When Kerry Washington told Chris Rock she wanted to play the flesh-flaunting home wrecker Nikki in I Think I Love My Wife (March 16), ”he laughed at me,” she recalls. He thought the Bronx-born beauty was better suited for the role of Brenda, his nurturing spouse. That was until Rock saw her play a sultry lesbian in Spike Lee’s She Hate Me (2004). By then, though, Washington had her own doubts. Read More...
Before he was one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animation, Hayao Miyazaki wrote and drew his own manga. And as a new release makes clear, those stories carried the seeds of stories, ideas, and designs that would later flourish fully in his acclaimed movies like Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Nausicaä, of course, was directly adapted from the manga series of the same name that Miyazaki had written and drawn from 1982 to 1994, before he founded Studio Ghibli. Read More...
The Musical Moodboard is a recurring EW feature where musicians run down the inspirations behind a new album. In an industry where sounds and trends are constantly changing, Hayley Kiyoko has been bringing something new to the music scene since she burst onto it some seven years ago. The Los Angeles native — known for her fun, pop music that celebrates women and the LGBTQ community — even directed the music video for her 2015 single " Read More...
