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Emily Ratajkowski‘s dating life has made plenty of headlines lately, and for that reason, it takes up plenty of room in a new LA Times profile that includes EmRata’s reaction to word that she was spotted kissing Harry Styles in Japan. Her response makes her previously suggested timeline a little confusing (perhaps there’s some overlap there that we don’t know about), but what can you do? She’s having a good time, it seems.

In the piece, Emily also makes some vague statements that could be about Eric Andre (that’s the potential reading from columnist Amy Kaufman), and to be frank, they’re not spectacular reveals. These include Emily’s disappointment that this unnamed male didn’t directly comment on her beauty and when asked, he declared, “Are you serious? You’re a famous model.” Emily now remarks, “I need to know that you are specifically attracted to me” rather than a “standard,” but when it comes to Pete Davidson, she is clearly a fan, even though their public appearances looked incredibly awkward. In fact, Emily is still singing Pete’s praises:

“Even my friends were like, ‘What was that like?’” she says, referring to her outings with the “Saturday Night Live” veteran. “I actually don’t understand it. People are so perplexed by the idea that a man might just be respectful to women and treat them like people and thus be easy to go out on dates with.”

Even though Pete and Emily didn’t work out as a long-term couple, there’s plenty of respect there. Back in November 2021, she had let the world know that she understood the attraction, too. To recap, EmRata declared, “[H]e seems super charming. He’s vulnerable. He’s lovely. His fingernail polish is awesome. He looks good!” Lately, though, Pete has admitted that the SNL cast’s focus on his dating life didn’t make him feel great. He probably feels much differently about Emily’s take, though.

(Via LA Times)

Kevin Gates isn’t afraid to share, whether it’s explaining why he almost went one full month without eating or drinking or vulnerably sharing about sexual abuse he suffered in adolescence.

Gates cares about the truth.

“From me not telling the truth, my throat chakra started getting blocked, and I started getting sick,” Gates said on the I Am Athlete episode from Monday, April 3, beginning around the 50-minute mark. “I started having colds and sh*t until I started opening my throat chakra and speaking the truth. I haven’t been sick since.”

He continued, “When I was living at the other spot before I moved here, I used to be sick a lot. Like, weak and everything because I wasn’t speaking my truth, and when I’m not speaking my truth, I’m not living in my truth. When you set boundaries, you’re showing love for yourself. It’s OK to tell people, ‘No, not today.’ But I had a fear of telling people no because, you know, once you tell them no, they act like you never told them yeah.”

Gates, a practicing Muslim, began the episode discussing Ramadan.

“Fasting is the cure for everything,” he said. “When your body don’t have nothing to eat, it’s gonna eat all your bad cells up because it goes into fight or flight. When it eats your bad cells, your body releases hydrogen, and you know, we breathe in oxygen.”

When co-host LeSean McCoy asked when fasting for Ramadan happens, Gates added, “Most people do from sun-up to sundown, but I like to do it to where when I break my fast, it’s just with liquids. I like that liquid diet.”

Gates rapped about, um, food sources in his February single “Breakfast.”

Kevin Gates is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

If you are aware of how things have gone Los Angeles Angels in recent years and have at least one friend with a Twitter account, you are almost certainly aware of the “Tungsten Arm” O’Doyle tweet. The gist: The Angels have had two generational talents in Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, and despite that, they keep losing while those guys do ludicrous stuff on a pretty frequent basis.

This tweet has inspired approximately 500,000,000,000,000 jokes since it was sent, the latest of which came on a Thursday afternoon edition of SportsCenter. The joke itself wasn’t quite in the spirit of the original tweet, because it revolves around a misfortune befalling Ohtani, as the Angels star became the first player in MLB history to get a pitch clock violation as a hitter and a pitcher in the same game.

Of course, as the league’s only player who is an MVP-caliber hitter and Cy Young-caliber pitcher, Ohtani was the overwhelming favorite to be the first person to do this. Still, Ohtani making pitch clock history earned a shoutout for O’Doyle on a Thursday episode of SportsCenter.

The good news for Ohtani is that the last part of the tweet did not come to fruition, as the Angels beat the Seattle Marines, 4-3. Ohtani went 1-2 with an RBI and two walks as a hitter and struck out eight while only allowing one run in six innings of work on the mound.

