How Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andrew Garfield madeTick, Tick... Boom!their collective labor of love

Now, their lives intersect once more as Miranda bringsTick, Tick… Boom! “It’s all been leading to this for me,” says Miranda. “It felt like it was a message in a bottle just for me,” he recounts. Andrew Garfield in ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!'.MACALL POLAY/NETFLIX I very consciously learned from Larson that everything you listen to is fair game for musical theater storytelling. “I left thinking, ‘He can do anything,” Miranda says. “It was an amazing voyage of discovery for me,” Garfield notes....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 261 words · Eileen Lindsey

How Maluma's love of Bob Marley led him to Jamaica (and inspired his EP#7DJ)

If it wasn’t for a seven-day trip to Jamaica,Malumamay have stopped singing. The reggaeton star, born Juan Luis Londono Arias, had traveled there in Jan. 2020. After years of non-stop work, Maluma was tired. Phraa He felt like he could give it all up. “When I took that trip, I really needed a break,” he tells EW in Spanish. “Things get busy and it’s possible for you to’t find inspiration on demand....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Nicole Martinez

How Marvel Comics became our longest-running work of fiction: Excerpt

Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Every schoolchild recognizes the Marvel story’s protagonists: Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men. “true believers,” “‘nuff said.” The Marvel story is a mountain, smack in the middle of contemporary culture. The mountain wasn’t always there. It’s not the kind of mountain whose face you could climb. There is no clear pathway into the mountain from the outside. Parts of it are abandoned and choked with cobwebs....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · Sara Harris

How Marvel is setting up a potentialYoung Avengersadaptation

The Young Avengers were originally created in 2005 by writer Allan Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung. By now, most of the members from each of those two rosters have popped up in the MCU. In fact, let’s recap all of those bread crumbs! America Chavez as portrayed by Xochitl Gomez in the MCU and drawn by Jamie McKelvie for Marvel comics.Jay Maidment/Marvel Studios; Marvel Comics Marvel, could end up in a screen version, but here we’re sticking to the canonical lineups....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 272 words · Shawn Mccormick

How Marvel'sWhat If…?changes the course of the MCU: Episode 9 recap

In the season finale, the Watcher tries to stop Ultron by bringing together the Guardians of the Multiverse. ?explores how a single choice can turn the reality we knew on its head. Check out the recaps for episodes 1-5here. Marvel Studios Episode 6: Killmonger to the rescue? It’ll get the best of you, eventually. On your plane, or on ours." As the Watcher notes from above, “Heroes are never really gone....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 264 words · Ashley Santiago

How Megan Nolan wrote the explosive romance inActs of Desperation

MEGAN NOLAN:It was 2015 when I first got paid to write. What style is that? In short: Big, meaty books that are some sort of family saga. Credit: Lynn Rothwell; Little, Brown and Company A life told from beginning to end and really intriguing plot points. I didn’t have much of a literary community in Dublin, since I dropped out of University. How did the idea forActs of Desperationcome about?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 256 words · Nicholas Reid

How Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman buttered upThunder Forcewith crab sex

EW goes inside the Identity Thief stars' reunion in one of the wildest scenes of the year. Light spoilers for the new Netflix movieThunder Forceahead. “Jason is one of my best friends, and Melissa’s too. Netflix Our families are close! [It wasn’t] like a, ‘Watch it!’ thing, it was just fun! “I say this out of love: He’s so effortlessly gross! He can get away with anything. I lovingly call him ‘The Robot’ because I think he’s more robot than man....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Anita Singh

How Meryl Streep became the U.S. president inDon't Look Up

Writer-director Adam McKay talks about a crucial Oval Office-set sequence from his Netflix comedy. “But she [said], ‘Yes.'” “This was in themiddleof the pandemic,” says McKay of shooting the scene. Meryl Streep in ‘Don’t Look Up’.Niko Tavernise / Netflix “I don’t know if I’ve ever treasured laughter more.” To convincingly play his character, DiCaprio spoke with real-life astronomer and film consultant Amy Mainzer. “Leo, the guy doesn’t half-step it, says McKay....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · William Clark

How Moses Ingram made aStar WarsHalloween character for Black girls onObi-Wan Kenobi

Moses Ingram hit the jackpot. “She brings her own energy to that world of silhouette villains. “Our costume designer, Suttirat Anne Larlarb was absolutely amazing,” gushes Ingram. Moses Ingram in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’.Matt Kennedy/Lucasfilm Ltd. “I would tell people, putting on a cape was a dream I didn’t know I had. I legit put on a cape and I felt like I was 10 again. It was really, really, really super dope....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Melissa Duncan

How MSNBC's Steve Kornacki became a viral sensation in the wake of Election Night

“They got people in the back that can do that for you!” Even Kornacki’s coworkers got into the act. “There’s been some reporting he may be a robot.” MSNBC also kept the online hype alive with the hashtage #TrackingKornacki throughout the week. And thus a viral star was born. Now that the election has finally been called, it seems Kornacki might finally get some well-deserved rest. But his new stans are not going away....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 95 words · Dr. Brianna Krause

How Natalie Morales made teen quest moviePlan Bin the middle of a pandemic

Get an exclusive first look at the star’s solo directorial debut, on Hulu this spring. This month, EW is offering exclusive looks at more than two dozen of 2021’s most anticipated movies. Check out more of our previewhere. Credit: Brett Roedel/Hulu “But it happened, and we got through it!” Making the film was a quest in and of itself. Plan A forPlan Bhad production beginning in mid-March of 2020, timed almost exactly to the initial stay-at-home orders....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 198 words · Stephen Conrad

How NBC's isolation comedyConnectingwas made during a pandemic

From creating chemistry to making a show safely, here’s how Connecting came together during a pandemic. NBC is bringing you a new comedy made during a pandemic without masks, shields, or nasal swabs. It became really clear that it felt relevant, Gero says about the talks he was having with friends. Credit: NBC Everyone is going through this, and it’s not on TV right now. No one leaves their house, Gero explains....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Don Mcdowell

How Netflix'sStrip Down, Rise Uppromotes body positivity, female empowerment through pole dancing

Women all over the U.S. are rediscovering themselves with a little help from a stripper pole. It’s a challenge and an act of bravery. I wanted the subjects to feel comfortable. netflix The body holds all the riches and all the keys to the kingdom of our lives. Once you reclaim your body and your indigenous, organic movements, there’s a ripple. It can help heal relationships, your trials and tribulations, and your career....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 272 words · Cynthia Anderson