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LUKA NELS

Musician anddt actor Lukas Nelson, 29, costars in the film as a bandmate of Jackson’s (Bradley Cooper). Here, Nelson—the son of music legend Willie Nelson—breaks down the process behind the movie’s pivotal songs with EW’s Sarah Rodman.

The film’s opening jam, “Black Eyes,” has elements of hard rock, funk, and country. Where did that song come from?

That was a Bradley song. He wrote all the lyrics to that one and we did the music.

Is that generally how NELSON: STEFANIE KE the process worked for music on this film? A STAR IS BORN More often than not,

I or Gaga would write IMAGES ENAN/GETTY You know the title. You know the faces. And soon you’ll know for a song, then we’d show it to Bradley yourself why Hollywood is breathless over Bradley Cooper’s and the guys and say, feature directorial debut, starring Lady Gaga as a struggling singer “What do you think?” destined for greatness. This star is meteoric. (Oct. 5) Because we’re both

6 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY NIGEL BUCHANAN songwriters and [we knew] there was going to be original music in the movie, I DOCTOR WHO said, “I’m just going to write a few songs and see if they like Even for a 55-year-old time-travel show, the wait for a new them.” I just kept season of the BBC America staple has felt like forever, hasn’t it? sending them in. I So the U.K.-simulcast premiere, kicking of the show’s first-ever was alreadyworking adventure to feature a female Doctor (the captivating Jodie closely with Bradley, Whittaker), is essential viewing for lovers, haters, and the Dalek and I got to know his High Command alike. (BBC America, Oct. 7, 1:45 p.m. ET) voice and what style would best fit him. The style that’s in the movie is not all thatt diferent from what [Nelson’s band Prom- ise of the Real] play live. It’s us:rock&roll sort of country.

Will you be playing any of these songs as part of your own live sets?

I hope so, because I like a lot of these songs. There’s a song I wrote called “Music to My Eyes” that I’ll definitely be playing.

What was the inspira- tion for that one?

I was feeling poetic. Dad’s got his new brand of legal marijuana, Willie’s Reserve, and I smoked a little of that and wrote [the] song. Gaga loved it, and then she BEN ROTHSTEIN/FOX BEN : wrote an incredible verse to it anddid WHAT IF IT’S US these harmonies. We byy Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli

LOVE, SIMON worked it through ; together and put a Two of queer YA fiction’s best writers chorus and a bridge (Silvera wrote More Happy Than Not, and on it. But I remember Albertalli, the book that inspired Love,

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BB with that song deep : story of young love set against New York’s inside. That one was bustling backdrop. Without a doubt, this is the one that I feel the gay rom-com you’ve been waiting for. was mostly mine. DOCTOR WHO ; What does it feel like WHATIFIT’S... to watch that play out on the big screen by an HOLLYWOOD’S NEXT BIG THING? Oscar-nominated /BBC WORLDWIDE/BBC actor and a Grammy- winning pop star? Skewing older than Love,Simon—a high school coming-out tale with a little romance on its edges—What if It’s Us tells a full- Oh, it’s incredible fledged love story, complete with the meet-cute and dates that to see that your work rom-com classics are made of. It’s the type of movie-ready is part of something story destined to takethe gay rom-com to thenextlevel...and

ARDIS: STEVE SCHOFIELD STEVE ARDIS: with 13 Reasons Why creator Brian Yorkey set to pen the film

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IT’S A years-long legal bat- tle with his label almost T IME TO . BINGE.. forced Lil Wayne’s latest Carter series release into the unfinished-LPs SORRY FOR dustbin. But then both parties settled, and the result is an expan- YOUR LOSS sive, bar-heavy efort (anchored by the A young widow (Elizabeth Olsen) fiery Kendrick Lamar- cycling through the stages of grief assisted caper “Mona may sound like a bummer of a story, Lisa”) from one of rap’s but a strong ensemble and smart best MCs. Weezy FTW. scripts have kept this drama—which airs its season finale this week—rich, afecting, and even funny as it exam- ines life after death. (Facebook Watch)

ELIZABETH OLSEN’S SUPPORT SYSTEM

Elizabeth Olsen’s four major scene partners have been integral to helping her craft her first small-screen character, reeling advice columnist Leigh. The 29-year-old actress (and executive producer) reveals to EW why doing Sorry for Your Loss has been her gain. BY SHIRLEY LI

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Olsen studied her The indie actor (next “I don’t even think Speaking of playtime, Tony-winning seen in the Hugh he’s aware of how acting opposite the costar’s portrayal of Jackman starrer The great he is,” Olsen Star Wars: The Last Amy, Leigh’s worried Front Runner) plays raves of Adepo, who Jedi breakout mom, to figure out Leigh’s deceased plays Matt’s brother, encouraged Olsen to how to play Leigh. husband, Matt. Danny, and who also turn of her “extreme “She’s just such a Athie had never done stars in the upcom- rational brain,” she technically brilliant a sex scene before, ing J.J. Abrams- admits with a laugh. actor, and so funny. but his greenness produced horror As Leigh’s recovering- She makes me laugh actually helped Leigh thriller Overlord. alcoholic sister, the a lot,” Olsen says of and Matt’s most inti- Adepo taught Olsen UCB-trained Tran McTeer, who can cur- mate memories feel to break some rules. liked to improvise, rently be seen in more real, Olsen “Jovan hates to have and in their scenes Bernhardt/Hamlet on recalls: “We just to copy blocking,” together, the duo let Broadway. “I based laughed our way she says, “so it’s loose to excellent my character on how through it all. always a funny game efect in flashbacks. she was interpreting Because of the of us trying things “Kelly was a really hers, as a reflection of humor we found, diferently all the funny fake drunk,” it.“ In other words: there’s a vulnerability time. There’s such a says Olsen. And no, Like TV mother, like [to the scenes].” freedom of play they’re not sorry for TV daughter... between us.” the laughs.

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TEA WITH THE DAMES

Join Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith for a good old- fashioned (and very refined) chin-wag as the knighted actresses let cameras in on a friendship that’s been brewing for more than half a century. In this delightful film, they reflect on their careers, from humble theatrical beginnings to honors from the Queen. Do pass the crumpets, dahling!

EW’s movie experts select each diva’s Dame-iest role

CRITICS’ BRIDGE PICKS JUDI DENCH, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998)

OF CLAY Yes, she played Queen Victoria (twice), by Markus Zusak but nothing tops Dench’s glorious, imperi- ous Elizabeth—a performance so indelible Zusak’s first novel since that eight minutes won her an Oscar. his best-selling phenom —Leah Greenblatt The Book Thief—so, his first novel in 13 years—is MAGGIE SMITH, THE PRIME OF MISS a family epic about five JEAN BRODIE (1969) brothers who grapple with the disappearance Decades before her Downton dowager, of their father. Mystical Smith took home the Academy Award for and loaded with heart, her turn as a spectacularly ruthless and it’s another gorgeous manipulative 1930s schoolteacher. —LG tearjerker from a rising JOAN PLOWRIGHT, ENCHANTED APRIL (1992) master of them. A group of chilly Brits thaw out in Portofino in this picture-postcard reverie, with Plow- right (nabbing her one and only Oscar nom) as the cranky matriarch who reluctantly gives in to la dolce vita. —Chris Nashawaty

EILEEN ATKINS, GOSFORD PARK (2001)

Robert Altman’s upstairs-downstairs period piece is a crackling drawing-room whodunit, and Atkins is so scene-stealingly hypnotic as the cook, she should’ve been arrested for larceny. —CN

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Can you throw CATCHING UP WITH a perfect spiral? SARAH KOENIG... No. ...on following multiple stories in season 3 It's hard. “After season 1, where we had done one big case, we were like, ‘Yeah, but how much do we

really understand about what’s going on in our DIPASUPIL/GET DIA EZRA: MAZUR/WIREIMAGE; KEVIN E; courthouses?’ And [co-producer] Julie Snyder ALL But neither can he, so had read Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira—he I don't feel that— sat in the Cook County courthouse in Chicago for a year and wrote a book about it. We all read it, [and] we said it would be really cool if we tried to do something like that with audio.” AMERICAN I don't know that you gotta tell everybody that I can't. ...on finding the right cases to track Fill that O.C.-shaped “What you have to do is just go sit and not even hole in your heart with know what you’re looking for. It was a com- this soap about a star pletely diferent way of approaching the story. athlete (Daniel Ezra) He can't. You’re working it backwards—you’re going in

who moves from TY IMAGES; JIM SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE; TAYLOR HILL/FILMMAGIC and seeing if there’s a story we can tell.” South L.A. to Beverly ...on season 3’s twists and turns Hills to play football. I can, if I practice. With pedigree both If I practice I can do it. “We’ve been thinking of the first half of the behind the camera series as we, and listeners, are learning about and in front (Taye the way the place functions. Then, the farther we go, the deeper we started to get into peo- Diggs plays the coach), ple’s lives.” —As told to Jessica Derschowitz the series smartly You can't. Just accept it. explores race and I mean, we practice every day. class while also deliver- The guys that design ing on the network’s alll the plays embarrass promise of irresistible me on a daily basis. teen drama. (The CW, Oct. 10, 9 p.m.) LAST CALL FOR DEMOCRACY

4 MIDTERM SPECIALS FRIDAYS 10/12 at 11pm TV. Streaming. On Demand. NEWS STORY Fall TV’s Early THE COOL KIDS Report ESTRADA : KEVIN /FOX, Card MANIFEST EW breaks down which shows are at : CRAIG BLANKENHORN/NBC/WARNER BROTHERS; the top of the class and which underperformed during premiere week 2018. BY JAMES HIBBERD MURPHY BROWN  ( Clockwise from top ) Murphy Brown’s Candice Bergen, God Friended Me’s Brandon Micheal Hall, Magnum P.I.’s Jay Hernandez, Last Man Standing’s Tim Allen, The Cool Kids’ Vicki Lawrence, and Manifest’s Josh Dallas : JOHN PAUL FILO/CBS, PAUL : JOHN Friended Me popped too. Both were creative Man Standing—which it rescued from ABC’s ideas that engaged viewers’ curiosity cancellation ax—becoming the network’s (though we’re left wondering if they’ll sus- most watched comedy in nearly seven

tain the interest). Also opening strong: years. Did Tim Allen scoop up Roseanne’s MAGNUM P.I. NBC’s aspirational medical drama New conservative-audience leftovers? Did the Amsterdam, which perhaps only proves network-swapping publicity help? In any : KAREN NEAL/CBS, : KAREN America wants a vision of health care that case, LMS sure boosted Fox’s launch of The T doesn’t make them feel, well, sick. Cool Kids: If you had told Fox’s rivals that premiere week’s top new comedy in the key REBOOT FATIGUE? THE FALL TV SEASON IS FIRMLY UNDER WAY, demo would be a retirement-home sitcom GOD FRIENDED ME and the broadcast networks have yet to find Viewers have griped about the reboot trend airing Fridays at 8:30 p.m., they’d have this year’s This Is Us (or even this year’s The for years; now networks might be forced to laughed at you (and then cried).

