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NOVEMBER 9, 2018 EW.COM 1 THE WEEK’S BESTBEST TWEET OF THE WEEK

Mindy Kaling @mindykaling

Well, better go do my ritual whenever the @RedSox win the #WorldSeries. Fire up old Fever Pitch! Brb! —The Boston native, celebrating her hometown “You’re a catch. You’re an team’s championship with a viewing of the educated, diabetes-free Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore rom-com woman in Lanford. There’s only two of us.” —Aunt Jackie (Laurie Metcalf), encouraging Darlene (Sara Gilbert) to date,, on The Conners KALING: MIKE COPPOLA/GETTY IMAGES/HULU; THE CONNERS : ROBERT TRACHTENBERG/ABC; “Being a wingman “I eat danger for for Mike these days breakfast!… I don’t. basically just means I prefer cereal. getting him some food.” Or croissants.” “I remember once —The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), admitting her —Pauly D, waking his friend up for pizza, Mom told me I ate ice real morning preferences, on Doctor Who on Jersey Shore: Family Vacation cream like a prostitute.” JERSEY SHORE: FAMILY VACATION —Claire (Julie Bowen), reminiscing after the death of her mother, on Modern Familyy : MTV; MODERN FAMILY

“Therer are plenty of other ASHCROFT/ABC; : ROBERT

people I could helpp. Like my ECCLES/NBC; good friend Ben Afleeck and his crippling addiction to back “Even presidents tattoos. Or my other goodg friend need to pee.” BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Matt Damon andhiss crippling —Claire (Robin Wright), lying about addiction to my friend DOCTOR WHO where she went, on House of Cards Ben Afleckk.” —Tahani (Jameela Jamil),name-dropping asalways, on The Goodo Place : BBC/BBC AMERICA; : ALEX BAILEY/FOX; : ALEX THE GOOD PLACE “I pity your wife if HOUSE OF CARDS you think six minutes is forever.” : ANDREW

—Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), arguing : NETFLIX with his label over the length of Queen’s new song, in Bohemian Rhapsody

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LUCAS HEDGES

The rising star, 21, chats with EW’s Piya Sinha-Roy about the unforgettable mark left by Boy Erased

How did you and Nicole Kidman work on capturing the real-life relationship between your character, Jared, and his mother, Nancy?

My mother saves my life in this film. The love that me and Nicole share for each other, I really felt we had so much fun together. I felt really understood and cared for by her, and when we got together, the world softened around us. The only moments in which I’m settled [are] when I’m with my mom, when I’m with Nicole. BOY ERASED What does this movie show about the flawed practice of gay- Lucas Hedges stuns in this hugely afecting drama, based SLOAN LAURITS on Garrard Conley’s memoir, about a teenager forced conversion therapy? into gay-conversion therapy by his religious parents, played It reminds us that it’s with power by Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman. (Nov. 2) happening all over

4 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 After you finish House of Cards on Nov. 2, vote in the midterm elections on Nov. 6! (Head to vote.org for info.)

America, and it’s something that I, living in a little bubble in New York City, was completely unaware of. It gives you a very specific HOUSE OF CARDS look into the teach- ings of a place like this, in which there Netflix’s flagship series ends its six-season run with are teachers who really have no idea Claire (Robin Wright) in the Oval Ofice and Frank what they’re doing (Kevin something?) dead. Then it gets even wilder: and their only quali- Adding to the drama are a pair of afluent siblings fications are they’ve (Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear) who do their been through the damnedest to get control of the White House. FYI, program, which isn’t founded on any you do not want to pick a fight with Claire. (Nov. 2) principles that actually make sense.… The system feeds back into itself and ALUMNI only proves to twist RELATIONS the kids and adults Remember up even more inside. these stars If we can articulate who got a that experience, boost from we can tell people their time on the House of what’s going on. Cards campaign trail

L/GETTY IMAGES L/GETTY What are your thoughts on the conversation around gay characters on film and TV and the sexuality of the actors who get to portray those characters? COREY STOLL You’re right to bring (Peter Russo) that up because it’s a complicated conversation to have right now. What’s challenging about it is, the reason why LIX (2); BROSNAHAN: LEWIS JACOBS/NETFLIX; RIBS: IAIN BAGWEL I wanted to play this part was that I rec- MAHERSHALA ognized Garrard’s ALI story as being that (Remy Danton) of a true hero, of somebody who honestly climbs to the top of a mountain and slays the dragon House of Cards is unrivaled ferocious Shepherd clan, it in his own right. I at portraying the struggle boils down best to Claire’s can tell you that perfor D.C. power, and while battle with old prep-school RACHEL sonally when I see a this season ﬁnds Claire pal Annette Shepherd. In BROSNAHAN lot of LGBTQ stories, SCENE OF Underwood’s presidency episode 3, actresses Wright (Rachel Posner) there is a true hero- under attack from the and Lane lob deliciously THE SEASON ism that exists in passive-aggressive bombs them that I don’t see at each other during a in a lot of other fund-raiser powder-room places. So it seems break, then part ways : DAVID GIESBRECHT/NETFLIX (2); STOLL & ALI: MELINDA SUE GORDON/NETF to me these are with a curtsy-oﬀ right out the stories that we of a debutante ball. It’s a can learn the most riveting scene of cutting— RIBS from and be taught but always courteous— (BBQ ribs)

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ELLIE GOULDING & DIPLO “CLOSE TO ME”

Ethereal, earthy Ellie Goulding has returned, hooking up with megaproducer Diplo and Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee to lend her wispy vocals to this sleek and surprising electronic jam. Get familiar now—you’ll be hearing the inevitable dance remix on loop at your local gym any day now. FILMMAGIC; GOULDING: JUN SATO/WIREIMAGE; RAE SREMMURD: PARAS GRIFFIN/GETTY IMAGES; DIPLO: MICHAEL TRAN BODYGUARD about

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REALMS THRONE THE FOUR CRACKER AND Game of Thrones 1. THE NUT 2. MISTLETOE OUTBREAK alum Richard 3. SNOWGLOBE! HERE WE Madden takes EW’s GO AGAIN Ruth Kinane inside his new character’s 4. ELF ON THE SHELF: ORIGINS unsettled mind

Did your neck get tired scanning the surround- ings in every scene?

[Laughs] Yeah, lots of eye acting. It was quite nice to be a pas- senger again after it wrapped. I don’t need to be that paranoid. LEGACIES What was it about the character of David that The third series in the Vampire really drew you in? Diaries universe follows the supernatural students of the Sal- I loved the dichotomy. He’s constantly vatore School, a safe haven for wrestling himself. I young vampires, werewolves, and tried to take any politi- witches. The spellbinding teenage cal thought out of drama has way more romance, it and view it purely as a drama. I’m not a fun, and danger than your aver- Method actor, but if age high school show—not to you spend 12 hours mention the sweet nostalgia for “Don’t freak! a day in someone fans who still miss Mystic Falls. This book is else’s clothes, thinking (The CW, Thursdays, 9 p.m.) supposed to someone else’s STRANGER look worn and thoughts, speaking someone else’s words, torn.” So says a and [being] covered sticker on this in blood, it’s really THINGS: nifty guide hard to shake of. (by former EW editor Gina The response to the WORLDS show has been huge in McIntyre) filled the U.K. What has with juicy sto- that been like for you? TURNED ries and Easter Really exciting! Game eggs from of Thrones is the last the hit Netflix time I had weekly epi- UPSIDE show—which, sodes where everyone like the book, just waits together. feels like an With Game of Thrones, DOWN people would say, artifact straight : NETFLIX “Tell me what’s going by Gina McIntyre out of the ’80s. to happen next!” With Bodyguard, people say, “Don’t tell me!” STRANGER THINGS If David had been Robb Stark’s bodyguard, would he have survived the Red Wedding?

Eh, I don’t know. David : MILLER MOBLEY/THE CW; MILLER : does seem to be a bit of a s--- body-

LEGACIES guard, doesn’t he? BIRTHDAY BUDDIES (NOV. 2) MarieAntoinette | DavidSchwimmer BARBRA STREIS WALLS

Apparently all it takes to get Babs to write new music is an unhingedhinged republic. Walls, her first album of mostly originaal songs since 2005, is a somber but spirited record of unbridled Streisand rage, with obvious political targets (hmm, who could “Don’t Lie to Me” be about?) and plenty of powwer ballads worth screaming along to in your car. FALL OF A TITAN

In 2009, former Tennessee Titans QB Steve McNair was killed in what was deemed a murder-suicide by his young mistress—a case police declared so open-and-shut, it took them only four days to close it. Now Sports Illustrated steps into the true-crime podcast game with this invigorating reex- amination of McNair’s murder, interviewing his family, teammates, and a private investigator all determined to uncover the truth. (New episodes every Wednesday) POD GOALS EW’s Derek Lawrence proposes three other big sports scandals worth reinvestigating

SUPER BOWL MURDER

A year before he’d win the 2001 Super Bowl, Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis was arrested and charged with a murder that occurred the night after the big game in 2000. Lewis struck a plea deal, but questions remain—particularly about the disappearance of the suit he wore that night.

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Last month, Carolina Panthers receiver GREGG DEGUIRE/FILMMAGIC; Rae Carruth was released from prison after 18 years. In 1999 he hired a hitman to kill his pregnant girlfriend before going on the lam. She died, but the child, left with permanent brain damage, will turn 19 years old in November.

NBA STAR’S FOUL PLAY TITAN A OF FALL

Retired NBA All-Star Jayson Williams was playing with a shotgun in 2002 when it went of, resulting in the death of his limo driver. Having ini- : RONALD tially covered it up, Williams wouldn’t be handed a prison sentence until almost a decade later.

