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Barry Keoghan’s latest film is director Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age drama, Bird.

It follows Bailey, a young girl who lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad, Bug, played by Keoghan. This marks the actor’s first time playing a father, but it’s something he knows well — as dad to his 2-year-old son, Brando.

“I’m glad that I got to be part of this because I just got to find a lot, selfishly, about myself as well. During it and during the journey of it,” Keoghan told ABC Audio.

The actor described how exactly he saw himself in his character.

“I think men are very childlike and very, you know, the mommy boy kind of mentality,” Keoghan said. “Ironically, I sort of have that mentality. I did sort of have that mentality. You know, wanting to be almost mothered and looked after … I realized making this movie that [those] are traits that aren’t necessarily gonna lend itself to you in the best way.”

Bug’s journey to fatherhood is one that resonated with Keoghan.

“[If] you have a child … at some stage you’ve got to get out of that frame of mind of you being looked after and look after your little one,” Keoghan said.

Speaking of, Keoghan wants to keep looking after the young actors he worked with on Bird.

“I like to look out for people around me, and especially kids. I want to be that sort of person that they can always get in touch with,” Keoghan said. “When I was younger and I was going on to the movies, I had that source, and I had that person in Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy and all of those incredible people that I had … I want to be that for Jason [Buda] and Nykiya [Adams].”

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Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner is reportedly in talks to play Laura Croft in Prime Video’s series adaptation of the video game franchise Tomb Raider, according to Deadline. The series has been a pet project for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who’ll write and executive produce the project. “Lara Croft means a lot to me, as she does to many, and I can’t wait to go on this adventure. Bats ‘n all,” Waller-Bridge said back in May. Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander previously played the titular character on the big screen …

Hoda Kotb, who announced back in September that she would be leaving NBC’s TODAY show, revealed on the Thursday episode that her last day will be Jan. 10. It was also announced that Craig Melvin will be taking over as Savannah Guthrie‘s co-host on Jan. 13. Melvin will continue to serve as a third-hour co-host alongside Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones and Dylan Dreyer. TODAY‘s fourth hour, which Kotb currently co-hosts alongside Jenna Bush Hager, will become TODAY with Jenna & Friends starting Jan. 13. The show will feature a rotating cast of fill-in co-hosts until a permanent host is named …

Haley Lu Richardson has been tapped to star opposite Emilia Clarke in the upcoming Peacock series Ponies, according to Variety. The series takes place in 1977 Moscow, centering on two “ponies,” or “persons of no interest” in intelligence speak. The pair “work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives,” per the streaming service …

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The second half of the fifth season of Yellowstone got off to a bloody start, with its second episode airing Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. ET on Paramount Network.

The debut scored some 16.4 million viewers who are very invested in the Dutton clan — but Luke Grimes (Kayce) and his onscreen adopted brother, Wes Bentley (Jamie), didn’t need viewership numbers to tell them that. 

The pair told ABC Audio they’ve had some “interesting” interactions with fans. 

Bentley, whose scheming character has targeted his adopted father’s empire, says even though he plays a guy fans love to hate, viewers know he’s just acting. 

“It’s always interesting because it’s a complicated reaction, right? I mean, people, you know, even if they don’t like him, they’re still interested in him or care about him.”

Bentley continues, “There’s always been a strange both disgust with Jamie, while at the same time caring about his outcome and his future — even for those who absolutely hate him.”

Grimes’ heroic character has a different effect, he has found. “I think sometimes, though, they think I’m probably a little more like my character than I am. … You know, Kayce has like PTSD and his life is very hard. And, you know, I’ll be like eating a bagel at an airport and someone [will] be like, ‘Are you OK?'” 

As for whether Grimes would be interested in continuing in either a sixth season or a spin-off, both of which have been rumored, his answer is simple: Only if show creator Taylor Sheridan remains in the saddle. 

He vows, “It’s basically down to if we get a call from Taylor and he’s writing it … the answer would be yes. And if it’s some other version that, you know, he’s not involved with, then no.”  

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An official teaser for The Last Showgirl starring Pamela Anderson is here.