Good Doctor). But there have been a few early agree. Two high-profile returning titles had WENK/CBS, : JONATHAN bright spots on the schedule, and a couple of surprisingly weak launches: CBS’ youthful HOPE REMAINS total shocks, with several anticipated titles recasting of Magnum P.I. and a revival of Some of the buzziest titles are yet to still to come. Here’s what we’ve learned so Murphy Brown that brought the original cast come. EW critics call ABC’s Nathan Fillion far—and what we can’t wait to see. back after a 20-year hiatus. Both delivered cop drama The Rookie one of the fall’s best LAST MAN STANDING soft numbers despite having decent time new shows. The Roseanne spin-off The HIGH CONCEPT = HIGH RATINGS slots and plenty of promotion. So perhaps Conners needs only half of its predeces- Fourteen years after the debut of ABC’s Sliders: 2020, The Ally McBeal Files, and ER2 sor’s audience to be a hit (and industry might not happen after all? Lost, another airplane mystery with a sci-fi research suggests that’s precisely what it HOLMES/ABC : RANDY hook, NBC’s Manifest, managed to break out will get). And The CW’s reboot of Charmed FRIDAYS AREN’T DEAD and become premiere week’s most watched actually looks promising—yes, we just new series, scoring 10.4 million viewers. Fox stunned the industry (and even itself) slammed reboots, but that was a whole CBS’ spiritual social-media dramedy God with the seventh-season premiere of Last two paragraphs ago. X

14 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 NEWS STORY ISwear! We’ve come a long way since George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” but will broadcast networks ever follow in cable’s footsteps and get with the f---ing program? BY LYNETTE RICE

routine use of the word s--- on basic-cable yoke on broadcast networks, which are shows; USA’s Suits has practically made it a already generous in their use of expletives like well-worn legal term.) “How are you going to bitch and damn anyway. “The restriction make an authentic show about criminals or was and continues to be a blatant violation of rappers or motorcycle gangs without using the First Amendment,” argues media that word?” says FX’s CEO John Landgraf. studies/communication expert Paul Levinson “It’s about wanting to be as authentic as of Fordham University. “One can only hope HBO. It’s that simple.” It’s also not new, at that the FCC comes to its senses.” NBC’s least for FX. One of the first times the word The Good Place has found forking creative was used on the network was in a 2014 epi- work-arounds, and bleeping curse words sode of Louie. A zaftig woman, who was out has practically become a comedic device on on a date with a rather picky Louie (Louis sitcoms like ABC’s The Goldbergs. But just C.K.), let him have it by ranting about the think what the occasional F-bomb could do

: PRASHANT GUPTA/FX W double standards in dating. “She uses the for the broadcast channels, which are about as word f--- and we were like, ‘We’re not going cool as your grandma’s Facebook page. WTF, MAN. SEVERAL SERIES ON BASIC CABLE to bleep her,’” Landgraf says. “We just said, “Language and our responses to it are MAYANS M.C. MAYANS have quietly ventured into previously verbo- ‘Let’s be careful. Let’s make it about art.’ Ulti- changing,” argues Christopher J. Irving, a ten territory by dropping F-bombs into the mately, I think our audience went with it.” faculty instructor in English and humanities dialogue. And it’s not just one or two to liven Basic- and premium-cable networks, along at Beacon College in Leesburg, Fla. “If net- : RON TOM/ABC; up the chatter: The premiere episode of with streaming services, have lots of works want their audiences to continue Mayans M.C. on Sept. 4 used the four-letter potty-mouth freedom because Federal Com- to relate to their characters in ways word more than 20 times, while recent epi- munications Commission rules for indecency that don’t always require the suspension THE GOLDBERGSTHE sodes of YOU on Lifetime, Better Call Saul on and profanity don’t apply to subscription ser- of disbelief, then maybe they should start AMC, and Atlanta on FX also included the vices. But many academics think it’s high time dropping more than just one or two expletive. (And don’t get us started on the the government loosened the puritanical F-bombs. Seriously, s--- or get off the pot.” X : VIVIAN ZINK/NBC; THE GOOD PLACE GOOD THE : LIFETIME; YOU /AMC/SONY PICTURES TELEVISION; : NICOLE WILDER BETTER CALL SAUL CALL BETTER

ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN RITTER OCTOBER 12, 2018 EW.COM 15 Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan photographed exclusively for EW on July 1, 2018, on the Outlander set in Cumbernauld, Scotland OUTLANDER SEASON 4 COMES ASHORE AND OFFERS A WHOLE NEW SET OF ADVENTURES FOR CLAIRE AND JAMIE By Lynette Rice @Lynetterice Photographs by Ruven Afanador @ruvenafanador Lettering by Kat Freedman 18 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 AFTER THREE SEASONS, A HIT SHOW LIKE OUTLANDER is bound to unleash a prima donna. But of all the big per- sonalities on the Starz drama, nobody expected it to be him. While shooting the first episode of the new season, Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser) is doing multiple takes where he sings a Gaelic dirge in a dark and sweltering pub. But it’s not the star’s more-than-adequate crooning that is prompting the starts and stops. It’s the presence of a Northern Inuit puppy that plays Rollo, a half-wolf companion of Jamie’s nephew Ian (John Bell) that’s sup- posed to play a big role in the coming season (premiering Nov. 4 at 8 p.m.). Just when Heughan strikes a perfect tone with his lament, the dog ambles off camera. “He was a bit of a diva,” admits Bell after shooting the scene last October. “He ended up getting cut out of a lot of scenes. The bloopers are quite funny. It’s me constantly going, ‘Rollo, Rollo,’ and he’s just com- pletely walking in the wrong direction.” Well, they are supposed to be in the land of the free, right? After a storm swept their ship from the Caribbean coast to a Georgia beach in the season 3 finale, Scottish Highlander Jamie and his time-traveling surgeon wife, Claire (Caitriona Balfe), shake off their sandy clothes and, along with Ian and their brood, make their way to Wilmington, N.C. Say goodbye to the kilts and castles, lassies. They’re in America now! “There’s an opportunity for a new beginning, a fresh start,” explains Balfe, 39. “Of course there are trials and tribulations. But overall I would say it’s much more hopeful this season.” (PREVIOUS PAGES AND FOLLOWING PAGE) BALFE’S COSTUMING: MARNIE ORMIS MARNIE COSTUMING: BALFE’S PAGE) FOLLOWING AND PAGES (PREVIOUS

“For all the water we have in Scotland, EFFEC SPECIAL AVRIL; PHILIPPE STYLIST: FOOD BRYCE; STUART DRESSER: there’s not that many large rivers LAST WINTER, AN AMUSING BEHIND-THE-SCENES like you would have photo of Heughan on location in Scotland in America,” explains Balfe went viral because the photogenic star was (Claire), here with Heughan (Jamie) on bundled up in a heavy coat with his face barely the way to Aunt Jocasta’s planta- visible. For someone who’s appearing in an tion. “Anything that adaptation of Drums of Autumn—the fourth had to do with the journeys to book in Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling series D COSTUMING: HEUGHAN’S ANDERSON; ANITA MAKEUP: AND HAIR TON; River Run was CGI.” on which the upcoming season is based— nothing about the picture screams scarecrows and pumpkin spice. It was a fair jeelit ootside,

Sassenachs! (That’s hometown yammer for Working with the cold as hell.) But at least the snow provided Northern Inuit puppy that plays “good texture,” reasons Heughan, since the He’s talking about Fraser’s Rollo was challeng- ing, admits John SCOTLAND JACOBSEN/FILMING AMELIA PRODUCTION: BROOK; HENRY TS: woodland glens of Scotland needed to double Ridge, the couple’s rustic home- Bell (Ian Murray). “We set up a rule for the equally wintry Blue Ridge Mountains stead that sets the stage for the rest “There are certain that everybody things you can’t playing a Cherokee this season. “It was all about establishing our- of the series. And yes, the studio get a puppy to do. or a Mohawk would There were differ- be Native American selves in this untouched wilderness,” adds the that helps produce the series for ent versions or First Nation from actor. “It was kind of fun to be a part of that Starz has every intention of adapt- of Rollo during Canada,” says EP the fighting scenes. Matthew B. Roberts. and to see their settlement slowly grow from ing Gabaldon’s entire series of He was very “They didn’t have chilled out.” to be Mohawk or being the clearing in the forest to having an Outlander books for the premium- SET FORBES; KEMP WENDY MAKEUP: AND HAIR LAMBIE; M. ANI Cherokee because we never would actual building.” cable outlet. Though the drama has been renewed only have been able to through season 6—a feat in itself because networks typi- cast everybody.” cally like to order shows on a year-by-year basis—Sony, at least, has no expiration date for Claire and Jamie. “Every discussion I have with Starz is about completion of this book series,” says Chris Parnell, co-president of Sony Pic- ; tures Television Studios. OUTLANDER First things first: letting the Frasers experience the

American dream. The couple—together with their (3) : STARZ adopted son, Fergus (César Domboy), and his new wife, Marsali (the delightful Lauren Lyle)—have barely arrived EVENTS PRE-EMMY PARTY

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Leslie Jones, RuPaul; Elizabeth Reaser, Sarah Paulson; Kelly McCreary, Amirah Vann, Rumer Willis, Sarah Hyland; Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt; L’Oréal Paris Voluminous Burgundy Mascara; Busy Philipps, Malin Akerman; Casamigos cocktails; Lyft pickup area; Madeline Brewer, Nina Kiri and Amanda Brugel; Justin Hartley; Madeline Brewer, Nina Kiri, Gabrielle Ruiz, Britney Young, Jackie Tohn; Tim Coolican, L’Oréal Paris USA President; FIJI Water display; Rachel Zalis (Casamigos), Derek Hough, Hayley Erbert, JoAnna Garcia Swisher premiere. “The title of the episode is ‘America the Beautiful,’ ” hints Roberts. “You can only imagine seeing this new world, then what happens to them once they get here. It’s actually horrific.” Now penniless, Jamie, Claire, and Ian travel by raft to the home of Aunt Jocasta Cameron (Maria Doyle Kennedy), a wealthy Southern widow with a butler named Ulysses (Colin McFarlane) and a plantation full of slaves to farm her crops. “Claire’s wary of her,” explains Balfe. “They never really get to get past that rift because of the slaves.” That drives the couple and Ian out into the wilderness, where they encounter a ghost, a racist German, and a very peculiar bear. There’s also a population of Mohawks and Cherokee—a significant subplot in Drums of Autumn that certainly ratchet up the action this season (along with the overall budget). Their costumes alone were a huge challenge for designer Terry Dresbach, who’s just as recognizable to fans as Heughan and Balfe themselves. (She’s also married to executive producer Ronald D. Moore, who helped launch the series on Starz.) “It was like dressing the Scottish Highlanders,” recalls Dresbach, who loves to engage fans on Twitter about the history of her costumes. (She also has a lively personal account that likes to riff on Donald Trump, but we digress.) “You’re talking about two groups of people whose culture was wiped out. At a certain point, you have to take all the research that’s avail- able to you and jump.” To depict the Native Americans whom Claire, Jamie, and Ian encounter and ulti- mately befriend, production cast, flew in, and housed roughly 200 indigenous extras from Canada to portray the inhabitants of a Mohawk village, which was constructed in a public park in Scotland. “It’s funny,” recalls in Wilmington when they encounter their first OUTLANDER Roberts. “Scotland has a right to roam, so we couldn’t actu- obstacle, an acquaintance who ends up LIVE! ally close the park. You can only ask people to wait while we returns to EW assaulting Jamie while robbing Claire of a Radio on Nov. 5. film. It’s an authentic Mohawk village that’s populated with cherished memento. If you liked how the pro- Join Lynette Rice people in costume. I remember a few dog walkers coming ducers used a cover of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard and her fellow EW around the bend on a trail. They looked around like, ‘Wait Sassenachs for a Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” to dramatize the Jamie/ discussion about a minute, what just happened?’ It’s almost like they touched Willie plotline last season, you’ll love how all things Fraser on the stones and went through time.” Mondays during executive producers Matthew B. Roberts and the Starz show’s That is the point of Outlander, after all. One of the biggest Toni Graphia score the attack at the end of the 13-episode run. questions in the coming season is whether the Boston-based

