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JANE FONDA

The 80-year-old acting legend tells EW’s Devan Coggan about her latest role: documentary subject

You sat for 21 hours of interviews for this film, and you talk about everything from your professional tri- umphs to your three marriages and complicated childhood. What was your reaction when you saw the finished product?

It’s pretty intense. [Laughs] It’s hard for me to look at. The only thing that I hope is that it’s going to make a diference for women in particular. Otherwise, what the hell is the point of it? I don’t know that yet, so I’m still

really nervous. INSET: TOMMASO BODDI/WIREIMAGE

What do you hope other women will take JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS away from your story? The Oscar winner, activist, and fitness icon looks back at her To be brave! extraordinary (and controversial) career. Through archival footage This is the time and 21 hours of interviews, director Susan Lacy (Spielberg) weaves when we need a spellbinding portrait of a Hollywood trailblazer. (HBO, Sept. 24) to be brave,

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CONTINUED not timid. I think it shows you can be brave and you can survive and you can keep going. I hope THE GOOD DOCTOR it’ll be inspiring.

You talk in the film Last year’s breakout medical drama about unconventional about how 9 to 5 was doc Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) checks back in for such an important a strong sophomore season that includes: a woman with two movie to you, and now hearts, the return of love interest Lea (Paige Spara), and guest there’s a sequel in the star Lisa Edelstein (House fans, rejoice!). If the poignant works. What issues do series moved you in its first season, you’ll definitely fall for this you want to address second dose of feel-good drama. (ABC, Sept. 24, 10 p.m.) in the new film?

Well, sexual harass- ment is unfortunately still alive and well: BRAIN pay inequality, men CHECK being promoted and paid more than women. But what makes things worse is so many people With hopefully better hand- in an ofice today writing than a real doctor, are contract workers. Freddie Highmore penned They’re hired by The Good Doctor’s season 2 another company premiere, which gave the that then contracts 26-year-old actor-producer them out, so where an unexpected new under- do you go when you standing of other characters have wage theft? Or than just his titular Samari- when you’re discrimi- tan surgeon. “Because Shaun struggles with com- nated against? Or munication and is at times you’re attacked sexu- somewhat distant and strug- ally? It’s really hard gles to connect with every- today for women in one, as an actor you feel all sectors, but ofice somewhat removed from workers in particular. these other actors,” admits Highmore, who will also This doc covers direct an episode—yes, that a range of topics from too!—later this season. “That your film career to was an exciting challenge your activism and to see the efects of Shaun workout tapes. Is on others, as opposed to there anything you purely working from Shaun’s haven’t done yet that perspective.” How’s that you really want to try? for universal health care? —Chancellor Agard I just want to try to get it right before I die. And what I mean by that is being the best person I can [be] and living a full life and having some meaning to my life.... UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE I’m a work in prog- ress. I feel like I learn by Jen Doll things every day and After years of writing about YA for The Atlantic, reevaluate things all Elle, and more, book columnist Doll nails the the time. I think that’s genre in her fresh, warm debut, which follows good and healthy

three young co-workers over a hot summer in JEFF WEDDELL/ABC and normal. But I am Alabama. Doll not only evokes the joy of finding trying to live an inten- friendship in unexpected places, but sneaks in tional life and not some timely cultural commentary along the way. just be bufeted by the winds of fate.

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CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY SITCOM

Between all the zippy procedurals and prestige dramas, every DVR should save a spot for these sweet sitcoms that ofer you a brief escape from your own family by plunging you into another. This fall’s funny oferings are no diferent. All you need to do is ask yourself the question: Who do you want in your network TV family?

PRECOCIOUS BOOZY EVERYMOMS SOMBER CHILDREN BRUNCHERS (&DADS) SIBLINGS

Young Single Mom This Sheldon Parents (CBS, Sept. 27) Is Us (CBS, Sept. 24) (ABC, Sept. 26) (NBC, Sept. 25) Mom may be a sober comedy, but The Big Bang The- Life won’t carve Still sublime. it’s not a sober ory prequel ofers out “me time” Still NOT a sitcom. comedy—Anna gentle fulfillment unless you do it (Wait, seriously, Faris, Allison Jan- of every parent’s yourself, so follow how did this get ney & Co. shine secret wish for the lead of these on the list?) cracking very their ofspring to fun-loving adults fjkb vibe a little more who make it look funny jokes about “science fair” than easy (well, rela- theunlikeliest o “sample sale.” tively) to juggle of subjects: addic- kids and cocktails. tion, economic hardship, and dys- ALSO SEE: fuunctional families. ALSO SEE: FRESH OFF MARIAH THE BOAT AMERICAN ALSO SEE: HOUSEWIFE (ABC,Oct.5) REL (ABC, Sept. 26) BLACK-ISH (Foxx, Sept. 30 ) HAPHAPPYPY (AB( C)C,Oct. 16) SPEECHLESSS TOOGETHER AVID CROTTY/PATRICK MCMULLAN/GETTY IMAGES; MCMULLAN/GETTY CROTTY/PATRICK AVID (ABC,Oct.5) CAREY (NBBC,Oct. 1) ESTER: SCOTT F. SCHAFER/ABC; BLUE: EVANS VESTAL WARD/ “GTFO”

Breaking up is hard to do, but Mariah’s slinky first single of her upcoming 15th studio album will spread a smile across your face with its pretty and oh- so-petty sing-along of a kiss-of. Who knew the diva’s final words of a curdled-milk relationship (“How ’bout you getthef---out?”) could NBC; BROWN: RON BATZDORFF/NBC; FITZGERALD: BETTMANN ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES; D IMAGES; ARCHIVE/GETTY BETTMANN FITZGERALD: BATZDORFF/NBC; RON BROWN: NBC; ROBERT ASCROFT/CBS FARIS: CAREY: TOMMASO BODDI/GETTY IMAGES; ARMITAGE: SONJA FLEMMING/CBS; ME sound sweet as honey? Bag

FALL TV COLORS

Up 1. BLUE BLOODS

2. BLACK LIGHTNING

3. MURPHY BROWN

4. LOUDERMILK (PRESUMABLY OFF-WHITE?) JOSH DALLAS

The once-upon-a- time Once Upon a Time star takes EW’s Ruth Kinane inside his new character’s bumpy journey

How does your charac- MANIFEST ter, Ben, deal with the shock of being missing for years? On NBC’s Lost-adjacent thriller, two siblings (and 189 other passengers) land after a particularly turbulent Ben deals in abso- flight to discover that five years have passed back on lutes. He thinks the ground—and their loved ones have grieved and there’s an answer to moved on. Whatever happened to airlines just losing this puzzle and he’s your baggage?! (NBC, Sept. 24, 10 p.m.) determined to find it, which is very diferent thinking for me, Josh Dallas. I believe there is a higher power and a grand plan connecting us all. Ben believes the opposite, and I find that very interesting and great fun to play.

The mystery is a huge part of the show, but so is the family drama.

It is so layered and MANIFEST complex, but real emotion grounds this : CRAIG BLANKENHORN/NBC/WARNER BROS; DALLAS: VIVIEN KILLILEA/GET VIVIEN DALLAS: BROS; BLANKENHORN/NBC/WARNER : CRAIG whole big mystery. Ben and [his sister] come back and their relationships have changed, but there’s no blame. They can’t blame their partners for moving on. Manifest is about second chances.

Will we get answers every episode?

Yes, we’re going to discover new things all the time. A lot is going down in Mani- fest land, and it can’t IMAGES TY be ignored by anyone on the airplane. Stock Up D.C. DEEP DISH

Politics is everywhere these days, and the book world is no exception. Not every splashy new memoir is worth your time (looking at you, Oma- rosa), so to get your fix, consider this trio of sharp, well-reported, thoroughly alarming portraits of the Trump presidency and its surrounding spectacle.

FEAR Bob Woodward

The famed journalist’s exposé shouldn’t face the same skepticism as other Trump tell-alls. Wood- ward’s shockingly bleak portrait about the depth of the dysfunction is a dark, sobering read.

MR. TRUMP’S WILD RIDE Major Garrett

BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN The CBS correspondent’s Ben Fountain personal candor—depict- ing the sheer exhaustion After brilliantly capturing the state of the country with of covering, and at times 2012’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Fountain proves interacting with, POTUS— to be a damn good reporter, too, with this lyrical narra- is a compelling close-up tion of all things 2016. It feels like ancient history now, of Trump’s first year. Et tu, but Fountain shows there’s more to learn, see, and feel. Maggie Haberman? 7 WORDS ON PAN AM’S 7TH ANNIVERSARY MargotM Robbie looked great in sky blue. PRINCE PIANO & A MICROPHONE 1983 After Prince’s 2016 death, his estate’s archivist wasted no time opening his massive music vault. No wonder the Purple One alone kktnew thhdiecode—insideid was enough hldiunreleased musict to drdop an album a year for 100 years. First up: this nine-song, one-take session of hits like “Purple Rain” and Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You.” 9-1-1

Fox’s juicy first-responder drama goes even bigger in its second season with an epic earthquake facing Angela Bassett’s

cop Athena and BECKER/FOX;MICHAEL BOB ROBBIE: D’AMICO/ABC Peter Krause’s fire- fighter Bobby. PRINCE: KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY IMAGES; Luckily, they now have Jennifer Love Hewitt tak- ing calls as a 911 operator. A little Love always

helps. (Fox, Sept. 9-1-1: 23, 8 p.m.) Drive Up

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Emma Thompson has a lengthy love afair with two of her country’s most famous writers: Jane Austen and Wil- liam Shakespeare. The 59- year-old earned an Oscar for adapting Austen’s Sense and Sensibility in 1995 and has starred in Shakespeare films like 1993’s Much Ado About Nothing.InKing Lear, playing cruel daughter Goneril, the actress delightedly breaks a 25-year Bard hiatus, but her heart is still technically with Jane—on the page, at least. “I wouldn’t settle down in bed with a Shakespeare play,” KING LEAR Thompson muses. “But I am very likely to settle down with an Austen. There’s a big dif- William Shakespeare’s bleakest play moves ference in the way in which to a contemporary Britain choked by King you experience their writing. Lear’s (a ferocious Anthony Hopkins) Stalinist Shakespeare’s best watched.” reign. Bursting with English talent, it’s the rare And Austen, of course, is per- Shakespeare adaptation that ofers onscreen fect bedtime reading—not vitality and urgency while underscoring the including all those Mr. Darcy

KING LEAR: AMAZON STUDIOS AMAZON LEAR: KING story’s existential dread. (Amazon, Sept. 28) dreams. —Maureen Lee Lenker

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Inside the extraordinary run of GREY’S ANATOMY as the ABC drama heads into season 15 with love (and dates for Meredith!)

by Lynette Rice @Lynetterice photographs by James White @jameswhitefoto (PHOTO SHOOT (PHOTO

llen Pompeo always feels welcome in Seattle. Whenever the DRESS SCHLIP; JOANNA UP: MAKE BREUER/STARWORKSGROUP; SASCHA HAIR: Grey’s Anatomy star travels to Washington to shoot on loca-

tion, throngs of fans greet Dr. Meredith Grey like a long-lost POM CRAWFORD; JOSIAH PROPS: AGENCY; ONLY JAGGER/THE ANNIE ) STYLING: relative. “Bless their hearts, they’re adorable,” Pompeo says of her recent trip for the season 15 premiere of the ABC drama. “It’s incredible how this show just keeps resonating with every generation. It’s really JOHNSON/ABC DEREK PAGE) (THIS ZANOTTI; GUISEPPE SHOES: touching.” And no doubt vindicating: After Pompeo signed a two-year, $20 million-per-year contract extension in January, many longtime viewers blamed the 48-year-old star for the departures of Jessica Capshaw (Dr. Arizona Robbins) and Sarah Drew (Dr. April Kepner) at the end of season 14. Even though executive producer Krista Vernoﬀ wrote on Twitter that Pompeo’s renegotia- tion had no eﬀect on the decision to release the two cast members, Pompeo was still maligned

at a time when she should have been celebrated for becoming TV’s highest-paid dramatic HOHAN; LUCIA : MARIA actress, at more than $575,000 per episode. Instead, Pompeo admits, it’s been an exhilarating but equally infuriating moment in her

20-plus-year career. “It is really interesting how, as women, we are not accustomed to being PEO’S: forceful and asking for what we want, or asking for what we deserve, or speaking our mind,”

18 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 cast additions over the years like Jesse Williams as Dr. Jackson Avery, Kim Raver as Dr. Teddy Altman, and Nashville’s Chris Carmack as a new orthopedic surgeon—is by not listening to the rabid fans. “We all abhor change, and yet change is what keeps us tuning in every week,” says Vernoff. “I watched Friends in my 20s, and every week we would watch, scream, and go, ‘Oh God, why aren’t Ross and Rachel together? Oh, they broke up again! Oh God, he married somebody else!’ But we didn’t go online and make ourselves a caucus to petition the show writers to give Ross and Rachel their happy forever, or say, ‘You don’t love me.’ Or ‘You must hate your fans.’ Or ‘Why don’t you do this for us?’ We didn’t do that because it wasn’t an option. As a television writer you can appreciate the fans, and you can appreciate their passion. But you cannot listen to them, because if you do, you’re lost. If you listen SHONDA RHIMES to them, everyone will be happy forever after, there will be no conflict, and there Passing the Baton will be no series.” ( Clockwise from left ) Season 15 glimpses So gird your loins, you die-hard MerDer One of the hardest moments for Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) fans. When the new season kicks off Shonda Rhimes during the extraor- with the “Ortho God” (Chris Carmack); Webber on Sept. 27, Meredith will finally try to fill dinary run of Grey’s Anatomy (James Pickens Jr.) with that empty hole in her heart by going on a was at the start of season 14, when Catherine (Debbie Allen); the überproducer finally handed Owen (Kevin McKidd) lot of dates. “There are possibilities all with his foster child and over the day-to-day showrunning Teddy (Kim Raver) around her in the hospital and in Seattle at duties to executive producer Krista large,” explains Vernoff, who won’t reveal Vernof. “It was surprisingly hard whether a recent show promo featuring in the beginning,” Rhimes admits. “I thought I would feel a little Meredith in bed with DeLuca (Giacomo relieved to have a break. But then it she says during a recent break from shoot- Gianniotti) was actually a real plot point felt really good because the show ing this season’s first episode. She’s been or just a dream. “Dating is complicated, is still really good. It would have been dificult if I pulled back and and you don’t always fall for the first per- most surprised—or disappointed, rather— I didn’t like what was coming out.” at the reaction to her success by female son you sit across from. We’re trying to It helps that Rhimes sees Vernof, peers. “We still have a really long way reflect some of that.” who was in the Grey’s writers’ room to go with respect to women supporting That said, Pompeo—who under the for the first seven seasons, as a kindred spirit. “She’s the only one women. In my experience, I see that terms of her new contract is now a Grey’s who has my sensibility and under- women are really quick to rush to other producer—shares that they’re definitely on stands what I have always been women’s aid when they’re down, which is the hunt for someone more permanent to saying about the show,” says great, when they’re victims. It’s still more enter Meredith’s life. “Patrick Dempsey Rhimes, who insists she doesn’t give any notes. “I get the lovely rare to have women support women when is a very tough act to follow, and it’s chal- experience of having her come and you’re on top.” And make no mistake, lenging to get someone to come on a say, ‘Here’s what I’ve got planned.’ Grey’s Anatomy is still at its zenith. After season 15 show,” she says. “We’re gonna I go, ‘That’s fantastic!’” That said, /ABC (2); RHIMES: GOLDMAN/SHONDALAND JAY 13 years, the medical drama remains one find someone who makes an impact. That’s Rhimes will step in if and when the drama finally ends. Trouble is, of the most popular series on ABC— our biggest challenge this year.” it’s been kind of dificult to plan. despite boasting only four of its original Elsewhere at Grey Sloan Memorial, “I have written the end of the show stars. (Thanks for sticking around, Pom- Teddy will wrestle with the revelation that at least six times. But we just don’t end. Every time I thought, ‘This is peo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, she’s 11 weeks pregnant with a baby who how the show should end,’ we’ve and James Pickens Jr.!) And the way they may or may not have been fathered by gone past those moments, so I’ve

