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Zendaya and Scott Peeley’s Newfound Freedom

Zendaya and Scott Peeley’s Newfound Freedom

Published by Daniella Wilson

LOSER: 60 Minutes: Scott Pelley arguably deserved to be canned for that rant against his new 60 Minutes boss Nick Bilton. It doesn’t matter if your job is on Wall Street or at a Wendy’s. Try telling your manager at a staff meeting they have “slender qualifications” and “will never be welcomed here” and the person who hired them is “murdering” the company and see how well that goes for you. Reportedly earning $5 million per year, Pelley had f-you money and that’s essentially what he told the new boss. But also: 60 Minutes has become a total mess, and that’s squarely on Paramount chief David Ellison and CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss. Leaks, drama, quitting, firings, pulling a topical segment about the Trump administration at the last minute, allegations of pressure to insert factual errors or political bias, and, now, bringing on print veteran and documentarian Bilton — a fine journalist, but somebody Ellison and Weiss had to know would spark more internal uproar as he lacks TV experience. 60 Minutes isn’t …

Matt Damon Says The Odyssey Is ‘The Biggest’ Film He’s ‘Ever Done’

Matt Damon Says The Odyssey Is ‘The Biggest’ Film He’s ‘Ever Done’

Published by Sam Flores

If you weren’t already hyped for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, you definitely will be when you listen to the cast talking about how epic it is. With not long left to go until the much-hyped film hits cinemas, Nolan’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer is already one of the most talked-about new releases of 2026. The film adapts Homer’s epic Greek poem and follows the King of Ithaca, Odysseus, on his 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. On his mammoth journey, he encounters mythical monsters and violent enemies, using his wit to defeat suitors plotting to take his thrones.In a new video featurette to promote the film, Matt Damon, who plays Odysseus, hyped up the scale of the mythological epic. “This is definitely the biggest movie I’ve ever done in my career, in terms of its scale,” the actor, who also appeared in Oppenheimer, teased, before adding: “[It’s] definitely the biggest movie I have done in terms of its ambition.” Zendaya, who plays Athena, also praised Nolan’s ability to …

Euphoria May Be Over, But Chloe Cherry Isn’t Saying Goodbye to Faye

Euphoria May Be Over, But Chloe Cherry Isn’t Saying Goodbye to Faye

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains spoilers for the Euphoria series finale, titled “In God We Trust.”] Chloe Cherry has gone on quite a ride with Euphoria. The Pennsylvania native made her TV acting debut on the HBO hit as Faye, the adrift addict who bonds with Fezco (the late Angus Cloud) and later Rue (Zendaya), after previously establishing herself in adult films, with creator Sam Levinson casting her directly. She came in unsure how she’d fare among the cast’s heavy hitters, but eager to learn; years later, with the show officially concluded, she tells The Hollywood Reporter the experience completely changed her life. The series finale picked up right where the previous episode left off, with Faye screaming and thereby outing Rue’s delicate exit plan, and then escaping herself alongside her boyfriend-dealer Wayne (Toby Wallace). In an episode filled with tragic endings for various characters, including Rue herself, Faye sees some kind of hope on the horizon. THR talked about that and much more with Cherry.  What surprised you the most about the finale? I was really …

How Sam Levinson Said Goodbye to ‘Euphoria’

How Sam Levinson Said Goodbye to ‘Euphoria’

Published by Sam Flores

At this point it seems like Rue might get her happy ending. But that isn’t meant to be. We soon learn that this entire sequence has been a dream. After falling asleep on Ali’s couch, Rue never wakes up, dying of a drug overdose from Alamo Brown’s fentanyl-laced Percocet. (Why would Alamo kill Rue? In the episode before this one, Maddy accidentally tipped him off to the fact that Rue was working with the DEA.) While Levinson introduced the episode as the season three finale, rather than the series finale, it seemed clear by the end that this was the end of Euphoria. Two of the show’s major characters, Zendaya’s Rue and Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs, had been killed off—Nate in the show’s penultimate episode, after getting bitten by a venomous snake while buried alive in a coffin. This finale wrapped up plots for some cast members while leaving others more open-ended. After the DEA arrives at Laurie’s drug den, Laurie dies by suicide, choosing to jump off her roof rather than go to prison. …

Sam Levinson Defends Killing Off Rue in Euphoria Season 3 Finale

Sam Levinson Defends Killing Off Rue in Euphoria Season 3 Finale

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season three finale of Euphoria, “In God We Trust.”] Sam Levinson is standing by his decision to have Rue (Zendaya) die in Sunday night’s Euphoria season three finale. In the post-show segment on HBO, Levinson, the show’s creator, says it felt like the right way for her character to conclude. “It felt like an honest ending,” Levinson said. “The honest ending is people like Rue don’t make it.” “I think in the end, I wanted to tell an honest story about addiction,” he continued. “I also wanted to tell a story about grief and the emotional turmoil that it can create.” The finale shows Rue dying due to an accidental overdose from taking Alamo’s Percocet pills that were laced with fentanyl. During a dream sequence while she’s overdosing, she has an emotional moment with Fezco that features unseen footage with Angus Cloud, who died in 2023 at age 25 from an accidental overdose. Rue’s death was especially painful due to her character’s struggles with addiction throughout the series. (Read The …

Our ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Finale Predictions: Who Dies in Episode 8?

