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This text accommodates spoilers from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5, “Within the Identify of the Mom.”

The Trial of Seven is about to begin — a conflict of mud, blood, and iron earlier than a roaring crowd to find out the destiny of the aspiring knight that dared to defend a lowly stage performer from a rampaging Targaryen prince.

On one aspect of the Belfast set of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Peter Claffey traces up as Ser Duncan the Tall with the champions defending his good identify: Ser Lyonel “Laughing Storm” Baratheon (Daniel Ings), newly knighted Raymun Fossoway (Shaun Thomas), Ser Humfrey Beesbury (Danny Collins), Ser Humfrey Hardyng (Ross Anderson), and a last-minute Hail Mary, Prince Baelor “Breakspear” Targaryen (Bertie Carvel).

On the opposite aspect is Dunk’s accuser and chief tormenter, Prince Aerion Targaryen (Finn Bennett), flanked by the procession of his drunkard brother, Daeron (Henry Ashton); father Maekar (Sam Spruell); rotten apple Ser Steffon Fossoway (Edward Ashley); and three members of the Kingsguard, Ser Donnel of Duskendale (Invoice Ward), Ser Roland Crakehall (Wade Briggs), and Ser Willem Wylde (not credited on the present; episodic director Owen Harris mentions a stunt performer performs Willem as a substitute of an actor since there wasn’t a outstanding story arc involving that character).

It’s solely the second time within the historical past of Westeros {that a} Trial of Seven has been used to settle a rating. Each squadrons stare one another down on horseback, in full armor and weaponry — trying like bonafide badasses of the Game of Thrones universe. After which…the wasps descend.

It’s Bennett’s chief reminiscence from filming the present's first true battle sequence in episode 5. “We had these fruit baskets that have been a part of set dressing that, I assume, we didn't exchange. So we simply had a great deal of rotting fruit across the set, and it appeared like each wasp in Belfast Metropolis traveled to our little patch,” the actor tells Leisure Weekly. “I simply keep in mind wasps flying round all over the place. And the pretend blood is made with a sugary syrup.”

Ira Parker, the co-creator and showrunner behind A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, confirms these pests have been a real concern when filming this massive set piece. “Not solely on set, however in submit[-production] too, after we needed to f—ing take away them from folks swatting at them,” he says. “They're simply buzzing round everyone's head. If solely they’d been bees, I’d've mentioned that might have been Humfrey Beesbury's contribution to this combat.”

It wasn’t simply the wasps. Diving deep into the making of the much-hyped Trial of Seven on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — together with the bloody end that claimed the life of 1 necessary character — key members of the forged and crew recall all of the shifting elements that went into the medieval mayhem.

"You bought all that cool smoke, which makes it look badass. That factor is loud!" Ings says. "We had all these dialogue scenes the place there's like a 'MAAAAA' happening beneath."

"You can think about all these actors, all these stunt males, the props staff. It was absolute carnage,” Thomas provides. “Yeah, it was loopy. Actually was."

The one factor that's "gonna displease some folks"

It’s true to the character of Dunk that our hero spends the primary chunk of this battle handed out.

He fees into the fray, prepared to check his may towards the most effective of them, solely to get knocked off the aspect of his horse with a blow to the top. Parker and the staff determined “very early on,” he says, to start the Trial of Seven with a flashback to Dunk’s life in Fleabottom and the tragedy across the loss of life of his childhood pal.

“I hate that I've needed to do a flashback at this level when everyone simply desires the battle, however we needed to,” the showrunner says. “However I do assume it stands by itself, and I do assume it's enjoyable to see Dunk like that. I do assume it provides rather a lot to the story, and it provides to the ending of episode 5 as properly … However, yeah, it's gonna displease some folks.”

That’s what he mentioned about a few of the bolder decisions for the TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's first Dunk and Egg novella, "The Hedge Knight," together with the opening bowel-evacuating sequence of the premiere episode. However followers have broadly praised Parker's imaginative and prescient and adherence to the supply materials.

Returning to the Dunk knockout bit, Harris agrees it’s “very authentically Dunk…In that second, you form of construct the legend of Dunk, however on the similar time, you additionally construct the strain as a result of everybody's considering, ‘What's occurred to Dunk?’”

"It’s chaotic, and we embraced that early on"

Beneath a tent on the Belfast set was a big white board full of cue playing cards, collectively breaking down beat by beat the whole Trial of Seven. It offered some a lot wanted technique to the insanity.

"If you're on the market and also you're capturing it, mud is drying up on you as a result of it occurs to not be raining for the primary time ever in Belfast and it’s important to get the fireplace hoses on it," Parker remembers. "Plus, the wind adjustments and rapidly your mist coming in from a method is now blowing utterly out, so that you gotta go shift that throughout. Plus you bought stunt guys coated in pretend sugar blood, which is attracting all of the wasps. And in the meantime, you're making an attempt to get in there and get every thing you had deliberate. It’s chaotic, and we embraced that fairly early on."

The best way the staff shot the Trial of Seven was aligned with the general ethos of season 1. The identical purpose why Parker by no means instructed any of the story from the attitude of a royal (excluding one Egg second whereas he's posing as a avenue child), that is Dunk's story. "Though it's a battle of seven, the battle that's necessary to us is the one which Dunk's preventing," Harris remarks.

The photographs oscillate between "helmet cam," their phrase for the digicam peering out from inside Dunk's helmet; Dunk wobbling by the battlefield as violence swirls round him; and the ultimate one-on-one sword combat with Prince Aerion within the midst of all of it.

"It simply does one thing very fascinating when it comes to the claustrophobia of being beneath assault, being somebody who’s on the receiving finish of somebody that's making an attempt to kill him," Harris continues. "And when you go inside that helm, in addition to the sound results, the respiratory, the factors of the elevated heartbeat, you are feeling such as you're proper in there with him."