GREY’S ANATOMY: DEREK JOHNSON achieved that—aside from a few brilliant Owen (Kevin McKidd) back in Germany. stopped trying. I have no idea now.” WILLIAMS’ MAKE UP: SHIYENA UP: MAKE WILLIAMS’ /EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS MANAGEMENT; SUIT: ISAIA; SHIRT: THEORY; MCCREA THEORY; SHIRT: ISAIA; SUIT: MANAGEMENT; ARTISTS /EXCLUSIVE UP: ROXIE SAFFEIE/TACK ARTISTS GROUP; DRESS: NAEEM KHAN; SHOE: CHLO SHOE: KHAN; NAEEM DRESS: GROUP; ARTISTS SAFFEIE/TACK ROXIE UP: RY’S: HAIR: RACQUEL FRAZIER/TEXTURE FRAZIER/TEXTURE RACQUEL HAIR: RY’S: E GOSSELIN; EARRING: MARIA CIELO MARIA EARRING: E GOSSELIN; MANAGEMENT; MAKE

20 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 SCENES FROM GREY SLOAN MEMORIAL After 14 seasons, it’s not exactly easy for the actors to recall every wound they’ve irrigated or heart they’ve repaired—but there are some scenes they will never forget. We asked the core cast to look back at their most memorable episodes. ( From far left ) EP Krista Vernoff is calling it the season of love for couples like Jackson (Jesse Wil- KellyMcCreary KevinMcKidd liams) and Maggie Dr. Maggie Pierce Dr. Owen Hunt (Kelly McCreary). “They will explore the love they have finally claimed,” she says. The March 2017 episode that In season 5, Owen battles Speaking of affection, marked the directorial debut of PTSD, which leads to him choking Pickens and Chandra Wilson have plenty to Ellen Pompeo gave McCreary Cristina (Sandra Oh) in her sleep. spare for the audi- a chance to shine as her chara- ”We are still involved in con- ence. “We love the cter experiences the loss flicts, but at that time it was very fans,” he says. “If it weren’t for them, we of her mother, Diane (LaTanya prescient. I felt a real responsi- wouldn’t be celebrat- Richardson Jackson). bility to portray that character as ing 15 seasons.” ”The way that it was pitched correctly as I could in my limited to me was ‘We’re going to meet way because I haven’t been to Maggie’s mom, and then we’re those places and I haven’t expe- going to kill her, basically.’ rienced those things. I met with Maggie lost control for the very a lot of vets who had just come Maggie (Kelly McCreary) ends up ﬁnding first time. Before we began back and were trying to put back out about it and struggles with whether to shooting the scene, one of the together some semblance of most valuable things Ellen said a life. I saw this as my mission to

WELRY: MAXIOR; WELRY: share the news with Amelia (Caterina was that ‘it’s not sad yet.’ As we portray a character who is dam- Scorsone), who’s still playing house begin the scene, they’re still aged forever. Sandra was so with Owen, Betty (Peyton Kennedy)—a very much engaged. Maggie’s committed. What is most beau- struggling drug addict—and Betty’s son, mom is enjoying giving this final tiful about our show is that while advice to her daughter. They’re some stories are flufy and silly Leo. Alex (Justin Chambers) and Jo playful. So when the hammer and just purely there for enter- (Camilla Luddington) go oﬀ on their hon- of her passing actually falls, it tainment, sometimes they are eymoon, while DeLuca starts to emerge was really beautiful. It brought about something important, too. from his depression, though his sister out a lot of emotion on the set. We’re talking about a man who There were many crew members is so damaged that he ended up Carina (Stefania Spampinato) is not con- in tears. I heard so many great abusing the person he loved. vinced he’s all better. And hottie alert, stories about loved ones who Is there a road back from that? squared! Carmack will debut in the first passed that maybe they hadn’t It was complicated and murky hour of the premiere as a likable and conﬁ- had an opportunity to share for stuf that you don’t normally see a long time. It was incredible.” on network TV, unless it’s...just dent new orthopedic surgeon named

AIR: RICKY EVANS; MAKE UP: ANI MALONEY; DRESS: TADASHI SHOJI; JE Link, while Alex Landi will join the cast later this season as Dr. Nico Kim, the drama’s ﬁrst openly gay male surgeon. Do new characters mean even more seasons of the show? Maybe, but Pompeo doesn’t seem interested in more work beyond season 16, when her latest contract expires. “I’m clearly not prepared right now to make any formal announcement about what my future is on the show, but I am really feeling like we have told the majority of the stories that we can tell,” she says. “It’s about time that I mix it up. I’m deﬁ- nitely looking for a change.” Meredith KEVIN’S PICK PICKENS’ GROOMING: JOANNA CONELL/STARMAKER PRODUCTS; WILSON’S H SHOES: ROUSSEAU; MCCREARY: LEON BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES/ESSENCE; MCKIDD: JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC JON MCKIDD: IMAGES/ESSENCE; BENNETT/GETTY LEON MCCREARY: ROUSSEAU; SHOES: couldn’t have said it better herself. about horrible psychopaths. ‘I have a surprise for you, G!’ She We’re talking about characters calls me ghetto, so my nickname who are good people who is G. I didn’t know what it was have fallen of the track because going to be, I just left it alone. they’re so damaged.” And then when she told me that Denzel was coming to direct, I obviously had a heart attack. Jesse Williams I was probably a complete idiot Dr. Jackson Avery when I met him. To be honest, directing one-hour dramas is very technical, and it’s a ton of In February 2016, Japril fans work. Most directors who come witnessed the evolution of that in are so overwhelmed with the relationship through a series technical aspects, they figure of flashbacks. we’ve been doing this forever ”We got to go back in time so they probably shouldn’t try to and deal with some heavy stuf. tell us what to do, and a lot of We called it ‘Japril the Movie 1’ them shouldn’t because they and ‘The Sequel.’ The second don’t have great ideas anyway. one, I meet my father, who I Denzel was so refreshing. He’s haven’t known my whole life. someone who wants us to know Fans hated us at first. They hated all the answers. He doesn’t April because she liked Patrick want you to show up to set ask- Dempsey’s character. Fans hated ing a million questions. That was me because I had been with pretty much a whole episode of Lexie. But, you know, you’re not no dialogue, which was amazing supposed to like it right away. It’s and so fun. I’m as decisive and supposed to be a weird fit. He opinionated as they come, so I was a suave, experienced guy was fully prepared. I had to bring in the romantic world. She was a my A game for him, so I did.” virgin who was a bit of a spaz.

Fans were pretty well invested GAB AND DOLCE SHIRT: THEORY; SUIT: MARTINEZ; DANIEL GROOMING: CHAMBERS’ MELISSA HERNANDEZ/TMG-LA; DRESS: FALGUNI AND SHANE PEACOCK; SHOE PEACOCK; SHANE AND FALGUNI DRESS: HERNANDEZ/TMG-LA; MELISSA by ‘Japril the Movie.’ Not to toot GiacomoGianniotti GIANNIOTT IMAGES; BECK/AFP/GETTY ROBYN RAVER: IMAGES; SCIULLI/GETTY our own horn, but our scenes Dr. Andrew DeLuca his way to not hurt me. We had I justified [the beating] by com- aretheNo.1mostwatched to coach him to get closer so the ing into the apartment, seeing scenes on YouTube. They’re punchesweremorereal.We this man who’s more or less obsessed with Japril. I don’t often Inseason12,Karevbelieves took the time to make sure it was on top of a woman I’m in love say the ship name, but I’m trying Jo has become romantically as scary as we wanted it to be.” with, and she’s acting silly. It to be concise. I’m immediately involved with DeLuca, so he was just a visceral reaction. The regretting this decision.” punches him. punches seemed justified, ”It was fun to shoot something JustinChambers though it got a little extreme.” diferent. We’re always in the Dr. Alex Karev Ellen Pompeo hospital, and there’s not a lot of Dr. Meredith Grey violence between the doctors. CamillaLuddington We worked with a stunt coordi- The opposite point of view from Dr. Jo Wilson nator. Originally, Justin was just the same episode. In the season 12 midseason pre- gonna punch me and I was ”Alex has been through a few miere, “The Sound of Silence,” gonna go away, but then we saw fisticufs throughout the last 15 In season 14, Jo faces her abu- which was directed by Denzel therewasatablewithabowlof years, but it’s usually the other sive ex-husband, Dr. Paul

Washington, Meredith is fruit, so we came up with an idea guy who sells the punches Stadler (Matthew Morrison). POMPEO: IMAGES; TOTH/GETTY ANDREW WILLIAMS: ZANOTTI; : GUISEPPE I: VIVIEN KILLILEA/GETTY IMAGES; CHAMBERS: PAUL ARCHULETA/FI PAUL CHAMBERS: IMAGES; KILLILEA/GETTY VIVIEN I: viciously attacked by a patient. that I was thrown onto it and the more, the guy who gets hit. So ”Paul had been such a huge STRATEGY MARJAN/BLENDED JUSTINE HAIR: LUDDINGTON’S BANA; ”Executive producer Debbie fruit flew everywhere. Justin is Giacomo was very instrumental presence in Jo’s life for so long, Allen kept teasing weeks before: such a nice guy. He went out of in selling it. As far as Alex goes, so when they finally ran into each other... I will forever remember shooting that scene... feeling anxious about doing it because it was such a huge moment for Jo’s story line. I stayed away from Matthew of camera, which sucks because he’s so nice. I would’ve loved to get to know him more. But I knew that we had to have a cer- tain chemistry, and I didn’t want to become too familiar with him. ; MAKEUP: Staying away helped to hate LMMAGIC

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played by Mandy Moore. Bailey escapes his wrath, but Dr. Charlie Percy (Robert Baker) is not so lucky. ”That was so exciting to me, to be under that bed watching the feet go by, watching Robert as Charlie getting dragged away. I just loved the terror of that and wanting the audience to have a good time with the fact that Bailey was scared to death. Mandy wasn’t supposed to say anything ( From far left ) Alex other than cry under her sheet. (Justin Chambers) We shot it from a few angles. We and Jo (Camilla Luddington) start had a high wide one, and then the season on their we got a low shot when I got honeymoon, which pulled from under the bed by the was easy to play. “When Justin and shooter. It took a couple of I are in a scene hours, but I never got tired of it. I together, I know we totally laughed, it was so hysteri- will just laugh between scenes. We cal. I had so much fun with it.” crack each other up. I can’t be serious if I have to do a scene with him and I’m CaterinaScorsone upset,” Luddington Dr. Amelia Shepherd says. But it won’t be all laughs for Teddy, Owen, and Amelia (Caterina In season 11, Amelia is on the Scorsone). ”This verge of breaking her sobriety triangle is the most dramatic of the whenOwenarrivestohelpher season,” says Vernoff. deal with Derek’s death. ”I didn’t get to say goodbye to Patrick when he left. I do think

S FOR S that helped, because I’ve been E GRANITZ/E using the character of Derek in Cristina and Owen. It was an three when my mom passed in my internal landscape ever since ELEN ROBERTSON/ Kim Raver incredible collage of complex- real life. The age was the same. Private Practice. Derek was the RESS: SARA BAGLIATELLA; ARIA CIELO; MCKIDD’S, Dr. Teddy Altman ity, which was a gift.” It was purely a coincidence. I stability in Amelia’s life. He had more trouble in the read- became a father figure after they through than when we actually watched robbers shoot their In season 8, Teddy expresses James Pickens Jr. shot it. I got it all out. Those were father. When he was suddenly her grief for her dead husband, Dr. Richard Webber feelings I hadn’t felt in a long gonefromtheshow,wedidn’t Henry (Scott Foley), by telling time. The writers didn’t realize have that closure, so I got to play Owen she hates him. what had happened, but it was it out. She’s about to use drugs ”I called Shonda and said, In season 13’s “The Room actually very liberating. A lot of again before Owen confronts ‘Isn’t this a little too harsh?’ Where It Happens,” a tough that stuf was unresolved for me.” her in a way that she finally talks She was like, ‘You’ve got to go surgery conjures up painful about her feelings about losing for it.’ It had to come from memories for Pickens, who lost Derek. She doesn’t end up using. such a place of pain that Teddy his mom when he was 10. ChandraWilson She finds this human connection couldn’t even express her ”It was so close to my actual Dr. Miranda Bailey again that helps her avert disas- grief and the only person she experience [in real life]. The ter. Amelia is very complicated, could do it with was her person. circumstances were totally and I feel like that episode really I was wrecked when Scott’s unknown to the writers. My char- In the 2010 episode “Sanctu- summed up her core struggles character died, but it was so acter is supposed to be the old- ary,” a shooter finds Bailey hid- through the whole series, includ- SHOE: GUISEPPE ZANOTTI; LUDDINGTON: DESIREE NAVARRO/WIREIMAGE; PICKENS: STEV PICKENS: NAVARRO/WIREIMAGE; DESIREE LUDDINGTON: ZANOTTI; GUISEPPE SHOE: IMAGE SCIULLI/GETTY JOHN SCORSONE: TRAN/FILMMAGIC; MICHAEL WILSON: WIREIMAGE; FLIX/PARAM PURE RAVER’S HAIR: DAVID GARDNER/EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS MANAGEMENT; MAKE UP: H SCORSONE’S HAIR: MELANIE SMITH (2); GROOMING: MELISSA WALSH (2); D CELESTINE AGENCY; DRESS: HAMEL; SHOE: CHLOE GOSSELIN; EARRING: M wonderfully complicated with est of three. I was the eldest of ing under the bed of a patient ing on Private Practice.” X

