HowMoulin Rouge!crafted the epic 'Elephant Love Medley' for stage and screen

That was very much something that came out of the workshop process." So if a simple duet wasn’t enough, what would be? “You have to top ‘Your Song’ somehow,” muses Pearce. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in 2001’s ‘Moulin Rouge!'.Everett Collection “What could top it? A medley of the greatest love songs of the 20th century, at least the ’80s and ’90s. We wrote it as a debate about idealism versus realism, about love versus reality....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 245 words · Scott Munoz

HowNew Girlpaved the way for Jake Johnson's comedyRide the Eagle

Nick Miller hive, assemble! “It’s a sweeter companion piece toNew Girl,” he says. EW has your exclusive first look atRide the Eaglewith the trailer above. Decal ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Where did you get the inspiration to write and make this film? So we came up with an idea to make a movie, just the two of us. But the idea just kept growing and growing and growing and growing. Decal And then we gotJ....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 532 words · Rodney Vaughan

HowNightmare of the Wolfsets the stage forThe Witcherseason 2

Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutThe Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. The answers he finds have consequences that not only affect Vesemir but all his fellow Witchers. There’s a reason why this story is being told as a precursor to the live-actionWitcherseason 2. Henry Cavill’s Geralt and Theo James' Vesemir.Netflix (2) It’s at this stronghold where young boys are trained to become Witchers through the School of the Wolf. It’s a nightmare for the School of the Wolf, if you will....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 224 words · Tonya Charles

HowOur Friendmade Jason Segel a better friend

“I know having played the part has definitely affected my behavior during quarantine.” “I call my friends every day,” he says. “One of the things that was really moving about the story is to see a friend be active. Courtesy of TIFF A friend in action is not normally how we live. And that goes for his relationship with his parents, too. “It’s as simple as, I now call my parents every day....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 389 words · Michael Hernandez

HowPenguin Bloomstar Naomi Watts and the real Sam Bloom found humanity in feathered friends

Naomi Watts and her real-life Penguin Bloom subject tell EW how they found humanity in birds. “Big day for you guys, eh?” NAOMI WATTS:I wasn’t lying, was I, Sam? Cameron Bloom/NETFLIX SAM BLOOM:Not at all! When did you two first meet? WATTS:We met in a hotel. Cameron Bloom/NETFLIX It was really polite, talking about the possibilities of where we could go with the story. Why do you think the bond become so strong?...

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 754 words · Sharon Parker

HowPennyworthgives a much different take on English history thanThe Crown

ThoughPennyworthis a show about Batman-adjacent characters, its set far from the streets of Gotham City. ButThe Crownthis is not. Were not really moored to history, showrunner Bruno Heller tells EW. Jack Bannon in ‘Pennyworth’.Credit: Nick Wall/Epix It’s a gorgeous, richly-decorated box. But our queen could never behave the way the queen in Pennyworth behaves. But dont look for direct political allegories inPennyworth. Any kind of fiction is going to have resonance in the real world....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 167 words · Stephen Griffin

HowPetite Mamandirector Céline Sciamma crafted her wondrous time-travel fairy tale

And what she learned from making Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Petite Mamanmay be small in scale, but its themes loom large. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You’ve said that you didn’t really set out to make a time-travel movie. Joséphine Sanz and Gabrielle Sanz in ‘Petite Maman’.NEON When did you realize this was the story you wanted to tell? I didn’t see it at all as a time-traveling film. Then at some point, I was like: “It’s a time-travel film....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 788 words · Daniel Nguyen

HowPromising Young Womancostumes dressed Carey Mulligan to kill

Designer Nancy Steiner tells EW why she stitched a dark tale with pastel bliss. A collision of different things that’s how life feels to me." It’s about her wearing a costume all the time to disguise who she really is." Focus Features “The guys just lap it up,” Steiner says of the brutal scene. “She’s got command over them.” Fennell also used the iconic rainbow wig as a canvas for more chaos....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 96 words · Michael Clark

HowRed Noticestaged an A-list brawl between Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot

Director Rawson Marshall Thurber takes EW inside the epic face-off. THE MUSCLE Red Noticemarks Thurber’s third consecutive collaboration with Johnson afterCentral IntelligenceandSkyscraper. That history comes with both a shared shorthand and a significant challenge: to push it even further. Frank Masi/Netflix “Every time, I’m trying to show him something he hasn’t done before.” “They have incredible chemistry together both on set and off,” says Thurber. “Ryan was perfectly fine to not be as good a fighter as Gal and DJ....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Annette Martin

HowRuPaul's Drag Racechanged the global drag economy

“There was no management, no talent agencies, and no representation. [BeforeDrag Race], the pageant girls were top tier in the pay scale.” “When we came along, we didnt know what our market value was or what our worth was. Mariah Balenciaga for EW Whether or not Ive been on a show, I deserve that X amount of money.' That wasnt there before.” They say, ‘What do youreallydo? Miz Cracker for EW...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 78 words · Nathaniel Williams

HowS.W.A.T.will respond to the Black Lives Matter movement

The CBS drama felt well poised to react to the unrest since cop-community relations were already in its DNA. Several meetings including a particularly long one in Moore’s backyard would follow between the actor and writers. We actually looked at it as an advantage. There is an element of influence that we hold. The question is, what are you going to do with that responsibility? We had been addressing these issues for the previous three seasons....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Linda Valdez

HowSaved by the Bell's Mitchell Hoog and Belmont Cameli forged their own path in revival

So I stay the same but I’m using it for a different reason throughout the series. BELMONT CAMELI:Jamie is a very protected kid. Number one, my family wasn’t really big into watching TV. Rotten Tomatoes TV So I was never really exposed to a lot of shows but I was familiar with it. Jamie’s really reliant upon his mother for solace and a lot of other things. It’s probably a good thing they’re super close, literally....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 180 words · Angela Hayes

HowScenes from a Marriagespurred a Swedish marital crisis

[But] he was very keen on having a large audience for his work." Divorce rates spiked to record highs after the series aired. Rugg says that audiences responded toMarriageas if it were a documentary because of the hyper-realistic framing and script. Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in 1973’s ‘Scenes From a Marriage.'.Everett Collection “The television critic for one of the big evening newspapers expressed some concern,” she adds. An interview with Bergman afterwards, a discussion among experts, perhaps a phone-in service....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 113 words · Danielle Vega