Ings describes the sequence as "a really well-oiled machine" with the forged serving as "a tiny little cog that will get fitted into that." As he notes, "It’s a lot about making an attempt to select the moments the place you may actually get the character throughout…There are folks right here on this seven-on-seven who’re s—-ing themselves and terrified about what's to come back. Whereas for Lionel, that is the juice. That is what he waits for. That is his '50-year storm' — to casually drop in a Level Break reference."

The actors give numerous credit score to their stunt doubles, however none greater than Bennett. He says of his stuntman, Zach Roberts, "Once I put that masks on, I couldn't see something out of it; the attention holes are tiny. He's doing all of that blind. It was simply filming it in sections, after which in direction of the tip of the battle, that’s truly me stumbling again into one of many shields there and he's hitting me with the defend. We simply rehearsed it rather a lot. Yeah, it was nice. It was taxing, however I loved it."

For Ings, these scenes the place they're idling as a bunch, making an attempt to look cool, have been chaos in their very own method. "We're in fact on horseback making an attempt to get seven horses to face and line up completely in a circle and all look badass whilst you're doing it," he recollects. "Somebody's similar to going backwards and one horse desires to come back and attempt to chew on another person's reins. I do not forget that was fairly tough."

The breaking of Baelor "Breakspear"

Over the course of press for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which primarily befell in January, Carvel fielded a number of questions concerning the parallels between Prince Baelor Targaryen and Sean Bean’s Lord of Winterfell, Ned Stark. Whereas the actor didn’t look to different Recreation of Thrones characters for references, he feels the analogy holds robust.

Each maintain justice and honor in excessive regard, and now each died within the pursuit of doing what’s proper.

“I suppose the distinction is that there’s one thing about the best way that the Stark household defines itself and its story across the type of steadfast, stoic, responsive, ethical duty,” Carvel muses. “‘Winter is coming.’ Whereas the Targaryens have completely different phrases. However there’s a correspondence there.”

Parker doesn’t essentially purchase into the comparability, regardless of his love for the character of Ned.

“I’d say Ned Stark was somewhat bit extra naive than anyone like Baelor Targaryen was,” he says. “It’s not that Baelor doesn’t perceive what may occur to him. In my thoughts, he’s doing this as a result of it’s at all times been mentioned about him that he’s this particular person, from the time that he was the hammer and the anvil."

"The hammer and the anvil" refers back to the technique Baelor (the hammer) and Maekar (the anvil) as soon as used to win the biggest battle of the First Blackfyre Revolt, an earlier Targaryen-versus-Targaryen battle in Westeros.

"At so younger in his life, he grew to become this warfare hero, this savior of the dominion and the realm," Parker continues. "Due to his nature, everyone’s telling him how honorable he’s and the way he’s gonna make the best king that Westeros has ever had because the Conqueror. After which lastly a second comes for him to really put up when his honor is examined in reality. Advantage untested isn’t any advantage in any respect.”

Studying these scripts for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms made Carvel notice how "thirsty" he was for a narrative about heroism. "It actually made me cheer inwardly after I learn it and wished to make folks really feel the identical factor after they see it," he says. Main as much as the Trial of Seven, the character asks Dunk a number of occasions, "How good a knight are you?" Baelor then "should ask the identical query of himself when push involves shove," Carvel provides.

In the long run, Baelor succumbs to an harm to the again of the top he sustained from his personal brother. Now the promised successor to the Iron Throne is lifeless, altering the course of Westeros historical past as Maekar turns into subsequent in line. Teasing the finale episode, Spruell says they deliberately performed with Maekar's intentions.

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"We did barely completely different variations of culpability, I assume; whether or not it was accident or whether or not he meant to kill his brother," he explains. "I feel that was actually thrilling for me to experiment with and to debate with not solely Ira, however Sarah [Adina Smith, director of episode 6]. There may be that type of deep, deep want to be primary in Maekar that may be realized by the loss of life of his brother. So all of the guilt or all of the disappointment or all of the grief he feels is type of bracketed by this realization that this implies he's subsequent in line to the throne."

In Parker's eyes, Baelor's choice to enter the Trial of Seven and threat his personal life says extra about what's wanted to make the world of Westeros (and maybe our personal) somewhat bit higher.

"He doesn't make it out of this, however Dunk does," the showrunner concludes. "As Dunk says within the subsequent episode, 'Perhaps sometime the realm will want my foot much more than a prince's life.'"

He factors to a scene from Recreation of Thrones, during which Jack Gleeson's Joffrey Baratheon flips by the Ebook of Brothers, a dusty tome on well-known knights. "As we see, Ser Duncan has 4 pages in that white e-book at some point, ?" Parker provides. "So he wasn't utterly flawed with what [Baelor's] sacrifice was gonna be price."

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• As we speak anchor Savannah Guthrie has launched a brand new video pleading for the secure return of her mom, Nancy Guthrie.
• Savannah needed "whoever has her or is aware of the place she is" to know that "it's by no means too late, and also you're not misplaced or alone, and it’s by no means too late to do the suitable factor. And we’re right here, and we imagine — we imagine within the important goodness of each human being."
• Nancy, 84, was final seen exterior her Tucson, Ariz., residence the night of Jan. 31. She was declared lacking the next day.

Savannah Guthrie continues to be preventing for her mom's secure return, after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was declared lacking on Feb. 1.

The As we speak anchor posted a brief video to her Instagram on Sunday afternoon. Talking slowly and punctiliously with tears in her eyes, Savannah started by addressing her 1.8 million followers. "It's been two weeks since our mother was taken. And I simply needed to return on and say that we nonetheless have hope. And we nonetheless imagine," she stated.

The published journalist then directed her deal with towards "whoever has her or is aware of the place she is." Savannah stated she needed the person or people concerned to know "that it's by no means too late, and also you're not misplaced or alone, and it’s by no means too late to do the suitable factor. And we’re right here, and we imagine — we imagine within the important goodness of each human being, and it's by no means too late."