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Mrs. Maisel had a marvelous night. Game of Thrones reclaimed the drama crown. Michael Che and Colin Jost, well, they hosted—and lots of their Saturday Night Live pals dropped by to try to liven things up, mostly to no avail. EW critics Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich break down the highs—love was in the air, with a mid-speech proposal!—and (many) lows of the 70th Emmy Awards. BROSNAHAN: STEVE GRANITZ STEVE BROSNAHAN:

KRISTEN If an awards show gave people looking for someone to WINTER out a bunch of trophies and no help us get through this bumpy one was around to gripe about awards show called life. Darren, IMAGES /GETTY how they did it, would it even what stood out to you this make a sound? Fortunately for year—for better and for worse? /WIREIMAGE; SHERMAN /WIREIMAGE;

us, Darren, the 70th Emmy M PHIL LEGEND: AND THOMPSON, MCKINNON, BURGESS, BELL, BROWN, (5); Awards gave us plenty to gripe DARREN Jost and Che were bad about—first and foremost the enough to give me horror flash- hosts, Saturday Night Live’s backs to David Hyde Pierce and Colin Jost and Michael Che, Jenna Elfman interpretive- whose low energy and vague dancing TV-show titles in purple RUPAUL ARMISEN, AND RUDOLPH, CHE, JOST, BORSTEIN, -PALLADINO, befuddlement intensified as the leotards at the 1999 ceremony. evening dragged on; it’s as “At least they weren’t just stand- though they absorbed the audi- ing there awkwardly clasping ence’s disappointment during their hands saying unfunny every commercial break. jokes!” is something I’ll forever But for everything that went say in Pierce and Elfman’s wrong with the Emmy Awards defense now. (that Fred Armisen–Maya But you know what really Rudolph bit, oy!), plenty went wasn’t funny? That FX’s Atlanta— right. Henry Winkler—a.k.a. the a show that conjured hilarious- Nicest Man in Hollywood™— sad-scary TV wonder every winning his first Emmy after a episode of its magnificent second CCARTEN 40-plus-year career! RuPaul’s season—went winless. Now, I go

Drag Race dethroning The woozy thinking about the stacked /INVISION/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

Voice—yes, Ru, you can get an talent in every comedy cate- KE SVENDSE: AND , WEISS amen! And then there’s the pro- gory—I won’t even get into my posal! God bless director Glenn beloved GLOW walking away Weiss for giving us that moment emptyhanded, since I consider of humanity and pure joy—and Betty Gilpin’s “Bwahhh?” post- a nice reminder for everyone, proposal cutaway a win for Lib- famous or not, that we’re all just erty Belle—so I don’t begrudge VIN

EW PICKS THE BEST AND WORST OF THE 70TH EMMY AWARDS > BEST SPEECH Marvelous Rachel Brosnahan’s call to vote. ° BEST BIT Reparation The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel lead actress Rachel Brosnahan; creator-writer- THE PROPOSAL director Amy Sherman- Palladino; sup- Oscars director Glenn Weiss may have porting actress won a trophy, but his now ﬁancée, Jan Alex Borstein Svendsen, got some bling too. BY LYNETTE RICE

Leave it to a live-show director to deliver the best moment of Emmy night. When Glenn Weiss took the stage to accept the Emmy for directing the Oscar telecast in March, he shocked his longtime girlfriend, Jan Svend- sen, with a marriage proposal. He then brought Svendsen on stage to accept a ring that had belonged to his mom, who died just two weeks earlier. “Walking around like nothing was going to happen with this ring sitting in my pocket was nerve-racking,” Weiss told reporters afterward. He also didn’t want to give Emmys director Hamish Hamilton the heads-up that he may pop the question on national TV. “It didn’t feel right. He was nominated against me,” Weiss said of Hamilton, who directed this year’s Super Bowl halftime show featuring Justin Timber- lake. “I want to say thank you to Hamish, who took the cue. Hamish was on her [with the cameras] at the right point, I was so glad to see the replay of that.” And what if Weiss hadn’t won his 14th Emmy? “To be honest, there was no plan B,” he said. “I suppose [I would have asked] at the Governors Ball, or at In-N-Out Burger, which is our staple after awards shows.” Yup, this totally tops a Double-Double and a chocolate shake.

( Clockwise from above ) Sterling K. Brown, Kristen Bell, Tituss Burgess, Kate McKinnon, Kenan Thompson, and John Legend opened the show with a musical number claiming the lack of diversity in Hollywood had been “solved”; RuPaul’s Drag Race won Outstanding Reality Competition Program for the first time; hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che brought fellow SNL family members Maya Rudolph and Fred Glenn Weiss said his late mother “adored” Jan Svendsen Armisen along for a recurring skit that fell flat

Emmys awarded to Marla Gibbs, Jimmie Walker, and more sitcom legends. ° WORST BIT Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen as Emmys “experts.” >

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 25 Zazie Beetz; Kit Harington; Tatiana any specific non-Atlanta victo- Maslany ries...except for best comedy directing. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’sAmy Sherman-Palladino isatalent, no doubt,but Hiro Murai’s direction of Atlanta’s hauntingly hilarious “Teddy Per- kins” episode was astounding in its tone of gothic comedy chaos. The opening monologue made light comedy out of thesplendid diversification of the nominee lineup. But the winners, in aggre- gate, feltabit dispiriting.The victorious subject matter was very ’90s Academy Awards: actors playing performers and royals, big-budget brainless battle epics (Game of Thrones’ ice-dragon-iest season!), even an unexpected Dances With Wolves-ian Western fetish thankstothe wins for God- less. But I feel some strong EW WHAT YOU DIDN’T SEE ON TV TV-critic pride, Kristen, because at least one of our No. 1 favorite shows from the first half of 2018 EW takes you behind the scenes at thetelecast. had a good night! BY PATRICK GOMEZ

KRISTEN Limited Series man, did that category send me on a Emmy turned 70 on Monday night, but it felt people on their tippy-toes trying to watch the proverbial roller coaster of like its 21st birthday. opening number from the back. Surprised by emotions this year! Having Unlike some previous years, alcoholic the fact that the show went right into the Out- loved The Assassination of Gianni drinks were served throughout the ceremony standing Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and imbibed in the theater—and the celebs award during the first block, Beetz and her team Versace: American Crime Story so didn’t shy away from enjoying the change. scrambled to get her to the front of the pack in deeply, I started physically tens- During the first commercial break, Scandal’s case they chose to present her category before ing up as it lost in so many early Dan Bucatinsky was among the first to reach the she was able to make it to her seat. categories; by the time we got bar line, while Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dock- Later in the telecast, 96-year-old Betty MAZUR KEVIN HARINGTON: BEETZ, to Lead Actor in a Limited ery enjoyed a very non-Crawley glass of beer White really soaked in her moment on stage. Series or Movie, I was literally and Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington ordered a After her speech, the Golden Girls alum took holding my breath and silently sparkling wine. #ChampagneIsComing both her guide’s and presenter Alec Baldwin’s vowing to burn Los Angeles to It wasn’t just the booze that made the lobby arm on the way out, but never stopped the ground if Darren Criss appealing. Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany turning her head to look out at the audience, took advantage of her time spent in between nodding and smiling at them as she was didn’t win for his astounding the carpet and auditorium, going barefoot and escorted backstage. performance as charming con

holding her heels as she waited to reenter the During the In Memoriam segment, one M MASLANY: (2); IMAGES /GETTY man/killer Andrew Cunanan. theater during a commercial break. audience member channeled cohost Michael Fortunately for the City of Earlier, on the red carpet, Tifany Haddish Che’s mom by yelling, “Thank you, Jesus” as Angels, Criss won, and so did met up with The Sinner nominee Jessica Biel Aretha Franklin’s version of “Amazing Grace” the series I only hope this and went in for a kiss with Justin Timberlake. began to play. spurs more people to watch it Moments later, Timberlake was left starstruck One of the biggest winners of the night now. (Same goes for comedy by Killing Eve nominee Sandra Oh, literally enjoyed a sustained celebration: After claim- winner Maisel, by the way.) bowing to her as she walked by and telling her ing the Outstanding Reality Competition Pro-

he’s a “big fan.” gram trophy, the RuPaul’s Drag Race team AT

Perhapsthe most painful T WINKELMEYER As the show started, it wasn’t just regular folk could clearly be heard whooping it up back- snub to me was Sandra Oh, who stuck in the back of the Microsoft Theater, stage throughout the presentation of the next did not take home the Lead unable to get to their seats before the first com- award, Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. Actress in a Drama awardfor her mercial break. Westworld’s Luke Hemsworth, Most notably, a group cheer was audible in the / brilliant and unpredictably hilar- The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American lull during the lead-up to the announcement GETTY IMAGE ious performance on Killing Eve. Crime Story’s Edgar Ramírez, and Atlanta of Saturday Night Live’s win. It made her joke during the nominee Zazie Beetz were among the throng of Snatch that wig, Ru. opening number—a quippy ode S

MORE BEST AND WORST > BEST AUDIENCE REACTION Betty Gilpin glowing after the on-air wedding proposal. ° BEST BANTER Tiffany Haddish EMMY AWARDS 2018

to TV diversity called “We SNL trophy he became an avatar course, just signed a Thanos-size knows what jokes are. Especially Solved It”—more poignant in of broadcast dominance, recall- deal with Netflix, which means not men.” She was referring, retrospect: “It’s an honor just to ing a distant ’70s era when pun- he’ll be thanking Ted Sarandos broadly, to the various conversa- be...Asian.” I appreciate how the dits declared networks wouldn’t in his next acceptance speech. tions swirling around her Nanette Emmys are willing to take the last. “Here we are,” he said. “It’s (I’m platform-agnostic, of Netflix special, which launched piss out of their industry more 2018. We’re at the Emmys. And course, and anyhow we all know various think-piece-y conversa- than any other awards show, but we’re on NBC.” the year’s best drama is on CBS tions about the state of humor. it’s unlikely that Che and Jost Sure, but broadcast’s scripted All Access.) All heavy stuff, which Gadsby knew the song would prove so series went home empty-handed. Despite some political rum- threw off with some devil-may- accurate in its irony. (When Netflix and Amazon slithered blings, our current president was care riffing. I have a minor pro- James Corden mocks a show for through the night eating cable’s the Emmys’ He Who Shall Not posal to settle this whole “What being too white, something’s lunch. All those Versace losses Be Named, literally mentioned Is Comedy Now?” question: gone seriously wrong.) were Godless gains. In both of his less often than Steve Urkel. But I Gadsby should host next year, My favorite trend of the acceptance speeches, Versace perked up with the arrival of tell no jokes, and specifically try night was all the jocular self- producer and director Ryan Hannah Gadsby. “What are jokes not to make anyone laugh. I deprecation—whether it was Murphy thanked John Landgraf, these days?” she asked rhetori- guarantee she’d still be funnier Michael Douglas urging “the the CEO of FX. Murphy, of cally. “We don’t know. Nobody than this year’s hosts. losers” to “carry that rage…until your cold dead body is in a pine box six feet deep,” or Chappelle’s Show co-creator Neal Brennan telling the assorted luminaries, “Let’s be honest—everyone in this room has emotional wounds that no amount of money or prizes could ever fix.” To end things on a happier note, Regina King won another award—in this case, for her excellent performance on the okay Netflix drama Seven Sec-

: KEVIN: WINTER/GETTY IMAGES onds—and a world that recog- nizes Regina King’s greatness cannot be all bad. What will be your break-glass-in-case-of-emer- gency takeaway from this year?

DARREN I treasured Thandie Newton’s acceptance speech: “I don’t even believe in God, but I’m going to thank Her tonight.” (Now maybe Westworld season 3 won’t strand her in a listless daughter-hunting subplot.) The part of my subconscious I love most looks like Rick and Morty presenting an Emmy to RuPaul’s Drag Race. And Betty White, wow, stay on stage forever! ( Clockwise from Did they just play the last ﬁve top ) Game of /REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; HADDISH COHEN/WIREIMAGE; LESTER BASSETT: AND GADSBY Thrones got seconds of Twin Peaks in a gold, plus a nomination-clip reel? You’re supporting- crazy for that, Emmys, I dig it. actor win for Peter Dinklage, SNL god-emperor Lorne front; presenter

CAST: DAVID FISHER DAVID CAST: Michaels loomed over the annah Gadsby proved she’s not awards show, a producer, a con- just funny in stant reaction shot, the discov- Nanette; pre- senters Tiffany erer of seemingly half the people Haddish and

GAME OF THRONES in the theater. In accepting his Angela Bassett

and Angela Bassett. ° MOST AWKWARD BANTER Bob Odenkirk and Aidy Bryant.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 27 EMMY AWARDS 2018 DETAILS, DETAILS

Emmys fashion was all about the special touches. Sequins. Textured fabric. Va-va-volume. An t actr ses spor ng t most memorable looks ha pen to be pretty distinctive themselves. Heree’s what sets them apart on—and off—the red carpet. BY SEIJA RANKIN

ISSA RAE SANDRA OH

THE STUNNING DETAIL THE STUNNING DETAIL Thousands of hand-sewn Intricate glass-faceted bead- crystals accenting her custom ing on her silk velvet Ralph & icy-blue Vera Wang jumpsuit. Russo couture gown. WHAT SETS HER APART WHAT SETS HER APART In a word? Everything. Though a five-time nominee Insecure star Rae, 33, is a trail- for Grey’s Anatomy, Oh, 47, blazer in the industry, made history this year as the whether she’s championing first woman of Asian descent the onscreen stories of black to be nominated in the Lead women or throwing a FOMO- Actress category for her role inducing yacht party for on Killing Eve. She’s currently her fellow Emmy nominees. filmingg season 2 in Europe.p ROSS, OH: AXELLE BIEL, /BAUER -GRIFFI N/FILMMAGIC (3); HARRISO FRAZER RAE: N/GETTY IMAGES; MOORE: TODD WILLIAMSON/NBCU PHOTO IMAGES; TODD MOORE: WILLIAMSON/NBCU BANK/G N/GETTY

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THE STUNNING DETAIL MANDY MOORE TRACEE ELLIS ROSS Scalloped edges that lend a rather delicious texture to her Ralph & Russo gown. THE STUNNING DETAIL THE STUNNING DETAIL WHAT SETS HER APART A plunging, sequin-studded The sheer volume of this Her return to the small screen neckline on a dress custom- straight-off-the-runway, on The Sinner was as arrest- made (for her décolletage taffeta plissé masterpiece by ing as they come, with only!) by Rodarte. Valentino Haute Couture. back-to-back Golden Globe WHAT SETS HER APART and Emmy nominations WHAT SETS HER APART Moore, 34, stars on This Is Us, to prove it. Biel, 36, is also one of the network’s highest- Besides effectively dropping an exec producer of the sec- rated shows on TV. Says the the red carpet mic with ond season of the show. this look, Ross, 45, has been star: “The lightness you’ve ETTY IMAGES nominated for her role on come to expect from some black-ish three years in a row. characters may be plagued with some heavier themes this season.”

