Once again asking for John C. Reilly. I remember some interviews from the last few years where he essentially says his phone stopped ringing and he stopped getting offers, until “Winning Time.”
So I’m wondering, is he an asshole? Did studios forget he’s a gifted dramatic actor as well as comedic?
No tea but I just have to share that I constantly mix him up with John C. Lilly, a guy who created sensory deprivation tanks and spent years training dolphins to speak English until they got shut down because the dolphins couldn’t talk and the trainers kept hooking up with them
Dolphins are rapey and one woman on the project would let the dolphin do its thing because they projected their own emotions onto the dolphins and believed they had communicated a consensual relationship.
Basically some lady walked in and was like “let me help with the dolphins” started letting one bone her and refused to elaborate and left.
> Basically some lady walked in and was like “let me help with the dolphins” started letting one bone her and refused to elaborate and left.
This is by far the most unhinged thing I've ever read on this sub hahaha what the FUCK
The worst part is it’s not even a slight exaggeration
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me
>”Why did you come here?” he asked Lovatt. Well, I heard you had dolphins,” she replied, “and I thought I’d come and see if there was anything I could do or any way I could help…” Unused to unannounced visitors and impressed by her bravado, Bateson invited her to meet the animals and asked her to watch them for a while and write down what she saw. Despite her lack of scientific training, Lovatt turned out to be an intuitive observer of animal behaviour and Bateson told her she could come back whenever she wanted.”
> Peter [the dolphin] liked to be with me,” explains Lovatt. “He would rub himself on my knee, or my foot, or my hand. And at first I would put him downstairs with the girls,” she says. But transporting Peter downstairs proved so disruptive to the lessons that, faced with his frequent arousals, it just seemed easier for Lovatt to relieve his urges herself manually.
“I allowed that,” she says. “I wasn’t uncomfortable with it, as long as it wasn’t rough. It would just become part of what was going on, like an itch – just get rid of it, scratch it and move on. And that’s how it seemed to work out. It wasn’t private. People could observe it.”
For Lovatt it was a precious thing, which was always carried out with great respect. “Peter was right there and he knew that I was right there,” she continues. “It wasn’t sexual on my part. Sensuous perhaps. It seemed to me that it made the bond closer. Not because of the sexual activity, but because of the lack of having to keep breaking. And that’s really all it was. I was there to get to know Peter. That was part of Peter.” Innocent as they were, Lovatt’s sexual encounters with Peter would ultimately overshadow the whole experiment when a story about them appeared in Hustler magazine in the late 1970s.
I suggest reading the whole article it’s absolutely wild
Carl Sagan makes a guest appearance too
Yeah. One of the dolphins was a young male that was essentially going through his horny teenage phase and one of the English trainers would manually stimulate the dolphin. The experiment eventually lost funding because dolphins can’t speak English or respond to LSD, so he got moved to a new facility, hated it, and drowned himself.
Yep - it was BAD too. Like, dividing possessions and custody of projects BAD.
JCR was collateral damage in it - he's friends with both guys, and tried to walk the line by doing projects for both, but ended up ultimately sticking with Adam in the hopes of maybe still having a career; WF holds grudges though, so it may be a while before we see them paired up again. Until then, enjoy watching the last project that involved the three of them (\*checking notes\*) - HOLMES & WATSON.
Apparently he didn’t… WALK HARD.
Sorry sorry, this honestly makes me so sad. Friendship breakups are shitty, and there’s never a right way to navigate.
In a word: Money.
In more than one word: Money, creative control, creative freedom, and personal & professional jealousy.
The cover story for the dissolve was that McKay cast JCR in "Winning Time" as Jerry Buss without letting Ferrell know, but the roots of that conflict were laid down long before that. Ferrell's wife, Vivica Paulin, was taking a larger role in Gary Sanchez Productions, and Ferrell wanted to focus on more women-helmed and starring projects than McKay seemed to be comfortable doing. There was also the fact that Ferrell wanted McKay's shares of GSP diluted to incorporate Paulin into ownership - which was right around the time when Ferrell was making an ownership bid for LAFC in Major League Soccer (he ended up with a minority owner stake) and needed a lot of cash upfront - putting a squeeze on some of GSP's productions \[Note: there was also some chatter at the time about WF trying to join the ownership group of the LA Kings and the LA Clippers, but that came to naught\]. When GSP was effectively dissolved, Ferrell & Paulin reorganized it as Loretta Sanchez Productions, and McKay opened up his own company.
I know a guy who knows a guy who worked on some stuff he was in and said he’s a big asshole 💔 Like just kind of a jerk with a big ego. Bummer because I find him SO funny.
He used to come into the lumber yard I used work at frequently. I think he lived nearby (LA-area) and must have been doing some kind of home renovation. He was always very kind and gracious and took photos with people if they asked.
His mom was in my grandmas bowling league and he would stop by sometimes and apparently was delightful. My grandma is the sweetest but def an oversharer/talker and he would apparently just let her go! Hahah had no airs of fame about him.
Not really tea but my sister was a dancer for a big sports team (🏀). She met Meryl and told me how nice she was and how friendly. Apparently she was asked to take a photo with all of the dancers and was self deprecating about herself along the lines of “how do you expect me to take a photo with all of these beautiful girls?” My sister also doesn’t come from entertainment so she assumed back then (in her young age) that all actors, writers, etc know each other so she asked if she knew me (honestly hilarious and endearing) and Meryl was so super kind about it.
This was relayed to me through my sister, I wasn’t there, but I’m inclined to believe it.
I have met Martin though and he is the kindest most friendly person on the planet. If they are dating or even if they’re just close friends I really hope they’re happy because I can’t see them not being it.
I have very old (45+ years) tea on Meryl Streep.
My mother-in-law was a somewhat successful theater actress in NYC who wanted to break into movies right around the same time Meryl was an up-and-coming theater actress who wanted to break into movies, so around 1978.
Meryl had recently gotten her MFA from Yale and started dating John Cazele, who played Fredo Corleone in The Godfather. He died of lung cancer a few years after they began dating, with Meryl staying with him until the end.
At the time, according to my mother-in-law, there were a lot of rumors that Meryl was using John to break into Hollywood, "taking advantage of a dying man," etc. Silly, petty, jealous rumors of an incredibly talented young actress going through a fairly heartbreaking situation.
that’s such a sad rumor, she really loved him. he and Al Pacino were close and Pacino has said a few times that she was so devoted to John, and then a few years back someone met her while wearing a shirt with Cazele’s face on it and she was like “there’s my guy”
She really loved him. The doc on Cazale with her and Pacino in it and her biography really delve into that love story. I'm most charmed by the fact that they fell in love doing a Shakespeare play (where she played a nun), and then heartbroken by the story of how she pounded on his chest after he died because of how distraught she was, and he returned for a bit to tell her it was alright before finally passing.
Meryl is pretty chill in my limited experience. I saw her in K-Mart once on Christmas Eve about a decade ago (this was in the Berkshires, there are limited shipping options) and my husband used to see her in McDonalds there when he was a teenager.
It might have been for her kids, who were children in that era (mid-late 90s). Even the children of the stars enjoy a good happy meal from time to time.
i’ve never been a fan of meryl as an actor (i always just see meryl streep acting, especially in recent years) but i always liked her as a person until i discovered she was big defender of roman polanski.
she gave him a standing ovation when he won an oscar/golden globe? she was asked in an interview about him leaving the country or whatever she said she felt sorry for him
My university room mate went to summer camp with one of the daughters and was invited to a party at Meryl’s. She said Meryl said “have you met Bob?” And she turned about and Robert DeNiro was standing there ! She also got to hold Meryl’s Oscar’s.
I’ve seen some talk on Twitter about her youngest going public with her girlfriend or I guess who Twitter thinks is her girlfriend. All of the talk seems to have stemmed from this insta post and the fact that she’s going been posting her pretty consistently since then
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4NwEG_OXNb/?igsh=MXJ4ZnNzYms1Y2U5dQ==
Amanda Palmer? Specifically any updates on the divorce, like what happened to finally make them split, if she’s seeing anyone else etc. I don’t follow anything she does because I extremely don’t like her (met her a few times in social settings and YIKES) and yet am still nosy/fascinated.
She’s dating an old boyfriend and still posting passive aggressive digs at Neil on her social media talking about how the divorce ruined her life. She’s renting a house near Woodstock so their son can be close to Neil and go to school, but recently took him back to New Zealand for a visit and some shows to promote her new EP.
It’s been pretty much confirmed from both sides that they finally split because when it became apparent that the world was locking down, Neil wanted to either go back to Woodstock to the house they had been living in for years or the UK (his legal primary residence), and she dug her heels in and insisted on staying in New Zealand where they had no network and no permanent place to stay (they were just there because of her tour). He caved in March and rented them a longer term AirBNB, but NZ is on an opposite time zone from the UK and US, and he was actively working on Sandman so was in meetings in the middle of the night. He left NZ without them in early April and flew to Skye, and she doxxed him by revealing to her followers that he had left her, prompting them to rabidly call the Scottish police to his house because they claimed that he violated COVID lockdown rules (he did not). It was very publicly embarrassing for him and I think it was just the last straw.