Our ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Finale Predictions: Who Dies in Episode 8?

Published by Sam Flores

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of Euphoria season three, which ends, likely for good, with its May 31 finale. The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, Euphoria has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. Euphoria launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney. Fate has been less favorable to their onscreen counterparts, who, five years after graduating East Highland High School, are all going through it. Rue descends into crime, working with Nazis, the feds, and a Black cowboy in a drug plot that stems from her adolescent foibles with monotone drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly). …

Colman Domingo on ‘Euphoria’ Return and What It Means for the Finale

Colman Domingo on ‘Euphoria’ Return and What It Means for the Finale

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains spoilers from Euphoria season 3, episode 7.] Colman Domingo had only briefly appeared in Euphoria’s long-awaited third season over its first six episodes, but on Sunday night, the actor’s Emmy-winning portrayal of Ali, the recovering addict who’s acted as sponsor and mentor to Rue (Zendaya) since season one, took center stage like never before. The season’s penultimate episode, “Rain or Shine,” opened with a moving glimpse into Ali’s past, showing viewers, for the first time, the darker side he’s often alluded to. He’s shown getting high and cheating on his wife with a fellow junkie (played by Natasha Lyonne), then bringing an abusive temper back home.  This leads into a key moment between Ali and Rue in the present, as he learns of her precarious situation trying to navigate her tenuous relationships with two rival drug gangs — and the DEA as an informant. She details her elaborate, life-or-death plan to Ali to escape the situation, which he listens in on nervously. Given the new context we get about the man, when …

Zendaya Says Spider-Man 4 With Tom Holland Felt Like a Dream

Zendaya Says Spider-Man 4 With Tom Holland Felt Like a Dream

Published by Daniella Wilson

Zendaya reflected on working with her partner Tom Holland in two upcoming projects releasing this year in a new profile, where she said that returning for the latest Spider-Man film felt like “coming home.” The Euphoria star and English actor met when they began working on Spider-Man: Homecoming, the first movie from the film franchise with Holland as its lead. With his fourth Spidey entry set to release this summer, the couple are also both starring in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Zendaya clarified in her profile with Elle that she does not have any scenes with Holland in The Odyssey, which allowed her to watch him act on set. “I could have cried, I was so proud,” she said. The Emmy Award winner also gushed about their time collaborating on Spider-Man: Brand New Day, calling it a “dream.” “And then Spider-Man was a dream; I get to go to work every day with my best friend, the person that I love,” she said of Holland. “We bring our dogs to work; it’s like a family affair. We grew …

Zendaya 'Spent About Three Days Buried Up To Her Neck' For Dramatic Euphoria Stunt

Zendaya 'Spent About Three Days Buried Up To Her Neck' For Dramatic Euphoria Stunt

Published by Sam Flores

Zendaya as Rue in Euphoria Euphoria creator Sam Levinson has heaped praise on Zendaya after she was really put through the ringer filming a stunt in the latest episode of the award-winning drama. Zendaya’s character Rue has been on quite the journey so far in Euphoria’s third season, descending even further into a criminal underworld as she works to pay off her mounting debts. In Monday’s instalment, Rue was kidnapped and dragged out to the desert, where she was buried up to the neck, in another nod to season three’s Western themes, before having dirt kicked in her face and being threatened with a croquet mallet by the crime boss Alamo. Sam explained in a new behind-the-scenes video: “It’s sort of an old Western trope, you know, ‘we’re gonna bury you up to your neck’. “It was a really complicated thing to pull off, because we wanted to shoot it practically – so it meant that we had to build some container with a box that Zendaya could duck under in the case of an …

Inside Zendaya’s Disney Reunion on ‘Euphoria’ With Kadeem Hardison

Inside Zendaya’s Disney Reunion on ‘Euphoria’ With Kadeem Hardison

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This post contains spoilers for Euphoria season three, episode four.] A couple of weeks ago, fans quickly caught a sneak reunion taking place in the back rooms of one of Euphoria’s new locations, the strip club where drug lord Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) conducts much of his business — and where he’s assigned Rue (Zendaya) to help oversee operations. Behind closed doors, we meet Big Eddy, secretly trading money and drugs on his boss’s behalf, and he’s played by Kadeem Hardison, who a decade ago was playing the father to Zendaya on a much different kind of show: K.C. Undercover, the Disney Channel hit that platformed one of Zendaya’s breakout star turns as a teenager.  This past episode saw things ratchet up, with Big Eddy — like Rue — caught between the escalating drug war between Alamo and Laurie (Martha Kelly). A sneak attack from the latter’s henchmen saw Eddy shot in the gut and bleeding out, ultimately providing his boss’s enemies access to the safe for them to steal. It’s a classically tense Euphoria sequence, …