22 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 One of the big questions of season 4: Will Brianna (Sophie Brianna Randall (Sophie Skelton)—the head- Skelton) go through the strong daughter of Jamie and Claire who was stones to find raised in the 20th century by her mom and her her parents? “She’s struggling mom’s first husband, Frank—will travel back in with whether her mother made time to meet the dad she never knew. A season 4 it back,” explains Skelton. “Obvi- trailer seems to suggest the inevitable; there’s a ously, the sacrifice quick flash of Brianna at the Craigh na Dun still hurts.” stones wearing period clothes and a determined expression. But the writers don’t want to ruin the surprise for their grow- ing number of non-book-reading viewers, assuming she even makes the

trip anyway. “Maybe she’s just looking at the stones,” teases Richard Roger (Richard Rankin, who plays Roger Wakefield, a Scottish historian who falls hard Rankin) and Brianna (Skelton) have very for Brianna. “She might just be hanging out!” never stop talking about their favor- separate lives in season 4. “Brianna’s Or maybe she’s paying close attention to the research Roger did on ite show (which typically airs only in Boston at uni- her parents’ whereabouts. His digging made it possible for Claire to 13 weeks a year), posting memes versity, and Roger’s life is in Oxford,” return to Jamie last season, but it also has an adverse effect on Roger’s year-round on social media and he explains. “So when you find them, budding romance with Brianna. It certainly does nothing for their sex tagging the cast, who are intensely they’re in the midst of a long-distance life. “As much as it’s pulled them together, it’s one of the things that’s aware of their audience's undying relationship, pushed them apart,” explains Skelton. “Brianna just needs to separate devotion. which is quite a test for them.” herself and stand on her own two feet.” “There’s no escaping Outlander,as hard as you might try,” marvels Rankin, who went off to “I’VE BEEN TRYING TO BEEF UP.” THAT’S HEUGHAN SPEAKING RECENTLY appear on the British series Midsomer Murders after he about his already rigorous workout regimen from the South Africa set wrapped the Starz show. “I’m going to feel like this has taken of Bloodshot, his latest movie, in which he stars opposite Vin Diesel. over my life, but it kind of already happened.” Adds Heughan: (When asked if he could take the Fast & Furious actor, Heughan quips, “It’s so crazy to think that we’ve been doing this for so long “Absolutely.”) So much has happened to the Outlander family this now. When you get the opportunities to go do other stuff, year that has nothing to do with the actual plot: Heughan became an it’s nice. But it also makes you realize what you have and (2) action star by appearing in The Spy Who Dumped Me; Balfe booked a how lucky you are. We were overjoyed they gave us two big role in Ford v. Ferrari with Christian Bale and got engaged; Moore more seasons, and it feels like there’s a new life this sea- launched the sci-fi anthology Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams on Ama- son. It’s going to be refreshing and good for us all.”

OUTLANDER: STARZ zon; and Dresbach announced she was leaving the series. But the fans Welcome to the New World. X

OCTOBER 12, 2018 EW.COM 23 Jennifer Garner and David Tennant lead a couples retreat gone wrong on HBO’s Camping. Here, they settle in for a candid chat that only goes slightly off the rails. BY SHIRLEY LI @SHIRKLESXP

HEIR CHARACTERS I didn’t know if I could do it, on Camping—Lena surrounded by people who are Dunham and proper comedians. Jenni Konner’s new JENNIFER GARNER There are HBO comedy things about TV that I love—the (Oct. 14, 10 p.m.), expectation of getting a new based on British writer Julia script and figuring it out as you Davis’ series of the same name— go along—and I was just really may live in a torturous bubble hungry to do something funny. of passive aggression, but Jenni- fer Garner and David Tennant What did you ind appealing couldn’t be more comfortable about Kathryn and Walt? together on a September after- They’re, to put it lightly, a little noon in Los Angeles. hard to swallow. While chatting about their GARNER [Laughs]Idon’tsee dysfunctional small-screen Walt as hard to swallow. counterparts Kathryn and Walt— He’s just doing his best in the married couple at the nexus a tough situation. of a weekend trip run wild—the TENNANT So is Kathryn, isn’t she? pair are so in sync, they con- GARNER Poor Kathryn. stantly nod in agreement, finish She has chronic pain... each other’s sentences, and TENNANT In all sorts of places! playfully obsess over the same [Garner laughs.] Yes, in many harem-pants-wearing costar. ways it’s a nightmare relationship (You’ll see.) Garner even twirls to witness, but you can see in her heels on her way out—a where it came from. You get a perfect farewell gesture, consid- sense of there being a very ering how… real history to that relationship that was once tender and loving, This project’s a heel-turn for both and it’s all just gone a bit… of you—neither of you are exactly known for ensemble comedies. Sideways? Did Camping scratch an itch to do TENNANT Yes. It just needs a bit something diferent? of moisturizer. DAVID TENNANT It certainly did. GARNER You know parents who ItwasunlikeanyjobI’deverbeen are in their 70s or 80s, and involved with before. they’re craggy with each other, and you think, “How is that? Were you once nice?” This is a case where you’re watching that happen in process. TENNANT Walt loves his son, he loves his wife, he’s slightly tortured by who she’s become, and he… GARNER Takes the path of least resistance. TENNANT Exactly!

These characters could easily come across as caricatures. Kathryn (Jennifer Garner) and Walt (David Tennannt)—together in the calm before What did you ind in them that the storm—will be taken “out of their comfort zones,” Tennant teases grounded your performances? TENNANT I found a hat and GARNER Yup, that did it! [Laughs] GARNER Yes. I’ve never taken Birkenstocks, and I was I first watched the original [Brit- Adderall or anything altering pretty much done. [Turns ish] version, which is brilliant and like that in my life, so I had no to Garner]Jen? unflinching in its portrayal of concept of it. People told me people who do not ask you to for- crazy things like “It’s all about give them, and I just thought, “Oh your mouth, and you’re just my gosh, I don’t know that I can like, ‘Bleh!’ ” [Squishes her face do it. I feel like I would have to with her palms and sticks her give the other side of the story.” tongue out] I was like, “I can’t [Lena and Jenni] were constantly do that!” [Laughs] saying to me, “Nope, don’t tear TENNANT [The show] gets crazier up, don’t smile, and don’t button as it goes on, so we were sort it with some apology for the of required to get crazier, and scene.” That was really hard for we all struggled with how far me. There were many times I we could go. [Camping as an walked deep into caricature, and activity] is a great petri dish I would ask, “Please tell me if for characters. We were all draw- this is too much?” But they would ing from our own experiences say, “Go further.” of dysfunction.

Like—tiny spoiler alert—in So if you had to choose, which the episode in which Kathryn character would you say you’re takes Adderall in the middle most like? of the night? GARNER Oooh. [Pauses] Maybe Ione [Skye, who plays Kathryn’s timid sister Carleen]? Or Walt? TENNANT There are bits of Kathryn that you very much identify with. GARNER [Nods] The organiza- tion. My life requires it, and I overcompensate. TENNANT I’d like to think that I’m like [costar] Chris Sullivan’s char- acter, that I’m as cool as him. GARNER Yeah, but you’re thinking of Chris, not his character. [Sulli- van, who also stars on This Is Us, plays cocky, booze-soaked Joe.] TENNANT [Laughs] I want to be Chris Sullivan. GARNER I do too, desperately. What if we just go right now and get a pedicure together in some big harem pants? We all went to dinner in New York— TENNANT I wasn’t invited.

: HBO GARNER [Laughs] You were sorely missed. But seeing him out in

CAMPING the world? Ahh, I will never be that cool in my whole life. TENNANT So cool. [They both

TENNANT, GARNER: AUTUMN DE AUTUMN GARNER: TENNANT, WILDE/HBO, sigh.]Ilovehim. HOW THE STORY OF A YOUNG BLACK MAN’S DEATH DROVEAPASSIONATECAST TO TELL THE TRAGIC AND TIMELY

TALE OF THE HATE U GIVE (OUT OCT. 19),

LED BY AMANDLA STENBERG AS TEENAGE ACTIVIST STARR CARTER

BY PIYA SINHA-ROY @PIYASROY

The cast, director, and author of The Hate U Give photographed exclusively for EW on Sept. 7, 2018, in Toronto

ALGEE SMITH CLEARLY REMEMBERS the day on the set of The Hate U Give when he had to film his character being shot and killed by a police officer. “I was in my trailer, I had started listen- ing to a lot of Tupac, and I was just flooding myself with that, so that by the time I got to “It’s time to stand up for what you believe in.… I think it starts with young people,” says The Hate U Give director George Tillman Jr. (front center), with (clockwise from the car everything would just feel natural,” front left) Lamar Johnson, Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, Issa Rae, Amandla Stenberg, the 23-year-old actor, who plays the ill- author Angie Thomas, Sabrina Carpenter, and Algee Smith fated Khalil Harris, tells EW. “However,” he adds, “I don’t think there’s a way to really prepare to do something that extreme.” “I want people to understand why we say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ ” Thomas Adapted from Angie Thomas’ 2017 best- explains. “I want people to look at Tamir Rice and not mourn for his mom selling YA novel by screenwriter Audrey and say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry she lost her child.’ I want them to mourn for Tamir as Wells, The Hate U Give may be a fictional if he was their child.” story, but what happens to Khalil echoes We first meet Khalil through the eyes of 16-year-old Starr Carter (Amandla (PREVIOUS SPREAD (PREVIOUS the tragedies at the center of the Black Stenberg) as she watches her friend since childhood walking into a house Lives Matter movement—the real-life party, flashing his crisp white kicks and a warm, dimpled smile. After gunshots deaths of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric disperse the crowd, Khalil drives Starr home. A white male police officer stops

Garner, Decynthia Clements, Alton Ster- Khalil for failing to use a turn signal and asks him to get out of the car. As Starr DOSS/FOX ) ERIKA ling, Kendra James, Philando Castile, and urges Khalil to obey the officer’s instructions, the playfully cocky teen reaches other unarmed black men and women inside his front window to retrieve a hairbrush. A gunshot pierces the moment killed by police. and Khalil drops to the ground, bleeding heavily as Starr runs to him, sobbing

28 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAKE CHESSUM Stenberg ( left ) and Smith, who plays Khalil. The actor says that for families of black men and women killed by police, he hopes the film brings “some sort of peace or restoration from seeing the performance.”

THE WAY WE HOPE PEOPLE RESPOND TO IT IS [THAT] THEY CRY, BECAUSE THAT MEANS WE DID SOMETHING RIGHT.”

AMANDLA STENBERG

while she cradles him as he dies. In one fell swoop, she loses both her child- Khalil’s death is the catalyst for Starr’s jour- hood friend and what’s left of her childhood. ney in using her voice on behalf of her friend, Director George Tillman Jr. (Soul Food) says the scene of Khalil’s death— and for all voiceless shooting-death victims. filmed over the course of 12 hours—was the most emotional part of making Stenberg, who describes the scene as her most the movie, as he and the cast worked to portray the incident with care and difficult of the film, explains that The Hate U honesty. “We wanted to make sure the audience who never experienced that Give shows how such incidents are miscon- or never experienced racism from African-American culture would be able to strued by the media and “villainize the people understand,” he says. who are shot and killed by police, in order to The Hate U Give is directly inspired by the acronym THUG LIFE, which negate the issue.” stands for “The Hate U Give Little Infants F---s Everybody,” coined by late rap- The film also paints a detailed picture of life per Tupac Shakur (who had it tattooed across his torso). Thomas says she in a working-class black community. In the fic- wants her novel and the film to instill “more empathy” in people and help them tional Garden Heights, Starr’s mother Lisa not only relate to “the passion and the anger and the frustration” about the (Regina Hall) is a nurse, her uncle Carlos system that so often fails African-Americans but also feel “the underlying (Common) is a police officer, and her father hope” that it can change for the better. Maverick “Big Mav” Carter (Russell Hornsby)

