WE MADE A LIST AND CHECKED IT TWICE! THE MUST-SEE M IES, TV&MORE P. 16 NOVEMBER 16, 2018 #1537 “Yet I still can’t get Hamilton tickets.” RETURNS A star is reborn! Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are practically perfect in every way in this delightful sequel. BY MARC SNETIKER EW 11 16 2018 R E V P I E Y W A D 2 I 0 L 1 O 8 H FEATURES NEWS AND COLUMNS 16 Mary Poppins 4 Returns Sound Bites Emily Blunt shoots for the stars in this 6 delightful sequel. The Must List BY MARC SNETIKER 12 22 Entertaining More Holiday Weekly Musts Tips for hosting 10 movies to see Thanksgiving. during the holidays, plus the TV, 14 music, and books News to look forward to! The major titles BY EW STAFF and topics of the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. 60 The Bullseye REVIEWS 36 Movies 42 TV 52 Music 56 Books Emily Blunt photo- graphed exclusively for EW on Oct. 27, 2018, in Savannah ON THE COVER Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack and Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins Returns. Courtesy of Disney. FOLLOW US ON: EW Radio SiriusXM Channel 105 @EntertainmentWeekly @EntertainmentWeekly @EW @EWSnaps PHOTOGRAPH BY BY BENEDICTNAME HERE EVANS MONTH XX, 2018 EW.COM 1 THE WEEK’S BESTBEST TWEEET OF THE WEEK Chrissy Teigen @chrissyteigen “if talking about my plans to work out were an actual workout, I would be ... the rock” —The Lip Sync Battle personality, “Thought I’d end up with wishing she had Dwayne Johnson’s gym work ethic Sean/But he wasn’t a match/ Wrote some songs about Ricky/ Now I listen and laugh/Even almost got married/And for Pete, I’m so thankful/Wish I could say thank you to Malcolm/ ’Cause he was an angel.” —Ariana Grande, singing about her exes, on “thank u, next” “Oh no, I’m not Seth Rogen, I’m actually Jonah Hill.” —JoJonahnah HillHill, beingbein mistaken for his frequent costar, on Satuurday Nigght Live “And that’s not TEIGEN: JIM SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE; GRANDE: AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN/FILMMAGIC; the same guy?” —Candice Bergen, welcoming the wrong guy WIREIMAGE; to the Five-Timers Club “What in the Disney NIGHT LIVE SATURDAY hell is this?” —Sara (Caity Lotz), reacting to the appearance of a fairy godmother, on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow : WILL HEATH/NBC; “Do you even look at my Instagram? 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The What to Talk About With Your Family at Thanksgiving Besides Politics Edition THE TOP 10 THINGS WE LOVE THIS WEEK Edited By | MARC SNETIKER @MARCSNETIKER ROSE B The Australlian actress, 39, breaks down her hilariously human performance with EW’s David Canfield The script shows a dif- ferent side of fostering than what’s typical in movies. What was your reaction to reading it? I’d just had a baby, so I was super emo- tional. [Laughs]Iread the script and was just sobbing. It was so moving and heart- breaking. I’d never seen anything or read anything like it. What kind of research did you decide to do? I had a fantastic dinner with an incredible group of mothers who’d fos- tered children. Some had foster kids in LARRY BUSACCA/GETTY IMAGES transition, some had INSTANT FAMILY a mix of biological and adopted—from Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg wade through the emotional all walks of life. I’ll never forget it. chaos of adopting foster kids in this rare heartfelt studio comedy The amazing thing that earns its laughs and tears while taking an empathetic was how much we look at an oft-overlooked subject. (Nov. 16) laughed. They were 6 EW.COM NOVEMBER 16, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN INZANA 10 WORDS ON SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE’S 10TH ANNIVERSARRY Behold,o an ancient relic: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. so engaging and so willing to laugh at the hardness of it, the challenge and the joy. It was such a spe- cial experience. They were so candid—and kind, to let me ask my zillion questions. Of course, the trick IMAGINE of showing the joy of foster care is not making light of it, either. Did you strug- gle with finding that? I was absolutely ner- vous. I was worried about the tone: how far to push it, how to ground it in reality. It was hard. This was ORIGINS [writer-director Sean Anders’] story, so I PLAY THIS LIST! trusted him. I knew The recent zeitgeist splash of