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Steven Spielberg’s Secret Talent: Gift-Giving
As any one of his close collaborators will tell you, legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg has another rare gift for, well, giving gifts. “He’s thoughtful in every way,” says Michelle Williams, the Oscarnominated star of The Fabelmans, who plays a character inspired by Spielberg’s mother. “I turned 41 on the set and he gave me a birthday cake from The Milky Way, his mother’s restaurant. There’s always beautiful meaning behind whatever he sends your way.” Williams’ fellow Fabelmans stars also weighed in. “He gave me a film projector and a Fabelmans sleeping bag for wrap gifts,” says Julia Butters.
“I watched Poltergeist as our first movie using the projector from inside my sleeping bag. That was amazing.” Adds Gabriel LaBelle: “He sent me some camera equipment and very nice letters. And after a few [awards shows, his people] sent me bagels from a bakery and then cupcakes.” Paul Dano kept his gifts private but offers this: “This was a film about family and that was the vibration of how we celebrated it — through gifts, thanks and all of that.”
Miles Teller on ‘Bucket List’ Super Bowl Ad With His Wife
After dancing shirtless on the beach in Top Gun: Maverick, Miles Teller has moved indoors but is still very much light on his feet in a new Super Bowl ad for Bud Light. The movie star has teamed with wife Keleigh for “Hold,” a spot that finds the couple turning a living room into a dance floor while she waits on the phone. “They said it was really important for them to show a real relationship, and Keleigh and I are very happily married,” Teller tells THR. “Keleigh and I are pretty private people, but this is kind of a bucketlist thing. It was a no-brainer.” Added bonus: Casting their French bulldog, Bugsy, to share the scene with them. Super Bowl spots aside, Teller will be intently focused on the big game that pits his beloved Philadelphia Eagles against the Kansas City Chiefs. Says the “die-hard” fan: “It’s always Eagles against the world.”
Alicia Silverstone Also Has a Super Bowl Ad — Just Don’t Ask Her Who’s Playing
For a new Super Bowl ad for cashback shopping platform Rakuten, Alicia Silverstone slipped into a yellow tartan skirt to reprise her star-making turn in the iconic 1995 comedy Clueless. But when it comes to the big game, it turns out Silverstone is just as adorably oblivious as Cher. “I don’t know if I’ve ever watched the Super Bowl in my life,” the actress tells THR by phone from Amsterdam, where she’s shooting a movie. “If I didn’t have this commercial for Rakuten, I wouldn’t know when the Super Bowl was.” And don’t ask her to pick a favorite between the Eagles and the Chiefs. “I definitely don’t know who those teams are that you mentioned.
I’m so lame.” As