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This article originally appeared on 06.22.22

There are some people who live under the illusion that everything they say is deeply interesting and have no problem wasting your time by rambling on and on without a sign of stopping. They’re the relative, neighbor or co-worker who can’t take a hint that the conversation is over.

Of all these people, the co-worker who can’t stop talking may be the most challenging because you see them every day in a professional setting that requires politeness.

There are many reasons that some people talk excessively. Therapist F. Diane Barth writes in Psychology Today that some people talk excessively because they don’t have the ability to process complex auditory signals, so they ramble on without recognizing the subtle cues others are sending.

It may also be a case of someone who thinks they’re the most interesting person in the conversation.

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For others, it’s a symptom of a disorder. Michelle C. Brooten-Brooks, a licensed marriage and family therapist, writes that excessive talking can also be a symptom of, among other things, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or anxiety.

“Anxiety can cause someone to speak excessively,” Brooten-Brooks writes at Very Well Health. “While many with social anxiety may avoid social interactions, some may inadvertently talk excessively when in social situations out of nervousness and anxiety.”

So what do we do when we’re stuck in a situation where someone just keeps talking? A Reddit user by the name of Spritti33 asked for some advice about how to “politely end a conversation with a person who won’t stop talking” and received some very practical and funny responses from members of the online forum.

A lot of folks pointed out that it’s not impolite to walk away from a person who is incessantly talking because they are being rude by disrespecting your time. Others shared how, in some cultures, there are ways of shutting down a conversation while allowing both parties to save face.

Here are 19 of the best responses to Spritti33’s question, “How does someone politely end a conversation with a person who won’t stop talking?”

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“In Flanders we have a word for it, ‘bon,’ and then you say something ‘I have work to do,’ ‘It’s time to go home,’ ‘It’s time to get drinks.’ And people realize the other person wants to leave without being mean,” — ISuckAtRacingGames

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“In Ireland we do like a little clap/slap our thigh/clap the person’s shoulder and say ‘Right! Shur look, I’ll let you go…’ as if we’re being polite and letting the other person off the hook, but actually, it’s like get me the fuck out of here haha!” —funky_mugs

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“If they keep talking over polite cues, I have found there really isn’t a polite way to exit the conversation,” — Binder_Grinder

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“This is so true. People that do this don’t care whether you’re into the conversation or not, they’re talking simply because they want to. I’ve gotten better at just interjecting (even mid-sentence if I’ve already tried everything else) with, ‘I’m sorry, I have to go. (start walking away at this point) It was nice talking to you.’ Don’t give any excuses or reasons for leaving, just do it otherwise they’ll try to talk about your reasons.” — PSSaalamader

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“As a teacher, I have learned how to interrupt people who do not leave any pauses when they’re speaking: start nodding and verbally agreeing with them, ‘Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh…’ You can’t interrupt these people, but you can start agreeing while they speak, then raise your voice and say, ‘Yeah, wow, excuse me but I must go,'” — Janicegirlbomb2

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“Remember that it is them who is being impolite by talking incessantly about things of no interest to their audience,” — Orp4mmws99

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“Source: am a therapist. What you do is recap their last story and in the same breath add a goodbye.

I.e. ‘Sounds like you guys found a bunch of great deals at the mall, that’s awesome! Thanks for meeting with me, you’ll have to tell me more next time we run into each other. It was great to catch up!'” — pikcles-for-fingers

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“Just start coughing these days it’ll clear a whole room in seconds,” — Sinisterpigeon

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“People who are like this expect folks to just walk away from them while they are talking because that’s the only way the conversation ends. It’s not rude to them, it’s normal. So, it’s entirely okay to say, ‘all right this has been great, see you later,’ and then just walk away smiling,” — Underlord_Fox

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“If you can practice this, start to train one of your eyeballs to slowly drift off whilst the other eye remains locked on theirs. That should do the trick,” — The-Zesty-Man

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“At 62, I just walk away. My bullshit filter has disappeared,” — Negative_Increase