Imagine Dragons how passionate he frontman (turned documentarian) Dan Reynolds has was. We’d push the only raised the profile of the ubiquitous rock comedy and then band—the most streamed of 2018, in fact. With pull back. It was very 1 "MACHINE" collaborative, finding their anthemic, ethereal fourth studio album, 2 "BAD LIAR" that line. Because Origins, it’s not dificult to imagine them holding it is a very fine line. on to that record for the rest of the year. 3 "WEST COAST" You do have a harshly realistic scene with Mark, where your characters talk about what a terrible mistake they might have made. Yes! I remember agonizing about that. It took such a long time to figure that one out. I was asking, “What am I really say- ing? Why is it funny? How should I play it?” This is being released just in time for the holidays—why is this : ISHIKA MOHAN/FOX SEARCHLIGHT a great movie for the season? It’s about families and what they look SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE SLUMDOG like. There’s no one way a family should look. They’re of all sizes, all creeds. So it’s genuinely meant for every- body. At a time when families are being torn apart, this is about a family trying IMAGINE DRAGONS: ERIC RAY DAVIDSON; RAY ERIC DRAGONS: IMAGINE to come together. NOVEMBER 16, 2018 EW.COM 7 CARLY RAE JEPSEN “PARTY FOR ONE” If 2017’s “Cut to the Feeling” was but a taste of the new music brewing in Jepsen’s mind since her 2015 pop epic E•MO•TION, this bouncy ode to self-love is catchy confirmation that Jepsen’s long-delayed but long-anticipated next album is surely worth the wait. SURVIVOR This season’s David vs. Goliath outing is one of the best in years, thanks to an electric cast, brutal weather, and a bizarre subplot involving a Members Only jacket. With smart risks in editing and storytellng, season 37 is paying of in a big way—like, million-dollar big. (CBS, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.) 8 EW.COM NOVEMBER 16, 2018 JEPSEN: C FLANIGAN/WIREIMAGE; SURVIVOR: ROBERT VOETS/CBS 3 BIRTHDAY BUDDIES (NOV. 12) Anne HathawayHathawa |R yan Goslin g | Tonya Harding QUESTI WI The longtime host SEDUCTION tells EW’s Dalton Ross why season 37 has by Karina Longworth created such a storm With a subtitle like Sex, Lies, and Star- What’s been your big- dom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, gest takeaway about Longworth—host of the Old Hollywood this season so far? podcast You Must Remember This— ofers a compelling and relevant This is one of the must-read that examines gender, sex, best groups of 20 and power in classic cinema through people we’ve ever the lens of the life, loves, and many assembled. And the lusts of the infamous director. theme in this case is really culturally rel- evant. I think there’s SCREEN PARTNERS a subliminal, uncon- Seduction scious thing happen- Forget wine: Longworth suggests pairing your read-through with these notable golden-age movies. ing about underdogs BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER versus favorites that we’re all going through right now. RED DUST (1932) Who have been some of your favorite Hughes’ discovery Jean Harlow stars opposite Clark Gable as : RKO/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK players this season? TTY IMAGES; GRANDE: KEVIN MAZUR/ ARIANA a fallen woman caught in a love Christian is going to triangle with Gable and Mary Astor. Longworth cites the film KITTY FOYLE stand out because as the clearest example of he’s just so unique GRANDE Harlow’s persona as “someone and peculiar and fun "THANK U, NEXT" who is overtly sexual, but also and heartwarming really goodhearted.” and an underdog. The 25-year-old pop star put a AVAILABLE ON iTunes/YouTube All these things that cap on her whirlwind summer we want to see in love story with ex-fiancé Pete : SNAP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK;: ourselves: potential Davidson by surprise-releasing and possibility. this sultry single, a deliciously CAUGHT (1949) CAUGHT And there’s John the downbeat recounting of all the wrestler. When you’re lessons she learned from her doing David vs. This film noir, which director exes. The bigger surprise? From Max Ophüls made as revenge for Goliath, you gotta Ari’s empoweredlyrics, even getting fired from a Hughes have a guy that liter- the most bitter ex-lover could project, is a thinly veiled picture ally looks like he was learn a thing or two.