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| | Jodie Foster: a lion picked me up in his mouth on set when I was nine | | Added 253 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I know that when celebrities appear on talk shows there?s usually a discussion before taping where the guest and host loosely work out the story theyre going to tell. I?m starting to wonder, though, if Irish talk show host Graham Norton specifically asks his guests if they have a good animal story to share. Just last December Jamie Dornan appeared on The Graham Norton Show and talked about kissing a horse despite knowing he was madly allergic. My world has not been the same ever since. Now we have an entry from Jodie Foster. Appearing on the show to promote Nyad and True Detective, Jodie pulled her anecdote from the 1970s vaults, when she was nine years old and filming Napoleon and Samantha. After ?cut? was called on a take, her scene partner, a lion, picked little Jodie up in his mouth and toted her around for a bit until a trainer intervened. The crew meanwhile, had run for the hills with equipment in tow. Holy crap.
During a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, the actress, 61, revealed to the titular host and his other celebrity guests, which included Olivia Colman, that she experienced the terrifying moment while on the set of the 1972 film Napoleon and Samantha.
In the film, Foster was 9 years old when she starred alongside a young Michael Douglas and Johnny Whitaker. She and Whitaker played kids who go on a journey with their pet lion rather than saying goodbye to it.
Foster recalled three lions being on set: the main lion, a stunt lion and a stand-in lion, the latter of which was the one she had the incident with.
?We finished a take and I was going up the hill and all I remember is I remember seeing his mane come around and then he picked me up sideways, shook me in his mouth and turned me around,? Foster said.
The True Detective: Night Country star continued: ?Every single person on the crew was running in the opposite direction and I?m like sideways watching everybody ? and they took their equipment, too.?
The Silence of the Lambs star retold the event with amusement in her voice, but other guests on stage ? Colman, comedian Wanda Sykes, and Scottish host Lorraine Kelly ? looked on in shock.
?I?m watching everybody leave going, ?What?s happening,?? Foster said, adding that she remembers thinking it was an earthquake because she was shaking.
?The trainer said, ?Drop it? and because the lion was so well-trained, he opened his mouth and dropped me down and I went running,? she said.
But the lion ?came after? Foster, she said, noting he ?put one paw on me and then just waited like ?I go her,?? she said with a laugh.
[From People]
I know it?s not really the point of this story, but I love that there are two child actors involved, but it?s Michael Douglas who?s described as ?young.? Funny! As for the working lions, if you watch the video clip Jodie actually explains the different functions each one played. The ?main? lion was their regular scene partner, because he was very old and no longer in possession of his teeth. The ?stunt? lion was used for roaring and growling shots, presumably close ups that were filmed away from the children. Then the ?stand-in? lion was employed when the ?main? lion could not be persuaded to move. At all. Which is how Mr. Stand-In got called in for this shot. And boy did he milk his moment! Talk about scene stealing, he tried to run off with the star! I hope it was more Jodie?s clothing that the lion grabbed with his mouth rather than her body, and I also hope there really wasn?t that much of a delay until the trainer told him to ?drop it!? Thank goodness Jodie was OK and is now here to tell this story. But that last bit where the lion lays his paw on Jodie and boasts, ?don?t worry, I?ve got her!? ? no offense to the feline, but that move was total canine good-boy energy.
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| | America Ferrera embarrassed her husband by crying when she met Leonardo DiCaprio | | Added 253 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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America Ferrera is having a great year. Her powerful speech in Barbie earned its place in cinematic history as a major cultural moment and she was just nominated for her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. I?m a huge fan of America, so I?m thrilled that she?s getting the recognition she deserves. (I know I say this often but if you?re looking for a new sitcom to binge, go watch Superstore!)
Last week, America appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to talk about the movie, her Oscar nomination, and her different experiences at Oscar events. At one point, she shared that she met Martin Scorsese at an Oscar event and was starstruck saying hi to him, prompting Seth to ask her if that happens often. America responded by telling a story about the time she met Leonardo DiCaprio and cried.
Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Friday, the 39-year-old Barbie star explained that being starstruck will sneak up on you at industry events, before she detailed one celebrity encounter in particular that left her weeping.
As she explained, it usually happens when she meets someone she had a childhood connection to, such as when she met DiCaprio, now 49, at the 2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she won an award for her performance in Ugly Betty.
I watched Titanic in the movie theaters seven times. [I was] 13, 14 [years old], prime time to be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, right? OK, so first time I went to the SAG Awards, and I had won for Ugly Betty, I had been onstage and the whole thing, she recalled. I was feeling kind of like, I belong here, this is cool.
At the awards show, she ended up saying hello to DiCaprio. And I promptly departed [from] him, went around the corner and just started weeping, Ferrera said.
And my husband, then-boyfriend, was with me and he was like, I am so embarrassed right now.
Ferreras spouse, Ryan Piers Williams, whom she wed in 2011, then encouraged Ferrera to stop crying.
I hope Leonardo DiCaprio never sees this, Ferrera told Meyers, who joked that he probably wont.?
[From People]
That is SO funny. I?ve been trying to think of which celebrity I?d be so starstruck that I?d cry if I met them and I don?t know! Honestly, I think it would be Judy Blume. There are celebrities that I?ve admired or would love to meet, but Judy?s books meant so much to me when I was growing up that I could see myself becoming emotional if I ever met her. I would also love to sit in on a Fiona Apple recording session and see how her genius works. Oh, and Gillian Anderson would definitely inspire a lot of feels. I wouldn?t have cried meeting Leo, though. I was more of a Devon Sawa girl growing up. Those five minutes he?s on screen during Casper
You can watch America?s entire segment with Seth below. They tell more funny stories, including Seth joking about which famous person he met that made him cry (at least, I think he was joking!) and which Full House star she was thrilled to have met. She also talks about meeting Tom Hanks and trying to hold it together as he said nice things to her. It?s a fun interview and she comes across as a really nice, down-to-earth person.
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| | Kristen Stewart wore Chanel in Berlin & spoke about the future of LGBTQ films | | Added 253 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kristen Stewart was in Germany for the Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival) over the weekend. She?s promoting Love Lies Bleeding, and she wore Chanel to the premiere (and I think that?s a Chanel outfit at the photocall too). I?m fine with all of this except her hair her hair is getting worse and worse every time I see her. In general though, the premiere look was very buttoned-up for Kristen, especially given that she recently covered Rolling Stone in a jock strap. The RS cover was ?risque,? according to the Hollywood Reporter, although I must have missed the outrage about it. Were people actually in their feelings about it? Anyway, Kristen talked about the RS cover and more during her Berlinale press conference:
Kristen Stewart has defended her risque? photo shoot for the March Rolling Stone magazine cover that went viral and divided audiences on social media platforms.
?The existence of a female body thrusting any type of sexuality at you that?s not designed for exclusively straight males is something people are not super comfy with and so I?m really happy with it,? Stewart told a press conference on Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival for her latest movie, Love Lies Bleeding.
Stewart, who is bisexual, said she enjoyed breaking with traditional stereotypes about what it means to be feminine. ?It?s okay to take different pictures and mix them up in a way that people aren?t used to and want to go and that?s okay, too,? she added. Stewart insisted the androgynous images taken by Collier Schorr for Rolling Stone should not be that big of a deal. ?In fact, it?s pervasive and it?s everywhere and it?s being denied and it?s crazy that there aren?t
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