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Sometimes an actor seems so wholesome and perfect in a movie that it can be hard to imagine them being actual people with emotions who sometimes make stupid decisions. That is not the case for Chris Hemsworth, who is apparently a great person both onscreen and off. Not like his fans were surprised or anything, but Hemsworth seems to be a real gem, according to his co-stars Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson.

While discussing Thor: Love And Thunder with UK’s Capital FM, Portman and Thompson began gushing about Hemsworth, and Thompson admitted he’s still “pretty cute” even when he’s grumpy. “He does get grumpy and he does get hangry, but he’s still sweet,” she explained.

Despite being angry when he’s hungry, Hemsworth actually made a really thoughtful move when it came to one of his kissing scenes with Portman. “He’s really nice,” Portman said. “The day we had a kiss scene he didn’t eat meat that morning because I’m vegan. And he eats meat like every half hour. Like, that was so thoughtful.”

Portman went on to explain that she didn’t even ask him to limit his (very large) meat intake, he just did it. “That’s not something I’m angry about or care about, but he was just being thoughtful. He’s just a very nice person.”

Thompson added, “I didn’t even know he could go without eating meat. He’s just like eating bison in the morning. That’s so sweet.”

Sweetness aside, who eats bison in the morning?? Perhaps this man is too strong.

(Via Capital FM)

Truth be told, no one really knows what Eric Trump’s role within the Trump family dynamic is. Ivanka is clearly the favorite, while Don Jr. is the bombastic one who always seems to be trying just a little bit too hard to win his dad’s love. Both Ivanka and Don Jr. have allegedly been directly involved in many of their dear old dad’s schemes, and will even be forced to testify under oath—right alongside the former president—later this week to clear up questions surrounding “significant” fraud in The Trump Organization.

Then there’s Eric. Though he’s officially the Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization, he hasn’t been called to testify alongside his senior family members. Instead, he seems to have been put on PR duty as the new public face of the family and has been showing up to interviews with anyone who wants to talk to him, where he’s dead set on explaining just how much the world loves his dad and the entire Trump family.

Of course, it’s mainly stooges like Newsmax’s Greg Kelly who are willing to book Eric as a guest at all. And Kelly got an earful of Trump propaganda on Monday night when he chatted with Eric—but not before he made an ass of himself on Twitter:

Kelly and Trump got right down to business, which meant discussing how terrible everything is under Joe Biden versus the paradisiacal world of life under Trump, who told us to drink bleach and pushed us to the brink of nuclear war. But Eric doesn’t care about any of that; he’s more concerned with how Biden “can’t ride a bike correctly” and that “he’s always doing something that makes the United States of America look crazy and not represent this country well.”

[insert record scratch]

Some of the most memorable moments from the interview came when Eric declared his father “the best president in U.S. history”—though he did allow that “maybe I’m biased in saying that.” MAYBE.

He also talked about how he gets parodied on Saturday Night Live “every single day.”

But the pièce de résistance was Eric’s retelling of a recent trip he took to Sin City:

I was on a plane last week… and I walked on and the plane literally started chanting ‘USA! USA! USA!’ Greg, the American people get it. I think there’s more love out there than ever right now. I’m hugged by people every single day saying, you know, ‘Thank God we had your father in the White House.’

USA! USA! USA!

(Via Aaron Rupar)

It took awhile, but the Star Wars prequels are now considered cool. Will Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull get the same critical re-evaluation? It hasn’t happened yet, and maybe it shouldn’t considering the film features a scene where Shia LaBeouf swings through the jungle with a bunch of CGI monkeys, but… what was I talking about again? Oh yeah, the Indiana Jones movie with the aliens.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull writer David Koepp recently appeared on the Script Apart podcast, where he discussed the decision to add extra-terrestrials to the Indy canon. “I was never happy with the idea [of the aliens]. When I came on, I tried to convince [Spielberg and co-writer George Lucas] to change it. I had this other idea. They didn’t want to change it,” he said.

Koepp, who also wrote Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man, admits that his script might not have been better. But “I think that a lot of the pushback that movie got, in a larger sense aside from little things people might not have liked, that were too silly or whatever, the larger one was that, ‘We don’t feel like aliens should’ve been in an Indiana Jones movie.’ Fair enough, in retrospect, you’re probably right,” he said.

At least the Crystal Skull aliens didn’t travel to a planet that’s 71 percent water, even though they’re vulnerable to getting wet. That would be a real boneheaded move.

Indiana Jones 5 comes out on June 30, 2023.

(Via CBR)

The Emmy nominations churned out a few pleasant surprises, including Rhea Seehorn and the Pam & Tommy gang not being snubbed, but inevitably, snubbing was bound to happen. Those omissions include The Righteous Gemstones cast and some key Stranger Things players, but arguably, there’s an even more egregious sin at work here: Midnight Mass got the shaft.

