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Robert Pattinson’s had an unusual career. Instead of going the usual handsome movie stud route, he’s done pretty much whatever he’s wanted. The recent birthday boy’s post-Twilight life has seen him working with some of the great auteurs: David Cronenberg (twice!), Claire Denis, the Safdie brothers, Werner Herzog, James Gray, Robert Eggers. He’s even the star of the next Bong Joon-ho. Good for him! Not that working with the best has made him more confident as an actor.

In a new interview he conducted with Saltburn star Barry Keoghan for Wonderland, Pattinson confessed that he feel “more nervous when I don’t feel nervous” on a project. He admitted that whenever he starts a new job, he feels like he forgot how to act. At the time of the interview the SAG-AFTRA strike had yet to end, and he was nervous about how he’d feel even more unprepared.

“I just feel like now I’m back to the start again,” he said. “I know the next time I do something, I’ll be like, I can’t remember how to do any of this stuff. It’s kind of nice to go into it as an amateur every time and be like, ‘This is a huge mountain to climb.’ It’s like being a total fake again.”

Keoghan argued that that’s a good thing. “I feel being familiar with this stuff is dangerous because you kind of lose spontaneity,” he said. “You lose a lot of that instinctive thing that we love and the directors love, obviously.”

“The nice thing about the job as well, in general, is that if something worked in a previous movie and you’re like, ‘Oh everyone said that was good’ and instinctively you go, well, everyone liked that – I want to do that again,’” Pattinson said. “And then next time round, everyone just says it’s sh*t and you’re like, what the f*ck?”

That said, when a film is done, Pattinson has found it easier to move on. “I used to really struggle to watch myself,” he said. “Now, once it’s finished, I feel quite disconnected. I mean, not disconnected in a bad way.”

Technically, Pattinson and Keoghan have worked together before. They’re both in The Batman, albeit not at the same time. Keoghan only appears at the end, in a cameo as a Arkham Asylum inmate credited as “The Joker.” You might have heard of him.

(Via Wonderland and EW)

The New York Jets have spent most of the last few decades finding new ways to torture their fanbase, and their latest effort was starting Tim Boyle in a standalone game on Black Friday against the Miami Dolphins.

Boyle went 7-of-11 passing for 35 yards and one interception in the first half, continuing his streak of throwing a pick in every game he’s appeared in where he’s thrown the ball at least five times in his NFL career. However, this was not just any ordinary interception, as Boyle threw a pick-six on a Hail Mary to end the first half, which seems like an impossible thing to do but the Jets managed to figure out how to allow it to happen.

It’s rare you get a Hail Mary that isn’t thrown into a massive crowd where, even if someone picks it off, he’s going to end up being brought to the ground quickly. In this case, Jevon Holland was able to catch the ball on the goal line with no one really all that close to him, which allowed him to break upfield and outrun the angles of the Jets offensive line. From there, it was Holland 1-on-1 in the open field with Boyle who suffered the indignity of getting dropped on a couple of cutbacks as Holland strolled into the end zone to give Miami a 17-6 lead at the half.

The Jets defense had done an incredible job in the first half, forcing a pair of Tua Tagovailoa interceptions and had it so the Jets should’ve been down less than a touchdown at the half. Instead, the Jets offense continued its quest to break the will of everyone on the defense by giving up a truly awful pick-six on a play that should never have that as a possible outcome.

Something funny happened while Bradley Cooper was in the midst of the Hangover trilogy: He became an award-gobbling movie star. In between editions two and three, Cooper starred in Silver Linings Playbook, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He didn’t seem all that stoked to be in Part III, and when it was over he earned even more Oscar noms and even became an acclaimed director. Does that mean he’s too good to return to the franchise? Absolutely not.

Per The Daily Beast, Cooper chatted with David Remnick for Friday’s installment of The New Yorker Radio Hour. They talked Maestro, Cooper’s directorial follow-up to A Star is Born in which he plays legendary composer Leonard Bernstein (with a controversial fake nose). It’s a serious film (with some jokes), and it prompted Remnick to ask the guy who broke through with films like Wedding Crashers and Failure to Launch if he was “done with fun.” He then mentioned him doing a potential “Hangover 5.”

“Well, I would do Hangover 5,” Cooper quickly interjected, before correcting Remnick’s mistake: “It would be Hangover 4 first, but yeah.”

“You would do that in a flash? Not just to pay the bills,” Remnick asked him.

“I would do probably Hangover 4 in an instant, yeah,” Cooper replied, “just because I love [director] Todd [Phillips], I love Zach [Galifianakis], I love Ed [Helms] so much. I probably would, yeah.”