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CAST TELLS NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD STORIES owns a local grocery store. Mav spent a few years in prison due to his past involvement with the neighborhood drug dealer King (Anthony Mackie), who enlists young people like Khalil by offer- ing better money-making potential than they might otherwise find among the town’s few job opportunities. In the film’s open- ing scene, Mav teaches a young Starr and her two brothers that there will be a time when they have a confrontation with the police, and he gives them a step-by-step guide on how they should behave without sacrificing their dignity. “Being black is an honor because you come from greatness,” Mav tells them. Hornsby says he and Hall based their parental figures on the men and women “we were raised by that we could fully identify with,” with Hall adding that their performances were “honoring the people” who impacted their lives. “I think Angie captured authentic life, and specifically authentic black life,” she says. “The characters were just so real and palpable.” Starr’s reality is caught between two worlds: one at home with her close-knit family in their black neighborhood, and the other at her predominantly white, affluent private school, where as “Starr Version 2” she dates goofy Chris (Riverdale’s KJ Apa) and is best friends with the blond, wealthy Hailey (Sabrina Carpenter). The film reveals the nuances of how Starr navigates those two worlds, and depicts her conflict—especially after Khalil’s death—in keeping them separate, as she contends with the cost of coming forward as a witness to the shooting and becoming an activist. For Stenberg, the juxtaposition of Starr’s dual identities under- lines the injustices in black and brown communities today. Starr doesn’t reveal to her boyfriend or school friends that she knew Khalil, let alone that she was present when he was shot; as his death becomes national news and sparks outrage, the kids in her school decide to protest his death and demand justice, but without dem- onstrating any mature understanding of the life that he lived. It is in this moment that Starr’s anger rises to the surface. “You get an understanding of what it must be like to walk in these people’s shoes, what it must be like to be a part of the black community and be consistently institutionalized and consistently invalidated and have your words be twisted,” Stenberg says. As Starr grapples with what she’s witnessed, April Ofrah (Issa Rae), a legal adviser and activist, urges the teen to embrace her position and speak up for her community—a move Starr’s parents are divided on. “I think about a lot of my activist friends and how exhausting it is for them to constantly rally around issues,” Rae says. “There’s so much power in our voices alone and amplifying them, but it comes at a cost.” Her character “reminds Starr that her voice is powerful, her voice is a tool, and she has a responsibility to bring justice to his death.” ( From top ) Hornsby and Rae; KJ Apa and Stenberg; Smith and Stenberg. “For young black women, there’s not The Hate U Give arrives on the heels of numerous movies this a lot of representation for us,” Rae says. “I just felt so connected to [Starr] and especially this balancing of two year by filmmakers of color that have explored violence and ten- worlds. She grew up in the hood and she’s one way around sion for black people and black communities. In Marvel’s Black her friends and family, then going to this predominantly white high school, she has to be another. She has to switch Panther, writer-director Ryan Coogler imbued the antihero Erik and feel uncomfortable, and those are things that I’ve talked about and felt.” Killmonger with the anger and frustration felt by many African-

/FOX (3) /FOX Americans; Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman told the real-life story of Colorado Springs’ first black police officer, Ron Stallworth, who

ERIKA DOSS ERIKA successfully infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan; Boots Riley’s Sorry to THE ORIGINAL MS. CARTER THE STORY BEHIND ANGIE THOMAS, THE AUTHOR WHO GAVE THUG LIFE.

BY DAVID CANFIELD @DAVIDCANFIELD97

shot and killed by a police oficer Despite eforts by certain school in Oakland in 2009. (The inci- districts to ban the book—resis- dent inspired the 2013 film Fruit- tance to a novel for teens proudly vale Station, starring Michael B. preaching “Black Lives Matter”— Jordan.) Some of her classmates The Hate U Give is a true game- mused that because he was changer for its genre. an ex-convict, Grant may have Getting there wasn’t always “deserved” it. “I remember being easy. Thomas describes the so angry—so hurt—that I had writing process as extremely to do something,” Thomas, now emotional. “I had to carry a lot 31, says. “So I wrote.” of grief with me as I worked First, Thomas crafted a short through the book,” she says. Yet story, reluctant to flesh it out no matter how intense the work as a novel (“I foolishly hoped that got, Thomas never took the easy Oscar Grant would be the last route, thoroughly researching time we’d see something like her tragic real-life inspirations. this”). But as the deaths of more She spoke with district attorneys young black men made head- and police oficers. She scanned lines—Trayvon Martin, Michael every court transcript from Brown, Tamir Rice—she felt a the Michael Brown case. She read responsibility to her community. Trayvon Martin’s autopsy report. “I heard kids who saw them- The authenticity resonated selves in Trayvon or Tamir—for with readers—including the team them it was like, ‘If someone behind the film, who made sure justifies their deaths, this is them Thomas was actively involved telling me I should die,’ ” she on set during production. She says softly. “The Hate U Give is even cameos as an activist in for those kids in my neighbor- the movie’s big protest scene, hood who felt angry. I wanted to which culminates in Starr show them: I see you. I under- finding her voice and leading stand you. I love you.” the movement to get justice Since its February 2017 for Khalil. That experience was release, Thomas’ debut novel has powerful for Thomas. “It was emerged as a staggering suc- a cold, rainy night in Atlanta, cess, selling over a million copies and everybody knew this was and spending more than 80 too important to not give our all,” ANGIE THOMAS GREW UP A LOT community nearby. She says weeks on the New York Times she remembers. “It gave me like Starr Carter. The Jackson, that like Starr, she experienced best-seller list for young-adult so much hope. Just standing Miss., native attended a mostly “the struggle of being two hardcovers—often (and cur- there and knowing this many white private high school—and diferent people in two diferent rently) sitting in the No. 1 spot. people could come together was often the only black student worlds.” Thomas was studying That’s to say nothing of the to help bring to life a story in her class—while living with at her hometown’s Belhaven Uni- critical raves from The New York I created—and were dedicated her family in a disenfranchised versity when Oscar Grant was Times, The Atlantic, and, yes, EW. to getting this right.”

32 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 WE FIND NUANCES IN SHADES OF LAUGHTER, JOY, AND FUN. IT WAS VERY BONDING AND POIGNANT.”

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Bother You explored economic oppression within an allegorical world; Blindspotting, co-written and starring Daveed Diggs, delved into the trauma inflicted on an Oakland man after he witnesses an unarmed black man shot by a white police officer. While The Hate U Give is centered on the African-American com- munity, its resonance reaches beyond. Starr’s internal struggle echoes that of many second-generation children who juggle dueling cultures. In her novel, Thomas uses a touchstone of so many childhoods— Harry Potter fandom—to signal that Starr and Khalil are just like every other Potterhead around the world. Tillman captures that in a devastating scene where Starr goes to Khalil’s house after his death and brings back a keepsake, his makeshift wizard wand, a reminder of how she and her friend used to play. Keeping with the coming-of-age themes, Thomas says The Hate U Give shows teenagers dealing with “very adult things.” Stenberg’s per- formance has earned early praise from critics, and that—combined with the story’s timeliness—might get the film into awards conten- tion, especially if it can reach audiences outside the novel’s core of young-adult readers. Stenberg says she grew personally during filming, as she “had to find the strength” within herself to play Starr authentically. In doing so, she was inspired by her character’s discovery of the power of her voice. In the past year the 19-year-old actress (who broke out as Rue in The Hunger Games) has come out as a lesbian, Hall and Hornsby play Starr’s parents, Lisa and Mav. “What I loved was that and she continues to use her growing platform as a political and their disagreements never dampened social activist on issues such as female and LGBTQ empowerment their love or respect for each other,” says Hall. and Black Lives Matter. “I was learning about how to speak up for yourself and how to not let anyone make you be quiet, which is a phrase that is really important in the story,” says Stenberg. “I was learning how to stop holding my tongue, because Starr’s not afraid to.” X

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 Baby, you’re a Star: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga

joy in it for him anymore, if there ever was, or A Star Is Born in the booze he uses like an analgesic. We’ve seen this movie before, of course— STARRING DIRECTED BY four times now—so we know it’s not A Star Is Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Bradley Cooper Bored. Jackson is only minutes away from Sam Elliott, Andrew Dice Clay meeting Ally (Lady Gaga), a plucky part-time RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY cater-waiter with a pair of sanitary gloves in R 2 hrs., 16 mins. Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats her pocket and a song in her heart who just happens to be performing at the L.A. drag club Jackson stumbles into in search of more IT’S ONE OF THOSE POP-SCIENCE FACTS THAT ALWAYS numbing alcohol. He’s enchanted; she’s flat- gets repeated, probably because it sounds so tragically, tered and confused. By the next morning, at romantically cool: By the time their light reaches Earth, least one of them has fallen a little bit in love. WARNER BROS. PICTURES BROS. WARNER thousands of stars in the sky have already died. And it As a singer whose real-girl vulnerabilities does feel like an apt metaphor for Bradley Cooper’s Jack- land miles away from the glittery meat-dress son Maine the first time we see him. A fortyish musician delirium of her own stage persona, Gaga already graduated to legend, he plays his dusky blues-rock certainly deserves praise for her restrained, anthems to sold-out stadiums every night. But there’s no human-scale performance. So do the songs,

34 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 REEL The Force Is With Her Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy NEWS has renewed her contract through 2021. A Serpentine Secret The new Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer revealed that Claudia Kim plays Nagini— the human version of Voldemort’s snake.

and strong support from Dave Chappelle (as BRADLEY  a faithful old friend of Jackson’s) and Andrew COOPER’S ’DO’S Parasite with attitude, Venom Dice Clay (as Ally’s Rat Pack-dreamer dad). AND DON’TS : SONY PICTURES But it’s Cooper, in his directing debut, With his latest film Venom high on the list, VENOM who ultimately has to carry the narrative from it’s time we combed STARRING Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams both sides. He’s made Jackson a drawling, through the actor- director’s hairy styles. DIRECTED BY Ruben Fleischer denim-clad cowboy-poet very much in the BY LEAH GREENBLATT mode of Kris Kristofferson’s iconic 1976 iter- RATING PG-13 | LENGTH 1 hr., 52 mins. ation and Jeff Bridges’ Oscar-winning turn in : FRANCOIS: DUHAMEL; REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty Crazy Heart; an archetype whose familiarity 1 lives somewhere between sincere tribute and IS VENOM A HERO OR A VILLAIN? IF YOU Marlboro Man cliché. (There are also shades

AMERICAN HUSTLE AMERICAN rummage through the Marvel back catalog

of Sam Elliott, who appears as Maine’s much- BEST HAIR GUARDIANS where the piranha-toothed “symbiote” was older-brother–slash–manager, and maybe OF THE GALAXY Rocket first fully introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #300, another Sam, too: the late, great Shepard.) Brown and silky, with he’s clearly up to no good—at least as far as Peter Park- Behind the camera, Cooper has clearly lightly frosted tips er’s concerned. But in Ruben Fleischer’s tonally : HOWARD BERNSTEIN; HOWARD : pledged allegiance not to the Stars of 1937 or jumbled new origin story, he’s a tortured good guy, a 1954, but to the New Cinema naturalism of victim of a bad Jekyll-and-Hyde break. Played by the his ’70s predecessor, all long highways, canyon 2 always interesting Tom Hardy, albeit with a distracting light, and sun-flared close-ups. As Ally’s pro- New Yawk palooka accent and a fidgety swagger, file rises and Jackson stumbles back toward A STAR IS BORN Venom feels like a second-tier Marvel player prema- the bottle, his lens moves in with a kind of Jackson Maine WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER turely called up to the bigs. Comics aficionados will be feverish handheld intimacy—a closeness that Top contender for Best Supporting pre-sold, of course, but will anyone else care? feels increasingly like a bell jar lowered over Neckbeard Before he’s possessed by a slithering space parasite, the film, keeping the audience locked into the Hardy is Eddie Brock, an investigative reporter in a couple’s growing unhappiness (and by exten- leather jacket who’s a cross between a young Brando sion, the airless, lonely disconnect of fame). 3

: CLAY ENOS/WARNER BROS.; ENOS/WARNER CLAY : and a TMZ pest. While looking into a megalomaniacal Star’s runtime clocks in at well over two Elon Musk-ian tycoon (Riz Ahmed), he stumbles onto hours, which is longer than it strictly needs to WET HOT AMERICAN a gooey, alien symbiosis experiment and becomes its be. Though there’s something gratifying too SUMMER

A STAR ISA STAR BORN latest victim. Suddenly, he’s sharing his body with a about a major Hollywood production that Ben monstrous alter ego who has a nasty appetite for living dares to let its scenes meander and breathe so ’80s prep night- mare, personified flesh and a deep death-metal voice egging him on with unhurriedly. If the ending is telegraphed from badass Deadpool attitude. Too bad it never rises above miles away, and the central romance feels