Within the caption of her put up Savannah repeated the phrase that has grow to be a mantra amongst her household, and the hundreds of followers and followers monitoring the case and hoping for Nancy's return: "Convey her residence." In closing, she repeated, "It's by no means too late to do the following proper factor."

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Glove recovered near Nancy Guthrie's home appears to match gloves worn by suspect in video DNA found on Nancy Guthrie's property doesn't match hers or that of close contacts, police reveal

Nancy Guthrie was final seen exterior her Tucson, Ariz., residence the night of Jan. 31, after being dropped off by household. She was declared lacking the next day after failing to point out at a daily Sunday morning assembly at a good friend's to observe the digital service of Savannah's New York church, Good Shepherd.

Throughout a Feb. 2 press convention, the Pima County Sheriff's Division declared her residence close to East Skyline Drive and North Campbell Avenue against the law scene. Sheriff Chris Nanos advised CBS Information the identical day that he believed that Nancy "didn't stroll" from her residence of her personal accord. "She didn't go willingly."

"Lots of of leads" within the investigation, which is now benefiting from the cooperation of the FBI, have up to now turned up no main individuals of curiosity. An impostor posing as her alleged captor was arrested after demanding a ransom, and an individual of curiosity within the case who was detained on Feb. 10 was launched the next day, after proving to haven’t any connection to Nancy.

Savannah and her siblings, Annie and Camron, have shared a number of movies pleading for his or her mom's secure return.

"We have to know, certainly, that she is alive and that you’ve got her," the siblings stated in a video shared on Feb. 4. "We need to hear from you, and we’re able to pay attention. Please, attain out to us."

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The FBI has made a possible breakthrough within the seek for Nancy Guthrie.

The 84-year-old mom of Immediately anchor Savannah Guthrie was declared lacking on Feb. 1, after she failed to indicate at a buddy's house in Tucson, Ariz., the place they deliberate to observe a church reside stream. The FBI has since partnered with native regulation enforcement to research her disappearance, which is being handled as against the law.

On Sunday, the FBI claimed to have recovered a glove that "seems to match" these worn by a masked and "armed particular person" who was captured in surveillance footage outdoors Nancy's house. An FBI spokesperson advised PEOPLE that roughly 16 gloves have been recovered round Nancy's house, which was declared against the law scene within the wake of her disappearance. However one explicit glove with a "DNA profile recovered is completely different and seems to match the gloves of the topic within the surveillance video."

Leisure Weekly didn’t instantly hear again from a consultant for the FBI.

The glove in query was found by discipline brokers by the facet of a street roughly two miles from Nancy's house close to East Skyline Drive and North Campbell Avenue, the spokesperson mentioned. A lot of the others have been dominated out in reference to the case, after being proven to have been discarded by brokers helping within the search.

The invention comes within the wake of a disappointing replace on Saturday. Investigators with the Pima County Sheriff's Division revealed that DNA discovered on the house doesn’t match Nancy or anybody in her quick circle.

FBI releases first videos, photos of potential suspect in Nancy Guthrie disappearance Person of interest in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case has been detained for questioning

There are developments on the potential suspect from the surveillance footage, which the the FBI and the Sheriff's Division launched on Tuesday. That footage, scraped from Nancy's Nest doorbell digicam though she didn’t have an energetic subscription to the service, depicted a person sporting a masks and gloves "showing to have tampered with the digicam at Nancy Guthrie's entrance door the morning of her disappearance," per a social media submit from FBI director Kash Patel.

After the Bureau upped its reward for info that results in Nancy's recuperate to $100,000, it shared the outcomes of "forensic evaluation of the doorbell digicam footage," which yielded the next suspect profile: "male, roughly 5'9" – 5'10" tall, with a mean construct… sporting a black, 25-liter Ozark Path Hiker Pack’ backpack."

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Nancy Guthrie was final seen outdoors her house the night of Jan. 31, after relations dropped her off.

Savannah and her siblings, Annie and Camron Guthrie, have launched a number of movies imploring the general public's assist in recovering their mom, and sharing their perception that she remains to be alive. On Thursday, Savannah shared a childhood video that includes her mom to her Instagram with the caption, "“Our beautiful mother. We are going to by no means hand over on her. thanks on your prayers and hope."

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The 2026 Movie Impartial Spirit Awards are underway, celebrating one of the best indie movies and tv sequence of the final yr.

Right this moment's forty first annual ceremony, hosted by Saturday Evening Dwell alum Ego Nwodim, traded in its standard beachfront venue on the Santa Monica Pier for Los Angeles' Hollywood Palladium, on account of renovations. You possibly can watch the festivities beneath, starting at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT, streaming stay on Movie Impartial's YouTube channel.

Going into tonight's occasion, biographical drama Peter Hujar's Day leads the pack on the movie facet with 5 nominations, together with for director Ira Sachs, and stars Rebecca Corridor and Ben Whishaw (who can be nominated for his efficiency on Netflix's Black Doves). To be eligible for the Spirit Awards, a film's price range can not exceed $30 million after tax incentives. Latest high winners which have aligned with the Oscars' Finest Image victors embody Nomadland, The whole lot In every single place All at As soon as, and Anora.

Within the tv classes, teen drama Ceaselessly, British drama Mr Loverman, andEmmys and Golden Globes darling Adolescence high the nominations with 4 every.

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Two awards had been already revealed previous to the ceremony, with The Long Walk successful the Robert Altman Award, together with honors for direcor Francis Lawrence and stars Judy Greer, Mark Hamill, Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, and Garrett Wareing; and Finest Ensemble Forged in a New Scripted Collection going to Jason Momoa's Chief of Warfare, additionally starring Charlie Brumbly, Luciane Buchanan, Cliff Curtis, Brandon Finn, Moses Items, Te Ao o Hinepehinga, Benjamin Hoetjes, Siua Ikale'o, Keala Kahuanui-Paleka, Mainei Kinimaka, Kaina Makua, Temuera Morrison, Te Kohe Tuhaka, and James Udom.