I loved and worked with her and Brian back in the Dolls days as a performer, but her narcissism has absolutely spun out of control. Her relationship with her fan base is so toxic and she actively uses them to dox people who criticize her (she has literally tagged people on Instagram and encouraged her fans to harass them). It makes me sad because she used to be such an amazing artist but all of her content is delusional now.
Tangential tea, but I’m highly sus of musicians running away to New Zealand. Former frequent Amanda Palmer collaborator James Euringer, fka Jimmy Urine lead singer of Mindless Self Indulgence, moved to NZ suddenly with his wife, right before a sexual assault of a minor lawsuit was filed against him in NYC. They dropped off the face of the earth after that.
EDIT: I remembered another layer. James has been a long time friend and collaborator of Serj Tankian, singer of System of a Down, who was the one that suggested that James move there in the first place. He also lives in New Zealand, part-time.
>she dug her heels in and insisted on staying in New Zealand where they had no network and no permanent place to stay (they were just there because of her tour).
I do want to point out that her reasoning was concern over taking their son back to the USA during a raging pandemic, when here in NZ things were pretty much fine. I can't fault a mother for that (even though I fault her for many other things). She was pretty homesick and miserable here.
There was also other stuff that contributed to the split that hasn't been discussed fully openly (nor should it, probably?) besides Amanda alluding to Neil lying and betraying her trust. Which has led to fans inventing all sorts of fanfiction ideas of what "definitely" happened. We don't even know Neil's version of events since he doesn't really talk about his private life like that. But I don't think it's unreasonable to think there were probably issues on both sides. Most relationships don't have a hero and a villain.
>they claimed that he violated COVID lockdown rules (he did not)
Except, he did. The rules at the time was no travel unless it was necessary and it was not necessary for him to make that trip. [He even apologised for breaking the Scottish lockdown rules](https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/05/an-extremely-apologetic-post.html)
Wow. Wow wow wow. Calling the police is some next level shit. I knew the fans were intense but didn’t realize they were cop calling/doxxing level intense.
Yeah, it was BAD. And at no point has she ever said “hey, maybe you guys should not do that,” she knows that her fans do stuff like that and uses it as a weapon. She also got in hot water a few years ago for harassing/doxxing a journalist who gave her album a lukewarm review.
Spill it! She's the WOOOOOOOORST - I have a friend who she tried to pay with Exposure Bucks on her tour about a decade ago, and she politely declined to participate (she was way more gracious and nice than she should've been). She said something along the lines of "Thanks, but free beer and hugs don't pay my rent". When Palmer's management came back with a monetary offer after getting rightfully dragged, she still declined - she could see where it was all heading, and removed herself from any further contact.
Yep, it got nasty with the performers once she went solo — and I say that as someone who performed with the Dolls for meals and hugs (I was young and having fun as a street performer and got enough tips from my act to get by). It started as a beautiful collaboration where everyone took care of each other in the punk cabaret, but unfortunately later became a touring act actively taking advantage of lesser known performers.
It makes me sad that our merry band of misfits grew a person like that.
I followed her IG during her lockdown in New Zealand, the funniest thing was she managed to ruffle feathers by claiming everyone in a cafe burst into applause for her the day Biden was inaugurated. This sent people into a tailspin because of how much it clashes with our perceived cultural identity. A journalist even did a deep dive and discovered that it was just one guy, who she was friendly with, that clapped for her. It was extremely bizarre yet generated a ton of debate - I think she learnt how far word goes in a tiny country.
Agree. I never had a bad opinion on him, nor was a massive fan. I always felt that he was very shy but logical in his thinking. But I wouldn't say he has an enflated ego, I think he is very content and confident with his fame and is doing amazing things with his influence.
I have no personal experience with him other than watching him in Try Guys videos for a decade, but he seems very focused and career-driven and I can see how that would come off as not the nicest to some people depending on the situation. He doesn’t strike me as the type to be cruel or rude on purpose tho, and I always take diva accusations against women/POC/LGBTQ people with a huuuuuge grain of salt unless it’s a specific incident. He seemed genuinely affected by how much fans were moved by his coming out video as well which I found very endearing.
I know someone who went to high school with him, and he said he was very popular, especially with girls lol. Apparently people from high school were surprised that he was not straight?
There was an early video at Buzzfeed where they hung up white t-shirts worn by each of the guys and had the female staffers do a blind smell test for pheromones.
Eugene won by a wide margin.
Aside from grooming products, personal hygiene, and other factors, as an East Asian Korean man, Eugene has the gene variant (ABCC11) which produces less sweat and less body odour.
Michael Imperioli is a mostly harmless kind of weird pretty cute well meaning hippy, also he's pro trans rights in spite of some of the more toxic members of the fanbase (who either willfully or ignorantly don't get the show at all).
If ever there was someone who is so far removed in real life from the character they played, Imperioli is IT. Chrissy Moltisanti is a loathsome individual, but Imperioli is a thoughtful Buddhist who is really into architecture and doing live theater. During the show's run, he seemed to take real pains to distance himself from the character who was onscreen (as opposed to many of his castmates, who seemed to embrace - to the point of outright mimicking- their respective character attitudes). The term that seemed to be used the most for him was "talented sweetheart" - just someone who took his craft seriously, but also was grounded as a human being (Buscemi also seemed to be above the whole "Woohoo I'm playing a mobster, look at me!" attitude).
The closest example of another actor I can think of who is entirely divorced from the characters he plays is Walton Goggins, who is also Buddhist and who regularly practices mindfulness, and is widely known as a professional who everyone enjoys working with.
I really want to see him in Enemy of the People! Also I obv love Jeremy Strong and I’ve never seen a production of the play.
I’m not surprised there’s edgelords in the fan base tho, it’s very easy to deliberately misunderstand the show.
I remember reading back in February that James G had struggles with addiction. He became less trustworthy as time went on and that edie Falco would become frustrated with his absence. It was also said that his co stars and the production team were willing to give him leeway because they knew what James brought to the show. Every Friday he would buy sushi for the entire crew and then every season finale he would buy expensive gifts for everyone. Here’s the article https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-07/how-james-gandolfinis-addictions-to-alcohol-and-drugs-caused-chaos-during-filming-of-the-sopranos.html
He was manifesting real addict behavior, with stepping over lines and then being contrite, then repeating the cycle ad nauseum. He really got into being Tony Soprano, to the point that the line was blurred quite a bit in terms of him being the Big Dog on-set.
I was an entertainment journalist in New Orleans before Katrina. When James Gandolfini was filming All the Kings Men, he was partying so hard every night even the denizens of New Orleans were getting worried about him. He was staying by Harrah's, and the producers ended up moving him to a hotel in Metairie (suburbs) to try to slow him down a bit. Didn't really work. I wasn't surprised how that ended.
Did a Sopranos binge at the end of last year and also went seeking tea! There’s a few books with behind the scenes info (that I haven’t read yet) and Jamie Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler have had two podcasts
Highly recommend watching James Gandolfini’s Inside the Actor’s Studio episode. He mentions his relationship with Lorraine Bracco as weird - or something to that effect- and I can’t find any info on what that means! I know they pranked each other but it seemed to be about more than that.
I also found many articles about a time he disappeared for a day or two and then wandered into a beauty salon and used their phone to call set and ask for a ride. Really sad and mysterious story.
Ooh! I have some!!
*back in 2010, the New York knicks tried to get LeBron James to join them by recruiting both Edie Falco and James Gandolfini to make a video as their characters from the sopranos to try and get LeBron to join their team (apparently LeBron’s favourite show is the sopranos)
* James Gandolfini once got a mysterious phone call in middle of the night from presumably, someone in the mob who talked about how good the show was before telling him that the only issue they ever had with the show was when he was shown wearing shorts because in this persons opinion/experience, ‘dons don’t wear shorts’ before hanging up.
*when JG died, HBO paid for the funeral and burial, and even filmed the funeral service, giving a dvd copy to everyone who attended 😭
I’m watching the Sopranos for the first time and one of the (I think) NY mob members just told Tony that dons don’t wear shorts at barbecues! Funny to hear that that must’ve been added in because of that phone call.
NARRATOR: He let us down
Seriously though, I've heard only good things about him personally, but his career is sort of not where he thinks it should be - he's really leaned into Horror and SciFi (which is brave of him as a marketable actor still in prime), but the projects he's been in haven't been great.
He's steadily working, and he has a lot coming up this year, but if you would've said 10 years ago Dan Stevens wasn't the biggest actor in the world, I wouldn't have believed you - when he left Downton he was on top of the world.
