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Kerry Washington Reveals The Boss Move Julia Stiles Pulled While Filming 'Save The Last Dance' In The Freezing Cold—And Fans Are Applauding
Unfortunately for her fans, she began to take a conscious step back, only accepting smaller roles until she disappeared from the public eye almost completely.
Now, at the age of 45, she's reappeared on Dancing with the Stars alongside professional dancer Ezra Sosa, and they've incorporated little Easter eggs that refer back to Save the Last Dance in each of their numbers.
You can see one of their most recent performances here:
Not only are fans applauding Stiles' reappearance, but her Save the Last Dance costar Kerry Washington has been singing her praises, including during her appearance on the Not Gonna Lie podcast with Kylie Kelce.
During the podcast, while talking about Save the Last Dance, Washington mentioned Stiles, who was competing on Dancing with the Stars. Not only was she rooting for her as a talent, but she was rooting for her in what she taught her, now as a film producer herself.
Washington praised:
"Julia has my heart, I’ve known her forever, I think she's killing it, I think she's extraordinary."
"Like, this is a moment. It’s so exciting!”
She also shared her favorite memory from one night filming Save the Last Dance:
“I will tell you my favorite thing, my favorite story about that night."
"We have a brief scene outside the car, when we get out of the car. We shot that scene in Chicago; it was so cold, and the entire crew."
"We had a lot of the same crew members who had shot the film 'Fargo,' and so they’re all in their 'Fargo' gear, like, down coats from head to toe, boots, mittens, ear muffs, masks, like, they’re so bundled up. And we’re in these cute Hollywood nothing outfits; we’re going to the club!”
“So we're doing the scene, we’re doing the scene, we’re doing the scene, and we're freezing."
"You can see the air coming out of our mouths, and my feet, my hands were numb."
"At one point, the director comes up to us and says: ‘You know what, ladies? We just need to go one more time,’ and I learned so much in this moment because it was my very first studio film.”
“Julia looked at the director, and she said: ‘We will go as many times as you want if you take off your coat.'"
"So he was like: ‘OK,’ he took off his coat. That was our last take. He was like: 'This is insane,’ we were like: ‘Yes, it's insane!’”
“It really taught me about advocating for myself on set."
"Just understand what you're putting us through. Like, for a moment, think about us as human beings, right?"
"It was really powerful. And I think about it even as a producer now."
"When I ask an actor to do something, I'm like: ‘Wait, let me make sure that I'm not being unreasonable.’ It was such a powerful moment."
"So, she deserves all her flowers. She's a diva. She's amazing.”
You can watch the segment here:
Fans loved that Stiles advocated for herself and her peers.
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Stiles probably didn't realize what an impression she made on the people around her, but it certainly impacted Washington, who learned to stand up for herself and for the actors she's guiding through her own projects.
There's no telling how Dancing with the Stars will go, but if it's anything like her past projects, Stiles will surely make a lasting impression!
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Kacey Musgraves Brutally Claps Back After Kristi Noem Tries To Insult Her For Backing James Talarico
He tagged her and wrote:
"Thank you for having me last night, [Kacey Musgraves]!"
Fired Homeland Security Secretary and former South Dakota MAGA Republican Governor Kristi Noem decided to use the post to prop up scandal-plagued Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
Noem took a screenshot of Talarico's Threads post and shared it on Elon Musk's X platform, captioned:
"I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day."
"And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico."
Noem tagged country singer Ella Langley and added a nod to her song "Choosin' Texas."
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People quickly noted Langley had untagged herself in Noem's post.
But Musgraves herself had the best response to Noem using Talarico’s post about the concert to give the fired former Cabinet member's unsolicited opinion on country music and the Texas Senate race.
The artist reshared Noem's post with the caption:
"I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it."
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Musgraves' post hints at Noem's infamous memoir confession that she shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy Cricket because he was "untrainable," a move that sparked heated backlash.
People loved Musgraves clapback...
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...including James Talarico, who, a few hours after Musgraves' post, shared the message on Threads:
"Don't mess with Texas."
People also didn't think a post by Noem was the boost that Paxton’s campaign needed.
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The GOP has been throwing everything—and everyone—they can at Talarico to try to boost Paxton in the polls.
MAGA Republican President Donald Trump showed up for an impromptu midterm GOP convention in Texas that Paxton later complained hurt him in the polls. Failed Los Angeles mayoral candidate and reality TV performer Spencer Pratt took aim at Talarico, calling him "weird" for not being married by age 37 despite numerous Republicans in the same situation.
The Paxton camp has repeatedly attacked Talarico's masculinity. And numerous right-wing pundits and pastors have labeled Talarico a "vegan," a "demon," and even prayed for his death.
For his part, Talarico has taken the criticisms in stride, focusing on the issues instead of wallowing in the mud with Paxton and the GOP.
People Just Discovered A Hidden Amazon Page About Their Buying Habits—And Some Of Its Assumptions Are Hilariously Wild
Well, turns out there's a section of the site where you can find out, and people online have discovered that a lot of Amazon's "data" is hilarious... and creepy... and creepily hilarious.
It all started when threads user @fangirlinmegan discovered Amazon's "About You" section and found quite the call-out in her roster of product "preferences."
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Most of the preferences were normal stuff. Amazon has surmised that she owns a Shark vacuum, has noticed that she regularly purchases cat hairball treatments, and often shops from women's departments.
Pretty standard stuff! But then down at the bottom of the list? "Has flat buttocks." Excuse you, Bezos!
As @fangirlinmegan put it in a response to her own post:
"I mean it ain’t wrong but d*mn did you have to call me out like that? 😭"
So how exactly to find this hilarious manifestation of the nightmare surveillance state Amazon has built that many of us have willfully brought into our homes via our Alexas?
