Matthew Morrison will be making his directorial debut on the hit Fox TV show’s eight episode this season. The actor broke the news recently during an acoustic set and Q&A at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles for its Spotlight series. There’s no word on the plot line for the episode but the episode that Matthew will direct is going to air some time in November. I wonder what the story for that episode will be and what kind of treatment he’s going to do for it. In any case, good luck to Matthew! He’s directing friends and family so it should come easy to him at least.
Actress Mila Kunis has said that she has always managed to stay grounded in Hollywood because she is surrounded by supportive family and friends. The 27-year-old says having a breakdown was never an ‘option’ for her. Mila told British Glamour magazine: “There was never an option for me to go into a downward spiral because my parents are incredible people. I went to work, I went home, my friends weren’t in the industry. My best friend has been my best friend since I was nine years old. So I never thought of myself as anything other than a 15-, 16-, 17-year-old. What I do and who I am are not the same person. “But sure, you can get lost in it. And it’s less to do with the job and more to do with the world. This industry can eat you alive.” Kunis also added that she will never let her career take over her life. The Friends with Benefits star added: “No one’s curing cancer in this industry, remember? It’s not changing the world. It’s just entertainment, an art form of escapism. My friends and family are my number one thing in life, but you need a healthy balance.”
TV beauty Brooke Burke has reportedly tied the knot with long-time beau David Charvet while on holiday in St Barts. People.com reports that the couple, who have two children, got married on the idyllic island on Friday following a five-year engagement. Stunning Burke, who hosts ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, was photographed in a bikini enjoying the beach with her family during the trip. The morning after the reported nuptials, the 39-year-old hinted at her happy news. She tweeted: “Morning tweeties. Waiting for LA to wake up….big news to share.” The couple are parents to son Shaya, 3, and daughter Rain, 4, while Burke also has daughters Sierra, 9 and Neriah, 11, from her previous marriage to Garth Fisher. So why have the couple married now after the long engagement? “We started talking about why to do it at this point in our relationship,” Burke blogged last year. “‘Do you want forever?’ David asked. ‘Yes, I need forever,’ I said. It was just that simple. I would like to have a husband.”
Justin Timberlake recently admitted to having quite a love for smoking marijuana and apparently, the singer/actor and his “Friends with Benefits” co-stars Mila Kunis and Woody Harrelson got all sorts of blazed together during production of the movie. Justin recently revealed in an interview “Everybody wants to know: ‘Did you smoke pot with Woody?’ We did! He gets the most gut-busting laughs.” I’m actually willing to bet that they spent more time being stoned on set that they did sober. That’s the only way I can explain how they got through making a carbon copy of a movie that was already released.
Actor Channing Tatum has been cast in a new stripper movie, Magic Mike, by Steven Soderbergh. The 31-year-old actor used to be an exotic dancer at an all-male joint in 1999 and has now signed up to star in the new flick, which is about a male stripper and his protege. According to The Huffington Post, Tatum said in a statement: “This was a wild and pivotal time in my life and I couldn’t be more thrilled to go down the rabbit hole with Steven.” Soderbergh has also been speaking about the new movie. He said: “When Channing talked to me about this, I thought it was one of the best ideas I’d ever heard for a movie. I said I wanted in immediately. “It’s sexy, funny and shocking. We’re using Saturday Night Fever as our model, so hopefully we’re on the right track.”
Josh Hopkins has dismissed reports that his holiday to St Barts with Courteney Cox was a romantic getaway. The Cougar Town co-stars were recently pictured on the beach together, but Cox and her estranged husband David Arquette were both quick to set the record straight. Now Hopkins has told Access Hollywood Live: “I would admit, if I saw that [photo] somewhere, [I'd think] those two must be dating. They’re in St Barts. I get it. “But the way it happened [Courteney] said, ‘I want to go to the beach. You should come with me to St Barts.’ I was like I don’t know. And then the creator [of Cougar Town] Bill Lawrence said, ‘If I could go anywhere, I’d go to St Barts.’ So I said, this sounds great! Let’s do it. “There were a lot of people with us. But the only ones you seethey just frame us two. So it’s a story. And it’s not true.” “It’s not like I’m so upset about it,” he added. “I mean, she’s really hot. But it’s just not true.”
