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Keanu Reeves shares unfiltered advice for up-and-coming actors

Keanu Reeves shares unfiltered advice for up-and-coming actors

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Keanu Reeves has offered blunt, expletive-filled advice for aspiring actors. With more than 30 years of experience, the 61-year-old Canadian actor knows what it takes to make it in the business. “Try not to be a f***ing asshole,” the John Wick star recently told E! News. “And go to work and respect who you’re working with until they prove they don’t get your respect.” Reeves was joined by his Outcome co-stars Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer, who agreed, with the former adding: “Yeah. That’s life.” Noting that “there’s no handbook or manual on being famous,” Diaz said: “You gotta just make it your own — you don’t know what it’s gonna be. Also, there’s reaching out to other people that you admire, the way that they do it and asking them for some advice.” Keanu Reeves leads Jonah Hill’s new movie, …

Why an up-and-coming indie developer is returning Microsoft’s money | Games

Why an up-and-coming indie developer is returning Microsoft’s money | Games

Published by Sam Flores

Video games are in a funding crisis. Investor money flowed freely during the pandemic gaming boom, but now the well has run dry. It is increasingly difficult, for indie developers especially, to get the capital to make games. It is extremely unusual, then, to hear of a developer returning an investor’s money. Yet that is what Speculative Agency, developers of All Will Rise, have just done. Last year, All Will Rise, a deck-building game about a team of activists fighting for the future of their oligarch-run city, received money from Microsoft as part of a developer acceleration programme. In late-2025, however, the team became aware of No Games for Genocide, a collective of developers, journalists, union organisers and others that came together as a result of Israeli assault on Gaza to protest against “material and commercial ties between the games industry and enabling genocide, war crimes, and the military industrial complex”. No Games for Genocide has urged the games industry and players to boycott Microsoft and Xbox because of the US tech giant’s ties to …

Saturday Night Live UK cast: Sky unveils the up-and-coming stars taking centre stage on the British SNL

Saturday Night Live UK cast: Sky unveils the up-and-coming stars taking centre stage on the British SNL

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Saturday Night Live is one of America’s most successful comedy formats, having launched countless huge stars in the US – Tina Fey! Eddie Murphy! Adam Sandler! – and at last, a UK edition is coming to our screens on 21 March, with British performers on this side of the pond hoping to emulate that same trajectory. The UK version will retain everything viewers know and love about the Stateside original, with celebrity hosts and musical guests stopping by for late-night laughs in the all-new London studio. On air since 1975, the US series is the unofficial training ground for Hollywood’s funniest comedians and actors, and SNL is responsible for catapulting plenty of much-loved stars into the spotlight. Murphy was a cast member in the early Eighties, before landing his breakout film role in Beverly Hills Cop, while Sandler and Will Ferrell …