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December 9, 2019
Watch Trump Impeachment Hearings With Democratic and Republican Lawyers (Video)
The seventh day of public hearings in the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump begins on Monday morning at 6 a.m. PT/9 a.m. ET. Before the Housse Judiciary Committee, Democratic and Republican lawyers will outline and analyze the information gathered by the House Intelligence Committee during previous hearings. Later this week, the committee will consider proposed articles of impeachment against Trump.
In addition to broadcasts from the major television networks, you can tune into the hearing via the above livestream on C-SPAN. The network will offer “full, uninterrupted, and unfiltered coverage of the hearing,” according to an announcement from a C-SPAN spokesperson.
In September, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives would be pursuing a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump.
The decision came in light of a whistleblower complaint that the president sought to use foreign power for his own political gain during a phone call with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, by asking that Ukraine investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden. The president later confirmed that his administration withheld nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine but denied that it was done for leverage.
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After weeks of public testimony, Pelosi announced last Thursday that the House is drafting articles of impeachment against Trump.
In her announcement, Pelosi said, “Our democracy is what is at stake. The president leaves us no choice but to act, because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit.”
“The facts are uncontested: The president abused his power for his own political benefit,” she said. The House Intelligence Committee and Judiciary Committee have heard testimony for weeks as the probe into Trump has continued.
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Golden Globes Nominees by the Numbers: Netflix Rules in Both TV and Film
The 2020 Golden Globes nominees are in, and Netflix took the crown for both TV and film, garnering 17 nods in both mediums. On the small screen, HBO was runner up with 15. Sony got the second-most nominations for a movie distributor with eight.
In terms of individual television series, Netflix’s “The Crown” and “Unbelievable” matched HBO’s “Chernobyl” with four apiece. A logjam earned a trio of opportunities: “Barry,” “Big Little Lies,” “Fleabag,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “The Kominsky Method,” “The Morning Show” and “Succession.”
“Marriage Story” was the most nominated movie with six nods. It was followed by “The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” both of which got five. “Joker” and “The Two Popes” have four chances apiece at a Golden Globe statuette next month.
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See how the nominations break down below by film, by series, and by their respective distributors, below.
“Russian Doll” and “The Spy” also got one nod apiece.
More to come…
Golden Globes 2020: See the Nominees (Photos)
The nominees for the 2020 Golden Globes are here! Ricky Gervais will be back to host the ceremony for his fifth time when they air on NBC on Sunday, Jan. 5. See all the nominees announced Monday morning that will all be vying for the top prizes of the best of movies and television in 2019.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Kaitlin Dever
Joey King
Helen Mirren
Merrit Weaver
Michelle Williams
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Michael Douglas
Bill Hader
Ben Platt
Paul Rudd
Rami Youseff
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
The Farewell
Les Miserables
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Best Motion Picture – Animated
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Patricia Arquette
Meryl Streep
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Catch 22
Chernobyl
Fosse/Verdon
The Loudest Voice
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Marriage Story
The Two Popes
Parasite
The Irishman
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama
Jennifer Aniston
Jodie Komer
Reese Witherspoon
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Kathy Bates
Annette Bening
Laura Dern
Jennifer Lopez
Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Tom Hanks
Joe Pesci
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
Cats
Rocketman
Into the Unknown – Frozen II
Spirit – The Lion King, Beyonce
Stand Up – Harriet
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Best Director – Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Best Television Series – Drama
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Best Motion Picture – Drama
‘Marriage Story,’ ‘Chernobyl’ Lead 2020 Golden Globes Nominations
Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” led the Golden Globes’ film nominations on Monday with six nods, while “Unbelievable,” “Chernobyl” and “The Crown” received the most nominations in the TV categories with four each.
“The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” got five nominations each, while “The Two Popes,” “Joker” and “1917” each received four. In the TV categories, “Fosse/Verdon,” “The Kominsky Method,” “Big Little Lies,” “Succession,” “Barry,” “Fleabag” and “The Morning Show” each received three.
Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” was nominated three times, including Best Director. Taron Egerton’s “Rocketman” received three nods, including Best Picture — Musical or Comedy. “The Loudest Voice,” “Catch-22” and “The Act,” received two each, the latter scoring nominations for its leading actresses, Joey King and Patricia Arquette.