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“You gotta realize that everyone else they talk to just walks away. They’re used to that. They think a conversation is you just talk at someone til they walk away. It’s not weird to them,” — DelsmagicFishies

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“I don’t know why some people are so afraid of this. It is not rude. You don’t need to lie. ‘We can speak more other time. Goodbye,’ is fine,” — Kooky-Housing3049

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“On a more serious note, I typically do an ‘oh shit’ type of face like I’ve just remembered I had something important scheduled. I say ‘Sorry, what time is it? check the time Ah crap, I hate to cut you off but if I don’t head out now I’m going to be late for ____.’ Then I scurry away like I’m really in a rush. If you’re in a situation where you can’t straight up leave, I swap ‘gotta head out’ for ‘I told someone I’d call them at [time] and they’re waiting on my call’ and then make a fake phone call,” — teethfairie

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“‘Wow, you have a lot of opinions about this subject…’ and then never stop angling the conversation back to how weird it is that they’re still talking,” — Ordsmed

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“Had a friend who would put his hand gently on your shoulder and kindly say, ‘I love you , but I just don’t care, good (night/day),'” — Think-Passage-5522

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“While not exactly polite, my Aunt Sophie had a great way of ending a conversation. When the monologue got too much she would nod her head like she was listening and then at the slightest pause she would go, ‘The end.’ And walk away.

She mostly did it with kids who didn’t realize they were yabbering on about Thundercats too long. (It was me, I was yabbering on about Thundercats too long.)” — theslackjaw727

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​”Change your stance, instead of facing them head on turn 90° your body language will end the conversation quickly without being rude,” — Zedd2087

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“Where possible, I’ve always found it best to tell these people up front that you have somewhere to be 15, 30, 45, etc minutes from now. If that’s not realistic, I’ve found that if you can usually find a gap to say you need to run if you focus on doing only this for 3-5 minutes,” — Pretend_Airline2811

Following the release of its second episode, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law continues to be a fourth-wall breaking legal sitcom that’s not afraid to poke fun at the MCU’s most taboo topics. (See: Captain America’s virginity) This time around, the show made a surprising reference to a sticky piece of Marvel lore: Edward Norton‘s time as the Hulk.

Granted, the MCU films have made reference to 2008’s The Incredible Hulk starting with Mark Ruffalo mentioning that he “broke Harlem” during his first appearance as Bruce Banner in 2012’s The Avengers, obviously, there’s never been a direct mention of the actor switch. As far as MCU canon is concerned, Ruffalo and Norton’s Banner/Hulk are the same person. However, She-Hulk found a clever way to take a jab at the whole thing.

During a scene where Tatiana Maslany’s Jennifer Walters reveals to Bruce that she’s representing Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), a.k.a. The Abomination, Ruffalo’s green Avenger is totally cool with it because people change. “That fight was so many years ago,” Bruce says. “I’m a completely different person now. Literally.”

While Bruce is technically referring to the fact that he’s the “Smart Hulk” instead of the rage monster he used to be, the line was absolutely a crack about Norton, which Ruffalo has already confirmed to Entertainment Weekly:

“I think it’s really funny. It’s just the reality that we all are often dancing around, but it’s true,” he tells EW. “I actually joked with Ed about this. I was like, ‘It’s like our generation’s Hamlet. Everyone’s going to get a shot at it.’ And there’ll probably be another couple before it’s all over. People will be like, ‘Remember when the Hulk used to look like Mark Ruffalo? Now it looks like Timothée Chalamet.’”

As for Marvel fans on social media, they immediately clocked the Norton gag and here for it. You can see some of the reactions below:

New episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law stream Thursday on Disney+.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

Greta Gerwig hasn’t starred in a live-action movie since 2016’s (terrific) 20th Century Women. That’s because she’s been busy with her side gig: writing and directing Oscar-nominated movies like Lady Bird and Little Women (and god willing, Barbie). But Gerwig will make her return to acting in White Noise, the latest film from her long-time collaborator (and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted co-writer), Noah Baumbach.

