Julia Stiles quietly welcomes her third child
As Julia Stiles gears up for her directorial debut with “Wish You Were Here,” she’s splitting her time with another project she’s kept under wraps.
She told the New York Times she was “a bundle of emotions” directing her first movie as she welcomed her third child, now 5 months old.
The “10 Things I Hate About You” actor did not reveal the name or sex of her baby, saying of this recent pregnancy, “I didn’t really talk about it.” Stiles also shares sons Strummer, 6, and Arlo, 2, with husband Preston Cook, whom she married in 2017.
Though she stayed mum about her newborn, she reflected on how motherhood had surprisingly been “great training” for directing.
“You have to think 10 steps ahead but also be in the present moment. You have to be good at time management. You have to be sensitive to people’s needs and guide them, but also hold a boundary,” Stiles said in the New York Times interview.
Stiles wrapped production on “Wish You Were Here” in late February, as Deadline reported. The film is based on the Renée Carlino bestseller and was also adapted for the screen by Stiles. The second-chance romance follows Charlotte, an unlucky-in-love waitress who reunites with a man she believes ghosted her after an idyllic first date — only to find out he is terminally ill.
This year not only marks Stiles’ directing debut but also the 25th anniversary of what may be her best-known role: Kat Stratford in the teen film “10 Things I Hate About You,” loosely based on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.”
“Thrones” scene gave Waddingham claustrophobia
Septa Unella’s torture scene in the Season 6 finale of “Game of Thrones” was — for many Cersei Lannister fans, at least — satisfying to watch.
But it was quite traumatic to film, according to Hannah Waddingham, who portrayed the oftmemed villain. In the scene, Lannister (Lena Headey) exacts revenge on her tormentor by pouring wine on her face and demanding she confess her sins. Filming lasted for 10 hours.
“‘Thrones’ gave me something I wasn’t expecting from it, and that is chronic claustrophobia,” Waddingham said during an appearance Tuesday on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
Waddingham said she was “actually waterboarded” while filming.
“It was horrific,” said the “Ted Lasso” star. “I’m strapped to a table with all these leather straps and I couldn’t lift up my head ‘cause they said, ‘That’s going to be too obvious that it’s loose.’ And I was like, ‘Right, I’d quite like it to be loose.’ ”
The process was so brutal that, at one point, Headey purposely aimed her pour away from her co-star’s face, she previously admitted to Business Insider.
Waddingham told Colbert that the “Game of Thrones” cast’s commitment to such gruesome scenes is “the reason why I don’t believe it’s touched yet in terms of the cinematography of it, for a series.”
Sacha Baron Cohen, Isla Fisher call it quits
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher say they filed for divorce last year after more than 20 years together.
The English “Borat” star and the Australian “Wedding Crashers” actor who married in 2010 announced their split Friday in joint Instagram posts that showed them together in tennis outfits.
“After a long tennis match lasting over twenty years, we are finally putting our racquets down,” the posts said. “In 2023 we jointly filed to end our marriage.”
It is not clear where or exactly when the couple filed to end their marriage, or when the divorce would have become final.
“We have always prioritized our privacy, and have been quietly working through this change,” the posts said.
Fisher, 52, and Cohen, 48, met at a party in Sydney in 2001, and became engaged in 2004.
They have a 16-year-old daughter, a 13-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son.
Sequel to “Food, Inc.” documentary set for release
Sixteen years after “Food, Inc.” changed the way many think about where their food comes from, filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunited with “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” author Michael Pollan and “Fast Food Nation” writer Eric Schlosser to take another look at the current state of food in the U.S.
With a special focus on the rights of farmworkers and the downsides of corporate consolidation and ultra-processed foods, “Food, Inc. 2” will be available on VOD starting Friday, April 12.