Dan doesn't want to be a leading man. He left Downtown for this very reason - to do different things. Have you noticed he mostly takes on weirdo roles? That's because he wants them! That's what he likes to do.
Lee Pace.
He & his husband unfollowed each other? Doesn't always mean anything & their photos are still up but they're usually really supportive of each other on ig.
I follow Bryan Fuller. He made a post about Pushing Daisies last week and Lee’s husband commented. Some fan went off about how he has nothing to do with the show so shouldn’t be commenting. I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to create some space with these creepy people out there.
Oscar has a very stable marriage so despite his and Chastain shippers attempts to make a thing of them, he and Elvira are going strong. Also super nice to work with.
hey good for him! if he knows his limits and needs someone to keep him from temptation why not? it must be hard for actors not to stray when they rehearse and film intimate scene with the world's most desirable people.
I think you need to spend a little bit more time thinking about this. There's a reason so many actors cheat on their spouses with their costars. Acting romantically in a movie or TV show often leads to feelings, and he's paired with the likes of Jessica Chastain and Rebecca Ferguson. Hiring a fidelity coach to ensure those feelings stay in the show and not outside of it says the opposite of your takeaway.
Tbh if I had to pretend to be in love with someone I’d probably lose track of which feelings where real and which weren’t (not even in a rom com way), I wonder if the fidelity coach is just someone whose job it is to tell him “dude that’s not real” and keep him grounded outside of whatever role
everyone was so annoying around the release of their show/movie idk. i like him but it seemed incredibly put on with the way he was kissing her arm or smelling her armpit or whatever
Many years ago I matched with Graham Elliot on Bumble, then did a quick Google on him and saw a reference to being married, so I reported his profile as fake.
A few weeks later I ran into an acquaintance who’s in the food scene and asked if she knows him bc he should know someone’s using his pictures.
Turns out he and his wife split up and he was just starting to date again using Bumble.
I can’t find it at the moment, but someone did a deep dive on Oscar Isaac’s first marriage. There may have been overlap between her and when he met Elvira.
Edit: found it https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/GEvBVMTDkD
I was at a horse ranch in Sept in Solvang Ca and randomly ran into Mia Goth, Shia, and their child. It was the type of place where staff are instructed to not acknowledge celebrities. They seem like very active parents (had a baby seat on a bicycle) and he was def playing the dutiful Dad. It really struck me how folks with abuse allegations can present to the outside world. She seemed pleasant and smiled a lot.
OMG an opportunity to talk gossip about professional chefs? I'll take it!
**Bobby Flay:** Where to even start. Rumored to have had an affair with January Jones and possibly the father of the kid she had in 2011. Also rumored to have had an affair with Giada De Laurentiis. In talk about what famous chefs people have met, Bobby Flay is almost described as an asshole.
**Gabe Erales:** Won Top Chef in 2021, and like a day or two before the finale aired when he was declared the winner it came out that he had been fired from the restaurant where he was opening executive chef for sexually harassing female members of staff and having sex with employees. He had been fired in December 2020 and it seemed like Top Chef simply didn't do their due diligences looking into him. Bravo/Top Chef never made a statement (which angered a lot of us fans), though Padma Lakshmi did on her own.
(this next one is my favorite piece of gossip, but it's old - from like 2012/13)
**Jeff McInnis:** Contestant on Top Chef season 5 and co-owner/creator of Root and Bone in NYC, which had a ton of buzz and was pretty well-acclaimed, left his wife and infant daughter for another Top Chef alum - Janine Booth (she competed on a different season, but I don't remember which one). His ex-wife says he had an affair with Janine, and he pressured her into a divorce so he could move with Janine up to NYC (he formerly lived in Miami). Then like a year later, his ex-wife Melissa ends up giving up a little gossip about their divorce in the Rumor Mill section of the Miami Herald, and as a result Jeff sues the paper for defamation. (Idk what the result was, a cursory search did not yield info). Most importantly, she calls him a "backstabbing buttface" in an interview, which I think very accurately summarizes him as a person.
He and Janine open up Root and Bone a little bit later in NYC, which does get some acclaim and was pretty trendy at the time. But in 2017 [Jeff and Janine are sued](https://nypost.com/2017/08/08/top-chef-alums-eating-up-trendy-restaurants-profits-suit/) for $300k using restaurant profits for personal shit by their other partner (not romantic, just the business kind). According to the lawsuit, Jeff was also not at the restaurant for months at a time because he was opening another restaurant in Miami - but he still gave himself a 10k raise anyway.
Not sure if he’s professional chef per say, but Andy Baraghani of Bon Appetit fame is a total sweetheart. Everyone, including myself, who worked with him on a big project had nothing but good things to say.
I’ve never met Andy (only talked to him on the phone) but have met his wife Joanna, and they were both so sweet and normal. Humble/undemanding and did not act entitled at all. There was an issue with their room service order and they were super chill about it, which is not typical of most celebrities 🤣
I’m originally from the same hometown as Joanna. She has always been so cool and down to earth. She played in some basement/house party shows and indie shows when I was a teen in the 2000’s and she’d regularly collaborate with local bands even when she was getting super famous and touring with Bjork and stuff.
I ran into her when she was with Andy once when I was visiting home and I was delighted that she remembered me. I was too nervous to say much, but I remember thinking Andy is A LOT more handsome in person.
not really tea but have you seen andy samberg's house? it is absolutely deranged and since seeing pictures of it i've kind of rolled my eyes every time i've thought of him
I had never checked it and I wasn't expecting *that* but not gonna lie, that garden and all the plants are beautiful.
https://preview.redd.it/4zz8odx6hppc1.jpeg?width=964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4336c4f4cf71c95b55144241ca7adfd105e9a486
definitely looks like Joanna Newsom decorated. I don’t think it’s weird with that context. She’s a harpist and a prolific indie musician. Her whole vibe is maximalist fairy tale.
Omg Alan Rickman (I know—rip for like 8 years) but I just finished his diary and there are some iiiinteresting moments in there that are a little wild. I know years ago Cdan casually mentioned he was a “king of kinks” and then did not elaborate. Of course Cdan is sketchy…Wondering if anyone has tea…?
I hope it's nothing bad, I love Alan Rickman 😢 he directed the play My name is Rachel Corrie, about the peace activist murdered by the Israeli occupation soldiers.
Please don't be anything bad 😭
Pretty certain she's given birth in the last few weeks someone on twitter said they know the family and she'd given birth last week or so whether you believe it or not she was pretty pregnant by the time they announced back in October so I think logistically she must have given birth by now lol.
Yeah, that was almost a couple weeks ago and she hasn't been seen since and almost totally absent from social media. Rob was papped yesterday at a market in LA. Pretty sure they've been hunkered down with the new baby. Impressive how locked down they can be.
She looked like she was about to pop the last time she was seen too! It's especially impressive given how much they where seen by the paps in her last few weeks of pregnancy I did wonder if they made some sort of deal with the paps so they wouldn't bother them once the baby was here.
she complimented my very cheap necklace once when i was very shy and had no idea what to say to her. i heard from a friend that she can be social-climby but i think you have to be to be that successful.
She just posted a photo with him on St Patrick’s Day to continue the Irish joke and people are so thirsty for a headline rather than the obvious which is that two people can be friends. If they were dating they aren’t just gonna hard launch like that.
For Beach Read fans, Emily Henry & the director of the movie adaptation both reposted that St Patty’s day picture of Ayo and Paul Mescal on their Instagram stories 👀 They could be our Gus and January
Vanessa Redgrave? Been seeing more discourse surrounding her anti-zionist best actress Oscars speech lately following the controversy surrounding the (far milder) Jonathan Glazer one. Her performance in 'The Devils' is one of my all time faves.
I saw a thing on Reddit a couple of days ago that it looks like they’re getting ready to shoot exteriors at Bell. I don’t know if that indicates that interiors are done, but I need some more Mr Milchick in my life.
They were 4-5 episodes into shooting when the strike happened, iirc. They started in early Jan, I think they have 1-2 months left of production. They will finish before the IATSE strike deadline
August Diehl played Woland in the recently released Russian film adaptation of The Master and Margarita. Some of crew members said he is a shitty person who was often drunk and tried to sleep with every pretty woman on set.
Someone I know had a minor part in a movie Jessica Lange starred in YEARS ago (I’m talking late 80s) and said she was awful. Very self-involved and was rude to anyone who wasn’t famous. Perhaps she’s improved over time, at least one can hope.
yeah i’ve heard rude stories about her from back then but most of the stories i’ve heard about her from today are really kind so i think she has improved. i also think that was back then when she did coke like every other celebrity so that was probably why lmfao. also probably relationship issues. def not an excuse but that’s probably part of the reason
Susan Sarandon is tiny. I grew up near where she and Tim Robbins lived and would see her in the supermarket and she once asked my (also quite short) dad for help getting something off a high shelf. They were both cool, though; Tim Robbins coached one of the local Little League teams (not my brother’s, though).