Lizzo just made her cameo in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. She played the role of the Dutchess Of Plazir-15, who is the wife of Jack Black’s character, Captain Bombardier. Black shared a selfie with Lizzo and wrote that he had “so much fun” working with her. Now, the “About Damn Time” singer shared her own post.

Alongside a photo burst featuring a selfie of her in costume, as well as another silly selfie with Black and other pictures, she wrote about how she cried after being offered the role. The caption reads:

“When I was a young girl my dad introduced me to Star Wars like a rite of passage. The trilogy’s are his favorite movies and quickly became mine. When Jon favreau called me and offered the role of The Dutchess I cried all day wishing my dad was still with us cus he’d be so proud. Star Wars was a dream I never thought was possible— but thanks to Jon, Bryce, and everyone in the galaxy I am now part of the ever-expanding saga of the stars. I am in honorable company and forever grateful. This is The Way…. and May the Force be with you.”

Find Lizzo’s post below.

Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

John Leguizamo is not backing down on his beef with The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The actor, who played Luigi in the original 1993 Super Mario Bros film alongside Bob Hoskin’s Mario, has been vocal about the new movie going “backwards” in terms of representation. Leguizamo’s casting was a huge deal in the early ’90s, and to him, the new film erased all that progress by casting Charlie Day as Luigi.

With The Super Mario Bros. Movie now in theaters, TMZ caught up with Leguizamo on the streets and asked him if he’s going to at least check out the new film. He did not mince words. Via Variety:

“No I will not [be watching]. They could’ve included a Latin character,” Leguizamo said. “Like I was groundbreaking and then they stopped the groundbreaking. They messed up the inclusion. They dis-included. Just cast some Latin folk! We’re 20% of the population. The largest people of color group and we are underrepresented.”

When asked again by TMZ if he would be watching the movie, Leguizamo answered: “Hell no!”

Thanks to his recent stint on The Daily Show, Leguizamo has been a hot streak calling things like they see him. However, he might not want to catch wind of what Seth Rogen recently said about the original Super Mario Bros film because it was pretty brutal as well.

“It’s one of the worst films ever made,” Rogen told Variety while recalling seeing it in theaters at 11-years-old. “I was so disappointed. I think it made me realize that movies, like, could be bad. That never occurred to me until that moment.”

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is now playing in theaters.

(Via Variety)

Every so often, a new artist breaks through the noise of mainstream rap by the sheer undeniable strength of their persona. Sexxy Red is one of those rappers. Stepping into a tradition of unapologetically raunchy rappers like Trina, Jacki-O, City Girls, and Sukihana, Sexxy Red’s videos for “Born By The River” featuring Sukihana and “Pound Town” have become viral favorites due to their over-the-top sexuality and bizarrely relatable down-to-earth nature.

The St. Louis rapper is the definition of a round-the-way girl; her videos are shot at gas stations and on Ocean Drive at South Beach. Like GloRilla and Ice Spice before her, Sexxy Red fills her videos with her friends, presents as almost aggressively regular, and flouts the conventions of big-budget productions. Whereas the rappers of the past embraced a “fake-it-til-you-make-it” ethos, piling on the polish, Sexxy Red just puts on the PSD Hooters set and twerks with her friends in a parking lot. It’s a lot of fun, even if it will probably make your mom cover your eyes in horror.

While this might not seem like a recipe for success — her radio-unfriendly rhymes include tongue-in-cheek lines about the color of one of her orifices — she’s certainly captured Rap Twitter’s attention. Hip-hop heads have been debating her music and image just about every other day, with “Pound Town” trending at various points in the past month, thanks in large part to fellow facial tattoo enthusiast Summer Walker covering the song on her own social media. Other peers like GloRilla have also expressed their appreciation for the song, so it’s probably only a matter of time before it’s a new “song of the summer” — just like Glo’s own “Let’s Go (FNF).” It’s already climbing the charts and the Hot 100 isn’t out of reach.

If Sexxy Red seems like too much, just you wait… if her momentum keeps up, she could end up building an insatiable fanbase for whom her current success is just not enough.

Steven Tyler was named in a lawsuit filed last December in Los Angeles filled with troubling allegations of “sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress,” as reported exclusively by Rolling Stone at the time.

