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<p>Halloween may be a month away but the cinemas are already ready to set your mood for the holiday with some new chilling horror films. If that is not your genre of choice, don’t worry because, in September 2023, you will have it all – romance, comedy, science fiction, drama, history, fantasy and more. Ready to make your movie night plans for the month, here are some of the must-watch films releasing in September 2023.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">A Time Called You</h3>



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<p>Following the death of her boyfriend, a sad Han Jun-hee somehow time-travels to the year 1998 where she comes across a man who looks exactly like her boyfriend. What follows as Jun-hee finds herself as a high schooler in this new setting is the primary plot of this feel-good Korean film that any K-movie fan can look forward to.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date: </strong>September 8<br><strong>Language: </strong>Korean<br><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Netflix</p>



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<p>Egoist is a romantic tale of two people who are pole opposites from one another. One is a magazine editor who often surrounds himself with an elite crowd. Another – his personal trainer – is a high school dropout who has to do several part-time jobs to make ends meet. This BL is certainly a fun and refreshing take on the forced proximity love trope.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date: </strong>September 14<br><strong>Language: </strong>Japanese<br><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Theatres</p>



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<p>Out of ways to make his audience laugh, one standup comedian discovers that the hardships he faced growing up and being his neurodivergent father’s primary caregiver at a very young age are the best inspirations for his script. Stand Up Story is emotional and throws light into the ups and downs of looking at past struggles from a new perspective.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date: </strong>September 14<br><strong>Language: </strong>Cantonese<br><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Theatres</p>



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<p>Displeased with his ability to see ghosts, Heung Wing decides to leave Hong Kong and live in Canada where he can forget all his past miseries. However, his mother’s suicide attempt brings him back to his home where nothing feels familiar any more and to make things worse, the spirits of his neighbours who have killed themselves appear in front of him. What lies behind these mysterious suicides is the gripping question that will have you hooked throughout the movie.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date: </strong>September 14<br><strong>Language: </strong>Cantonese<br><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Theatres</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Talk To Me</h3>



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<p>Releasing on the same day is another horror film, but the protagonists are fascinated by their newfound ability to communicate with ghosts. However, this overexcitement leads one of them to make an impulsive decision that blurs the lines between the living and the dead. Talk To Me is a nerve-wracking supernatural film that is interesting until the very last shot.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date: </strong>September 14<br><strong>Language: </strong>English<br><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Theatres</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Love at First Sight</h3>



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<p>A perfect movie for the romantic heart, Love at First Sight begins an enticing love story between two people who meet briefly during their flight from New York to London. Whether or not, they will cross each other’s path once again is the premise of this romantic drama that follows the “what is meant to be will always find its way to you” philosophy. Also, don’t forget to grab some tissues.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date:</strong> September 15<br><strong>Language:</strong> English<br><strong>Where to watch:</strong> Netflix</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Forger</h3>



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<p>As a young Jewish man living in 1940s Berlin, Cioma Schönhaus’s only way to survive and not get deported is by committing identity fraud. He decides to live as a German marine specialist instead of hiding away but given the political turmoil in the country, just a new identity won’t be enough. Inspired by historical events, The Forger is a beautifully written holocaust movie that is unique and charming in its own way.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date: </strong>September 21<br><strong>Language: </strong>German<br><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Theatres</p>



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<p>Set in a futuristic timeline, The Creator follows a group of people deployed on a mission to find and kill the architect behind artificial intelligence after the invention puts the entire human race in danger. Unexpectedly, the enemy they have set to destroy is an AI looking like a small child. Described as “a really insane, rich, visual journey.” by its director, Gareth Edwards, The Creator is a sci-fi not to be missed for its plot and cinematography.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date: </strong>September 28<br><strong>Language: </strong>English<br><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Theatres</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Moon</h3>



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<p>When a solar glare causes a South Korean spacecraft headed to the moon to malfunction, one astronaut, Hwang Sun-woo, is stuck in outer space by himself. With the help of a former flight director, the team behind the lunar expedition have to save Sun Woo before his oxygen supply finishes. The Moon is an emotionally intriguing and intellectually enlightening picture that will have you hooked.</p>



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<p><strong>Release Date: </strong>September 28<br><strong>Language: </strong>Korean<br><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Theatres</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">More New September 2023 Movies</h3>



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<li>The Nun II – English – September 7 – Theatres</li>



<li>Prison Flowers – Cantonese – September 7 – Theatres</li>



<li>Father of the Milkway Railroad – Japanese – September 7 – Theatres</li>



<li>Ransomed – Korean – September 7 – Theatres</li>



<li>Sitting in Bars With Cake – English – September 8 – Amazon Prime</li>



<li>A Haunting in Venice – English – September 14 – Theatres</li>



<li>Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween-Destiny – Japanese – September 14 – Theatres</li>



<li>Expendables 4 – English – September 21 – Theatres</li>



<li>Bad Education – Taiwanese – September 28 – Theatres</li>
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Reel Deal: The most anticipated movies released this September


<p>Ryan Gosling has generally preferred to keep his cards close to his chest offscreen, in contrast to the thrilling and diverse parade of characters he has portrayed onscreen. From Jewish neo-Nazi in the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning The Believer (2001) and teen psycho-killer in Murder by Numbers (2002) to the romantic lead in The Notebook (2004) and a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson (2006), the former child actor showed a mesmerising range at the start of his adult career.</p>


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<p>Half Nelson earned him the first of two Academy Award Best Actor nominations; the second came a decade later for the musical La La Land, which landed him a Golden Globe. Nominations for the latter trophy have been plentiful – Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Blue Valentine (2010), The Ides of March and Crazy, Stupid, Love (both 2011). Critics and fans alike hail his standout performance as Ken in this year’s Barbie, opposite Margot Robbie, as deserving of the highest acting accolade.</p>


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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Rambo Moment</h3>



<p>Gosling’s fascination with all things dramatic, action-packed and comedic began early in life. Reared in Cornwall, Ontario, the young Canadian watched Sylvester Stallone’s primal and vicious revenge epic First Blood, the original Rambo movie, on videocassette one evening when he was in the first grade. He put the family’s steak knives in his Fisher-Price magic kit the next day, and armed to the teeth, made his way to school, eager to apply the knowledge he had just acquired.</p>



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<p>“I didn’t think it through, you know,” he says, looking back at his foolhardiness. “I just thought, in my mind: This is not right, what is happening, and something has to be done. Thank God, you know, I was suspended. I should have been. My mother was mortified. And it was like reality came in. I had to get control of my imagination.”</p>


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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Music to movies</h3>



<p>The acclaimed actor is a talented singer, too. At age 12, he went on his first audition for a role in The Mickey Mouse Club. He was cast as a Mouseketeer and later shared the TV screen with future stars Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. He frequently sang on the show and was supposedly invited to join The Backstreet Boys by band member AJ McLean, his then-next-door neighbour. In 2007, Gosling released his own music and started an indie rock group called Dead Man’s Bones.</p>


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<p>One of his great bait and switches is that, despite the fact that it’s obvious there are many deep, dark and bizarre things churning inside of him as an artist, his face and behaviour give the impression of a regular guy. From First Blood to other less violent pictures, movies clearly helped shape his young mind. Over time, they beckoned him toward them.</p>



