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Kajillionaire: How the Evan Rachel Wood Movie Explores the ‘Mini-Cult’ of Family

Kajillionaire is the first feature film from writer-director Miranda July in which she isn’t also the star. It’s a different experience, stepping outside the frame and choosing instead to cast Evan Rachel Wood as her unconventional leading lady. But as the artistic polymath also tells us over a digital interview, she also “never [has] to stop looking at it from the outside.” The ‘it’ being an intimate portrait of a dysfunctional family of small-time scammers. “I could go further,” July says during her conversation, “I could be more devoted to the actors… I wasn’t in there with them, in the…
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Rachel Weisz To Star In Amazon Reboot Of Dead Ringers

Rachel Weisz will star in a TV series re-imagining of Dead Ringers, director David Cronenberg’s classic 1988 film, according to The Wrap. Amazon Studios and Annapurna TV are backing the project, which Weisz will also be an executive producer on, along with Normal People lead writer Alice Birch. The series will mark the Oscar-winning actress’ first role for TV. In the original film, Jeremy Irons played successful twin gynecologists named Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who share some of their patients sexually without the women knowing which man is which. But when Beverly becomes emotionally attached to an actress (Genevieve Bujold),…
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Link Tank: Actresses Who Auditioned for Friends’ Rachel Green

Jennifer Aniston played Rachel Green on Friends, but she wasn’t the studios’ first choice. Here are six actresses who auditioned for the role. “NBC’s Friends has been off the air since 2004, but that hasn’t stopped people from watching and rewatching the beloved sitcom more than 15 years later. And while it’s hard to imagine the show without the original six cast members in their iconic roles now, there were other actors up for those parts early on.” Read more at Mental Floss. Karl Urban was in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as a stormtrooper, according to the actor…
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The Rachel Divide

Rachel Dolezal ignited an unprecedented media storm when a local news station in Spokane, WA outed her as a white woman who had been living as the black president of the NAACP. Since the controversy erupted, director Laura Brownson and team exclusively filmed with Rachel, her sons and her adopted sister Esther, capturing the intimate, verite life story of a damaged character who lands squarely in the cross-hairs of race and identity politics in America ? and exploring how that character still provokes negative reactions from millions who see her as the ultimate example of white privilege. [Netflix]Rated: Not RatedRelease…
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