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BY PIYA SINHA-ROY @PIYASROY PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAKE CHESSUM @JAKECHESSUM EXCLUSIVE PICS FROM THE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY/PEOPLE Powerful Roles PHOTO STUDIO “America has come AT TIFF a long way, there have been so many progresses...yet there’s still so much further to go,” says If Beale Street Could Talk director Barry Jenkins (above, in glasses). Regina King, KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Colman Domingo, and Teyonah Parris (above) breathe life into James Baldwin’s novel. In Beautiful Boy, Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet (far left) play father and son in a tale about addiction. Director Alfonso Cuarón (near left) poses with his Roma stars Marina de Tavira and Yalitza Aparicio, who deliver tour de force performances.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 31 The Movies

From a journey to the moon to a jaunt into the Queen’s court in 18th-century England, this year’s festival standouts showcase filmmakers and actors at their most ambitious. Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, which was inspired by the life of his childhood caretaker, is crafted as a sweeping poetic ode to elevate a woman often overlooked. After the infamous La La Land and Moonlight onstage mix-up at the 2017 Oscars, the directors of both films return this year with pictures that take their skills to new realms. For If Beale Street Could Talk—based on James Baldwin’s landmark 1974 novel of the same name—Barry Jenkins delivers a beautifully styled valentine to black love and a stark reckoning of racial injustice and inequality. Mean- while, Damien Chazelle leaps from the city of stars toward actual stars with Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man, which traces the path to the first moon landing in 1969. Bradley Cooper could have made a flashy melodrama out of AStarIsBorn, his directorial debut, but instead grounds this decades-old love-story Solitary Stars remake in new dramatic layers “You think it’s a movie (alongside costar Lady Gaga) about someone who with carefully composed lands on the moon, close-ups and a resistance to but really it’s about someone who’s showy spectacle. struggling to land on George Tillman Jr.’s adapta- Earth,” Damien tion of Angie Thomas’ powerful Chazelle (far right, with his leads Claire novel TheHateUGivetells a Foy and Ryan fictional tale with very current Gosling) says of his trappings of present-day Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man. America: A teen (Amandla Sten- Meanwhile, Julianne berg) witnesses the shooting of Moore (top left) her unarmed black friend by a tackles divorce, dating, and self- police oficer and learns the true discovery in Gloria cost of becoming an activist. Bell, while Robert And then there’s The Favourite: Redford (seated top Nothing on director Yorgos right center with Danny Glover, Casey Lanthimos’ short but singularly Afleck, Tika strange résumé (The Lobster, Sumpter, and Sissy The Killing of a Sacred Deer) Spacek) depicts a charming-rogue bank can prepare you for the humor, robber in The Old intrigue, or jeweler-precise Man & the Gun. PUPPY LOVE

Sure, plenty of celebrities popped by Entertainment Weekly and People’s photo and video suite at the Great Hall in Toronto for the Toronto International Film Festival, but the real stars of our studio were the rescue puppies provided by Finding Them Homes. Many of the ridiculously adorable dogs you see in these pics need forever homes; if you’re interested in adopting one, please visit findingthemhomes.com. (I can person- ally vouch for Mung, who was the best.) A special thanks to our partners Face- book and Oculus for sponsoring our space. —Henry Goldblatt T (2)

period detail of this lusty, laugh-filled perspective on the power-mad court of Britain’s Queen Anne. It takes the traditional Masterpiece Theatre approach to the royals and turns it on its crown, vaulting it into the surreal stratosphere. MPAS ®; SWANK, PATEL: PHOTOGRAPHS BY BEN TRIVET The Lead Performances

From Hollywood powerhouses to newly minted stars, this year’s actors tackle the burdens of expectation and legacy in an array of introspective performances. Gosling weaves the trauma of losing a child into the pursuit of answers in space as the strong, silent Armstrong, and Stenberg as 16-year-old Starr Carter in The Hate U Give is devastating. In what Robert Redford says will be his last What They Had star Hilary onscreen role ever (although Swank (top) gets cuddles; Dev Patel of The Wedding he also teases, “Never say Guest and Hotel Mumbai

never”), the Hollywood icon THE AWARDIST LOGO BY MIKEY BURTON; STATUETTE: OSCAR STATUETTE ® A © makes new Canadian friends

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 33 puts his famous charm to excellent use in The Old Man & the Gun as an aging bank robber (see EW’s interview with Redford on page 36 for more on the film). The topic of addiction haunts several complex characters as they grapple with demons. In ASIB, Cooper’s gruf, fading Edgerton’s gay-conversion drama Breaking to the yin-yang performances by musician Jackson Maine tussles Boy Erased. The gut-wrenching the Mold the pair. The film won the presti- with the burden of his craft as he Beautiful Boy is based on the true “We have a lot gious People’s Choice Award at in us that would finds himself drawn to mentoring story of a loving father and son probably be TIFF this year, often an early indi- a young, talented newcomer struggling with the latter’s considered cator of an Oscar front-runner. (Lady Gaga in her first leading descent into drug addiction, with testosterone Then there are the surprise but is actually role in a film). Comedic super- stunning turns from Timothée progesterone. breakouts. Watch for newcomer nova Melissa McCarthy hits Chalamet as young Nic and That female power Yalitza Aparicio, who captivated sharp, subtle notes in the 1990s- Steve Carell as dad David. is oftentimes not audiences as Roma’s quiet and seen on screen in set dramedy Can You Ever Across many in-contention this way,” Viola endearing nanny Cleo. Viola Forgive Me? as hard-drinking films, some performances Davis (top left) says Davis’ Veronica finds herself left misanthrope and literary forger may make it tricky for how of her character alone and with no choice but to in Steve McQueen’s Lee Israel. In Ben Is Back—lest studios weigh lead- and Widows, who clean up her late husband’s you had forgotten that she’s an supporting-acting categories. scrambles to fix crimes in Steve McQueen’s heist Oscar winner—Julia Roberts For example, Chalamet and her broken life thriller Widows, a genre role while plotting a once again showcases her range Carell match up in their powerful heist. In Can You that breaks new ground for her. as a mother battling the impact respective roles. In Green Book, Ever Forgive Me?, Julianne Moore sheds her of her son’s (Lucas Hedges) Peter Farrelly’s tale of a cele- Melissa McCarthy inhibitions as Gloria, a single drug addiction and recovery brated black concert pianist (above) dug deep divorcée trying to find her pur- to embody the reclu- when he unexpectedly comes (Mahershala Ali) touring the Jim sive Lee Israel. “If pose in her 50s, in Sebastián home for the holidays. Another Crow South with his white Copa she didn’t want you Lelio’s Gloria Bell (due for release Oscar-winning actress, Nicole club bouncer-turned-driver to know something, in spring 2019)—a film that left she wasn’t going Kidman, plays a mom to a char- (Viggo Mortensen), the film deli- to put it out there,” TIFF audiences cheering. And acter played by Hedges, in Joel cately avoids cliché, largely due McCarthy says. British actress Olivia Colman, Party to the North We went Gaga for A Star Is Born, loved The Hate U Give, and talked who has forged a formidable all about If Beale Street Could Talk at EW’s annual Must List party comedic and dramatic career, honoring the most promising entries at the Toronto International plays the short-tempered, sickly, Film Festival. Celebs including Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Melissa and surprisingly randy Queen McCarthy, Hugh Jackman, Penélope Cruz, and Javier Bardem Anne in The Favourite.Colman stopped by the Thompson Toronto for some much-needed gives a master class in unpre- downtime from movie screenings and promoting their projects. dictability and alternating moods Special thanks to the event’s presenting sponsor Netflix, as well as as she’s pulled into a tug-of-war Casamigos Tequila and FIJI Water for their support. —HG between two power-hungry schemers, adeptly played by Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.

The Directors

After pairing two A-list stars (Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) in the heart-racing space thriller Gravity, Cuarón returns with a first-time actress (Aparicio) in his magnum opus Roma, serving cinematic magic in meticulously choreographed black and white. Speaking of Gravity, we see its successor in Chazelle’s First Man, where the Oscar-winning director show- ENTERTAINMENT cases his cinematic skills to con- WEEKLY’S struct an intimate movie about a MUST LIST PARTY TORONTO, SEPT.8 journey into space, anchoring the story in Armstrong’s mental anguish and tenacity. Will Moonlight auteur Jenkins strike gold again with the lushly ambitious Beale Street? He just might: The filmmaker crafts a musicality to Baldwin’s poignant words—not just within the jazz and strings soundtrack, but with a rhythm inside his cinematography and storytelling. The Diary of a Teenage Girl filmmaker Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? flawlessly re-creates early-1990s Must List honorees, Manhattan for the absurd true- clockwise from top life story of a cynical, kooky left: The Front Runner’s Hugh woman who struggles to con- Jackman; AStar nect with other people. Is Born’s Bradley Which brings us to Cooper (with costars Sam Elliott and Lady Lanthimos’ The Favourite. The Gaga); Alexander Greek director dials down the Skarsgård from signature, singular chilly weird- The Hummingbird Project and Hold ness demonstrated in his previ- the Dark; The Hate /GETTY (5) IMAGES ous films and brings a surprising U Give castmates amount of fiery, furious feminism Algee Smith and to this tale of palace intrigue. Amandla Stenberg with director George Tillman Jr.; Everybody Additional reporting by Leah Greenblatt, Knows actress

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Robert Redford (and his signature windswept locks) as Forrest Tucker in The Old Man & the Gun ERIC ZACHANOWICH

GUNNINGFORGLORY /FOX SEARCHLIGHT Whether he’s a newspaperman, mountain man, con man, or evil double-agent man, Robert Redford, 82, excels at mixing light and dark. In what he says is his final role, the legendary actor and director plays a deceptively charming bank robber in The Old Man & the Gun. BY KATIE HASTY

36 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 ROBERT REDFORD’S REEL Drivers Road-trip dramedy Green Book, starring Mahershala CONS,CRIMES, NEWS Ali and Viggo Mortensen, won TIFF’s People’s Choice Award. ANDCAPERS Keepers After finishing Maleficent 2 and Come Away, Skirting the law is a popu- Angelina Jolie will star in and produce The Kept adaptation. lar pastime for the actor

bank tellers and forgotten family members—mostly women—in the outlaw’s wake who will be BUTCH CASSIDY forever traumatized. AND THE SUNDANCE KID Writer-director David Lowery 1969 (Pete’s Dragon) says he inten- Robert Redford and Paul tionally wove this notion into the Newman pair up to rob trains in the Wild West. film, balancing Redford’s glori- ous scene work with the victims’ stories, often giving female characters the last word. “I wanted to make the most fun and light- hearted movie possible, but also add all these little rough edges,” says Lowery. “If you THE STING catch them, it’s impossible to 1973 truly love Forrest.” The actor duo, together It’s love that puts Forrest’s new again, con a mob boss in this major Oscar winner. flame Jewel (Sissy Spacek) at risk of becoming collateral dam- age. The pair meets cute while he’s making a getaway (though she doesn’t know that part). The veteran actors’ scenes together Sissy Spacek’s Jewel and Redford’s Forrest vibing on a movie date are delectably playful, flirtatious, spread out over the porches and THE GREAT GATSBY FORREST TUCKER (ROBERT interview earlier this month diners and horse pastures that 1974 Redford) has a pretty simple during the Toronto International dot their characters’ love afair. Jay Gatsby supposedly stick-up strategy: With a gentle Film Festival, brings up the “Chivalry is not dead when it amasses his immense smile on his face, he pleasantly bandit movie that first made him comes to Forrest Tucker,” says wealth as a bootlegger. asks bank employees to empty astar,1969’sButch Cassidy Spacek, 68, and she speaks simi- their cofers as he surreptitiously and the Sundance Kid. larly of Redford himself: “Even reveals a gun. He walks out Playing the Kid “touched when he plays a criminal, he with the cash, easy peasy. When a nerve,” the actor says, his blue brings an honor with him.” his victims give police state- eyes steady. “[That] feeling of The romance tests Forrest’s ments after the fact, they recall being an outlaw—not wanting to robbery tear, which weaves the septuagenarian suspect’s break the law, but being slightly through the Midwest and Texas, SNEAKERS BUTCH CASSIDY AND CASSIDY BUTCH charm, and how easily he shook outside of the law.” And Old and soon even the investigating 1992 : EVERETT COLLECTION (4); EVERETT: COLLECTION them down. Man’s Tucker is “just loving what detective John Hunt (Casey The Academy Award Based on the story of he’s doing, and it’s making him Afleck) starts to fall under his winner joins the computer age as a hacker. SNEAKERS real-life bank robber and prison happy. But he also wants other spell. Says Spacek of Forrest: , escape artist Tucker, The Old people to be happy—even the “The men are fascinated by him /FOX SEARCHLIGHT; /FOX Man & the Gun (out Sept. 28) people he’s robbing.” and the women are all…” she features Redford in an afable- That’s the hitch, though. laughs as she trails of. criminal role that tees up Often there are the literal and The duality of Forrest’s char- THE GREAT GATSBY GREAT THE , the charismatic persona that poetic casualties to each crime, acter is a tightrope Redford has audiences have enjoyed for and law-breaking comes with so often walked in his career: : ERIC ZACHANOWICH ERIC : : VOLTAGE PICTURE/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK: VOLTAGE more than six decades. It’s also, other fissures: broken hearts, a performance that’s enchanting

