had beaten Greg Abbott in this race. “If you need a singer for anything, you just call,” Isbell responded on O’Rourke’s announcement that he was running for Texas Governor.

“I know the people here, even the ones I strongly disagree with on personal and professional issues,” he told Billboard in 2020. “I know them and grew up around them, and I know what makes ’em happy and what makes ’em scared. With that in mind, I feel like it’s important to speak to those people and not ignore them and not try to hide in your own bubble.

Continue scrolling to view some fan reactions to Isbell’s post.

Rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert surely didn’t imagine that she’d have a rocky road to reelection. In the harsh light of day, she may have lost her bid even as Colorado’s 3rd district remains too close to call. For at least a month, relatively unknown Adam Frisch gained momentum and even achieved a statistical tie in polls after essentially running as “not-Boebert.” Not to be deterred, the Sarah Palin doppelgänger continued her usual method of dragging Democrats with a bizarre taxation “lesson” for Halloween, and she unintentionally pulled her best imitation of a The Daily Show correspondent when The Denver Post begged readers not to hand “toxic” Boebert their vote.

As Election Day began, Boebert projected an air of condescending confidence while predicting that Democrats would be the “losers!” of the election during a “#RedWave.” Is this poetry that she tweeted? I’m not sure. “They called you cockroaches,” she began. “They called you cult members. They called you extremists. They called you terrorists. Today, we call them losers!”

As well, Boebert gave off an early evening celebratory vibe with a “The red wave has begun!” in reference to Anna Paulina Luna’s House victory in Florida.

Well, a slam-dunk Boebert victory doesn’t seem like it’s in the cards. The New York Times is reporting that she still has a shot, but the Associated Press declares that results are still too close to call after Frisch grabbed an early lead and is still hanging on with 50.6% of the vote while Boebert trails with 49.4%. It’s a nail biter for sure.

Let’s just say that people enjoyed throwing the “losers” back in Boebert’s face. This included a remark (from The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson) that “Lauren Boebert going down harder than Donald Trump on the Mar a Lago waffle station.”

And the deluge began. Is Boebert the real loser? People are pouncing on that potential outcome already.

It ain’t over yet! There may very well be more routin’ and tootin’ to come.

In one of the nation’s most contested elections, Democrat John Fetterman triumphed over his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, in the Pennsylvania Senate race, despite the TV doctor/”puppy killer” spending a reported $27 million of his own fortune.

“We launched this campaign almost two years ago and we had our slogan. It’s on every one of those signs right now. Every county, every vote. Every county, every vote. And that’s exactly what happened,” Fetterman said in his victory speech. “And that’s exactly what happened. We jammed them up. We held the line.”

As noted by @MarlowNYC, “jammed them up” could be a nod to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Fetterman has spoofed the Pennsylvania-set comedy before; he’s also very good at pop culture references, as evidenced by his social media comparing Dr. Oz to Dr. Nick from The Simpsons. Judge for yourself with the Sunny scene in question:

A user on the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia subreddit notes that on the Always Sunny Podcast, hosts Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day revealed that “NYPD Blue was where they got that phrase from.”

Or maybe it’s a Parks and Recreation reference:

Either way, Fetterman should get Oprah to appear on Sunny. It worked for 30 Rock.

(Via Twitter/@MarlowNYC)

Over the past year, 50 Cent has really taken to making fun of Madonna on social media. Now, he’s at it again.

On November 5, he shared a screenshot of an article about Madonna titled, “Madonna Using Rap Music For Clout On TikTok Is Pathetic And Truly Disturbs My Spirit.” 50 wrote, “I told y’all grand ma was on bullsh*t! like a virgin at 64. LOL.”

This comes relatively soon after a June post from the rapper, in which he shared a photo of Madonna and wrote, “I hope she didn’t make her kids take this picture. LOL at 63 somebody tell her to chill out please.” The post was actually a gallery, and accompanying the Madonna pic is three images of aliens.

Towards the end of last year, Madonna posted some risqué photos on Instagram and 50 re-shared one, writing, “yo this is the funniest sh*t! LOL That’s Madonna under the bed trying to do like a virgin at 63. she shot out, if she don’t get her old ass up. LMFAO.” Madonna responded at the time, writing, “I guess your new career Is getting attention by trying to humiliate others on social media. […] You’r just jealous you won’t look as good as me or have as much fun when you are my age!”

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Results from yesterday’s (November 8) election are starting to roll in and there’s a particularly notable result down in Florida: 25-year-old Democratic candidate Maxwell Alejandro Frost (who was previously the national organizing director for March For Our Lives) won a seat in the House Of Representatives. This makes him the first Gen Z member of Congress and he plans to celebrate in a particularly Gen Z way: by seeing The 1975 in concert.

When the race was called last night, Frost tweeted, “WE WON!!!! History was made tonight. We made history for Floridians, for Gen Z, and for everyone who believes we deserve a better future. I am beyond thankful for the opportunity to represent my home in the United States Congress. #FL10.” A few hours later, he added, “I am Congressman-Elect Maxwell Alejandro Frost and I will be the first member of Generation-Z in the United States Congress. WE MADE HISTORY!!! Don’t count young people out.”

He then concluded in all caps, “I’VE BEEN CAMPAIGNING FOR OVER A YEAR THIS IS WILD!! I’M GONNA SEE @the1975 ON THURSDAY TO CELEBRATE!!!”

On Thursday (November 10), The 1975 is set to perform in Washington, DC. Frost will probably get an eye-full at the show, as so far, The 1975’s concerts have seen Matty Healy smoking, eating raw meat, and touching himself.

Beabadoobee is out on the road now, bringing her latest album Beatopia to life. The tour — which is one of the most anticipated ones of this fall — kicked off on October 25th, in Washington DC, and it will take her across the US, into Canada, and then back to the East Coast in December. Joining her is Lowertown, an indie duo from Atlanta.

The setlist features a good chunk of Beatopia as well as her debut Fake It Flowers. About the newer record, she previously said, “It’s a lot of different vibes. There’s not one song that sounds the same as the others. I’ve been really getting into a band called Stars, and I’ve always loved Stereolab as well. I’ve been working with my guitarist Jacob and using a lot of teenage engineering, drum machines, mixtures of guitars. It’s been really fun. I don’t know how to explain it, but it sounds very 2006 [laughs]. I feel like this new album is what I am meant to sound like.”

Check out the average setlist below.

1. “Worth It”
2. “Together”
3. “Care”
4. “Charlie Brown”
5. “He Gets Me So High”
6. “10:36”
7. “Yoshimi, Forest, Magdalene”
8. “The Perfect Pair”
9. “See You Soon”
10. “Sorry”
11. “She Plays Bass”
12. “Talk”
13. “Back to Mars”
14. ‘Coffee”
15. “Last Day on Earth”
16. “Dye It Red”
17. “Cologne”