I just remember that there was a lot of gossip about who was sleeping with whom during the not so recent Brazil or other SA cast tour but that may be just fans shipping real life people, hard to tell. Like Ewan + Olivia.
Pretty Little Liars or even PLL: The Perfectionists cast(s)? I basically only know about Ashley Benson's love life lmao and what Wikipedia says about any of the rest of them. PLL is forever my put-it-on-for-noise-in-the-background show but it was never good and honestly I love it even more for that.
The most interesting "tea" is probably that there are clear factions among the cast- Ashley, Shay, and Troian were all tight and Lucy, Sasha, and Janel were tight (to a lesser degree). Troian had a bachelorette party and invited Shay and Ashley but not Lucy. The boys seem to be better friends with Shay/Ashley/Troian but friendly with all. Which is all fine because they're coworkers and coworkers don't have to be friends. I believe having a coworker you hate is one of life's true joys (although I don't think any of them hate each other).
Also Ian wrote a book/memoir about birdwatching lol
Well, I really only ever think about how Sasha is married to some creep, who knew her since she was a kid and he was like 18 or something. They've dated since she was like 14 and he was like 18 or 20 or something. Like really creepy
The biggest rumor is that there was a fallout between Ashley and Lucy. There was speculation that Lucy and had slept with Ashley’s bf, but this also happened around the same time Ashley started filing Spring Breakers and hanging out with Selena (who Lucy was rumored to not like).
The movie has been bothering me since I watched it. The beginning when they’re wandering the city in graduation gowns and HATS: you don’t wear a hat when graduating from the university of Edinburg because part of the graduation ceremony is getting doffed on the head by a bonnet made of John Knox’s pants (supposedly).
Space Cowboy (Nick Dresti).
He was Lady Gaga's DJ and also has production credits on some of her earlier music. It's like he vanished and hasn't had a public profile in over a decade?
Willem is probably just out there being a cool dude, big fan and I'm always entertained by his performances and interviews.
Did you know he speaks Italian, as well as some French and German? He's also an Italian citizen, I'm pretty sure.
IIRC he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recently.
Someone commented on here recently that their mom grew up with him and he used to go by Billy and his last name was pronounced Day-Fo and the idea of someone yelling “ey Billy Dayfo!!” at him is now my Roman Empire
I was curious about Taylor too so I searched previous tea threads about him and here’s what I found so far:
[This comment thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/LueNwm8FZO) from ~6mo ago says he was into NFTs and crypto as evident from his Twitter account ~2y ago which is pretty mild at this point. But then the reply below it says he has a boyfriend/husband(?) who is an investor/start-up guy, and they’ve been together for many years. They posted publicly on Instagram together before Taylor scrubbed his social media clean when he started starring in those Netflix romcoms.
Then [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/fnwrz45uUK) from ~6mo elaborates a bit more saying he’s allegedly married to an entrepreneur named Garret Gerson, and they both managed a gay bar a few years ago that shut down. They don’t post each other on social media anymore ever since Taylor starred in The Kissing Booth on Netflix.
(Also not sure if it’s just me but I can’t seem to open links to comments right now?)
I’m wondering Whitney Cummings is talking about in her podcast with Bobby Lee this week. First she talks about a female actress at a baby shower who made a passive aggressive comment. Next they talk about a different celeb who is an asshole, but wrongly blames his actions on Aspergers.
Old tea but he filmed a movie in my town when I was in high school 04-05 ish. He hooked up with two girls I knew both still were in high school at the time. He frequented Hooters, I actually was introduced to him there by one of the aforementioned hook up friends. Hung out at his table for a while.
He would host late night parties at a local bar that ended up getting shut down for alcohol violations because of Colin. Serving past 2am and serving underage girls.
I feel like he’s clean up since then but that’s my cold tea.
saw xiumin from exo at my local bar a couple of months ago - he’s very tiny, was with his manager and presumably a group of his/their friends and they all went out to smoke about five times in three hours lol
eta: you can always tell when you bump into an idol even if you don’t recognise them because they get this immense fear in their eyes that you’ve seen them and are about to terrorise them lmaooo. i always just leave them alone, except for when my friends and i saw holland at seoul pride and quickly wished him a happy pride and thanked him for everything he does for queer visibility here. idk man you don’t wanna be the worst part of their day y’know
The Han So Hee- Ryu Jeon Yeol- Hyeri drama. It all started when a Japanese netizen saw Han So Hee and Ryu Jeon Yeol in Hawaii. Aftewards Hyeri posted on her IG stories with the phrase ‘that’s funny’ and Han Do See also posted ‘that also funny’ and she’s not interested on dating taken men. Hyeri unfollowed RJY. Then the following days Han So Hee admitted in a blog that RJY and her are dating and dispatch released the photos in Hawaii. Hyeri apologized and Han So Hee was dropped by some brands.
I didn’t realize Han So Hee was dropped from a few brands. That sucks because she didn’t even do anything wrong. Like her response wasn’t necessary and she was digging herself in a hole a bit with replies, but there was no overlap. Girly must be going through it after her going a bit viral at Paris FW for the wrong reasons too.
911 cast?? I already know about Ryan Guzman’s racism and the guy that refused to get the vaccine. I just started the show and now I’m diving headfirst into wanting to know everything about it lol. When I search the sub it says no results so idk if there’s been tea shared before bc I can’t find it.
Josh Radnor (Ted) got married fairly recently and the wedding and him/his wife sound like absolutely insufferable people. There was a great (hilarious) piece in the NYT about it, if you Google "josh radnor wedding."
Once again asking for John C. Reilly. I remember some interviews from the last few years where he essentially says his phone stopped ringing and he stopped getting offers, until “Winning Time.” So I’m wondering, is he an asshole? Did studios forget he’s a gifted dramatic actor as well as comedic?
No tea but I just have to share that I constantly mix him up with John C. Lilly, a guy who created sensory deprivation tanks and spent years training dolphins to speak English until they got shut down because the dolphins couldn’t talk and the trainers kept hooking up with them
WHAT 🤯
Dolphins are rapey and one woman on the project would let the dolphin do its thing because they projected their own emotions onto the dolphins and believed they had communicated a consensual relationship. Basically some lady walked in and was like “let me help with the dolphins” started letting one bone her and refused to elaborate and left.
> Basically some lady walked in and was like “let me help with the dolphins” started letting one bone her and refused to elaborate and left. This is by far the most unhinged thing I've ever read on this sub hahaha what the FUCK
The worst part is it’s not even a slight exaggeration https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me >”Why did you come here?” he asked Lovatt. Well, I heard you had dolphins,” she replied, “and I thought I’d come and see if there was anything I could do or any way I could help…” Unused to unannounced visitors and impressed by her bravado, Bateson invited her to meet the animals and asked her to watch them for a while and write down what she saw. Despite her lack of scientific training, Lovatt turned out to be an intuitive observer of animal behaviour and Bateson told her she could come back whenever she wanted.” > Peter [the dolphin] liked to be with me,” explains Lovatt. “He would rub himself on my knee, or my foot, or my hand. And at first I would put him downstairs with the girls,” she says. But transporting Peter downstairs proved so disruptive to the lessons that, faced with his frequent arousals, it just seemed easier for Lovatt to relieve his urges herself manually. “I allowed that,” she says. “I wasn’t uncomfortable with it, as long as it wasn’t rough. It would just become part of what was going on, like an itch – just get rid of it, scratch it and move on. And that’s how it seemed to work out. It wasn’t private. People could observe it.” For Lovatt it was a precious thing, which was always carried out with great respect. “Peter was right there and he knew that I was right there,” she continues. “It wasn’t sexual on my part. Sensuous perhaps. It seemed to me that it made the bond closer. Not because of the sexual activity, but because of the lack of having to keep breaking. And that’s really all it was. I was there to get to know Peter. That was part of Peter.” Innocent as they were, Lovatt’s sexual encounters with Peter would ultimately overshadow the whole experiment when a story about them appeared in Hustler magazine in the late 1970s. I suggest reading the whole article it’s absolutely wild Carl Sagan makes a guest appearance too
Wild that “sexual encounters” between a human and dolphin could overshadow an experiment. Who wouldve thought?
Not sexual just sensual lmfaoo She wasn’t even a scientist she just walked up and was like “y’all got dolphins in ya tank?”
Going from just a regular person to a dolphin masturbator is quite the journey. Is this what the Shape of Water was based on?!
Yeah. One of the dolphins was a young male that was essentially going through his horny teenage phase and one of the English trainers would manually stimulate the dolphin. The experiment eventually lost funding because dolphins can’t speak English or respond to LSD, so he got moved to a new facility, hated it, and drowned himself.
If I was getting acid and handjobs on the reg and then they tried to move me to isolation I would drown myself too let’s be real
I feel like my eyes need bleach from everything I just read
And *I* always mix him up with John C. McGinley 
I think the break up between Will Farrell and Adam McKay had a part to play in this
There was an official breakup??
