Sylvester Stallone reportedly up for seasons 3 and 4 of ‘Tulsa King’
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Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan‘s other hit show, Tulsa King, could reportedly be headed to a third and fourth season — and beyond.
According toVariety, star and executive producer Sylvester Stallone is nearing a deal for at least two more seasons of the Paramount+ series, which has him starring as a displaced East Coast mob boss out of water in Oklahoma.
That said, there’s no official word from the streamer, and the series has yet to be renewed.
Tulsa King also stars Andrea Savage, Garrett Hedlund, Vincent Piazza, Martin Starr, Dana Delany and Annabella Sciorra. Yellowstone vet Neal McDonough and Marvel movie baddie Frank Grillo joined for the current second season.
Colin Farrell is open to exploring more of the criminal underworld in The Penguin.
After a stint as underworld criminal Oswald “Oz” Cobb in the hit HBO show, Farrell expressed an openness to returning to the show in the right situation in an interview published Sunday. Farrell’s role was a reprisal of the Penguin, which he first played in 2022’s The Batman starring Robert Pattinson as Gotham’s reluctant hero.
“If there’s a great idea [for season 2], and the writing was really muscular and as strong or stronger on the page than it was in the first season, of course I would do it,” Farrell said in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
The Penguin, which debuted in September and recently released its final episode of the first season, centers around Farrell’s character, a villain overlord in Gotham.
Farrell said much of his decision to continue in the role is focused on the audience reception.
“For me, the bar for success is not very high. It’s, ‘Do most people like it?’ — just the simplicity of that. I love being in things that are critically approved — it’s much better than the alternative — but I’ve been around long enough [to know] that it’s the audience who are really the most important critics,” Farrell told the outlet.
Farrell starred in The Penguin alongside Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Deirdre O’Connell and more. The actor also expressed gratitude for the role and its rich history.
“I always loved the material, and it was never lost on me the privilege I felt to inhabit a character that’s lived so long in comic book form originally and then through various iterations on TV and in film,” he told the outlet.
While Jason Kelce can already be seen on ESPN as the host of Monday Night Countdown, the now-retired former Philadelphia Eagles All-Pro center will be testing out his game as a late-night host.
They Call It Late Night With Jason Kelce will kick off a five-episode run on Jan. 4 at 1 a.m. ET on ESPN, with the fifth episode, on Feb. 1, beginning at 1:30 a.m.
The sports network teases “an immersive experience … showcasing the Super Bowl champion’s oversized personality and infectious humor mixed with celebrity guests from the football world and beyond, in front of a live audience of NFL fans.”
“The show’s format will position Kelce and his guests to dissect NFL topics and storylines, mainly focused on that weekend’s games” and will include “active participation from the fans in attendance.”
The show will be available on ESPN+, ESPN YouTube and the Jason Kelce channel on YouTube presented by ESPN following its initial ESPN airing.
Jason and his younger brother, Travis Kelce, have been making their mark off the field for some time: Travis can be seen in the FX series Grotesquerie and also hosts the Prime Video series Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity?
Jason has appeared in numerous commercials, in addition to hosting the sibling NFL stars’ podcast New Heights, and making a headline-grabbing entry in the ring in the most recent WrestleMania.
Edward Norton and Monica Barbaro are sharing how they got into character to play music icons Pete Seeger and Joan Baez in the new film A Complete Unknown.
Though it’s a biopic centering on Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) in the early ’60s, Norton told Good Morning America the film is “a very intensive look at that window [of time] and the collisions between [Dylan] and Pete Seeger and Joan Baez and a number of others who were at the heart of that folk music scene” in New York City.
Luckily, the two were able to speak to 83-year-old Baez herself to glean more about who their characters were back in the day, as Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94.
“I had met her through musician friends, and so I felt comfortable enough to call her,” Norton said of Baez. “It’s funny, there are people who were around at that time who maybe are a little tired of talking about Dylan, but nobody’s tired of talking about Pete Seeger. They really revered and loved Pete, and Joan gave me some wonderful insights into him.”
Barbaro said she spoke to Baez as well, saying she was “lucky that she was willing to give me some of her time.”
“When I got on the phone with her, she said she was saying to a friend she was hoping I would reach out, so I felt very validated in my decision, because you never know,” Barbaro said. “It can be a really daunting task to take on a role like this when you admire someone so much.”
“She’s still on a pedestal for me,” she continued, “I felt so lucky that she was willing to speak to me.”
Aside from his and Barbaro’s roles, Norton praised Chalamet for being in an “amazingly consumed and profoundly committed state” during his performance, adding that he was “existing within the skin of the character.”
“The whole company, I think, benefited from the bubble of concentration that he created,” Norton said. “Timothée’s transformation in it is really a monumental performance. It’s just truly a phenomenal performance.”