THE STING THE THE COMPANY YOU KEEP , according to the actor, his bones, cars, mental states, yet dangerous, confident yet 2012 last film performance. (He’ll con- homes. Despite the positioning capable of disappointment. Redford leads as a former tinue to produce and direct.) some criminals enjoy through And it’s a performance that may Weather Underground mil- So it’s somewhat fitting, then, movie myth-making, in The Old easily bag him an Oscar nod, itant running from the FBI. THE SUNDANCE KID SUNDANCE THE THE COMPANY YOU KEEP YOU COMPANY THE THE OLD MAN & THE GUN that Redford, sitting down for an Man & the Gun there are the no gun required.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 37 The Sisters Brothers

STARRING Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed

DIRECTED BY Jacques Audiard | RATING R

LENGTH 2 hrs. | REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

THE SISTERS BROTHERS IS THE KIND OF OLD FASHIONED AMERICANA they used to call a picaresque: a dusty, squint-eyed Western ramble full of wry cowboy humor and sudden death. It’s also almost impossible to believe it wasn’t made by another set of siblings: the Coen brothers. In fact, the TheAssassination movie is helmed by French auteur Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone), working of Hari Nef from Canadian-born novelist Patrick DeWitt’s episodic tale of Charlie and Eli Model-actress Hari Nef, 25, tells Sisters (played by Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly), bounty hunters–slash– EW about fronting the resistance in Sam freelance assassins plying their bloody trade in circa-1850s Oregon City. Levinson’s social satire Assassination Charlie is the good-time guy with a hollow leg and a lead trigger finger; Eli is Nation (out Sept. 21), which follows four more anxious and sensitive, a meaty-pawed romantic. Both stubborn, they needle teens—including Nef’s trans high schooler, Bex—who fight back rather and bicker just like brothers—or like Step Brothers, with Phoenix in spurs stand- than be burned at the stake after they’re ing in for Will Ferrell in a sweater vest. As the boys trek toward the heart of the blamed for a digital leak that spills California Gold Rush in search of their latest quarry, chemist Hermann Kermit their town’s twisted secrets. BY JOEY NOLFI Warm (Riz Ahmed), their colleague John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal) is also in hot pursuit. He’s a different type, though: a cautious, courtly gentleman who may have more in common than he knows with the sincere idealist Hermann. This film is set in the Bex’s clique is one present, in a town typically played by Seeing Reilly’s Eli brush his teeth for the first time is like watching a dog play called Salem. Are you cis women in teen the cello, and Phoenix, once again the wild man with something tender and dam- the “witches” fight- movies like Mean aged underneath, is as endearingly weird as ever. Gyllenhaal is fussy and kooky ing back? Girls.Asatrans It’s obviously a radi- woman, how do you and wears his swirly mustache well, and Ahmed radiates a sort of light-beam cal course of action, feel about integrat- sweetness. Sisters gets sadder and more eccentric as it goes, though it’s hard not but there’s something ing a trans character cathartic about the into that space?

to wonder why exactly—with all the Westerns already in the canon—this movie THE SISTERS BROTHERS reaction the film pro- I wasn’t concerned got made, other than to give its crew of excellent actors a chance to put on their poses. But it’s not so with Bex’s identity, boots and ride oﬀ, cockeyed and whimsical, into some kind of sunset. B far away from reality because her identity that we can dismiss it isn’t an issue for her— Oh, brother: Gun-slinging Sisters John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix saddle up completely and drop it’s an issue for people it when we leave the around her. She has : MAGALI BRAGARD/ANNAPURNA PICTURES; NEF: REBECCA CABAGE/INVISION/AP/REX/SHUT theater.... If [Twitter] the most recognizable, happened in real life, conventional story line [this film is] what it of all: the love story. would look like. She’s in a star-crossed People feel embold- first love, and there’s ened to say things nothing more univer- on the internet they sal. I understand Bex wouldn’t in person. and I occupy a specific What we can take space in this conversa- away is the internet tion, but the specificity is a medium for and voyeurism around people’s feelings. that space detract In terms of an efec- from the fact that we tive way to afect deal with the same change, it leaves stuf every other a lot to be desired. woman deals with. It’s important Bex’s So you all literally particular struggles take a katana are contextualized to the patriarchy within the greater con- as therapy? versation of these Iseeitasself- three other girls and defense. Nobody their struggles. They TERSTOCK chose to pick up the band together to fight katana; they had to. the common enemy!

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The House With a Clock in Its Walls

STARRING Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro

DIRECTED BY Eli Roth

RATING PG | LENGTH 1 hr., 45 mins.

REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

On the LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, hose: Michael children of all ages, step right up Moore and meet...Eli Roth? Wait, what’s going on here? Yes, as bizarre as it may Fahrenheit 11/9 THE MOORE seem, the taboo-flouting director of the YOU KNOW: STARRING Donald Trump, Michael Moore | RATING R torture-porn Hostel movies has tapped into HIS BEST DOCS BY LEAH GREENBLATT his inner Hufflepuff for what has to be one DIRECTED BY Michael Moore | LENGTH 2 hrs. of the oddest career change-ups in Holly- REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats : EVERETT COLLECTION (2) EVERETT COLLECTION : wood memory. Odder still, it kind of works. 1 Adapted from John Bellairs’ 1973 YA mys- FINDING THE PERSONAL IN THE POLITICAL, tery fantasia, The House With a Clock in Its ROGER AND ME , and making it pop, has been Michael Moore’s Walls is like a mash-up of Harry Potter, The rumpled-revolutionary brand for nearly three BOWLING FOR Addams Family, and the Goosebumps saga, COLUMBINE decades. And his latest feels like a sort of survey course (2002) but busier, noisier, and more exhausting. in Moore-ness: The title alludes to his own 2004 film Gun culture put on It’s mostly giddy, ghouly fun—even if it blast, excellently. Fahrenheit 9/11 as well as the day-after-tomorrow reck- might have made a slightly better Universal BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE FOR BOWLING oning of the 2016 election, though Donald Trump is Theme Park attraction than a film.

: TIFF; mostly a touchstone—or a lodestar, if you will—for a /9 Owen Vaccaro stars as Lewis, a 10-year-old 2 chattily discursive trip through current events, from the orphan who moves in with his eccentric Flint water crisis to the West Virginia teachers’ strike. Uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) and his daﬀy

FAHRENHEIT 11 FAHRENHEIT As such, it feels like both the best and worst of his neighbor (Cate Blanchett), who just hap- SICKO approach as a filmmaker. There’s the urge to go for reduc- (2007) pen to be a warlock and a witch trying to tive, grabby headlines (Gwen Stefani and Adolf Hitler: A scalpel taken to find a mysterious clock with dark powers America’s broken equal enemies of democracy?), and, as always, the sense healthcare system. hidden somewhere in his magical, haunted that Moore is preaching to the choir: Even if you’re already Victorian mansion. Spells are taught, life wearing the robes and holding the songbook, you can’t lessons are learned, bravery is found, and help wishing he’d reach a little further across the aisle. 3 evil is vanquished—all in a swirl of playful But when he’s good—as in stirring segments with the CGI pixie dust. Black, no surprise, steals the student activists of Stoneman Douglas High School and show, manically hamming it up like Harry the lead-poisoning victims in Michigan—he is very, very FAHRENHEIT 9/11 Houdini on laughing gas, while Roth tries to (2004) /UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT; good. He also turns the force of his critique more than keep the breakneck pace of his phantasma- Mr. Moore goes to squarely on himself (mostly for his too-friendly treat- Washington, shines goria going. As someone who was growing a klieg light. ment of future combatants like Jared Kushner and bored with Roth’s gory shockfests, I say: Kellyanne Conway), and doesn’t flinch from sacred cows; Welcome to the kiddie table, Eli. B– : QUANTELL COLBERT former president Barack Obama comes in for a particu- 4 Armed: Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, and Owen Vaccaro larly harsh rebuke for his confounding handling of Flint. As much as Fahrenheit aims to educate and entertain, it often can’t stop congratulating its audience for being ROGER & ME smart enough to land on the right (left) side. What sticks, (1989) Come for the auto though, is Moore’s larger calling of private citizens to the executive, stay for the power of public service and active protest. You don’t have hometown heroes.

THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS to make your own movie; just run, vote, care. B

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Colette

STARRING Keira Knightley, Dominic West

DIRECTED BY Wash Westmoreland

RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 51 mins.

REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

SIDONIE-GABRIELLE COLETTE defied convention her whole life, sweeping aside social, sexual, and literary mores with a flick of her pen or her tongue. Director Wash Westmoreland’s safe but sensual portrait of the revered French novelist and libertine may be the closest anyone has come to containing her: a lovingly linear treatment of a woman whose entire existence was one wild, extended amour fou. It’s a role seemingly made for Our Lady of Perpetual Corsetry Keira Knightley, whose creamy, period-perfect face conveys a fierce new energy. Born a clever, sheltered country girl, her Colette becomes the teenage Olivia Wilde and Oscar Isaac as the married Abby and Will bride of celebrated Parisian flaneur and Life Itself belle epoque fixture Henry Gauthier-Villars (a padded and floridly goateed Dominic STARRING Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Laia Costa West, cherry-picking yet another charlatan

DIRECTED BY Dan Fogelman | RATING R from his onscreen gallery of rogues). Releas- ing various tomes under the name Willy, he LENGTH 1 hr., 58 mins. | REVIEW BY Dana Schwartz @DanaSchwartzzz operates a sort of bohemian content farm from their home, and soon enlists his wife to BASED ON ITS AD CAMPAIGN, YOU’D BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING share her schoolgirl tales in a hugely popular Life Itself is a saccharine romantic drama about the equally attractive series of novels. Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde. Instead, the film devolves into a muddy As the books become a sensation, the mar- five-part saga about interconnected lives around the world, jerking away from riage flounders in romantic and professional each story just as it threatens to become worthwhile. What the viewer is left betrayals—though Colette’s love affairs with LIFE ITSELF with, then, is the curious sensation of having just watched a two-hour prologue women feel less like infidelity than an awak- to something that they’re no longer interested in. ening. And Westmoreland (Still Alice), for all PACK : JON Like writer-director Dan Fogelman’s TV megahit This Is Us, Life Itself orients his coloring within the biopic lines, manages itself around a very pregnant, very-much-in-love couple (Oscar Isaac and to illuminate not just the legend but the STUDIOS; /AMAZON Olivia Wilde) and the story, years later, of their now-grown daughter (Olivia flawed, fascinating woman underneath. B+ Cooke). Meanwhile, across the world, Antonio Banderas plays a captivating French press: Dominic West and Keira Knightley landowner in Sevilla who befriends the wife and young son of one of his COLETTE employees in a saga that predictably collides with the first story.

So many tragedies befall the film’s extended family, it begins to feel capri- STREET VIGLASKY/BLEECKER : ROBERT cious, like a mercurial god throwing darts: car accident, mental collapse, suicide, cancer, dead dog (death-by-slow-cooker-related-fire was already taken). Excellent performances are wasted—especially from the criminally underutilized Mandy Patinkin and Annette Bening, both of whom appear in just bit parts—and the gimmicky story structure never quite earns its cutesiness. With far too much confidence but nothing to say, Life Itself lives up to the col- lege-freshman affectedness of its own title. C

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A SIMPLE FAVOR | Directed by Paul Feig Starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding W A Simple Favor never quite sticks its landing, instead luxuri- ating in suspense for suspense’s sake, but still makes for +PVJG 0GY;QTM6KOGU a taut, absorbing, divinely chic ride, a tantalizing morsel with the unrealized promise of a more satisfying meal. B+ DGUVUGNNKPICWVJQToU EJKNNKPIPGYVJTKNNGTt BEL CANTO | Directed by Paul Weitz Starring Julianne Moore, Christopher Lambert, Ken Watanabe L ENVY RUNS DEEPER : KIMBERLEY: FRENCH/FOX An American opera singer (Moore) and a Japanese mogul (Watanabe) are among those caught in the geopolitical THAN BLOOD… crossfire in Weitz’s slow-simmering hostage drama. B THE PREDATOR THE PEPPERMINT | Directed by Pierre Morel Starring Jennifer Garner W Whatever moments of fun there are watching Garner infal- libly tear through the ranks of the drug gang are canceled GRIPPING out by the movie’s lack of creativity and imagination. D+

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THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS STEADY LAND OF THE international high-school science competition—is utterly winning, like Hoop Dreams for test tubes and genomes. A––

WHITE BOY RICK | Directed by Yann Demange Starring Richie Merritt, Matthew McConaughey W McConaughey and newcomer Merritt breathe fiery life into a tale we’ve seen before: the rise and fall of an inner-city drug dealer. The catch this time around is that B

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THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS | Directed by Nicole Holofcener Starring Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco, Charlie Tahan NL Holofcener (Enough Said, Please Give) continues her run of WHITE BOY RICK smartly discomfiting dramedies with this tale of a Connect- icut divorcé (Mendelsohn) learning to live, love, and smoke weed with teenagers out of decorative gourds again. B

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: PETER IOVINO PETER : Black brings his snack, crackle, pop-culture one-liners to HOT OPERATIVES the latest installment in the action saga, but it’s too campy and comic to provide any chills. It doesn’t help that star RISK IT ALL… Boyd Holbrook feels like a thrift-shop Charlie Hunnam. C– A SIMPLE FAVOR #8#+.#$.''8'4;9*'4'$11-5#4'51.&

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Like father, not like son: Tony Danza and Josh Groban THE GOOD COP

same name, follows Tony “TJ” Caruso Jr.

The Good Cop (Groban), a successful, pathologically rule- K SHORT : MICHELE

DATE TIME NETWORK REVIEW BY bound detective in the NYPD. (TJ’s motto: Launches Sept. 21 Streaming Netflix Kristen Baldwin “If you break one rule, they all break.”) His @KristenGBaldwin father, Tony Sr. (Tony Danza, oozing wise- guy charm), is a former cop who just /NETFLIX; WHY IN THE WORLD HAS IT TAKEN SO LONG FOR SOMEONE TO moved in with TJ after a stint in prison for AMERICAN VANDAL give Josh Groban a TV show? It’s no secret that the mul- corruption. Though Tony Sr. is no longer tiplatinum dreamboat has a knack for comedy, and he’s on the job, he can’t help but get tangled always a welcome presence on screen, whether it’s as up in TJ’s work—usually through poor

Miss Piggy’s love interest on The Muppets or as host of decision-making (harboring a fugitive : SCOTT PATRICK GREEN / NETFLIX the 2018 Tonys. We should be grateful, then, to The Good friend from prison) or convenient coinci- Cop showrunner Andy Breckman for elevating Groban to dence (the manager at Tony Sr.’s regular leading man. There are many things to like about Net- bowling alley is found dead). ﬂix’s new police comedy, and Groban’s performance as Hilarity ensues, right? Actually, yes. The the titular detective is one of the show’s chief delights. Good Cop blends the cheerful silliness of Thehe Good Cop, based on the IsraeIsraelili comedy of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine with the tidy storytelling

THE NINE-WORD REVIEWW > Ammerican Vandal (Netflix, Sept. 14) Less funny than last season, but final episode stuns.