: MARVEL STUDIOS; © bombastic mediocrity—something I never thought I’d more like a gorgeously patinaed imitation of 4 say about a movie starring Hardy, Ahmed, and Michelle life than the real thing, maybe that’s because Williams (as Brock’s ex-fiancée). Venom, the movie, Star is less a story now than a myth—not so has a stylishly gloomy Nolan-does-Gotham vibe. But much reborn as recast and passed on to the AMERICAN HUSTLE Richie DiMaso Venom, the character, never comes into focus until the care of the next generation. B+ HAIR WORST The crimes are real; the curls final five minutes. He’s just another bit of secondary are man-made Marvel IP who scowls and growls, and never shows why DID YOU LOVE ASTARISBORN? You might also like Beyond

MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY THE OF GUARDIANS MARVEL’S the Lights (2014) and Walk the Line (2005). he should carry his own franchise. C+

OCTOBER 12, 2018 EW.COM 35 FIRST LOOK PET SEMATARY, RESURRECTED

A resuscitation of Stephen King adaptations has brought new life to this cat-came-back story. EW ventures into the woods to dig up a first look at the creature feature. BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN

CURIOSITY LURES THE LITTLE GIRL DOWN the old path behind her house—a feeling that only deepens along with the surrounding woods. She ends up in a clearing, staring at what seems like junk and litter. Moldy stuffed animals stare from the weeds. Boards, pipes, and beaten tin jut from the ground. Photo- graphs and drawings that weep with dried rainwater are tacked to the occasional tree. Then she notices these markers are arrayed in concentric circles. “Smucky the Cat,” one of them reads. “He was obediant.” At the entrance to the clearing stands a weatherworn piece of scrap wood with another misspelling: Pet Sematary. That’s the familiar title of this new film version of Stephen King’s 1983 novel, a tragic story of a young family, a lonesome old- timer, and a cat with more than nine lives. Directed by Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch (2014’s horror-satire Starry Eyes), this is the latest in a resurgence of King adap- tations following the monstrous success of last year’s IT. Like that movie, Pet Sematary (out April 5) isn’t just based on a beloved

novel, but has a previous 1989 film iteration KERRY HAYES/PARAMOUNT (3)

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 ( Clockwise from left )Jud Crandall (John Lithgow) and Ellie Creed (Jeté Laurence) examine Biffer’s grave; the resurrected, bloodthirsty Church; the Creed family: Louis (Jason Clarke), Rachel (Amy Seimetz), Ellie, and Gage (the Lavoie twins)

curled up in a cold spot in the hearts of fans. about, the beginning of a connection. He can This scene, shot in the woods of Ontario, delight a child, and it’s a very interesting Canada, is how Ellie Creed (11-year-old Jeté color to this dark man.” Laurence) discovers the pet graveyard that As Jud comforts Ellie, she frets about the other children in the town of Ludlow, Maine, day she might say goodbye to her own cat, have maintained for generations. Her atten- Winston Churchill—Church for short. Need- tion is soon drawn to the barricade of fallen less to say, that day comes sooner than she trees that wall off the rest of the forest. She thinks. Jud’s affection for his new friends doesn’t know it, but there’s another, more motivates him to show her father, Dr. Louis sinister burial ground further beyond. Creed (Jason Clarke), the place where things As she climbs, she hears a shout—“Hey! buried don’t rest in peace for long. Get down from there!”—and plunges to the What Ellie can’t fathom is that an even ground. An old man in dirty clothes rushes to greater loss awaits her family, which includes her aid. His white beard is stained with nico- mom Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and accident- tine, making his mouth a little yellow circle prone toddler brother Gage (played by twins of alarm. His name is Jud Crandall (played in Hugo and Lucas Lavoie). The sweetness of the original by Fred Gwynne and here by the Creeds is one thing that makes King’s John Lithgow), and he knows what secrets story so unsettling. lie beyond the deadfall. “To understand why loss is so tragic, you “He is a good man, but he is a good man have to understand why life is so beautiful,” with troubles in his life,” Lithgow tells EW of says Seimetz, whose character is furious to Jud. “And he’s grown up with some real find her child in this bizarre place with a demons.” Jud helps Ellie to her feet, tends to strange man. She leads the little girl away in her wounds, and then tries to calm her down a huff. “Rachel went through something about her macabre discovery in the woods. extremely traumatic when she was younger He even shows her the grave for his dog, with her sister, and she freezes up when “Biffer—A Helluva Sniffer,” written on two death is talked about,” Seimetz says. boards near the center of the circle. Alone again, Crandall looks back to the “He really cares about this little girl,” deadfall, thinking about second chances. And Lithgow says. “That’s what this scene is the kind of chances there shouldn’t be.

OCTOBER 12, 2018 EW.COM 37 Private Life

STARRING Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti

DIRECTED BY Tamara Jenkins

RATING R | LENGTH 2 hrs., 12 mins.

REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

THE TITLE OF TAMARA JENKINS’ new Netflix drama about a mar- ried couple struggling with infertility is ironically cruel. After all, there’s nothing private about the emotional and physical hell they’re going through: Every- one has an opinion or a tone-deaf nugget of advice about their uphill reproductive odys- sey. Not only is Mother Nature working against them, the whole world seems to be. Jenkins, the Oscar-nominated writer- director of 2007’s The Savages, nails the smallest, most minute details of the IVF process with a jeweler’s precision: the hor- mone shots and egg retrievals, the financial strains and fights, the hope and despair. I realize that probably makes this exquisite film sound clinical and slightly depressing. And it does have its moments. But thank- fully, it also has Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti, who aren’t just convincing as married New York artists who’d give any- thing for a child; they also subtly convey the love buried beneath all of their bickering and resentment. Hope finally arrives in the form of the couple’s college-dropout niece (a radiant Kayli Carter), who moves in and offers to donate some of her eggs. But Jenkins isn’t interested in last-minute miracles or Hol- ONE TO WATCH lywood happy endings. Private Life is both smaller and bigger than that. It’s about per- PRIVATE LIFE severance, compassion, and empathy. A–

CynthiaErivo RUSSO/FOX JOHN ERIVO: WHILDEN/NETFLIX; : JOJO IsHaving GoodTimes Paul Giamatti and The 31-year-old British Broadway star has conquered the stage, Kathryn and now she’s stepping out in her first lead film role. In Drew Hahn asking Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale (out Oct. 12), Erivo plays a for eggs singer with a big voice—and a strong heart. BY DEVAN COGGAN

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Free Solo

STARRING Alex Honnold

DIRECTED BY Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

RATING PG-13 | LENGTH 1 hr., 37 mins.

REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

EVER SINCE INTO THIN AIR chronicled the disastrous 1996 season on Mount Everest, there’s been no shortage of books and movies about climbing. There’s something about  Cynthia Erivo describes Darlene as a damsel “who’s able to save herself.” death being one errant footstep away that’s catnip to armchair adventurers. But even

WHEN CYNTHIA ERIVO SIGNED every time because she was the pros have a hard time understanding on to play the singer Darlene able to repeat it over and over free solo climbing—that is, without ropes, Sweet in Bad Times at the El again,” Goddard says. “I guess harnesses, or safety gear of any kind. Jimmy Royale, she didn’t realize just how it’s the Broadway training: If big her role was. She auditioned you’re doing multiple perfor- Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s exhil- for Drew Goddard’s crime thriller mances a week, you’d better arating documentary Free Solo focuses on shortly after The Color Purple be on, and we certainly felt that one of these daredevils—a lanky, socially Broadway revival (which netted when she would start singing.” awkward 33-year-old named Alex Honnold, her a Daytime Emmy, a Tony, Darlene is cautious to open and a Grammy). The London up, letting the songs do the talk- who in 2017 set out to scale the 3,000-foot native knew Bad Times required ing for her throughout most sheer granite face of Yosemite’s El Capitan singing, but she thought it’d be of the film. However, Erivo sug- with nothing more than his callused finger- more of a cameo—until she read gested to Goddard that he tips. The feat was insane, and it had never the script. “I was just happy to be add a speech near the end, one a part of it!” she says, laughing. in which she confronts Hems- been done before. If you’re afraid of “I didn’t realize how much a part worth’s sinister character. heights, Free Solo isn’t for you (I had to look of it I was until the end.” The director took up her sugges- away during some of its more vertigo- A twisty ensemble piece, Bad tion, and they wrote the scene inducing moments). But what makes the Times centers on seven people together. “You have to be mind- in 1969 who converge at the El ful that I am the only woman film more than just ghoulish voyeurism is Royale hotel, an aging establish- of color in this piece, and if [Dar- how it paints a surprisingly rich portrait of ment that straddles the California- lene] doesn’t have a moment a young man and the obsession that drives Nevada state line; violence and where she can just speak, it will him. The motivation may be only slightly mysteries ensue. The hotel’s seem as though we don’t want strange, secretive guests include her to,” Erivo explains. “I found it deeper than “because it’s there,” but for Jef Bridges as a priest, Chris really important to be represen- 100 nerve-racking minutes, Free Solo brings Hemsworth as a charismatic cult tative of what black women were us a suicidal quest with sympathy and a ton leader, and Dakota Johnson going through in the ’60s A– as a kidnapper. But Darlene is because they were used a lot, of adrenaline. the sunny heart of the story, [especially in] entertainment.” dressed in yellow and persisting Bad Times is Erivo’s first film

FREE against impossible odds (even ever to hit theaters, though she’s though she has a few secrets of also starring in Steve McQueen’s her own). “She has this inner Widows (out Nov. 16). She’ll soon light that she never really extin- start filming Kasi Lemmons’ guishes,” Erivo says. Harriet Tubman biopic, Harriet, As the tenacious lounge too, meaning that Bad Times is singer, Erivo puts her voice to far from the last time you’ll be : KIMBERLEY: FRENCH/FOX; good use, performing ’60s clas- seeing her (and hearing her voice). sics like “Hold On, I’m Comin’ ” “I’m having the time of my life,” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.” For she says with a smile. “I can defi- one particularly complicated nitely sense the change from Alex long take, she had to sing “This what I have been experiencing to Honnold hangs : NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OldHeartofMine”27times, what I am experiencing. It’s sub- on for SOLO BAD TIMES THE AT EL ROYALE live on set. “I was blown away tle—but it’s for the better.” dear life

OCTOBER 12, 2018 EW.COM 39 Movies Beautiful Bond In Beautiful Boy (out Oct. 12), Nic (Timothée Chalamet) battles drug addiction while dad David (Steve Carell) struggles to help lift him out from his disease. The actors reveal how they clicked telling this real-life tale. BY PIYA SINHA-ROY AND DAVID CANFIELD

Howdidyoutwogoabout becoming close in real life? STEVE CARELL We connected instantly. I mean, look at him, come on! He’s kind, generous, intelligent, funny.... He’s a great, great guy and it was easy to feel as if we had a parent-son relationship. TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET I feel like I get, like, great dad vibes from Steve. CARELL [To Chalamet] Sit up. [Laughs] CHALAMET I had to audition a number of times for this. The last time I came in was with Steve and I felt very immediately taken in, protected. But I will say, I had to get over the fact that I was such a huge fan—like, I’m totally sitting here with [The Ofice’s] Michael and Holly [costar Amy Ryan].  What did you learn from Steve? ( Above) Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell photographed exclusively for EW on CHALAMET In acting, I would say Sept. 7, 2018, in Toronto; David (Carell) steadies moment-to-moment consistency, Nic (Chalamet) letting things come to you in scenes and not the other way around. But it was also the way he CHALAMET I learned about the carried himself on set. He has specific details and physical this kind of incredible combina- manifestations of what experi- tion of humanity and profession- ences would be like during peri- alism—it makes you want to be ods of intense [drug] use over the course of weeks. But almost around him and work with him. more importantly, I [learned] about these extended stays away What was the key thing that from home, and in rehabs, and really connected you two spe- the process of trying not only cifically to your roles? to tear down habits but also what CARELL I think the fact that I’m they fit in the world and what Especially because it’s so made you have the bad habits a dad in real life. It’s a traumatic their place is in society. relatable. You come home and that you had. And how to reas-

journey that they had to go BEAUTIFUL BOY you look at your kids and you similate and to find your center through—nothing that I’ve had hug them a little bit tighter on path again. Especially as it to go through in my life, but Which aspects of Nic and those days that you’re shooting relates to your family members I could empathize as a father. David’s story felt the least

because of what you’ve been and the people that you love DUHAMEL : FRANCOIS CHALAMET I have great relation- familiar, and you had to really experiencing during the day. and cherish the most. ships with my parents. But I prep and research? understand the experience of CARELL The least familiar was the what it is to have your relation- story of addiction in terms of my ships frayed with members kids. I tried to imagine what it in your family. I think there’s also would be like, and it’s terrifying. STEVE IS, FIRSTANDFOREMOST,ANEXCELLENT /AMAZON STUDIOS just a universal experience We’ve been asked about letting ACTOR, ANDSOMEONEILEARNEDALOTFROM. of a young person trying to find it go at the end of the day, just themselves, trying to under- flipping the switch, but with this HE’S ALWAYSHONESTANDREAL.” stand who they are and how subject matter it’s hard to do. —TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET ON STEVE CARELL

40 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 PHOTOGRAPH BY JAKE CHESSUM See, wasn’t that more fun than just watching TV?