Netflix‘s White Noise — which is based on Don DeLillo’s U.S. National Book Award-winning novel of the same name and not the terrible 2005 Michael Keaton movie — also stars Adam Driver and Don Cheadle. It’s tough to make out the plot from the teaser above, but it involves a family “grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world” after a chemical spill pollutes the air.

Here’s the official plot synopsis:

At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. Based on the book by Don DeLillo, written for the screen and directed by Noah Baumbach, produced by Baumbach (p.g.a) and David Heyman (p.g.a.)

White Noise comes out on Netflix later this year.

The recent announcement of Björk‘s new album Fossora was nothing short of a big deal. She’s back today with another announcement, this time of a podcast titled Björk: Sonic Symbolism.

The Icelandic singer released a trailer for the podcast, in which she says, “Most of us go through phases in our lives that take roughly three years, and it is not a coincidence that this is often how long it takes to make an album, a book, or a film. In the conversations on this podcast, me and my friends try to capture which moods, timbres, and tempos were vibrating during each of my 10 albums.”

She added in the press release:

“When I get asked about the differences of the music of my albums, I find it quickest to use visual short cuts. That’s kind of why my album covers are almost like homemade tarot cards. The image on the front might seem like just a visual moment, but for me it is simply describing the sound of it. I try to express it with the colour palette, the textures of the textiles, with what I am holding, the posture I am in, and the angle of it shows its relationship to the world. Also, the emotion of the mouth tries to share the overall mood of the album. Perhaps you can call it some sort of a sonic symbolism? Most of us go through phases in our lives that take roughly three years, and it is not a coincidence this is also how long it takes to make an album or a film. This podcast is an experiment to capture which moods, timbres, and tempos were vibrating during each of these phases.”

Listen to the trailer below.

The Umbrella Academy fired on all cylinders to pull off a sublime Season 3, which managed to tweak the canon ever so slightly to introduce Elliot Page as Victor Hargreeves in a completely organic way. The show’s got so many individual, intertwined threads in such a juggernaut of a story, but it’s one that could doom itself by repetition in the long run. One can only have so many apocalypses and so much time f*ckery, you know? Largely for that reason, Netflix has decided that the Hargreeves siblings should have one more go to wrap up their stories.

As such, the show will get a fourth and final season, which is a marvelous way to end the streak of deciding not to renew wildly popular, eternally lovable shows after three seasons because a re-up costs too much. And that third season ended with a bit of a cliffhanger by not only solving the Kugelblitz issue but also taking away the siblings’ powers and setting them loose upon the world to experience life afresh. In a press release, showrunner Steve Blackman revealed how happy he is to properly finish:

I’m so excited that the incredibly loyal fans of The Umbrella Academy will be able to experience the fitting end to the Hargreeves siblings’ journey we began five years ago. But before we get to that conclusion, we’ve got an amazing story ahead for season four, one that will have fans on the edge of their seats until the final minutes.”

In a vote of further confidence, Netflix also announced that they’re partnering with Blackman for two other projects (under his Irish Cowboy production company): Orbital, a sci-fi series, and Horizon Zero Dawn, an adaptation of the Sony PlayStation game. So, this is not a cancellation of The Umbrella Academy in any sense of the word; it’s more like knowing that some stories should end at the right time. And at that point, the incredible cast — Robert Sheehan, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, and more — will go on to broader (and hopefully less apocalyptic) horizons.

Kenny Beats, who has spent a decade producing for the likes of 03 Greedo, Denzel Curry, Freddie Gibbs, Rico Nasty, Vince Staples, and many, many more, has never put out an album of his own, incredible as it may seem. Despite hosting a popular YouTube series based on his experiences with making beats for his rapper friends in his studio, “The Cave,” all of Kenny’s full-length projects to date have been collaborations with those rappers like FM!, Anger Management, Netflix And Deal, or Unlocked.

