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‘Andor’s Denise Gough Teases Bad Romance For Dedra & Syril In Season 2: “Her Boyfriend Is The Empire!”

“There’s a bit of freak in each other.”

So teases Denise Gough, who plays the steely, Imperial lieutenant career woman Dedra Meero about her character’s season 2 relationship with Empire underling Syril Karn, played by Kyle Soller. Syril was last seen saving Dedra’s hide in the season one finale crowd melee, the duo climaxing in an almost Han Solo-Princess Leia-like kissy-kiss embrace. Deadline spoke to Gough at the Disney+ Hollywood Andor season 2 kickoff event.

“There’s someone for e...
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Diego Luna On Saying Goodbye To Cassian Andor In Season 2: “It’s Sad, It’s Painful, But Also I Know How Lucky I Am”

It’s a bittersweet farewell for Diego Luna.

As the Star Wars actor walked the red carpet for tonight’s second season premiere event for Lucasfilm/Disney+‘s Andor, held at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre, he bid adieu to the character he originated in 2016’s Rogue One.

“I said goodbye to this character when we wrapped,” he told Deadline. “I had a beautiful opportunity to talk to the crew, to talk to the cast. [Creator] Tony Gilroy gave these beautiful words, we had a drink, we hugged, we...
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Lily-Rose Depp Details “Incredibly Empowering” ‘Nosferatu’ Role As Bill Skarsgård & Robert Eggers Reflect On 10-Year Journey To Remake

With her latest big screen role, Lily-Rose Depp had the chance to flip the script on a classic film with a feminist skew.

At Thursday’s Los Angeles premiere of writer/director Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, the actress explained to Deadline what makes her character Ellen Hutter “so incredibly empowering” in the remake of the 1922 German vampire silent film, which was made by writer Henrik Galeen and director F.W. Murnau.

“Ellen’s perspective is one that we’ve never gotten to see in such a c...
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Nicholas Hoult Teases Lex Luthor Role In ‘Superman’: “Hopefully We’ve Done Something Special”

Nicholas Hoult is teasing his Superman role as Lex Luthor in the upcoming DC Studios film.

During the AFI Fest, Hoult talked to Deadline about working on the superhero movie where he will play the villain.



“I’m a fan of Superman and Lex Luthor as a character, so hopefully we’ve done something special with it that people enjoy,” Hoult told us.



Hoult also praised the film’s director, James Gunn, who is also the co-head of DC Studios.



“I just loved working with James Gunn,” he s...
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‘Alien: Romulus’ Filmmaker Fede Alvarez Teases His Vision For ‘Alien Vs. Predator’

Alien: Romulus filmmaker Fede Alvarez is totally open to doing a revamped Alien vs. Predator movie, but he’ll need a little help.



“Maybe it’s something I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan,” Alvarez said. That friend being Dan Tratchenberg who helmed the widely watched Predator 2022 prequel Prey for Hulu and is already working on another standalone pic in the franchise.



“Maybe we should do like Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did with Dusk Till Dawn. I’ll direct a half, and he’ll dir...
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Judge Reinhold On Being Cast In Original ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Before Eddie Murphy Signed On – ‘Axel F’ Premiere

Judge Reinhold is going four strong in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, and when we caught up with him last Thursday, regaled us with memories of what the project was like before Eddie Murphy arrived.



Specifically, Reinhold had already signed on to the original Beverly Hills Cop as Detective Billy Rosewood when the Jerry Bruckheimer production had Sylvester Stallone attached.



“We weren’t a comedy when we started, it was an action movie for Sylvester Stallone,” Reinhold told Deadline...
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‘Juror #2’ Team On How Clint Eastwood’s Latest Is “For All People, Americans And Beyond” & Whether Pic Is Filmmaker’s Last

Is Juror #2 Clint Eastwood”’s swan song?

“Who knows? He’s been saying that for a long time” exclaimed Eastwood’s longtime producer Tim Moore last night at the world premiere of the Warner Bros movie. Juror #2 was played the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as AFI Fest’s closing night film.

Moore continued, “At 94 years old, he’s still making films. I’ve been with him for 23 years. I always said I’d retire before he did and I haven’t retired yet.” Moore credits with Eastwood including t...
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‘Civil War’ Premiere: Nick Offerman On If Donald Trump Inspired His POTUS Take & If He Would Run For Office With Megan Mullally

Nick Offerman plays the POTUS in the dystopian action film Civil War, but although some liken his character to Donald Trump, the actor didn’t think about him during filming.



“Honestly, no,” Offerman told Deadline during the film’s premiere. “When you see the movie, it’s so unattached to anything in modern politics, not only in our country but any country. It’s like doing a play where I’m playing a baseball player, and people say, ‘Did you ever think of your favorite team, the Cubs?’ And I s...
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‘One Piece’ Stars Iñaki Godoy & Jacob Romero Tease Season 2, Hope For “Bigger Creatures” & Urge Danny DeVito To Guest Star

In what was probably their first Hollywood red carpet appearance post-strike, One Piece cast members Iñaki Godoy and Jacob Romero showed up at the premiere for Netflix‘s new live-action series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and teased where season 2 could go.



While the duo largely remained mum on start of production plans for Season 2, which is expected to begin filming relatively soon, and whether they have seen scripts. One Piece co-showrunner Matt Owens told Deadline back in October that...
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‘The Fall Guy’ L.A. Premiere: Ryan Gosling Calls Film A “Love Letter” & A “Giant Campaign To Get Stunts An Oscar”

Ryan Gosling stars in The Fall Guy and during the L.A. premiere of the David Leitch-directed film called the movie “love letter to the stunt community.”



“They are the hardest working people in show business,” Gosling said before the screening. “This movie is just a giant campaign to get stunts an Oscar.”



He continued, “We are the face of these films, but the crews really make the movies, and this is a love letter to them.”



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Daniel Dae Kim Reflects On The End Of ‘Good Doctor’ & If He’ll Reprise His Character In Final Season

Daniel Dae Kim is sharing his thoughts about the upcoming seventh and final season of The Good Doctor, on which he serves as an executive producer. “It’s been a wonderful ride”, he told Deadline in an interview on the red carpet Thursday night at the premiere of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Kim portrays Fire Lord Ozai in the Netflix live-action series.



“Seven years nowadays is actually saying a lot,” Kim remarked on the length of The Good Doctor‘s run, noting that this is his third series t...
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‘The Last Airbender’ Star Ken Leung Thought He Was Auditioning For James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’

The auditions for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, which premiered Feb. 22 on the streamer, were very cloak and dagger.



Netflix went to great lengths to keep the auditions secret – including writing fake scenes set in a bank. That caused some confusion among the auditoners.



And for Ken Leung, who wasn’t familiar with the original Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar had a different connotation, evoking the Na’vi from James Cameron’s blockbuster franchise.



“When I first heard...