8 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 90 DAY FIANCÉ BARBRA BY THE One episode is enough to understand NUMBAHS the internet’s seemingly sudden obses- sion with TLC’s bizarre, beautiful reality NINE PERFECT series, now in its sixth season. The show tests the strength of long-distance lovers 57+5 who have 90 days to decide whether to Years in showbiz! STRANGERS ditch their American sweethearts before by Liane Moriarty their visas expire. In the era of peak TV, it’s 68.5 MILLION A Liane Moriarty novel pretty much a valley—but life is all about Albbums sold feels a little bit like an balance, isn’t it? (TLC, Sundays, 8 p.m.) woorldwide Adele record (please bear with this metaphor): There’s huge excitement 10 around the arrival of a new Grammmy Awards one, but a little snobbish- ness, too—as if making something that feels so 19 good to sink into (and is Major movie roles considered “woman’s work”) isn’t its own kind of art form. Moriarty’s latest, TTWO about guests—a disillu- Acadeemy Awards isioned romance novelist, (Fuunny Girl, an aging former athlete, A Star Is Born) a young couple in the midst of a marriage crisis—thrown together 34 at an Australian health Billbooard Top 10 resort, has no shortage of aalbums secrets, lies, and social intrigue. But at its core, it’s also just good old- OONE fashioned storytelling, Former dog naamed full of feeling and well- Saamanthaa wrought lines. You know, just like a great pop song. : TLC

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018 EW.COM 9 NEWS STORY Here Today, Gone Tomorrow After discussing her racially insensitive beliefs about blackface on the third hour of Today, host Megyn Kelly has been dropped from the morning show. BY LYNETTE RICE

The decision to boot Kelly, 47, from NBC’s crown jewel came just three days after, on air, she defended the use of blackface for Hallow- een costumes. Speaking with a panel of white commentators, Kelly tried to justify a decision by Real Housewives of New York star Luann de Lesseps to dress up as Diana Ross by saying, “Who doesn’t love Diana Ross? She wants to look like Diana Ross for one day, and I don’t know how that got racist on Halloween.” Kelly quickly issued an internal email apologizing for the comments and admitted she was “wrong” at the top of her show the next day, but her NBC brethren did not shy away from publicly criticizing her during the earlier hours of Today that same morning, and Lack also reportedly condemned her comments during a town-hall meeting with staffers. Though she parted ways with her talent agency after the now-infamous broadcast, at press time Kelly’s attorney was still fighting for a resolution with NBC that will likely involve her leaving the network entirely. Since she has more than a year left on her reported $69 million contract, Lack is probably hoping to avoid paying it off in full. Besides her blackface comment, Kelly certainly didn’t make a huge impact on her Megyn Kelly on the set of Today short-lived Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly (where she was outwitted by Vladimir Putin) HEN NBC NEWS CHAIRMAN ANDY LACK LURED or the third hour of Today: From September anchor Megyn Kelly away from Fox News in 2017 to September 2018, Kelly’s morning January 2017, he crowed about how excited show dropped 13 percent in viewers com- NBC was to have such an “exceptional jour- pared with what Tamron Hall and Al Roker nalist” who has “demonstrated tremendous earned during their underappreciated run. skill and poise, and we’re lucky to have her.” Morning TV is usually a place for smiles and Maybe not so much now: On Oct. 26, a coffee (and sometimes wine), but with Kelly

network spokeswoman issued a terse, one- adding to the list of recent high-proﬁle shake- INVISION/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK line statement saying their expensive ups—including the oustings of Today’s decision in the fall of 2017 to give Kelly the Matt Lauer and CBS This Morning’s Charlie third hour of Today had come to an end. Rose, the departure of Julie Chen from The “Megyn Kelly Today is not returning,” it said. Talk, and the cancellation of The Chew—it’s “Next week, the 9 a.m. hour will be hosted by starting to seem like there’s more job security other Today co-anchors.” on The Walking Dead. X

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( Clockwise from top ) Mj Rodriguez ono Pose, ChylerC Leigh ono Supergirl, Sean Hayes ono Will & Grace, Wil- son Cruz on Star Trek: DDiscovery, and Viola Davison How to Get Away With TV Murder While Hollywood faces criticism for lack of diversity, a new study findss LGBTQ representation at a record high on TV. BY PATRICK GOMEZ & NICK ROMANOO : JAN THIJS/CBS STAR TREK:STAR DISCOVERY

Adventures of Sabrina, Voltron: Legendary through what they were going through, and Defender, and GLOW, Netﬂix holds the same to be a fan of Star Trek and not really see

: ANDREW ECCLES/NBC; distinction among streaming platforms. yourself in that world can be heartbreaking Adding to a list of characters like How to for people. I’m so glad we get to relieve Get Away With Murder’s bisexual Annalise them of that a bit.” WILL & GRACE & WILL (Viola Davis) and Supergirl’s lesbian sister But the struggle for representation isn’t G Alex (Chyler Leigh), the past year saw the over: GLAAD reported that 31 of the 208 return of Will & Grace; the casting of TV’s first LGBTQ characters it counted on scripted transgender superhero (Nicole Maines on cable shows “will not return in next year’s GLAAD HAS A REASON TO BE, WELL, GLAD. Supergirl); Grey’s Anatomy’s first male gay report due to series cancellations...anthol- : DEAN BUSCHER/THE CW; With the release of its annual report card doctors, Nico (Alex Landi) and ogy series format, or characters on LGBTQ representation on television, Levi (Jake Borelli); and the first who have been written off.” SUPERGIRL the media-monitoring organization found openly gay relationship on a Star Luckily, Cruz’s character will that 8.8 percent of series-regular characters Trek show, between Star Trek: DR.CULBERIS return. “Our show takes place on broadcast TV identify as LGBTQ—a Discovery’s Culber (Wilson Cruz) PROOFTHAT in the future, and I think of

: BOB D’AMICO/ABC; BOB : record high, surpassing last year’s 6.4 per- and Stamets (Anthony Rapp). young people who are watching cent. Additionally, the findings show parity “We knew people had been WEWILLBE this show and are questioning between male and female LGBTQ repre- longing for an LGBTQ [Star HEREINTHE their own sexuality, or who are sentation; they also indicate, for the first Trek] story line for decades,” people of color, and can look at time in history, that more LGBTQ charac- says Cruz, who became the first FUTURE.WE this and hopefully derive some ters of color than white LGBTQ characters openly gay actor to play an HAVEALWAYS inspiration from the fact that are represented on broadcast television. openly gay character as a series there are no limitations to their HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER WITH AWAY GET TO HOW BEENHEREAND GLAAD also singled out Pose, the show regular when My So-Called Life WILLALWAYS possibilities,” says the actor. with the most transgender actors in series- premiered in 1994. “Fans share “Dr. Culber is proof that we will regular roles, as leading FX to having the stories about growing up in an BEHERE.” be here in the future. We have —WILSON

: JOJO WHILDEN/FX; highest number of LGBTQ roles across isolated area where they felt like CRUZ ON HIS always been here and will STAR TREK

POSE cable. And with original titles like Chilling they were the only person going CHARACTER always be here.”

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With the FINAL SEASON coming next year, how do you end the biggest show on air? Blood, sweat, and lots of tears.

In this EXCLUSIVE REPORT from the set, EW reveals the emotional story of creating the most impossible ﬁnale in television history.

JAMES HIBBERD @JamesHibberd

FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA @f_francavilla october 2017 THE TABLE READ

hen Kit Harington entered the conference room, he had no idea what to expect. The final season’s scripts had been emailed just a couple of days earlier, sending the Game of Thrones cast into a reading frenzy. Like millions of fans around the world, the actors had been waiting nearly a decade to learn their characters’ fates. The entire six-episode season arrived at once, protected by layers of password security. Sophie Turner flew through her copies in record time, quickly emailing the producers with her reaction. “It was completely overwhelming,” says the actress, who plays Sansa Stark. “After- wards I felt numb, and I had to take a walk for hours.” Others, like Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), first had to hurry home to get some privacy. “I turned to my best mate and was like, ‘Oh my God! I gotta go! I gotta go!’ ” she recalls. “And I completely flipped out.” She then settled in for a reading session with a cup of tea. “Genuinely the effect it had on me was profound,” Clarke adds. “That sounds insanely pretentious, but I’m an actor, so I’m allowed one pretentious adjective per season.” Peter Dinklage, meanwhile, broke his years-long habit of checking immediately to see if Tyrion Lannister survives. “This was the first time ever that I didn’t skip to the end,” he says. The cast then journeyed to Belfast to gather in a production office for the formal read-through. By then, everybody knew the tale that was about to unfold, with two notable exceptions: Davos Seaworth actor Liam Cunningham (“The f---ing scripts wouldn’t open, the double extra security!” he grouses) and Harington, who outright refused to read anything in advance. “I walked in saying, ‘Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know,’ ” Har- ington says. “What’s the point of reading it to myself in my own head when I can listen to people do it and find out with my friends?” So, yes: Jon Snow, quite literally, knew nothing. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss opened the pro- ceedings by asking the cast to refrain from doing anything during filming or afterward that might reveal even the tiniest spoiler (“Don’t even take a photo of your boots on the ground of the set,” one actor recalls being told). And then, seated around a long table WINTER IS HERE Sansa Stark scattered with a few prop skulls, the cast read aloud the final sea- (Sophie Turner) is preparing Winterfell son of Game of Thrones. for war in season 8 At one point, Harington wept. Later, he cried a second time. EW.COM

FULL CIRCLE (Left) Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) journey to Winterfell in season 8 to defend the realm; (below) the final season will have plenty of callbacks to the show’s pilot and first season

