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The Lizzie McGuire Reboot's Pilot Script Included Sex and a Cheating Scandal


The drama surrounding the Lizzie McGuire reboot, starring Hilary Duff, continues. Now, we may have a clue as to why the Disney+ show suddenly halted production back in January.

Fans of the original show, which ran on The Disney Channel from 2001-2004, were beyond thrilled when Duff announced that Lizzie was coming back during an event for Disney+ (the company’s new streaming platform) in August 2019. “The good news is, just like me and everybody who loved Lizzie and has grown up with her, Lizzie’s also grown up,” she said. “She’s older, she’s wiser, she has a much bigger shoe budget, which is super exciting. She has her dream job. She has kind of the perfect life right now.”

Details about the reboot soon trickled out and early clips were released, which only served to build the buzz. But then production was paused in January, and the original series creator, Terri Tinsky, stepped down as showrunner. “Fans have a sentimental attachment to Lizzie McGuire and high expectations for a new series,” a Disney spokesperson said. “After filming two episodes, we concluded that we need to move in a different creative direction and are putting a new lens on the series.” Rumors swirled that the reasoning was the show was not “family-friendly” enough for Disney+.

The Hollywood Reporter has seen the pilot script and reports that it “acknowledges the existence of sex with cheating as a central plot point,” which could lend credence to those rumors. “Our goal is to resume production and to tell an authentic story that connects to the millions who are emotionally invested in the character, and a new generation of viewers too,” a Disney+ spokesperson said, per THR.

In late February, Duff released a statement via her Instagram asking for the show to be moved to Hulu, which is also owned by Disney. “Was incredibly excited to launch Lizzie on D+ and my passion remains,” she wrote. “However, I feel a huge responsibility to honor the fans’ relationship with Lizzie who, like me, grew up seeing themselves in her. I’d be doing a disservice to everyone by limiting the realities of a 30-year-old’s journey to live under the ceiling of a PG rating.”

Who knows where Lizzie will land—but hopefully it will be somewhere the world can watch it.



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Jenna Dewan's New Netflix Series Soundtrack Is So Good She Signed on Without Reading a Script


It’s been a busy year for Jenna Dewan. She celebrated her first anniversary with boyfriend Steve Kazee, announced her pregnancy, and released a personal memoir, Gracefully You. On screen, Dewan starred in romantic dramedies The Wedding Year and Berlin, I Love You, served as a mentor on NBC’s World of Dance, and guest starred on The Resident.

As if those weren’t time-consuming enough, now she’s about to star in one of her most ambitious and creative projects to date: Soundtrack, a modern day musical that combines Dewan’s love of dance, acting, and song. It premieres on Wednesday, December 18 on Netflix.

“I’ve done dance numbers on stage, in movies, and on different shows,” Dewan tells Glamour, “but I’ve never done it within an acting scene, where the song was going to portray the emotions of the character in the moment.” So when creator Josh Safran told her about his idea—a show that includes musical numbers, dramatic moments, and intersecting love stories set in Los Angeles—she knew she wanted to be a part of it. “I didn’t even need to see a script.”

It was welcome news to Safran, who wrote the role with Dewan in mind. After a general meeting with her, Safran say, he knew she was a fit. “I fell in love with her and was like, ‘Done. That’s it,'” he explains. For Dewan, the feeling was mutual: “I signed on strictly because I love Josh and the idea.”

Here, Dewan talks about Soundtrack, making out with herself on the show (yes, you read that right), and more.

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Emilia Clarke Cried When She Read the Game of Thrones Series Finale Script


Warning: Major Game of Thrones spoilers ahead.

Tonight’s series finale of Game of Thrones was surprising, to say the least. In a shocking turn of events, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) killed Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and was sentenced to rejoin the Night’s Watch. Also, the heads of Westeros appointed Bran Stark as king, and Sansa broke the North from the seven (now six) kingdoms to become queen in the North. The reactions to this finale have been mixed, but no one is more impassioned about it than Emilia Clarke, a.k.a. Dany.

“I cried,” Clarke told Entertainment Weekly about what it was like when she read the script for the first time. “And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn’t come back for five hours. I’m like, ‘How am I going to do this?’”

Interestingly, Kit Harington didn’t read the script until the cast’s final table read. Clarke was on a flight with Harington before this read-through and had a very hard time revealing spoilers. When he actually found out what happened, though, his reaction was not good.

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“I looked at Emilia and there was a moment of me realizing, ‘No, no…’” Harington said, according to EW.

Clarke, however, nodded back, “Yes… He was crying,” she recalls. “And then it was kind of great him not having read it.”

Dany’s journey throughout the final season of GoT has been intense. Clarke summed it up perfectly in this quote she gave to EW:

“She genuinely starts with the best intentions and truly hopes there
isn’t going to be something scuttling her greatest plans. The problem
is [the Starks] don’t like her and she sees it. She goes, ‘Okay, one
chance.’ She gives them that chance and it doesn’t work and she’s too
far to turn around. She’s made her bed, she’s laying in it. It’s done.
And that’s the thing. I don’t think she realizes until it happens —
the real effect of their reactions on her is: ‘I don’t give a s—t.’
This is my whole existence. Since birth! She literally was brought
into this world going, ‘Run!’ These fuckers have fucked everything up,
and now it’s, ‘You’re our only hope.’ There’s so much she’s taken on
in her duty in life to rectify, so much she’s seen and witnessed and
been through and lost and suffered and hurt. Suddenly these people are
turning around and saying, ‘We don’t accept you.’ But she’s too far
down the line. She’s killed so many people already. I can’t turn this
ship around. It’s too much. One by one, you see all these strings
being cut. And there’s just this last thread she’s holding onto:
There’s this boy. And she thinks, ‘He loves me, and I think that’s
enough.’ But is it enough? Is it? And it’s just that hope and wishing
that finally there is someone who accepts her for everything she is
and … he fucking doesn’t.”

Kit Harington on HBO's Game of Thrones.
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It’s only a matter of time before the theories on this Game of Thrones finale start rolling in. As always, we’ll keep you posted.



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Kit Harington Cried Reading the Last 'Game of Thrones' Script


For Game of Thrones fans, anticipation over the impending eighth and final season is enough to turn stomachs into knots. For eight years—almost a decade!—we’ve been following the clashing kingdoms of Westeros, worshipping Khaleesi‘s relentless queenly fierceness (and icy winter fashion, and platinum waves), and falling a tiny bit in love with IKEA-rug-wearing Jon Snow, played by Kit Harington. Apparently, Harington’s loved being on the show as much as we’ve loved watching him it, and he’s quite torn up about how it all ends.

“I’m really emotional about it. We had the read-through last week, so I know everything,” he told “The One Show” this week. “I cried at the end—not over anything particular that happened—but it’s been eight years, and no one cares about it more than we do.”

“It’s been an institution longer than any other institution I’ve been in,” he-of-the-perfectly-wavy-hair-even-in-blizzards continued. “School, drama school, anything. I get a bit weepy thinking about it. It’s going to be a strange year saying goodbye to everyone and having last scenes with this person and that person. Not only you’re attached to it, loads of people around the world are attached to it.”

(Well, not everyone: he won’t be saying goodbye to fiancée Rose Leslie, who played his former love Ygritte on the show. Ah, Game of Thrones, you work in wonderful ways.)

According to a Guardian profile about Harington published on Saturday, Jon Snow was a role he auditioned for shortly after drama school—so there’s no doubt that this is a hard one to walk away from (though the show didn’t actually kick off for another four years after he tried out).

Sigh. All good things must come to an end, but are we sure there’s no hope for an encore season??

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