Yep - it was BAD too. Like, dividing possessions and custody of projects BAD. JCR was collateral damage in it - he's friends with both guys, and tried to walk the line by doing projects for both, but ended up ultimately sticking with Adam in the hopes of maybe still having a career; WF holds grudges though, so it may be a while before we see them paired up again. Until then, enjoy watching the last project that involved the three of them (\*checking notes\*) - HOLMES & WATSON.
Apparently he didn’t… WALK HARD. Sorry sorry, this honestly makes me so sad. Friendship breakups are shitty, and there’s never a right way to navigate.
Did we ever find out why?? Boy drama has to be even juicier
In a word: Money. In more than one word: Money, creative control, creative freedom, and personal & professional jealousy. The cover story for the dissolve was that McKay cast JCR in "Winning Time" as Jerry Buss without letting Ferrell know, but the roots of that conflict were laid down long before that. Ferrell's wife, Vivica Paulin, was taking a larger role in Gary Sanchez Productions, and Ferrell wanted to focus on more women-helmed and starring projects than McKay seemed to be comfortable doing. There was also the fact that Ferrell wanted McKay's shares of GSP diluted to incorporate Paulin into ownership - which was right around the time when Ferrell was making an ownership bid for LAFC in Major League Soccer (he ended up with a minority owner stake) and needed a lot of cash upfront - putting a squeeze on some of GSP's productions \[Note: there was also some chatter at the time about WF trying to join the ownership group of the LA Kings and the LA Clippers, but that came to naught\]. When GSP was effectively dissolved, Ferrell & Paulin reorganized it as Loretta Sanchez Productions, and McKay opened up his own company.
What a great, detailed answer! Thanks 🩷 Love you
I know a guy who knows a guy who worked on some stuff he was in and said he’s a big asshole 💔 Like just kind of a jerk with a big ego. Bummer because I find him SO funny.
He used to come into the lumber yard I used work at frequently. I think he lived nearby (LA-area) and must have been doing some kind of home renovation. He was always very kind and gracious and took photos with people if they asked.
Cold tea but I know someone who stayed in his lake house once (he wasn't there and she doesn't know him.). Apparently, his lake house is gorgeous.
And he can sing! Loved him in Chicago
No tea but I just wanna say I lost respect for him when he did that movie with polanski.
his episode of wtf with marc maron is one of my favorite things. it ends up being mostly john talking about the history of clowns.
His mom was in my grandmas bowling league and he would stop by sometimes and apparently was delightful. My grandma is the sweetest but def an oversharer/talker and he would apparently just let her go! Hahah had no airs of fame about him.
Meryl Streep? I’m so invested in her and Martin Short lol Or any of her daughters (Mamie, Grace, Louisa)?
Not really tea but my sister was a dancer for a big sports team (🏀). She met Meryl and told me how nice she was and how friendly. Apparently she was asked to take a photo with all of the dancers and was self deprecating about herself along the lines of “how do you expect me to take a photo with all of these beautiful girls?” My sister also doesn’t come from entertainment so she assumed back then (in her young age) that all actors, writers, etc know each other so she asked if she knew me (honestly hilarious and endearing) and Meryl was so super kind about it. This was relayed to me through my sister, I wasn’t there, but I’m inclined to believe it. I have met Martin though and he is the kindest most friendly person on the planet. If they are dating or even if they’re just close friends I really hope they’re happy because I can’t see them not being it.
I have very old (45+ years) tea on Meryl Streep. My mother-in-law was a somewhat successful theater actress in NYC who wanted to break into movies right around the same time Meryl was an up-and-coming theater actress who wanted to break into movies, so around 1978. Meryl had recently gotten her MFA from Yale and started dating John Cazele, who played Fredo Corleone in The Godfather. He died of lung cancer a few years after they began dating, with Meryl staying with him until the end. At the time, according to my mother-in-law, there were a lot of rumors that Meryl was using John to break into Hollywood, "taking advantage of a dying man," etc. Silly, petty, jealous rumors of an incredibly talented young actress going through a fairly heartbreaking situation.
that’s such a sad rumor, she really loved him. he and Al Pacino were close and Pacino has said a few times that she was so devoted to John, and then a few years back someone met her while wearing a shirt with Cazele’s face on it and she was like “there’s my guy”
She really loved him. The doc on Cazale with her and Pacino in it and her biography really delve into that love story. I'm most charmed by the fact that they fell in love doing a Shakespeare play (where she played a nun), and then heartbroken by the story of how she pounded on his chest after he died because of how distraught she was, and he returned for a bit to tell her it was alright before finally passing.
Meryl is pretty chill in my limited experience. I saw her in K-Mart once on Christmas Eve about a decade ago (this was in the Berkshires, there are limited shipping options) and my husband used to see her in McDonalds there when he was a teenager.
Meryl eats McDonald’s?? Now THAT’S tea!
It might have been for her kids, who were children in that era (mid-late 90s). Even the children of the stars enjoy a good happy meal from time to time.
i’ve never been a fan of meryl as an actor (i always just see meryl streep acting, especially in recent years) but i always liked her as a person until i discovered she was big defender of roman polanski. she gave him a standing ovation when he won an oscar/golden globe? she was asked in an interview about him leaving the country or whatever she said she felt sorry for him
It’s refreshing to see this take on Meryl’s acting because that’s what I’ve always thought about it.
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My university room mate went to summer camp with one of the daughters and was invited to a party at Meryl’s. She said Meryl said “have you met Bob?” And she turned about and Robert DeNiro was standing there ! She also got to hold Meryl’s Oscar’s.
I’ve seen some talk on Twitter about her youngest going public with her girlfriend or I guess who Twitter thinks is her girlfriend. All of the talk seems to have stemmed from this insta post and the fact that she’s going been posting her pretty consistently since then https://www.instagram.com/p/C4NwEG_OXNb/?igsh=MXJ4ZnNzYms1Y2U5dQ==
I remember hearing Gracie gummer is mean and rude. I heard she treated her staff poorly too.
Amanda Palmer? Specifically any updates on the divorce, like what happened to finally make them split, if she’s seeing anyone else etc. I don’t follow anything she does because I extremely don’t like her (met her a few times in social settings and YIKES) and yet am still nosy/fascinated.
She’s dating an old boyfriend and still posting passive aggressive digs at Neil on her social media talking about how the divorce ruined her life. She’s renting a house near Woodstock so their son can be close to Neil and go to school, but recently took him back to New Zealand for a visit and some shows to promote her new EP. It’s been pretty much confirmed from both sides that they finally split because when it became apparent that the world was locking down, Neil wanted to either go back to Woodstock to the house they had been living in for years or the UK (his legal primary residence), and she dug her heels in and insisted on staying in New Zealand where they had no network and no permanent place to stay (they were just there because of her tour). He caved in March and rented them a longer term AirBNB, but NZ is on an opposite time zone from the UK and US, and he was actively working on Sandman so was in meetings in the middle of the night. He left NZ without them in early April and flew to Skye, and she doxxed him by revealing to her followers that he had left her, prompting them to rabidly call the Scottish police to his house because they claimed that he violated COVID lockdown rules (he did not). It was very publicly embarrassing for him and I think it was just the last straw. I loved and worked with her and Brian back in the Dolls days as a performer, but her narcissism has absolutely spun out of control. Her relationship with her fan base is so toxic and she actively uses them to dox people who criticize her (she has literally tagged people on Instagram and encouraged her fans to harass them). It makes me sad because she used to be such an amazing artist but all of her content is delusional now.
Tangential tea, but I’m highly sus of musicians running away to New Zealand. Former frequent Amanda Palmer collaborator James Euringer, fka Jimmy Urine lead singer of Mindless Self Indulgence, moved to NZ suddenly with his wife, right before a sexual assault of a minor lawsuit was filed against him in NYC. They dropped off the face of the earth after that. EDIT: I remembered another layer. James has been a long time friend and collaborator of Serj Tankian, singer of System of a Down, who was the one that suggested that James move there in the first place. He also lives in New Zealand, part-time.
>she dug her heels in and insisted on staying in New Zealand where they had no network and no permanent place to stay (they were just there because of her tour). I do want to point out that her reasoning was concern over taking their son back to the USA during a raging pandemic, when here in NZ things were pretty much fine. I can't fault a mother for that (even though I fault her for many other things). She was pretty homesick and miserable here. There was also other stuff that contributed to the split that hasn't been discussed fully openly (nor should it, probably?) besides Amanda alluding to Neil lying and betraying her trust. Which has led to fans inventing all sorts of fanfiction ideas of what "definitely" happened. We don't even know Neil's version of events since he doesn't really talk about his private life like that. But I don't think it's unreasonable to think there were probably issues on both sides. Most relationships don't have a hero and a villain.