That said, Cooper added, “I don’t think Todd’s ever going to do that.” (Perhaps Cooper was intimating that Phillips, like him, has moved on to very different fare, in his case the far darker Joker films, the next of which adds Cooper’s Star is Born costar Lady Gaga.)

Cooper then took umbrage with Remnick’s language: “You said the word, ‘fun.’ There’s nothing more fun that I’ve ever experienced than Maestro and A Star Is Born. This is me having fun.”

It’s not uncommon these days for franchises to get dusted off after a decade or so, or even decades. Perhaps it will take another 20 years for a fourth Hangover that’s about one of the gang’s kids getting married and having a bachelor party gone creatively wrong. We’re just spit-balling here.

In the meantime, Maestro is now in select theaters and will stream on Netflix starting December 20.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Something funny happened while Bradley Cooper was in the midst of the Hangover trilogy: He became an award-gobbling movie star. In between editions two and three, Cooper starred in Silver Linings Playbook, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He didn’t seem all that stoked to be in Part III, and when it was over he earned even more Oscar noms and even became an acclaimed director. Does that mean he’s too good to return to the franchise? Absolutely not.

Per The Daily Beast, Cooper chatted with David Remnick for Friday’s installment of The New Yorker Radio Hour. They talked Maestro, Cooper’s directorial follow-up to A Star is Born in which he plays legendary composer Leonard Bernstein (with a controversial fake nose). It’s a serious film (with some jokes), and it prompted Remnick to ask the guy who broke through with films like Wedding Crashers and Failure to Launch if he was “done with fun.” He then mentioned him doing a potential “Hangover 5.”

“Well, I would do Hangover 5,” Cooper quickly interjected, before correcting Remnick’s mistake: “It would be Hangover 4 first, but yeah.”

“You would do that in a flash? Not just to pay the bills,” Remnick asked him.

“I would do probably Hangover 4 in an instant, yeah,” Cooper replied, “just because I love [director] Todd [Phillips], I love Zach [Galifianakis], I love Ed [Helms] so much. I probably would, yeah.”

That said, Cooper added, “I don’t think Todd’s ever going to do that.” (Perhaps Cooper was intimating that Phillips, like him, has moved on to very different fare, in his case the far darker Joker films, the next of which adds Cooper’s Star is Born costar Lady Gaga.)

Cooper then took umbrage with Remnick’s language: “You said the word, ‘fun.’ There’s nothing more fun that I’ve ever experienced than Maestro and A Star Is Born. This is me having fun.”

It’s not uncommon these days for franchises to get dusted off after a decade or so, or even decades. Perhaps it will take another 20 years for a fourth Hangover that’s about one of the gang’s kids getting married and having a bachelor party gone creatively wrong. We’re just spit-balling here.

In the meantime, Maestro is now in select theaters and will stream on Netflix starting December 20.

(Via The Daily Beast)

For years, we’ve seen players who retire and enter the sports media often criticize the current generation for not playing the way they did, or saying the game is too soft or not as good as it once was. That’s why it’s always so refreshing when a former great goes the other direction and celebrates the game’s evolution and the talent in the league today.

Kevin Garnett is among the most prominent who does this in the NBA, as he marvels at what guys now are able to do, building on some of the things he helped bring into the league as one of the early hybrid big men. Garnett has been particularly effervescent in his praise of Victor Wembanyama, struggling to understand how someone 7’5 is able to move the way he does, handle the ball, and shoot. On a recent episode of Real Talk with Stephen A. Smith, Garnett told the ESPN talking head that he thinks the conversation around the NBA on TV shows and podcasts focuses far too much on the past and debating where people rank in NBA history, believing “we’re missing out on greatness right in front of us.”

Garnett highlights what LeBron James is doing at 38, Wembanyama is doing as a rookie, Nikola Jokic is doing “making Wilt Chamberlain roll over in his grave,” and Stephen Curry’s ability to “shoot from Mars” all being things we’ve never seen. I love hearing a Hall of Famer like Garnett say this, and while that doesn’t mean we should ignore or forget the past, but we should focus our conversation more on what is happening now and the incredible things we are seeing as opposed to constantly trying to find comparisons in the past.

For years, we’ve seen players who retire and enter the sports media often criticize the current generation for not playing the way they did, or saying the game is too soft or not as good as it once was. That’s why it’s always so refreshing when a former great goes the other direction and celebrates the game’s evolution and the talent in the league today.

