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‘Deadliest Catch’ star Captain Sig Hansen on riding out the pandemic on the Bering Sea

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The 17th season of Discovery’s hit Deadliest Catch recently premiered, and in addition to the many dangers of crab fishing on the Bering Sea, this season sees the crews dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of the show’s biggest stars, and the show’s technical consultant — F/V Northwestern Captain Sig Hansen — says at the height of the pandemic, he and the crews felt “blessed,” because their work was deemed essential.

“I’ve had friends that are on other fishing vessels…that literally did not leave their boats for eight to nine months, they could not step on land,” he explained to ABC Audio via phone.

“The state of Alaska, we went through our own COVID regulations. You’ve got federal, state, and then every [harbor] has its own set of regulations as well. So, quite honestly, we were so fortunate to be able to go out there and go to work, you know.”

Hansen explains how it’s still amazing to see how people follow the show after so many seasons. “It’s been this snowball. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard families come up to me… ‘My grandson watches Deadliest Catch or my granddaughter or my mother or my father.’ It’s just a generational thing where I think families watch it together.”

Sig adds, “And I still think that’s a good thing, even though this is a dangerous factor in Deadliest Catch, you’ve got that work ethic all the guys have up there. I just think…that’s important for people to see.”

After fishing his whole life as his father did, the captain, best-selling author, and entrepreneur says he’s got no plans to quit his “day job.”

“Yeah, it’s an addiction, it’s in your blood.”

Deadliest Catch airs tonight at 8 p.m. on Discovery.

Ashley Graham proudly shows off her curves and stretch marks in new maternity photo

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Ashley Graham is counting down the days until she meets her second child, who is due soon.

Taking to Instagram recently, the supermodel shared a tastefully nude maternity shoot where she proudly shows off her curves and stretch marks in the untouched photo.

“Uh oh she’s naked again,” she cheekily captioned the snap.

In the photo, Graham, 33, drapes her arm over her breasts and stands slightly to the side, showing off the stretch marks on her stomach and hips.

The model also shared another photo from the maternity shoot, where she stands to the side and shows off her growing stomach.

Graham has regularly rallied for body positivity by sharing unfiltered snaps of her figure and by proudly displaying her stretch marks and cellulite.

She is expecting her second child with husband Justin Ervin. The two share a son, who was born in January 2020.

She first revealed her pregnancy in July, writing, “The past year has been full of tiny surprises, big griefs, familiar beginnings and new stories. I’m just beginning to process and celebrate what this next chapter means for us.”

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Roselyn Sanchez says starring in Fox’s ‘Fantasy Island’ was a “dream”

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The latest episode of Fox’s reboot of that ’70s classic Fantasy Island airs tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern. Roselyn Sanchez stars as Elena Roarke, a descendant of Ricardo Montalban‘s iconic and mysterious host, Mr. Roarke.

The actress tells ABC Audio that she remembers the original series well. “I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. So I remember it was the 70s, I was young, but everybody knows when you say Fantasy Island — for me, it was La Isla de la Fantasia. You know, I was very familiar with the show and I remember that, Tattoo and Ricardo Montalban. I remember ‘The plane, the plane!’ In my case, it was ‘La avion! La avion!’

Sweetening the deal for Sanchez, the new series was shot in her native Puerto Rico. “I was actually going to go back to my homeland. To do it was a dream! It was incredible,” she says.

Sanchez adds of her series, “The original was maybe a more mysterious [show]. You know, the Roarke character was not as involved with the fantasies and the guests. This time around, she’s very human, she’s very much involved, and she feels for them, and she’s also going through her own self discovery.”

The first Fantasy Island ran on ABC from 1977 to 1984. Fantasy Island was rebooted in 1988 but only lasted a season. It was also made into a poorly-received horror film of the same name in 2020, with Michael Peña in the lead.

Sanchez adds, “[I]n the end, we just want people to have a good time. And it’s visually stunning…it’s well acted, it’s well-written, and so I’m hoping that people are going to embrace it and love it as much as they did the original.”