42 EW.COM LOGLINES Sweet Treat EW is sharing 50 exclusive TV scoops over 50 days through Oct. 1 at ew.com/50-scoops. On Location NBC’s This Is Us will film in Asia for season 3, which explores Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and his brother’s (Michael Angarano) time in the Vietnam War.

of Breckman’s other crime comedy, Monk, and it elevates the familiar police-show for- PARTNERS mula with a strong ensemble. Danza, who IN CRIME only gets more affable with age, is skilled in Before The Good Cop,weloved the art of busting chops, but he tempers these good actors Tony’s exasperating personality with as TV cops believable sweetness. (Pops never lets his SMOOTH CRIMINAL son leave for a crime scene without issuing this warning: “Hey, wear your vest.”) Gro- WHO ban is a wonderful foil; his TJ is a swirl of JULIA GARNER tension and nerves held in check by an DON KNOTTS & WHY YOU KNOW HER WHY YOU WILL KNOW HER unfailingly professional demeanor. “I ANDY GRIFFITH The New York City native, The actress stars with Emma The Andy 24, has appeared on The Stone and Jonah Hill on taught him everything I know,” boasts Tony Griffith Show Americans, Girls, and Waco, Netflix’s Maniac (Sept. 21) Sr., prompting TJ to utter with clenched Barney and Andy and is the resident scene- and Connie Britton on Bravo’s are the Goofus and stealer on Netflix’s Ozark. Dirty John (late fall). politeness, “Except right from wrong. That Gallant of the law.

I learned on my own.” Julia Garner specializes in word that comes to mind Rounding out the precinct are TJ’s fellow playing the anti–girl next is tough,” Garner says of door—but don’t call her a Ruth. “But she’s really just

: EVERETT : detective–slash–love interest, Cora Vasquez one-trick pony. “Every role fragile and hoping for some- (Monica Barbaro), and Isiah Whitlock Jr. as I do has to be diferent than thing better. I think that’s : JESSICA MIGLIO/NETFLIX JESSICA : Burl Loomis, an NYPD vet who is literally the last,” says the actress. always interesting to play, TYNE DALY & because to have hope is OZARK “You have to add some sort counting the days until his retirement. SHARON GLESS of dimension to each of such an important quality.”

CAGNEY AND LACEY AND CAGNEY (Whitlock, who should be cast in every- Cagney & Lacey your characters, because While Garner is hopeful for a They broke the glass everyone has their own third season of Ozark, she’ll thing, can turn even the most clichéd cop ceiling as TV’s first layers.” After cutting her next appear on Netflix in female cop duo. : MPTV (2); archetype into a scene-stealing favorite.) teeth in independent film, Maniac, the mind-bending And Bill Kottkamp gives a breakout perfor- Garner broke out in 2015 as comedy from Cary Fuku- CIA agent Isaac Breland’s naga, in which she stars mance as the precinct’s awkward tech geek daughter Kimberly on The as Annie’s (Emma Stone) Ryan, a guy who responds with refreshingly Americans before being cast sister Ellie, who continues realistic revulsion to a bloody crime-scene on Ozark. “I’m normally to reappear in unusual good at letting things go, circumstances. As with all THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW GRIFFITH ANDY THE photo: “What the heck? This is gross!” DENNIS FRANZ but I remember thinking that of her projects, Garner has As a rare Netﬂix procedural, The Good Cop & JIMMY SMITS I really wanted this,” Garner one mission: “I just want NYPD Blue says of auditioning for the to continue to learn as an is engaging without being too mentally tax- Both are tough on role of Ruth, a local criminal actor and as a person. I feel ing. The mysteries are literally spelled out in perps, but softies who becomes Marty’s (Jason like with every character with each other. Bateman) apprentice. that I’ve played, I’ve done a newspaper headline (e.g., “What Is the “From the outside, the first that.” —Derek Lawrence Supermodel’s Secret?”) during the opening credits; after eight seasons of Monk, Breck- Jason Bateman and Julia Garner go stare crazy

: HBO/PHOTOFEST; GARNER: GILBERT GARNER: CARRASQUILLO/GC IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES; HBO/PHOTOFEST; : man clearly respects the pleasures of smartly plotted stories told well in 44 minutes. Sure, THE WIRE THE

/PHOTOFEST; SMITS: ABC PHOTO /GETTY IMAGES; PHOTO ABC SMITS: /PHOTOFEST; you might sometimes ﬁgure out whodunit DOMINIC WEST & WENDELL PIERCE 12 minutes into the episode, but who doesn’t The Wire Great detectives, FRANZ: ABC COLLECTION; like being right once in a while? B+ and even better drinkers.

B+ —DARREN FRANICH Last Man Standing

DATE Premieres Sept. 28 | TIME 8 p.m.

NETWORK Fox

REVIEW BY Kristen Baldwin @KristenGBaldwin

THE WORDS “DONALD TRUMP” ARE NOT uttered once during the season 7 premiere of Last Man Standing, but 45 looms over almost every scene. The tone Last Man strikes in the episode, however, is surprising. One might almost call it…unifying. Other than airing on Fox (after being canceled by ABC in 2017), the new Last Man is pretty much the same as the old Last Man. Tim Allen plays Mike Baxter, loud and proud Everyman whose traditional worldview sometimes puts him at odds with his family. Nowadays, Mike feels pretty good about the “new and improved America,” but his daughters can’t talk politics without ﬁght- ing. And Mike’s liberal son-in-law Ryan (Jordan Masterson) is so distraught that he Deal With plans to move his family to Canada. It would be easy for Allen, an outspoken Republican, to play to the cheap seats with theDaredevil potshots about snowflakes and such. Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) survived the explosive finale Instead, the show balances its Dad-jabs at of Marvel’s The Defenders, but he’s practically the the left with a theme of “Can’t we all just walking dead when season 3 of his superseries returns get along?” “Not communicating seems to this Oct. 19 on Netflix. BY SHIRLEY LI be the weapon of choice right now,” Mike says in his weekly vlog. “To the families of HE MAY BE CALLED THE MAN alive, Matt quickly ventures back LAST MAN STANDING America, keep talking.” Without Fear, but in the third into the streets—not to look for season of his solo Netflix series, justice, but for an exit entirely. Those who found Last Man funny when Daredevil (Charlie Cox) should “When he realizes that he’s inca- Obama was president will no doubt ﬁnd it be afraid. After all, the Devil of pable of being Daredevil, he : FOX; funny today. The rest of us can’t argue with Hell’s Kitchen (known by day as would rather just end it than go Mike’s command to his family: “We treat lawyer Matt Murdock) was last forward in his life without abili- DAREDEVIL seen crushed under a building ties. He’s decided to set aside his each other with dignity and respect, because with Elektra (Elodie Yung) at the Matt Murdock persona and just that’s who we are.” B– end of the Marvel mash-up mini- be the Devil, to isolate the lighter RIVELLI : NICOLE series Marvel’s The Defenders. part of himself.” When he wakes up in Marvel’s That also means isolating his Daredevil, his heightened senses inner circle. Neither best friend Tim (2); /NETFLIX Allen are failing, Elektra’s gone, and Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) and his he’s presumed dead. “Matt starts nor ex Karen Page (Deborah Ann TV wife the season broken physically, Woll) know Matt’s alive, and Nancy I FEEL BAD Travis broken emotionally, and broken when Matt finally reaches out to spiritually,” new showrunner Erik the former, Foggy doesn’t exactly

Oleson (Arrow) says. “He’s angry welcome him back with open : EVANS VESTAL WARD/NBC at God, he’s angry at the fact arms. “Foggy has been trying to that he had risked his life to do move on from Matt’s memory, God’s work, and he’s questioning or at least move on with his life,” whether or not he was a fool.” Oleson says. “If you thought one Enter—or rather, reenter—the of your close friends was dead black suit. Despite being barely and he decided not to tell you

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Sarayu Blue and Paul Adel- stein are parents with jobs, “Matt goes but they’ll to pretty sleep DUAL much the someday darkest REVIEW place you can,” EP Erik Oleson says of Murdock I Feel Bad (Charlie Cox) DATE Launches Sept. 19 | TIME 10 p.m.

NETWORK NBC | REVIEW BY Darren Franich @DarrenFranich he survived, you would probably have some issues with that.” And as if those weren’t enough NBC’S NEW SERIES HAS A PROBLEM: IT’S REALLY TWO problems for a defeated blind different shows, and only one of them’s watchable. vigilante to deal with, season 1 big bad Wilson Fisk (Vincent I Feel Bad is an okay family sitcom. Our harried hero D’Onofrio) has begun carrying Emet (Sarayu Blue) is a mortal mother in the age of the Instagram out a new master plan to retake Supermom. Her husband (Paul Adelstein) is sweet but needy. Her his throne. “Fisk has gotten kids form a three-pronged tactical assault: a daughter just old enough smarter, more calculated, and more manipulative,” says Oleson, for inappropriate dancing; a son who thinks you pronounce the “h” adding that Fisk is the perfect in “honor roll”; a baby who is a baby, so therefore a source of endless, villain for the drama to feel all-consuming need. Her mom (Madhur Jaffrey) is judgmental. Her timelier than ever. “I very much dad (Brian George) seems fine, but then a case of mistaken identity wanted to tell a story that’s leads to an awkward father-daughter butt slap. The briefest serenity relevant to the world around us. I looked at the show as a way Nelson requires Walter White-level subterfuge. To get into the fast drop-off to examine how tyrants manipu- (Elden lane at school, Emet photoshops an honor-roll bumper sticker. To late in order to push their own Henson) and enjoy 20 minutes of daily peace, she sneaks into her neighbors’ house agenda and cause fear and dis- Murdock trust.” If only Hell’s Kitchen were reunited and uses all their skin-care products. I Feel Bad is so fast-paced you get and it the Neighborhood Without Fear. doesn’t whiplash, with hit-or-miss laugh lines. But Blue is an appealing pro- feel so tagonist, juggling what feels like five apocalypses before breakfast. B– good I Feel Bad is a terrible workplace sitcom. Emet works at a video- game company with wacky tech dudes that the network note definitely described as “like Silicon Valley without the swearing.” The tone is broad, inhuman. Grif (Johnny Pemberton) flirts with a woman and accidentally rams his drone into her face—and he’s more worried about the drone than her, ho ho! Emet outdoes the bros for extremity: “I’m still doable, right?” she asks. (The boys then discuss their colleague’s sexiness with a vomitous pizza metaphor.) I respect the attempt to show all sides of Emet’s life, but in these scenes she plays second fiddle to third-rate “nerds are cool now” jokes that went sour when everyone got scared of Facebook. F Retooling is a bad word, but if I Feel Bad wants to last, it’ll upgrade the workplace bros—or, even better, delete them. Overall grade: C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 45 TV STYLE HUNTER

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“This is one of my favorite looks of the entire season,” says Insecure costume designer Shiona Turini of the outfit Issa TRUE BLUE (Issa Rae) wears when she quits The ladies of HBO’s Insecure are her dead-end job. “They’re vin- stepping up their fashion game this tage Levi’s 501s, but the cut season, hitting that sweet spot feels super modern—it never looks like mom jeans. We wanted between memorable and wearable to dress them up with the blazer with these jean-ius looks. [by Dries Van Noten] because BY CLARISSA CRUZ this was a big day for her.” For similar styles, go to levi.com MOLLY’S LIGHT-WASH JEANS EPISODE 4

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A handy guide to solve your daily TV dilemmas* Edited By | GERRAD HALL @GERRADHALL

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25

READY FOR COMPETITION

Season Premiere Dancing With the Stars 8–10PM | ABC Everyone will This season’s competitors include be talking about Harry Potter actress MAGNUM P.I. it tomorrow Evanna Lynch, Season Premiere Olympic gold-medal-

This Is Us NEAL : KAREN winning gymnast 9–10PM | NBC Mary Lou Retton, With the how-Jack-died mystery solved, how and John Schneider, would Sterling K. Brown describe season 3?

whose experience /CBS; “Expansive,” he says. “Exploring Jack’s [Milo waltzing away from

Ventimiglia] backstory in Vietnam, and get- THIS IS US Series Debut the cops on The ting into Beth’s [Susan Kelechi Watson] and Magnum P.I. Dukes of Hazzard Toby’s [Chris Sullivan] backstories, is going

9–10PM | CBS may or may not BATZDORFF/NBC; : RON to open new doors.” In you go. Has any network pilot ever come on stronger come in handy here. than this one? We meet Thomas Magnum (unmustachioed Jay Hernandez) jumping Season Premiere Will Smith: into North Korea from space. By episode’s The Voice The Jump end, he’s jumping of his car onto the one 8–10PM | NBC STREAMING | YOUTUBE

crashing into his…and then onto a helicopter Kelly Clarkson, To mark his 50th THE RESIDENT (and everything’s exploding). A companion Jennifer Hudson, birthday, Will to Hawaii Five-0, neo-Magnum overdoses on Adam Levine, and Smith is bungee goofy pyrotechnics, but a cheerfully bland Blake Shelton are jumping into the : GUY D'ALEMA/FOX : GUY Hernandez can’t match Tom Selleck’s charms. the coaches who— Grand Canyon. There are some sparks with Higgins, formerly unlike me—don’t get Our advice: Wait a bald caretaker, now played by Perdita reprimanded for till afterward Weeks as an attractive ex-spy–turned– spinning round and for that second majordomo. Reboots! C+ —Darren Franich round in their chairs. slice of cake.

The Resident STREAMING | HULU Fox’s medical drama ofered something for everyone in its first season: life-or-death stakes, will-they-won’t-they romance, bits of gallows humor. “With each episode you grow more attached to our characters,” star Matt Czuchry explains. The actor picks the season’s ninth episode, “Love Lost,” in which— Devour SPOILER ALERT—his character, Conrad, grieves a patient’s death, as his must-watch. it all at once “We see Conrad’s passion for his patients and his fallible nature,” he says. “[It’s one] of our overarching themes: Doctors and nurses are heroes, yet they are human.” Look for season 2 (Sept. 24, 8 p.m. on Fox) to build on that.