The Netflix limited series stands at the apex of Mike Flanagan’s work in the horror genre. It’s an entertaining and visually lush show, and it’s also a scathing critique of how faith can corrupt, and how a willfully blind adherence to religion can drive people toward embracing acts of cruelty. The show’s also a meditation on addiction (partially represented as vampirism), and it’s filled with powerhouse performances including Hamish Linklater as the show’s incoming priest who’s got a lot going on within those robes. Following Flanagan’s work on The Haunting Of Hill House franchise, Midnight Mass rocketed so fast up the streaming charts that Netflix greenlit a followup, but somehow, the Emmys simply does not dig atmospheric horror this year (even if What We Do In The Shadows did represent in the horror-comedy arena).

Ultimately, Flanagan still wins because his next project, The Fall of the House of Usher, will dive into Edgar Allan Poe and be based upon multiple Poe works, but people are still bummed out. If there can be a zillion (deserved) The White Lotus nominations in the Limited Series categories, why not a little Midnight Mass love? Fans are going ahead and declaring the show a winner no matter what:

You can stream Midnight Mass on Netflix, and the Emmys will air on September 4.

Nobody really knows why Alex Jones does the things he does. And the more bizarre his behavior, the more “because he’s Alex Jones” seems to be a satisfactory explanation to whatever shouty shenanigans he’s getting up to. But even the most dedicated Infowars viewers — we’re talking the kind of people who believed that JFK Jr. was going to reemerge and make Donald Trump president again — seemed confused by Jones’s recent brush with on-air self-injury.

As Mediaite reports, Jones was feeling a lot of love for his viewers and listeners on Sunday night, and somehow decided that cutting his finger off on live television would be the best way to share the fondness he was feeling…

The congratulatory diatribe took a bit of a U-turn when Jones pulled a large knife out and explained how he wanted to cut his finger off to prove his love to his viewers:

We have been given nothing but success, nothing but victory. It has been spectacular. And you, the viewers and listeners, you did this! And that’s why when I salute you — I’m not into self-harming — but I just actually want to take this dagger and just cut a finger off right on air to show you how much I appreciate you and what you’ve done. ‘Cause giving up a finger to beat these people is nothing!

You have changed the world! You have stood up against evil. You have turned the tide and I salute you. And I thank you You’ve got that from the very bottom of my heart. You’ve got my full commitment, ’cause you need to know in the universe, they’re real people. You need to know in the universe there’s people like you, who are not evil, who don’t serve Satan.

That’s why they all day say I’m an actor. All day say I’m a fake. All day say I’m a fraud with no evidence. Because they know I didn’t sell out to them.

Nor did he cut his finger off, so… you be the judge of whether he’s an actor, fake, and/or a fraud.

(Via Mediaite)

As reactions to this year’s slew of Emmy nominations come trickling in (or bombarding your Twitter timeline, depending on which internet neighborhood you are residing in), many are noticing some themes among said nominations. One is that streaming sites are dominating the award shows (for better or worse) and the other is…..that Succession got some really good guest stars for their most recent season. And most of them were nominated!

For the Oustanding Guest Actor/Actress In A Drama Series categories, the hit family drama snagged a whopping seven out of 12 nominations for its various season three guest stars. Sanaa Lathan, Hope Davis, and Harriet Walter all made the cut for Guest Actress.

Lathan starred as the high-powered lawyer Lisa Arthur in season three, a role she initially turned down due to pandemic fears. Davis played Sandy Furness’ daughter, Sandi (yup–her dad’s name with an “I”), while Dame Harriet Walter portrayed the wealthy mother to Kendall, Roman and Shiv, Lady Caroline Collingwood. All in all, a very powerful group of guest stars, who now have to compete with Marcia Gay Harden from The Morning Show, Martha Kelly from Euphoria and Lee You-mi of Squid Game.

Just in case none of those talented actresses win for their roles, the male guest stars of Succession are also putting up quite a fight: former Peaky Blinder Adrien Brody, Famous Starbucks Hater James Cromwell, Inventing Anna lawyer Arian Moayed, and The Northman himself Alexander Skarsgard are all nominated in the Guest Actor In A Drama Series category. Just imagine all of that male energy playing out at the Emmys when they air in September. If none of them win…well, Brian Cox will probably have something to say.

It’s not too late to just rename the whole thing Succession Emmys! Your move, ABC!

When it comes to the most brutal moments in Game of Thrones, nothing tops the Red Wedding. While fans of the books were prepared for the event that went down during the Season 3 episode “The Rains of Castamere,” casual HBO viewers were in for a horrifying shock as beloved characters were gruesomely murdered during a vengeful wedding reception massacre. It was a terrifying sight to behold, and only something a truly disturbed person would want to see happen in real life.

Enter the January 6 rioters.

During Tuesday’s televised hearings, clips of “Stop the Steal” rally planners and right-wing media figures were shown including a chilling comment from far-right YouTube personality “Salty Cracker” who was reacting to a December 2020 tweet from Donald Trump telling his followers to attend his “big protest.”