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<p>“When I saw Dumbo and The Elephant Man, I felt like those films were smashing down some wall inside of me and creating a room called empathy,” he says. “And being very grateful for having seen those films even though they were painful, and the idea of watching them again was scary because I didn’t know that I wanted to feel those things again, but it did feel different after seeing them. Like they had exposed some part of myself to me that I didn’t know was there.”</p>


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<p>He credits his uncle, who was an Elvis impersonator, with setting him on the road to performing. “I remember things being very mundane until he came [for an extended stay], and suddenly he was wearing a jumpsuit around the house and talking like Elvis, putting together a show and putting my mom as a backup singer and my father as head of security,” he recalls. “And all our family was coming around, making costumes… family members that didn’t necessarily talk before. It just brought everyone together. I was in the act – I handed out teddy bears and scarves.”</p>


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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Fame and fatherhood</h3>



<p>The grownup Ryan Gosling has made it known that his family comes before his job. The 42-year-old has two daughters, Esmeralda, aged eight, and seven-year-old Amada with long-time partner Eva Mendes. Supporting child-soldier awareness group Invisible Children and the Enough Project, which works to end genocide, he has long campaigned against the conflicts in Central Africa. His own children had a big impact on his choice to star in the Netflix action thriller The Gray Man last year, and he intends to introduce his daughters to his work through the widely acclaimed Barbie.</p>


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<p>Gosling, who plays the iconic Ken doll, explains: “Barbie was a way to do that. Not necessarily like I’m making it for them, but it’s the first time I think they kind of are understanding it. Although, they can’t for the life of them understand why I want to play Ken because nobody plays with Ken. But that’s why we must tell his story.”</p>



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<p>The Barbie promo cycle has branded Ken as just some guy. He’s not just any person, though; he’s Ken; and that’s what exactly the creator and director of the Barbie movie intended it to be. Along with a legion of Kens defending their right to own some kind of personality, Gosling performs a massive 1980s’ power ballad. Incredibly blonde and impossibly ripped, Ken pulls himself together and finds some value in himself through words of self affirmation. “I’m just Ken and I’m enough / And I’m great at doing stuff,” he sings.</p>



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<p>It’s an apt line for the actor as well as the character. In real life and in his chosen craft, Ryan Gosling has proven to be one of the greats.</p>



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<p>Margot Robbie wasn’t a huge Barbie lover growing up. The Australian actress who conquered Hollywood with seeming ease in her early 20s is unsure if she ever even had a Barbie doll. She spent a lot of time in Queensland, preparing mud pies with her cousin, playing with trucks and constructing forts.</p>



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<p>The fashion sense came later; Robbie’s strong, glam femininity is currently being honoured in the Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion exhibition at Australia’s National Museum of Screen Culture, alongside other female screen icons who have taken creative control and shaped their own image. “The clothes are a huge part of this movie and a huge part of Barbie,” she says. “It’s super superficial – but it’s incredibly profound at the same time. Everything in this movie had to be authentically artificial.”</p>



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<p class="has-text-color" style="color:#e0228be8">Also Read: <a href="https://igafencu.com/articles/barbie-at-60" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Barbie at 60: We salute several of her more intriguing incarnations</a></p>


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<p>Transformed into a fantasy comedy directed and co-written by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women), Barbie hits cinemas this month. The Barbie actress not only plays the lead Barbie character (opposite Ryan Gosling as the main Ken) but also pulls the production strings through her company, LuckyChap Entertainment.</p>



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<p>The actress, who turns 33 this month, has already had a career filled with memorable movie roles and, in real Barbie fashion, red-carpet looks. She got her start on the popular Australian soap, Neighbours, then quickly relocated to Los Angeles to pursue her Hollywood ambitions. Her rapid rise continued, as she was able to share credits with a number of well-known actors and filmmakers during her first few years in the US, earning praise from both the public and critics.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Life is her creation</h3>


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<p>Straight away, Margot Robbie landed top billing beside Christina Ricci in the period TV series Pan Am (2011), then appeared in the time-travel romantic comedy About Time, and shone alongside Leonardo di Caprio in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). She won the hearts of the DC Comics faithful with her portrayal of villainess Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad (2016), a role she reprised in 2020 for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and again in The Suicide Squad the following year.</p>



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<p>Robbie garnered her first Oscar nod for her complex portrayal of controversial US figure skater Tonya Harding in I, Tonya (2018), and then regularly landed award-season nominations – including Bafta supporting actress shots for her performance as Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and her work in Bombshell (2019). The latter also brought in a second Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe shout-out.</p>



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<p>While taking home a top award still eludes her, there is no question that Robbie will dominate the big screen for years to come. Acting is not her only concern, though; through her behind-the-scenes work as a producer, she has become a powerful advocate for women in Hollywood.</p>


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<p>Co-founded by Robbie in 2014 with three friends – one of whom, Briton Tom Ackerley, became her husband – LuckyChap has been committed to producing compelling female tales and assembling teams of female artists. These include I, Tonya, and multi-Oscar nominee Promising Young Woman, written and directed by Emerald Fennell and starring Carey Mulligan. More doors are being opened for women in Hollywood by Robbie and co., and she is also promoting women’s rights in the industry on her own platform. She has been an outspoken proponent of the #MeToo movement and has pushed to make the film industry a safer place.</p>



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<p>Reflecting on her own self-education about the prevalence of misogyny in the workplace, she says: “It horrified me just how that particular crime plays in the grey area. That’s where it really flourishes when a situation isn’t black and white, and that’s when insidious people like Roger Ailes [as depicted in Bombshell] or Harvey Weinstein take advantage of that grey area.”</p>


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<p>She is passionate about getting women involved in action movies since that particular genre is where the big money is. “Also, the perception that women aren’t interested in action is ridiculous,” she adds.</p>



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<p>With the industry on the precipice of great change, Robbie finds herself not in the position of the burgeoning film starlet that she was a decade ago, but an executive producer making tectonic shifts to break the patriarchal mould.</p>



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<p>And then there’s her influence through fashion, which is a way of expression but also a powerful key for change. Empowering women through fashion is something strong and possible.</p>



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<p>Barbie makes her own statement by dressing with intention. She doesn’t dress for the day; she dresses for the task, which might involve a leisure activity or a form of employment. In the official movie trailer, one scene stands out as it pokes fun at the way the Barbie universe seems to blur such distinctions.</p>


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<p>Stepping into the shoes of stereotypical Barbie, Robbie describes what makes her special beyond the many clothes she gets to wear: “[Wonder Woman actress] Gal Gadot is [the inspiration for] Barbie energy. Gal Gadot is so impossibly beautiful, but you don’t hate her for being that beautiful, because she’s so genuinely sincere, and she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky. Yes, she can wear a short skirt, but because it’s fun and pink. Not because she wants you to see her butt.”</p>



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<p>When the acclaimed actress is not in character, she is often checking the websites of train companies as travelling on the Orient Express was on her bucket list for a long time. “All I want to do is live on a train,” she says. “You literally wake up and you open the window, [you are in Switzerland] and it looks like The Sound of Music.”</p>



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<p>Margot Robbie is at full speed and in the driver’s seat of her childhood dream of making it big in Hollywood. With Barbie, an intriguing cinematic take on a past childhood icon, it’s clear that the actress-producer won’t be hitting the brakes any time soon. Or as Barbie would say, live your dream.</p>


