Human connection. It's vital. Especially in a year like 2020. Especially forPedro Pascal. So it's ironic that the 45-year-old's highest-profile success to date is working with an adorable animatronic puppet, inside a chrome helmet he famously can't take off. "It is why I wanted to do this show. Selfishly, I knew [the Child, a.k.a. Baby Yoda] was likely to make people fall in love with the show," says Pascal of tackling the title role onThe Mandalorian, the Emmy-nominated hit Star Wars series, which returned for its second season on Disney+ in October. Read More...
On the cover of last year’s ”The Slim Shady LP,” Eminem stood beneath a hallucinatory full moon with his baby daughter, and the legs of a body (Kim, his freshly murdered girlfriend and the baby’s mother, according to ”’97 Bonnie and Clyde”) protruding from his car trunk. The cover of his second set, The Marshall Mathers LP, shows the 26-year-old blond rapper huddled beneath a loading dock, an empty pill vial and booze bottle at his feet, looking like a dysfunctional Little Rascal. Read More...
Eminem wouldn’t be Eminem — or Slim Shady, or Marshall Mathers — if he didn’t allot some of his whizbang rhymes to homophobic slurs and misogynistic fantasies. ”Rap God,” an early release from his eighth album on which he belittles unnamed rivals as ”fags” and ”gay,” kicked up the latest in a long line of debates about his compulsion to attack women and gay men. But on The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (out this week, and already on track to be one of the year’s biggest sellers), the Detroit stalwart works his is-it-me-or-my-demons shell game more furiously than ever. Read More...