In the new look at the Gia Coppola-directed film, Anderson is a Las Vegas showgirl who is about to deliver her final performance in the show The Razzle Dazzle, which is introduced by a character portrayed by Dave Bautista.

The actress holds back tears in one clip before she hits the stage.

“Las Vegas used to treat us like movie stars,” Anderson’s character says in the teaser. “The costumes, the sets. We were ambassadors for style and grace. The Las Vegas showgirl.”

“The iconic American showgirl,” she adds.

The teaser then shows clips of Anderson getting ready backstage, as well as her character about to audition for a role.

According to a synopsis for the film, Anderson plays Shelly, “a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.”

Also starring in the film are Jamie Lee Curtis, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd.

The teaser also includes a new original song sung by Miley Cyrus called “Beautiful That Way,” which is produced by Andrew Wyatt.

Kate Gersten wrote the script for the film and Robert Schwartzman, Natalie Farrey and Coppola produced.

The Last Showgirl will hit theaters nationwide on Jan. 10.

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Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz are Back in Action.

The pair star side by side in a brand-new, action-packed teaser for the new film Back in Action, coming to Netflix in January.

“Years after giving up life as CIA spies to start a family, Emily (Cameron Diaz) and Matt (Jamie Foxx) find themselves dragged back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown,” a synopsis for the movie reads.

“You know that I love our life right?” Emily asks Matt in the teaser. “But tonight, something clicked.”

She continues, “For the first time in a really long time, I felt alive again.”

The brief conversation kicks off a teaser filled with the two fighting opponents, parachuting off a mountain and explaining their complicated past to their children.

“I knew you guys were lying about something but I never thought you were cool enough to be spies,” one of their children says, moments before the couple swerves out of a nasty car wreck.

Back in Action marks Diaz’s first film since 2014.

Foxx was hospitalized last April during production on Back in Action for an undisclosed “medical complication.” He has since made a recovery.

The film is scheduled to be released on Netflix Jan. 17.

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Sterling K. Brown reunites with his This Is Us producer Dan Fogelman in the forthcoming Hulu political thriller Paradise.

The streamer just dropped a suspenseful trailer for the project, which shows Brown as Xavier Collins, a Secret Service agent who lands in the hot seat when his charge — President Cal Bradford — is found dead on Collins’ watch. 

Hulu teases, “Paradise is set in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals. But this tranquility explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.”

“You were the last person to see Cal alive. Did you kill him?” Collins is asked during an interrogation, which he denies.

The trailer shows Brown’s character briefed on highly classified information at the president’s specific request and snippets of the chaos apparently unfolding from that, both abroad and at home.

One of his interrogators, played by Sarah Shahi, asks him “Is a part of you glad that Cal is dead?” before unfolding her hand to reveal “SAY YES” written on her palm. 

James Marsden plays the POTUS in the thriller, which also stars Julianne Nicholson, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Percy Daggs IV and Aliyah Mastin.

The series kicks off with three episodes on Hulu on Jan. 28; subsequent episodes will drop weekly.

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George Clooney‘s Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow has dropped a movie-looking trailer. 

As reported, the Oscar winner will star as the legendary journalist in the drama Good Night, and Good Luck, starting March 12 at the historic Winter Garden Theatre, with an opening night set for April 3.

In the black-and-white sneak peek, Clooney speaks to camera, as the controlled chaos of TV journalism plays out.

“There are a certain kind of people wired a certain kind of way who know there’s a story behind the story, if you’re bold enough to search for it, if you’re passionate enough to speak out, if you’re brave enough to stand up to the forces determined to keep you silent, no matter the consequences,” Clooney says in character.

He continues, “There are a certain kind of people who are the lifeblood of democracy. Never wavering. Never faltering. Never straying in their pursuit of what matters,” he continues. “And what matters? Honesty. Facts. Integrity. Accuracy. Truth.”

He closes with Murrow’s traditional sign-off, “Good night, and good luck.”

Co-written by Clooney and his longtime creative partner Grant Heslov, the play will be based on their Academy Award-nominated 2005 film of the same name that had actor David Strathairn portraying Murrow.

The theatrical production will be directed by Tony winner David Cromer.