Another user @sarah.j_ca posted the exact steps to get to this part of the app.
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In the app, click "Account," then "Shopping Preferences," then "About You," and you should be well on your way to being dragged to filth by Amazon!
But only do so if you're ready to really get told about yourself in the bluntest way possible, because some of the things people found are downright confrontational.
Like one woman who basically got called a big-back who "has not worn a medium size in anything in years" by Amazon.
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Or another who's "bad father" got called out by the app.
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Another got called for shopping for "premium ice cream" A LOT during "a concentrated period." Listen, we're all going through tough times, let the woman have her ice cream, Amazon!
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But one woman's post kinda takes the cake. Amazon called her out pretty viciously... in clinical terms that are almost disturbing.
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Her preferences included "has a FUPA" and the more direct "has a stomach that hangs over their vagina." Okay, Amazon? CHILL.
Not all of them were this shocking, however. Many people's "preferences" were just downright weird and absurd.
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But perhaps the most surprising ones? The ones that revealed the real extent to which Amazon is spying on all of us.
Because many people discovered "preferences" they felt there was no way Amazon could know.
Seemingly forgetting, of course, that the entire point of an Alexa is to spy on you—something security experts have warned about for years that has mostly been waved off as hysteria until recent uproars over the emerging surveillance state in the United States.
For instance, Amazon was forced to end its partnership with Flock, the company erecting AI-powered surveillance cameras all over the U.S. with alarming speed, amid public outcry over the company sharing data from its Ring doorbells with Flock.
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Amazon's Ring doorbell cameras were previously in partnership with Flock until public outrage forced them to divest—or at least say they're divesting, anyway.
And, back when the United States had an actual government that cared at all about doing anything even remotely not evil, the Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $25 billion for continuous, round-the-clock spying on customers through its Alexa, Echo, and Ring products, including constant voice recordings of children.
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But our chance to rein that in went up in smoke when we decided to elect Donald Trump, whose main donor Peter Thiel is on the board of Flock and is the Chairman of appallingly evil surveillance company Palantir, which is in partnership with, you guessed it, Amazon.
Seems like we should've listened to the tinfoil hats on this one!
Anyway! Given all this 1984-level, Terminator-style surveillance, people were pretty shocked by the things Amazon seemed to know about them—including things that have always been kept completely private.
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Yeah, probably completely fine that a shopping company in partnership with the companies currently enabling cops to stalk their ex-girlfriends and wrongfully arrest and jail people at gunpoint is able to read our text messages while we shop for toilet paper.
Nothing to worry about here, just another zany day in the life of our modern era! Ha ha!
Bryan Cranston Pens Heartbreaking Tribute To His 'Breaking Bad' Son After His Death By Suicide At Age 34: 'I'm In Deep Despair'
Mitte portrayed Walter "Flynn" White, Jr., throughout all five seasons of the hit television show Breaking Bad, the son of the main character, Walter White. Born with cerebral palsy, Mitte was also a disability rights advocate for the general public and actors like him.
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, who was RJ Mitte's on-screen father on the show, penned a touching tribute for him on Facebook and Instagram, where he asked a question many must be thinking: "Why?"
Cranston wrote:
"I’m in deep despair as I write this tonight. RJ Mitte, my sweet son on 'Breaking Bad' has died."
"I met him when he was only 14 years old when he was cast as Walter White Jr., a part he played with such joy and enthusiasm. Born with Cerebral Palsy, he never - ever - allowed that challenge to be an excuse for anything."
"He met the demanding shooting schedule head on with great determination.Always listening to the advice that his TV parents (Anna Gunn and myself) gave him - but being a teenager, sometimes mischievously ignoring the counsel in order to learn the hard way…"
"He was one of the stars of a hit TV show - but still a kid. That kid was pretty raw when we started shooting the pilot in February of 2007, but little by little we watched him grow into a really fine actor."
"He parlayed his experience on the show to be a vocal advocate for performers with disabilities, and was the head of a philanthropic organization with a focus on helping the disabled community."
"All that promise and potential now is such a loss."
"It is especially devastating to hear that he took his own life. Why?"
"We were texting each other just a few weeks ago - figuring out when we could meet for lunch."
"I don’t know if that lunch would have changed his future… But I do know that I loved him, and thoroughly enjoyed being with him throughout the years on the series, and after the spotlight on 'Breaking Bad' dimmed…"
"I’ll miss you, son."
Cranston ended his tribute with resources for those who are in need.
"I can’t stop there without imploring anyone who is contemplating suicide to please call for the support you need at 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (https://988lifeline.org/)."
"There is hope."
You can see his tribute to Mitte here:
Fans were heartbroken over Mitte's death and Cranston's tribute to him.
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Other actors from Breaking Bad also wrote tributes for Mitte, including Dean Norris, who played Hank Schrader on the show, and Aaron Paul, who portrayed Jesse Pinkman.
Norris called RJ Mitte's death "heartbreaking" and wrote:
“Though RJ didn’t play my TV son, I always looked out for him as a young kid on set. He was a sweetheart of a young man and will be greatly missed."
"I can’t believe it. Thinking of him and his family.”
Paul similarly wrote of his heartbreak:
"I am heartbroken over this news."
"RJ, I love you, my friend. You will be missed."
"And to whoever happens to be reading this, please know you are loved, and you are not alone. Always remember that.”
We hope Mitte's family finds comfort and peace after his loss.
If you or someone you know is struggling, you can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988.
To find help outside the United States, the International Association for Suicide Prevention has resources available at https://findahelpline.com/i/iasp
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