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“Game of Thrones” and “Russian Doll” only received one nomination each, and that’s for lead actors Kit Harington and Natasha Lyonne, respectively. “The Handmaid’s Tale” was left out on Monday morning, as was Sandra Oh for “Killing Eve,” who won Best Actress in a Drama TV Series last year for her role. Beyonce and Taylor Swift will battle it out in the Best Song category, for their respective songs in “The Lion King” and “Cats.”
All in all, Netflix dominated with 34 nominations across the TV and film categories. The other streaming giants — Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime — also came out strong on Monday.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the nominees on Monday at 8 a.m. ET/5 a.m. PT, with Dakota Fanning, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Tim Allen making the announcements. HFPA president Lorenzo Soria was also present.
The 77th Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 5th and will be broadcast on NBC. Produced by Dick Clark Productions and the HFPA, the ceremony will be hosted by Ricky Gervais, for the fifth time.
You can see the full list of nominations here.
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Golden Globes 2020: The Complete List of Nominees
The nominees for the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards are in the books, with all the contenders set for next month’s award show.
On the film side, the top honor, Best Motion Picture – Drama, will come down to “1917,” “The Irishman,” “Joker,” “Marriage Story” and “The Two Popes.” For TV, the Best Television Series – Drama category includes “Big Little Lies,” “The Crown,” “Killing Eve,” “The Morning Show” and “Succession.”
See the full list of nominees for both TV and film categories below.
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TV
Best Television Series – Drama
“Big Little Lies,” HBO
“The Crown,” Netflix
“Killing Eve,” BBC America
“The Morning Show,” Apple TV+
“Succession,” HBO
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Jennifer Aniston, “The Morning Show” (Apple TV+)
Olivia Colman, “The Crown” (Netflix)
Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve” (BBC America)
Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies” (HBO)
Reese Witherspoon, “The Morning Show” (Apple TV+)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Brian Cox, “Succession” (HBO)
Kit Harington, “Game of Thrones” (HBO)
Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot” (USA Network)
Tobias Menzies, “The Crown” (Netflix)
Billy Porter, “Pose” (FX)
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
“Barry,” HBO
“Fleabag,” Amazon Prime Video
“The Kominsky Method,” Netflix
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Amazon Prime Video
“The Politician,” Netflix
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Christina Applegate, “Dead to Me” (Netflix)
Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Prime Video)
Kirsten Dunst, “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” (Showtime)
Natasha Lyonne, “Russian Doll” (Netflix)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, “Fleabag” (Amazon Prime Video)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Michael Douglas, “The Kominsky Method” (Netflix)
Bill Hader, “Barry” (HBO)
Ben Platt, “The Politician” (Netflix)
Paul Rudd, “Living With Yourself” (Netflix)
Ramy Youssef, “Ramy” (Hulu)
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
“Catch-22,” Hulu
“Chernobyl,” HBO
“Fosse/Verdon,” FX
“The Loudest Voice,” Showtime
“Unbelievable,” Netflix
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Kaitlyn Dever, “Unbelievable” (Netflix)
Joey King, “The Act” (Hulu)
Helen Mirren, “Catherine The Great” (HBO)
Merritt Wever, “Unbelievable” (Netflix)
Michelle Williams, “Fosse/Verdon” (FX)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Christopher Abbott, “Catch-22” (Hulu)
Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Spy” (Netflix)
Russell Crowe, “The Loudest Voice” (Showtime)
Jared Harris, “Chernobyl” (HBO)
Sam Rockwell, “Fosse/Verdon” (FX)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Patricia Arquette, “The Act” (Hulu)
Helena Bonham Carter, “The Crown” (Netflix)
Toni Collette, “Unbelievable” (Netflix)
Meryl Streep, “Big Little Lies” (HBO)
Emily Watson, “Chernobyl” (HBO
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alan Arkin, “The Kominsky Method” (Netflix)
Kieran Culkin, “Succession” (HBO)
Andrew Scott, “Fleabag” (Amazon Prime Video)
Stellan Skarsgard, “Chernobyl” (HBO)
Henry Winkler, “Barry” (HBO)
Movies
Best Motion Picture – Drama
“1917”
“The Irishman”
“Joker”
“Marriage Story”
“The Two Popes”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Cynthia Erivo, “Harriet”
Scarlett Johansson, “Marriage Story”
Saoirse Ronan, “Little Women”
Charlize Theron, “Bombshell”
Renee Zellweger, “Judy”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Christian Bale, “Ford v. Ferrari”
Antonio Banderas, “Pain and Glory”
Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”
Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”
Jonathan Pryce, “The Two Popes”
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
“Dolemite Is My Name”
“JoJo Rabbit”
“Knives Out”
“Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
“Rocketman”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Ana de Armas, “Knives Out”
Awkwafina, “The Farewell”
Cate Blanchett, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette”
Beanie Feldstein, “Booksmart”
Emma Thompson, “Late Night”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Daniel Craig, “Knives Out”