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See the complete checklist of winners for the 2026 Movie Impartial Spirit Awards beneath, updating stay all through the ceremony.

2026 Movie Impartial Spirit Awards winners

Motion pictures

Finest Function

Peter Hujar’s Day
The Plague
Sorry, Child
Practice Goals
Twinless

Finest Director

Clint Bentley, Practice Goals
Mary Bronstein, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Lloyd Lee Choi, Fortunate Lu
Ira Sachs, Peter Hujar’s Day
Eva Victor, Sorry, Child

Finest First Function

Blue Solar Palace
Mud Bunny
East of Wall
Lurker
One in all Them Days

Finest Lead Efficiency

Everett Blunck, The Plague
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kathleen Chalfant, Acquainted Contact
Chang Chen, Fortunate Lu
Joel Edgerton, Practice Goals
Dylan O’Brien, Twinless
Keke Palmer, One in all Them Days
Théodore Pellerin, Lurker
Tessa Thompson, Hedda
Ben Whishaw, Peter Hujar’s Day

Finest Supporting Efficiency

Naomi Ackie, Sorry, Child
Zoey Deutch, Nouvelle Obscure
Kirsten Dunst, Roofman
Rebecca Corridor, Peter Hujar’s Day
Nina Hoss, Hedda
Jane Levy, A Little Prayer
Archie Madekwe, Lurker
Kali Reis, Rebuilding
Jacob Tremblay, Sovereign
Haipeng Xu, Blue Solar Palace

Finest Breakthrough Efficiency

Liz Larsen, The Baltimorons
Kayo Martin, The Plague
Misha Osherovich, She’s the He
SZA, One in all Them Days
Tabatha Zimiga, East of Wall

Finest Screenplay

A Little Prayer
WINNER: Sorry, Child
Sovereign
Splitsville
Twinless

Finest First Screenplay

Blue Solar Palace
Friendship
Lurker
One in all Them Days
Outerlands

Finest Cinematography

Blue Solar Palace
Mud Bunny
Peter Hujar’s Day
Practice Goals
Warfare

Finest Enhancing

Eephus
Good Boy
Splitsville
The Testomony of Ann Lee
Warfare

Finest Documentary

Come See Me within the Good Mild
Infinite Cookie
My Undesirable Mates: Half 1 — Final Air in Moscow
WINNER: The Excellent Neighbor
The Story of Silyan

Finest Worldwide Movie

All That’s Left of You
On Turning into a Guinea Fowl
A Poet
WINNER: The Secret Agent
Sirāt

Robert Altman Award

WINNER: The forged, casting director, and director of The Lengthy Stroll

Somebody to Watch Award

Tatti Ribeiro
Neo Sora
Annapurna Sriram

More true Than Fiction Award

Tony Benna
Rajee Samarasinghe
Brittany Shyne

John Cassavetes Award

The Baltimorons
Boys Go to Jupiter
Eephus
Esta Isla
Acquainted Contact

Producers Award

Emma Hannaway
Luca Intili
Tony Yang

Tv

Finest New Scripted Collection

Adolescence
Frequent Facet Results
Ceaselessly
Mr. Loverman
North of North

Finest New Non-Scripted or Documentary Collection

Citizen Nation
Hurricane Katrina: Race In opposition to Time
Pee-Wee As Himself
Seen & Heard: The Historical past of Black Tv
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

Finest Lead Efficiency in a New Scripted Collection

Sydney Chandler, Alien: Earth
Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Ethan Hawke, The Lowdown
Lennie James, Mr. Loverman
Anna Lambe, North of North
Lola Petticrew, Say Nothing
Seth Rogen, The Studio
Lovie Simone, Ceaselessly
Michelle Williams, Dying for Intercourse
Noah Wyle, The Pitt

Finest Supporting Efficiency in a New Scripted Collection

Ariyon Bakare, Mr. Loverman
Babou Ceesay, Alien: Earth
Sharon D. Clarke, Mr. Loverman
Taylor Dearden, The Pitt
WINNER: Erin Doherty, Adolescence
Stephen McKinley Henderson, A Man on the Inside
Poorna Jagannathan, Deli Boys
Xosha Roquemore, Ceaselessly
Jenny Slate, Dying for Intercourse
Ben Whishaw, Black Doves

Finest Breakthrough Efficiency in a New Scripted Collection

Asif Ali, Deli Boys
Wally Baram, Overcompensating
WINNER: Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Michael Cooper Jr., Ceaselessly
Ernest Kingsley Junior, Washington Black

Finest Ensemble Forged in a New Scripted Collection

WINNER: Chief of Warfare

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Teyana Taylor is dishing about her newfound friendship with display legend Julia Roberts.

Within the lead-up to the 98th Academy Awards, the Oscar-nominated One Battle After Another star has been profitable huge, snagging numerous precursor awards and racking up plaudits. However what’s a statuette in comparison with sharing a hug with a lifelong hero?

Hours earlier than accepting one more win — her Virtuosos Award on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant this week — Taylor opened up about assembly Roberts on the 2026 Golden Globes purple carpet and revealed why her quick response was to… again away.

"All people is aware of that I like Julia Roberts. I'm obsessed along with her," Taylor informed PEOPLE earlier than the competition. "They introduced her over, and I appeared, and I began backing up, and my eyes was watering, and she or he was coming nearer."

Overwhelmed at coming face-to-face with Roberts, Taylor stated her first intuition was to say to her, "Don't come an inch nearer."

"And he or she was coming nearer," the actress continued, "after which I simply dived into her arms and it was simply so superb."

She added that they grew to become "instantaneous besties."

Images of the pair on the gala present them embracing on the purple carpet like previous pals. Taylor additionally identified that later within the night time, when she gained the Golden Globe for Greatest Supporting Actress, they shared one other candy second.