their final season, and it worried them. During its second season, the fantasy drama averaged 10.3 million viewers across all platforms. That was enough to ensure they were eventually going to finish the series, yet that inevitability september 2012 was also the problem. Because when they first pitched Thrones to IT’S IMPOSSIBLE HBO, they hadn’t exactly been honest. And now they were working every day toward a finale that couldn’t be done. “The lie we told is the show is contained and it’s about the characters,” Benioff said, which was at best half true. The epic fantasy After the table read, the Game of Thrones was very much about its ensemble cast, but it’s also the least cast spent 10 months filming just six episodes “contained” series ever made. “The worlds get so big, the battles of television. But the season actually took far get so massive.” longer to pull off. GoT’s final chapters have Author George R.R. Martin, whose series of novels forms the been in the works for years. To better under- basis for Thrones, had revealed to the duo the broad strokes of stand what’s ahead, let’s first go back to EW’s how his Song of Ice and Fire saga secretly ends, including a descrip- season 3 set visit and this never-before- tion of an epic final battle that’s been teased from the show’s revealed conversation with Benioff and Weiss... very first scene. But this climactic confrontation was miles out The production camper was like many of reach for a series that cost about $5 million per episode. others on the set—barren, cramped, cold, “We have a very generous budget from HBO, but we know utilitarian, with dirt on the floors from what’s coming down the line and, ultimately, it’s not generous muddy boots tramping in and out all day. enough,” Benioff said. The showrunners sat on the same side of So the producers had an idea: The final season could be six a tiny dinette booth while the wind com- hours long and released as three movies in theaters—just like ing off the Northern Ireland bay howled Martin’s best-known influence, The Lord of the Rings. That would outside. They were already thinking about give them the time and money needed to pull off their finale. “It’s (THIS PAGE AND OPPOSITE AND PAGE (THIS PAGE) HELEN SLOAN/HBO (3) LAST STAND Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage, what we’re working towards in a perfect world,” Weiss said. shown here behind number of Emmys. Only with that kind of the scenes in leverage do your towering ambitions begin The flaw in this plan was that HBO is about serving its sub- season 7 gazing at scribers, not taking gambles at the box office. Behind the scenes, a “dragon”) will try to look like reasonable requests. to maintain an the network brass gently shot down the movie idea. But they uneasy multi-House In fact, the GoT team was so successful alliance as they assured Benioff and Weiss that they would eventually have every- face off against the that the biggest sticking point was per- thing they needed to make a worthy final season. Army of the Dead suading HBO to halt the series. “We want Years later, the producers would strike a deal to spend two to stop where we—the people working on years on a shortened season 8 that would cost more than it, and the people watching it—both wish $15 million an episode. You could say HBO made good on its it went a little bit longer,” Benioff says. promise, and the showrunners happily give the network full “There’s the old adage of ‘Always leave credit. “They put their money where their mouths are—literally them wanting more,’ but also things start stuffed their mouth full of million-dollar bills, which don’t exist to fall apart when you stop wanting to be anymore,” Weiss quips. there. You don’t want to f--- it up.” But it’s probably more accurate to say that since season 3, That concern—a constant desire to con- Benioff and Weiss willed their ambitious final season into reality clude the show on the strongest possible the hard way: by growing Game of Thrones into the biggest show in note—is something we heard over and the world, a hugely profitable pop culture and merchandising sen- over from the cast and crew when we vis- HBO sation with more than 30 million viewers an episode and a record ited the GoT set for the last time. PREPARING FOR BATTLE Arya Stark (Maisie What’s being filmed here is episode 6, the series finale. Like Williams) and Harington going into the table read, I don’t know anything about Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline the final season’s story line. I look around at a meticulously con- Christie) sparred last season; both structed set that I’ve never seen on the show before. Several will get to test their skills for life- actors are performing, and I’m stunned: There are characters in and-death stakes the finale that I did not expect. I gradually begin to piece together in season 8 what has happened in Westeros over the previous five episodes and try not to look like I’m freaking out. There is nothing more that can be said about that scene at this time. A word about spoilers: The cast is used to keeping story secrets, yet they’ve never sounded so anxious about it. “There are moments where you don’t trust yourself to have this in your brain,” says Joe Dempsie, who plays Gendry. “You’re in posses- sion of something millions of people want to know. It’s such a bizarre feeling. And between now and when it comes out, I’m gonna be drunk at some point.” So far, at least, the team has done a far better job than in previous years at keeping the story under wraps, even while drunk. Theories abound online, but they are guesses. A purported script leaked to Reddit, but here’s a way to spot a fake—real Game of Thrones scripts don’t say “Game of Thrones” on them. Production march 2018 documents stating which actors were required to be where and THE FINAL SEASON when used code names (Clarke, for example, was “Eldiss”). “It gets highly confusing when you need to remember who is who,” Turner says. Benioff and Weiss’ next gig is writing a new Star Wars film, and rriving at the studio gate, I’m they received some final-season secrecy tips from The Last Jedi halted by a guard and asked to director Rian Johnson and producer Kathleen Kennedy. “They’ve scan my badge, a security upgrade given us a lot of hints about how to lock things down, things we never from past years. Then I’m asked would have thought of or didn’t know were possible,” Weiss says. for my phone, and the guard cov- At some point HBO will release a proper final-season trailer ers its cameras with stickers—that’s new too. revealing more. Until then, here’s some basic setup we can tell /HBO Along with an HBO escort, I walk inside an you: Season 8 opens at Winterfell with an episode that contains enormous hangar that’s so large it’s where plenty of callbacks to the show’s pilot. Instead of King Robert’s

HELEN SLOAN HELEN the RMS Titanic was painted. procession arriving, it’s Daenerys and her army. What follows is a

EW.COM MASTER- MINDS Showrunners Dan Weiss and filming a battle. Media outlets around the David Benioff on the set; for world ran stories saying the final season’s bat- years, the duo’s ambitious final- tle took twice as long as the 25-day shoot for season plan season 6’s climactic Battle of the Bastards. This seemed almost impossible to wildly understated what really happened. The pull off 55 nights were only for the battle’s outdoor scenes. Filming then moved into the studio, where Sapochnik continued shooting the same battle for weeks after that. “It’s brutal,” Dinklage says. “It makes the Battle of the Bastards look like a theme park.” The battle doesn’t have just one focus, either, but rather intercuts between multiple characters involved in their own survival story lines that each feels like its own genre. “Having the largest battle doesn’t sound very exciting—it actually sounds pretty boring,” Benioff says. “Part of our challenge, and really, Miguel’s challenge, is how to keep that compelling.” To help pull it off, the production hugely expanded its set for the Stark ancestral home of Winterfell, adding a towering castle exterior, a larger courtyard, and more inter- connected rooms and ramparts. Strolling delicious intermingling of characters—some of whom have never around the new Winterfell is like wandering a previously met, many who have messy histories—as they all sprawling, immersive medieval resort com- prepare to face the inevitable invasion of the Army of the Dead. pared with its previous Days Inn-like scale. “It’s about all of these disparate characters coming together The Winterfell expansion is just a small to face a common enemy, dealing with their own past, and example of how every element of the produc- defining the person they want to be in the face of certain death,” tion was heightened this year in an effort to “not coexecutive producer Bryan Cogman says. “It’s an incredibly f--- it up.” Scenes that normally might take a day emotional, haunting, bittersweet final season, and I think it to film now took several. “[Camera] checks take honors very much what George set out to do—which is flipping longer, costumes are a bit better, hair and this kind of story on its head.” makeup a bit sharper—every choice, every con- How these fan favorites get along drives much of the drama versation, every attitude has this air of ‘This is this season (okay, here’s one specific tease—Sansa isn’t thrilled it,’ ” Clarke says. “Everything feels more intense. that Jon bent the knee to his fancy new Targaryen girlfriend, at I had a scene with someone and I turned to him least not at first). and said, ‘Oh my God, I’m not going to do this The drama builds to a confrontation with the Army of the Dead ever again,’ and that brings tears to my eyes.” that’s expected to be the most sustained action sequence ever Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister, made for television or film. One episode—the same that Benioff agrees: “There was a great sense of grief. It’s and Weiss were concerned about pulling off so many years ago—is a huge sense of loss, like we’ll never have any- wall-to-wall action, courtesy of “Battle of the Bastards” director thing like this again.” Miguel Sapochnik. Last April a crew member posted online that More tears, like during the table read. Game of Thrones had wrapped 55 consecutive night shoots while You know, Harington will actually reveal why he cried that second time. “The second time was the very end,” Har- Everything feels more ington says. He’s referring to when the cast intense. Every choice, every reached the last page of episode 6, and what the showrunners wrote there at the bottom. conversation, every attitude “Every season, you read at the end of the has this air of ‘This is it.’” last script ‘End of Season 1,’ or ‘End of Season 2,’” Harington says. “This read ‘End of Game HBO of Thrones.’ ”

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MISTY COPELAND’S FIRST BALLET WAS THE NUTCRACKER,SO IT’S ONLY ON POINTE THAT SHE IS IN THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS (OUT NOV. 2).

by MAUREEN LEE LENKER @THEMAUREENLEE

In June 2015, Misty Copeland ballerina “dancing through found herself in a unique posi- archways of huge flats as they tion (no, it’s not fourth, second, or are raised from the ground.” fifth)—the first African-American Director Lasse Hallström says woman promoted to principal Copeland’s feature sequence dancer in the history of Ameri- opened his eyes to what it takes can Ballet Theatre. Now, at 36, to excel as a dancer. “To be close Copeland achieves another land- to that magical grace was a mark, making her movie debut rewarding experience, as was in The Nutcracker and the Four also [learning] the reality [of the] Realms, Disney’s big-screen painstaking work that comes adaptation of the world’s best- with doing a performance that’s known ballet, Tchaikovsky’s The so lithe and efortless.” This com- Nutcracker, and its source mate- bination of physical strength and rial, the E.T.A. Hofmann story endurance wowed Copeland’s “Nutcracker and Mouse King.” costars, including Foy and Keira Copeland calls her film role the Knightley (who plays the Sugar “icing on the cake” of her recent Plum Fairy). While both Hallström career success. and Foy gush about Copeland’s As the Ballerina Princess, grace, Knightley remembers Copeland reveals the history of a diferent side, encountering the Four Realms to child Clara Copeland grappling with the long (Mackenzie Foy) through a ballet schedule. “[She was] sitting there interlude. Rather than portraying with ice packs all over her feet,” one of the classic Nutcracker Knightley says. “Physically I can- characters, Copeland describes not imagine how strong you have her role as that of storyteller. to be to do that.” “I exist [in the film] just to share Copeland admits the unpre- this story,” she explains. dictable nature of moviemaking The studio and producer was her greatest (and most Mark Gordon approached Cope- unexpected) challenge. While land directly for the role; for actors often jump back into her, saying yes required zero a scene at a moment’s notice, fancy mental footwork. “It was dancers need warm-up time an incredible opportunity for built into their schedule—some- the ballet world to be recog- thing Copeland says they aren’t nized and appreciated in a way aforded on the average film set, we aren’t,” she says. “This will but The Nutcracker took pains live on forever, and people will to accommodate. “It was much be able to look at me and see longer hours than we’re used a brown ballerina in this movie. to. And not having a real idea At some point it’s not going to of what was next,” she explains. be this crazy thing; it’ll be, That’s “Having the shoes on for that long, what a ballerina looks like.” there were moments where it Copeland says she was was like, ‘I have to ice my feet. granted a significant amount Ihavetolaydownandputmy of creative control, selecting feet up,’ but at the same time her choreographer (the Royal you can’t take your costume of Ballet’s Liam Scarlett) and because you never know when weighing in on which portions you’re going to be on.” of Tchaikovsky’s score to use. The ballerina says she can’t Misty Copeland keeps fans on their toes; The resulting performance is wait for the world to see dancers ( below ) she dances through the Four Realms in one feature sequence a blend of traditional ballet styles portrayed as she knows and and, later, in a credits number typically associated with The loves them. “Most dancers are Nutcracker and more contem- not happy with how we’re repre- porary choreography, as she sented [on screen]. It’s this pirouettes and jumps through an exaggerated caricature, whether ornate theatrical setting—though it’s overly sexualized or every- she says she originally antici- one has an eating disorder [or] pated dancing on greenscreen. there’s so much conflict and Production designer Guy Hendrix jealousy. This feels like a very Dyas, however, created fully pure and beautiful representa- realized physical sets envisioned tion of us,” she reflects. “Even as Victorian-era pop-up cards people that don’t know ballet, that bring the Four Realms to they know The Nutcracker, and life in miniature. “I wanted to cre- it allows you to step outside ate a stage show that created an those stereotypes.… This is an amphitheater around Misty incredible opportunity to bring Copeland,” says Dyas, with the people into my world.” X COPELAND: REBECCA MILLER/DISNEY; THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS: LAURIE SPARHAM/DISNEY Jason Reitman and Hugh Jackman photographed exclusively for EW on Oct. 28, 2018, in Savannah For JASONTHE REITMAN FRONT RUNNER Gary Hart and how scandal led to his exit from the campaign. paired up for (out the Nov. very 6, timely on Election true-life Day), tale of former presidential