Roman Griffin Davis, “Jojo Rabbit”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
Taron Egerton, “Rocketman”
Eddie Murphy, “Dolemite Is My Name”
Best Director – Motion Picture
Bong Joon Ho
Sam Mendes
Todd Phillips
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Kathy Bates
Annette Bening
Laura Dern
Jennifer Lopez
Margot Robbie
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Tom Hanks
Anthony Hopkins
Al Pacino
Joe Pesci
Brad Pitt
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Marriage Story
Parasite
The Two Popes
Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood
The Irishman
Best Motion Picture – Animated
Frozen 2
How to Train Your Dragon – The Hidden World
The Lion King
Missing Link
Toy Story 4
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
The Farewell
Les Misérables
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Motherless Brooklyn
Little Women
Joker
1917
Marriage Story
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Beautiful Ghosts” – Cats
“I’m Gonna Love Me Again” – Rocketman
“Into the Unknown” – Frozen 2
“Spirit” – The Lion King
“Stand Up” – Harriet
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The 2020 Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Ricky Gervais, take place Sunday, Jan. 5 starting at 8/7c on NBC.
Meher Tatna is president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Allen Shapiro, executive chairman of dick clark productions, Mike Mahan, CEO of dick clark productions, and Barry Adelman, executive VP of Television at dick clark productions, will serve as executive producers.
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December 8, 2019
How to Watch the 2020 Golden Globe Nominations Announcement Live
It feels like a decade has passed since the Oscars in February, but our long national nightmare about not having enough big Hollywood awards shows is finally over. That’s right, awards season is finally back, and it really gets going on Monday, Dec. 9 when the nominations for the 77th Golden Globes are announced.
While various critics groups have already set the tenor for how this awards season might go, the Golden Globes are where things start to feel real. Because this is when everybody really starts paying attention and arguing nonstop about what movies they think are the best of the year.
So to get things going, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will hold a mini-ceremony of sorts to announce the Globe nominations, and all the announcements will be livestreamed for free. You’ll be able to catch that stream on the Golden Globes Facebook page, as well as the ceremony’s official site.
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The stream will begin around 5 a.m. PT/8 a.m. ET. A portion of the stream will also be broadcast on “The Today Show” on NBC starting at 5:15 a.m. The nominations will be announced by Dakota Fanning, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Tim Allen. HFPA president Lorenzo Soria will also be present.
That’s really all there is to it. You’ll be able to catch the announcement in full for free anywhere you have an internet connection. And then we can all start our week and begin our arguments about what deserves to win. The Golden Globes ceremony itself will take place on Sunday, Jan. 5 on NBC.
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HBO’s ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ Finale: Owen Teague Talks Filming His First Sex Scene With an Intimacy Coordinator
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the series finale of HBO’s “Mrs. Fletcher”
At the tender age of 19, Owen Teague found himself filming the first sex scene of his career.
The actor, known for the role of Patrick Hockstetter in the 2017 remake of “It” and its sequel, plays the young Julian Spitzer in HBO’s “Mrs. Fletcher.” Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, the series tells the story of Eve Fletcher (Kathryn Hahn), a single mother who rediscovers her sexuality after her son leaves for college. Teague’s character Julian develops a mutual crush on Eve — who happens to be the mother of his high school bully.
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TheWrap caught up with Teague ahead of Sunday’s series finale to talk about that wild threesome scene, and what it was like to shoot the first sex scene of his career — in which his character has a threesome with two women, one of whom is more than twice his age — in the company of an intimacy coordinator.
“It was fantastic. I was very, very nervous about that scene,” he told TheWrap. “What it would be like, and how we would figure out what that scene was?” he recalls thinking. “And then Claire Warden, who intimacy-coordinated us, came in and basically treated it like choreography, like a dance, or a choreographing a fight, and made it feel very safe.”
He went on to describe the mechanics of shooting the scene, in which Julian, Eve, and her friend Amanda (Katie Kershaw) end up in bed together after a late-night party.
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“We would all set limits and boundaries, and be like, ‘Okay, here’s what I don’t want to do, here’s what’s cool,'” he said. “And [Warden] taught us how to talk about it, and taught us how to check-in and make sure everyone else was okay… It felt so good to do, and it shocked me. I wouldn’t ever want to do a scene like that without an intimacy coordinator, and I don’t think anyone should have to. Maybe they are making it a mandatory thing now, and that’s really good, because they save actors.”