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"She was standing up after I gained and I simply dived into her arms once more, and it was simply so superb," the actress gushed. "So yeah, she's my bestie in my head, even when she don't realize it."

Roberts isn't the one new addition to Taylor's rising lineup of buddies. She additionally retains crossing paths with Frankenstein stars Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac.

"These are my boys," she informed PEOPLE. "I really feel like each single time we run into one another at an occasion, we simply at all times chopping up. And I adore it. However I've made so many pals."

Nonetheless, who might high Roberts? Taylor has been effusive concerning the Fairly Lady star for weeks, having additionally unpacked their candy Golden Globes moments throughout her January look on The Tonight Show. That dialog noticed Taylor addressing a viral video of the pair assembly by which Roberts embraces her whereas additionally joking about her "teeny tiny" waist. At one level, Roberts quips that Taylor must "eat a sandwich."

The remark triggered some social media customers to criticize Roberts as "insensitive," however Taylor has assured everybody that it was all in good enjoyable.

"I've seen individuals attempting to get on her about that," Taylor informed host Jimmy Fallon. "I used to be like, 'Maintain on.' She informed me I wanted a sandwich as a result of she couldn't discover my waist… It was so cute."

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Taylor's journey on the awards path will proceed via March. Alongside along with her Oscar nomination, the actress' efficiency as Perfidia Beverly Hills in One Battle After One other has earned her nods on the upcoming BAFTAs and 2026 Actor Awards.

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There are numerous methods Survivor gamers sharpen their sport for a return journey to the island. Some might return and rewatch how they beforehand performed to determine what they’ll do higher the second (or third… or fourth… or fifth) time round. Others might examine sport tape on the competitors to arrange scouting reviews on their future tribe mates. However for Jonathan Younger, he studied on the ft of an authorized legend.

The fourth-finisher of Survivor 42 enlisted the assistance of his buddy Boston Rob Mariano, peppering the All-Stars finalist and Redemption Island winner with questions concerning the sport, so many questions, the truth is, that the truth TV icon was relieved when his pupil lastly left for Fiji for his return go to.

Learn on to seek out out what classes Boston Rob taught the 33-year-old Jonathan for Survivor 50 (which premieres Feb 25 on CBS).

(That is one among 24 deep-dive, on-location interviews with the Survivor 50 forged. Hyperlinks to the opposite interviews shall be posted on the backside of this text as they develop into accessible.)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Begin off by giving all people an replace on what you've been as much as because you final performed Survivor.

JONATHAN YOUNG: After Survivor, I went house, and I used to be actually humbled being out right here, being stripped from all the pieces. It made me really feel very blessed to have what I’ve again house. I met Boston Rob when my present was airing, and the previous few years he has develop into a superb buddy of mine and he has helped me prepare for this upcoming season 50.

How so?

I've been speaking, I carry it up on a regular basis. He stated his ears can lastly cease bleeding. I speak to him about it on a regular basis. I wish to choose his mind, sit on the ft at one of many legends.

Why come again and do that once more? Inform me why you're right here.

It's not that I’ve unfinished enterprise. I feel I left the sport properly final time. I like the sport of Survivor. I feel it's one of many final strongholds of true actuality TV. You're actually ravenous. You actually come to Fiji. You actually reside on an island with nothing. You're stripped naked. I don't assume different actuality TV reveals are like that. I had a possibility to go and be a gladiator on American Gladiator, however I might a lot fairly do that.

It's been a number of years. Have you ever modified as an individual since then? And, if that’s the case, is that going to affect the way you play this sport?

Yeah, I've modified. All people's continually altering the older they get, however I've began a nonprofit and we go right down to Nicaragua. We're going to Honduras this yr to construct homes for the poor.

As for the sport, I feel that I'm going to play related however not the identical. Mr. Rob gave me a number of issues to recollect once I'm taking part in this sport, and it's a bit totally different than how I performed final time. Primary is to have a look at the sport and attempt to see the sport via your opponent's eyes. Quantity two is to smile. And quantity three is you’ll be able to solely management what you’ll be able to management. Don't fear about the remainder. Like if there's a tribe swap, there's nothing you are able to do about it. All you are able to do is what's in your energy to do your greatest, and I feel that's good recommendation. You may get overwhelmed on this sport.

Another recommendation he gave you?

It's been years of recommendation. I've been watching how he performs all these different actuality TV reveals and speaking to him about why he does what he does. However I've come to the conclusion that I can't be Mr. Rob. I’ve to play as Jonathan, and I wish to take stuff from all of the those who I do know. I wish to take a bit bit from my principal man, Mike [Turner], I wish to take one thing from Mr. Rob, take stuff from those who I've seen prior to now, like Ozzy — all these those who I’ve admiration for.

Something you remorse on a private stage from the final time you performed?

The one factor that I cherished about Survivor is that I didn't have any regrets. All different facets of my life, there's many regrets — many. However in Survivor, I felt like I performed the perfect that I may.

That's wonderful to haven’t any regrets popping out of this. Why do you assume that’s?

As a result of I did all the pieces I may do, and I imagine that, and it's one of many solely issues in my life. Even once I broke the world file [for most chin-ups], I stated, “Man, I may do extra.” That's in me. However there was one thing about Survivor the place I even advised Mr. Jeff, I fought the nice combat. I believed that.

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You are feeling such as you left all of it on the island?

I know I left all of it on the island, and I plan on doing it much more now as a result of I'm extra ready.

In what approach?

Properly, having Mr. Rob for 3 years in my ear serving to me — his phrases of knowledge are going to be buzzing behind my head. And I'm extra ready bodily. I do know what to anticipate. I've obtained gamers which have performed and have executed so good that I can level fingers at them and maintain the eye off of me. Final time, I didn't have that privilege.