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth has admitted he bulked up big time to star in new film Thor. The 27-year-old has said he ate non-stop to gain the 20lbs. Speaking in the May issue of Men’s Health, Hemsworth said: “I feel as if I’ve been busy, but all I have been doing is eating all day. “Eating when you’re not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.” He added: “I ask myself, ‘Why am I eating this chicken? For protein. Why am I eating this broccoli? For vitamins and fibre. Why am I eating this Ho Ho?’” And over-eating wasn’t the only lifestyle change Chris made. He said: “It wasn’t until Thor that I started lifting weights. “It was all pretty new to me.” Thor hits cinemas in the US on May 6.
Bond girl Olga Kurylenko has signed up to star in new thriller The Expatriate. The actress will feature opposite Liana Liberato and Aaron Eckhart in the film, which is being directed by Philipp Stolzl from an original script by Arash Amel. According to Variety, Kurylenko will be playing the role of a CIA agent who is assigned to find her ex-CIA partner and lover, played by Eckhart. The movie is currently being filmed in Montreal, Canada, and will move to Brussels in May. Kurylenko is best known for starring opposite Daniel Craig in the 2009 movie Quantum of Solace.
Jennifer Garner has admitted that she is “very familiar” with Russell Brand’s private parts. The pair star in the remake of Arthur, and the actress said she was required to get up close and personal with Brand’s anatomy for one of the scenes. She told David Letterman: “He was in his underwear, and they were very handsomely made. It was Russell and me, right behind him, on all fours. “We did it over and over again, so I spent two days just right up against it. So I’m very familiar, in my own way, with the anatomy of Russell Brand – and it’s good.”
Bearded Aussie star Chris Hemsworth has got suited and booted for the cover of GQ Australia and told the mag it was ‘ridiculous’ kissing Natalie Portman for their new action movie Thor. Asked what it was like kissing the Oscar winner, the 28-year-old replied, “Ridiculous. “Going from kissing Natalie Portman to working with Anthony Hopkins — the whole experience was like, ‘What the f**k am I doing here?’ “But in a good way. It literally seemed like last week I was still working on Home And Away.” Talking about having his brother, Liam, in Los Angeles as well, he added, “Having my brother here in the States is awesome. We’re competitive in healthy ways and as supportive as we can be.”
Thor star Chris Hemsworth believes the upcoming movie has a “real sense of humour”. The movie is set to be released in the summer and he also said it was good to shoot the flick with Natalie Portman. Hemsworth told MTV News: “I shot Thor a year ago, was cast six months before that, so it’s been a long time of anticipation, but it’s all heating up and we’re very excited.” He added: “The stuff you see in the trailers with Natalie Portman, there’s a real sense of humour to it, which I don’t think we expected at the time.” The movie also stars Anthony Hopkins and is directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Channing Tatum could be starring in Peter Pan Begins, an origin story of the Neverland boy who never grew up. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Eagle actor will either star in or produce the movie that will be written by Billy Ray. The film is said to have been pitched to the major studios in Hollywood yesterday. Although known mainly for his action roles, the 30-year-old has showed off his softer side in Dear John, where he played a soldier who wrote love letters to a girl back home.
Actor Topher Grace has called his female co-stars in hit movie Valentine’s Day “the hottest girls in the world”. Talking about the 2010 film, which also starred Oscars host Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner and Jessica Biel, he said: “That was the best press junket ever. It was me and all the hottest girls in the world. Except for Emily Blunt, who is the other hottest girl in the world.” In an interview with US daytime TV show, Live With Regis And Kelly, the 32-year-old Predators star also revealed that veteran Hollywood star Shirley MacLaine didn’t know who he was — even though they appeared in Valentine’s Day together. After describing how the 76-year-old actress had no idea who he was when they first met, Grace admitted that she was none the wiser after they had finished filming the movie. “I saw her at the premiere and she said, ‘Hello, great to meet you’. So I don’t know what that was all about. I wasn’t memorable enough, that’s my fault,” he joked. The former That ’70s Show star is currently starring in and producing new movie Take Me Home Tonight, with Anna Faris and Tony Award winner Dan Fogler.