48 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 *TIMES ARE EASTERN DAYLIGHT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE What to Watch MANGIA! In the season 9 premiere of Best Thing I Ever Ate (Sept. 27, 9 p.m. on Cooking Channel), chefs 1 2 3 rave about Italian cuisine. A B C Match the chef to DUFF ALTON ALEX their fave dish! (Answers BARBUTO’S BUCATINI DI PALO’S ANGELO BROCATO’S GOLDMAN BROWN GUARNASCHELLI at bottom of page.) ALLA CARBONARA LASAGNA AL FORNO STRACIATELLAGELATO

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Season Premiere Series Debut Survivor The Cool Kids 8–9:30PM | CBS 8:30–9PM | FOX Get ready for not one but two How many Viagra

X (4) cyclones that hit during filming gags can you cram on season 37. “There is a into 22 minutes?

: JOJO cyclone in the first episode that Let’s find out with hammers the tribes,” says host/ this sitcom about EP Jef Probst. “And this is not friends living the worst of the cyclones they in a retirement

MURPHY BROWN MURPHY will have to overcome.” community. EY: PATRICKEY: MCELHENNEY/F K (6); Series Debut A Million Little Things : ED MILLER/AMAZON STUDIOS; KAITLIN OLSON; 10–11PM | ABC

O: FOOD NETWOR Three friends (David Giuntoli, Season Premiere James Roday, Romany Malco) KING LEAR KING Murphy Brown are thrown into a crisis of maud- 9:30–10PM | CBS lin self-reflection after a buddy There’s a reason you haven’t seen scenes from the (Ron Livingston) throws himself premiere episode in network promos; creator Diane of a balcony. If This Is Us and English wants the sitcom’s return to be one big delight- The Big Chill had a baby, it would

: JACK ROWAND/ABC; ful surprise! But she did reveal some info about the 11th be the show this wants to be, season: Murphy (Candice Bergen) gathers the old FYI King Lear but isn’t. C —Kristen Baldwin team to help her launch an eponymous talk show, while STREAMING | AMAZON PRIME VIDEO her adult son, Avery (Jake McDorman), becomes the This contemporary, Anthony Hopkins-led lone liberal voice at a Fox News-like network. And get take on Shakespeare adds modern warfare ready, snowflake! The revival will have something to say and a refugee-ish tent city to the mad-king about the Trump administration. “We’re not courting saga. The gray cinematography is unforgiv- A MILLION LITTLE THINGS the other side,” English says of conservatives. “We don’t ably mulchy, though, giving the dialogue a

/CBS; think we’ll get them as viewers. But there are good speechy repetitiveness. But Emma Thompson people who voted for Donald Trump and Barack Obama. and Emily Watson shine in the crazy good cast BROWN, GOLDMAN, GUARNASCHELLI, BUCCATINI, LASAGNA, GELAT WHILDEN BYRON COHEN/FX; CHARLIE GLEN HOWERTON, DAY, DANNY DEVITO AND ROB MCELHENN Those are the people I’mI m interested in.”in. as LearLear’s s older daughterdaughters. C —Darren Franich

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia STREAMING | HULU “Charlie Day is our executive producer [on The Cool Kids, above right], and I didn’t know who he was. A girlfriend said, ‘Oh my God, Always Sunny in Philadelphia is hysteri- cal, this is going to be great!’ I’d never seen it, so I started binge-watching Charlie, and what I love about that show is they’re so ridiculous and silly. They make me laugh out loud, and I don’t feel like I laugh out loud at sitcoms very much anymore. The stuf that they get into, and the trouble they get into—they’re all adorable. So I’m hoping we’re going to be an older version of that, just getting into ridiculous situations where you as the audience go,

‘Well, this is not going to work.’ ” ANSWERS:

ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES L. BARRY B 3, A; 2, C; 1, LOVESICK Brian will become a husband and possibly a widow in the season 17 Family Guy IPLAYI BRIAN’S CANCER-RIDDLED premiere. Guest star Casey Wilson teases in 17 words LOVEL INTEREST WHO IS A SEX KITTEN this most unconventional marriage…and character. AANDA CAT PERSON BYYEEEEE!”

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Season Premiere Saturday Night Live 11:30PM–1AM | NBC Chris Redd recently capped of his standout debut SNL season with an Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics Emmy for “Come Everyone will Back, Barack,” an honor shared with SNL GUY FAMILY music director Eli Brueggemann, writer Will be talking about Stephen, and costar Kenan Thompson, it tomorrow whom Redd was especially excited for, call- KOVAC MICHAEL WILSON: : FOX; ing the 15-year veteran’s win “very long Series Debut overdue.” When Redd wasn’t winning God Friended Me awards, he spent his summer filing away 8:30–9:30PM | CBS ideas for the new season. “I would love to In this feel-good drama, atheist Miles (Brandon Micheal Hall) play with some Kanye West again,” he says starts getting Facebook notifications from someone called God. of portraying the rapper, who will serve as Wouldn’t you know it, every person “God” wants Miles to friend the premiere’s musical guest alongside host needs help that only he can provide. It’s all a bit predictable, but IMAGES/AFI; /GETTY Adam Driver. “He’sgiving me a lot. I hope he Hall is a charming lead, and the we’re-not-alone-in-the-universe sticks around and continues to be Kanye.” premise is pleasantly palatable. B– —Kristen Baldwin Someone is campaigning to be the next SNL president!

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Season (30!) Premiere Season Premiere Season Premiere The Simpsons Bob’s Burgers Family Guy 8–8:30PM | FOX 8:30–9PM | FOX 9–9:30PM | FOX After undertaking At the restaurant, Brian falls in love

a dare, and winding Teddy asks for help with a woman : MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS/NBC; up in the hospital, nursing his baby named Jess (voiced Bart claims he rat back to health. by Casey Wilson, went to heaven Where is Gordon top) who reveals and met Jesus. Ramsay when you she has cancer. And Yes, that one. need him? hilarity ensues! GOD FRIENDED ME Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown STREAMING/TO BUY | NETFLIX/AMAZON, ITUNES, VUDU Fresh of winning six Emmys this month, including two for series host Anthony Bourdain, who died in June, the show returns for its final season. EP Sandra Zweig attributes the WENK/CBS; : JONATHAN Outstanding Informational Series win (for the season 11 premiere, “West Virginia”) to Bourdain’s desire to break bread with those who didn’t share his own opinions. “Tony believed that though we might not achieve world peace over dinner, it wasn’t a bad place to start,” she says.

Devour UNKNOWN PARTS Season 12 kicked of Sept. 23 with fellow CNN host it all at once W. Kamau Bell in Kenya, and in episode 2 (Sept. 30, 9 p.m. on CNN) Bourdain accompanies chef José Andrés to his home, Asturias, Spain. “When Tony traveled with friends like José Andrés, it gave him the chance to relax and be : CNN himself. Their camaraderie brings with it a lot of humor.”

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FAMILY MATTERS Superproducer Quincy Jones’ career is well-docu- mented. So what makes the new Netflix film Quincy so diferent? It was co-directed by his daughter, actress- producer Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation, Angie Tribeca). She chats with EW about shining a new light on her dad’s legendary life. BY ALEX SUSKIND

Your dad is one of the most important and celebrated fig- ures in music. How do you approach directing a project where he is the subject? As much as my dad’s career has been celebrated, nobody has quite the same relationship that I have been lucky enough to have with him. And there are so many things missing from the ROBYN TWOMEY/REDUX documentation of his life because he’s so accomplished. There’s never time to get to who he is as a person. For [co-director] Alan [Hicks] and I, it was important >

52 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 NOTEWORTHY Travelin’ Man Legendary rocker Bob Seger will kick of his final tour this November. More Yeezy Kanye announced his next project, the rumored Yeezus sequel Yandhi (out Sept. 29).

that we got to his heart and how Earlier this year, a Vulture that’s connected with his work. interview—where your dad A QUINCY discussed Richard Pryor JONES PRIMER Loretta Lynn There are tough scenes of your and Marlon Brando’s alleged A(very)brief TITLE Wouldn’t It Be Great dad in the hospital. Did you afair and criticized Paul rundown of the wrestle with including them? McCartney, among others— legend’s greatest LABEL Legacy Recordings My brother shot some of that, went viral. How did the family productions and then I shot some. Really, we handle that? GENRE Country did it for [my dad], so that he I was upset because I think there REVIEW BY Sarah Rodman wouldn’t forget and he would was a lot of context missing. @SarahARodman take care of himself. That was the And that’s nobody’s fault. He original intention. It was not for just, all of a sudden, started the movie. I could tell that story telling this reporter things. But THERE’S A MEASURE because I know he’s a survivor because he has so much in of gratitude that and he thrives from being able his brain, he wasn’t providing RAY CHARLES GENIUS + SOUL = JAZZ accompanies a spin to look at the possibility of any context for these stories, so 1961 through the country icon’s latest death and then reorganize from they just sounded chaotic. He album, out Sept. 28. Wouldn’t there. That’s what made me had a moment, but it’s not who It Be Great was initially scheduled comfortable. It was certainly not he is, and he felt really awful for a summer 2017 release, an easy decision. But I also felt about it. He’s 85. Anybody who but a stroke that Lynn suffered like if we’re gonna tell this story, has a relative who’s 85 who in the spring necessitated a we have to really tell the story. had that platform, I’m gonna tell delay. Not only is the coal min- I don’t want to pull punches. you right now, some crazy s--- is gonna be said. LESLEY GORE er’s daughter back on her feet, I’LL CRY IF I WANT TO but she is in fine and fightin’ Your mom, Peggy Lipton, plays 1963 a big role in Quincy. Was she You anchored the film around form on this warm and reassur- hesitant to talk about her rela- the opening of the National ingly handmade-sounding tionship with your dad? Museum of African American amalgam of new material and My mom was really generous History and Culture. Why was reimaginings of some of her throughout this process. It was that important? classics. Featuring top-notch incredibly raw for her to admit The sociopolitical climate musicians—like mandolin player that the relationship didn’t work changed while we were working Ronnie McCoury and steel MICHAEL JACKSON out. But because they still know on the film. And although we THRILLER guitarist Robby Turner—and co- and love each other, I think always wanted to tell my dad’s 1982 produced by her daughter that helped. The thing about my personal story in a parallel way Patsy Lynn Russell and John dad’s life is the people that he’s to the race story of this country, Carter Cash (son of Johnny and touched, even when things it felt more relevant than ever June), the new songs bristle don’t work out, he does seem to as we approached the release.... with familiar energy. Among keep those people orbiting This country was built on a them, the feisty “Ruby’s Stool,” around. Like, our Thanksgiving platform of racism and kidnap- in which our narrator dumps dinners are still the ex-wives ping, and in the last 50 years, USA FOR AFRICA an ashtray in the beer of her and the ex-girlfriends. all of these incredible black fig- “WE ARE THE WORLD” nemesis, and the elegantly mel- ures have emerged out of the 1985 most hellish, oppressive circum- ancholic “I’m Dyin’ for Someone stances. My dad was born in to Live For” could stand with Chicago in the ’30s. He traces Lynn’s best. If the fresh takes that meteoric rise and survival on vintage cuts, including the ach- and success of the black voice ingly sad title track, don’t in America. There was just a necessarily improve on the orig- really nice parallel to focus on. MICHAEL JACKSON inals, they bring back into focus We wanted to show that he’s BAD the legendary sharpness of Lynn’s still hard at work in a way where 1987 storytelling and how lucky we

RICH FURY/GETTY IMAGES FURY/GETTY RICH he cares about the culture. are to still have it. B+

“I’m so protective of my dad,” says Rashida Jones SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 53 Rather than settling into a groove, he relocated to Los Angeles and found a fresh sound along the way. Suddenly, the MC many associated with groan-inducing, debaucherous rhymes had a bona fide critical success in 2013’s Watching Movies With the Sound Of, featuring contribu- tions from Pharrell, Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt, and more. It wasn’t just cosigns. Miller’s verses were expanding themati- cally, and he was developing into an unsung force behind the boards. The advancements coalesced on Faces, a mixtape that, until his death, scanned as an emotional bloodletting. Internal strife was always the focal point of his music, but across subsequent albums, the rhymes felt less tethered to the present. He increasingly paired lines about struggle with ones about triumph, and as he incor- porated more funk and R&B into his songs, they felt redemp- tive. The tracks weren’t exactly feel-good, but they had a sense of tranquility: Lined with sultry John Mayer guitar rifs, Swim- ming’s “Small Worlds” breathes with life and possibility. “I think I know it all, but I don’t.” “When I heard ‘Small Worlds,’ I gave it a short, chirpy little ‘yup,’ which is the highest praise I can give a track,” Mayer wrote 1992–2018 on Instagram, about working with Miller. “I grabbed the near- est guitar in the room and within a couple of hours we had finished a tune that made me so Why EveryoneLoved incredibly happy to have a part in, not to mention we estab- lished a nice little friendship.” The collaborative environment MacMiller Miller fostered transcended collegiality—it was pure camara- The Pittsburgh-bred MC and producer, who died Sept. 7 at the age of 26, was more derie. That’s how he assembled than just a rap star. A look back at his life and legacy. BY ERIC RENNER BROWN oddball teams like Snoop Dogg, Syd, Thundercat, and Dâm- Funk on Swimming’s “What’s LIKE SO MANY ASPECTS OF HIS LIFE, Early on, many considered to elevate others in the hip- the Use?” and why the results the collective goodbye to Mac Miller a punchline. Though hop community. In 2012, as Ken- skewed more organic than other Miller was diferent. It wasn’t that his 2011 album Blue Slide Park‘s drick Lamar was coming into records with sprawling credits. Miller lacked material. To the con- stories of shots, splifs, and his own, Miller invited him on It’s also why the grief around trary, he was one of this decade’s seducing the ladies made it tour as an opener. A year later, his death has been so deep for most prolific artists. But as fans a commercial splash, it garnered he repeated the gesture with so many. In a world that too processed the news of his pass- scathing reviews. But Miller Chance the Rapper. often seems starved for decency GL ASKEW ing in real time, the rapper-pro- responded with an open heart, Simultaneously, Miller and kindness, Miller ofered ducer’s character took precedent. using his tremendous popularity reinvented himself artistically. both in abundance.

