Emma Roberts and Evan Peters have reportedly ended their relationship, Us Weeklyreports. The couple first started dating in 2012 and became engaged the next year—but that being said, their relationship status has been both on and off over the years.
As of 2017, though, a source confirmed to Us Weekly Roberts and Peters were firmly together and engaged. They attended Vanity Fair‘s Oscars after-party 2018 looking very much like a couple.
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But now is a different story. According to one of Us Weekly‘s sources, Roberts has reportedly moved on with actor Garrett Hedlund. The pair were recently spotted spending time together in Los Angeles.
“Garrett and Emma have been friends, but this is new, casual, and just a couple of weeks old,” the source says.
You probably recognize Hedlund from HBO’s series Mosaic, where he played Joel Hurley. He’s also appeared in movies like Triple Frontier and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, which starred Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Joe Awyn.
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Don’t worry, though: The source also alleges Roberts and Peters intend to remain friends, and that it “wasn’t a bad breakup.” “Emma and Evan were heading for a split and now are just friends,” the source says. “Evan has moved out.”
News of the reported split comes after the pair starred together in American Horror Story: Apocalypse. Peters has appeared on every season of AHS since the first in 2011. Meanwhile, Roberts has been in Coven, Freakshow, Cult, and Apocalypse, and is slated to star in the upcoming ninth season, which is still untitled. She also had a major role in Ryan Murphy’s short-lived Fox series Scream Queens.
Neither Emma Roberts nor Evan Peters has confirmed this news, so take it with a grain of salt for now. And, of course, it’s important to respect everyone’s privacy at this time.
Get excited, people, because the first trailer for Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson‘s new movie, Late Night, is officially here.
The film has been riding a wave of buzz since it premiered at Sundance and was subsequently purchased by Amazon Studios for a record-breaking $13 million. This new trailer sets the scene and the tone (sharp and hilarious, of course) as Thompson’s character, Katherine Newbury, is in danger of being ousted from her long-running late-night talk show. Enter Kaling’s Molly, who provides a perspective that’s lacking in the all-white male writers room. Katherine hopes Molly can help shake things up enough to save the show. “You’re a little old and a little white,” says Molly of her new boss. And Katherine says, “I need your pushiness and lack of boundaries.”
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A story centered on two smart, complicated women making their way in a world primarily dominated by white men? You had me at “hello.” But after watching the trailer, I’m even more excited. Not that I should have doubted the dialogue would be quick (Kaling also wrote and produced the movie) or the performances great (it’s Emma freaking Thompson, who along with being one of our greatest living actors, is also a badass who stands up to sexual harassment). Even better: The movie also has a female director, Nisha Ganatra.
“I think this movie setting a record at Sundance is so important because the leads are a woman over the age of 50 and a woman of color,” Ganatra told Glamour at Sundance. “That, sadly, is radical alone, but there was so much talk of ‘Oh my God, will this make money? Is this marketable? Who will go see this?’ The fact that this movie broke the record at Sundance is so significant and so exciting and so amazing because it validates that you can tell your story. You can tell the story that people don’t think is worth telling, and it will find its audience and people will reward you for it.”
Since the Harvey Weinstein story broke in the fall of 2017, a steady stream of powerful (and often famous) men have been accused of sexual misconduct. But the era of #MeToo has also seen a cycle of redemption and comebacks for some of these accused men. Louis C.K. is back doing stand-up. Ousted CBS chief Les Moonves is already working on a new venture. Brett Kavanaugh is sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Now Emma Thompson has reportedly quit an upcoming film project over the hiring of one such man: John Lasseter, the former chief creative officer of Pixar. Allegations about Lasseter first became public knowledge in November 2017, though claims of a “whisper network” surrounding him existed for much longer, after he was accused of “grabbing, kissing, making comments about physical attributes.”
Lasseter apologized for his behavior, saying, “I’ve recently had a number of difficult conversations that have been very painful for me. It’s never easy to face your missteps, but it’s the only way to learn from them.” Then, this January, he was hired as the head of Skydance Animation, which is set to produce the film Luck.
That’s where Emma Thompson comes in. The actress was slated to voice one of the characters, but Variety confirms that she dropped out of the project after Lasseter’s hiring. Skydance has not commented on the departure.
She may not have released a big statement about this decision, but it’s major that a Hollywood A-lister of Thompson’s caliber is walking away from what is likely a lucrative deal in response to the hiring of a man with sexual harassment allegations. This is one powerful way allies in positions of influence can show support for the survivors who have been brave enough to speak out about inappropriate behavior.
Emma Stone’s next movie role is going to take you right back to your childhood — and that’s a good thing! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Emma has been cast as legendary Disney villainess Cruella de Vil in a new movie helmed by I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie.
The movie will play with timelines a bit: Disney’s animated 101 Dalmatians was set in the ‘50s or ‘60s, but this Cruella-centric film will flash forward to the ‘80s, and it is being referred to as an “origin story” about Cruella herself. THR describes the movie as “set in the early 1980s with a punk vibe.”
That means we probably won’t be seeing any of Roger, Anita, Pongo, Perdita, or their many, many puppies — this new movie is going to be all Cruella, all the time. The decade change means it’s possible that Cruella would be hunting for Dalmatian puppies in the present day, but we’re not sure if the movie will go there. All we know at the moment is that it’s set in the ‘80s and we’ll get a glimpse of young Cruella.
