And then it just got very … I don’t know how to describe it … It’s like it turned into a kind of Baskin-Robbins commercial. It ended up being a feature, going to festivals, highly praised. I wasn’t in control of the situation. Oh! How were you able to say “no” and break free?Oh, by literally extricating myself physically and mentally from that individual. When you were a kid, you said you didn’t feel like you were beautiful, but I think people consider you beautiful. That’s what the movie was born out of. I would talk about it a lot in the press, as you know. But it had Nicole [Kidman] in it as well and Naomi Watts. I’m not doing it when I’m alive. That just didn’t feel good. Log in or link your magazine subscription, The one story you shouldn't miss today, selected by, This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. And that’s not to say … I did my best. There was a moment I remember, being taken away from the car, and I had to turn around and look at him. And there I was: Westworld Garbage Disposal. Didn’t find any. I certainly didn’t know him well. Sure,” she said to InStyle in a 2011 interview. Her children were his father-in-law’s grandchildren, right? That was in the second season. It was supposed to be such a major movie, an Oscar contender.We were on the floor. “While I take her words seriously, I have no recollection of the events she describes, nor do any of her representatives who were present at that casting session,” she said, adding, “I’ve long considered Thandie a friend; I’m thankful that I’ve had the chance to make movies with her; and I hope to work with her again in the future.”, In 2015, Pascal, the former head of Sony Pictures, was fired after the Sony email hack revealed numerous embarrassing emails, including exchanges with fellow mega-producer Scott Rudin where they speculated on Barack Obama’s movie taste, wondering if he preferred those starring Black people, like. And it was the most unhelpful … I can’t think of anything less revealing. Thandie Newton has revealed that she was groomed by an older film director when she was 16 and starting her career. It doesn’t have as much to do with the business as you might think. There was just this spate of stuff online. Matt Berry Ushers in Cool-Middle-Aged Man Summer With a New Single. They’re all fucking related. Her dad was Jefferson’s father-in-law. I was loving it, but also willing its end because it was that demanding. But it’s not good enough. Certainly not now. I ended up in the fetal position, weeping, sobbing. Then the head of the studio — I had a meeting with her, and she said, “Look, I don’t mean to be politically incorrect, but the character as written and you playing the role, I just feel like we’ve got to make sure that it’s believable.” I was like, “What do you mean? I need to get fully rid of myself now. You wouldn’t need to play me and I play you on that balcony. People sometimes bring up how it’s an “underrated gem.”I think it’s lovely. You can tell whoever the fuck you want, and they’ll call it an affair. Doing something with all the best intentions and then feeling frustrated. And he gets so frustrated with having to try and explain that he goes, “Let me just — let’s just go do it. And it was really great. Anyway, when it came to editing and showing, he showed a few people, and it became clear that this movie was going to be more than a TV movie. For years. He tries superhard to be a nice person. “I gotta say, I didn’t do any neck training, and I regretted it.”. “We got to press on, haven’t we, my love?”. But listen to this: On the side of the garbage-disposal tanks, it says WESTWORLD GARBAGE DISPOSAL. I was Beloved to all of them. And I’d come off 12 months of pretty intense work with Westworld. I was like, “It just doesn’t make any sense to take it off.” He goes, “Listen, kid. And, like, this was supposed to be someone that loved you. It was just, “His hand goes up her skirt,” and that’s it. I was the lead in this new TV show. Sure,” she. Nicole was a huge advocate for me. And apparently, she said, they had 20 meetings to decide whether she should be on the cover. And I did as best as I could. I had put two years of hard work into that show. He wasn’t horrible. How do you think about that now with the years gone by?I love James Ivory. I would push for the film to be more about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. I felt a bit like that with W., I must say. Simon & Schuster Won’t Distribute Book by Cop Involved in Breonna Taylor Killing, Hank Azaria Elects Richard Kind the Mayor of Hollywood. English actor Thandie Newton says she turned down a role in 2000 hit Charlie's Angels because of allegedly disturbing behaviour of the film's top executives. And the number of times I would put on a fake tan or take it down or up —. Yes. That’s why I don’t particularly like talking about the individual, because it makes that person more special. Oh, and then I did another movie that his sister wrote. “So careful what you do, everybody,” she says. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Do you know that Sally Hemings was Jefferson’s wife’s half-sister? It’s beautiful. It was certainly not from Paul Haggis’s point of view. You’re going to put that label on these guys for one joke? Like what?Like a book with the greatest hits of Scientology, a bit like a Bible kind of thing. https://nymag.com/article/2020/07/a-new-york-minute-with-alex-jung.html She’s following other people’s leads, by and large. Nicole Kidman. And not just that, personally, as in a relationship, but also you’ve helped make his career. Based on the novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Oprah Winfrey became one of the first Black celebrities to grace the cover of American. In an interview with W Magazine, Thandie Newton revisited a troubling story in which she was taken advantage of as a young actress during an audition. It was out of survival. It would be so much easier if the film was shit. We chatted it up with the comedian on Instagram Live today. Because I remember when we first did it, the background to Eddie writing the script was that he found himself watching these online home movies where really large women, African-American women, would beat up their tiny husbands. She also had a prolific stage career, appearing in over 25 productions since 1990. You give that up. I thought she was saying the worst thing she could imagine because she was trying to make a point to her husband. I’m looking for help. Nothing like it. Or, you look at Lupita [Nyong’o]. It’s interesting how you two were positioned by the industry.She’s so cool, man. What is the issue?” And Oprah, her response was, “Thandie, these things take time.”. Until people start taking this seriously, I can’t fully heal. We didn’t have much money, but when I got home, she had bought me this beautiful figurine of two dancers. Part of why it’s complicated to me is that, not to gas you up too much, but you are really good in the movie.I’m quite good. He called it the worst movie of the decade.I assumed because it’s Ta-Nehisi Coates that [his piece] would be pithy and interesting, but it was pretty ineffectual. It is weird because I think the movie does have this very deep white liberalism it’s trying to protect. “A director, on a callback, had a camera shooting up my skirt and asked me to touch my tits and think about the guy making love to me in the scene,” she told W. “I thought, ‘Ok, this is a little weird,’ but there was a female casting director in the room and I’d done weird stuff before so I did it.”. And I remember being on a panel in Cannes with Bernardo and the producers. 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