Barry Keoghan joins the gang in ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie
Barry Keoghan has joined the growing cast of Netflix’s forthcoming Peaky Blinders movie.
The streaming service just confirmed that the Saltburn and Banshees of Inisherin star will appear alongside Cillian Murphy, who is reprising as his gangster Tommy Shelby.
As previously confirmed by ABC Audio, Dune franchise veteran Rebecca Ferguson will also appear in the movie, which gets underway later this year.
Netflix teases the film will be the “epic continuation of the multi-award-winning, six-season gangster saga.”
Show creator — and the movie’s writer — Steven Knight previously called it “an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story,” adding, “No holds barred. Full on Peaky Blinders at war.”
The series initially ran from 2013 to 2022 and was set in Birmingham, England, between 1919 and 1934. It centered on Tommy and his family making a name for themselves on the mean streets of England.
Series veteran director Tom Harper will be back behind the camera for the Murphy co-produced film.
Joan Vassos‘ season of The Golden Bachelorette kicked off on Wednesday night in a special way.
The 61-year-old school administrator, mother and grandmother, who is the first ever Golden Bachelorette, met her suitors vying for her heart and bonded with them over shared interests, experiences and a love for pickleball.
Prior to meeting the men, Vassos opened up about her first love, her late husband John Vassos, who died from pancreatic cancer. Vassos said she first met him in 1983 when she was 20 and called him a “special guy” who “made me feel special and safe every single day of my life.”
“No one’s gonna replace John,” she said. “He lives in a place in my heart and in my mind that is just his. But I have a big heart and there is room for somebody else.”
“I don’t know if you could have two great loves in one lifetime, but I’m hoping,” Vassos added.
At the mansion, Vassos was introduced to the men as they each stepped out of the limos. The first gentleman she was introduced to was Pascal, 69, a salon owner from Chicago, Illinois, whose French accent she found charming.
Others who impressed Vassos during their first meeting included Chock, 60, an insurance executive from Wichita, Kansas, who arrived with a mason jar of his chicken noodle soup, Jack, 68, a caterer from Chicago, Illinois, who sang Frank Sinatra‘s “My Way” for Vassos, and David, 68, a rancher from Austin, Texas, who arrived like prince charming on a horse.
After getting to know the men more inside of the mansion during sweet one-on-one moments and a chaotic impromptu pickleball tournament with some of the men, Vassos found a connection with Keith, 62, a girl dad from San Jose, California, who arrived at the mansion in a station wagon. She gave him the first impression rose.
During the rose ceremony, Vassos stepped away when she felt overwhelmed and told host Jesse Palmer that it’s “not easy” sending some of the men home. But at the end of the night, Vassos said goodbye to five men.
See whose journey on the show continues below:
Dan, 64, a private investor from Naples, Florida Jonathan, 61, a shipping consultant from Oakland, Iowa Mark, 67, an army veteran from Leesville, Louisiana Guy, 66, an ER doctor from Reno, Nevada Charles K., 62, a portfolio manager from Rancho Palos Verdes, California Gil, 60, an educator from Mission Viejo, California Gary, 65, a retired finance executive from Palm Desert, California Pascal, 69, a salon owner from Chicago, Illinois Chock, 60, an insurance executive from Wichita, Kansas Kim, 69, a retired navy captain from Seattle, Washington Christopher, 64, a contractor from West Babylon, New York Gregg, 64, a retired university VP from Longboat Key, Florida Charles L., 66, a retired financial analyst from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jordan, 61, a sales manager from Chicago, Illinois Bob, 66, a chiropractor from Marina Del Rey, California Michael, 65, a retired banking CEO from Denver, North Carolina Jack, 68, a caterer from Chicago, Illinois
Shailene Woodley stars in the new limited series adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s New York Times bestselling nonfiction book, Three Women.
The show follows Woodley as Gia, a character loosely based on Taddeo, as she interviews three different women from across the United States, exploring their varied sexual and emotional experiences.
Woodley told ABC Audio that after she read Three Women, she felt Taddeo had written everything she “felt but didn’t know how to articulate.”
According to Woodley, crafting a character based on Taddeo was more than just collaborating with her.
“It wasn’t a collaboration as much as it felt like a connection and then a true desire to honor what our natural connection elicited,” Woodley said. “Gia is not Lisa, but Gia also isn’t me. It almost felt like she was the intersection of both of us.”
Taddeo wholeheartedly agreed, saying Woodley’s performance made her feel seen “in the most dynamic way.”
“Shailene’s performance made me feel seen without even, like, mimicking or mirroring me,” Taddeo said. “She’s one of the most talented actors out there, but she also has one of the warmest hearts.”
The show covers many serious topics ripe for discussion. So, what does Woodley hope viewers take from it?
“I hope that they walk away feeling a little less alone and maybe feeling like it isn’t weird or obscure to go through things that are very normal, everyday experiences that women have, like miscarriages or, like, having sex on your period or having body dysmorphia,” Woodley said. “I don’t know one woman who hasn’t been through one … if not all of those things. And I think it’s important that we take these situations that have become such taboo in our culture and really normalize them.”
Kelly Preston, the late wife of John Travolta and the mother of their children, Ella Bleu, Benjamin and the late Jett, is memorialized in a new single and music video from her daughter.
According to Ella Bleu’s reps, “Little bird” is a “deeply personal tribute” to the actress, who died of breast cancer at 57 in 2020.
Both the song and the video, which is made up of home video snippets and snapshots of Ella and her family over the years, “captures the tender bond she shared with her mother and honors the profound impact Kelly had on her life.”
The 24-year-old’s song, which is available for download on streaming platforms, is described as “a journey of finding yourself as a young person growing up in the public eye” and “a moving expression of love, loss, and remembrance.”