HUGH JACKMAN

and director By DEVAN COGGAN @ hopeful devancoggan

Photograph by BENEDICT EVANS @benedict_evans For his movie The Front Savannah Film Festival in Runner, Jason Reitman late October. “That seems like needed an actor who could the right step forward. I’m capture the all-American in.” The Front Runner follows charisma of Gary Hart, the Hart for nearly a month in charming Colorado senator 1987, from when he first who at one point was all but announced his presidential guaranteed to win the 1988 candidacy to when allega- actually, it is incredibly relevant. I’m Australian; I was Democratic nomination tions of his extramarital backpacking in 1987 and I don’t remember much of the for president. The director affairs torpedoed his politi- entire year, to be honest. [Laughs] But certainly for me found it in an Aussie: Hugh cal aspirations. (Ah, the days it starts to make sense, particularly in terms of press, Jackman. “If I woke up when alleged sexual impro- politics, and our lens on politicians. tomorrow and it was like, priety could have such an ‘They switched the law effect.) The result is a taut, Gary Hart is someone who is historically private so we can elect Hugh presi- timely drama about power, and closed off. How do you approach playing dent,’ [I’d say], yeah, yeah,” gender, and how much infor- someone who is so internal like that? Reitman tells EW with mation we really need to know JACKMAN I spoke to almost everyone who worked with a laugh during the SCAD about our elected officials. him quite intensely. Everyone described him as very mysterious, mercurial, enigmatic. These are all very exciting descriptions and also slightly terrifying when Jason, you first heard about this story on a Radio- you’re playing him. Because as an actor—me, anyway— lab episode about Gary Hart. What was it about you wanna know: What makes a person tick? What are him that made you say, “This is a movie”? the things in their way? What are their conflicts? He was JASON REITMAN I’m like anyone: I wake up in the a very interesting, incredibly intelligent mix of contra- morning, I look around me, and I go, “How the heck did dictions in a way. So that, to me, was a challenge I hadn’t we get here in 2018?” We’re all looking for stories that faced. And then, of course, I went and met Gary himself give us perspective. When I heard the Hart scandal and his family and spent time with him, ’cause I wanted story, I just thought, here was a thread to pull on. Here to understand what it was like to be around him. were all these seeds that led us into the conversations that we have all the time today about gender politics, Has Gary seen the movie? about the line between public and private lives, our REITMAN Yeah, he has. You cannot imagine how terrify- relationship between candidates and journalists. ing it is to make a movie and then bring it to the person HUGH JACKMAN It’s an amazing story about something the movie’s about. Particularly, you know, if I said to that I really knew nothing about. I think even if you’re you, “I’m gonna make a movie about your life. Let me a political science major, it could be seen as a blip. But pick the worst week.” [Laughs] It’s really scary! So I sat

24 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 ( From far left ) Jackman fields tough questions from Mamoudou Athie; Jackman and director Reit- man talk politics

MAMOUDOU ATHIE’s character in The Front Runner puts the freedom of the press to the test. By DEVAN COGGAN

As Hugh Jack- impact his Sundance indie man smiles and potential presi- Patti Cake$— frets as the dency. “It’s The Front Run- titular politician much like myself ner isachance outside, a ball of nerves, and he ﬁnally walked out and in The Front Run- and my acting,” to explore the we went for hot chocolates, which [is an] odd but true ner,Mamoudou Athie explains. current political detail. One of the first things that happened was he Athie stands “It doesn’t climate through in as the movie’s feel like just a a biographical asked his wife, “Do I really talk like that?” And [his ethical compass. job. It feels like tale, and how wife] Lee said, “Darling, that’s exactly how you speak.” The 30-year- avocationthat the politician- old actor plays demands that journalist How much were you thinking about the current AJ Parker, a [AJ] ask some relationship has young Washing- tough questions.” evolved since political climate? ton Post reporter For Athie— 1987. “Stories REITMAN Again, we start our days the same way every- (an amalgama- who was born in like The Front one else does. You wake up, you check your phone, and tion of other Mauritania and Runner feel very you’re like, “F---.” Right? [Laughs] But this was a script real-life report- broke out with useful and can ers) who grows Netflix’s The Get hopefully make that was written in 2015. It was written before the cur- close to Gary Down and the a diference in rent administration. So this was a moving target for us Hart on the cam- someone’s view- paign trail—only point,” he says.

MON/WIREIMAGE and something we were talking about all of the time. to learn about “It casts a light JACKMAN The #MeToo movement was sort of starting the married on how we got while we were ﬁlming. But from the moment I read the Hart’s alleged here today.” movie, what I loved about it was the way it saw things afairs.It’su. p from so many diﬀerent points of view—in particular, toAJandhis editors to decide from the women’s point of view. I love the way that whether Hart’s Jason [and writers Matt Bai and Jay Carson] wrote and dalliances are dealt with the character of Donna Rice. Before we worth reporting, started, I thought, “This is an important movie to make. and, if they are, how they’d This is gonna start some really great conversations.” It’s not telling you how to think. It’s not giving you any answers. It never tries to, deliberately. It’s like, no, we’re starting conversations, okay? We’re not trying to divide. We’re not trying to tell you anything. And I just

THE FRONT RUNNER: FRANK MASI/COLUMBIA (2); ATHIE: BRIAN DE RIVERA SI stayed true to that. X H E A C T T R E S Kerry S Washington

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ALSO STARRING_ Steven Pasquale, Jeremy Jordan, Eugene Lee

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AFTER FINISHING HER INCREDIBLE RUN AS Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington was looking to take a break. But then American Son—the breathtaking Broadway drama in which she stars as a distressed mother—changed those plans. “I thought, maybe I’ll just take seven or eight months off and just relax and recoup from seven seasons of Scandal. And then I read American Son, and I was like, nope!” she What do Cher, King Kong, says with a laugh. “There will be no down- and Atticus Finch have in common? time. I am going to do this amazing play.” Washington, 41, plays Kendra, a psychol- They’re among the biggest ogy professor searching for answers about new faces on Broadway this season. her missing teenage son. She’s joined by Steven Pasquale as Kendra’s estranged hus- LOGO BY DOOOM band, and Jeremy Jordan and Eugene Lee as police officers whom the couple implore for information. “I felt like I knew these characters, but I’d never seen them, particularly Kendra, before,” says Washington, who made her Broadway debut in 2009 in David Mamet’s memorable fiery drama Race. “I wanted to help bring her to life because I loved the idea of her being a part of our theatrical canon. I wanted her story to be told.” Written by Christopher Demos-Brown and directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon, American Son takes place inside a Miami police station in the early hours of the morning and delves into issues like race, identity, class, and police violence. “[The story] is timely, but also I think it’s been part of the historic DNA of what it is to be an African- American mother, just to worry for the safety of your child,” the actress explains. “Part of all mothering is the lack of control over this other human being who, once they’re outside your body, makes their own decisions and has their own dangers. But there’s the added layer of powerlessness as a black mother because of the institutional- ized racism and the cultural practices that endanger black children.” As rehearsals began, Washington—who is also a producer on Son—says the cast was “pulling our own truths to the table to share with each other, our own beliefs.” Audiences, she hopes, will be inspired to have conversations of their own, which is why the production has partnered with the Opportu- nity Agenda to create a discussion guide for theatergoers to use after the show. “The play forces you on an empathetic journey because you’re constantly shifting perspectives, root- ing for different characters’ points of view at different times,” Washington says. “I want that empathy to continue in the discourse

THOMAS WHITESIDE/TRUNKTHOMAS ARCHIVE after the play.” —Jessica Derschowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2018 EW.COM 27 T H E A fiction is mostly unchanged in Max Schumacher, respectively. C T the now-’70s-set stage version. As they’ve found the show’s O But director van Hove has added rhythms in rehearsal, they both Bryan R an innovative modern twist for share the feeling that they’re 2018 audiences: Live cameras working on something special. spin around the stage, docu- “The way that Ivo blends medi- menting Beale’s breakdown on ums in his work just feels so Cranston a giant screen with the immer- right here,” says Maslany, who’s sive immediacy of a social media making her Broadway debut. feed. And while the play stays And Goldwyn, who debuted in SHOW_ OPENS_ ALSO STARRING_ faithful to the film’s depiction of 1995’s Holiday, points out that Network Dec. 6 Tatiana Maslany, Tony Goldwyn a broadcast news network turn- this Network feels like a direct ing to absurdly sensational con- response to the Trump era.

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT_ networkbroadway.com tent, the new script by Lee Hall “Playing Max, I feel the way I felt (Billy Elliot) drives in the knife on on Nov. 9, 2016,” says Goldwyn. the Trump-era advent of “fake “I’m wondering, ‘What world do news.” The more Cranston dis- I live in?’ ” ON THE FIRST DAY OF REHEARSALS originated the stage incarnation sects the play, the more he’s But for Cranston, it’s the for Network, director Ivo van of Howard Beale, an anchorman increasingly stunned by its rele- emotional power of Network that Hove told his Broadway com- who, unable to cope with the vance. “[Chayefsky] wrote this ends up giving the play such pany that the play’s story—at social and economic changes in the ’70s—how remarkable that visceral force. “We’re less civil least when Paddy Chayefsky around him, has a live on-air it holds true now,” he says. “It’s with each other than we used to wrote it for Sidney Lumet’s meltdown. “I remembered the the desensitization of our soci- be,” he says. “We’re getting out Oscar-winning 1976 film—was character indelibly when Ivo ety by seeing these violent our anger in such dispiriting intended as satire. He then pitched the idea to me, but images from across our screens, ways—the vitriol and the rancor added that, a little more than I went back over the themes of and how brutalizing it is to are unlike everything I ever 40 years later, we’re now all liv- the story,” recalls Cranston, who a citizenry.” remember growing up.” Therein ing it. America has caught won an Olivier Award (the British Cranston’s new castmates, lies the power of bringing Net- up to Network: mad as hell, and equivalent of a Tony) for the role. replacing those he worked with work to the States. “When I’m not going to take it anymore. “It’s pretty remarkable, one in London, only echo the senti- on stage screaming, ‘I’m mad as

