For Kate Winslet, one of the more exciting things about returning to play the coldblooded Jeanine in the second installment of the “Divergent” series is the fact that she wasn’t pregnant this time.
“It affects your ability to feel like you’re not actually disappearing,” said Winslet, 39. “I just didn’t feel very together at all, physically or mentally. I don’t have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.”
“It was really wonderful to be in a position where I did have my brain back,” she said. Shailene Woodley noted that she was afraid to be too physical with Winslet during “Divergent,” but that the gloves came off this time.
In their work, Woodley and Winslet have developed a bond that goes beyond a co-star connection. Both got their first significant burst of fame at age 21, Winslet with “Titanic,” and Woodley with her role in “Divergent.”
Though Woodley credits Winslet with offering her helpful advice about the temporality of celebrity, Winslet said that Woodley’s steadfast goals are what will see her through trying times, even in an environment of heightened scrutiny and access.
Ultimately, Winslet’s work in the “Divergent” films is for her three kids, ages 14, 11 and 15 months. “My children can’t see most of the films I’ve been in because I either die or take my clothes off,” said Winslet, laughing.
Talk show – The British are coming to late night: Corden ready to chat
James Corden is the perfect host. He offers a visitor to his modest office at CBS Television City a pillow for an uncomfortable chair. He raids a mini-fridge for drinks, suggesting bottled coffee (“Only three calories!”). He’s attentive and appealing in conversation.
That’s for an audience of one. Now Corden must demonstrate that he’s got what it takes to please viewers when he takes over CBS’ “The Late Late Show,” Craig Ferguson’s former home, on Monday (just after 12:30 a.m. EDT).
He’s proved himself elsewhere. Corden sang, danced and tumbled his way to a 2012 Tony Award for the exuberant farce “One Man, Two Guvnors”; co-starred in the movie adaptation of “Into the Woods”; and scored TV hits in his native England including “Gavin & Stacey” and “The Wrong Mans.”
But a U.S. talk show is an unlikely next step for a shortish, chubby-cheeked Brit who has the look of an amiable game-show host rather than a polished late-night TV ringmaster in the mold of the two Jimmys (NBC’s Fallon, ABC’s Kimmel) or Stephen Colbert, David Letterman’s replacement this fall on CBS’ “Late Show.”
Despite Corden’s estimable reputation on Broadway and in Britain, he’s largely unknown to viewers on that side of the pond. It was Corden’s New York stage performance that prompted CBS Entertainment Chairman Nina Tassler to consider him as a possible successor to Ferguson, who exited in December.
Iron Man – Star Downey presents boy with bionic arm
Just like Tony “Iron Man” Stark, Robert Downey Jr. is a part-time superhero — at least in the eyes of one seven-year-old boy.
In a video posted online last week, the actor, dressed as Stark, who becomes Iron Man in the movies, presents a working bionic prosthesis to seven-year-old Alex, who was born with a partially developed right arm.
Downey opens a pair of metal cases marked Stark Industries, revealing an Iron Man arm and a smaller, red-and-gold prosthetic arm for Alex.
The little boy, wearing a black shirt and red bow tie, sheepishly acknowledges in the video that he’s having an exchange with Iron Man, whom he also identifies as “Robert.” The bionic arm Alex received was created by engineering student Albert Manero, who builds and donates 3-D-printed bionic limbs to kids around the world.
Nile Rodgers – ‘Blurred Lines’ court verdict ‘shocking’
Musician Nile Rodgers says it is “shocking” that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke have been found guilty of plagiarism in the “Blurred Lines” court case, adding that he believed the song’s composition was not at all like Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.”
Rodgers, of the band Chic, has worked alongside Williams in Daft Punk’s smash hit “Get Lucky.” He said Gaye’s 1977 song and Thicke’s 2013 hit “didn’t really sound alike.”
He told The Associated Press yesterday in an interview: “Compositionally, purely compositionally, I don’t think they should have lost that case.” He added: “’Got to Give it Up’ is clearly a blues structure, (‘Blurred Lines’) isn’t at all.” Williams and Thicke have been ordered to pay USD7.4 million to the Gaye family.
Zip it – Facebook explains what posts are not allowed on its network
Facebook is trying to clarify what posts, images and other content it allows on its site and why.
On Monday, the world’s largest online social network explained its thinking in an update to its community standards page.
Facebook is giving users more guidance on why, for example, it might take down a post that featured sexual violence and exploitation, hate speech, criminal activity or bullying. It also explains why it not only bans terrorist and organized crime groups, but it also removes content supporting them.
The Menlo Park, California-based company says it isn’t changing how it regulates the content of posts, and that while some of the guidance for users is new, “it is consistent with how we’ve applied our standards in the past.”
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