In brief: Quinta Brunson stars in ‘Saturday Night Live’ promo and more
Quinta Brunson has set up shop in Studio 8H. The promo for her upcoming Saturday Night Live episode has arrived, and it features Brunson pitching new sketch ideas based on the current Trump administration tariffs. One of her ideas involves cast member Heidi Gardner wearing a dress made out of toilet paper. Her catchphrase: “If there’s pee, it should be on me.” Benson Boone will be the musical guest on the episode, which airs May 3 …
Road House 2 has found its director. Guy Ritchie will direct the sequel film, Deadline reports. Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the movie, as he did in its predecessor, which was a reboot of the 1989 film starring Patrick Swayze. The film will mark the third collaboration between Ritchie and Gyllenhaal …
The upcoming DC Studios film Sgt. Rock has been put on the back burner. Variety reports that the film, which was supposed to star Colin Farrell and be directed by Luca Guadagnino, is no longer in development at the studio due to complications in scheduling the exterior locations in the U.K. While the studio hopes to start the project back up in 2026, Guadagnino’s continued involvement with it seems to be up in the air …
The actress, who played Lily Tucker-Pritchett on Modern Family, has come out as bisexual. She shared the announcement to her Instagram on Monday.
Her announcement video used audio from a Modern Family scene where her character, Lily, had a conversation with her parents, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cam (Eric Stonestreet), and aunt Gloria (Sofia Vergara).
In the scene, Gloria tells Lily she is Vietnamese. “No I’m not, I’m gay,” Lily says in response.
Anderson-Emmons lip-synched the quote from the show while other text she wrote appeared on top of the footage. “people keep joking so much abt me being gay when I literally am(I’m bi),” the text reads.
Her caption also shared a message to her fellow members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
“happy pride month to all and to all a goodnight hehehe,” Anderson-Emmons captioned the video.
Anderson-Emmons joined the cast of Modern Family in season 3. She portrayed Lily until the show’s 11th and final season in 2020.
Blake Lively is reflecting on the roller-coaster year she’s had so far.
While speaking on Late Night With Seth Meyers Thursday night, the actress, who stars in the new film Another Simple Favor, touched on the lighter moments that she’s experienced, including working on the highly anticipated film and moments with her family.
She also briefly alluded to her ongoing legal battle with her former It Ends With Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni.
“Without going too into it, this year has been full of the highest highs and the lowest lows of my life,” she began.
She continued, “I see so many women around afraid to speak, especially right now afraid to share their experiences.”
“And fear is by design,” she added. “It’s what keeps us silent. But I also acknowledge that many people don’t have the opportunity to speak. So I do feel fortunate that I’ve been able to. And it’s the women who have had the ability to use their voice that’s kept me strong and helped me in my belief and my fight for the world to be safer for women and girls.”
Lively’s remarks were met with applause before Meyers turned the conversation to her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and his business partner Rob McElhenney, whose professional football club Wrexham A.F.C. recently notched a win over Charlton Athletic F.C., earning Wrexham a promotion to the Sky Bet Championship league.
“It’s unbelievable,” Lively said.
Asked whether she enjoyed attending the team’s games, she responded, “Oh my gosh, I love it so much. The community is, like, the most ferocious, protective, loving, often-drunk family you’ve ever had in your life. … My husband compares it — he’s like, ‘It’s like church, being here,’ and I see what he means.”
Lively’s public legal battle with Baldoni first began in December 2024, when the actress filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the film. Baldoni has denied the allegations.
Later that month, the two filed dueling lawsuits against each other, with Lively alleging in her lawsuit that Baldoni and key stakeholders of the film sexually harassed her and attempted, along with Baldoni’s production company and his crisis PR company, The Agency Group PR, to orchestrate a smear campaign against her.
Baldoni sued Lively, Reynolds, the couple’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, and Sloane’s public relations company, Vision PR, for extortion and defamation, among other things.
In April, Lively honored female survivors of domestic violence and assault in a speech at the TIME100 Gala. She also specifically honored her mother, Willie Elain McAlpin, who she said is “a survivor of the worst crimes someone can commit against a woman.”
“I am here, my mom is here, because that woman not only survived, but she told others how,” Lively said in her speech.
Bob Odenkirk is back in action in the trailer for Nobody 2, the sequel to the 2021 sleeper hit Nobody.
This time around, Odenkirk’s unlikely assassin, Hutch Mansell, just wants to enjoy a vacation with his wife and two kids, but violence seems to follow him wherever he goes.
He finds himself entangled with a crime boss, played by Sharon Stone, and a corrupt sheriff, played by Colin Hanks.
The trailer gives us a taste of how Hutch fights back, including a knockdown brawl in an arcade and a brutal fight sequence on a boat that ends with him landing blows on his opponent while yelling, “I told you, I’m on f****** vacation!”
The film also stars Connie Nielsen, RZA, Michael Ironside and Christopher Lloyd.