Seeing such rage play out day after another after another, ment. Tatiana Maslany (Orphan hell and I’m not going to take JAN VERSWEYVELD on stage feels cathartic—at least realizing, ‘This is of our time.’ ” Black) and Tony Goldwyn this anymore!’ the audience is to Bryan Cranston. Last year at Chayefsky’s story about (Scandal) costar in the roles of going to go, ‘Oh my God,’” Cran- the National Theatre in London, media manipulation and the programming director Diana ston predicts. “They’ll scream the award-winning actor, 62, blurred lines of fact and Christensen and head of news it out with us.” —David Canfield

28 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 ©Disney H E D E S T I G IF YOU COULD TURN BACK TIME, N E you’d find designer Bob Mackie R behind Cher’s biggest fashion moments. Since the two met in 1967, they’ve collaborated on doz- SHOW_ OPENS_ ens of sartorial splashes. So when it The Cher Show Dec. 3 came time to find a costumer for The Cher Show, a jukebox musical STARRING_ about the icon’s famous life, there Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks, Micaela Diamond was only one man for the job—a

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT_ man so synonymous with Cher, he’s thechershowbroadway.com even a character in the show. —Maureen Lee Lenker MACKIE: HARRY LANGDON; SKETCHES: BOB MACKIE

FINALE THREADS THETHE “NAKED “NAKED”” DRESSDRESS THETH CHER MYSTIQUE

The musical features three women as Cher One of Cher’s most memorable dresses How do you deliver what fans are craving at various stages and ages in her career— reimagined in the musical is the gown and create a new wardrobe of art? Mack- Babe (newcomer Micaela Diamond), Lady sheworeona1975coverofTime maga- ie’s costuming approach is “reliving the ()(Teal Wicks),,(and Star (Stephanie J. Block). )zine that has since been dubbed the past and doing things that are very iconic In the megasize closing number, the trio “naked” dress. Block, who plays the most to her, and yet at the same time something share the stage in signature styles of their seasoned iteration of Cher, gets to sport new.” (For instance, his take on Cher’s (2); era (like Babe’s ’70s bell-bottoms and fur the iconic look, which Mackie calls a per- 1984 Oscar dress adds a heavier gold THE CHER SHOW vest). But while the designs hearken back to sonal favorite and in some regards the sheen.) Mackie says it’s all about the wow well-known outfits, there’s one change: epitome of Cher’s style. He gushes, “Often factor: “Her whole thing in life is, ‘I don’t They all have more. More sparkles, feathers, when you do things with an illusion look, want to look like a housewife with an eve- everything. It’s how Mackie has updated you say, ‘No, that’s too much.’ But it never ning gown on.’ We’ve managed to avoid MARCUS : JOAN countless Cher looks over the years: “More seemed to be too much for her.” In fact, that. It’s part of what fans expect. They elaborate. More covered in diamonds. nothing usually is. “She walks in like she’s don’t like it when she doesn’t dress up.” More glamorous. More peekaboo.” in her jeans. That’s part of [her] charisma.” Don’t worry, fans. Mackie’s got you, babe.

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ON BROADWAY AND ON TOUR ACROSS NORTH AMERICA ALMOST SIX DECADES AFTER ITS ence member to not look He’ll be played by Jef Daniels, E W T H R release, PBS just annointed at the play through the lens of the Emmy-winning star of I T Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking- their own memory,” says Sorkin, Sorkin’s 2012 HBO series, The E R bird as America’s Best-Loved 57. “The thing is, much as I love Newsroom. “There was never a Aaron Novel—a happy coincidence for and revere the book, this play conversation about who would the first-ever Broadway produc- couldn’t be an homage. It had to play Atticus,” says Sorkin, who Sorkin tion of the coming-of-age clas- be a new play based on an Ameri- agreed to write Mockingbird sic, which arrives this December can classic. And I couldn’t pre- three years ago after a call from penned by Aaron Sorkin. tend I was writing it in 1960. producer Scott Rudin. “The call SHOW_ OPENS_ The prolific screenwriter A lot’s happened in the last 58 ended with Scott saying, ‘And To Kill a Dec. 13 behind The West Wing and Sports years, so at some point you bytheway,howdoyoufeel Mockingbird Night began his career in theater; have to put the book to the side about Jef?’ And right in that his 1989 play, A Few Good Men, of your desk and start writing moment we cast Jef Daniels.” which he later adapted into something new.” Less obvious was the casting of STARRING_ an Oscar-nominated film, is con- Perhaps the key diference in Celia Keenan-Bolger, 40, as Jeff Daniels, sidered his big break. Now he Sorkin’s adaptation is that Atti- Scout, whose doggedness in her Celia Keenan-Bolger returns almost 30 years later with cus Finch—the lawyer who takes adult life helps drive the framing one of the most daunting proj- on a murder trial that rattles a device of Sorkin’s memory play. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT_ ects of his career. “This novel racist Alabama town, as wit- “It was clear, even from that first tokillamockingbird holds a special place in every- nessed by his young daughter, draft, that these roles were just SORKIN: TAILI SONG ROTH/AUGUST; DANIELS: ANDY KROPA/INVISION/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK broadway.com one’s hearts, so it’s going to be Scout—has been refocused here too dificult for kids to play,” he almost impossible for an audi- as the play’s main protagonist. notes. “For the first table read, we had adults read the kids, and as it happened...it just felt right.” Turning a literary treasure into a theatrical experience doesn’t come without its bumps, but Sorkin is confident audiences will recall the fundamental power of the story: a timely but timeless case study of rural racism, with Lee’s vividly painted townspeople now giving this playwright a chance to go inside a very diferent kind of social network. —Marc Snetiker

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32 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 THE PRIDE OF BROADWAY LET IT MOVE YOU

ON BROADWAY AND ON TOUR ACROSS NORTH AMERICA

©Disney lionking.com ALSO PLAYING

THE FERRYMAN Sam Mendes directs this haunting Irish thriller that earns every second of its three-hour-plus run time.

HARVEY FIERSTEIN’S TORCH SONG Michael Urie stars in a revival of the landmark 1982 gay dramedy. KING KONG AT AN EARLY PERFORMANCE OF “it,” by the way. “Because he’s T H E C King Kong, the standing ovation being manipulated by live R THE LIFESPAN E , A went to the 2,000-pound pup- humans, there’s an interactivity OF A FACT THE FERRYMAN T pet. Broadway’s new animatronic that you have with any group U Daniel Radclife checks

King R attraction—the 20-foot-tall of actors,” the director contin-

E out the truth in this gorilla star of the musical based ues. “So he’s becoming a very journalism comedy. MARCUS; : JOAN Kong on the 1932 novel that inspired fluid part of the storytelling.” the famous monster movie— In some versions of Kong,a took its curtain-call bow with the crew traverses Skull Island to THE NEW ONE SHOW_ OPENS_ 10 actors who operated its limbs bring back the gargantuan Mike Birbiglia’s latest SONG TORCH King Kong Nov. 8 (while three “voodoo operators” beast. McOnie only had to go to solo act has been hailed and an automation pro con- Australia, where the stage pro- as the comedian’s best. trolled more robotics of stage). duction had its initial run after

STARRING_ MURPHY; : MATTHEW “It’s particularly unheard of a lengthy, buzzy development. Christiani Pitts, what this show had to do,” Meanwhile, New York’s Broad- THE PROM Eric William Morris remarks director-choreographer way Theatre stayed dark for No corsage needed Drew McOnie, who had the months while the design team to attend this sweet TICKETS AVAILABLE AT_ same response as likely every- transplanted Kong’s intricate

tuner about tolerance A FACT OF LIFESPAN THE kingkongbroadway.com one else in the world when pulley system. Even the human at a small-town prom. first presented with the idea of cast didn’t see their headliner a Kong musical: “It was a crazy until the first day of rehearsals. THE WAVERLY GALLERY idea that should probably never Now the world gets to meet him, be done.” which McOnie admits is a “high- The iconic Elaine May,

Seeing the puppet in person pressure” situation. “None of us on Broadway for the first : LIFESPAN MEDIA “knocked away” those fears. have slept much,” he admits. time in more than five “Kong really is like an actor,” “We won’t get much for the next decades, is the devastat- McOnie says—always referring three weeks.” Which means ing performance you to the puppet as “he” and never Kong won’t either. —Nick Romano need to see this year.

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Rami, you’re a boy, make a big noise: Malek as Freddie Mercury

other words, of nearly everything Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody flamboyant, defiant frontman stood for. Rhapsody may be a conventional rock STARRING DIRECTED BY biopic in nearly every respect, but it has the Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Allen Leech, Bryan Singer gift of an utterly unconventional star in Rami Tom Hollander, Gwilym Lee Malek. Known for his coiled portrayal of a RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY painfully interior cybersecurity expert on PG-13 2 hrs., 14 mins. Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats USA’s Mr. Robot, he is completely trans- formed in the title role—a human unicorn made almost entirely of id, wild hair, and FREDDIE MERCURY’S STORY DID NOT COME EASILY TO spandex. More than mere good acting, the screen. A version slated for Sacha Baron Cohen lin- though, Malek has the ineffable pixie dust the gered in turnaround for years, then died on the vine; part requires (if not the teeth; the famous Bohemian Rhapsody’s original director, Bryan Singer, left Freddie overbite is prosthetic). It’s that

weeks before shooting was completed (Dexter Fletcher, inborn charisma that makes his Mercury, ALEX BAILEY/FOX uncredited, finished the film). Maybe unavoidably, the born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, entrancing movie that’s emerged from all that has the distinct whiff from the moment he steps on screen, even as of compromise and art by committee—the opposite, in an anonymous London loner casually

36 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 a EXTREME REEL Mother Superiorum The Suspiria NEWS remake made $89,903 per screen— MAKEOVER: The Queen the highest average of 2018. 2018EDITION in Action Sister Act Allison Janney and Laura Here are other actors Dern will play siblings in Tate Tay- getting major transfor- The Crown’s Claire Foy, 34, has seen lor’s Breaking News in Yuba County. mations on screen this drastically diferent roles this year, from year. BY KATIE HASTY Unsane to First Man and now to The Girl in the Spider’s Web (out Nov. 9), as dangerous Lisbeth Salander. BY CLARK COLLIS

denigrated by passersby with the ethnic slur “Paki.” And it’s what makes the marks the What did you think thought should be movie hits so hard—a boilerplate Behind about following there for no reason Noomi Rapace and other than they’re the Music arc of humble beginnings and NATALIE PORTMAN Rooney Mara in like, “Well, she wears meteoric rise, druggy downfall and ﬁnal tri- VOX LUX portraying Lisbeth fishnet tights, and umph—feel less bog-standard than they are. Portman goes Gaga for Salander? has got loads of Where the movie stops short, bizarrely, is scandalous pop singer Why would anybody piercings, and all Celeste in black leather, want to follow these tattoos.” at Freddie’s bedroom door. Instead, screen- glitter, high fashion, and incredible perfor- I didn’t want it a bruising mouth to boot. writer Anthony McCarten (The Theory of mances by two to be a cliché. Everything) leaves much of his true sexuality diferent actresses? in the margins, leaning heavily instead on his But in the film Given the rise of Lisbeth has a sister, the #MeToo move- lone heteronormative romance (a lovely played by Sylvia ment, Lisbeth—the Lucy Boynton). That may just be the calcula- Hoeks, and that’s girl who “hurts men tions of commercial moviemaking, or some quite a significant who hurt women”— thing. Fede [Alvarez, seems even more misguided sense of legacy protection on the OPRAH WINFREY the film’s director] pertinent than ever. part of surviving bandmates Brian May, A WRINKLE IN TIME made me really I think it’s less about Roger Taylor, and John Deacon, all of whose Oprah’s wizened Mrs. Which excited about pertinence and is fantastically fabulous,