Barbie Composition: Margot Robbie adds another layer of character to her versatile body of work

<p>Over the past couple of decades, it seems the world has begun to covet slightly older, more worldly action stars. Think Liam Neeson’s hit Taken trilogy, which he began shooting at the tender age of 56. Then there’s The Expendables franchise, whose leading men’s ages range from their fifties (Jason Statham) to mid-seventies (Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger). Proof positive that global audiences have truly embraced cinematic silver foxes.</p>
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<p>Yet the same cannot be said for the fairer sex. Indeed there seems to be a dearth of more mature leading ladies taking the lead in high-octane action thrillers, with the exception of one notable outlier – Michelle Yeoh. The Malaysian-born actress, who turns 60 later this year, remains one of Tinseltown’s most highly sought-after screen sirens. After already having forged a successful career in the Far East, she made her Western debut in the James Bond outing Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997 before being catapulted to Hollywood fame in Ang Lee’s smash hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon three years later.</p>
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<p>Fast forward to today. While many of her counterparts are being sidelined in favour of more youthful thespians, Yeoh remains in hot demand. In fact, in the past few years, she’s added impressively to her portfolio. She’s won major roles in multi-million dollar productions such as 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians and kung fu film Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy, 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings, and more recently, in the critically acclaimed absurdist dramedy Everything Everywhere All at Once.</p>
<p>In an industry notorious for being perceived as being both ageist and racist, Yeoh’s reign at the top of the box office continues unabated. To celebrate the trailblazer’s decades of success, we delve into some lesser-known facts about this versatile actress.</p>
<p><strong>1. Early Aspirations</strong></p>
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Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng was born on 6 August 1962 in Ipoh, Malaysia to Yeoh Kian-teik, a politician and lawyer, and Janet Yeoh. An all-rounder at school, she excelled at sports such as swimming and rugby, but even at an early age, she knew what she wanted to be – a ballet dancer. Having begun ballet lessons at just four, she continued to pursue her dream after moving to London with her family at age 15, eventually studying at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance.</p>
<p>However it was not to be, as a spinal injury sidelined her from the stage, causing her to switch her focus to choreography instead. A new calling emerged several years later, however, when her mother secretly entered her in a Miss Malaysia pageant in 1983. Once she nabbed the crown, film opportunities began trickling in, launching what would eventually be a decades-long career. Ballet’s loss was cinema’s gain.</p>
<p><strong>2. Kung Fu Prowess</strong></p>
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When Yeoh first got her big acting break back in the ’80s, she was often faced with sexism from her male colleagues when it came to preparing for action movies. Despite the obvious risks, in those early days, she almost exclusively performed all her own stunts as she “didn’t have help from CGI” back then. Recalling the antagonism she faced while training in local Hong Kong gyms, she recalls: “They literally folded their arms, stood back and watched me. ‘This little thing wants to do all this?’ But I followed them move for move. I was in that gym from 8.30am until sundown every day.”</p>
<p><strong>3. Stunt Work</strong></p>
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It wasn’t just the trainers that used to look at her sideways, however. The streak of male chauvinism also encompassed many of her co-stars as well, most notably with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan, whom she first collaborated with back in 1984 – her first acting gig – while shooting a watch commercial. The latter, who Yeoh has gone on record as saying believed women belonged in the kitchen rather than in action movies, tried to enforce his views on her. The result? In her own words, she “kicked his butt”.</p>
<p><strong>4. Acting Hiatus</strong></p>
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Although Michelle Yeoh has been with her long-time partner, French motor racing executive Jean Todt, for nearly 20 years, she was once married to successful Hong Kong entrepreneur, Dickson Poon, following her rise to prominence in the local film industry. At that time, the then-25-year-old decided to retire from acting to focus on her new husband and family.<br />
Looking back, she says: “I’m in awe of women who can juggle an amazing career, motherhood and family. I cannot. At that point I realised that if I was getting married then that’s what I wanted to focus on. I’m a very, very committed person, and I knew I couldn’t be the best wife – and hopefully mother – if I was away months on end shooting. I didn’t know how to balance that. I wanted to be able to travel with my husband. I wanted to be a part of his life and make it our life.” Sadly, Yeoh was unable to have children, and the couple parted ways four years later.</p>
<p><strong>5. Second Wind</strong></p>
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After settling for playing the mother or other secondary characters for a few years, her renewed success on the big screen was as much a shock to Yeoh as it is for anyone else. In fact, she claims to being somewhat tickled at being introduced to a whole new generation of movie-goers as she nears 60. “These young kids don’t know me because they didn’t grow up watching Tomorrow Never Dies or Memoirs of a Geisha. Now I’m suddenly known by the younger generation, and they can relate to me suddenly, and I think that’s a great achievement,” she muses.</p>
<p>While the change may be as fortuitous as it was unexpected, there’s no sign of the momentum abating anytime soon. Next, the Crazy Rich Asians actress is set to act in James Cameron’s long-awaited Avatar sequel, set to be released later this year. Then, there’s the as-yet unnamed Star Trek: Discovery spin-off rumoured to be in the works that will see her reprise her popular anti-protagonist character of Philippa Georgiou. After that, the future is less clear, but chances are we’ll be seeing her on the silver screen for many more years to come.</p>