“The plaintiff Julia Holcomb [now Julia Misley] alleges that Tyler convinced Holcomb’s mother to grant him guardianship over her when she was 16 years old, which consequently allowed her to live with him and engage in a sexual relationship,” Rolling Stone‘s Ethan Millan relayed within the sprawling report. “She claims they were together from 1973 until about three years later.”

Millman continued, “The suit itself doesn’t name Tyler, naming the defendants as Defendant Doe 1 and Does 2 through 50. But Holcomb — who Rolling Stone mentioned in a 1976 profile of the band in reference to Tyler’s romantic life — has been public about her experience with Tyler in the past, and the lawsuit directly quotes from Tyler’s own memoir.”

The allegations also include Misley being pregnant with Tyler’s child in 1975 at 17 years old, resulting in an abortion at Tyler’s request.

Millman reported on the ongoing case again on Wednesday, April 5. His new Rolling Stone piece states that the Aerosmith leader “has denied all the allegations.” Tyler is said to have filed his denial in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week.

“Tyler, represented by attorney Shawn Holley, issued 24 affirmative defenses denying all the allegations,” Millman wrote. “Among those defenses, Tyler alleged that Misley’s ‘claims are barred in whole or in part by Plaintiff’s consent’ and ‘because of immunity or qualified immunity to Defendant as caregiver and/or guardian.’”

Millman additionally noted, “Tyler also alleged that Misley ‘has not suffered any injury or damage as a result of any action by Defendant,’ further stating that ‘if it is determined that Plaintiff has been damaged, then any such damages were not caused by Defendant.’ Tyler claimed the alleged conduct — presumably writing about the experience in his memoirs — is protected under the first amendment.”

Misley’s attorney, Jeff Anderson, released a statement on Wednesday that denounces Tyler for “gaslighting,” “using a sham legal guardianship to avoid prosecution for sex crimes,” and “40 years of trauma.”

“In a new court filing seeking to deny Julia Misley her day in court, Tyler claims the teenager ‘consented’ to his sexual crimes,” the statement begins. “It’s astonishing, galling and arrogant that an adult is trying to defend his crimes and exploitation of an unguarded 16-year-old for his perverse pleasure.”

Read Anderson’s full statement here.

Chris McKay has now had two Batman-related movies that, most likely, will never see the light of day (just like Nicolas Cage’s Dracula in Renfield, but we’ll get back to that in a bit), though he does still hold out hope for one of them. McKay seems pretty confident he’s got a killer idea for a Nightwing movie that was in development at Warner Bros. (For those who don’t know, Nightwing is Dick Greyson, who was Batman’s first Robin.) But this was a few leadership groups ago at DC now and he does have hope that the new group might like what he has in mind. At least enough he’s not going to share what the plot of that movie would be, but he does take us through what it’s like to have a superhero quietly canceled. (It does just kind of sound like they stop calling you.)

The other thing he’s confident isn’t happening is the sequel to The LEGO Batman Movie. That movie made $315 million at the box office, but since its release, LEGO signed an exclusive contract with Universal (the two The LEGO Movies and LEGO Batman were Warner Bros.), which effectively ends any chance of seeing the DC superheroes anytime soon. McKay is confident enough that’s not happening that he did share the plot of what a LEGO Batman sequel would have been.

In Renfield, Nicholas Hoult plays the title character who has served as basically Count Dracula’s (played by Nicolas Cage at an intensity you’d expect from Nicolas Cage) errand boy for generations. In return, Renfield gets eternal life. Well, Renfield has had enough and is stepping out on his own. The pair now live in New Orleans where Renfield attends an emotional support group for people who are in toxic relationships. Eventually, Nicolas Cage’s Dracula catches on to what’s happening and isn’t very happy about it, while also coming up with a plan for world domination. (It should be added, this is a very gory movie.)

Renfield is McKay’s first film in theaters since LEGO Batman. The one in-between, The Tomorrow War was supposed to be a theatrical release, but was sold to Amazon when movies in theaters were still a dicey proposition, which resulted in … well it sure seems like everyone in the world saw that movie. (And McKay does confirm there’s a script for a sequel.) Ahead, McKay takes us through all of this.

