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On the red carpet before Sunday night’s Emmy Awards, Reese Witherspoon, the producer of the Emmy-winning HBO hit The Morning Show, teased a new project with a Real Housewives star.
Witherspoon wasn’t naming names, but she told Page Six that a fateful flight — and a seat next to the unnamed cast member — got the Hello Sunshine production company founder buzzing.
“We might have a Hello Sunshine project cooking now, but I can’t say anything,” Reese teased, adding of the project, “But it’s cool, it’s very cool.”
Martin Short has earned another Emmy nomination for his role as Oliver Putnam, the ambitious but financially struggling Broadway director on Only Murders in the Building, opposite Selena Gomez and his buddy and longtime comedy partner Steve Martin.
The 74-year-old actor and comedian discussed his six-decade career in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, including how long he’d continue appearing in the Hulu comedy.
Says Short, “In the ’70s, I remember watching Tony Randall on Johnny Carson, and The Odd Couple had been going for four years, and Johnny said, ‘Tony, how long will you stay with this show?’ And Tony just looked at him and said, ‘John, that’s the dumbest question I’ve ever been asked. I will stay with the show as long as it exists because it’s a hit, and a hit is a fluke. In show business, there are singles, there are doubles, there are triples, and there are strikeouts. But a home run is very, very rare.'”
“I totally agree with that,” he tells the outlet.
Short also seemed to dispel rumors of an offscreen romance between him and Only Murders in the Building guest star Meryl Streep, saying they’re just friends.
Only Murders in the Building returns for its fourth season Aug. 27 on Hulu.
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When the final episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones was released five years ago, many viewers found themselves distraught about the conclusion of the series and disappointed with the ending. Series star Kit Harington recently opened up to GQ Hypeabout his thoughts on the final season, the backlash and the future of his character, Jon Snow, within the franchise.
During that final season of GOT, Harington said he believes “mistakes were made” within the story.
“Some people thought it was rushed and I might agree with them,” he said. When asked specifically about the finale episode, he said, “I think there were some interesting choices that didn’t quite work.”
Regardless, Harington isn’t sure there was an alternative to what he called a rushed ending.
“I look at pictures of me in that final season, and I look exhausted. I look spent. I didn’t have another season in me,” he told GQ.
Upon the conclusion of the series, Harington said he was contacted by HBO about a potential spin-off titled Snow. Initially he rejected the proposition, but later reconsidered.
“I thought there could be an interesting and important story about the soldier after the war,” he said. “I felt that there might be something left to say and a story left to tell in a pretty limited way.”
The spin-off has since been called off, mainly because in coming up with a storyline, Harington found himself uninspired.
“I kind of backed out and said, ‘I think if we push this any further and keep developing it we could end up with something that’s not good. And that’s the last thing we all want.’”
Although the franchise propelled his career, Harington also feared being pigeonholed into the character of Jon Snow.
Now you can catch Harington in a new role on HBO’s Industry, where he’s found himself as Sir Henry Muck, a wealthy green-tech CEO. The first episode of season 3 is available to stream on Max.
Vince Vaughn is a testy detective trying to solve a murder in his new series Bad Monkey, premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+, and he tells ABC Audio what intrigued him about the role.
“I just love that he was a guy that, you know, despite the obvious odds, he couldn’t let this thing go,” he says. “He just was like the Energizer Bunny. Never, never going to give up, never going to stop pursuing.”
The series is based on the book by Carl Hiaasen, and while his books have sold millions of copies, Hollywood hasn’t been successful at adapting them to screens, big or small — take the 1996 flop Striptease starring Demi Moore, for example. However, showrunner Bill Lawrence believed streaming could change that.
“Everybody that biffed it in movies thought they had this kind of cool airplane book caper that could be a movie in 90 minutes,” he says. “But the truth is, they’re these surreal satire character pieces, and if you can do them over 10 episodes, you got a chance.”
Like many of Hiaasen’s works, Bad Monkey is set in the Florida Keys — not a bad place to spend a few months filming, according to Vaughn.
“I loved it, it was like, the nature was incredible,” he says. “The Key deer that we have in the show actually came around a lot, on the set. They were beautiful. The water’s amazing. The views, I mean, the world is just esthetically gorgeous and the wildlife was very unique.”
“You do get sucked in when you’re there and there’s a nice breeze coming off the water, so the bugs aren’t as bad,” agrees Lawrence. “I think after three weeks I would start to lose my mind. It’s like being on a deserted island, man.”