Five things you need to know about the widely talented Michelle Yeoh

<p>To say that 2018 was a seminal year for Awkwafina would be putting things mildly. Having only been known in certain comedy and music circles until then, she suddenly found herself in the limelight with not one, but two breakthrough movies – Ocean’s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians. Since then, she’s gone on to become a household name as an actor, creating her own TV show, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, and starring in several blockbusters. Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, in which she voiced Sisu, were among the quartet of movies she headlined last year.</p>
<p>Indeed, the talented 33-year-old is the very definition of a multi-hyphenate. Actor, comedian, rapper, writer – it seems that everything the New York City native touches turns to gold. But while her life may seem like a fairy tale today, it has been anything but easy&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Grandmotherly Love</strong></p>
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Nora Lum – to give the actress her birth name – was born on 2 June 1988 in New York as the sole child of Wally, a Chinese-American, and Tia, a South Korean painter. Tragically, her mum passed away when she was just four, leaving her father and his parents to raise her. If the story sounds familiar, that’s because it closely mirrors the life of her eponymous character in Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, the hit TV series she created for Comedy Central.</p>
<p>Like her fictional role, Nora spent her formative years in the New York borough, and was particularly close to her paternal grandmother. An early role model, the latter signed her up for singing lessons as a child without her father ever knowing. Speaking of this close relationship, the star explains: “My grandmother is everything to me. She taught me that Asian women are strong. They’re not meek orchard-dwelling figures.”</p>
<p><strong>Losing Home</strong></p>
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<p>Her grandparents ran a Chinese restaurant in the Flushing area of Queens, but when it began to fail, they had to file for bankruptcy, losing the business as well as their home. At this point, the entire family was forced to move into a tiny apartment, with Lum sharing the sole bedroom with her grandparents until she turned 12. Recalling these troubled times, she notes: “I remember staying up with my grandma at night and asking her, ‘What is the only thing you wish for that you could have right now?’ And she said, ‘To pay the bills.’”</p>
<p><strong>Troubled Teen</strong></p>
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<p>Having been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) as well as depression during her teens, Nora was anything but an A-plus pupil. Despite being accepted into the prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School – an institution famed for churning out musical talents and thespians such as Al Pacino, Jennifer Aniston and Timothée Chalamet – she was, in her estimation, “a bad kid”. She says she would often skip class to drink or smoke with friends, and would always get caught. Thankfully, she managed to scrape together a C-minus average, eventually graduating and – after learning Mandarin in Beijing – making it to the University of Albany.</p>
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<p><strong>Alter Ego</strong></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_65259" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65259" style="width: 466px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-65259" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-HFPA.jpg" alt="akwafina Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy category" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-HFPA.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-HFPA-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-HFPA-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-HFPA-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-HFPA-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65259" class="wp-caption-text">Awkwafina wins the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy category at the Golden Globes</figcaption></figure></p>
<p>Lum fell in love with music at an early age, learning to play the trumpet when she was in the fifth grade and training in both the jazz and classical traditions. However, it was rap that truly captivated her imagination. She began rapping when she was 13, often recording her own tunes into a boombox mixtape recorder, and three years later picked out her own stage name – Awkwafina.</p>
<p>It wasn’t until Nora was in college, however, that she would fully embrace Awkwafina as her alter ego. Having to temper and filter herself to fit the mould of a ‘proper’ university student, she used that outlandish persona to release the repressed side of her personality. “She’s the girl who’s high on sleepover energy, running around and dunking ice cream cones in her eyes,” shares Lum. “College was like prison reform where I learned to be quiet and more passive – so when Awkwafina comes out on stage, she’s that crazy high-school kid that doesn’t really care about anything. It’s an extra burst of confidence that Nora doesn’t have. There is a duality.”</p>
<p><strong>Bad Rap</strong></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_65271" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65271" style="width: 700px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-65271" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-oceans-8.jpg" alt="akwafina ocean's 8" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-oceans-8.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-oceans-8-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-oceans-8-600x399.jpg 600w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-oceans-8-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-oceans-8-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-oceans-8-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-oceans-8-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65271" class="wp-caption-text">Awkwafina with co-stars Sarah Paulson, Sandra Bullock, Rihanna, and Cate Blanchett in Ocean&#8217;s 8</figcaption></figure></p>
<p>Awkwafina may have been rapping and producing her own songs since her teenage years, but her first big break came in 2012 when My Vag became a viral hit on her YouTube channel. Her song’s success – it garnered over three million views – galvanised her into a frenzy of songwriting, and she followed it with the 12-track Yellow Ranger album in 2014, then In Fina We Trust in 2018. She was featured in the rap documentary Bad Rap, an exposé on four Asian-American hip-hop artists, which debuted at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.</p>
<p><strong>Awkward Feelings</strong></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_65264" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65264" style="width: 466px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-65264" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-crazy-rich-asians.jpg" alt="Akwafina nora lum crazy rich asians" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-crazy-rich-asians.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-crazy-rich-asians-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-crazy-rich-asians-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-crazy-rich-asians-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/akwafina-crazy-rich-asians-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65264" class="wp-caption-text">Dolled up for the premiere of Crazy Rich Asians</figcaption></figure></p>
<p>Having long struggled with depression and her overall mental health, Awkwafina was not shielded from feelings of inadequacy and anxiety when she found fame. Indeed, she points to the summer of that seminal year – 2018 – as being particularly challenging. When Netflix film Dude, Ocean’s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians were released in a rapid five-month span, the sudden attention and scrutiny caused her to feel displaced.</p>
<p>“That summer, it was a lot of people being like, ‘Just enjoy, dude, just have fun, live in the moment,’” she recalls. “All this stuff started to come up. I wondered at a certain point, when everything in my life was amazing, why I felt so low and with no sense of identity.” Thankfully, she’s now adjusted to her celebrity status.</p>
<p><strong>Farewell Arrival</strong></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-65289" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Awkwafina_cropped_2-copy.jpg" alt="Awkwafina nora lum asian hollywood actress breaking barriers in entertainment" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Awkwafina_cropped_2-copy.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Awkwafina_cropped_2-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Awkwafina_cropped_2-copy-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Awkwafina_cropped_2-copy-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Awkwafina_cropped_2-copy-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></p>
<p>Not only has she successfully overcome stereotypes and mental health issues, she’s even made acting history. With her 2020 Golden Globe triumph, she became the first-ever performer of Asian descent to win in the Best Actress category (for her poignant portrayal of Billi in The Farewell).</p>
<p>So what’s next for Lum and her wildly successful alter ego? Well, next month sees the barrier-breaking talent lend her voice to animated film The Bad Guys as Ms Tarantula and then to the part of Scuttle the seagull in the 2023 live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.</p>
<p><strong>Also Read:&nbsp;<a href="//www.gafencushop.com/jess-unstopabble-heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-jessica-chastain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jess Unstopabble: Here’s what you didn’t know about actress Jessica Chastain</a></strong></p>
<h6><em>(Text: Tenzing Thondup)</em></h6>