>they claimed that he violated COVID lockdown rules (he did not) Except, he did. The rules at the time was no travel unless it was necessary and it was not necessary for him to make that trip. [He even apologised for breaking the Scottish lockdown rules](https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/05/an-extremely-apologetic-post.html)
Wow. Wow wow wow. Calling the police is some next level shit. I knew the fans were intense but didn’t realize they were cop calling/doxxing level intense.
Yeah, it was BAD. And at no point has she ever said “hey, maybe you guys should not do that,” she knows that her fans do stuff like that and uses it as a weapon. She also got in hot water a few years ago for harassing/doxxing a journalist who gave her album a lukewarm review.
Spill it! She's the WOOOOOOOORST - I have a friend who she tried to pay with Exposure Bucks on her tour about a decade ago, and she politely declined to participate (she was way more gracious and nice than she should've been). She said something along the lines of "Thanks, but free beer and hugs don't pay my rent". When Palmer's management came back with a monetary offer after getting rightfully dragged, she still declined - she could see where it was all heading, and removed herself from any further contact.
Yep, it got nasty with the performers once she went solo — and I say that as someone who performed with the Dolls for meals and hugs (I was young and having fun as a street performer and got enough tips from my act to get by). It started as a beautiful collaboration where everyone took care of each other in the punk cabaret, but unfortunately later became a touring act actively taking advantage of lesser known performers. It makes me sad that our merry band of misfits grew a person like that.
Never not going to comment that she kissed my friend multiple times without his consent and was very much like “But I’m Amanda Palmer!”
Gross. I’m sorry your friend experienced that.
I followed her IG during her lockdown in New Zealand, the funniest thing was she managed to ruffle feathers by claiming everyone in a cafe burst into applause for her the day Biden was inaugurated. This sent people into a tailspin because of how much it clashes with our perceived cultural identity. A journalist even did a deep dive and discovered that it was just one guy, who she was friendly with, that clapped for her. It was extremely bizarre yet generated a ton of debate - I think she learnt how far word goes in a tiny country.
Eugene Lee Yang? Heard mixed interactions with some saying he was acting like a diva and others saying he was super chill and nice.
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Agree. I never had a bad opinion on him, nor was a massive fan. I always felt that he was very shy but logical in his thinking. But I wouldn't say he has an enflated ego, I think he is very content and confident with his fame and is doing amazing things with his influence.
I have no personal experience with him other than watching him in Try Guys videos for a decade, but he seems very focused and career-driven and I can see how that would come off as not the nicest to some people depending on the situation. He doesn’t strike me as the type to be cruel or rude on purpose tho, and I always take diva accusations against women/POC/LGBTQ people with a huuuuuge grain of salt unless it’s a specific incident. He seemed genuinely affected by how much fans were moved by his coming out video as well which I found very endearing.
I know someone who went to high school with him, and he said he was very popular, especially with girls lol. Apparently people from high school were surprised that he was not straight?
There was an early video at Buzzfeed where they hung up white t-shirts worn by each of the guys and had the female staffers do a blind smell test for pheromones. Eugene won by a wide margin.
Aside from grooming products, personal hygiene, and other factors, as an East Asian Korean man, Eugene has the gene variant (ABCC11) which produces less sweat and less body odour.
He didn’t come out publicly until 2019
hello I have finished my Succession binge and am now on to binging The Sopranos, soooo…the cast of The Sopranos?
Michael Imperioli is a mostly harmless kind of weird pretty cute well meaning hippy, also he's pro trans rights in spite of some of the more toxic members of the fanbase (who either willfully or ignorantly don't get the show at all).
https://preview.redd.it/3jiyn5fxtqpc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=506d8c10884a9401be4a69b791dd577876ff2cf8 case in point LOL
Incredibly based
If ever there was someone who is so far removed in real life from the character they played, Imperioli is IT. Chrissy Moltisanti is a loathsome individual, but Imperioli is a thoughtful Buddhist who is really into architecture and doing live theater. During the show's run, he seemed to take real pains to distance himself from the character who was onscreen (as opposed to many of his castmates, who seemed to embrace - to the point of outright mimicking- their respective character attitudes). The term that seemed to be used the most for him was "talented sweetheart" - just someone who took his craft seriously, but also was grounded as a human being (Buscemi also seemed to be above the whole "Woohoo I'm playing a mobster, look at me!" attitude). The closest example of another actor I can think of who is entirely divorced from the characters he plays is Walton Goggins, who is also Buddhist and who regularly practices mindfulness, and is widely known as a professional who everyone enjoys working with.
I've briefly run into him a few times in a professional capacity and he's so unassuming! Super polite and kind each time.
I really want to see him in Enemy of the People! Also I obv love Jeremy Strong and I’ve never seen a production of the play. I’m not surprised there’s edgelords in the fan base tho, it’s very easy to deliberately misunderstand the show.
Drea De Matteo is an anti-vaxer, conspiracy theorist weirdo unfortunately.
She’s also on OF
I remember reading back in February that James G had struggles with addiction. He became less trustworthy as time went on and that edie Falco would become frustrated with his absence. It was also said that his co stars and the production team were willing to give him leeway because they knew what James brought to the show. Every Friday he would buy sushi for the entire crew and then every season finale he would buy expensive gifts for everyone. Here’s the article https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-07/how-james-gandolfinis-addictions-to-alcohol-and-drugs-caused-chaos-during-filming-of-the-sopranos.html
Oh, this is very sad. I remember when he died people had really lovely things to say about him, it’s a shame that he struggled so much.
He was manifesting real addict behavior, with stepping over lines and then being contrite, then repeating the cycle ad nauseum. He really got into being Tony Soprano, to the point that the line was blurred quite a bit in terms of him being the Big Dog on-set.
This is so sad. I sort of low key think James g as Tony soprano is the best acting performance of all time.
I was an entertainment journalist in New Orleans before Katrina. When James Gandolfini was filming All the Kings Men, he was partying so hard every night even the denizens of New Orleans were getting worried about him. He was staying by Harrah's, and the producers ended up moving him to a hotel in Metairie (suburbs) to try to slow him down a bit. Didn't really work. I wasn't surprised how that ended.
Did a Sopranos binge at the end of last year and also went seeking tea! There’s a few books with behind the scenes info (that I haven’t read yet) and Jamie Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler have had two podcasts Highly recommend watching James Gandolfini’s Inside the Actor’s Studio episode. He mentions his relationship with Lorraine Bracco as weird - or something to that effect- and I can’t find any info on what that means! I know they pranked each other but it seemed to be about more than that. I also found many articles about a time he disappeared for a day or two and then wandered into a beauty salon and used their phone to call set and ask for a ride. Really sad and mysterious story.
I believe Lorraine Bracco was partying with him a lot during the first seasons of the show. Could be referring to that.
Ooh! I have some!! *back in 2010, the New York knicks tried to get LeBron James to join them by recruiting both Edie Falco and James Gandolfini to make a video as their characters from the sopranos to try and get LeBron to join their team (apparently LeBron’s favourite show is the sopranos) * James Gandolfini once got a mysterious phone call in middle of the night from presumably, someone in the mob who talked about how good the show was before telling him that the only issue they ever had with the show was when he was shown wearing shorts because in this persons opinion/experience, ‘dons don’t wear shorts’ before hanging up. *when JG died, HBO paid for the funeral and burial, and even filmed the funeral service, giving a dvd copy to everyone who attended 😭
I’m watching the Sopranos for the first time and one of the (I think) NY mob members just told Tony that dons don’t wear shorts at barbecues! Funny to hear that that must’ve been added in because of that phone call.
DAN STEVENS PLZ
He was one of very few public figures to support Amber Heard back in the day!
He’s so hot and charming! I hope he doesn’t let us down
NARRATOR: He let us down Seriously though, I've heard only good things about him personally, but his career is sort of not where he thinks it should be - he's really leaned into Horror and SciFi (which is brave of him as a marketable actor still in prime), but the projects he's been in haven't been great. He's steadily working, and he has a lot coming up this year, but if you would've said 10 years ago Dan Stevens wasn't the biggest actor in the world, I wouldn't have believed you - when he left Downton he was on top of the world.
Dan doesn't want to be a leading man. He left Downtown for this very reason - to do different things. Have you noticed he mostly takes on weirdo roles? That's because he wants them! That's what he likes to do.
Lee Pace. He & his husband unfollowed each other? Doesn't always mean anything & their photos are still up but they're usually really supportive of each other on ig.
:( oh no, I fear it could be estrangement but hopefully Im wrong
Didn’t a fan get on their property? Maybe they did that to help creeps not do creepy shit
I follow Bryan Fuller. He made a post about Pushing Daisies last week and Lee’s husband commented. Some fan went off about how he has nothing to do with the show so shouldn’t be commenting. I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to create some space with these creepy people out there.
>Some fan went off about how he has nothing to do with the show so shouldn’t be commenting. What the actual hell is wrong with people???