“This is going to be a Red Wedding going down on January 6,” Cracker said in the clip. Again, the Red Wedding was a brutal mass murder that is immediately recognizable to Game of Thrones fans, and arguably people who haven’t seen the show thanks to the widespread reactions to the infamous episode on social media.

Shortly after the January 6 committee played the clip, Red Wedding began to trend on Twitter as people reacted to the clear and obvious implications of bringing up the brutal Game of Thrones slaughter.

Naturally, Red Wedding wasn’t even the bottom of the barrel, as the Jan. 6 committee also showed Trump supporters calling for a “Day of the Rope,” an even more disturbing reference from The Turner Diaries.

These people wanted to do some pretty bad stuff is the overall message here.

(Via Justin Baragona on Twitter)

Animal Collective’s 11th album, Time Skiffs, came out earlier this year and it’s yet another psychedelic journey into musical mind elevation. While still experimental, the songs on Time Skiffs have more defined form, and as Uproxx’s Steven Hyden says, it’s “Animal Collective’s comeback record.” Yet somehow, through a storied indie rock career with 11 album releases, Animal Collective hadn’t appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series until today.

While their newly released session is technically a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, it actually takes place at the Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), giving it an especially trippy feel. The concrete-walled room with a concrete stage has lettered designs pasted on the walls as Panda Bear sits on the drums, Geologist is up on stage with his gear, Avey Tare is on bass and lead vocals in the front, and Deakin on the keys. They each take turns adding to the vocal arrangements for three songs: “Dragon Slayer,” “Car Keys,” and “Kings Walk.”

But the trippiest part of the Tiny Desk Concert is the person behind the lone tiny desk itself. Covered in a colorfully-designed cloak, a “time skiff rider” with full face paint, cuts shapes out of construction paper throughout the entire set. “We got our time skiff rider showing up for the tiny desk,” Avey says in between the second and third songs.

It doesn’t make very much sense, but that’s kind of the point. It’s a deeper opportunity to lose yourself in the music amidst something non-sensical and it’s a great Tiny Desk from AC.

Watch Animal Collective’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert above.

Are the Emmys dumb? Yes. Am I dumb for caring about the Emmys? Also yes. But this rare instance of self-awareness won’t stop me from both confused and infuriated that for the second season in a row, the cast of HBO’s holy-comedy The Righteous Gemstones, one of the best shows on television, wasn’t nominated for a single Emmy.

To paraphrase Baby Billy, go inside and watch The Righteous Gemstones, nerds.

The Righteous Gemstones has, in fact, never been nominated for an Emmy! in any category! even for its movie-level cinematography on a TV budget. But I’m channeling my rage on the acting snubs. Nothing for John Goodman, who has somehow only won a single Emmy — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which is funnier than anything that happened Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — despite his many seasons as peak TV dad Dan Conner on Roseanne. Nothing for Danny McBride, who plays stunted man-children better than basically anyone. Nothing for Adam DeVine, or Tony Cavalero (#JusticeForKeefe), or Cassidy Freeman, or Tim Baltz, or Walton Goggins (who was also ignored every year for his work on Justified).

But the most galling snub — for any category, honestly — is Edi Patterson.

Let’s look at the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nominees: Alex Borstein for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Hannah Einbinder for Hacks, Janelle James for Abbott Elementary, Kate McKinnon for SNL, Sarah Niles for Ted Lasso, Sheryl Lee Ralph for Abbott Elementary, Juno Temple for Ted Lasso, Hannah Waddingham for Ted Lasso. Did Ted Lasso really need three nominees? Did Kate McKinnon have to get nominated again? Is anyone still invested in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? The Emmys could, and should, have made room for the best comedic performance of the year:

The Emmys need to quit misbehavin’ and nominate The Righteous Gemstones cast.

In 2018, Mumford & Sons released Delta and toured the album that year through 2020. Since then, things have been weird for the group. In 2021, the group’s Winston Marshall took a break from the band after facing backlash for supporting conservative journalist Andy Ngo. Later, he left the band entirely, noting in a statement, “I could remain and continue to self-censor but it will erode my sense of integrity. Gnaw my conscience. I’ve already felt that beginning.”

Since then, the band’s future has been uncertain, but we know what Marcus Mumford has going on at least in the relative short term: Today, he revealed he has a solo album called Self-Titled coming out on September 16. Furthermore, it will feature contributions from Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo, Brandi Carlile, and Monica Martin, with production from Blake Mills.

In a handwritten statement, Mumford shared, “In January 2021, facing demons I danced with for a long time in isolation, I wrote a song called ‘Cannibal.’ I took it to my friend Blake Mills, and we began the process of making this album, dear to my heart, called (self-titled).’ It comes out September 16th 2022, produced by Blake Mills and featuring Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo & Monica Martin.”

Earlier this week (as Consequence notes), Mumford wrote in a newsletter, “In January last year I set myself the task of trying to write some songs and just follow where they led. When I showed the first two to the lads in the band, we all agreed it was probably a story I had to tell on my own.”

It’s not yet clear when “Cannibal” or any other songs from the project will be shared.