Awkwafina: The unexpected Hollywood star we didn’t know we need

<p>Robert Pattinson has been around for a while. Perhaps you discovered him in the 2005 fourth cinematic instalment of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter anthology as budding wizard Cedric Diggory. Maybe you swooned over his portrayal of brooding vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight series (2008-2013). Or perhaps you latterly stumbled over him in the most recent film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s unfinished horror novel The Lighthouse alongside Willem Dafoe.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-64623" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-2.jpg" alt="robert-pattinson-the-batman (2)" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-2.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-2-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-2-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-2-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></p>
<p>Whatever your first exposure to the talented British thespian, chances are – barring role reprisals – you’ll never see the like from him again. Such is the chameleonic, ever-changing face of Robert Pattinson in a wide range of genres. And it is precisely this ability to switch mindsets and mannerisms with apparent ease that has won him such favour in Tinseltown and beyond.</p>
<p>Although the 35-year-old has gracefully transitioned from child actor to teen heartthrob to full-fledged leading man, given his slender frame and almost feminine features, few could have guessed that he would replace Ben Affleck as the Caped Crusader in the upcoming The Batman film, beating out such other Hollywood heavy-hitters as Nicholas Hoult and Armie Hammer. Yet, the soon-to-air movie has already garnered much anticipation from DC Comics fans and is intended as the opening salvo in a new Batman trilogy. To celebrate Pattinson’s coup in landing the role, we delve into some of the lesser-known facts about the latest Dark Knight…</p>
<p><strong>Schoolboy Porn</strong></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-64626" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-5.jpg" alt="robert-pattinson-the-batman (5)" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-5.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-5-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-5-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-5-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-5-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /><br />
Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson – to give the actor his full name – was born in London on 13 May 1986 as the youngest of three children. His mother, Clare, was a booker at a modelling agency, and his father, Richard, a vintage car dealer. The family was wealthy enough to send their only son to the prestigious Tower House School, an independent prep school whose alumni include fellow thespian Tom Hardy, comedian Jack Whitehall and journalist Louis Theroux.<br />
Pattinson was soon expelled, however, for a rather shocking misdemeanour; he was caught stealing pornographic magazines and then selling them to his schoolmates. “I used to go in [to the shop] and take, like, one or two, and then put them in my bag. I was in my school uniform when I was doing it, and it was kind of risky,” he recalls sheepishly. “At the end, I got so cocky that I would take the entire rack.” Naughty, naughty.</p>
<p><strong>Magical Debut</strong></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_64629" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64629" style="width: 700px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64629 size-full" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-8.jpg" alt="robert-pattinson-the-batman (8)" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-8.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-8-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-8-600x399.jpg 600w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-8-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-8-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-8-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-8-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64629" class="wp-caption-text">Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</figcaption></figure></p>
<p>The not-so-sweet 17-year-old had just three acting credits to his name when he landed the coveted role of Hufflepuff boy-wizard in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It was undoubtedly a coup for the budding actor, and arguably the role that put him on the map. Interestingly, due to delays in the filming schedule, he had to decide between accepting the part or attending university. “It went so far over schedule, I couldn’t go. It was supposed to be four months, but it ended up being 10 or 11,” he says. “I was 17 and I was the only person who wasn’t in school. I’d just hang about.”</p>
<p><strong>First Cut is the Deepest</strong></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_64625" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64625" style="width: 700px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64625 size-full" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-4.jpg" alt="robert-pattinson-the-batman (4)" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-4.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-4-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-4-600x399.jpg 600w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-4-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-4-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-4-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-4-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64625" class="wp-caption-text">Robert Pattinson in Twilight</figcaption></figure></p>
<p>While Goblet of Fire is his first movie credit, the first part he landed was in an earlier film – 2004’s Vanity Fair. He acted alongside the star of the historical drama, Reese Witherspoon, playing her teenage son. Ultimately, though, his scenes vanished from the final cut of the movie – a decision he remained unaware of until attending its screening.</p>
<p>It was a huge shock for the young Pattinson, but it ultimately worked in his favour when he auditioned for the Harry Potter franchise. He recalls: “The casting director, Mary Selway, felt so guilty that no one had informed me that she basically gave me the first run at the part in Harry Potter, so I was quite glad I got cut in the end.”</p>
<p><strong>Red Carpet Slip Up</strong></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-64634" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman.jpg" alt="robert-pattinson-the-batman" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /><br />
In what may be the ultimate case of misjudgment, the Twilight star attempted to sneak quietly into the 2007 premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in Los Angeles, even though he only appeared in a single flashback scene. His efforts to slip in unnoticed backfired as he was immediately swarmed by Cedric Diggory fans, and was soon ushered onto the red carpet with other members of the cast.</p>
<p>This embarrassing situation was exacerbated by Pattinson’s dishevelled appearance. “I’d just been walking through Hollywood and it was a long walk and it was boiling hot,” he later explained. “I’d been eating pizzas and drinking beer for the whole summer and I looked disgusting.” His agent was furious because he ‘looked like an unbelievable mess’ in photos taken by the press. “My agent still sends them to this day&#8230; I was just pouring with sweat, you can just see [from] the photos. I look horrendous…”</p>
<p><strong>Sick for the Part</strong></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-64630" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-9.jpg" alt="robert-pattinson-the-batman (9)" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-9.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-9-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-9-600x399.jpg 600w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-9-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-9-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-9-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-9-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><br />
It’s not uncommon for actors to embrace a variety of pre-shooting rituals in order to make their portrayal truer to life. However, Pattinson is known for taking this to the extreme. To enter the dark emotional state needed to film The Lighthouse in 2019, he has admitted to spinning in circles and putting stones in his shoes to throw himself off-kilter so his performance in the psychological drama would seem disjointed. He even forced himself to throw up before critical scenes. When asked about the technique’s effectiveness, he answered: “I think everyone feels very emotional when they’re throwing up, and it’s quite a nice little trick to get there.”</p>
<p><strong>Clamouring for the Cape</strong></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_64628" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64628" style="width: 700px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64628 size-full" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-7.jpg" alt="robert-pattinson-the-batman (7)" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-7.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-7-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-7-600x399.jpg 600w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-7-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-7-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-7-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robert-pattinson-the-batman-7-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64628" class="wp-caption-text">Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne in The Batman (2022)</figcaption></figure></p>
<p>It’s no secret that Pattinson has a penchant for quirky roles and often eschews parts in more ‘mass-market’ productions in favour of smaller, indie films. So, many would be surprised to hear that he’d toyed with becoming the Caped Crusader even prior to being cast in the upcoming Batman reboot. “I’d had Batman on my mind for a while… [though] it’s such an absurd thing to say,” he shared recently. “I sort of had an idea to do it, and I’d been prodding Matt [Reeves, the film’s director]. He didn’t accept any prods, so I kept asking to meet him.”<br />
Clearly his persistence paid off, and Pattinson was the one chosen to don the cape. Judge for yourself if he does the role justice when The Batman hits the silver screen on 4 March.</p>