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/ZEITGEIST FILMS /ZEITGEIST LOVING PABLO | Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa Starring Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz L As the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his Colombian newscaster lover, Bardem and Cruz are never not watch- : ADAM SCHULL ADAM : able. But they’re diamonds stuck in a tinplate biopic ham- strung by its telenovela-by-the-numbers script. B–

STUDIO 54 THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION Directed by Peter Bogdanovich Starring Buster Keaton L

: IFC FILMS; Director Peter Bogdanovich has crafted a beautiful cinematic love letter to the greatest talent of Hollywood’s

BLACK ‘47 BLACK silent era (sorry, Chaplin fans), the one and only Buster Keaton. A–

COMMON IN COMMON : WARNER BROS. PICTURES; ALL ABOUT NINA | Directed by Eva Vives Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Common L

SMALLFOOT Mary Elizabeth Winstead delivers a star-making turn as a damaged stand-up comedian who moves to L.A. and falls into a new relationship. B

SMALLFOOT | Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig Starring Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common W This man-vs.-yeti tale is hardly Pixar, but it has its : COHEN MEDIA GROUP; own beastie charm, and a timely message: Don’t fear the unknown, embrace it. Just try not to squish it. B

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BLACK 47 | Directed by Lance Daly

THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION A BUSTER: GREAT THE Starring James Frecheville, Hugo Weaving L Mud and misery are the backdrop of this pulpy, period revenge drama about a haunted Irish soldier who returns home only to find hardship, famine, and injustice. B

STUDIO 54 | Directed by Matt Tyrnauer L Fueled by a disco beat and studded with a who’s who of ’70s icons, Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary chronicles the glittering rise and hangover fall of New York’s temple of hedonism and liberation. B+

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: UNIVERSAL PICTURES UNIVERSAL HOME: ENTERTAINMENT; Trump is just a jump-off for the rumpled revolutionary’s engaging but unfocused latest, which covers everything from school shootings to the Flint water crisis. B LOVING PABL0

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drive superstar creators mad with auteurist The Romanofs ambition. And even the least-edited version THE ROMANOFF

DATE TIME NETWO RK REVIEW BY of Heaven’s Gate is merely 30 Steven Universes Launches Oct. 12 Streaming Amazon Darren Franich@DarrenFranich long. The three Romanoffs sent for review all S : run feature length. THIJS JAN The episodes are sweet, beautiful to look / AMAZON’S NEW SERIES THE ROMANOFFS COMES FROM MATTHEW at, very sincere, kinda dopey. The premiere AMAZON STUDIOS Weiner, who created Mad Men,my favorite show not swirls family melodrama with real estate. hosted by Alex Trebek. This anthology is the kind of TV Marthe Keller plays Anushka, a Parisian

that used to exist only in magical-realist novels: eight grande dame claiming tsarist descent. Her ; D episodes with different casts, shot on multiple conti- American nephew Greg (Aaron Eckhart) YNASTY

nents, with a conceptual narrative tracking contemporary waits to inherit her glorious apartment. KLEIN : ROBBY people who claim royal Russian ancestry. Then caregiver Hajar (Ines Melab) knocks A new kind of arty event series? Awesome! And...ter- on Anushka’s door. Hajar is Muslim, and / rifying? Weiner loves film history, so he knows Anushka is wildly racist. “We burned Con- C THE

mone s of ambition often stantinople,” Anushka brags, like the W

THE 2 0-WO RD REVI EW > Dynassty (The CW, Oct. 12) Aflapper party (Elizabeth Gillies can sing!) + more, steamier sex + a new Cristal = Better L OGLINES Dear Diary The highly anticipated Paramount Network series based on Heathers finally has a premiere date:

Deffinitely Oct. 25 (available to stream Oct. 22). a Romanoff Big News Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco will voice the titlecharacter onDCUniverse’s upcoming animated series Harley Quinn.

Crusades were a game her team won. There are moments of swooning romance ALL IN THE in touristic Paris, all baguettes and monu- FAMILY? ments.That travelogue feel extendstothe Some of the A-list roster of C ATC HING UP WITH America-set second episode, where cheerful The Romanoffs Shelly (Kerry Bishé) and husband/ Romanoff-of-the-week Michael (Corey FACTSOFLIFE’S Stoll) embark on separate adventures. She goes on a cruise; he goes to jury duty. Epi- sode 3 transatlantics to Austria, where an NANCYMCKEON actress (Christina Hendricks) worries her AARON ECKHART After a break from Hollywood, the actress, 52, is director (Isabelle Huppert) has gone mad (Sully) back in the spotlight on Dancing With the Stars : from (aha!) auteurist ambition. Hendricks (Mondays at 8 p.m. on ABC). BY LYNETTE RICE and Huppert are thrilling, but their duel

turns dire, smashing metafiction with Your last big role was on It’s been 30 years since S WIREIMAGE; PEET embarrassing supernatural twists. Weiner’s Disney Channel’s Sonny you’ve played tomboy Jo / sentimental streak softens the bleakness of With a Chance in 2009–10. Polniaczek. How does it What have you been up to? feel to still be associated episode 2’s marital joust and tilts the first CHRISTINA HENDRICKS I’ve been living in Austin for with The Facts of Life? episode’s Parisian foray into fairy-tale absur- (GoodGirls) about 15 years. I had my kid- If that’s my only parentheti- dity. But good acting abounds. Bishéshines dos, and I wanted to spend cal, it’s a brilliant one. It was life-changing.Igot to with sad cheer. Stoll darkens, scary and time with them. That didn’t include being on a sound- learn from so many, and funny. Melab is a true discovery. stage for 18 hours a day. I’ve Charlotte Rae was at the top There are narrative cues connecting been working since age 2, ofthatlist. I don’t mind being followed around by

GETTY IMAGES; LANE: RODIN ECKENROTH and I didn’t have my first / these stories, suggesting a saga we’ll only childuntil I was 38.Iwanted something that has sucha understand after eight episodes. The DIANE LANE tobethereasbest as I could. warm place in my heart. soundtrack is swell: Eurythmics’ “Sweet (House of Cards) What made you say yes to You rode into the first EON: CRAIG SJODIN/ABC; FACTS OF LIFE: NBC/GETTY IMAGE Dreams,” Tom Petty’s “Refugee” as a theme rehearsal on a motorcycle. NBCU PHOTO BANK Dancing With the Stars? / song in every sense of thephrase. There are My kids [now 11 and 14] were Are you still straddling a so many rooms: big rooms, impressive old enough for me to ask hog like Jo did? Iwasn’t riding it! Somebody rooms, gorgeous but a bit empty.Which them, “Is Mom going to embarrass you?” They were else drove it up. I don’t sums up The Romanoffs, really. It can be all for it. I wasn’t expecting knowhowto ride those things. It’s hard. sharp social comedyof excess, considering that reaction. Maybe I thought AMANDA PEET that it would beareal grow- nostalgia for the murdered monarchsasan  ing experience. I’m glad I did. all-encompassing phenomenon tapping (Brockmire) Nancy McKeon and Lisa Whelchel It’s turning out to be just that. on The FactsofLife into immigration, western isolationism, GETTY IMAGES; HENDRICKS: THEO WARGO / and the loneliness of contemporary life. What was it like stepping But it’s also an exemplar of modern excess, into the ballroom for the first time? in awe of its own Business Class decadence. The room is beautiful! The intention is a global epic. It’s more like Everybody comes dressed B JOHN like they’re going to the VENTURELLI/WIREIMAGE; SLATTERY: DIA DIPASUPIL/GETTY IMAGES; MCK ECKHART: DAVE J HOGAN Black Mirrorr for white privilege. SLATTERY theater. I’m not sure what (Churchill) I expected, but it’s far more than I ever imagined. than last year? B– —HENRY GOLDBLATT

OCTOBER 12, 2018 EW.COM 43 TV

Charmed

DATE Debuts Oct. 14 TIME 9 p.m.

NETWORK The CW

REVIEW BY Kristen Baldwin @KristenGBaldwin

THE POWER OF THREE STILL PACKS AN entertaining jolt in The CW’s (weirdly controversial) reboot. The characters are new, but the fundamen- tals remain intact: Three very different sisters—scientifically minded Macy (Made- leine Mantock), fiercely feminist Mel (Melonie Diaz), and fun-seeking Maggie (Sarah Jeffery)—discover they are powerful witches known as “the Charmed Ones.” The premiere leans in heavily to the #MeToo movement: Mel rants against “rape culture” at college parties, and the FIRST first monster the sisters fight is a demon LOOK who feeds on “strong women.” But show- runner Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane the Virgin) and her team save Charmed from feeling heavy-handed and preachy by keep- ing the dialogue sharp and witty—as when a women’s-studies professor compliments ALLDOLLEDUP Mel’s essay: “It really made me feel as if my Eighteen years after the hit Lindsay Lohan TV movie penis had been torn from my body.” Life-Size, returning star Tyra Banks and new addition Yes, there are changes from the original — Francia Raisa dish on the long-awaited sequel, one sis is a lesbian!—but the ladies still live Life-Size 2 (December on Freeform). BY JOEY NOLFI in a colorful Victorian house (this time in

Michigan) and have the guidance of a hand- AS THE IMMORTAL GOSPEL OF girl power. The series just had to some Whitelighter (Rupert Evans). Surely Life-Size’s theme song “Be a grow up first. “Some of them are moms now!” the new Charmed—which speaks to younger Star” tells us: Eve’s great. But when producer-actress Tyra Banks says of Life-Size’s fan base: viewers in a language they’ll appreciate while Banks sought to continue her millennial women raised on the honoring the original’s themes of sisterhood character’s journey beyond original. Thus, its long-gestating CHARMED and female empowerment—can coexist 2000’s Life-Size—which featured sequel follows a 25-year-old,

Lindsay Lohan as a child whose Grace (grown-ish’s Francia Raisa), BUSCHER : DEAN peacefully with the old Charmed. The only magic spell grants a plastic doll navigating a quarter-life crisis things I really miss are the alt-rock theme a human body—she wanted Eve after inheriting the toy company song and those bad ’90s bobs. B to be an even greater beacon of that produced Eve (who serves

as Grace’s guardian angel of sis- CW; /THE terhood). “The challenge with Grace is allowing Eve to love her. LIFE SIZE 2 [She’s] opening her heart and becoming comfortable being herself,” says Raisa. (4) CHANNEL D’ALEMA/DISNEY : GUY Banks won’t reveal how Eve reenters the real world, but says  she “becomes less doll-like, The magic more human” and “more endear- of ing” for round two, both in the Melonie story and in Banks’ experienced Diaz and Sarah eyes: “Eve’s here to show [Grace] Jeffery you can be that boss bitch. I play

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 ( Clockwise from left ) Tyra Banks; Francia Raisa, Banks, Hank Chen, and Shanica Knowles; a cameo by Perez Hilton; Banks is sweet as candy

 Ione Skye and Jennifer Garner get campy Camping

DATE Debuts Oct. 14 | TIME 10 p.m.