However, next week, that changes as Kenny drops his debut album, Louie, which he first began teasing on Twitter and Instagram earlier this month. Today, he made the official announcement, revealing the mysterious “Louie” caption with which he accompanied teasers of new beats is the title of his first-ever solo project, which is due August 31 via XL Recordings. In addition, he shared the cover art and tracklist for the album, which does not appear to contain any features — although he could just be keeping those a surprise for his longtime fans.

You can watch the teasers and check out the Louie tracklist below, and pre-order Louie here.

1. “Leonard”
2. “Parenthesis”
3. “Hold My Head”
4. “So They Say”
5. “Family Tree”
6. “Hooper”
7. “Still”
8. “Moire”
9. “Get Around”
10. “Eternal”
11. “Last Words”
12. “Drop 10”
13. “The Perch”
14. “Really Really”
15. “That Third Thing”
16. “Rotten”
17. “Hot Hand.”

There really are endless things you could talk with Danny DeVito about, considering the man has been a TV legend, a big screen star, director, mega-producer, and honorary member of One Direction. So how did we wind up talking about snakes with arms, Satan, heartfelt parenting advice, and lipsynching with Michael Douglas? Well, some of that can be explained and some of it is just the flow of a conversation when you’re talking with an icon and trying to ask him something he doesn’t normally talk about.

With the whole parenting thing, it’s natural, DeVito is a dedicated father of three grown children who have, themselves, taken to creative paths much like their parents, DeVito and his wife, Rhea Perlman (Cheers). He’s actually working with two of them on his most recent project, an animated sitcom called Little Demon produced by (among others including DeVito and his son Jake) Dan Harmon for FXX, the home base of DeVito’s other TV family, Always Sunny.

In the show (which debuts tonight at 10PM on FXX), DeVito voices Satan, an absentee father looking to connect with his daughter, aka the anti-Christ (who is voiced by Lucy DeVito, Danny’s daughter). Standing in the way is the child’s mother, who DeVito describes as a Sarah Connor type dedicated to protecting her daughter even as she starts to take after her father in some ways (the mother is voiced by Aubrey Plaza). It’s a show that, true to its wild premise, pushes envelopes in the outrageous ways one might expect from the likes of DeVito and Harmon. But maybe not as far as the Always Sunny guys have pushed DeVito before.

To hear about that, DeVito recounting a legendary (and utterly fucked up) Always Sunny prank, his scene-stealing role in a classic ’80s music video, and a little more about playing the Devil, keep reading.

What do we have there [on your hat]?

That’s a snake in arms.

That’s going to freak me out the whole interview. That’s going to distract me. Snakes. Did you see the video with the snake in the tube that was walking? It was a paralyzed snake that had arms and legs.

Snake with arms is one of [our characters]. Snakey. He’s my bartender. He’s my confidante. He’s my everything. It’s fun.

So, how did Little Demon come to be?

Well, Lucy DeVito, my darling daughter who plays Chrissy, the antichrist in Little Demon — she’s good friends with Darcy Fowler and Seth Kirschner and Kieran Valla who are the creators of the show, and also with Aubrey Plaza, who plays Laura [the woman Satan impregnated 13 years prior]. I can’t remember exactly when, four years ago or something, Lucy called me and said her friends had this idea for a show, would I be interested in listening? And then she pitched the fact that I would play the devil. I immediately said “Yes.”

I’ve always dug Aubrey. I like whatever she does. And I always want to work with Lucy. So we started putting the thing together, the demons — we call Seth and Darcy and Kieran the demons. So I’ll refer to them always as the demons. And they put together a pitch, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah. We brought it to [John] Landgraf at FX, who I’ve been working with forever.

This whole story is about being a family that’s torn with the devil and the antichrist. Chrissy’s in the middle of Laura and Satan. I want her, she wants her. She’s trying to protect her. And then the pandemic hit. And you realize that animation in the pandemic seemed to go hand in hand because you do everything on this [via Zoom]. I mean, it’d be great to hang out and be together and pitch and do story stuff.