‘Only Murders in the Building’ star Selena Gomez loves true crime, but not the “morbid” part

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Selena Gomez‘s new Hulu series Only Murders in the Building debuts today. It features Selena and comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short as neighbors who make a true-crime podcast while investigating a murder in their apartment building. In real life, Selena is a fan of true-crime content — though not necessarily the murder-y part of it.

“I love the psychology behind it,” she explains to ABC Audio. “I think it’s really interesting to see how people solve the cases. It is weird to say that I’m interested in it, but I think that it’s not so much that I’m interested in, necessarily, the morbid part. I think it’s more just the fascination of [figuring out the] A to Z.”

While Selena is decades younger than her co-stars, Martin Short tells ABC Audio that he and Steve Martin loved working with her.

“I think what was the delightful element of it was how quickly she fit in with our energies, in the sense that we all approach creating something in front of the camera [in] the same [way],” Short notes. “It should be light, it should be fun. You should want to go to the set…And it was kind of ideal…how quickly we all fell into the same similar type of filming groove.”

As for what it was like for her, working with the two legendary funnymen, Selena says she wasn’t cracking up after every scene…but “most scenes,” she tells ABC Audio.

“The laughs didn’t stop when the cameras stopped rolling. It was really fun,” she adds. “Obviously, we had moments where it was silent and we were able to enjoy each other’s company. And then most of the time, it was just us shooting the s***.”

Thandiwe Newton explains why her role in ‘Reminiscence’ “terrified” her: “I didn’t want the responsibility”

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Thandiwe Newton says she was “terrified” when asked to take on the role of Emily “Watts” Sanders, a military veteran and close friend of “mind P.I.” Nick Bannister, in director Lisa Joy‘s debut film, Reminiscence.

“Initially, I was terrified, because I love Lisa Joy,” Newton tells ABC Audio of her Westworld director. “I love her as a woman, as a friend, the mother that she is. She’s an extraordinary writer, collaborator. Westworld was life changing for me, continues to be… And I had full support for her movie.”

However, even as Joy’s supporter, Newton says that when the director offered her a role in the film, she wasn’t so sure.

“I was like, “No, no, no…Lisa, please don’t. Because I might let you down. And… I would die.’ Not even thinking about the fact that we already worked together…But I just…love her so much, I didn’t want the responsibility — I wanted someone else to carry that responsibility.”

Thandiwe continues, “But in the end, I trusted her…If she wants me to play that role, it’s because she knows that’s the right person for the role.”

Still, Thandiwe admits that she joined the project “almost without faith that I was the right person for it,” but says she eventually became more comfortable during “the process of doing it, getting to know Hugh [Jackman], and also just researching.”

“In a way I had internalized the stereotype of women, as opposed to real women,” Thandiwe says of her initial concerns. “Women in the military, come in all shapes and sizes, for goodness sake. It’s absolutely absurd. And then I thought to myself, ‘My goodness, I as a woman have internalized a stereotype of what a woman in the military should be like.'”

Reminiscence is in theaters and on HBO Max now.

Report: Coroner says 19-year-old ‘My Idiot Brother’ star Matthew Mindler died by suicide

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Mindler with Rudd in 2011 — Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage

The death of Matthew Mindler, a 19-year-old former child actor who appeared opposite Paul Rudd in the comedy My Idiot Brother, has been ruled a suicide by authorities in Pennsylvania, according to TMZ.

Mindler was found dead on August 28, three days after the Millersville University freshman was declared missing, the school’s president announced, relaying the news to Mindler’s fellow students “with a heavy heart.”

TMZ reported that while the manner of death has been ruled suicide, no cause of death has yet been determined pending toxicology reports.

Mindler appeared in a few productions over his brief career, with credits for As The World Turns, the aforementioned Rudd film, which also starred Rashida Jones and Zooey Deschanel, and also Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

If you are in crisis or know someone in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860 (U.S.) or 877-330-6366 (Canada) and The Trevor Project at 866-488-7386.

Ethan Hawke admits he once thought ‘Dead Poets’ co-star Robin Williams hated him

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Ethan Hawke is reflecting on the indelible mark Robin Williams left on his career — even though they had a rocky start at first.

Speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where he received the President’s Award, the 50-year-old actor, who co-starred with Williams in the Oscar-winning 1989 movie Dead Poets Society, admitted he once thought Williams hated him.