If anyone can breathe fresh life into the iconic Cruella and rock that outlandishly glam wardrobe, it’s Emma. She’ll be filling some pretty big shoes, too; remember the Glenn Close version of Cruella in the live-action 101 Dalmatians, back in 1996, which was just as fabulous as the animated version? We’ll probably get to see Cruella’s beginnings as a fashion designer, though we hope she opts to use faux fur for this installment.
Maybe we’ll get to see the exact moment when she dyes her hair half-white and half-black! It’s also the first time we’ll get to see the Oscar-winning Emma take on anything Disney, and we can’t wait. She brings magic to every role she plays, and we’re pretty sure that her interpretation of Cruella is going to be nothing short of marvelous.
If you’re eyeing a period costume for Halloween this year, heed Emma Stone‘s advice from the set of her latest film: Skip the historically accurate corset, no matter how historically accurate it may be.
Stone appeared on The Graham Norton Show show to promote her new film, The Favourite, in which she plays a member of Queen Anne’s court in 18th-century England. Getting into character apparently required that Stone wear a corset during filming, which had some unintended consequences. According to the actor, the corset caused her internal organs to move in her body—and it was very unpleasant.
“After about a month, my organs shifted because they have to,” Stone said in the interview. Her costumes, she said, pushed her organs far away from her ribs, and changed the shape of her body. “It was only temporary, but it was gross.” You can hear her describe the transformation in a clip from her interview, below.
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Shaping her body to 18th-century standards was a miserable experience for Stone. “It’s historically accurate, but I couldn’t fucking breathe!” she said of her costume. She developed a maneuver for making the corset feel somewhat wearable: She’d sniff menthol to calm down and think of “open spaces” while wearing it.
Stone joked about the effects of wearing a corset day in and day out—making it her first “corset role”—for filming. “It gives a new meaning to ‘my heart’s in my throat,'” she laughed. It also made her thankful for changes in women’s fashion since the 1700s—specifically, doing away with devices that shape women’s bodies to unrealistic standards.
“Women existed in that for such a long time and it does give you a lot of sympathy for that time period, what you were going through,” she said.
Stone says her organs have, thankfully, “gone back” to their usual positioning since wrapping the film and taking off her corset for good. Even with coping tactics, Stone doesn’t recommend wearing a corset—ever.
“If you don’t have to, don’t do it,” she said. Noted.
Emma Stone has always been very open about her anxiety. Way back in 2011, when she was first becoming known for her work in Superbad and Easy A and long before she became an Academy Award winner, she told Glamour about her mental health journey. “I had massive anxiety as a child,” she said at the time. “I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom’s side. I don’t really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.”
Ever since, she’s continued to speak openly and frankly about mental health. The latest example? On Monday, October 1, she appeared alongside Child Mind Institute Co-Founder & President Harold Koplewicz for a discussion on mental health disorders and the stigmas that surround them. Titled “Great Minds Think Unalike,” the panel worked to shed light on the challenges of living with anxiety—which, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, affects 40 million adults each year (making it the most common mental illness in the U.S.).
On stage, Stone described the moment she had her first panic attack at seven years old. “Before I went into second grade, I had my first panic attack,” she said. “It was really, really terrifying and overwhelming; I was over at a friend’s house and all of a sudden I was absolutely convinced the house was on fire and it was going to burn down. I was just sitting in her bedroom, and obviously the house wasn’t on fire—but there was nothing in me that didn’t think we weren’t going to die.”
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Suffering from what she and her mother later learned was a panic attack, Stone explains that these feelings of anxiousness continued for the next two years. “I couldn’t go to friends’ houses, I had deep separation anxiety with my mom…I was so paranoid about everything,” she explained. “We truly thought I wasn’t going to be able to move out of the house and move away ever. How would I go to college? How would I do any of this if I couldn’t be at a friend’s house for 5 minutes?”
As she grew older, Stone was able to better manage her anxiety, a skill she attributes to her supportive family and years of “transformative” therapy. It helped her realize that while the disorder was a part of her life, it did not define her. “It’s so normal,” she said. “Everyone experiences a version of anxiety or worry in their lives, and maybe we go through it in a different or more intense way for longer periods of time, but there’s nothing wrong with you.”
In fact, the Maniac actress said anxiety can be viewed in a positive light. “To be a sensitive person that cares a lot, that takes things in in a deep way is actually part of what makes you amazing, and is one of the greatest gifts of life,” she said. “You think a lot, you feel a lot, you feel deeply—it’s the best.”
When asked how she continues to manage her anxiety every day in the midst of her hectic production schedule, Stone explained that she sticks to a routine that works for her. “I go to a therapist, I meditate, and I talk to people very quickly now—instead of isolating I reach out.” Most of all, Stone said pushing herself outside of her comfort zone (as in: today’s panel) proves to be wholly restorative, especially if it means she’s able to help others. “[It’s] healing to just talk about it and own it and realize that this is something that is part of me, but it is not who I am,” she said. “And if that can help anybody…if I can do anything to say ‘Hey, I get it, and I’m there with you, and you can still get out there and achieve dreams and form really great relationships and connections,’ then I hope I’m able to do that.”