This is our first time producing an animated show. I’ve done many movies and television things. What a learning curve. Amazing what goes on to put an animated show [together]. This is like doing a feature every week almost.

What’s the approach to playing Satan?

Well, it’s complex. There are so many things coming at me [Satan], whether it’s demons who want my shit, or the realms, hell and temptations, and things that I’ve got to deal with in a Tony Soprano way, where there’s a lot of people gunning for me. But needing allies is a real big thing. And when I fall head over heels, which is not hard to imagine, for Aubrey (Laura). [Satan has] had many women.

He’s a bad boy. Women love the bad boy.

The bad boy.

Yeah. You know.

I know. We know. So, when Laura gives birth to the antichrist, I mean, not that I [Satan] haven’t tried before, which I won’t get into because I don’t want to spoil anything down the line in the show. But the idea is that it’s my dream come true. I was looking for a boy, but as Satan says, that future is female. So let’s embrace it and go with it. And I need an ally. And Chrissy is proving to be very formidable. Of course, because she was raised for 13 years by Laura, who is a force to be reckoned with. She’s created this Sarah Connor-esque kind of [character]. She has to be on top of things, knowing that down the pike, this guy [Satan] is coming, and he’s going to show himself or find them.

I love the family dynamic and the parallels of broken families and stuff like that with the bad dad trying to overachieve in certain ways. Again, that’s really cleverly done.

Yeah. “You’re trying too hard, dad.” That kind of thing.

That domestic relatability, I did not expect that coming into the show and it was nice.

Yeah. It’s a good touch. And these demons — Darcy, Seth and Kieran — they have that in mind. There’s this nugget of turmoil with the family unit, which a lot of us go through. Everybody has their own little things that they have to navigate in their family dynamic. And then it broadens out into the realms of the magic world and these realms that Satan brings into it, which pushes certain buttons that we have to deal with. So we’re having a good time actually pushing that envelope, which I always like in projects. I always like it when we are going to tread on things that are not going to make everybody comfortable.

Well, obviously, Always Sunny.

Yeah. Just go. You want to shoot me in the back of the head and take part of my memory away, or I fall down? I always say to them, the Sunny guys, take it as far as you they’ll let you. And Landgraf and FX have been very, very good about all that. We once in a while, run into things. There was one show that we didn’t do. That was a joke that they did for me. It was an April Fool’s joke. “I’ll do anything, basically,” I said to them. Come out of a couch naked. You do this, you get slimed, whatever it is.

They once put me in a situation that was like, I was in jail being raped by various inmates and I was at the end of my rope. This was not recent. This was a while ago. Somewhere in the middle. And I got a script that my assistant said, “Oh, the guys, Charlie and Glenn and Rob called up this morning.” I was going to work that day. We were going to read through. He said, “Well, they’re changing it up. They’re doing this one first instead of that one. So you should read it.” And I thought, “Really? It’s like 10 o’clock in the morning.” I said, “Well, I’m going to work at 1:00.” “No, you should read it. They want you to read it.” So I read it and I go to pick up a hooker and I get busted and I get raped in the jail, in a shower. Then they throw me in the lockup, the big lockup. I get raped by everybody and the cops. And they kept going back to the bar and then Frank would get raped. And I go back to the bar, Frank would get raped. And I said, “What the fuck, man? Call my lawyer.” Right? And then I got to the end of the script. And the last guy that nailed me leans in. Well, Frank is now laying on the ground, [his] face is on the ground. He’s been fucked by every… And the guy leans down and he says, “April fools, bitch.” And I realized it was April 1st. They wrote this script in order to break my balls.

The amount of craft and time that they put into that, that’s love. To put that much time into something, that’s love.

It’s love. They love me. I called them up. They were all on the call, laughing their asses off. And then we went and did some other crazy show.

Your daughter’s involved in Little Demon, your son is also a producer, right?

Right.

With your kids working in the industry, how anxious does that make you? How much do you offer as far as advice?