“I thought Robin hated me. He had a habit of making a ton of jokes on set. At 18, I found that incredibly irritating. He wouldn’t stop and I wouldn’t laugh at anything he did,” Hawke said, according to Variety. “There was this scene in the film when he makes me spontaneously make up a poem in front of the class. He made this joke at the end of it, saying that he found me intimidating. I thought it was a joke.”

He said his understanding of Williams’ joke changed over the years, adding, “As I get older, I realize there is something intimidating about young people’s earnestness, their intensity. It is intimidating — to be the person they think you are. Robin was that for me.”

Hawke played Todd Anderson in Dead Poet’s Society, a student who forms a special bond with Williams’ John Keating.

Hawke also revealed that Williams admired him all along and even helped him get his start in Hollywood, noting that the late comedian helped him secure his first talent agent.

“[The agent] called, saying, ‘Robin Williams says you are going to do really well,'” he grinned.

‘Candyman’s Nia DaCosta becomes first Black woman to direct a no. 1 movie

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Nia DaCosta accomplished a major career milestone when her supernatural slasher Candyman bowed at number one in theaters over the weekend — she became the first Black woman to debut a film at number one at the domestic box office.

Candyman crushed the weekend box office with a $22.4 million opening.

Deadline reports that DaCosta, who directed the “spiritual sequel” of the first Candyman movie — which came out in 1992 — also grossed the second-highest opening over a three-day period for a Black female director. Ava DuVernay‘s 2018 film A Wrinkle in Time holds the top honor with a $33.1 million opening weekend.

DaCosta, 31, co-wrote Candyman alongside Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld. The 2021 reboot is the first in the horror franchise’s nearly 30-year history to feature an all-Black main cast.

Candyman is the second film she’s directed, behind her 2018 debut Little Woods.

Now, DaCosta is onto her next big project — the Captain Marvel sequel, The Marvels, which is due out November 11, 2022.

Candyman — which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris and Colman Domingo — is in theaters now.

‘Candyman’s Nia DaCosta becomes first Black woman to direct a #1 movie

August 31, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Nia DaCosta accomplished a major career milestone when her supernatural slasher flick Candyman bowed at number one in theaters over the weekend — she became the first Black woman to debut a film at number one at the domestic box office with a $22.4 million opening.

Deadline reports that DaCosta, who directed the “spiritual sequel” of the first Candyman movie, which came out in 1992, also grossed the second-highest opening over a three-day period for a Black female director. Ava DuVernay‘s 2018 film A Wrinkle in Time holds the top honor, with a $33.1 million opening weekend.

DaCosta, 31, co-wrote Candyman alongside Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld. The 2021 reboot is the first in the horror franchise’s nearly 30-year history to feature an all-Black main cast. Candyman is the second film DaCosta’s directed, behind her 2018 debut, Little Woods.

Now, DaCosta is onto her next big project — the Captain Marvel sequel, The Marvels, which is due out November 11, 2022.

Candyman — which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris and Colman Domingo — is in theaters now.

Jennifer Lopez’s mom and fellow gambler gets cameo in Ben Affleck’s new star-studded sports book app ad

August 30, 2021 by WDNY Radio

It’s well known that Ben Affleck likes to gamble, as does his current girlfriend’s mother, Guadalupe Lopez. So it only makes sense that they appear together in a new sports book app ad starring the two-time Oscar winner and J-Lo‘s mom.

Affleck, along with Shaquille O’Neal and actor Melvin Gregg, also appear in the new ad Ben directed for WynnBET.

The spot pitches betting on sports is more fun when you do it with your “team.” To that end, Affleck strides through a Vegas casino, bombarded not by paparazzi, but people offering tips about on whom he should wager.

As he walks through, we see a woman, psyching herself up, cranking a battery of slot machines by herself. “Come on, Lupe! You can do this girl,” Lopez tells herself. “Just like the slots in St. Louis.”

This catches Affleck’s ear, and he thinks of the team. “St. Louis?” he considers aloud.

Lupe made headlines in 2004 when she scored a $2.4 million payday on a slot machine at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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