I don’t like to judge a book by its cover, but Count Dracula did some things in this movie where he crossed the line.

Oh?

I can’t encourage some of this behavior.

Well yeah, I completely understand that.

Good.

That’s absolutely right. He’s the bad boss, he’s a toxic narcissist.

You know what? When he killed all the people at that support group? No sir. Not on my watch.

But we brought them back.

You did bring them back, yes. They didn’t have a very good experience.

No. There’s clearly something that they saw when they went to the other side.

So Nicholas Cage is Count Dracula — he is known as an actor who’s hard to get some emotion out of. That was my joke. Obviously, he’s going for it here.

He comes on the set and he’s ready to go. He’s got lots of ideas and he’s a lot of fun. Sometimes he’ll come in and he sees the scene as very confrontational and big. But then there would be times we’d do a couple takes like that, and then I would say, “Hey, why don’t we try this?” And he’d go all the way to the exact opposite of the way he started. He treats being on set like when he was making Super 8 movies with his cousins and his friends when he was a little kid. And he says, “I want to get that Super 8 feeling.”

Yeah, “his cousins.”

[Laughs] Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah, that’s true.

Just these normal everyday cousins.

Yeah, just normal people like Francis Ford Coppola.

I was surprised when I read this is his first studio movie since Ghost Rider 2, is that right?

Isn’t that weird?

It is, because he’s in a lot of stuff. Is there a reason for that? Is this something you had to talk him into doing because it was a studio movie?

I think that the fact that it was Dracula was something that made him really curious. Because he’s a huge horror movie guy. He’s a big cinephile just in general. But from a horror movie standpoint, he is a huge, huge horror movie guy. And a big Dracula fan…

A guy who is not secret about the things he likes.

No.

You know what else he likes? He likes Elvis.

Yeah. And Superman.

He also likes Superman.

Yeah, absolutely. And Christopher Lee. He loves Christopher Lee’s interpretation of Dracula. But it was weird to me too, somebody brought it up. It wasn’t even something that I was thinking about. But the fact that he hasn’t been in a Hollywood studio movie in a long time. And the fact that the studio was really… I had to do some arm twisting to get them to want to do this. But they actually were hugely behind it. So I think it’s because I think that people just want to see him play Dracula. He’s one of those actors.

I talked to you for The Tomorrow War. That was an Amazon movie and it seemed like everyone wound up watching that on streaming.

Yeah. It started off as a theatrical.

Anyway, how does this work now? What’s your experience with a movie that was only on streaming versus now you’re going back to theaters. So where are you on all this? Universal seems to put most of their movies on Peacock after six weeks.

For a comedy, I think you need to see a movie in a theater. I think it’s important. And I think horror movies and comedies work with an audience, that’s the most fun place to see those movies. And the fact that the Universal committed to that. Committed to an R-rated movie theatrically, things like that…

Yeah, this isn’t a borderline R.

No. This isn’t something where you can kind of go, “color the blood a little brown,” and you get away with it. Decapitations and all…

High body count in this one.

That idea that they committed to it theatrically was really important. And right now, I’m sure, like you said, they’re going to put it on Peacock at some point, but right now they’re just like, this is a movie in theaters. And that’s it.

Last time I talked to you, you kind of made it clear that the Nightwing DC movie you were working on didn’t look great in terms of it happening. Take me through that process. Since we last spoke they have a whole new leadership crew running things. How close was that to happening? And then when did you find out that it wasn’t happening?

Well, no one ever really said that they’re not making that movie. They sort of … deprioritized it. You know what I mean?

So they stopped calling you about it.

[Laughs] Yeah, probably. It was very clear that they were like, look, we have to… depending on which regime you’re talking about, because obviously I went through a couple.

Yeah, there have been a few now.

But there were other things. They had the Zack Snyder version, and then they had to figure out how they were going to answer the other films they were making from those movies. Whether they’re going to do more Wonder Woman movies and that sort of thing. And all that kind of thing. So our movie has got deprioritized, but no one ever said, “We’re not going to make that movie.” They just said, “Right now we have to fix these things.” And then the regimes changed. And I’m hoping now with James Gunn that maybe we can re-approach that. I’d love to still make that movie.

I assume you feel you’ve got a pretty good idea for how to do this.