Matt Damon and Emily Blunt revealed that their seven-second screen kiss was ‘very, very, very, very uncomfortable’. Speaking on US morning TV programme, The Today Show, veteran actor Matt, 40, said: “By the time we shot that scene, it was really one of the last things we shot and we were really great friends and our spouses were really great friends and it was very, very, very, awkward.” The Bourne star and British actress Emily, 28, got into fits of giggles talking about their new film, The Adjustment Bureau. The Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting actor has been in 50 films but never had a romantic lead role until now. Speaking of the cringe-worthy smooch he said: “John Toll, the great cinematographer and also a friend of ours, he was shooting the film and he was equally uncomfortable. He was saying ‘guys it’s only seven seconds, can you just give me seven seconds?’” The Devil Wears Prada star Emily, described how she had to train hard for her part as a dancer. “It was the most demanding thing, physically that I have done,” she said, looking at her co-star. Matt said that his time on set was a little bit more relaxed: “I was not much encouragement because I was by the craft service table eating Ring Dings [cakes] just looking at her going ‘wow that looks tough’.” The Adjustment Bureau opens in the US on March 4th.
Christian Bale has admitted that be finds the whole concept of stardom ‘embarrassing’. The 37-year-old Fighter star said that he realises that his job comes with more perks than most. He told The Mirror: “It’s embarrassing to be a star. Most people look at you like, ‘That’s not a f**king job, is it?’ “I have a very sissy job where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my make-up, and I say lines and people spoil me rotten.” He went on to explain why he doesn’t like doing interviews. “I don’t want people to know me because that [messes] up my job,” he said. “If you know about somebody it gets in the way of watching the guy as a character. “I have to admit that it’s contradictory that I like being invisible. ‘A f**king actor who says he wants to be invisible? Oh yeah, good choice, mate!’”
Actor Jeremy Piven said he ‘got along really well’ with co-star Miley Cyrus during shooting of their new movie. The Entourage star said they had great fun on the set of new film So Undercover, which also stars Kelly Osbourne. He said to E! Online: “I think I must be an 18-year-old girl because we got along really well. It was just so much fun. “I had so much fun with her and we had great chemistry. It was really really weird – we’re like polar opposites.” He added: “You know, you can judge her, but what were you doing when you were 18? She’s kind of amazing. There’s something so incredibly refreshing about someone who is exactly who they are. “There’s nothing pretentious about her. She’s this force. She loves to laugh.”
James Bond film-makers reportedly want Daniel Craig’s new lover Rachel Weisz to star alongside him in the next instalment of the franchise. According to The Sun, rather than being set to play a Bond girl, the 40-year-old actress is up for a role as the spy’s arch. An insider told the newspaper, “Casting Rachel was going to be a surprise twist as everyone would assume she’d be a Bond girl when really she would play a villain. But the fly in the ointment is that they are now dating.” The couple were spotted enjoying a winter break together after both split for their respective partners late last year.
Dexter star Julia Stiles has said her co-star Michael C. Hall is an ‘inspiring actor’ and has made her a better actress. The pair star together in the US show Dexter and she recently gushed about him at the Golden Globes premiere. She said to Hollyscoop: “He’s terrific, all my scenes are with him. He’s just a really inspiring actor.” Stiles added: “I think he made me a better actress. He is so sweet and it was great.” Hall got the all-clear from cancer last year and Stiles said: “Yeah, he was totally healthy when we were working together, you know onward and upward.”
Jake Gyllenhaal is rumoured to have already moved on from rumoured girlfriend Taylor Swift after he was spotted “flirting all night” with Camilla Belle. The pair were said to have been inseparable at the Art of Elysium Heaven Gala, and an eyewitness told Radar Online: “They hung out together the entire night. They were talking intimately, and laughing. There really seemed to be chemistry, a connection. Jake and Camilla were flirting all night. And before he left, I saw him very affectionately touching her arm. She is definitely his type.”