Now I’ve 23 legends. There are winners, and those who had been internet hosting On Fire with Jeff Probst, those who have performed 4 occasions. You’ve all these greats. You bought Ozzy, who's a bodily beast. He appears to be like good, by the way in which. Ozzy appears to be like good for being 40-whatever he’s. And I feel that's a very good factor for me to have on this sport. I feel I’ve many individuals to level at and say, don't take a look at me.

Who wins at a swim off: you or Ozzy?

Me, for sure.

Look, you’re a man who wants lots of gasoline and energy, and I do know you would really feel your physique struggling final time with out that protein you're used to. How do you propose to cope with that this time on the market?

I'm a bit extra ready for it. I didn't know what to anticipate. You may eat a bit otherwise going into the sport, and I simply shoveled all the pieces in. However you’ll be able to progressively type of wean off and I didn't try this. I simply went chilly turkey, didn't eat something. And after day 20, I used to be cooked.

So inform me how you probably did it this time.

So even now, what I'm doing is, I'm going to ease off a bit bit. Go off the meals a bit bit, then go off a bit extra. Ultimately your physique has to get used to it in sure phases. It's like whenever you minimize off caffeine, you don't have to simply utterly minimize it off. In the event you're having 4 cups a day, you are able to do, “Properly, let's strive two right now. Let's strive two yet another day, then we'll do one after which we'll do half a cup of espresso.” After which finally you're off of it. There's a technique to the insanity of Survivor.

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How do you assume the opposite contestants see you as a participant? In the event that they're sitting right here speaking to me and I say, “What's your tackle Jonathan?” What are they going to say?

In season 42, they didn't present my strategic sport, and that's nice for me. They're going to see me as a bodily menace, however hopefully that's all. I hope everybody simply sees that a part of me as a result of if we're simply going primarily based off that, final thing we noticed was Joe. That was every week in the past. We simply noticed Joe and we noticed Kyle win and we noticed Kamilla getting forth and so they all made it to the top. So I imagine they view me as a bodily menace and any individual that's dependable. I feel that's going to assist me.

What do you assume your largest weak point is, for those who're self-evaluating? What's the factor you might want to work on probably the most to win the sport this time round?

I feel my weak point final time was that I didn't look via the opponent's lens. I didn't see issues via their eyes. And this time I'm going to. It type of goes again to primal, as a result of I’m an enormous man. And once I converse, I’ve to pay attention to that and the way in which that I’ve a deep voice that all the pieces comes off a sure solution to sure individuals. I feel Miss Stephenie can deal with it greater than a few of the new-era gamers. I is usually a little extra simple with Miss Stephenie, however I can't with the brand new college. I’ve obtained to tip toe round [them].

How a lot pre-gaming did you do with the opposite gamers earlier than you got here out right here?

Truthfully, not an entire lot. I type of maintain to myself. I feel that it's going to assist me drastically in that I don't have anyone on my season.

Why do you assume that helps you?

Properly, most all people has any individual, proper? So that each one routinely makes me totally different in a great way. That signifies that I haven't labored with anybody else and I'm a free agent. All people else goes to have that individual. Let's take Q. Q had Tiffany and so they had been shut. That's routinely in individuals's heads, I promise.

And you’ve got 4 individuals from Heroes vs. Villains, and I'm fairly positive old-school gamers are going to wish to stick collectively. New college, I don't know a lot. I feel they're so up and down that I don't know in the event that they're going to work collectively. I feel the truth that there are winners and all of those several types of gamers which have executed so properly is absolutely going to maintain the goal off me.

Who do you wish to work with?

I'd wish to work with Miss Stephenie, as a result of she appears to be sincere and actual, and when she performed, she appeared reliable. Identical with Colby and Ozzy. Ozzy's fairly dependable. The very last thing I noticed at the very least. And I feel it'd be good to play with Joe on the new-era aspect of issues. After which Q for a short while, as a result of Q scares me.

Why does he scare you?

Q scares me with how he performed the sport. It was very up and down. It wasn't straight and slender and “These are my individuals. That is who I'm going to work with.” It continually fluctuated. However I feel for the primary short while I can work with them.

Who’re you most cautious of on this forged?

Properly, I'm not a Swiftie, and I feel that Charlie goes to be laborious to narrate to. I can't relate to Charlie as a lot as I can different gamers. We're very totally different.

Anybody else?

I'm scared to work with Cirie as a result of she's so good and for those who get too near her, she will be able to suck you in. It's like hypnotism, as a result of she's that good on the sport. It's Mama Cirie!

How do you deal with these two season 49 gamers that nothing about?

Good query. The satan is best than the satan you don't. I've heard that endlessly since I used to be a bit child, and once I noticed them, I knew precisely what it meant as a result of it's very eerie to be round two gamers that had been ok to come back again for season 50, and for us to know nothing about them, that's very eerie.

I feel everybody feels that vibe from them as a result of we don’t know. They may deceive us. They may say, “Oh, I used to be fifth out.” They may say something! However they had been ok to be right here, so we all know one thing's up. Truthfully, it could possibly be one other winner for all we all know.

Are you prepared to hold your whole tribe via the water once more?

Oh, born prepared. I hope they offer me a ladder this season and all people jumps on it.

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• Angelina Keeley refused to do Survivor 50 unless they gave her a jacket
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• Genevieve Mushaluk on why watching Survivor 50 will be more terrifying than playing it
• Dee Valladares welcomes being one of Survivor 50's biggest threats: 'I want them to come for me'
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• Kamilla Karthigesu feared she would be cut from Survivor 50 for pregaming
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• Stellan Skarsgård remembers his Good Will Searching costar Robin Williams being "calm," "good," and "beautiful."
• Nonetheless, he says Williams would usually shift into one other gear "when a pair extra folks got here to him," including, "He needed to be humorous to outlive."
• Skarsgård additionally remembers Williams needing to ship a joke as quickly because it got here to him: "He needed to produce it and get it out of the physique. He couldn't reside with it inside."

Stellan Skarsgård is reflecting on his time with Robin Williams on the set of Good Will Hunting.