: ALEX BAILEY/LIONSGATE/ROADSIDE: ATTRACTIONS; avatars come oﬀ uniformly well, if ancillary, larger-than-life, deific... exploring this more that this char- part of her past. acter has been say- on screen. There’s an unfortunate silliness, Okay, maybe the makeover isn’t that extreme. ing something that too, in the script’s training-wheels approach Your Lisbeth has a people have been JULIET, NAKED JULIET, to storytelling, as when the band’s label head more bare-bones talking about for (a blustering, ginger-bearded Mike Myers) look than previous hundreds of years, big-screen incarna- and it’s only now loudly insists that teenagers in cars will tions. How involved that people are never bang their heads to “Bohemian Rhap- were you in that? actually openly talk- sody,” or when “We Will Rock You” Very.Thereareso ing about it. Women CHRISTIAN BALE materializes in a single gee-whiz moment, many preconcep- are so often in a tions about her. I position where they seemingly conjured whole from handclaps VICE The Oscar winner gained didn’twanttodo aren’t able to pro- : GREIG FRASER/ANNAPURNA PICTURES; FRASER/ANNAPURNA GREIG : and studio air. Much smarter is the use of 40 pounds to morph into a anything that peo- tect themselves;

VICE Queen’s legendary 1985 Live Aid perfor- dead ringer for former vice ple expected or she has their back. president Dick Cheney in mance as a framing device: all four members Adam McKay’s new biopic. locked in a sort of mesmeric trance on stage, with Malek as Mercury at the cen- ter—aware that the end was coming for him, but still singing the band into immor- tality with every ecstatic, electric note. B– : ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA/© 2017 DISNEY; 2017 NISHIJIMA/© ATSUSHI :

: NADJA KLIER/COLUMBIA CHRIS O’DOWD THIS FILM CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING: Claire Foy JULIET, NAKED on Lisbeth: “I happen He may not look very to think that

A WRINKLE IN TIME diferent, but one of Holly- she’s pretty OMORIGIN MYTH J JUMPSUITS wood’s most lovable actors badass and turns into a loser a-hole brilliant.” : NEON; ex-boyfriend. Monsters! DWDENTAL WORK KQ KILLER QUEENS VOX LUXVOX THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB SPIDER’S THE IN GIRL THE Movies

Mackenzie Foy and Keira Knightley in one realm or another L.A.-Bound: AFI Fest From Nov. 8 to 15, cinephiles and awards watchers alike will descend on Hollywood for AFI Fest, the American Film Institute’s prestigious showcase for movies set to break big in the months ahead. From Oscar contenders to star-studded crowd-pleasers, here are several standouts playing this year. BY JOEY NOLFI

GOLDEN GIRLS AFI has long shepherded late- breaking contenders (like Selma) into the awards conversation. The Nutcracker All eyes are on two world-premiere entries—Saoirse Ronan and Mar- and the Four Realms got Robbie’s period drama Mary

Queen of Scots (pictured) and the REALMS FOUR THE AND NUTCRACKER THE STARRING Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy Felicity Jones-starring Ruth Bader DIRECTED BY Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston Ginsburg biopic, On the Basis of Sex—to generate Oscar heat. RATING PG | LENGTH 1 hr., 39 mins.

REVIEW BY Darren Franich @DarrenFranich THRILLS IN THE HILLS Lurking beneath AFI’s celebrity EVERY CHRISTMAS GROWING UP, sheen are demonic dresses our beloved great-aunt gave us all and bloodthirsty killers in a : SPARHAM/DISNEY; LAURIE new nutcrackers, until our house pair of unconventional horror was overcrowded with tiny wooden men oferings: Knife + Heart—a slasher set against the back- brandishing yuletide chompers. Thus am I drop of 1970s Paris’ gay-porn the target demographic for Disney’s holiday scene—and In Fabric (pic- fantasy The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. In tured), a trippy chiller about MARY OF SCOTS QUEEN short: too many realms, not enough nut- a haunted garment. cracker. But there is one rad dance number. And a giant mouse that’s actually (gross! REALITY BITES cool!) a vermin swarm. And what other ﬁlm Documentarians expose cold, features Keira Knightley as a French fairy eat- hard truths behind hot-button FEATURES; DANIEL/FOCUS : LIAM ing strands of her pink bouﬀant like cotton topics in Alexis Bloom’s critical portrait Divide and Conquer: The AILES candy? How’s that not in Bohemian Rhapsody? Story of Roger Ailes (pictured), Mackenzie Foy stars as Clara, an inven- Jed Rothstein and Alex Gibney’s : TIFF; tive teen in horse-drawn-carriage London. Enemies: The President, Justice, BIRD BOX Her mother just died; Disney must have a and the FBI, and Talal Derki’s Of

Fathers and Sons, which follows : SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX; quota. In grief, Clara wanders into a fantasy IN FABRIC young men in jihadist training. world, where Jayden Fowora-Knight plays a nutcracker brought to life. The story’s : A24; WOMEN ON THE RISE partially adapted from the ballet your kids ROGER OF STORY THE CONQUER: AND DIVIDE slept through, and real-life ballerina Misty As Cannes and Venice struggle to add female-directed titles, THE FRONT RUNNER Copeland guest-stars in a choreographed AFI picks up prime slots for pageant. That sequence is a wonder. The Susanne Bier’s apocalyptic Bird rest is Narnian mulch, cool production Box (pictured), starring Sandra Bullock, and Karyn Kusama’s design buried under a limp story and bland PICTURES : SONY Nicole Kidman-fronted noir characters. The rare quiet moments suggest Destroyer. Twelve of 18 films Foy could be a real movie star. Let’s give her showing in the New Auteurs sec- a real movie and ﬁnd out. C tion are also directed by women.

THE 10-WORD REVIEWW > The Frront Runner (Limited, out Nov. 6) Rise, fall of Gary Hart. Jackman, wig can’t save it. C+ —CHRIS NASHAWATY “I MADE A MOVIE THAT IS 100 PERCENT OFFENSIVEJOKES” Famed music-video director Lucas Hedges faces off with Joel Edgerton Joseph Kahn’s polarizing comedy-satire Bodied (out Nov. 2), produced by Boy Erased

Eminem, digs into the battle-rap world. STARRING Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton BY KATIE HASTY DIRECTED BY Joel Edgerton

ON CASTING LEAD CALUM WORTHY RATING R|LENGTH 1 hr., 55 mins.

“One of the tropes we play with is the REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty White-Guy Sports Movie, the white guy who goes into the black-dominated sport and triumphs, like Rudy or 8 Mile. I wanted BOY ERASED IS THE KIND OF a bullying tyrant (Edgerton), which to critique that idea with someone who topical, well-intentioned runs on the principle that there’s no looks like he doesn’t understand urban culture. Calum acts that part and looks that movie that makes you wish sinful urge a trip to the batting part. Calum is a nerd. He’s a Disney dude.” it was slightly better than it is. Based cages can’t fix. on the real-life coming-of-age sexual- Hedges, so good in Manchester by ON HYPOCRISY identity struggle of Garrard Conley, the Sea, makes his in-the-closet con- “I made a movie that is 100 percent ofensive the film is directed (a bit flatly) by fusion palpable and tragic. Still, jokes. A criticism of it that’s funny to me is, essentially, ‘I thought 90 percent of your the actor Joel Edgerton, who showed unlike the similarly themed Miseduca- jokes were funny, but the 10 percent that promise as a multihyphenate with his tion of Cameron Post from earlier this were aimed at me were not, therefore I hate creepy 2015 thriller The Gift. The boy year, the film never quite rises above the movie.’ If you think about it, you just in Boy Erased is played by Lucas its TV-movie-of-the-week trappings. accepted 90 percent of the jokes that were not about you—that’s just called hypocrisy.” Hedges, and the 19-year-old isn’t Your heart can’t help but go out to so much erased as cast aside like these teens, who are shunned for sim- ON WHAT OFFENDS HIM an inconvenience by his Arkansas ply being who they are. But despite

: FOCUS FEATURES “It’s kinda hard to ofend me because I’ve Bible Belt parents—a conservative the film’s urgency, it feels dramati- spent my entire life building a thick skin. pastor (a bearlike Russell Crowe) cally undercooked until the ﬁnal act, I’m an Asian dude who grew up in Texas in the

BOY ERASEDBOY and a pushover-till-late-in-the-game when both Crowe and Kidman come ’80s, with a 30-year career in pop culture.... The hard part is making sure you’re empa- mother (Nicole Kidman, excellent around with varying degrees of com- thizing with people and their needs and under a Dollywood wig). Hedges’ passion. There’s no doubt that the /WIREIMAGE; wants but also why they’re being ofended.” Jared is ashamed and terrified film’s heart is solidly in the right

ON PRIMER MATERIAL FOR BODIED by the attraction he feels to other place. And if there is even one con- boys. Jared’s parents aren’t pre- fused kid—or mother or father—who “Watch Eminem’s ‘My Name Is’; battle rappers pared to deal with their son’s sees Boy Erased and gains an extra

KAHN: LEON BENNETT LEON KAHN: Illmaculate vs. The Saurus; and Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do,’ because I yearnings, so they pack him oﬀ to a ounce of understanding as a result, directed it and it’s f---ing awesome.” conversion-therapy program run by then it will have done a real service. B

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Rosamund Pike MORE ON EW.COM WAR A PRIVATE War NOW PLAYING To read full Goes to reviews, head to The 39-year-old actress went as Method Your complete guide to films in theaters this week ew.com/movies as possible for A Private War (out Nov. 2), PICTURES; BERNSTEIN/AVIRON : KEITH giving her director a performance that kept the cameras rolling. BY NICK ROMANO INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS

