The reason I was excited to talk to actress Bellamy Young wasn’t that I watched all seven seasons of Scandal but because I saw her on Broadway in 1997 playing a prostitute in The Life, a little-known Cy Coleman musical I was obsessed with as a teenager. Still, a great deal of our conversation revolved…
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Sarayu Blue was debating a career change—or, at very least, a pivot—when the actress landed the part of Emet on I Feel Bad, NBC’s new comedy from Amy Poehler. “I wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I quit,’” she explains. “It was more of a really deep frustration with the industry and feeling like there was a cap…
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Back in December 2016, director Jon M. Chu and Warner Bros. put out a worldwide casting call for a little movie you may have heard of: Crazy Rich Asians. Hopefuls were asked to upload two-minute audition videos to Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter using the hashtag #CrazyRichAsiansCasting for a chance to be considered for an acting…
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PHOTO: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images There’s no man in town as admired as Gaston; he’s everyone’s favorite guy. And according to a new interview with People, Idris Elba, everyone’s other favorite guy, almost played that “man among men” in this year’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast. After talking with People about his musical theater…
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