The Oscar-nominated Sentimental Worth actor shared his recollections of working with Williams at a Q&A following a screening of the 1997 drama in Los Angeles on Friday evening.

"As an individual, whenever you had been alone with him, he was calm and he was good, and he was beautiful, and he may discuss something," Skarsgård stated of his late costar.

Nonetheless, he added, Williams appeared to shift into a unique gear when a number of folks confirmed up. "However then when a pair extra folks got here to him, he immediately would stand up — to avoid wasting himself, in a manner," Skarsgård recalled. "And I feel it's a factor he had from college. He needed to be humorous to outlive."

Gus Van Sant, who directed Good Will Searching and moderated the screening occasion, remembered how Williams requested to carry out extra takes for almost each scene. "Robin was the one which was like, 'Yet another, yet another, yet another,'" the filmmaker stated. "So we did 10 [takes] typically versus perhaps three, as a result of he needed to do a quick one, a gradual one, a cheerful one, a tragic one, a humorous one, a not-funny one."

Skarsgård added that he appreciated the breadth and thoroughness of Williams' work on the Oscar-winning film. "It was unbelievable as a result of, as you stated, he needed to do new takes," the Dune star. "And he additionally had a factor that was type of a necessity for him as a result of… he'd get an concept a couple of joke, as an illustration, and he needed to produce it and get it out of the physique. He couldn't reside with it inside. And I felt on a regular basis that he had three parallel brains working, and really quick!"

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The Breaking the Waves actor stated Williams' sturdy efficiency model challenged him and the remainder of his costars. "The great factor was that he did completely different takes and so they had been actually completely different," he defined. "Some had been very darkish, and a few had been very humorous. And all the opposite actors, we had been hanging in there. We had been enjoying completely different sorts of scenes with him."

Skarsgård additionally marveled at Van Sant and the Good Will Searching editors' skill to include Williams' footage into the movie and obtain the suitable tonal stability. "The fabric you bought [from Robin] could be very attention-grabbing, since you may have reduce that position into turning into a really farcical position, or you could possibly have reduce it into turning into actually depressive," he stated to Van Sant on the screening. "And also you discovered your manner."

Within the movie, Skarsgård portrays Gerald Lambeau, the MIT professor who shepherds the sensible Will Searching (Matt Damon) as he explores complicated arithmetic. Gerald enlists his former faculty roommate, Sean Maguire (Williams), to function Will's therapist, and the 2 mates butt heads about the best way to finest mentor the younger genius.

Regardless of his character's tutorial accomplishments, Skarsgård revealed that he had by no means handled superior math, and that he "didn't attempt to" comprehend the extra difficult topics with which Gerald grappled. "I didn’t perceive it," he stated. "It was far above my math data."

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The film employed real-life mathematician John Mighton to teach Skarsgård via the jargon, and Mighton ended up enjoying Gerald's assistant, Tom. "We had an excellent math professor that taught us and that helped us," the actor stated of Mighton.

"You needed to have him round on a regular basis, so he was normally busy," Van Sant added.

"Yeah, he type of prompted me," Skarsgård stated. "Should you had been explaining one thing, the one factor it’s important to know is that it's expressed the best manner… You don't have to essentially perceive it."

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Jaden Smith doesn't need to discuss Ye… or footwear… or one thing.

The Karate Child star abruptly walked away from a crimson carpet interview on Wednesday simply seconds after a reporter talked about the artist previously often called Kanye West.

Complicated journalist Jillian Hardeman-Webb invoked Ye whereas contextualizing Smith's collaborator Steven Smith, who beforehand collaborated with the "Gold Digger" rapper on his Yeezy footwear line.

"I see that you simply're working with Steven Smith, who designed Yeezy footwear with Ye," she stated on the crimson carpet for Druski's screening of Coulda Been Love season 2. "What are y'all cooking up?"

Lower than a second after Hardeman-Webb completed her query, the musician walked off, exiting the interview with out saying a phrase.

After a number of seconds handed, Hardeman-Webb turned to the digicam and responded, "I suppose we'll by no means discover out."

Leisure Weekly has reached out to representatives for Jaden Smith and a consultant for Ye for remark.

Smith has a tumultuous historical past with Ye. He has incessantly cited the Yeezy mogul as a major affect for his personal musical profession, and made headlines when he sported a Batman costume to the "All the Lights" rapper's 2013 marriage ceremony to Kim Kardashian.

"I wore the Batman swimsuit to intensify my expertise on the marriage ceremony and promenade, which was enjoyable, but additionally on the marriage ceremony I felt as if I wanted to guard everybody there and wanted to have the right gear to take action," Smith told GQ in 2015.

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Nonetheless, in 2018, Smith stated he not hangs out along with his musical idols like Ye, Donald Glover, and Drake. "I at all times felt like Little Homie earlier than and that allowed me in all of their circles," he told Complex. "However now that I'm on the charts subsequent to them, I'm not likely Little Homie anymore."

The next yr, Smith was solid to play a younger model of Ye in Omniverse, a Showtime anthology sequence about an alternate-universe model of the "I Am a God" rapper that the 2 musicians have been set to executive-produce collectively. The undertaking by no means got here to fruition.

In 2022, Smith attended Yeezy's present at Paris Trend Week, however he left the occasion after Ye walked out in a shirt bearing the slogan "White Lives Matter." In a sequence of since-deleted X posts, Smith defined that he "needed to dip."

"I can't stand behind what Kanye's saying. He doesn’t have the total help of the youth," he wrote on the time, The Unbiased reported.

In posts that stay on-line, Smith added, "Black Lives Matter" and, "I don't care who's it’s, if I don't really feel the message I'm out."

Smith was named inventive director of Christian Louboutin in September. He additionally lately launched a nonprofit group referred to as I Love You that’s devoted to offering free meals and clothes to homeless folks within the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Ye lately issued an apology for his repeated antisemitic feedback over the previous few years, citing his bipolar dysfunction as one of many causes for his erratic conduct.