Kevin Garnett is among the most prominent who does this in the NBA, as he marvels at what guys now are able to do, building on some of the things he helped bring into the league as one of the early hybrid big men. Garnett has been particularly effervescent in his praise of Victor Wembanyama, struggling to understand how someone 7’5 is able to move the way he does, handle the ball, and shoot. On a recent episode of Real Talk with Stephen A. Smith, Garnett told the ESPN talking head that he thinks the conversation around the NBA on TV shows and podcasts focuses far too much on the past and debating where people rank in NBA history, believing “we’re missing out on greatness right in front of us.”

Garnett highlights what LeBron James is doing at 38, Wembanyama is doing as a rookie, Nikola Jokic is doing “making Wilt Chamberlain roll over in his grave,” and Stephen Curry’s ability to “shoot from Mars” all being things we’ve never seen. I love hearing a Hall of Famer like Garnett say this, and while that doesn’t mean we should ignore or forget the past, but we should focus our conversation more on what is happening now and the incredible things we are seeing as opposed to constantly trying to find comparisons in the past.

Luh Tyler has gotten into the Thanksgiving holiday spirit. While most looked forward to the culinary spreads laid out for others to enjoy, the Tallahassee, Florida rapper is locked in on the plates of money he’s counted throughout the year. The XXL Freshman star follows his “Brand New Blues” and “Weeks” singles with a new reflective record. On “Change My Wayz,” Luh Tyler thinks about the progress he’s made in his career in less than one year.

“Damn, I gotta change my ways / Now it’s sixty on my neck, remember my chains was fake / ‘Member back whеn times were hard, we prayed for better days / But now I’m gettin’ paid / Now I’m bringin’ home them racks, I’m fillin’ up the safe / Now I make like thirty bands, that’s just to rock the stage,” raps Luh Tyler.

For the official video, he tapped directors George Buford and Cotto Over Did It to drive home the point that all of his hard work and high-life living is bigger than him. He does it to secure a legacy for all of his loved ones.

Watch Luh Tyler’s new video for “Change My Wayz” above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Luh Tyler has gotten into the Thanksgiving holiday spirit. While most looked forward to the culinary spreads laid out for others to enjoy, the Tallahassee, Florida rapper is locked in on the plates of money he’s counted throughout the year. The XXL Freshman star follows his “Brand New Blues” and “Weeks” singles with a new reflective record. On “Change My Wayz,” Luh Tyler thinks about the progress he’s made in his career in less than one year.

“Damn, I gotta change my ways / Now it’s sixty on my neck, remember my chains was fake / ‘Member back whеn times were hard, we prayed for better days / But now I’m gettin’ paid / Now I’m bringin’ home them racks, I’m fillin’ up the safe / Now I make like thirty bands, that’s just to rock the stage,” raps Luh Tyler.

For the official video, he tapped directors George Buford and Cotto Over Did It to drive home the point that all of his hard work and high-life living is bigger than him. He does it to secure a legacy for all of his loved ones.

Watch Luh Tyler’s new video for “Change My Wayz” above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are off to an 11-4 start to the 2023-24 season and look like a young team making the leap into being a real contender in the Western Conference.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren, and Jalen Williams take the starring roles for the young Thunder, but Josh Giddey has also developed into an important piece in the starting lineup with his ability to be a secondary creator next to Gilgeous-Alexander. However, Giddey is now facing serious allegations of an inappropriate relationship with an underage girl after a photo that went viral this week on Twitter and TikTok.

On Friday, Giddey was asked about the situation twice after practice, saying he had “no further comment” and understood people asking the question but that he would not be speaking on it.

Thunder coach Mark Daigneault was also asked about the situation and likewise said he’d have no comment, calling it a “personal matter.”

It’s not surprising neither Giddey nor Daigneault would want to make an official statement on the matter right now, but at some point there will need to be an investigation to confirm details of the alleged relationship and determine what comes next in terms of potential legal problems Giddey could face, beyond whatever happens with the league.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are off to an 11-4 start to the 2023-24 season and look like a young team making the leap into being a real contender in the Western Conference.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren, and Jalen Williams take the starring roles for the young Thunder, but Josh Giddey has also developed into an important piece in the starting lineup with his ability to be a secondary creator next to Gilgeous-Alexander. However, Giddey is now facing serious allegations of an inappropriate relationship with an underage girl after a photo that went viral this week on Twitter and TikTok.

On Friday, Giddey was asked about the situation twice after practice, saying he had “no further comment” and understood people asking the question but that he would not be speaking on it.

Thunder coach Mark Daigneault was also asked about the situation and likewise said he’d have no comment, calling it a “personal matter.”

It’s not surprising neither Giddey nor Daigneault would want to make an official statement on the matter right now, but at some point there will need to be an investigation to confirm details of the alleged relationship and determine what comes next in terms of potential legal problems Giddey could face, beyond whatever happens with the league.