Our kids are all our treasures. I have a couple of things, adages. If you raise your kids right they leave you. That’s one of them. And the other one is, when your kid is born, it’s like birth and death. You die and the I, the id, and everything, all the focus goes on your children. I have three great kids and they were raised here in Hollywood. They went to school in the valley. They’re great, great kids. Oh, Lucy was always the actress. I mean, even in kindergarten, grade school. And Jake did music, all kinds, was a movie buff, loved the movies. They all went to different colleges. Gracie, my middle daughter, is a painter. She’s an artist.

Every moment, a parent has anxiety about the well-being of their children. That’s it. I mean, that’s what you live for. Basically, you want to create, and you want to do your thing and you are yourself and you keep that and you embrace them. And you know that you will try to be always there. I’ll be there, try to be there. And they go off and do their thing.

In Lucy’s case, we’ve worked together several times. We’ve always done things. When she does an audition, we’ll talk about it or whatever. And it’s always been that way. And Jake was riding a dolly when he was a little boy. When I was doing Matilda, he was nine. He was always there. In fact, Lucy and Gracie brought me the book of Matilda when we started reading chapter books. That’s how I got introduced to Roald Dahl’s work. Rhea being in Cheers, they were always on the set. They were always in the middle of all that. So it’s all born in the trunk, born in that kind of thing. Do you have kids?

No, not yet.

You’re a baby. You’ll get there. It’s a great thing. I mean, if you’re planning on it, if you’re thinking about it, it is a great thing because it’s like you watch it all. I’ll tell you one little story about kids. The girls were born. Jake, I don’t think was born yet. And I was in an airport waiting for the plane. And we had a blanket laid out and I had the kids on the blanket. I had the toys and they were two and four maybe, or maybe younger.

Rhea went to get magazines and some guy came over and he said, “Red Buttons [legendary comic and actor] would like to come and talk to you.” And I said, “No kidding, man?” Red Buttons. I remember him from when I was a kid. And he came over and he said, “I was watching you play with your kids. And I think it’s great that you’re down on the ground playing blocks,” or whatever we were doing. He said, “I’ll give you some advice. I just had the occasion to do therapy with my children.” And he was an old man at the time. And he said, “we figured it out with the psychiatrist that being on the road, doing movies, doing everything, going out of town, I took 15 years away from my kids.” Well, that sunk in. It really hit. And from that bit of advice, I tried to tailor whenever I could.

I have a weird question. I’ve always been fascinated by this. The Billy Ocean music video, when you and Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner played backup singers.

So much fun. The big saxophone.

How does that come together?

Okay, what happened was we were promoting Jewel Of The Nile. They had the Billy Ocean song, “When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going.” This was in the early days of music videos, right? Michael said, “we’re going to go to London when we’re promoting the movie and we’re going to do a music video.” And we went to this really cool rundown place that obviously is always used in London for videos and various and sundry nefarious things. And we went and shot this video and we had so much fun, man. We had a ball doing that and it worked out great. I haven’t seen it in a while.

The moves are amazing. The choreography is great, you were like The Supremes.

We were like the Motown kind of [thing]. Yeah, we did all the moves. We had a great choreographer.

I got to say, I feel like Michael Douglas was the most invested in it. I feel like he was really giving it his all.

He was really into it.

‘Little Demon’ premieres with its first 2 episodes tonight on FXX at 10PM. They’ll be able to stream the next day on Hulu.

Rina Sawayama‘s eclectic, highly anticipated new album Hold The Girl arrives next month. Today, she’s unveiling the cinematic single “Phantom,” in which she wishes to communicate to her younger self to provide comfort and reassurance: “If I could talk to you, I’d tell you not to rush / You’re good enough / You dont have to lose, what makes you you / Still got some growing to do,” she sings.

“I realized as an adult that I have spent my whole life pleasing other people and not realizing it — constantly pushing my boundaries and not realizing the difference between what I wanted to do and what other people wanted from me,” Sawayama said in a statement. “Through the lyrics in the verse I’m trying to tell this story and then in the choruses I’m mourning the loss of my real self.”