Teague, whose next project is another Stephen King project, “The Stand” on CBS All Access, also described the conversations he had with his co-stars.
“I think that situation with those two actors and with Claire [Warden] and our director Gillian [Robespierre], and our DP Jeff [Waldron], they were the only people in the room when we did that. And Katy Kershaw and Katheryn were two people I trusted basically completely, and so it was like the best possible scenario for that. It couldn’t have felt better to do,” he said.
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“So I guess it sets a really high precedent in terms of my life for the rest of sex scenes. I can only hope that they’ll feel that okay in the future, that they’ll be that safe and that trusting.”
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‘Crisis’ Showrunner Explains Why That Big Moment Happened Way Earlier Than Expected
(Warning: The following story contains MAJOR spoilers from Part 1 of “Crisis on Infinite Earths.”)
“Crisis on Infinite Earths” ended its universe-spanning first part with a moment that many viewers were probably expecting to happen closer towards the end of the epic, five-part saga: The death of Oliver Queen.
Queen’s (Robbie Amell) impending doom has been heavily teased over the last year, beginning with the “Elseworlds” crossover a year ago, when Oliver makes a deal with the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett). Then in the Season 7 finale of “Arrow” last spring, the show essentially told viewers that Queen would perish during the “Crisis” event.
“The dilemma that we presented to our own selves was that we spoiled our own story,” Marc Guggenheim, who is showrunning the “Crisis” crossover, told reporters last week, following a screening of the first episode. “If Oliver dying isn’t the surprise, what is the surprise? The timing of him dying.”
Queen dies while fighting off the Anti-Monitor’s minions on Earth-38, which ends up as an early casualty in the super-villain’s quest for multi-verse domination. Queen’s sacrifice enabled millions more to safely get off Earth and travel through a portal to Earth-1, which is the “prime” universe that the majority of the “Arrowverse” resides in.
“We kind of figured the audience was expecting Oliver to die in the climax, in the fifth hour. If we went in the exact opposite direction, and killed him off at the end of hour one, we accomplished two things: Hopefully, we do surprise the audience, that’s absolutely the intention, but we also really establish the stakes.”
Guggenheim argued that, if the first hour can kill off the flagship CW hero, “then no one is safe.”
Beth Schwartz, “Arrow” showrunner, added that giving him an early death allowed them to give the other “Arrowverse” characters like The Flash and Supergirl a justifiable amount of time grieve. “It sets up really interesting stories and conflicts between all these characters,” she said. All these leads of these different shows, who have different ways of reacting to this tragedy, and [we] get to see them all grieve together.”
Schwartz was particularly pleased with a moment early in the episode, which features a brief reunion between Oliver and Sarah Lance/White Canary (Caity Lotz), who was initially part of “Arrow” but has since moved over to “Legends of Tomorrow.”
“It was really important to me that Sarah have some really significant moments with Oliver in the beginning of this crisis, in order to remind the audience how far they go back, and how embedded her history is with his,” Schwartz said.
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‘Watchmen’ Actor on Why Dr Manhattan Came Back and How Long He Knew He Was the Big Blue God
(Warning: The following story contains spoilers from Episode 8 on “Watchmen entitled “A God Walks Into a Bar”)
Following last week’s game-changing reveal that Cal Abar (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) was really Dr. Manhattan in disguise this whole time, Sunday’s penultimate “Watchmen” showed viewers the ill-fated romance between Regina King’s Angela Abar and the man formerly known as Jon Osterman.
TheWrap spoke with Abdul-Mateen about how long he had to carry the secret of who Cal really was, and probably the two biggest questions that viewers had: Why did Dr. Manhattan come back to Earth, and why did he not seek out his former lover, Laurie Blake (Jean Smart)?
“He was just not satisfied,” Abdul-Mateen explains. “He attempted to create new life and to create a utopia but they treated him like a god. The story that’s kind of repeating throughout history is the theme where the god wants to be a human, and the human wants to be a god… [Dr. Manhattan] wanted to feel human again.” That “utopia” that Manhattan created is the same place where Jeremy Irons’ Adrian Veidt has spent the past decade.