WITH THE BIOPIC diaries, so the SUSPIRIA | Directed by Luca Guadagnino APrivateWar—about actress herself Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton W slain war correspon- turned into a sort Guadagnino’s reimagining of Dario Argento’s 1977 dent Marie Colvin as of reporter: She eye-candy horror classic about a German dance academy she prepared for her found other ways run by witches is gorgeous but silly and bloated. Johnson BURNING trek into the Syrian to investigate the and Swinton are great, though. B– city of Homs in life of her subject. USA; GO : MIN/WELL BURNING | Directed by Lee Chang-dong 2012—star Rosa- She established Starring Yoo Ah-In, Jeon Jong-seo, Steven Yeun L mund Pike had a trust with Colvin’s This Korean-language thriller stays mostly at a low smol- unique challenge. friends and cohorts, der, but you’ll be thinking about its ending long after. A– Her director, Mat- which became “a thew Heineman crisis of osmosis.... JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN | Directed by David Kerr JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN (Cartel Land, City You take in and you Starring Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko W of Ghosts), is known read between the Every gag in this English spy parody has already been mostly as a docu- lines, and some- done before, and better, presumably in one or both of mentarian, so the times the main story the earlier Johnny English films. D Gone Girl actress people are giving MARIA BY CALLAS | Directed by Tom Volf figured she would you is actually the Starring Maria Callas L

give a performance side of information FEATURES; KEYTE/FOCUS : GILES Letting the legendary Greek-American opera diva’s words he “could film at all that gives you the stand alone adds intimacy, but it leaves some pretty big times.... I wanted to truth.” The final gaps in her biography. Come for the private letters and try and give him as pieces came from stunning performances; get the rest on Wikipedia. B close an experience Colvin’s friend Paul as he had with his Conroy (played by docs,” Pike tells EW Jamie Dornan), a war THOSE ORSON WELLES MOVIES of the production, photographer who

which shot in had “completely MARIA BY CALLAS Jordan and London. candid” footage THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND | Directed by Orson Welles Starring John Huston, Robert Random, Peter Bogdanovich N “I stayed in character that informed as much as I could. Pike’s subtle perfor- Welles’ unfinished swan song from the ’70s, finally

So if I were sitting mance. The journal- completed by others, is a magical mess with moments : SONY PICTURES CLASSICS; at a laptop or just ist in the field was of haunting genius, but there’s too much to weed through to find them. Easier to admire than to love. B smoking a cigarette, “a very diferent he could film it—and person [when she THEY’LL LOVE ME WHEN I’M DEAD he often did.” was] kicking back Directed by Morgan Neville N Colvin was killed with her friends,” An enthralling doc that’s both a wonderful tribute to Welles covering the war in Pike says. “He had and an indictment of the industry that disowned him. A 2012, and Pike had footage of that, DEAD I’M WHEN ME LOVE THEY’LL no access to the which was American journalist’s invaluable.” WAR CORRESPONDENTS IN SYRIA

Rosamund Pike is up against the world (and a car) in A Private War A PRIVATE WAR | Directed by Matthew Heineman CLUB Starring Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander L : YOUTUBE PREMIUM/ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS PREMIUM/ROADSIDE : YOUTUBE Pike, as real-life American reporter Marie Colvin, can’t quite shed her English-rose beauty. Still, Heineman’s drama CASTELLVÍ/NETFLIX; MARÍA : JOSÉ captures the raw horror and adrenaline of combat. B+

VIPER CLUB | Directed by Maryam Keshavarz Starring Susan Sarandon, Matt Bomer, Lola Kirke L Sarandon stars as a desperate single mother whose journalist son is taken hostage by ISIS in Syria. The Oscar- winning actress is fantastic—far better than the rest of this earnest, so-so YouTube original. B– VIPER

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Edited By | PATRICK GOMEZ @PATRICKGOMEZLA ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA

Though he’s the prisoner, Richard (Benicio Del Toro) provides an escape for Tilly (Patricia Arquette) : CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS aid of a prison employee in 2015, Dannemora Escape at Dannemora begins at the end, with Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell

DATE TIME NETWORK REVIEW BY (Patricia Arquette) in custody, having con- Debuts Nov. 18 10 p.m. Showtime Kristen Baldwin @KristenGBaldwin fessed to helping Richard Matt (Benicio Del Toro) and David Sweat (Paul Dano) escape. /SHOWTIME; It’s a stage-setting device that seems to

PULLING OFF A JAILBREAK TAKES A LOT OF RECKLESS promise a juicy ﬂashback narrative—but the MY BRILLIANT FRIEND courage, a belief that every system put in place to keep series, directed entirely by Ben Stiller, isn’t insiders from getting out can be overcome with enough particularly interested in giving viewers planning and sheer desire. Pulling oﬀ a TV show about a what they expect from a show with Escape in

jailbreak—speciﬁcally a show that routinely places intro- its title. The premiere lingers over shots of CASTALDO/HBO : EDUARDO spection above intrigue—can be an equally tricky the grim-gray palette of upstate New York endeavor, one that Escape at Dannemora attempts with winter, as Tilly squabbles with her dopey but mixed, occasionally exhilarating, results. devoted husband, Lyle (Eric Lange), and Based on the stranger-than-ﬁction tale of two inmates has backroom trysts with Sweat, whom she who busted out of Clinton Correctional Facility with the supervises in the prison tailor shop.

THE 19-WORD REVIEW > My Brilliant Friend (HBO, Nov. 18) Elena Ferrante’s novel makes for an addictive epic about growing up in a LOGLINES Fall TV Winners ABC has ordered an additional episode of The Conners (bringing the season 1 total to 11) and given A Million Little Things a full-season order. Raw Deal Gugu Mbatha-Raw will join Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, and Billy Crudup on Apple’s untitled morning-show drama.

But! If a star-studded prestige drama about a crazy true crime isn’t entitled to a REALITY VS. little patience, I’m not sure what is. The real- HOLLYWOOD ity of Sweat and Richard’s scheme is that it The real people and actors of MORE ON EW.COM took months of labor, both psychological Dannemora Check out our newest Breaking Big video, and physical. Richard, a charismatic manipu- featuring JD Pardo, at ew.com/jdpardo lator, uses Tilly’s longing for romance to his BIKING BIG advantage, wooing her with sweet talk and WHO sex in exchange for supplies. Meanwhile, JD PARDO Sweat climbs into the prison’s bowels and RICHARD MATT & saws through steam pipes after lights out. WHY YOU KNOW HIM WHY YOU WILL KNOW HIM BENICIO DEL TORO The California native, 38, The actor now stars as As the inmates’ preparations gain momen- Matt was in prison starred on NBC’s American EZ Reyes on FX’s Sons of tum, so does the show, and Stiller punctuates for murder and had escaped from other Dreams and Revolution, Anarchy spin-off Mayans : SLAVEN the deliberate pacing with bursts of adrena- prisons before. and appeared in Twilight: M.C. (season 1 concludes Breaking Dawn—Part 2. Nov. 6 at 10 p.m.). line. Perhaps the most dazzling sequence is Sweat’s night-before dry run: The camera JD Pardo wasn’t originally “When I booked this job, dips into the tunnel and trails him as he jogs considered for the lead role I had so many people : PRASHANT GUPTA/FX through the maze—his pace and excitement on FX’s Mayans M.C., Kurt sending me memes of Sutter’s hit sequel to Sons [Anarchy star] Charlie Hun- increasing with every step—toward the fin- of Anarchy—and the actor nam’s butt,” Pardo recalls. MAYANS M.C MAYANS ish line, a manhole outside the prison walls. ANDREW CUOMO & admits he understands “I just knew it was a matter MICHAEL IMPERIOLI why he wasn’t the obvious of time before I had to do Generally, Dannemora is more interested New York’s Governor choice to play an ex-con something like that.” in the characters than their caper. Arquette, toured Clinton Correctional Facility who joins the Mayans It happened in the first her face pinched in a lemon-sucking scowl, after the escape. Motorcycle Club after run- episode, when EZ, the ins with the law. “There son of a widower (Edward goes beyond Tilly’s frumpy exterior to was nothing about me that James Olmos), joins the /SHOWTIME; CUOMO: JIM SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE; IMPERIOLI screamed biker,” says Pardo. same border-town biker ME (2); PARDO: BEN TRIVETT; BEN PARDO: (2); ME explore her need for adventure, which she chooses, time and again, over happiness. Del “I was probably 150 pounds. gang as his brother Angel I really just had the heart.” (Clayton Cardenas). “We’re Toro, a hulking figure in an Army jacket and But there was still the reading [the first script], fingerless gloves, brings a confident swagger issue of his clean-cut and as we got down to the appearance, which suited scene that says ‘EZ takes to even the quietest moments. And Dano JOYCE MITCHELL & him well—first as a model the shirt of,’ Kurt stopped PATRICIA ARQUETTE for Tommy Hilfiger and everybody and said, displays a melancholy sweetness as Sweat, a Mitchell is currently then as a half vampire in ‘You’re welcome, ladies.’ ” guy who’s desperate enough to break out of serving 2⅓ to 7 years for her role in The Twilight Saga: Breaking jail, but thoughtful enough to enjoy the the escape. Dawn—Part 2 and a militia moment once he has. When their getaway lieutenant on the 2012 NBC series Revolution. ride doesn’t show, Richard panics, but Sweat Pardo—whose mother is stays cool. “I’m gonna smoke a cigarette, and from El Salvador and father is from Argentina—spent I’m gonna walk down the street,” he says. 10 months gaining 30 That’s exactly what they do, passing the butt pounds so he’d look more between them, with just a brief laugh break- DAVID SWEAT & at home in the Mayans’ PAUL DANO clubhouse.“I felt like if ing the silence. This shot goes on for a full Sweat was serving I didn’t do this, they were a life sentence going to find somebody else MATT, SWEATMATT, AND MITCHELL: GETTY IMAGES (3); DEL TORO: FRANK OCKENFELS W. III VLASIC/GETTY IMAGES; DANO AND ARQUETTE: CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS/SHOWTI CHRISTOPHER ARQUETTE: AND DANO IMAGES; VLASIC/GETTY minute before credits roll. B for killing a sherif’s to [play EZ],” says the actor. deputy in 2002. There was an upside—at JD Pardo and Edward James least for his admiring fans. Olmos on Mayans M.C. Naples ruled by monsters and secrets. A– —DARREN FRANICH

NOVEMBER 9, 2018 EW.COM 43 TV A CAVALIER MOVE Lauren Cohan is moving on from The Walking Dead (Sundays at 9 p.m. on AMC) and costarring on ABC’s midseason series Whiskey Cavalier—but will she return to her hit AMC drama? BY DALTON ROSS

Andrew Lincoln is not the only key cast member leaving The Walking Dead this fall. Lauren Cohan (who plays Maggie) will also be departing the show this fall. However, Cohan will be returning to TV soon enough on ABC’s Whiskey Cavalier (premiering in 2019). And her time battling zombies may not be over. Depending on Whiskey Cavalier’s future and Cohan’s burgeoning ﬁlm career—she recently starred alongside Mark Wahlberg in Mile 22—the actress may be back in some capacity for season 10. Here, Cohan, 36, speaks to EW about her decision to move on and the uncertainty as to whether we will ever see Maggie Rhee again on The Walking Dead.