"I stated and did issues I deeply remorse," he wrote in a longwinded advert revealed in The Wall Avenue Journal in January. "A few of the folks I really like probably the most, I handled the worst. You endured worry, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of attempting to have somebody who was, at occasions, unrecognizable. Wanting again, I grew to become indifferent from my true self."

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The Love Boat star Ted Lange has some fond recollections of the time Gene Kelly guested on the present — though he was warned to not go close to the Hollywood legend in any respect.

Lange — who performed bartender Isaac Washington on the cruise ship-set romantic comedy collection from 1977 to 1986 — mentioned he had a shocking first encounter with Kelly after they filmed a 1984 episode of the collection collectively, he informed Still Here Hollywood podcast host Steve Kmetko in a reposted clip (beneath).

"[The producers said], 'Don't speak to Gene. He's a grumpy man, so simply depart him alone. Whenever you do your scenes, positive, however don't speak to Gene,'" Lange recalled. "All of us mentioned, 'Okay, yeah, positive.'"

Within the episode, Kelly performed a retired spy, and in between their scenes collectively, Lange determined to not heed the warning.

"He was studying {a magazine}," Lange mentioned. "He wore contacts and glasses. So he's sitting there, and he's studying, and I mentioned, 'Screw this, I'm gonna go speak to Gene Kelly.' So I am going, he's sitting in a single chair, I sit throughout from him, I am going, 'Hello.'"

At this, Lange mentioned Kelly appeared up at him, however fairly rapidly went again to his journal. However, Lange persevered.

"I mentioned, 'Can I ask you a query?' You possibly can see him go, 'What?' I mentioned, 'What was it like dancing with the Nicholas brothers?' Now, to your viewers that don't know who they’re, they're two Black faucet dancers out of the Cotton Membership again [in the] Harlem Renaissance," Lange mentioned, referring to Fayard and Harold Nicholas. "And Gene put them in his motion pictures. Oh my god, they have been unimaginable dancers."

"So he [went] like this," Lange mentioned, decreasing his glasses to imitate Kelly's actions. "'You wish to know in regards to the Nicholas brothers?' And I mentioned, 'Yeah.' So he informed me this excellent story in regards to the Nicholas brothers. After which, they name us on the set, we go on the set, we do a scene collectively. Then we're finished, and we return to the bus. He says, 'Hey, you wish to have a drink with me on the lodge?'"

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Lange was thrilled by this, and he mentioned, "After we completed our day's work, I attached with him, sat down within the lodge, and he was fantastic — it was completely completely different."

Ultimately, he mentioned he considers Kelly to be considered one of his favourite visitor stars on the present, which famously employed many company over time — everybody from Hollywood legends (suppose Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland, and Joan Fontaine) to up-and-coming expertise (together with Tom Hanks, Kathy Bates, Jamie Lee Curtis, Heather Locklear, and Billy Crystal).

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• The Simpsons showrunner Matt Selman mentioned the present will "by no means" have a real sequence finale.
• Nevertheless, the animated sitcom did air a faux sequence finale in season 36: "That was kind of my method of claiming we're by no means going to do a sequence finale."
• Selman mentioned if the sequence ever ends, he hopes the final episode will "simply be an everyday episode that has the household in it."

Don't anticipate The Simpsons to exit with a bang.

Matt Selman, a showrunner for the long-running animated sitcom, has no plans to finish it because it airs its thirty seventh season.

"We did an episode a few 12 months and a half in the past that was like a parody of the sequence finale," Selman mentioned in a brand new interview with The Wrap. "We jammed each doable sequence finale idea into one present, in order that was kind of my method of claiming we're by no means going to do a sequence finale."

He continued, "We did a sequence finale in the course of the present that made enjoyable of all of the concepts of wrapping every thing up or ending."

That episode was the season 36 premiere, titled "Bart's Birthday." Hosted by Conan O'Brien, who served as a author on the present earlier than changing into a chat present host, it featured an AI service referred to as HackGPT that generated a ridiculous finale for The Simpsons.

Selman and his crew crammed a lot of preposterous concepts — every of which might have hypothetically served as a sequence finale — into the episode, together with Mr. Burns dying, Moe's Tavern closing, Krusty ending his present, Milhouse transferring to Atlanta, Principal Skinner retiring, and Maggie lastly talking.

"The present isn't meant to finish,” Selman advised The New York Put up across the time the episode aired. "To do a sappy crappo sequence finale, like most different exhibits do, can be so lame. So we simply did one which was, like, excessive."

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Selman mentioned if The Simpsons does someday attain its conclusion, he doesn't need the ultimate episode to have any additional sentimentality. "If the present ever did finish, there's no finale — it might simply be an everyday episode that has the household in it. Most likely just a little Easter egg right here and there, however no 'I'm going to overlook this place,'" he advised The Wrap. "The present isn't supposed to vary. The characters reset each week. It's like Groundhog Day, however they don't realize it — they usually don't die that a lot."

The showrunner just lately talked to Leisure Weekly about his philosophy of not sustaining a constant canon with the present.

"I’m not apprehensive about messing with the timeline," he mentioned final October. "I really feel like story and character ought to come first, and the cinematic universe guidelines of a present that has none ought to are available a distant second. It's only a foolish little present! So I prefer it all. Every part occurred and didn't occur with the identical stage of historic veracity."

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The Simpsons is about to air its 800th episode on Fox. To rejoice the event, the present will welcome a lot of outstanding visitor stars, together with Quinta Brunson, Kevin Bacon, Questlove, and The Pitt's Noah Wyle, Katherine LaNasa, and Taylor Dearden. Boyz II Males will present particular music. The episode is titled "Irrational Treasure" and revolves round a visit to Philadelphia.

The Simpsons airs on Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox. The 800th episode of the sequence premieres Feb. 15.

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