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Not everyone is cut out for the high-stakes world of vehicular-related action franchises. It might seem like a tough thing for, say, professional wrestlers to get involved in a dangerous universe, but many people forget that wrestling is just a glorified soap opera, so the wrestlers fit into movies very nicely! Just ask John Cena, Dave Bautista, or The Rock.

The Rock, a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson, successfully made the leap to becoming a movie star, but he might have made some enemies along the way. Johnson appeared in the Fast and Furious franchise where he entered a famous feud with co-star Vin Diesel. While it might’ve seemed like a publicist stunt, the “candy ass feud” has been ongoing for over five years. Now fellow wrestler-turned-action star John Cena is throwing his opinion into the mix.

Cena appeared on the Armchair Expert podcast hosted by Dax Shepard and he was asked about the “rough pairing” of The Rock and Vin Diesel. “There’s certainly rumors about that. I can’t deny that,” he admitted. “You have two very alpha, driven people. You get two, there can only be one.”

Cena appeared in F9: The Fast Saga in 2021, and he said that all of those years in the wrestling ring helped prep him for the Furious world. “I’m being invited into someone’s home, into someone’s family. And regardless of how they look physically in comparison to another human being, this is one IP that has had nine installments and it’s an action movie — that’s rarefied air,” Cena shared. “At the very least, there has to be respect for that.”

Next up, The Rock will appear in a Christmas movie titled Red One. It will probably be pretty “candy ass” (whatever that means).

(Via Deadline)

Maren Morris has been chasing her music dream since she was a child. During a recent episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Morris talked about some of the gigs she performed before making it big. One of the Fort Worth native’s earliest gigs was performing the National Anthem at an “amateur wrestling ring.”

Intrigued by this reveal, Colbert asked Morris “Could I sing the national anthem with you sometime?”

“Sure,” Morris replied.

Morris sang the melody and Colbert sang the harmony — as, evidently, that’s the only part he knows. The two delivered a choral rendition, each of them equally slaying their parts. Morris was visibly impressed by Colbert at moments and even asked him at the end, “Where did that come from?”

Which is a good thing, as this is likely the last music-related thing we’ll get from Morris for awhile. Elsewhere in the interview, Morris, whose last album Humble Quest was released in 2022, revealed she’s taking her time writing her next album.

“There’s a lot of personal stuff right now I’m wading through, processing, writing through,” said Morris. “So, yeah, I’m giving myself the time to do that and not having to rush a very, huge personal thing through an album being delivered. So, yeah, it’s going to take a little bit longer than I had hoped, but I have to trust the process.”

You can see the clip above.

The Joker: Folie à Deux trailer slammed onto the internet last night, giving fans their first taste of what to expect from the Todd Phillips-directed sequel and its musical twist. As viewers went wild over finally seeing Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, some of them woke up on Wednesday morning to discover a new addition to the trailer: a warning message from YouTube.

“The following content may contain suicide or self-harm topics. Viewer discretion is advised,” the warning message reads before prompting users to click on a button that reads, “I understand and wish to proceed.”

When Warner Bros. first unveiled the trailer, the warning message wasn’t present. Variety has a theory on what may have prompted YouTube to take action:

The scene that may have triggered the content warning: Harley Quinn (played by Lady Gaga) makes a finger-gun gesture then holds it to her head before pulling the “trigger.”

“I’m nobody. I haven’t done anything with my life like you have,” Harley Quinn tells Joker as she mimes shooting herself in the head.

As Variety reports, YouTube’s Community Guidelines allows the platform to add “a warning on your video before it starts playing, indicating that it contains content relating to suicide and self-harm.” YouTube will also add a panel directing users to suicide prevention resources.

Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters on October 4.

(Via Variety)

Olivia Rodrigo wrapped up her run in New York with her fourth and final Guts Tour show last night (April 9) at Madison Square Garden. Considering she opened this tour stop by bringing out Noah Kahan, fans had wondered if she would have any other surprise guests in store. And they were right to think so.

Although Monday night’s concert was just her, it was still just as incredible to see her run through all the solo songs. During yesterday’s show, Rodrigo treated the crowd by bringing out Jewel, as the two performed a duet of “You Were Meant For Me.”

“She is such an incredible songwriter. When I first started writing my songs, I would listen to her album Pieces Of You before I went to bed,” Rodrigo shared during her introduction speech. “She’s incredible and it’s such an honor that she’s here with me tonight.”