Mia Goth Oscar Isaac Any professional chefs
Oscar has a very stable marriage so despite his and Chastain shippers attempts to make a thing of them, he and Elvira are going strong. Also super nice to work with.
ok this being said I did hear once that Oscar Isaac has a "fidelity coach" he relies on to keep him from cheating lmao
hey good for him! if he knows his limits and needs someone to keep him from temptation why not? it must be hard for actors not to stray when they rehearse and film intimate scene with the world's most desirable people.
Whaaaaat 💀💀💀 honey if you need a fidelity coach then you probably shouldn’t be in a relationship
I think you need to spend a little bit more time thinking about this. There's a reason so many actors cheat on their spouses with their costars. Acting romantically in a movie or TV show often leads to feelings, and he's paired with the likes of Jessica Chastain and Rebecca Ferguson. Hiring a fidelity coach to ensure those feelings stay in the show and not outside of it says the opposite of your takeaway.
Tbh if I had to pretend to be in love with someone I’d probably lose track of which feelings where real and which weren’t (not even in a rom com way), I wonder if the fidelity coach is just someone whose job it is to tell him “dude that’s not real” and keep him grounded outside of whatever role
yes, i follow elvira on ig and she is super cool!!
everyone was so annoying around the release of their show/movie idk. i like him but it seemed incredibly put on with the way he was kissing her arm or smelling her armpit or whatever
Many years ago I matched with Graham Elliot on Bumble, then did a quick Google on him and saw a reference to being married, so I reported his profile as fake. A few weeks later I ran into an acquaintance who’s in the food scene and asked if she knows him bc he should know someone’s using his pictures. Turns out he and his wife split up and he was just starting to date again using Bumble.
This is hilarious-you were so diligent!
Commenting for Mia because of the whole kicking an extra debacle
I think where they’re laying on the ground it becomes a stomp. Stomping an extra
she and Leboeuf seem fit for each other, but that poor kid…
I can’t find it at the moment, but someone did a deep dive on Oscar Isaac’s first marriage. There may have been overlap between her and when he met Elvira. Edit: found it https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/GEvBVMTDkD
I was at a horse ranch in Sept in Solvang Ca and randomly ran into Mia Goth, Shia, and their child. It was the type of place where staff are instructed to not acknowledge celebrities. They seem like very active parents (had a baby seat on a bicycle) and he was def playing the dutiful Dad. It really struck me how folks with abuse allegations can present to the outside world. She seemed pleasant and smiled a lot.
OMG an opportunity to talk gossip about professional chefs? I'll take it! **Bobby Flay:** Where to even start. Rumored to have had an affair with January Jones and possibly the father of the kid she had in 2011. Also rumored to have had an affair with Giada De Laurentiis. In talk about what famous chefs people have met, Bobby Flay is almost described as an asshole. **Gabe Erales:** Won Top Chef in 2021, and like a day or two before the finale aired when he was declared the winner it came out that he had been fired from the restaurant where he was opening executive chef for sexually harassing female members of staff and having sex with employees. He had been fired in December 2020 and it seemed like Top Chef simply didn't do their due diligences looking into him. Bravo/Top Chef never made a statement (which angered a lot of us fans), though Padma Lakshmi did on her own. (this next one is my favorite piece of gossip, but it's old - from like 2012/13) **Jeff McInnis:** Contestant on Top Chef season 5 and co-owner/creator of Root and Bone in NYC, which had a ton of buzz and was pretty well-acclaimed, left his wife and infant daughter for another Top Chef alum - Janine Booth (she competed on a different season, but I don't remember which one). His ex-wife says he had an affair with Janine, and he pressured her into a divorce so he could move with Janine up to NYC (he formerly lived in Miami). Then like a year later, his ex-wife Melissa ends up giving up a little gossip about their divorce in the Rumor Mill section of the Miami Herald, and as a result Jeff sues the paper for defamation. (Idk what the result was, a cursory search did not yield info). Most importantly, she calls him a "backstabbing buttface" in an interview, which I think very accurately summarizes him as a person. He and Janine open up Root and Bone a little bit later in NYC, which does get some acclaim and was pretty trendy at the time. But in 2017 [Jeff and Janine are sued](https://nypost.com/2017/08/08/top-chef-alums-eating-up-trendy-restaurants-profits-suit/) for $300k using restaurant profits for personal shit by their other partner (not romantic, just the business kind). According to the lawsuit, Jeff was also not at the restaurant for months at a time because he was opening another restaurant in Miami - but he still gave himself a 10k raise anyway.
Not sure if he’s professional chef per say, but Andy Baraghani of Bon Appetit fame is a total sweetheart. Everyone, including myself, who worked with him on a big project had nothing but good things to say.
I’m on a Brooklyn 99 kick so…tea on any of the cast members?
I’ve never met Andy (only talked to him on the phone) but have met his wife Joanna, and they were both so sweet and normal. Humble/undemanding and did not act entitled at all. There was an issue with their room service order and they were super chill about it, which is not typical of most celebrities 🤣
I’m originally from the same hometown as Joanna. She has always been so cool and down to earth. She played in some basement/house party shows and indie shows when I was a teen in the 2000’s and she’d regularly collaborate with local bands even when she was getting super famous and touring with Bjork and stuff. I ran into her when she was with Andy once when I was visiting home and I was delighted that she remembered me. I was too nervous to say much, but I remember thinking Andy is A LOT more handsome in person.
not really tea but have you seen andy samberg's house? it is absolutely deranged and since seeing pictures of it i've kind of rolled my eyes every time i've thought of him
I had never checked it and I wasn't expecting *that* but not gonna lie, that garden and all the plants are beautiful. https://preview.redd.it/4zz8odx6hppc1.jpeg?width=964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4336c4f4cf71c95b55144241ca7adfd105e9a486
now this is a house! it looks like living in a botanical garden.
I actually love it though? Much better than something boring and minimalist with maximized resale value.
The house is so Joanna Newsom coded. You can just picture a harp playing in every room of that palace!
definitely looks like Joanna Newsom decorated. I don’t think it’s weird with that context. She’s a harpist and a prolific indie musician. Her whole vibe is maximalist fairy tale.
I just looked it up and think it looks lovely!
Omg Alan Rickman (I know—rip for like 8 years) but I just finished his diary and there are some iiiinteresting moments in there that are a little wild. I know years ago Cdan casually mentioned he was a “king of kinks” and then did not elaborate. Of course Cdan is sketchy…Wondering if anyone has tea…?
I have never needed elaboration more in my entire life
I hope it's nothing bad, I love Alan Rickman 😢 he directed the play My name is Rachel Corrie, about the peace activist murdered by the Israeli occupation soldiers. Please don't be anything bad 😭
Suki Waterhouse??
i can’t help but wonder when her due date is (or perhaps she quietly gave birth) because she’s set to perform at coachella in three weeks
Pretty certain she's given birth in the last few weeks someone on twitter said they know the family and she'd given birth last week or so whether you believe it or not she was pretty pregnant by the time they announced back in October so I think logistically she must have given birth by now lol.
Yeah, that was almost a couple weeks ago and she hasn't been seen since and almost totally absent from social media. Rob was papped yesterday at a market in LA. Pretty sure they've been hunkered down with the new baby. Impressive how locked down they can be.
She looked like she was about to pop the last time she was seen too! It's especially impressive given how much they where seen by the paps in her last few weeks of pregnancy I did wonder if they made some sort of deal with the paps so they wouldn't bother them once the baby was here.
Her song OMG is really catchy I must admit.
Why do I think she’s a model?
model, actress, singer
Ayo Edibiri?
she complimented my very cheap necklace once when i was very shy and had no idea what to say to her. i heard from a friend that she can be social-climby but i think you have to be to be that successful.
Gossip sites are trying to make her and EDIT Paul Mescal happen. No idea if they are really secretly dating or it's just another hot couple fantasy.
She just posted a photo with him on St Patrick’s Day to continue the Irish joke and people are so thirsty for a headline rather than the obvious which is that two people can be friends. If they were dating they aren’t just gonna hard launch like that.
I think they've both been cast in some film, so that's why she posted it.
After his breakup with Phoebe, Paul said he wouldn't have a relationship so publicly again.
Isn't it Paul Mescal, not Jacob Elordi?
She has a boyfriend. It’s not Colin. They broke up. His name is Jamen Whitelock and he’s an indie musician. They went to the SAG awards together.
He’s the one rolling his eyes on the left. https://www.tumblr.com/livelovecaliforniadreams/743261764472520704/back-on-their-winning-shit?source=share
Is he some sort of ghost, there's absolutely nothing on him online.
For Beach Read fans, Emily Henry & the director of the movie adaptation both reposted that St Patty’s day picture of Ayo and Paul Mescal on their Instagram stories 👀 They could be our Gus and January
Vanessa Redgrave? Been seeing more discourse surrounding her anti-zionist best actress Oscars speech lately following the controversy surrounding the (far milder) Jonathan Glazer one. Her performance in 'The Devils' is one of my all time faves.