Robert Pattinson – From child actor to Hollywood heavyweight

<p>Redheads in Hollywood were once typecast as fiery temptresses or hot-blooded vixens. Yet, this stereotype has subsided somewhat thanks in no small part to the many varied onscreen performances of such talented ginger actresses as Jessica Chastain, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore.</p>
<p>Chastain, in particular, has found serious cinematic success across a wide array of genres, be it sci-fi (she played Commander Melissa Lewis in 2015’s The Martian), biographical (last year she was the titular character in The Eyes of Tammy Faye), thrillers (2012’s Zero Dark Thirty) or more. For her efforts, she has nabbed a Golden Globe and was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Baftas, in addition to being named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2012.&nbsp;With the talented screen siren set to grace cinemas this month in The 355 – an action-packed spy film with a star-studded cast including Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Fan Bingbing – we take a look at some of the lesser-known facts about Jessica Chastain.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-64001 size-full" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-2.png" alt="Jess Unstopabble_ Here's what you didn't know about actress Jessica Chastain gafencu-2" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-2.png 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-2-200x300.png 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-2-186x280.png 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-2-120x180.png 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-2-400x601.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></p>
<p><strong>Estranged Relations</strong><br />
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born on 24 March 1977 in the Californian city of Sacramento. Her mum, Jerri Renee Chastain, and dad Michael Monasterio were extremely young parents, the latter being 20 and the former just 16 when Chastain entered the world. As an aspiring rock musician, her father abandoned his family a few years later, leaving Jerri to raise two young children by herself. Understandably, the Zero Dark Thirty star remained estranged from him for the rest of his life, and did not speak to him again before he passed away at the age of 55 in 2013.</p>
<p><strong>Early Insecurity</strong><br />
As a single mother of four children, Jerri Chastain struggled to make ends meet. In one case, when they were living in North Carolina, the situation grew so dire that they were even evicted from their home. Recalling this turbulent period, the star has said: “Because my mom had us very young, many times we were in situations where we didn’t have stability. So, we moved around quite a bit when we were younger, and one time I came home from school, I was probably 13 years old, and there were people there locking the door…”</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-63999 size-full" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-4.png" alt="Jess Unstopabble_ Here's what you didn't know about actress Jessica Chastain gafencu-4" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-4.png 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-4-200x300.png 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-4-186x280.png 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-4-120x180.png 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-4-400x601.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></p>
<p><strong>Acting Dreamcoat</strong><br />
Unlike many of her colleagues, Chastain was still a young child – seven years old, in fact – when she realised she wanted to become an actress. The seminal moment came when her grandmother took her to see a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. When she discovered the on-stage narrator was a scant three years older than her, she became determined to follow in her footsteps. Chastain never forgot her debt to the person who helped to spark her acting bug, and thanked her grandmother by taking her to the Oscars in 2012 and 2013 as her plus one.</p>
<p><strong>From Dropout to Juilliard</strong><br />
Despite her obvious intellect, Chastain and school were not the best fit; she preferred to spend time reading Shakespeare rather than studying. Although she didn’t graduate from high school, she attended a local community college, and later, in 1999, was accepted at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York on a degree programme funded by a scholarship from Robin Williams.<br />
“It was after my second year I found I got that scholarship, and it paid for not only all my schoolwork, but my apartment and my books, and my flight home to see my family for Christmas. It took care of all of that,” reminisced Chastain. “Each year I wrote him a letter about how significant that gift was to myself and to my family.”<br />
Sadly, though, she never got to meet the comedian before his untimely death in 2014. The closest she came was at a restaurant when he was seated at a nearby table. She wanted to wait until he finished eating to introduce herself, but Williams slipped out the second he was done and she never saw him again.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-64000 size-full" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-1.png" alt="Jess Unstopabble_ Here's what you didn't know about actress Jessica Chastain gafencu-1" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-1.png 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-1-200x300.png 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-1-186x280.png 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-1-120x180.png 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-1-400x601.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></p>
<p><strong>Family Tragedy</strong><br />
Graduating from New York’s prestigious Julliard should have been one of the happiest days of Chastain’s life, but unfortunately a dark cloud hung over her. Just three days before, her sister Juliet had committed suicide at the age of 24, having struggled with drug abuse and depression for many years. Unlike Jessica, who was a year older, Juliet had reconciled with their estranged father and was living with him when she tragically ended her life.</p>
<p><strong>Love in her Acts</strong><br />
After her sister’s suicide, Chastain took measures to raise awareness about depression, mental health and suicide, and began supporting the charity To Write Love on Her Arms. An animal lover, she also volunteers for the Humane Society of the United States, and used to spend Sundays at Los Angeles’s Animal Acres shovelling hay for horses.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-63997 size-full" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-6.png" alt="Jess Unstopabble_ Here's what you didn't know about actress Jessica Chastain gafencu-6" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-6.png 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-6-200x300.png 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-6-186x280.png 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-6-120x180.png 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jess-Unstopabble_-Heres-what-you-didnt-know-about-actress-Jessica-Chastain-gafencu-6-400x601.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></p>
<p><strong>Epic Success</strong><br />
Chastain’s career may have started slowly, but she blossomed into a major star. As well as Oscar-nominated movies, she has appeared in blockbuster hits, from the animated success of Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted to the epic Interstellar and the horror giant It: Chapter Two. As of 2020, the domestic box-office takings from 23 of her movies raked in over US$1.4 billion and totalled US$3.65 billion worldwide.</p>
<p><strong>Noble Match</strong><br />
The Zero Dark Thirty star has always been notoriously tight-lipped about her personal life, but she is, in fact, married to Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, an Italian count and scion of a revered noble family from the country’s Lombardy region. She and Preposulo – who is a fashion executive at Moncler – were married in 2017 in a private ceremony at his family’s Treviso estate, and share two children.</p>
<p><strong>Help in the Dark</strong><br />
Since 2010, the actress has racked up more than 30 credits, most of them feature-length films. These include her Oscar-nominated performances in The Help and Zero Dark Thirty and acclaimed headlining roles in the likes of Miss Sloane and Molly’s Game, both of which earned her Golden Globe nominations. While The Help may have put Chastain on the map, it was Zero Dark Thirty that solidified her credentials and catapulted her into the big league.<br />
But she nearly didn’t appear in the latter film at all. It wasn’t due to a lack of interest on her part – she accepted the lead role of CIA agent Maya Harris even before reading the screenplay – but because of scheduling conflicts due to a contractual obligation to co-star in Tom Cruise’s 2013 action film Oblivion. Thankfully, Cruise released her from that former commitment, and we now have a wide breadth of fantastic films from that one fateful decision.</p>
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Jess Unstopabble: Here’s what you didn’t know about actress Jessica Chastain