Rodrigo has creatively used the Guts Tour as a chance to spotlight older artists like Jewel alongside newer pop performers — allowing younger fans to discover musical acts that might’ve been out of their reach. Her NYC tour openers were also The Breeders, who shared that they were shocked that the “Drivers License” singer even thought of picking them.

Check out a video of Olivia Rodrigo performing with Jewel in NYC below.

While it may seem like the whole rap community has beef at the moment, at least one pair of feuding friends seems to have laid their discord to rest. JT and Yung Miami, known collectively as City Girls, fell out and made up over the course of several hours yesterday after a heated back-and-forth on Twitter (never X) was reconciled by something as simple as a phone call. How novel!

The tweets have all been deleted, but The Shade Room proved useful for something, capturing screenshots of the tail end of their exchange. After one last tweet from JT popped up on the timeline arguing that she has reason to be mad, Miami expressed confusion, saying “Jatavia we just got off the phone… now we back to the internet???”

Fortunately, the issue was quickly resolved. “This tweet was BEFORE the phone conversation,” JT explained. “Don’t know why it didn’t go through. Maybe because everyone was blowing up my phone!” In response, Miami declared she was “moving on,” telling her partner-in-rhyme, “I love you.” JT’s reply? “I love you more. I actually love you the most!”

Now THAT’s how you handle a falling out.

While Drake and Kendrick probably won’t be doing this anytime soon, it’s nice to see that some folks still know how to act, even if fans online love to feed into the negativity.

System Of A Down and Deftones are planning the ultimate alt-rock bash this summer. On August 17, the two aughts alt-rock favorites will headline a special show in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Joining them are Vowws, Viagra Boys, and The Mars Volta, during what Golden Gate Park is billing as the park’s first-ever “after dark” show (the show begins at 3 p.m. and is expected to run until 10 p.m.)

Seeing all these bands together for one night is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Gen-Xers and millennials, who can’t wait to get their hands on tickets. System Of A Down’s only other show so far for 2024 is at Vegas’ Sick New World festival and Deftones are only playing at Coachella and Lollapalooza. Thankfully, tickets for this one-off are dropping sooner rather than later, and fans will be able to purchase them beginning this week.

When Do Tickets For System Of A Down And Deftones’ San Francisco Concert Come Out?

Fans can purchase tickets to the one-off concert starting Thursday (April 11th) at 10 a.m. PT. This will be a Live Nation presale, where fans can use the code RIFF. General on-sale will begin Friday (April 12) via Ticketmaster.

Additional information about the special San Francisco concert can be found here.

After HBO delivered a grand slam adaptation of the hit video game series The Last of Us, Amazon has stepped up to the plate to take a crack at Fallout. Like The Last of Us, Fallout is also a wildly popular gaming franchise set in a post-apocalyptic world, but this one is more desolate and barren thanks to, well, all of the nuclear fallout. (Get it? Like the title.)

Set to start streaming this week, Fallout arrives under the guidance of Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan, who brings all of his sci-fi skills to the table along with the show’s most powerful weapon: Walton Goggins. The Justified star plays The Ghoul, a 200-year-old bounty hunter wandering the wasteland. However, Goggins is more than just the deformed gunslinger. The actor spends a significant amount of time in the past as Cooper Howard, a movie star who has front row seats to the end of the world.

Based on the early reviews, Goggins and Fallout are a powerful combo. You can see what the critics are saying below:

Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter:

From the very first minutes of the Nolan-directed premiere, Fallout boasts a strong sense of place. Lucy’s vault is midcentury suburbia rendered in Space Age steel, dotted with incongruously chipper slogans (“Don’t lose your head!”) and populated by unsettlingly cheery citizens in matching jumpsuits. The surface world that Lucy finds herself in after a catastrophe is the polar opposite — a retrofuturistic Wild West mishmash caked in the kind of grime that’d be impossible to wash off even if there were enough water to go around. But the biggest shock for Lucy is that the world’s hard-bitten survivors have no interest in her people’s lofty notions of re-civilizing the planet.

Aramide Tinubu, Variety:

The first half of “Fallout” is undoubtedly the strongest, as Lucy tries to grapple with the lies she’s been told about the world while barely keeping herself alive. Still, even as the storylines linger too long in less exciting places, viewers are eager to see how the varied mysteries and secrets of the surface and the dwellers will reveal themselves. Bizarre but intensely fun, “Fallout” is like nothing you’ve ever seen; for that reason alone, you won’t be able to turn away.

