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☆ Gemma Arterton says director tried to pressure her to do sex scene
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —British actress Gemma Arterton has revealed that a director once tried to put pressure on her to film a sex scene, despite the fact that it wasn’t included in the script. In an interview with British publication the Radio Times, released Tuesday, Arterton said that, whilst on set, the director - who hasn’t been named - instructed her and her co-star to film a sex scene on a bed. “I said, ‘No, this scene was written for us to be off screen, so you just hear the noises,’” Arterton told the Radio Times. Had she been younger at the time, Arterton suggested that she might have been more concerned about being fired for refusing to film it. Arterton rose to fame following her role in the 2007 British comedy “St Trinian’s,” before acting in the 2008 James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” as MI6 agent Strawberry Fields.

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☆ Before 'Bridgerton' fame, Nicola Coughlan was 'broke' and 'in debt': 'Many people don't know how awful financial stress is'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

From "Derry Girls" "Bridgerton" to "Barbie", Nicola Coughlan has quickly become a household name over the past few years. But 37-year-old, who leads the third season of Netflix's steamy period piece, didn't have an easy climb to the top. In fact, Coughlan struggled to break into acting at all. When she first moved to London from her native Galway, Ireland to pursue acting, Coughlan didn't last long. She struggled to balance making enough money to afford her rent with making the time to go to auditions.

Persons: Barbie, Nicola Coughlan, Coughlan, that's, Coughlan didn't Organizations: Radio Times Locations: London, Galway, Ireland

☆ Singer Lily Allen weighed in on an age-old airline debate, saying she flies first class, but her kids go coach
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lily Allen is happy to leave her kids in economy while she flies first class. But Allen said she's not a fan of people boasting on social media about refusing to swap their first class seat with families. AdvertisementBritish singer Lily Allen has weighed into the great debate over whether children should be allowed to sit in first class on flights. Allen said she's happy to send her kids to economy class while she takes a seat in first class. "I'm going in first class, she's going in economy."

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☆ Laurent de Brunhoff, ‘Babar the Elephant’ author, dies aged 98
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Writer and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, who continued his father’s legacy by producing dozens of original books for his “Babar the Elephant” series, has died aged 98. De Brunhoff died at his home in Key West, Florida on Friday following a recent stroke, his wife, the critic and author Phyllis Rose, told CNN via email. “The start — (the) very start of Babar — was a bed(time) story from my mother,” de Brunhoff told CNN in an interview, aired in 2003. Children's author and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff working at his home during a BBC television interview in 1969. A later series, “Babar,” premiered in 1989 on CBC in Canada and HBO in the US (HBO is owned by CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros.

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☆ Ewan McGregor says he had an intimacy coordinator for sex scenes with his wife
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Hollywood star Ewan McGregor has said it was “still necessary” to have an intimacy coordinator for the sex scenes in new drama series “A Gentleman in Moscow,” even though he was performing alongside his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead. “If you were doing a dance scene, you’d have a choreographer,” added the 52-year-old. “It’s an important part of the work now, because it’s somebody that the director and actors meet in the middle.”The couple have been married since 2022. The role of the intimacy coordinator is to support the actor in any intimate action on set, such as contact kissing, physical touch and simulated sex. Intimacy coordinators have become increasingly common in recent years, which McGregor, who has four daughters from his previous marriage to production designer Eve Mavrakis, believes is a good thing.

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☆ Lily Allen says having children 'totally ruined' her career and parents can't 'have it all.' Career coaches say she's right.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

C-Suite career coach Elizabeth Pearson said juggling family and a career can feel "impossible." AdvertisementAccording to Lily Allen, having children and a career just don't mix. "I never really have a strategy when it comes to my career, but yes, my children ruined my career. ANGELA WEISS/Getty ImagesWhile Allen's comments prompted criticism from some, career coaches Elizabeth Pearson and Sara Madera told Business Insider she's not entirely wrong. Both Madera and Pearson urged parents to make themselves a priority, even when it's hardBoth career coaches agreed that parents should check in with themselves.

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☆ Lily Allen says having children ‘ruined’ her career
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Emily Blumenthal | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —British pop singer Lily Allen has said that her children “complete” her, but having them “totally ruined” her career. When asked on the Radio Times podcast if she had to rethink her career strategy after having children, Allen replied: “I never really have a strategy when it comes to career, but yes, my children ruined my career.”“I mean I love them and they complete me, but in terms of pop stardom, totally ruined it,” Allen said jokingly during the interview, which was released Tuesday. “It really annoys me when people say you can have it all because, quite frankly, you can’t,” the singer added. “Some people choose their career over their children and that’s their prerogative.”Allen has seen most of her career success in the UK, with three number one hits and 15 in the Top 40. “I feel like that really left some nasty scars that I’m not willing to repeat [on my children],” Allen said.

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☆ Ray Winstone says filming 'Black Widow' was 'soul-destroying' because producers told him his performance was 'too strong'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewRay Winstone said working on Marvel's "Black Widow" was "soul-destroying" because producers told him his performance was too strong during reshoots on the 2021 movie. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Winstone told Radio Times magazine that he found it difficult working on the Marvel movie, especially when producers criticized his performance during reshoots. The actor said that he wanted to quit "Black Widow," and told producers to recast the role. On Sunday, Winstone told The Guardian that he sometimes takes roles he's not interested in, simply because he needs the money.