I did the Escrima sticks in Renfield! He’s got the arms as Escrima sticks.

Are they still going to make the LEGO Bat-Man movies?

No.

So that’s done?

Yeah, because it’s with Universal. LEGO is with Universal.

Oh, right. And Warner Bros. isn’t going to license out Batman…

Yeah. I think that they’re… yeah.

That’s a shame.

Yeah, I know.

That movie is really fun.

We had a really fun script with Dan Harmon and Michael Waldron, wrote a really fun kind of Superfriends. The sequel would’ve been a quasi Superfriends movie and the structure was going to be a sort of Godfather II kind of thing with Batman and the Justice League facing a modern-day problem, Lex Luthor and OMAC, while at the same time flashing back to the reasons why Batman and the Justice League – and in particular, Superman – have bad blood. It was going to explore Superman and Batman’s relationship in a very different way than you’ve ever seen it portrayed, including Superman’s alienation from humanity and how hard it is to truly be friends, real friends, for years. It was ultimately going to answer the question: How do you become Super-friends. And there was going to be a crossover with a major franchise that can only happen in a LEGO movie.

Speaking of sequels, it really did feel like everyone saw The Tomorrow War…

Yeah, because they released it worldwide on the same day. Literally, they released it around the world. I still get DMs from people from India and Brazil, and people who are discovering it, who loved that movie and loved the characters and stuff like that. Ultimately, it was a really great experience. But it was one of those things where, of course, you’re making a movie for the theaters. And then the movie was done and they were like, “No, we’re going to put it on a streamer.” It was a little bit of a hard pill to swallow because I’d seen it in theaters and I’d seen how it played. And still to this day, it still plays on Amazon. It’s still one of their number one movies to this day.

I’m surprised there isn’t another one yet.

Yeah. Well, there is a script coming for that.

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Brian Cox dominates Succession as the brash, ruthless media magnate, Logan Roy, and now he’s bringing that same energy to his latest role: DirecTV‘s new “Overly Direct Spokesperson.”

In a new commercial directed by longtime Danny McBride collaborator Jody Hill, Cox stalks around homes and workplaces where he bluntly admonishes people for “doing TV wrong.” As the Overly Direct Spokesperson, Cox lets them know they could be enjoying the best shows and sports games instead of being left out of water cooler conversations, or worse, forced to interact with their kids. (Cox’s Logan Roy would really hate that last one.)

Via IndieWire:

“I thoroughly enjoy being the Overly Direct Spokesperson,” Cox said in a press statement. “The main broadcast spot is truly an ode to all that DirecTV is doing to simplify their TV watching experience.”

According to the agency behind the DirecTV ad, they weren’t sure if they could land Cox for the spot, but he was always the dream scenario. Locking down Logan Roy would be a perfectly meta casting coup, and fortunately, Cox isn’t as hard to pin down as the wily Waystar Royco CEO. Nobody had to play “Boar on the Floor,” that we know of.

“We had backups of course,” TBWAChiatDay executive director Jason Karley said. “But he was the prototype and the dream. He has the unique ability to sound both sincere and caring, yet critical and unfiltered in the same sentence.”

(Via IndieWire)

Last year, Rema shared his debut album Rave & Roses. He’s collaborated with Selena Gomez for a “Calm Down” remix, as well as FKA Twigs for “Jealousy.” Now, he’s bringing his material to late-night television with a new performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

He brought both “Calm Down” and “Holiday” to stage last night (April 5). He enthusiastically performed the two tracks as a hypnotic medley, not losing the watcher’s attention for a second. He engaged the audience the most while playing the celebratory anthem “Holiday,” dancing in a thick cloud of fog.

About joining Rema for a remix of “Calm Down,” Gomez said she was honored to be on the song.

“I’m really excited to see the person that asked me to be on a song that I couldn’t be more honored to do,” the “Lose You To Love Me” singer said. “The song’s fun, I hope people like it. That’s all I want.”

Rema will be hitting some festivals this year. He’s on the roster for Broccoli City Festival next to names like Brent Faiyaz, Jazmine Sullivan, and Lil Uzi Vert. He’s also on the lineup for Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival alongside Bob Dylan, Lil Nas X, and Sam Smith.

Watch Rema’s performance above.