Paul Tassi, Forbes:

And of course, there’s Walton Goggins. Everyone thought that his casting as a ghoul was spot-on and guess what? It’s spot-on. But you may not realize just what a dual role it is, as yes Goggins is a badass, somewhat villainous ghoul gunslinger with a CGI-ed out nose, but there are lengthy stretches of the show about his time before the war as a Clint Eastwood-type movie star who starts shilling for Vault Tec while slowly learning the company’s actual plans.

Kyle Hilliard, Game Informer:

Beyond its overall tone – a world filled with violent delights in a science-fiction setting – Cooper Howard, played by Walton Goggins (Justified), is perhaps the most direct line to Westworld. He is reminiscent of the Man in Black in Nolan and Joy’s sci-fi western, a violent cowboy with intimate knowledge of the world that he puts to frequent, terrifying use. Goggins is the kind of actor who effortlessly stands out in any cast, and even behind Ghoul prosthetics, Fallout is no exception. Goggins has one of my favorite lines in the show, citing the danger of getting distracted by bulls*** when trying to complete a primary mission. It is effective as a standalone joke and a reference to the inspirational video game.

Matt Purslow, IGN:

It’s not hard to see why Amazon went to bat for Fallout. This is a weird, often hyper-violent, sometimes satirical black comedy that sits comfortably next to The Boys. While never quite as puerile or gross as some of Vought’s most extreme moments, Fallout consistently uses the darkness of its irradiated landscape to spin surreal jokes, from a talking brain-in-a-jar to an organ-harvesting robot spouting the honeyed tones of Matt Berry (of What We Do in the Shadows fame).

Kambole Campbell, Empire:

Not all of it holds together, but in its best moments the show underlines the game’s themes, poking at the ludicrousness of conservative doctrines when the empire has already crumbled. The Vault satirises nuclear-family mundanity, relocated underground in a hermetically sealed suburbia; the Brotherhood Of Steel’s cool exosuits are a spin on cultish feudalism. Ultimately, Fallout is playing not just with the iconography but also the power fantasy of the games — of one person deciding the fate of the world.

All eight episodes of Fallout season 1 start streaming April 10 at 9 p.m. ET on Amazon Prime Video. Be sure to check out our interview with star Ella Purnell.

Cailee Spaeny had a monumental 2023 thanks to her role in Priscilla, but 2024 is gearing up to be even better for the actress. She stars in Alex Garland’s epic Civil War and the upcoming space thriller Alien: Romulus, but all of that is nothing compared to her encounter with Taylor Swift at this year’s Golden Globes.

The Priscilla actress met Swift at the ceremony in January, where she was nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor. Not only did the two talk about their love of Kansas City football (one player in particular), but Swift also gushed over Spaeny’s breakout role in 2021’s Mare of Easttown alongside Kate Winslet. These are the types of conversations one should put on their resume.

Spaeny recalled the encounter in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I was so inarticulate,” she said. “I was like, ‘Your hair is so pretty,’ and I said to myself, ‘Oh my God, really!? Is that the only thing you’re going to say.’ I also said, ‘I’m a Chiefs fan and I love you,’ but I didn’t know what to say. And she was like, ‘Yeah, it’s all in one place now.’ And I was like, ‘Exactly!’ So I don’t have many fangirl moments, but that one was a big deal. Anyone my age would agree that you can’t keep your chill in that moment.”

It doesn’t matter how old you are! Adam Sandler also finds interacting with Swift to be nearly impossible.

Ruby Cruz, fellow Mare star (say that five times fast), was impressed with Swift’s memory. Spaeny added, “Taylor Swift brought up that she loved Mare of Easttown, which is so crazy, and Ruby [Cruz] went, ‘I’m in Mare of Easttown, too!’ And then Taylor said, ‘But you were blonde in Mare of Easttown, weren’t you?’” This is true, as Cruz famously switches up hair quicker than Swift’s wardrobe changes.

Spaeny added, “So I don’t know what that says about Taylor. Maybe it’s just that she’s a massive Mare of Easttown fan, which is very cool.” It should not be surprising that Swift has a good memory since she has to remember the lyrics to 44 songs every night on her Eras Tour. To be fair, her crowd probably sings/screams about 98 percent of it.

Luckily, Spaeny will be able to remember her moment with Swift forever, thanks to their brief meeting. “It was like I was looking at a real-life Disney princess. That photo is really great and sums it all up.”