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">When Benedict Cumberbatch first donned the iconic deerstalker hat to become Sherlock Holmes in the eponymous BBC TV series 11 years ago, the British thespian probably had no idea how seminal the role would be for his career. Yet, his powerful modern-day portrayal of the mastermind detective mesmerised audiences around the globe, paving his way to juicier roles and, eventually, Hollywood superstardom.</span></p>
<p><a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-10.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63280" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-10.jpg" alt="Strange Attractor Benedict Cumberbatch GAFENCU celebrity feature (10)" width="700" height="466"></a></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Now a bona-fide leading man, Cumberbatch’s chameleonic acting abilities have seen him cinematically embody a series of other fictional and real-life characters to impressive success: he played superhuman villain Khan Noonien Singh in 2013’s <i>Star Trek: Into the Darkness</i>, Smaug the dragon in <i>The Hobbit </i>anthology, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in <i>The Fifth Estate</i>, code-cracker Alan Turing in the WWII movie <i>The Imitation Game</i> (2014) and – in perhaps his biggest role to date – multiple outings as Dr Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.</span></p>
<p><a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-9.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63279" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-9.jpg" alt="Strange Attractor Benedict Cumberbatch GAFENCU celebrity feature (9)" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-9.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-9-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-9-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-9-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-9-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></a></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Having lived in the limelight for well over a decade now, pretty much every aspect of Cumberbatch’s life has received media attention. From the personal – much hubbub was made of the purportedly £300,000 engagement ring he bestowed upon now-wife, theatre director Sophie Hunter – to the professional – he was slammed for calling black actors ‘coloured’ in 2015 – you’d be forgiven for thinking that there’s not much left to learn about the <i>Sherlock Holmes </i>star, but the following facts make intriguing reading&#8230;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Benedict the Barrister?</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-11.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63281" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-11.jpg" alt="Strange Attractor Benedict Cumberbatch GAFENCU celebrity feature (11)" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-11.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-11-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-11-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-11-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-11-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></a></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born on 19 July 1976 in London’s Hammersmith district and seemed to be destined for the big screen. After all, his parents, Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, were established actors boasting countless television and stage production credits. Yet, their chosen calling encouraged the young Cumberbatch to seek a more stable profession. Speaking of his parents, who are now in their 80s, he shared: “[Acting is] a very odd, peripatetic, crazed, out-of-your-control work and social schedule. It’s very hard to plan a family life, let alone know where the next pay cheque is coming from, so they worked very, very hard as my parents, and actors, to afford me an education whereby I had the opportunity and the privilege to try and channel myself towards other goals.”</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">So, which profession did he have in mind?<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>“For a while, I wanted to be a barrister because there’s definitely a crossover with criminal law,” he mused. “I would’ve loved the performance of court, the idea of persuading people, storytelling and all that. It parallels beautifully with acting, lots of frustrated, amateur dramatics going on in court all the time. I think lots of barristers literally perform in amateur dramatic societies and are very good actors. It’s a massive crossover.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">From Lama to Lamda</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-3.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63271" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-3.jpg" alt="Strange Attractor Benedict Cumberbatch GAFENCU celebrity feature (3)" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-3.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-3-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-3-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-3-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></a></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">After graduating from Harrow public school and before studying drama at the University of Manchester and then the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda), the <i>Dr Strange</i> star decided to take a gap year. Unlike most of his peers, however, he chose to volunteer his time, teaching English at a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling, India. In return, he learnt a thing or two about meditation. “I’d always been fascinated by the idea of meditation and what it meant,” he once said. “In India, I went on a retreat with a lama – several days of incantation to clear and purify the mind. It was incredible and I kind of floated out of there after two weeks.” </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Shy to be Sherlock</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-7.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63275" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-7.jpg" alt="Strange Attractor Benedict Cumberbatch GAFENCU celebrity feature (7)" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-7.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-7-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-7-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-7-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-7-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></a></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Although playing ‘the world’s greatest detective’ may have catapulted Cumberbatch to the big leagues, his first inclination was to reject the part. “I heard about it and thought that it sounds like an idea to [re-franchise] something to make money. It could be a bit cheap and cheesy,” he explained. “But then I found out who was involved&#8230; My mum had done a few episodes of <i>Coupling</i> with Steven Moffat, and Mark Gatiss was a huge hero of mine, so I knew the stable was good. I thought I would read it, and then I fell in love with it.” </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Nearly the End?</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-8.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63276" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-8.jpg" alt="Strange Attractor Benedict Cumberbatch GAFENCU celebrity feature (8)" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-8.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-8-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-8-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-8-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-8-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></a></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">While filming the 2005 miniseries, <i>To the Ends of the Earth</i>, in South Africa – about a young man sailing to Australia on his own gap year of sorts – the actor had a frightening near-death experience. During a production break, he and two co-stars headed out to learn how to scuba dive when they had a flat tyre. “The three of us were trying to change the tyre when these six [armed] men appeared suddenly from the eucalyptus. They said: ‘Put your hands on your head; don’t look at us,’ and were frisking us for drugs, money, weapons. Then they bundled us into the car and put me in the boot,” he recalls. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">It was quick thinking on his part that probably saved his life. “I said: ‘There’s a problem with my heart and my brain. I will die, possibly have a fit, and it will be a problem for you. I will be a dead Englishman in your car. Not good.’” This impromptu warning deterred the felons from proceeding any further with their kidnapping plot. Cumberbatch and his colleagues were dumped by the roadside and left for locals to find. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Assange Harangue</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63272" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4.jpg" alt="Strange Attractor Benedict Cumberbatch GAFENCU celebrity feature (4)" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4-600x399.jpg 600w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strange-Attractor-Benedict-Cumberbatch-GAFENCU-celebrity-feature-4-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></a></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Prior to filming <i>The Fifth Estate</i>, Bill Condon’s biopic about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the meticulous actor reached out to the man himself to prepare for the role. The response, though, was rather less welcoming than he might have hoped. While Assange stated that he would very much enjoy meeting him, the majority of his reply consisted of trying to convince the leading man not to do the movie. He said, “You will be used, as a hired gun, to assume the appearance of the truth in order to assassinate it. To present me as someone morally compromised and to place me in a falsified history. To create a work, not of fiction, but of debased truth.” </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Thankfully, Assange’s designated portrayer was not deterred. Cumberbatch declared that he “wanted to create a three-dimensional portrait of a man far more maligned in the&nbsp;tabloid&nbsp;press than he is in our film to remind people that he is not just the weird, white-haired Australian dude wanted in Sweden, hiding in an embassy behind&nbsp;Harrods, but a true force to be reckoned with, [who] achieved the realisation of the great ideal.” </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">It’s this same dedication to his craft that has typified Cumberbatch’s past roles and captivated audiences the world over. And, hopefully, one of the profession’s most memorable names, and most skilled performers, will continue to bring that same commitment to his future works as well. </span></p>


Strange Attractor Benedict Cumberbatch GAFENCU celebrity feature

Strange Attractor: Unfolding the life and career of Benedict Cumberbatch

<p>Following the long-awaited releases of Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings over recent months, the next instalment of the wildly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is poised to enthral us. Slated to open on 18 November, Eternals depicts the travails of immortal beings who reunite after millennia of hiding on Earth to battle their archenemies, the Deviants – and it promises to be the most diverse to date.</p>
<p>Much has been made of the fact that its core superhero cast will feature the franchise’s first openly gay character (Phastos), that Pakistani-American actor Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo will be its first protagonist of South Asian descent, and Don Lee – of Train to Busan fame – the first South Korean superhero. What’s more, both director (Chloé Zhao) and lead (Gemma Chan) are Chinese. Rather less noise has resonated, however, over the casting of Mexican screen-siren Salma Hayek as Ajak, the Eternals’ spiritual leader. After all, the Desperado star will become the series’ first Arab actress (Hayek actually boasts Lebanese ethnicity through her father).</p>
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<p>A 32-year veteran of the industry, Hayek is no stranger to breaking boundaries. She was one of the first Latina talents to make it big in Tinseltown, in no small part due to her versatility in the genres of drama, comedy, romance and action. But life hasn’t been all smooth sailing for the Frida thespian. We shine the spotlight on the soaring highs and challenging lows that she’s overcome&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Peace &amp; Pesos</strong><br />
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez was born far away from the shining lights of Hollywood in the southern Mexican port city of Coatzacoalcos on 2 September 1966. Her mother, Diana, was an opera singer, while her Lebanese-Mexican father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, worked as an oil executive in addition to owning an industrial equipment company. Her Lebanese surname reflects her paternal roots, while her first name ‘Salma’ means ‘peace’ in Arabic. She was fortunate to be raised in a wealthy home, which afforded her the opportunity to go to boarding school in the United States at age 12.</p>
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<p><strong>Boarding School Blues</strong><br />
Salma’s schooldays weren’t always easy, as she was diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age. This didn’t stop her from pranking her fellow students, however. In one interview, she recalled that her roommates – American girls – would wake early to curl their hair and put on makeup, whereas she’d rather “sleep until the last minute”. One day, she decided to turn back the clocks by an hour to mess with them. She was given detention, and ultimately kicked out of the strict Catholic boarding school in Louisiana. Despite these early hiccups and a learning disability, her innate intelligence saw her graduate from high school at just 15.</p>
<p><strong>Acting Initiative</strong><br />
Throughout her late teens and early 20s, her stunning looks prompted approaches from casting agents. So, halfway through pursuing a degree in international relations and political science at Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana, she dismayed her parents by dropping out to pursue a career in acting. At just 23, she had her big break, landing the starring role in Teresa, a telenovela that would catapult her to superstar status in her native land. Not content to rest on her laurels, she decided to move to Hollywood to pursue bigger roles. “I wanted to do films, and at that time in Mexico, a film industry didn’t really exist,” she explains. “So where do you go to do movies? You go to the mecca. I was already famous in Mexico by then, and they were laughing at me, asking ‘Why is she doing that?’”</p>
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<p><strong>Desperado Times</strong><br />
At first it seemed her critics were right since Hayek struggled for four years in California, unable to land a single role. In many cases, the reason cited by studios for her rejection was that she was too Latina. It wasn’t until 1995 that she got her chance to prove her mettle in Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado alongside fellow Spanish-speaker Antonio Banderas. Then, the floodgates opened, with the actress cast in a slew of major productions before the end of the decade – From Dusk till Dawn, Wild Wild West and Dogma, to name but three of her biggest hits.</p>
<p><strong>Rosy Repertoire</strong><br />
In 1999, having established herself as an A-list leading lady, Hayek launched her own production company. Ventanarosa, which is Spanish for ‘rose-coloured window’, produced the acclaimed TV dramedy Ugly Betty, which would eventually garner two Golden Globes. It also helped her hit Hollywood-legend heights by producing the historic biopic Frida (2002). Hayek’s seminal portrayal of the surrealist artist Frida Kahlo saw her become only the second Latina actress to receive a Best Actress nod at the Academy Awards.</p>
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<p><strong>Charity Begins at Home</strong><br />
In addition to her achievements in film, she is a dedicated philanthropist and activist. Spurred by an awareness of her own fortunate circumstances and the precarious position of those in her homeland, the Salma Hayek Foundation not only raises aid and awareness for battered women in Mexico, but has branched out to help disadvantaged street children, too. Hayek has also been involved with several Unicef initiatives, including spearheading a campaign against neonatal and maternal tetanus, and was awarded the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award by the international charitable organisation in 2018.</p>
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<p><strong>Covid Survivor</strong><br />
The Eternals star was recently worryingly close to death. Laid low by Covid-19, she spent seven weeks isolated in a room of the house she shares with her husband, French billionaire François-Henri Pinault (CEO of luxury group Kering), and their 13-year-old daughter. She became so ill that she was put on oxygen. “My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad,” she reveals, “but I said, ‘no, thank you. I’d rather die at home,’” adding that she still hasn’t regained her pre-pandemic energy levels.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad, but I said, ‘no, thank you. I’d rather die at home’”</p>
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<p><strong>Auteur Ego</strong><br />
In line with her go-getting spirit, though, this hasn’t stopped her from planning ambitious projects. Apart from Eternals, Hayek also appears in Ridley Scott’s biographical crime drama The House of Gucci, which was shot earlier this year, and hopes to direct a film based on a script she wrote 17 years ago. “It’s a very personal project and this is the right time. It couldn’t have gotten made two years ago or even last year [but] I don’t give up. I’ll get it made,” she says of the passion production. While she’s remained tight-lipped about any details, if her past CV is any indication, it will be an instant hit.</p>
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<h6>(Text: Tenzing Thondup)</h6>