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As for why he immediately sat down at a bar in Vietnam across Angela instead of finding Blake, Abdul-Mateen said that, since Dr. Manhattan perceives time as all happening at once, he knows that his future is with Angela. “He doesn’t go to Laurie, because that’s not what he does. That’s not what he does in the future. He’s a guy who doesn’t try to alter events of the future. He’s simultaneously experiencing it,” he explains. “She was always the choice. She was always his destiny…I guess that’s kind of cold to Laurie. But that’s one of the tragic things about falling in love with someone like Dr. Manhattan.”
The episode also shows why Manhattan has looked like an African-America man who supposedly didn’t know who he was, thanks to a visit to his old friend Adrien Veidt (Jeremy Irons). We also learned that the two clones were crafted out of a couple that Manhattan knew as a child, and just why he sent Veidt there.
“He knows that there’s a better place for someone like him,” Abdul-Mateen said. “Dr. Manhattan has the knowledge of what he’s going to do with it and how it’s going to go, but I think the truth is, still, there’s a better place for his friend. In the end, humanity is better for it momentarily, I think Veidt is better for it, momentarily.”
Abdul-Mateen said he didn’t know he was going to be Dr. Manhattan until a few episodes in.
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“I went through a couple episodes, actually, without the knowledge of where Cal was going. I knew that he had a mysterious background,” he said. “I didn’t how that would play out until a couple episodes in, I had a conversation with Damon [Lindelof] to flesh that out, and he said very matter of factly Cal is Dr. Manhattan. On the outside I kind of received that cool, calm and collected, but on the inside, man, I was going nuts.”
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Once he found out, he said that he tried not to alter his performance too much. “I didn’t want to get in the way with what I had been doing with Cal. I didn’t want to tip anyone off,” he said. “My thing was that Angela needed Cal. She needed Cal to be Cal. She needed to be a husband, she didn’t need him to be anything supernatural, until she did. I wanted to make sure that when Cal went away, that there was an attachment to him. That there was a cost to trading off Cal for Dr. Manhattan.”
There is a scene in an earlier episode when Cal is telling their kids about Judd Crawford’s (Don Johnson) death, and he’s surprisingly detached about it, even parroting a famous Dr. Manhattan quote about how a live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles.
“I don’t think it was written, on first view, to guide the viewers to that conclusion. I think that it was written so that, on second viewing, one would be able to appreciate those sort of breadcrumbs,” Abdul-Mateen explained. “The universe of watchmen is one where you can do a lot of damage by sheltering people from the truth. To me, in that moment, it was really a representation of the danger of their world. The kids couldn’t afford to live in a fairytale.”
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And in case you’re wondering, it took about three hours for Abdul-Mateen to get into the blue makeup. “It was definitely one of the longest makeup processes that I had to sit through. It was really exciting at first, but the novelty of it wore off really fast. There were several days when I went home with blue legs and feet.”
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John Travolta Found a Historical Mistake in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
John Travolta and Quentin Tarantino will always be linked through “Pulp Fiction,” the 1994 film that helped reinvigorate the actor’s career. So naturally, the man who played Vincent Vega went to see Tarantino’s latest film, “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.” What he didn’t expect was to find a mistake that only a registered pilot and “aviation nerd ” — as Travolta describes himself — could spot.
At a Q&A with TheWrap following a screening of his latest film, “The Fanatic,” Travolta discussed how he found the error during a scene setting up the climactic showdown between Rick Dalton, Cliff Booth, and the acolytes of Charles Manson whom history says would kill Sharon Tate in her Cielo Drive home.
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“Leonardo [DiCaprio, who plays Rick Dalton] is going home from Italy or wherever he was, and the narrator says that he took a 747,” Travolta told his fans at the screening. “Well, the 747 had its test flight in February 1969, but it went into service in January 1970. They’re nine months off! He would have been on a Boeing 707!”
Perhaps such an error could be excused as “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” is openly not going for historical accuracy. It is a version of Hollywood as filtered through Tarantino’s nostalgic memory of that era of moviemaking. Still, Travolta, who had just arrived in Hollywood in 1969, was so impressed by Tarantino’s recreation of that era that he was taken back to his own memories of that time and place.
“I remember being there in the city when all of this was happening. I remember being scared because of Sharon Tate being killed. It triggered far more real memories than anything from filming ‘Pulp Fiction.’ I was right there in the moment with everyone else and that’s what’s so great about Quentin as a filmmaker. Like with ‘Inglorious Basterds,’ he sort of repairs our history.'”
Check out more thoughts from Travolta on his latest film, “The Fanatic,” as well as his own personal relationship with the nature of fandom, by clicking on our interview here.
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