The producers tease, “Tune in to the golden age of broadcast journalism and … Murrow’s legendary, history-altering, on-air showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy. As McCarthyism casts a shadow over America, Murrow and his news team choose to confront the growing tide of paranoia and propaganda, even if it means turning the federal government and a worried nation against them.”

General ticket sales begin Friday at 4 p.m. ET at www.telecharge.com.

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(SPOILER ALERT) The Garvey sisters are back for season 2 of Bad Sisters. The series returned with its first two episodes on Apple TV+ Wednesday, kicking off the season with a death nobody saw coming.

The first episode sees the sisters joyously celebrating Grace’s remarriage, two years after Grace offed her abusive husband, John Paul. But things take a dark turn at the end of episode two when Grace, played by Anne-Marie Duff, unexpectedly dies in a car crash.

“Oh, I love a cliff-hanger,” Duff tells ABC Audio about her untimely demise. “So I loved getting to that part of the scripts and going [gasp]. The audience have no idea what happens next. You know, it’s thrilling.”

For show creator Sharon Horgan, who also plays eldest Garvey sister Eva in the show, the decision to kill off one of the sisters was a “scary one.”

“It was actually an idea that we had very, very early doors and then we were a bit like, ‘Ooh, can we continue to be Bad Sisters when something as terrible and awful as that has happened?’ And so we had to think on it a lot. And then, you know, it just seemed like an important part of the story to tell, really.”

The rest of the Garvey clan — played by Sarah Greene, Eva Birthistle and Eve Hewson — was just as shocked as the audience, but agree the twist really propels the story forward into the rest of the season.

“All great stories and series have a real shock element and we’re certainly delivering on that, I think,” says Birthistle, who plays middle sister Ursula. 

Bad Sisters airs Wednesdays on Apple TV+.

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Apple TV+ has announced its lauded workplace comedy Mythic Quest returns for its fourth season on Jan. 29.

The series starring and co-created by Always Sunny star and co-creator Rob McElhenney centers on the dysfunctional team behind the titular fictional hit video game. 

The streamer teases the fourth season sees Ian (McElhenney), Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao), Brittlesbee (David Hornsby), Brad (Danny Pudi), Rachel (Ashly Burch) and the rest of the gang back “under the same fluorescent office lights as the reunited team at Mythic Quest confronts new challenges amongst a changing video game landscape as stars rise, egos clash, relationships bloom, and everyone tries to have a little more work life balance.”

The show kicks off with two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly through March 26.

Following the finale, the streamer will also be launching Side Quest, an anthology series that “explores the lives of employees, players, and fans who are impacted by the game.”

That series will star McElhenney, as well as Abbott Elementary‘s William Stanford Davis, Mission: Impossible baddie Esai Morales “and many more in the leading roles across each installment.”

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If you’d like to take your viewing of Gladiator II to the next level — and you can’t get to Rome to see the real McCoy — Regal Cinemas is transforming one of its New York City theaters into the Roman Colosseum.

Specifically, the theater chain and Pepsi have teamed up to create The Pepsi COLAsseum at Regal Times Square, and announced a fan event for Nov. 19 that will let some lucky moviegoers experience the ancient world as they gear up to see Gladiator II in the immersive 4DX format. 

The format uses special moving and rumbling seats, and also incorporates smoke, spritzes of water, snow and other environmental effects.

“Pepsi and Regal have come together to recreate the hype and energy of the ‘hypogeum,’ offering a select number of lucky fans the chance to walk through these historic tunnels just as the gladiators were fabled to have done before entering the arena,” the ad copy touts. 

Further, they’ll meet a “philosopher” at the gate, who will hand them a customizable leather coin purse or drink koozie and Roman coins they can trade for food, including Gladiator II-themed snacks and beer or wine they can swill from “a Roman chalice fit for an emperor or empress.”

They’ll also be able to explore costumes and props — and virtually suit up for battle via augmented reality on a two-story-tall digital screen.

For a chance to RSVP for the special event, check out Pepsicolasseum.com.

Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Connie Nielsen and Denzel Washington can be seen in Gladiator II in theaters nationwide on Nov. 22.

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