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Salma Hayek: Her journey to landing Marvels ‘Eternals’

<p>At the tender age of 22, when most of his contemporaries were just beginning their careers, US thespian Timothée Chalamet was fêted by Hollywood as the youngest actor in almost 80 years to be nominated for Best Actor at the 2018 Academy Awards. Yet, much like Cinderella when the clock struck midnight, the following day saw Chalamet hit with the realities of his everyday life in Manhattan with no credit card, no roof over his head, and barely a few dollars to his name.</p>
<p>Yet, his perseverance in the face of such adversity has yielded huge rewards. Subsequent performances in big-screen productions such as Beautiful Boy, filmed later that year, and Little Women (2019) went on to garner critical acclaim and cement his status as a rising star.</p>
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<p>Despite being something of a staple at red-carpet events lately – he sported white sweatpants and sneakers to what was dubbed the biggest fashion event of the year, the Met Gala – his rather recent entry into the limelight means that for the most part, his personal life remains an enigma. As Chalamet returns to the silver screen this month in the long-awaited film adaptation of cult sci-fi novel Dune, we delve into some lesser-known facts about the Call Me by Your Name star&#8230;</p>
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<p><strong>French Connection</strong><br />
Timothée Hal Chalamet – to give the now 25-year-old his full name – was born in the Big Apple to real-estate broker Nicole Flender and Marc Chalamet, an editor for UNICEF. Given his French-American roots, young Timothée spent many summers in his father’s hometown of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and speaks fluent French.<br />
Speaking to the duality of his upbringing, the actor explained: “Once I was there, I became the French version of myself. I was completely imbued in the culture and I even dreamed in French.” A talented linguist, Chalamet Jr also picked up a smattering of Italian prior to filming Call Me by Your Name, which was set in Lombardy.</p>
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<p><strong>High-School Posse</strong><br />
Bitten by the acting bug at an early age, Chalamet attended LaGuardia High School of Music &amp; Art and Performing Arts, one of the most prestigious such establishments in New York City – luminaries like Jennifer Aniston and Nicki Minaj are alumni. While there, he partnered for the first time with his Little Women co-star Ansel Elgort. Not only did the two prodigies share the stage there, they were also on the same basketball team. Remembering their personalities, their former drama teacher Harry Shifman said: “They were both like rock stars, in a school full of rock stars. Everybody recognised them as being particularly gifted.”<br />
Elgort wasn’t Chalamet’s only high-profile schoolmate, though. He also met Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon while attending LaGuardia, and after years of speculation about their relationship, the latter admitted earlier this year that the two had been an item when they were students.</p>
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<p><strong>Rap Game</strong><br />
In addition to starring in various high-school productions, Chalamet also dabbled in rap while attending LaGuardia. Under the alias “Lil’ Timmy Tim”, he created a music video in which he waxed lyrical about how much he loved his statistics teacher, Ms Lawton. Although said teacher only gave him a D+ grade for his effort, the clip went viral after he shot to stardom, with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres even playing it during Chalamet’s guest spot on her show. Later, when he appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden, he lamented: “I am never going to live this down. This is going to follow me everywhere.”</p>
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<p><strong>Interstellar Dropout</strong><br />
After graduating from high school, teen Timothée was accepted at the prestigious Columbia University, where he studied cultural anthropology. However, his enrolment coincided with the launch of his career, and he dropped out in 2014 after his freshman year, just before the release of his feature-film debut in sci-fi hit, Interstellar. Recalling the struggles of managing his acting commitments with his academic schedule, he said: “I just couldn’t figure out the balance, so I left school after a year, got an apartment in the Bronx&#8230; and have since been getting a steady stream of work.”</p>
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<p><strong>Young &amp; Gifted</strong><br />
As mentioned, when the Call Me by Your Name breakout star was nominated for an Academy Award, he became the youngest actor to be so honoured since 1939, when then 19-year-old Mickey Rooney got the nod for his role in Babe in Arms. The event also made him the third youngest Best Actor nominee in Oscar history. While Chalamet has yet to clinch a major award, he has racked up a host of nominations for his CV, including three BAFTAs, two Golden Globes and four Screen Actors’ Guild Awards.</p>
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<p><strong>Gaining Respect</strong><br />
When #MeToo garnered global support in 2018, director Woody Allen was among the many Hollywood giants who faced backlash for his questionable past treatment of women. Chalamet was working with Allen in A Rainy Day In New York at the time, and in solidarity with the movement, the young man announced that he would donate his entire salary from the film to a list of charities aiding sexual assault victims and championing equal rights, such as Time’s Up, the LGBT Centre in New York, and RAINN. Explaining the move, he posted on Instagram: “I want to be worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder with the brave artists who are fighting for all people to be treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.”</p>
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<p><strong>Dune Bug</strong><br />
Even before he was attached to the newly released Dune, Chalamet was so keen to work with its director, Denis Villeneuve, that he set up a Google alert to track the film’s production and began reading the novel on the off chance that he would be cast. “I was about halfway through the book when he asked if I could come out to meet him, so I quickly busted through the second half of the book&#8230; And then I had that meeting, and it was such a joy,” he recalls. He certainly aced the face-to-face, nabbing his dream role as protagonist Paul Atreides in what will be an epic, two-part space odyssey.</p>


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