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☆ A wildly popular game dubbed 'Pokémon with guns' has been forced to deny that its characters are a rip-off
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The game, Palworld, launched on PC last Friday to phenomenal success, quickly amassing record-breaking numbers of players on gaming distribution service Steam. But similarities between Palworld's pals and Pokémon, the titular creatures in the Nintendo game, were not lost on fans, who back when it was first announced in June 2021 quickly dubbed it "Pokémon with guns." Palworld pals are also caught using a "Pal Sphere," itself a concept closely echoing Pokémon's "Pokéball." But the visual similarities between a number of the individual creatures in Palworld and Pokémon have caused major discussions online. Pocket Pair/NintendoAn X user with the username Cecilia Fae compared dozens of the Palworld "pals" with existing Pokémon.

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☆ Nicole Kidman says this trait helped turn rejection into an Oscar-winning career—it's a 'superpower'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Nicole Kidman has five Oscar nominations to her name, including one win. In an interview with the Radio Times Podcast this week, Kidman says her height made it challenging to break into acting. I had to talk my way through the door because they were measuring you before you went in. In fact, Kidman says she took the lessons she learned from those rejections and passed them on to her children. Performance coach Steve Magness previously told CNBC Make It that even a simple grammatical shift can boost your resilience.

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☆ Nicole Kidman was told she was 'too tall' for Hollywood: 'It will bother me when I'm acting and I want to be small'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewNicole Kidman says she was told she wouldn't have a career in Hollywood because she was too tall. Speaking on the "Radio Times Podcast" on Tuesday, Kidman said that her height was initially a challenge when she broke into acting. Related stories"I say I'm 5 foot 10 ½ inches, but I'm really 5 foot 11 inches. Having said that, I've had knee issues and all sorts of things — partly because of my height," Kidman added. In 2020, the star told Byrdie she trained to become a massage therapist to give her mom therapeutic treatment.

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CNN —Veteran British broadcaster Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88, his former employer the BBC reported Thursday, citing a statement from his family. “After a brief illness Sir Michael Parkinson passed away peacefully at home last night in the company of his family,” the statement said, according to the BBC. Parkinson interviewed many of the world’s most famous people on his long-running show, which launched in 1971. Michael Parkinson interviewing actress Bette Davis in October 1975. Mirren and Parkinson appeared on another show together in 2008, the TV host told the BBC, and “laughed like two intelligent human beings.”

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☆ Julian Sands spoke about dangers of mountain climbing months before death
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Hafsa Khalil | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —British actor Julian Sands, whose remains were found last month after he disappeared during a climbing trip in a California mountain range in January, spoke of how “dangerous” the activity could be in his last UK interview before he went missing. Sands had been promoting his latest role in a BBC radio drama “The Willows,” when the conversation turned to his upcoming climbing trip. “My version of LA isn’t swimming pools and parties … It’s rattlesnakes, bears, cougars, mountains,” he said during the interview. The Yorkshireman said climbing was about finding “solace” and “self-affirmation,” Radio Times reported. Human remains found in the area June 24 have since been declared to be those of the actor.

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☆ Elton John Warns of ‘Growing Swell of Anger and Homophobia’ in U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Maya Salam | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The British pop superstar Elton John lamented the “growing swell of anger and homophobia” in the United States and described several laws recently passed in Florida that curtail L.G.B.T.Q. rights as “disgraceful.”“It’s all going pear-shaped in America,” John, a longtime leader for gay rights and visibility, said in an interview published Tuesday in Radio Times, in which he pointed to a rise in violent incidents and recent legislation curtailing rights. “We seem to be going backwards. “I don’t like it at all,” John said, referring to the increasingly hostile climate. “It’s a growing swell of anger and homophobia that’s around America.”

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☆ A Netflix camera crew says its boat was almost sunk in a 'horrific' tiger shark attack while filming in Hawaii
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Netflix camera crew's boat was attacked by two 15-foot-long tiger sharks, reports say. "But the first day the tiger sharks were around, the crew got into these inflatable boats — and two sharks attacked them. "This 'v' of water came streaming towards us, and this tiger shark leapt at the boat and bit huge holes in it. Ron Sanford/Getty ImagesDespite the crew's terrifying experience, the chances of being attacked by a shark are extremely low, Insider recently reported. The new Netflix series examines animal migration patterns and the impact of climate change on the natural world.

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☆ ‘Bridget Jones’ author working on 4th film, with plans to adapt book with tragic twist
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

“Bridget Jones’s Diary” author Helen Fielding is working on a fourth film, with plans to adapt her 2013 book “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” into a movie. “Yeah, I’m working on it and I really hope it will happen,” she told Radio Times on Oct. 31. I’d love to see it on the screen.”There are three movie in the series, including 2001 “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” and 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby.”The first two movies were adapted from a Fielding book, while “Bridget Jones’s Baby” was not. “Bridget Jones: The Menopause,” Zellweger joked on “The Talk” in 2019 when asked if she’d be into another movie and what her character would be doing. “No, I know Helen’s (Fielding) written the book, and I love this character.

☆ How bosses can keep staff happy, according to a CEO with 99% Glassdoor approval
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-09 | by ( Charlie Metcalfe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tom Bureau has been the CEO of the publisher Immediate Media for more than 10 years. He shares his five tips for hiring and retaining happy, motivated staff. Tom Bureau, who's been Immediate's CEO since the company was formed in November 2011, has a 99% approval rating based on 115 voluntary, anonymous employee reviews on the site. Bureau shared with his Insider his top five tips for keeping staff happy. He continued: "If you are going to work, it better work for you, and it better be fun.

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