7 GREAT MAC MILLER SONGS >“Ladders” (2018) | “Dang! (feat. Anderson .Paak)” (2016) | “Weekend (feat. Miguel)” (2015) | “I’m Not Real

54 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 Music QUEEN OF QUEENS French singer Christine and the Queens (née Héloïse Letissier) is poised for a U.S. breakout. She details the ecstasy and anger that inspired her fierce new record, Chris (out now). AS TOLD TO JOEY NOLFI

“This album expresses sexuality and desire in more blunt terms than the first record, which was very much about being a dreamer and longing for trying to relate to people. The second album is way more about incarnate desires, being touched, and touching. I loved working around the idea of being a powerful woman by actually steering away a bit from patriarchal codes. For me, a macho [man] is also really femi- nine. It’s ofering and presenting your body in such a way that actually makes it obvious it’s all theater. Gendered performance is just constant theater. Chris has a more defiant, fun energy.... It’s Slim Shady-angry. Because out of anger comes a weird type of ecstasy I hadn’t experienced before. It’s easy to get angry, especially when you’re INSIDE THE NEW PRINCE ALBUM a woman trying to not abide by really Prince archivist Michael Howe tells EW about the oficial release of Piano narrow categories of what it means & A Microphone 1983—previously available only as a bootleg. BY ALEX SUSKIND to be a woman. But instead of totally being exhausted, I just try to get more playful—if the game is like that, I’m going to try to mess it up a bit and Prince left behind a because it had Prince’s We certainly want to do have fun…. I’m just trying to be like a tiny huge vault of unreleased handwriting on the label this with the most respect virus, like a hint of something that music. Why is Piano of side 2. The other [rea- and integrity possible. could f--- [everything] up for the best &AMicrophone1983 son] was that the last reasons. Chris is just using anger as one of the first releases tour Prince did before he What do you hope fans a fueluel for something more generous.generous.” we’re hearing? passed away was the get from this record? Piano & A Microphone I hope it casts an interest- That recording had circu- Tour. So it seemed like ing light on his creative lated amongst collectors a nice bookend. process and that people for a number of years, recognize his facility on albeit in substandard Prince was famously the piano. He is just fully sonic quality. I was aware private—and litigious. Do committed to the art. of it and so impressed you ever worry that what It’s really inspirational with the emotional com- you’re releasing might go when you have a guy with mitment displayed by against his wishes? that much creativity cours- Prince that it was one of It crosses my mind almost ing through his veins the first things I wanted everyday.Myvoiceis to be able to take a peek to find a master for. We certainly not the guiding behind the curtains, were fortunately able to one for all of these eforts, so to speak, of him think- do a little forensic work but the estate speaks ing aloud musically in and, after a bit of digging, with one voice when we a way that is totally com- found the cassette—which are attempting to ascer- mitted. He’s not 50 was distinguishable only tain how to best proceed. percent there, he is 100 As you say, he was a fickle percent there—all the time.

CHRISTINE: JAMIE MORGAN JAMIE CHRISTINE: and very exacting guy.

(feat. Earl Sweatshirt)” (2013) | “S.D.S.” (2013) | “Donald Trump” (2011) | “Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza” (2010)

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 55 Books

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Like, say, Hank Green. Together with his brother—and best-selling author—John Green (The Fault in Our Stars), he’s amassed a following of millions via Vlog- brothers, the YouTube channel that’s evolved into a topical, philanthropic, sub- limely nerdy social-media empire. Hank has turned to ﬁction writing for his latest ven- ture, following in his sibling’s footsteps. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing follows April May, a young queer woman launched into internet celebrity. One night, she and her friend Andy post a silly news report on the arrival of a mysterious sculpture in the heart of Manhattan; as these statues pop up in dozens of major global cities, the video goes viral. April, whose accessible persona captures the world, is an analog of her author: When not steeped in Manic Pixie clichés, her overbearing narration reads like Green messily grappling with his own fame. (“It was so easy to get people to follow me, and in the end, that’s what I wanted.”) Green spins a fine speculative yarn— even if he bows out with an unduly cheap, An Absolutely sequel-staging cliﬀ-hanger—but the writing is lacking. The political parallels are so Remarkable Thing blunted here, they couldn’t cut through but- BY PAGES GENRE REVIEW BY ter, and the dialogue verges on ghastly: By anfield97 Hank Green 338 Science Fiction David Canfield @davidc page 4, the title is already spoken aloud with all-caps emphasis. There are hokey lines like “You’re a digital girl, April, in a digital

ASK ANY NEW AUTHOR: IT’S DAMN HARD TO BREAK OUT world.” And heroes banter with the stilted SULLIVAN KELLY GREEN: of the literary bubble—that space where countless quippiness of sloppy YA—the clearest argu- debuts are hyped and extolled over months, only to lose ment for why comparisons to John Green steam the moment they land on the shelves. But then do this novel no favors. Sure, Remarkable

there are the select few writers who arrive with that Thing has robots and aliens to spare—but IMAGES /GETTY all-important competitive edge: a built-in audience. the actual people need an upgrade. C

READ THIS INSTEAD > TheBlack Mirror-esque debut Tell the Machine Goodnight takes our obsession with tech to bizarre, hilarious extremes.

56 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 BETWEEN Screen Queen New York Times writer Amy THE Chozick’s 2016 campaign memoir Chasing Hillary LINES will be developed into a TV series by Warner Bros. Whoomp! There It Is There There and An American Marriage are among the books long-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction.

HungryHeart In the follow-up to her best-selling cookbook, Chrissy Teigen’s cooking skills get more refined‚ but the TV host, 32, still isn’t above opening a can (or three!). BY CLARISSA CRUZ

Your first cookbook, Cravings, salty anymore. During the actual was wildly popular. Did you writing process, I definitely have feel pressure to re-create that a glass of wine. [My recipes] success with Cravings: Hungry always have a story. And I feel for More? that telling stories always Oh my God, it can only go down- deserves a glass of wine. hill, right? John [Legend] said he has the same problem with his Did your daughter, Luna, albums. The first one does really have any input on the book? well and you wonder, “If I make Her favorite recipe is the Thai changes, will it do as well?” I don’t Soy-Garlic Fried Ribs. The pic- want the book to be more of the ture in the book where she’s eat- same. I want it to stand out as ing one, I think that was her having clearly diferent themes, ninth rib or something! It was all like I traveled more or got more over her face. It makes me so refined in my techniques. happy because there’s this little kid loving these fried chunks of Chrissy Teigen photographed exclusively for EW in New York City Is there a favorite food or bitter black garlic on these soy drink that got you through sauce ribs, and it’s her favorite the book-writing process? thing on the planet. So she is I usually make all the recipes first, very much her mother’s daugh- and I’m just tasting my own food ter. Forget cakes or desserts or THE BEST ZINGERS IN all day. Honestly, by the end of it, cookies; she’d much rather have, I can’t even tell if something’s too like, a second go at pasta. HUNGRY FOR MORE Teigen—who just launched a kitchenware line Did you have any kitchen at Target—is never one to hold back disasters along the way? Aside from having to make [Twitter’s (and Uncle Mike’s) “This version [of “Bring to a boil, “Granola is the ulti- Banana Bread] 16 times in one minestrone] is like reduce the heat to mate pantry s--- thesoupyouget a very low sim- recipe. Once you’ve month? It drove me crazy. It in the can that you mer, cover...walk got the base down, would rip out of the pan, or it always love, only awayfor40min- check the mari- would be too dark, or I’d try to a little fresher utes, and totally juana laws of your take out the coconut because (though, yes, forget about the state, do or do not people have a weird aversion to hello, it’s me, soup because smokeajandraid coconut. I will say, I have not had Chrissy, and I use your baby hit you your pantry for your banana bread in a long time. Peo- three cans in the on purpose for favorite flavors and ple will bring it to my photo shoots recipe...).” the first time.” Go. To. Town.” now, but I don’t really love it.

PHOTOGRAPH BY AARON RICHTER SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 EW.COM 57 The Secrets Behind Curtis Sittenfeld’sPrep The best-selling author of the 2005 cult-classic campus novel tells us five things we didn’t know about the preppy handbook. BY SEIJA RANKIN

FOR MORE THAN A 3 coeds in a game of decade, teens and adults extreme tag, popped up AULT IS BASED ON alike have been drawn to TWO REAL-LIFE in an episode of the CW Washington Black Curtis Sittenfeld’scoming- INSTITUTIONS drama. The show’s cre- of-age novel for its biting Sittenfeld borrowed liber- ators told Sittenfeld it was BY Esi Edugyan commentary on the ally from the campus ritu- an homage to Prep. blazer-clad world of New als at Groton, the PAGES 352 | GENRE Historical Fiction England private schools. Massachusetts boarding 5 REVIEW BY David Canfield @davidcanfield97 Sittenfeld, 43, who has school she attended as a IT WAS NEVER since published five more teen. She also spent time SUPPOSED TO BE books (including You as a writer-in-residence at A BEST-SELLER Think It, I’ll Say It,which the all-boys St. Albans in While at the Iowa Writers’ WHAT DOES AN 11-YEAR-OLD Washington, D.C., and Workshop in 2001, Reese Witherspoon is slave have to live for? For George producing for TV), ofers repurposed a student Sittenfeld wrote what a look back at her monu- newspaper editorial about would later become the Washington “Wash” Black, it mental debut. wearing plaid shorts to last chapter of Prep. seems, not much. His maternal ﬁgure, Big class: “It was so irresistibly When Random House preposterous that I published it four years Kit, explains she’ll have to kill them both 1 couldn’t help myself.” later,“itwasn’tlikethere for their one chance at freedom. In the next THE ORIGINAL was this big budget,” TITLE WAS CIPHER life, she assures, he’ll wake up in her African says Sittenfeld. “I didn’t The initial moniker came 4 understand at the time birthplace of Dahomey, far from the Barba- from the scene in the THERE’S A LITTLE that it’s very unusual for dos plantation where they’re living to die. book in which a teacher BIT OF PREP ON GOSSIP GIRL,OBVI a first novel that received “What is it like Kit, free?” he asks. She says: calls protagonist Lee a Assassin, a game that pits a $40,000 advance to “cipher”—but Sittenfeld’s Lee against her fellow Ault be a best-seller.” “Oh, child, it is like nothing in this world. editor changed the title to When you free, you can do anything.” Prep. “Lee doesn’t know what ‘cipher’ means, but Washington Black depicts slavery— neither do a lot of other unsparingly—but it’s about freedom. Wash people,” says Sittenfeld. doesn’t die young; rather, he gains auton- “So it wasn’t a good title.” Curtis Sittenfeld omy in his life, escaping Barbados and

2 becoming an artist. No matter where the OPRAH INFLUENCED novel takes him—a hot-air balloon or the THE ICONIC COVER high seas, Virginia or the frozen Arctic— EDUGYAN: SITTENFELD; JOSEPHINE TAMARASITTENFELD: POPPITT Prep’s early cover mockups featured an there’s always a bounty on his head. What ivy-covered fence. Sitten- Kit tells a young Wash resounds throughout feld came across a blurb for its tragically unfulﬁlled promise. in O magazine with the headline “Get Prepped” This intimate portrait builds on slave and sent it along to narratives (12 Years a Slave) and novels her editors just for fun. (Beloved) that have explored the limits of But the team at Random freedom. Wash is spared the fate of those House thought she wanted them to use the he grew up with; his talent, nurtured by a article’s pink-and-green white scientist and abolition advocate ribbon belts—the cover named Titch, sends him across the globe. that readers know today. “It was all based on a mis- His journey is mythic in scope, strange and understanding,” she says. unpredictable, and Black derives its

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thematic and emotional force from these

riveting, swashbuckling adventures. MORE ON EW.COM Esi Edugyan (Half-Blood Blues) pares For reviews, author interviews, and NEW & NOTABLE publishing news, head the aftermath of slavery down to one Your guide to the buzziest books right now to ew.com/books man’s lifelong interior monologue— rooted in trauma, layered in shame. She weds the past to the present with electri- BEST-SELLING AUTHORS fying urgency and renders true horrors with bleak banality: a young girl’s forced ECA impregnation, a dead slave’s decapita- TIME’S CONVERT BY DEBORAH HARKNESS FANTASY Expanding upon her lush, captivating All Souls Trilogy tion. Wash witnesses each firsthand, and (soon to become a TV series), Harkness reveals the costs they haunt him everywhere he goes. He of immortality in a sweeping story that moves between tastes an optimistic future when brought the Revolutionary War and contemporary Paris. to a mountain peak, where he sees every- SEA PRAYER BY KHALED HOSSEINI PICTURE BOOK ECA thing—his old world of “jewel-like The acclaimed Kite Runner author frames his latest, a slim but powerful volume, as an explicit response to the Syrian fields”—for the first time. But it’s soured refugee crisis, written in epistolary format from a father’s by his past: “I was troubled by the beauty perspective and illustrated in gorgeous watercolor. of that place…littered as I knew [it] to be with broken teeth.” He hears the “ghostly CELEB READS cry” of a baby. He mourns for suffering women like Kit. WHISKEY IN A TEACUP BY REESE WITHERSPOON LIFESTYLE ECA Washington Black dramatizes the mental The Sunshine-y book club mogul is finally out with a shackles of slavery. Wash muses, “We had tome of her own. The actress offers up down-home been estranged from the potential of our recipes, crafting tips, and the definitive party playlist (hello, Dolly!) in this love letter to her Southern roots. own bodies, from the revelation of every- Witherspoon’s passions are on full display here. thing our...minds could accomplish.” IN PIECES BY SALLY FIELD MEMOIR ECA Edugyan’s prose is elegant, nuanced, but The real surprise of this book is the way Field tells her her fury at this fact—the passions lost over life story with such affecting literary depth. The actress centuries of agony—powers through like a describes why she’s drawn to toxic men in painful detail, from her experience of sexual abuse as a child to her godly storm. She confronts slavery’s legacy tumultuous affair with the late Burt Reynolds. “The ques- with acuity, depth, and staggering grief. A– tions I was constantly asking...have always been lingering in me, but I never wanted to know the answers,” she tells EW. With In Pieces, she comes to them beautifully.

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THE MERMAID AND MRS. HANCOCK BY IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR NOVEL ECA Gowar’s dreamy debut, about a merchant who encounters a mermaid-like creature in 1780s London, reads like an irresistibly of-the-moment fairy tale. It’s already slated for adaptation from the award-winning team behind Wolf Hall.

THE SHAPE OF THE RUINS BY JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ NOVEL ECA Jonathan Franzen has called Vásquez “a reinventor of Latin American literature in the 21st century.” This vivid political thriller is an ideal introduction to the Colombian author. /GETTY IMAGES

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