NETWORK HBO

REVIEW BY Kristen Baldwin @KristenGBaldwin

JENNIFER GARNER IS A WOMAN IN PAIN. AS CAMPING’S Kathryn McSorley-Jodell—a high-strung wife, mother, and very minor Instagram celebrity— she suffers from a “dysfunctional pelvic floor,” inflamed “pipes,” and “tissue issues.” Kathryn counters the chaos in her body by managing her family with a rigid efficiency that would make the Navy jealous. The comedy (and pathos) of Camping, then, comes from the many ways life—and the hell known as other people—interferes with a meticulously organized birthday trip Kathryn plans for her husband, Walt (David Tennant). Kathryn has mapped out four days of mandatory fun for Walt, her son Orvis (Duncan Joiner), and the assem- bled couples—including her timid sister Carleen (Ione Skye) and Joe (This Is Us’s Chris Sullivan), Carleen’s addict boyfriend; and estranged friend Nina-Joy (Janicza her diferently now. There are a Bravo) and her husband, George (Brett Gelman). But little bit more layers, and much when Walt’s pal Miguel (Arturo Del Puerto) shows up more comedy.” As progressive as her soul with his new Reiki-healer girlfriend Jandice (Juliette is, Raisa says Eve’s brain is “stuck I HAVE A SCENE Lewis, bringing her usual dose of effortless lunacy), in 2000” for comedic efect. So WHERE MY Kathryn’s micromanaged proceedings are derailed. is Banks’ nostalgia: Atop a list of Much like Kathryn herself, Camping—adapted from callbacks planted throughout, STOMACH Banks promises a rap-tinged the British series by Girls duo Lena Dunham and Jenni “banger” remix of “Be a Star” as SHOWS. I SAID, Konner—is initially off-putting. But even when Kathryn well as the return of an “iconic ‘TYRA, WANT is at her most extreme, Garner’s innate humanity infuses outfit” and past characters. her with a woeful relatability. Kathryn is so at war with “There’s something beautiful we ME TO HIDE do with Lindsay in this movie the pressures of being a modern woman that she literally that’ll speak to die-hard fans,” MY SCARS?’ had her female reproductive system surgically removed. she teases of Lohan, whose MTV SHE GOES, Still, the pain lingers. “You can feel fine,” she tells Orvis, reality-show filming schedule “but also know that you are a ticking time bomb.” Camp- : HBO in Greece prevented her from ‘NO, GIRL!’” —FRANCIA RAISA ing is not perfect, but if it allows Garner to explode with starring. “I can’t say how, but ON HER KIDNEY-

CAMPING you will see something!” DONATION SCARS the rage of aggrieved womanhood, it may be worth it. B

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FIRST LOOK

LookingGood An all-star cast adapts the 1990 supernatural novel Good Omens—and EW has an inside look at the upcoming Amazon series (launching in early 2019). BY DEVAN COGGAN

IT’S A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN— they’ve been saving each other’s or is that hell? Almost three bacon, repeatedly.” decades after Neil Gaiman and Aziraphale and Crowley have Terry Pratchett published their so enjoyed their centuries on novel Good Omens, the story is Earth that when their bosses coming to the small screen with upstairs and below decide to Michael Sheen and David Ten- kick-start the apocalypse, the nant. Sheen plays Aziraphale, renegade angel and demon a fussy angel who runs a book- team up to save their adopted  shop. Tennant’s Crowley is a ( From top ) home. “Nobody else knows David Tennant suave devil who likes to terrorize what it’s like to be a supernatural and Michael miniseries himself. “It’s such a

houseplants. Together they form being on Earth amongst Sheen, look- unique world that him and Terry TENNANT AND SHEEN: SOPHIE MUTEVELIAN

the cosmos’ oddest couple, an ing divine; have created,” Tennant says. AMAZON STUDIOS; HAMM AND CHAHIDI: humans, so that bonds them in Jon Hamm as

angel and a demon who’ve been a special way,” Sheen says. the pompous “If anyone else had taken it on, RAPHAEL/AMAZONCHRIS STUDIOS stationed on Earth since the Gar- It’s a tale that’s alternatingly archangel I don’t think we could have Gabriel den of Eden. “They really annoy silly and solemn, and it’s captured the real quirky essence each other,” Sheen says with a taken years to get here: There of it.” Add in guest stars like Jon laugh. “But they do really enjoy have been attempts to adapt Hamm as the archangel Gabriel each other.” Good Omens as a film, but and Frances McDormand as “And they enjoy being appalled after Pratchett’s death in 2015, the voice of God, and you’ve got by each other,” Tennant adds. Gaiman took matters into an apocalyptic comedy that’s

“Yet throughout the eons, his own hands, writing the positively, well, divine. /

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WANDER WOMAN Cat Power’s plaintive, emotionally lacerating songwriting makes a return on her first record in six years. She chats with EW about her new LP Wanderer, her ideas of femininity, and the art of covering Rihanna. BY ILANA KAPLAN

CHAN MARSHALL HAS A TALE FOR everything. The 46-year-old artist, better known as singer-song- writer Cat Power, tells anecdotes with such meticulous detail that you feel like you’re a part of her story—a trait that has made her one of the most remarkable indie-rock voices of the past 20 years. She brings the same narra- tive depth to Wanderer, her 10th studio album and first since 2012. “I wanted to create something that was minimal in balance but would remind me that

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the song, Marshall confronts common obstacles for women in a male-dominated world. “My whole life, I always felt more vul- nerable in dresses because of the social standards put on us as women,” Marshall explains. “I think that’s why it was important for me to write ‘Woman,’ espe- cially after becoming a mother.” Meet the Boy Band The record’s biggest surprise, though, is her jazzy interpreta- oftheFuture tion of a Rihanna track. After Raucous live shows, raw lyrics, a rabid fan base. is not a message but a totem,” RiRi’s Unapologetic came out, An inside look at the 13-member, internet-bred Marshall was visiting her home- says Marshall. On her previous crew Brockhampton. BY REBECCA HAITHCOAT efort, Sun, she faced industry town of Atlanta where an ex was pressure to appeal to a wider living. She pulled up to his house audience. But instead of acqui- with “Stay” playing on the radio. escing, Marshall left Matador, the “I remember I was so happy to A DECADE AGO, SELF-DESCRIBED HIP-HOP BOY BAND label she had called home since see him, and he said, ‘It’s my Brockhampton would’ve remained tucked away in an 1996, and began plotting a new girl,’ ” she recalls. “I thought he obscure corner of the internet. It’s 2018, though, and course. During that time, she also meant me, but he meant discovered she was pregnant; for Rihanna. It made me feel s---ty.” the hip-hop collective that was conceived on a message seven months she remained on But years later, after Marshall board in 2010 has captured the lonely hearts of not-so- the road, until deciding to rent a had her son, she changed her hip kids across the country. “Grime and electronic tune, having heard “Stay” on the home in Miami where she could music out of London inspired us, but it’s just new,” record and have her child. way to a karaoke bar. “That song Marshall’s attempt at balance came on and I was just bawling says rapper Merlyn Wood of the group’s sound. on Wanderer stemmed from her in the back of the taxicab, and I Their multigenre output, energetic live shows, and own whirlwind experiences didn’t understand why,” she says. de facto leader Kevin Abstract’s lyrics about being growing up. “I was in 13 schools While she didn’t feel any con- openly gay—a rarity in rap—have sparked breathless for 10 years,” she says. That tran- nection to the ex, the song stuck sience led her to understand with her. When she got to the profiles of the group. But this past May, their charmed that, unbound by place, she had karaoke spot, she played “Stay” existence was threatened. Several women leveled accu- to look for fleeting moments of 16 times, and would later record sations of sexual misconduct at member Ameer Vann. stability. But, at 22, Marshall it for the new album. started touring and continued Like on the rest of Wanderer, The news rocked the crew, who ousted Vann and can- traveling without being tethered Marshall funnels her own memo- celed a tour. The tumult would’ve sunk most newcomers, to one group of people. Years ries into her version of the but Brockhampton did what they do best—bared their later, those experiences would Rihanna single, emerging on the souls on a new record, Iridescence. inspire Wanderer. other side more grounded than In addition to documenting her before. Two decades into her “Most people would’ve just quit,” Abstract says. “But own personal journey, the new career, she is still the same pow- we have each other to lean on, so we’re not being vul- record delves into her relationship erful, poignant songwriter she’s nerable in front of the world by ourselves.” with the idea of femininity, which always been—something she, The guys have long maintained that Brockhampton has evolved. A self-professed somewhat surprisingly, finally tomboy, Marshall developed a acknowledges herself. “I never are more family than band. Indeed, the ordeal with fascination with the concept of really accepted that that’s what I Vann seems to have cemented their bond and sparked what being feminine means— do,” she says. “And I think [with] a surge of creativity, culminating in Iridescence. “When something that played into the this record, after I had my child, you go through something with a group of people, it

BROCKHAMPTON: ASHLAN GREY record’s first single, “Woman.” In I realized, ‘This is who I am.’ ” brings you closer,” says producer Romil Hemnani. “I’m super thankful.” dance-floor bop. B+ —AS

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Eric Church

TITLE Desperate Man

LABEL EMI Records Nashville | GENRE Country

REVIEW BY Sarah Rodman @SarahARodman

THERE’S A PARTICULAR STRAIN of contemporary country music that exhibits an element that isn’t audible but is easily detectable: fear. Whether the hesitancy is over exploring musical edges, exposing true vulnerability, or offering the sense that a singular spirit was poured into the grooves, it is real. Despite a title that could indicate other- wise, this is not an affliction from which Eric Church’s Desperate Man suffers. The North Carolina native does all of the above with grit, good humor, and heart. He also shows impeccable taste in col- laborators, including returning producer Jay Joyce. Revered singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard lent a hand co-writing the Stonesy title track. Travis Meadows and Jeremy Spillman helped pen the chilling “The Snake.” With images of slithering creatures of differing stripes but similar nefarious aims, the song is a wearily apt commentary on current events. Elsewhere there is opposites-attract humor (the soulfully seductive “Heart Like a Wheel”), reflections on knowing what you don’t know (“Some of It”), and acous- tic nostalgia (“Hippie Radio”). When fear does show its face on Desperate Man, it’s in surrendering to love (“Hangin’ Apocalypse D Around”). Scary decisions like that usually Tenacious D are on a mission to prevent Earth’s destruction with yield the most satisfying results. A– a new politically charged concept album and animated YouTube series, both titled Post-Apocalypto. The comedic duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass reveal how Trump’s America informed  their filthiest, most socially conscious opus yet. BY DAN REILLY Desperate Man is Eric Church’s sixth How did the cartoon and album the world needed saving, and studio LP come about? that’s what this is: our bid to CHURCH: RICK DIAMOND JACK BLACK When Trump came save the world. down the escalator [to announce his run for presidency]—that’s Do you think all the penis jokes when we realized we had to will take away from the serious- abandon the concept we were ness of the message? /GETTY IMAGES working on for our new album. KYLE GASS It separates the critics I said, “No, we’re going full-on from the fans. postapocalyptic musical BLACK Also, there’s not really any comedy, animated.” We felt like jokes. There are a lot of dicks, but that’s the weird, nightmarish world we live in.

Were there any rock-musical  influences that you guys ( CClockwise fromf left ) Roxette;t Janet explored for this? Jackson; thhe Rolling BLACK The obvious is the great Stones; YYoung MC rock operas of old: the Who’s Tommy and Pink Floyd’s The Wall. We wanted to be mentioned in CHART FLASHBACK the same breath as those. There’s others that I’m not gonna mention, ’cause I don’t want to be in the same breath as them. GASS You forgot to mention Sgt. Pepper’s with the Bee Gees. BLACK No, no, no. See, you’re ruining it, Kyle. My OCD only allows three. The Wall, Tommy, 1989 and Post-Apocalypto. I think our movie kicks ass on The Wall and Tommy, by the way. The albums are f---ing great, but let’s be hon- This week 29 years ago on the Hot 100, Janet missed her man, the Rolling Stones est: Both of those movies are mixed emotions, and moves were busted by Young MC. BY LEAH GREENBLATT pretty s---ty. That’s where we win.