Well she recently worked with Kevin Spacey (her husband directed the film). So take that as you will
Once offered to bail out some ira people and offered to let them stay at hers- an anti-colonial queen.
Severance production/cast please I beg
I saw a thing on Reddit a couple of days ago that it looks like they’re getting ready to shoot exteriors at Bell. I don’t know if that indicates that interiors are done, but I need some more Mr Milchick in my life.
They were 4-5 episodes into shooting when the strike happened, iirc. They started in early Jan, I think they have 1-2 months left of production. They will finish before the IATSE strike deadline
Andrew Scott?
August Diehl Christopher Abbott Tom Burke
August Diehl played Woland in the recently released Russian film adaptation of The Master and Margarita. Some of crew members said he is a shitty person who was often drunk and tried to sleep with every pretty woman on set.
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any tea on jessica lange, angela bassett or susan sarandon?
Someone I know had a minor part in a movie Jessica Lange starred in YEARS ago (I’m talking late 80s) and said she was awful. Very self-involved and was rude to anyone who wasn’t famous. Perhaps she’s improved over time, at least one can hope.
yeah i’ve heard rude stories about her from back then but most of the stories i’ve heard about her from today are really kind so i think she has improved. i also think that was back then when she did coke like every other celebrity so that was probably why lmfao. also probably relationship issues. def not an excuse but that’s probably part of the reason
Susan Sarandon is tiny. I grew up near where she and Tim Robbins lived and would see her in the supermarket and she once asked my (also quite short) dad for help getting something off a high shelf. They were both cool, though; Tim Robbins coached one of the local Little League teams (not my brother’s, though).
any hotd cast tea? trailer is coming out today!
I just remember that there was a lot of gossip about who was sleeping with whom during the not so recent Brazil or other SA cast tour but that may be just fans shipping real life people, hard to tell. Like Ewan + Olivia.
Pretty Little Liars or even PLL: The Perfectionists cast(s)? I basically only know about Ashley Benson's love life lmao and what Wikipedia says about any of the rest of them. PLL is forever my put-it-on-for-noise-in-the-background show but it was never good and honestly I love it even more for that.
The most interesting "tea" is probably that there are clear factions among the cast- Ashley, Shay, and Troian were all tight and Lucy, Sasha, and Janel were tight (to a lesser degree). Troian had a bachelorette party and invited Shay and Ashley but not Lucy. The boys seem to be better friends with Shay/Ashley/Troian but friendly with all. Which is all fine because they're coworkers and coworkers don't have to be friends. I believe having a coworker you hate is one of life's true joys (although I don't think any of them hate each other). Also Ian wrote a book/memoir about birdwatching lol
Have you ever seen PLL recap on youtube by Mike's Mic? I fucking loved it.
Well, I really only ever think about how Sasha is married to some creep, who knew her since she was a kid and he was like 18 or something. They've dated since she was like 14 and he was like 18 or 20 or something. Like really creepy
Sasha was really young when the show started, like fourteen or something and the other girls were a decade older.
The biggest rumor is that there was a fallout between Ashley and Lucy. There was speculation that Lucy and had slept with Ashley’s bf, but this also happened around the same time Ashley started filing Spring Breakers and hanging out with Selena (who Lucy was rumored to not like).
Jim Sturgess? I'm watching One day on netflix and it got me wondering if there's any old tea on the 2011 version with him and Anne Hathaway
The movie has been bothering me since I watched it. The beginning when they’re wandering the city in graduation gowns and HATS: you don’t wear a hat when graduating from the university of Edinburg because part of the graduation ceremony is getting doffed on the head by a bonnet made of John Knox’s pants (supposedly).
No tea but was I ever in love with him in Across the Universe
Space Cowboy (Nick Dresti). He was Lady Gaga's DJ and also has production credits on some of her earlier music. It's like he vanished and hasn't had a public profile in over a decade?
William Dafoe?
he's… he's gay! but he's got a special connection to classical music…he's also something of a scientist.
Willem is probably just out there being a cool dude, big fan and I'm always entertained by his performances and interviews. Did you know he speaks Italian, as well as some French and German? He's also an Italian citizen, I'm pretty sure. IIRC he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recently.
Someone commented on here recently that their mom grew up with him and he used to go by Billy and his last name was pronounced Day-Fo and the idea of someone yelling “ey Billy Dayfo!!” at him is now my Roman Empire
og L word cast?
Any tea on Taylor Zakhar Perez???? Sam Reid fr interview with the vampire?
I was curious about Taylor too so I searched previous tea threads about him and here’s what I found so far: [This comment thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/LueNwm8FZO) from ~6mo ago says he was into NFTs and crypto as evident from his Twitter account ~2y ago which is pretty mild at this point. But then the reply below it says he has a boyfriend/husband(?) who is an investor/start-up guy, and they’ve been together for many years. They posted publicly on Instagram together before Taylor scrubbed his social media clean when he started starring in those Netflix romcoms. Then [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/fnwrz45uUK) from ~6mo elaborates a bit more saying he’s allegedly married to an entrepreneur named Garret Gerson, and they both managed a gay bar a few years ago that shut down. They don’t post each other on social media anymore ever since Taylor starred in The Kissing Booth on Netflix. (Also not sure if it’s just me but I can’t seem to open links to comments right now?)
I’m wondering Whitney Cummings is talking about in her podcast with Bobby Lee this week. First she talks about a female actress at a baby shower who made a passive aggressive comment. Next they talk about a different celeb who is an asshole, but wrongly blames his actions on Aspergers.
Anything on the cast of the new beetlejuice movie? Kind of curious about what happens when long ago OG team get back together
Anyone have anything on Kathryn Hahn? I never see posts about her
Chris Pine? It’s as if he’s disappeared lately.
I had a dream about him last night, so...Colin Farrell?
Old tea but he filmed a movie in my town when I was in high school 04-05 ish. He hooked up with two girls I knew both still were in high school at the time. He frequented Hooters, I actually was introduced to him there by one of the aforementioned hook up friends. Hung out at his table for a while. He would host late night parties at a local bar that ended up getting shut down for alcohol violations because of Colin. Serving past 2am and serving underage girls. I feel like he’s clean up since then but that’s my cold tea.
Man, he’s really getting around these days! I had a dream about him this past weekend!
Swann Arlaud
Any Korean tea? Actors, celebs, regular people lol?
saw xiumin from exo at my local bar a couple of months ago - he’s very tiny, was with his manager and presumably a group of his/their friends and they all went out to smoke about five times in three hours lol eta: you can always tell when you bump into an idol even if you don’t recognise them because they get this immense fear in their eyes that you’ve seen them and are about to terrorise them lmaooo. i always just leave them alone, except for when my friends and i saw holland at seoul pride and quickly wished him a happy pride and thanked him for everything he does for queer visibility here. idk man you don’t wanna be the worst part of their day y’know
Oh boy do you know the han so hee/Ryu Jun yeol/hyeri drama that's been going on for a week?
The Han So Hee- Ryu Jeon Yeol- Hyeri drama. It all started when a Japanese netizen saw Han So Hee and Ryu Jeon Yeol in Hawaii. Aftewards Hyeri posted on her IG stories with the phrase ‘that’s funny’ and Han Do See also posted ‘that also funny’ and she’s not interested on dating taken men. Hyeri unfollowed RJY. Then the following days Han So Hee admitted in a blog that RJY and her are dating and dispatch released the photos in Hawaii. Hyeri apologized and Han So Hee was dropped by some brands.
I didn’t realize Han So Hee was dropped from a few brands. That sucks because she didn’t even do anything wrong. Like her response wasn’t necessary and she was digging herself in a hole a bit with replies, but there was no overlap. Girly must be going through it after her going a bit viral at Paris FW for the wrong reasons too.
Twiggy
Ludwig Goransson? Academy award winning composer for Oppenheimer and Black Panther.
Not tea, but rewatching New Girl I noticed he did the music for that show. Guy’s got range.
911 cast?? I already know about Ryan Guzman’s racism and the guy that refused to get the vaccine. I just started the show and now I’m diving headfirst into wanting to know everything about it lol. When I search the sub it says no results so idk if there’s been tea shared before bc I can’t find it.
Diego Luna?
Alia shawkat?
Matthew Goode!
Matt Czuchry? 👀
How I Met Your Mother cast? Doing a binge rewatch and got me wondering.
Josh Radnor (Ted) got married fairly recently and the wedding and him/his wife sound like absolutely insufferable people. There was a great (hilarious) piece in the NYT about it, if you Google "josh radnor wedding."
This just confirmed that he really is Ted Moseby.
Cobie Smulders husband, Taran Killam, wrote a letter of support for Brian Peck., Drake Bell’s rapist.