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

If Leslie Knope lived in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, she might look something like Ella Purnell’s Lucy – the plucky, wide-eyed heroine of Amazon Prime Video’s latest streaming big swing, Fallout.

An adaptation of Bethesda’s massively popular RPG franchise, the show is produced by Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and helmed by Graham Wagner (The Office) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel). With those credits in mind, it’s no wonder the series sports a uniquely weird, retro-futuristic, atom-punk aesthetic – filled with enough Easter eggs to make gamers happy, and plenty of fascinating lore to entice newcomers.

Welcoming the uninitiated is where Purnell’s character comes in. A naively optimistic vault dweller sheltered from the consequences of nuclear fallout as part of a privileged few, Lucy is untested and ignorant of the world as it stands now. The bombs may have dropped hundreds of years earlier, but she, like us, is experiencing this lawless land – ravaged by centuries of drought and decay, ruled by ruthless anarchy – for the first time.

As she embarks on a rescue mission across a West Coast desert, she confronts plenty of unknowns – mutated Ghouls played by Walton Goggins, armored knights, strange scientists with killer K9 sidekicks, and an eclectic array of radioactive monsters hoping she doubles as a midday snack. Purnell, fresh off a stint on Showtime’s breakout drama Yellowjackets, is no stranger to survival stories, or IP that comes with big expectations. (She’s played in the Zack Snyder universe before.) But Fallout is a different beast, a decades-spanning gaming franchise with weighty themes disguised beneath offbeat satire and darkly comedic undertones, filled with an intimidating amount of world-building, dozens of iconic storylines, and breathtaking action sequences. Translating that to the small screen took Purnell out of her comfort zone – tasking her to swim with Gulpers, perform decapitation by hacksaw, and travel halfway across the world to film panoramic scenes of 2296-era Los Angeles on long-forgotten stretches of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

UPROXX chatted with Purnell about that once-in-a-lifetime experience, the appeal of survival stories, and why she thought she had botched her audition for the show.=

Lucy is billed as someone who could star in a toothpaste commercial but could also kill you. How do you audition for that?

They described me to her as Leslie Knope meets Ned Flanders and I could just so picture that. Then I read the script and I familiarized myself a little bit with the games and the tone. This was before my audition. I guess I really wanted to play her pulled back. She is very self-assured. Obviously, she’s innocent and she’s naive and she’s privileged, and all of those things we already know about vault dwellers, but there’s more to her than meets the eye. There’s a danger, there’s a toughness, there’s an idea that if she was given the chance, if she was put in a situation, she could be someone else entirely, and that’s exactly what happens when she leaves the vault.

But I actually thought my audition went really badly and then I somehow got the part. I think my first words on the phone were, ‘Are you sure?’

What gave you the impression you weren’t going to get the part?

I mean it was on Zoom and it’s always kind of awkward. Someone’s always on mute and I don’t know, it was just a feeling. But here I am so what do I know?

Did you get a chance to play the game?

I absolutely did. They told me I didn’t have to [but] it was really important to me to respect the source material. I also love prep. I love to research. I guess I’m kind of like Lucy in that way. So I wanted to have more context, more stuff to sink my teeth into. I’m not very good at the actual playing of the game. I have trouble with the controls, so I spend a lot of time watching other people play on Twitch and YouTube and stuff like that.

I mean, the thing about jumping into a franchise, especially something that’s so well-loved and it’s been around for so long is there is so much information online. There is so much lore and at first, that’s obviously very intimidating, but the more you dive in, it’s just intoxicating. There’s just so much to learn and it made it even more powerful when I walked onto the set for the first time or I put the vault suit on for the first time. It’s truly, for lack of a less pretentious word, humbling to realize what you’re getting yourself into. And yeah, I really wanted to do justice to the source material and I wanted the fans of the game to enjoy it, but at the same time, this was my Lucy. She doesn’t exist in the games and I really wanted to play her a certain way.

The tricky thing about a video game adaptation is attracting non-gamers while doing justice to fans of the source material. Is there anything that might surprise audiences in terms of how the show straddles that line?

I think they did an incredible job bringing all of the details that are in the game to life — the vault suits, the Pip-Boys, the Nuka-Cola, the Radroach, there’s so much. Even the sets, they’re meticulously replicated. But also the themes, which is something that must be so, so difficult. One of the themes of the game is choice. The player gets to make all these different choices that directly affect the trajectory of where your character’s going to go, the journey, and they took that and demonstrated it with three separate characters that represent three different places. You are in the game. You start the games as a vault dweller, that’s Lucy, at the very beginning. Maximus is the only character who spent all of his time, his entire life in the Wasteland. [That’s] a very different experience.