This could be your path to an 1 JANET JACKSON 6 NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK “MISS YOU MUCH” “COVER GIRL” EGOT. GASS AndwehaveaGrammy.So, Tell your mama, tell your friends, tell Unclear why they had Donnie sing one all we need is an EOT. anyone whose heart can comprehend: of the boppiest Tiger Beat ditties on This kitten is smitten. (Maybe don’t tell the block when he already looked like You have Elon Musk, the KKK, your English teacher, though; “Miss” the guy most likely to sell you weed in Donald Trump Jr., and Johnny gets pretty squishy on the adverbs.) A– the parking lot, but this song is fun.B+ Depp as characters. How much 2 THE CURE 7 AEROSMITH did you have to change the “LOVESONG” “LOVE IN AN ELEVATOR” story to keep up with the news? Four keyboard notes are about all it “Love” landed somewhere between GASS Nothing. This is a great takes to make you want to put eyeliner scandalous and educational for the example of life imitating art. We all over your 8-year-old face and get MTV kids watching at home—and super did the stuf a year ago, and now goth-married to singer Robert Smith in disappointing for the teenage boys it’s coming true.

R: PAUL NATKIN/GETTY IMAGES his secret stalagmite cave of dreams. A haunting the elevator banks at Macy’s. A– Is creating a political piece like 3 TEARS FOR FEARS 8 BABYFACE this therapeutic for you? “SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE” “IT’S NO CRIME” GASS There’s just times in history What makes love seeds grow? A big- Most Babyface jams are gentle bubble when the bulls--- starts piling bang intro; a sweet falsetto; and some baths; this one is naughtier—like go so high that if you’re not doing business about loving sunflowers that ahead and take your bath, girl, but he’ll something, to use the cliché, really isn’t specific enough to be helpful, meet you in there with the loofah. B+ you’re part of the problem. from a strict gardening perspective. B+ We’re just doing what we do 9 YOUNG MC and then applying it towards “BUST A MOVE” 4 ROXETTE what we believe. “LISTEN TO YOUR HEART” A smorgasbord of obscure samples, a The unisex hair spikes on Swedish duo chorus that’s basically uh huh, hey, yeh, And it’s so much more pointed Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle were oh, and a 22-year-old nobody had ever than anything else you’ve done. like an EKG readout of the way their heard of rapping about checked libidos GASS Oh God, yeah. For sure. soaring ballads made you feel: so moody and new tuxedos? Yes, please. A+ BLACK It’s funny, because this and wistful, but with amazing bangs. A– thing that we’re doing is our 10 EXPOSÉ “WHEN I LOOKED AT HIM” most mature in that we’ve 5 THE ROLLING STONES “MIXED EMOTIONS” Latin freestyle had the best talent pool.

/GETTY IMAGES, JACKSON: HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES, YOUNG MC, JAGGE evolved to this point where we can talk about political things. It’s always touchy when hugely famous Exposé brought all the melodies and But it’s also our most immature rock bands enter their Dad Phase. The heartbreak of a great ’60s girl group, plus in that it’s so f---ing adolescent. Rolling Stones pull it of pretty well on the synthesizers, spandex bike shorts, The sense of humor and the “Emotions,” though, not counting some and Ogilvie home perms your parents B+ A drawings are straight from a of Mick Jagger’s athleisure wear. were never going to let you get.

ROXETTE: DENIS O’REGAN 13-year-old’s sketchbook.

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fans know that’s barely a spoiler.) Commendatore launches with a bizarre, beautiful prologue about a faceless man hop- ing to have his portrait painted, before zigzagging into familiar terrain: A wife, dis- satisfied and having an affair, decides to leave her husband. The husband—an unnamed artist and our narrator/hero— moves into a house in the mountains that a famous painter, Tomohiko Amada, once lived in. The narrator starts coming back to life. He hopes to create art for himself again, to reclaim his vision. But when he finds an Amada painting hidden in the attic, things get weird, fast. A wealthy Gatsby-esque neighbor named Menshiki offers him a huge sum for the discovery. They’re soon drawn into a magical odyssey involving a 13-year- old girl, her aunt, and a mysterious well resting just outside the Amada home. Murakami crafts notoriously windy novels, but he’s an equally gifted short-story writer. That quality is evident in Commenda- tore—even if it clocks in at around 700 pages—in the way it develops in slow, messy, often dazzling sections that build on one another. Murakami calls Commendatore his Killing Commendatore homage to The Great Gatsby, and the compar- BY PAGES GENRE REVIEW BY isons are obvious. Yet he aligns with F. Scott anfield97 Haruki Murakami 704 Fiction David Canfield @davidc Fitzgerald in subtler, deeper ways, too—in the searching quality of the prose. The book’s missteps, from painfully dry historical analy- HARUKI MURAKAMI STICKS TO WHAT HE KNOWS IN sis to some offensive treatment of the female Killing Commendatore: poignant middle-aged characters, undermine its affecting melan- male ennui, asides on cats roaming and spaghetti cook- choly. But for as wild and unwieldy as ing, lengthy stretches of mundanity punctuated by Commendatore gets, Murakami executes his flashes of the surreal. Oh, and a two-foot-tall man steps mission with metatextual ingenuity. He out of a painting and into the real world. (Murakami reveals how an artist sees the world. B+

THE 10-WORD SYNOPSIS >The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Now it’s Annie’s turn to go to heaven. Tears ensue.

56 EW.COM OCTOBER 12, 2018 BETWEEN Page to Screen Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of a series THE based on Robyn Carr’s best-selling Virgin River books. LINES Scare Tactics Goosebumps author R.L. Stine will return to his comics roots with a new original graphic-novel series, Just Beyond.

5 Books to Read if You 3 QUESTIONS FOR Loved A Star Is Born LAUREN OLIVER Gaga for this film about romance caught in the crosshairs of fame? Here’s The popular YA novelist how to stay far from the shallow a little while longer. BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER (Before I Fall, the Delirium trilogy, Panic) focuses on frenemies in her 1 (see review, page 34), Wind set, she is named latest, Broken Things. this steamy novel is Carole Lombard’s BY DAVID CANFIELD WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW equally heartrending. assistant—just as the ABOUT CHARLIE OUTLAW actress is beginning by Leah Stewart 3 her tempestuous, tragic Broken Things is a mys- This poignant investiga- A STAR IS BORN: JUDY afair with Clark Gable. tery thriller, but it’s about tion of stardom and its GARLAND AND THE female friendship. What costs gender-swaps the FILM THAT GOT AWAY 5 do you hope to convey? by Lorna Luft Star Is Born narrative. A LIFE OF BARBARA It’s a toxic intimacy. I’ve and Jeffrey Vance Josie Lamarr hit cult STANWYCK: STEEL- had those friendships in my life that become the status with a TV show in The 1954 version of A TRUE 1907–1940 her 20s but has never center of your world, but Star Is Born is hallowed by Victoria Wilson at the same time, you can since found a role to rival territory for Garland fans: lose your connection to it, while her boyfriend, It was her comeback film When A Star Is Born reality. It’s like clinging to Charlie, disappears in the and most soul-baring was first released in 1937, each other as you drown. wake of his rising fame. performance. Garland’s rumors swirled that it daughter Lorna Luft was based on the real-life 2 partnered with film marriage of actress You’re turning Panic Stanwyck and her hus- THE IDEA OF YOU historian Jefrey Vance for into a potential series for band, vaudeville actor by Robinne Lee an unprecedented look at Amazon. What’s it like the making of the film. Frank Fay. Their careers adapting your own book? Solène, 39, takes her followed similar reverse Writing a novel is such a daughter to meet the 4 trajectories, with Stan- solitary experience, so wyck’s star rising as Fay teen’s favorite boy band A TOUCH OF STARDUST it’s really nice to watch and makes a connection sank into alcoholism. by Kate Alcott [those involved] find their with band member Hayes, way into the world and 20. For those who can’t When wide-eyed Julie see them relate to it. But resist Bradley Cooper and Crawford loses her job it’s a big learning curve,  Lady Gaga’s chemistry on the Gone With the for sure. [Laughs] Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born You’ve been writing in the YA space for years. What’s the main appeal? It’s a very important time for people to see them- selves reflected in stories. Those [teenage] years are really transformative, and to be able to process them through a variety : WARNER BROS PICTURES of fictional representa- tions is critical. A STAR ISA STAR BORN

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Bitter Orange

BY Claire Fuller

PAGES 317 | GENRE Historical Fiction

TANA REVIEW BY David Canfield @davidcanfield97 FRENCH The best-selling author of BITTER ORANGE TWISTS AND the Dublin Murder Squad series tries her luck with bends, arouses and agitates, like a her first stand-alone seductive nightmare. A demented novel, The Witch Elm. memory play—Atonement by way of The Lit- BY DAVID CANFIELD tle Stranger—it unfurls a love triangle that What inspired this story? hurtles toward tragedy. In the present day, The Witch Elm I’d been thinking a lot our unreliable narrator, Frances, recounts about the connection her stay at Lyntons, a decaying English between luck and empa- BY Tana French thy. If you’re too lucky, it country mansion she’d been tapped to PAGES 509 | GENRE Mystery canbeveryeasytolack assess in the summer of ’69. At that time, the ability to believe that Frances is a dowdy, repressed 40ish REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats other people’s lived expe- woman—thrust into the world after the rience is real—if it doesn’t match up with yours. death of her domineering mother. DO LUCKY PEOPLE EVER REALLY At Lyntons, Frances meets a vibrant cou- know how lucky they are? Toby This is your first stand- ple, Peter and Cara, who are staying in the Hennessy has the decency to real- alone novel. Why now? room below her; amid the boredom and heat, I didn’t want to fall into ize that his life has been buoyed by the gentler the trap of writing the the trio soon drink wine and smoke cigarettes breezes of fate, “the satisfying sense that same book over and over. late into the night. But Peter and Cara also everything was going exactly as it should.” I’ve always had detec- privately confide in Frances, leaving her But he is also, of course, the creation of one tives for narrators. I liked entranced and—as the secrets stop adding the idea of seeing the of the premier voices in contemporary crime story from the other side: up—unsettled. Claire Fuller (Swimming Les- fiction—and Tana French wouldn’t invent a someone who considers sons) enhances the mystery lusciously: sights guy like Toby just to watch him spend long detectives to be a terrify- of ghosts, smells of overripe fruit, echoes of ing and tricky force. brunch-y Saturdays with his lovely girlfriend Cara wailing. You’ll ask, beguiled: What’s and move steadily up the ladder in gallery PR. What do you love about really going on here? Bitter Orange fore- By the time an unidentified human skull writing mysteries? shadows doom heavily, but it’s still savage—a is found beneath the titular witchy tree of Most animals, if they run promise that things can get only worse. B+ into something mysteri- the Hennessy family estate, silent and bony ous, they don’t really and clotted with dirt, Toby’s golden-boy aura care. “Can I eat it? Is it has already hit a wall, hard. Brutally attacked dangerous?” If the by home invaders after a night out at the answer to both of those is no, they’ll wander of. But pub, he’s become a broken man, scared and humans will stay. [Myster- scarred. And the skull is just one more frag- ies] are crucial to our ment of his past—or at least the story of the sense of self because past he’s always told himself—to unearth. humans are, in a way, the biggest mystery around. Stepping outside her Dublin Murder Squad series for the first time, French structed a sort of discursive, densel family drama disguised as a myster protagonist who is, purposefully timely paragon of a certain kind of FRENCH: JESSICA RYAN male privilege. The final revelation are startling, even if they don’t quite 500-page length; a whodunit far mo rable for the why than the who. B

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