This track follows the release of “This Hell,” “Catch Me In The Air,” and “Hold The Girl.” The songs have been ranging from twangy ballads to unabashed pop anthems. She’s bringing her new music on a 13-date US tour this fall, kicking off in Brooklyn on November 1.

Listen to “Phantom” above.

Hold The Girl is out 9/2 via Dirty Hit. Pre-order it here.

If any of your Succession-loving friends live in New York City, there’s a good chance they’ve seen season four being filmed. Those lucky slime puppies. There’s even Twitter accounts dedicated to these run-ins. Most of the pictures are of Kendall (Jeremy Strong) looking sad, or Shiv (Sarah Snook) being the best by being the worst, or Logan (Brian Cox) muttering “f*ck off” to himself, but also be on the look out for Alexander Skarsgård.

Deadline reports that The Northman star is returning as bored tech CEO Lukas Mattson in the new season. Other familiar faces who will be back:

-Arian Moayed as investor Stewy Hosseini
-Juliana Canfield as Kendall’s poor assistant Jess Jordan
-Annabelle Dexter-Jones as Kendall’s kind of girlfriend Naomi Pierce
-Hope Davis as Sandi Furness, the daughter of Logan’s media rival Sandy Furness
-Cherry Jones as PGM head Nan Pierce
-Dagmara Domińczyk as the head of PR for Waystar Roco, Karolina Novotney
-Justin Kirk as right-wing politician Jeryd Mencken
-Stephen Root as conservative political donor Ron Petkus

It wouldn’t be an HBO show without Stephen Root. Just saying, House of the Dragon.

It is unclear how many episodes any of the actors will be back for. Three of the returning recurring guest stars, Skarsgård, Moayed, and Davis, are currently nominated for an Emmy for their performances in Season 3 while Jones won for her role in 2020.

Is your favorite character not listed? Well:

Succession returns to HBO in 2023.

(Via Deadline)

It would be pretty hard to confuse Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump. One of them is an overweight man with ill-fitting pants and a bizarre orange tint who can most often be found in a golf cart. The other is the woman who actually won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election, but graciously conceded when it was clear that her opponent — Trump — had won the electoral college. While Kayleigh McEnany spent several years working for Trump, the former White House press secretary seems to have either confused or conflated the one-time opponents.

As Mediaite reports, McEnany appeared on Fox News on Wednesday, where she chatted with Jesse Watters (groan!) about Gutsy, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s new Apple TV+ series, which shines a spotlight on brave women making a difference in the world. While the series is an offshoot of their best-selling 2019 book, The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience, Watters and McEnany have a suspicion that it could be something more. Like, say, a signal that Hillary might be looking to make another run at the presidency in 2024…

“Is she setting herself to wait in the wings in case Biden doesn’t run?,” Watters asked. To which McEnany — absolutely clueless to the irony of her own words, or the inaccuracy — replied:

I know it’s portrayed as the biggest conspiracy theory since the last conspiracy theory. However, I don’t think you’re wrong, Jesse. If there is anyone that we can say, megalomaniac, addicted to power, thinks she should’ve been president, still essentially hasn’t conceded the election, and wants to be president again, it would be this woman. It would be Hillary Clinton. I’ve always said she’s the dark horse. I mean, what, it’s Pete Buttigieg? You really think she’s going to let this guy stand up and be the next President of the United States? I think she could run.

For anyone whose brain can remember back to the 2016 election (you’re excused, Kayleigh), Hillary — despite winning the popular vote by approximately 3 million — conceded the election the very next day, as soon as the electoral college results were confirmed. And she did it in the classiest way possible, by telling her supporters that “Donald Trump is going to be our president” and that “we owe him an open mind and a chance to lead.” And she said these words without even gagging!

As for Trump? Well, he didn’t take his loss in 2020 as well.

You can watch McEnany’s chat with Watters on Mediaite.

(Via Mediaite)