Then there’s the ghoul who is a survivor. He has adapted in the way he had to and he’s been doing this a long, long time. You get these three kinds of archetypes that they’ve pulled from the game, and I just think that it’s so smart the way they did it — balancing the tone of drama and action with the comedy. Even the gore, even in moments that seem like they could be pulled out of a horror film, there is some ridiculous, satirical, absurd element that makes it Fallout.

Thinking of the parallels between Lucy and Jackie, your character on Yellowjackets – did working on that survival story prepare you in any way for this one?

I do think that things happen for a reason sometimes and everything that I’ve done, every piece of my work has kind of helped me in the next one, in a way. I’ve been lucky enough to get to explore survival as a theme in my work — and I say lucky because it’s something that fascinates me. It doesn’t always have to be these big-scale life-or-death situations. Even how you survive an emotion, how you survive an experience, a breakup, a divorce, a death. How do you just survive as a person and do you change? Do you lose your way, your morals? I think with Yellowjackets, you take Jackie and you put her in this impossible situation that she never thought she’d be in… she knew exactly who she was and what she was going to get out of her life, and then the plane crashed. It all went bottoms up and she tried to bend to adapt but she couldn’t. She bent so hard that she broke.

Whereas Lucy keeps on bending, and you’ll see when you watch the show, where she ends up at the end of the season is so different. It’s a different character from who she was at the beginning of the season. That fascinates me how you can put one person or a hundred different people in the same situation and every single person is going to react differently.

Is it a good or a bad thing that Lucy starts to bend, to lose some of her do-gooder optimism in the Wasteland?

Does she lose that part of herself? I’m a human spoil machine [so] I’ll try to say, I think almost everyone gets lost along the way and sometimes they come back to themselves and sometimes they do not. I think that Lucy… all the experiences that she has in the Wastelands change her, but I think the challenge for Lucy is how can she survive and still hold onto that moral compass and still believe. Is it possible to believe in the Golden Rule and live in the Wastelands at the same time? Is it possible? I don’t know, but it makes for really good TV.

You filmed in some remote locations – like hyenas living in abandoned mines, remote. What were some of the joys and challenges of that?

We didn’t come across any hyenas or jackals. Maybe some people did. I personally didn’t, but it was an ever-present risk [which] makes life exciting. It might be cheesy, but there weren’t any challenges. We got to film in some of the most beautiful locations in the world and we’re the first and the last people to ever film there – only eight people on a four-hour helicopter ride to get to this abandoned shipwreck That is not lost on me what an insane, lucky experience that is. Who knew the Namibian coastline could replicate the Pacific coast so wonderfully, but it does. I’m really excited for people to see Lucy exiting the vault and bear in mind that is in Africa where we shot that. It’s crazy.

You’ve done plenty of adaptations – whether it’s books or films in the Zack Snyder universe. How do you handle the expectations and the criticisms?

There’s nothing you can do about it. I have adopted the philosophy and mentality that what is not in my control is none of my business. It’s not my job to make people like my work. It’s my job to make work and I hope you like it, and if you don’t, you’re still talking about it.

All episodes of ‘Fallout’ will be available to stream on Amazon Prime on April 10 at 9PM ET

Is Kevin Costner returning for the final episodes of Yellowstone? It’s the question on everyone’s (well, mostly dads’) lips. The actor, who got into a rumored disagreement with creator Taylor Sheridan, commented on whether he’ll be back during an appearance at CinemaCon on Tuesday.

“I’d like to be able to do it, but we haven’t been able to,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “I thought I was going to make seven [seasons], but right now we’re at five. So how it works out — I hope it does — but they’ve got a lot of different shows going on. Maybe it will. Maybe this will circle back to me. If it does and I feel really comfortable with [it], I’d love to do it.”

He continued, “[John Dutton] needs to be proactive in what happens and I’ve kind of had my own fantasy how [his final arc] might be. But that’s Taylor’s thing. I said as much to him a while back. I had thoughts how it could happen, but we just have to see.” Forget, Kev, it’s Yellowstone (Taylor’s Version).

Costner was at CinemaCon to promote his upcoming, Horizon: An American Saga, the first part of which opens in theaters on June 28. Meanwhile, the second half of the final season of Yellowstone premieres on November 10, with or without its cowboy hat-wearing star.

(Via Entertainment Tonight)