What was at the root of your decision to come back for only a handful of season 9 episodes and then leave for Whiskey Cavalier? Eight years is a long time to spend in one character. I honestly just was looking at this on a multitude of personal levels, and it just made the most sense for me to do this. I love Maggie

44 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 Lauren Cohan photographed exclusively for EW on July 21, 2018, in San Diego

and I’ll always love Maggie, and we had a really good time so far. And I do say “so far,” because the beautiful thing I get to experience right now is to live in the not knowing and to embrace it.

WereyouabletoremainZen during your whole contract- negotiation situation for season 9 or was that stressful? I kind of felt, in some ways, surprised, to be honest with you. And I took that, how baffled I was, and thought, “Okay, well, that’s a sign. This is maybe just New gig: not a fit anymore.” To feel like Cohan show, and the show has given I think that we like finality, we weren’t lining up in so many with Scott me opportunities that I think we and it’s almost because of how Foley on ways, I just thought, “Okay, well, ABC’s

: JACKSON LEE DAVIS/AMC all dream of having as an actor, much I like ﬁnality that I’m maybe that means something.” midseason and it was just time to move on. forcing myself not to have it, drama But in my personal life as well and I’m forcing myself not Whiskey as in my career, I always end up Cavalier Your situation is unique to give it, because it wouldn’t being really appreciative of because usually people stay be sincere. Any kind of guaran- THE WALKING DEAD things exactly as they turned out. or people go on this show, tee that I could give could not

/ABC; Because as an actor and as an but there’s this hope that you be sincere to the fans, to my artist, you’re bringing your sen- might be back in some capacity. Walking Dead family, to myself. sitivity to your job, but I need to So what has that been like, And I just have to believe that be able to flip the switch and just not knowing the future and if that’s gonna lead me to a new, look at this in a professional way. your time on TWD is really up? hopefully spiritual breakthrough : LARRY D. HORRICKS I felt like, in order to be my own I feel really good saying, “Let’s in how life can be. guardian angel, I had to put on see what happens.” That is me a business head to protect the doing a service to the show, What were those last days personal side of me. I have had and to my creative journey, and on set like for you? WHISKEY CAVALIER the best part of my life on the to myself on a personal level. I ironically got more excited about Maggie’s story these six episodes than I have been about Maggie’s story in three or four years. I really just feel like we went on this awesome adventure for season 9, and that kind of fills me up. I think one thing that’s special about this show is that it’s not really anybody’s show. We all grow to this place where the story is able to be handed over. And that’s a pretty special place for a television show to be, where I feel like we can confidently hand it over because it’s been so hammered in. Somebody else is carrying it now for a while.

Walking a dark path: After she and her baby are attacked in the season 9 Walking Dead premiere, Maggie (Cohan, with Xander Berkeley as Gregory) orders the Hilltop’s first (human) execution

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CHART FLASHBACK

3 QUESTIONS FOR CODY FERN 1998 The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story standout, 30, currently steals scenes on FX’s Twenty years ago (Nov. 9–15, 1998), NBC’s Thursday night dominated American Horror Story: Apocalypse the ratings chart*—with one holy exception. BY KRISTEN BALDWIN (Wednesdays at 10 p.m.) and Netflix’s House of Cards. BY TIM STACK

1 ER Judd (as Audrey Carmichael, a song- JESSE SEASON 5, EPISODE 7, After ACS, when did

writing mom whose son is dying from : NBC/PHOTOFEST; “HAZED AND CONFUSED,” NBC Ryan Murphy ask you cystic fibrosis) for their 100th episode (NOW STREAMING ON HULU) to be on AHS? spectacular? A+ for efort, guys. [In Stefon voice] This episode has October of last year. All everything: George Clooney going I knew is that I’d be play- FRASIER rogue to treat a sick baby; Mare Win- 4 ing this character with SEASON 6, EPISODE 7, FRASIER, ER, FRIENDS ningham; a heart-racing crisis (an “HOW TO BURY A MILLIONAIRE,” long blond hair who had exhausted Dr. Corday [Alex Kingston] NBC (NOW STREAMING ON HULU) an afinity for capes, and gives a patient a lethal dose of magne- Having split from the always unseen I’d be acting with Sarah sium); before-they-were-famous guest Maris—and her money—Niles (David Paulson and Kathy Bates. stars (Octavia Spencer as a deceptive Hyde Pierce) must vacate his luxury That’s all I needed to hear. : NBC/GETTY IMAGES (3); IMAGES : NBC/GETTY pregnant patient; Julie Bowen as three-floor apartment and move in with Dr. Carter’s [Noah Wyle] girlfriend Frasier (Kelsey Grammer). Much like How was it wearing the Roxanne); and a RuPaul shout-out. A– Ross (see No. 2), Niles is an exception- iconic Rubber Man suit? ally annoying roommate (he rearranges I think I hold the record 2 FRIENDS Daphne’s [Jane Leeves] kitchen and for being in the suit the SEASON 5, EPISODE 7, “THE longest, because that ONE WHERE ROSS MOVES IN,” NBC keeps Frasier up all night with his fussy TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX) sleeping habits). Plenty of haughty was a full 16-hour shoot- Ross (David Schwimmer) moves in Crane-brothers conflict, jokes about ing day. It is certainly not comfortable to get into. with Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Noël Coward’s fountain pen, and the It takes a lot of lube, and Joey (Matt LeBlanc), bringing a whole image of Pierce in a garish Hawaiian you are extraordinarily bunch of boxes and lots of irritating shirt make this episode a solid B+. hot or freezing cold— IMAGES KEENAN/GETTY STEFANIE FERN: IMAGES; ARCHIVE/GETTY PHOTO : CBS habits (like his “keep it down” face and there is no in-between. hand gesture) with him. In retrospect, 5 JESSE SEASON 1, EPISODE 7, Schwimmer deserves a lot of credit “THE KISS,” NBC (NOT for his willingness to be so darn annoy- CURRENTLY STREAMING) Did you enjoy playing ing for our viewing pleasure. If only This may not be the worst of NBC’s the son of a wealthy Rachel’s (Jennifer Aniston) story line— “hammock” sitcoms (a.k.a. the filler family trying to take down Claire Underwood stop trying to make the romance with shows between Must See TV hits (Robin Wright) on HoC? Danny the neighbor (George Newbern) Friends, Frasier, and ER), but boy, did I was so intimidated happen; it’s never going to happen!— Christina Applegate deserve better. because I’ve been watch- didn’t drag the episode down. B+ In case you don’t remember it (why ing HoC longer than I’ve would you?), Applegate played the been acting. The first 3 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL SEASON 5, EPISODE 9, “PSALM titular Jesse, a single mom/waitress day, I walk down the 151,” CBS (NOW STREAMING ON CBS living in Bufalo, who in this episode hallway and Robin says, ALL ACCESS) fights with her boyfriend Diego (Bruno “Cody!” because we met Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, did producers Campos) after admitting she kissed at the reading. And I said, really manage to land Celine Dion (as her ex-husband Roy (Michael Weath- “Claire!” Oh my God! herself, speaking French!) and Wynonna erly). A lack of hilarity ensues. D+ I could have vomited.

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WITH JEFFREY WRIGHT

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

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Mama Medium 9–10PM | TLC The title of this new series says it all. Jennie Marie is a psychic, medium, Everyone will and clairvoyant, and this wife and mother be talking about of four receives Season Finale it tomorrow a lot of messages The Purge from the dead in 10–11PM | USA the premiere, all the Will everyone stop committing crimes and while singing the start singing “Kumbaya” with this first- MORONS FOR HISTORY LATIN LEGUIZAMO: JOHN songs of ABBA. season closer? Nope. “All hell breaks loose,” says EP James DeMonaco. Also: “People Season Premiere will be very surprised [by] the mysterious John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons People Magazine

Lee Tergesen character...and why he’s BRESCIANI/USA NETWORK; STREAMING | NETFLIX Investigates been choosing our main characters to save.” Nobody works a stage like John Leguizamo— 10–11PM | ID this much remains true in the filmed pro- Maybe the police duction of his galvanizing one-man show. could use Mama’s Chopped Champs Gypsy’s Revenge The play earned a Tony nomination for the help communicat- Throwdown: Finale 9–11PM | ID Broadway version, in which he—hoping to ing with a woman 9–10PM | FOOD NETWORK Not about the instill pride in his son—meditates on why so found burned to Four past winners Chopped Champs MAYANS M.C.

much Latin history has been left out of Ameri- death in Louisiana. are back, and their loser, but Gypsy : NETFLIX; can textbooks. While wildly fun (he does a The mystery is ripe first dish has to Rose Blanchard, who, dozen or so nuanced impressions and depicts with twists: Her hus- include a seafood after growing up : PRASHANT GUPTA/FX : PRASHANT past atrocities with flamboyant energy) it’s band is the local fire delicacy. The last unnecessarily wheel- THE PURGE also melancholy; we watch one man come to chief (and obviously chef standing gets chair bound and terms with the shame of his culture’s erasure. a main suspect), $50,000. In other believing she was : ALFONSO Nothing compares to seeing this feat live, but—surprise!—she words, someone is chronically ill, has but it’s powerful, still, thanks to cinematic actually died from a about to be as happy her abusive care- close-ups. A– —David Canﬁeld gunshot to the head. as a clam. taker mother killed.

Mayans M.C. STREAMING | FXNOW Heads up before you devour this mesmeric spin-of of FX’s biker drama Sons of Anarchy: It’s hard to identify the good guys. Don’t rule out the Mayans, the border-town gang that EZ Reyes (the terrific JD Pardo) joins after a series of unfortunate events. Don’t assume it’s certain authority figures like Assistant Devour U.S. Attorney Lincoln Potter (a ferocious Ray McKinnon, reprising an SOA role). Even it all at once drugpin Miguel Galindo (Danny Pino) seems to straddle both right and wrong. “There will be a lot of stuf that’s going to be explained,” teases co-creator Elgin James of the Nov. 6 finale (10 p.m.). “This isn’t all for naught.”

48 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 *TIMES ARE EASTERN STANDARD AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE MONSTER COOKIES Baking experts Brenda Nibley and Alisha Nuttall describe three of their edible creations inn three words ahead of Holiday Cookie Builds’ debut (Nov. 9, WINTRY MAIN STREET ICE-SKATING RINK FIVE-FOOT NUTCRACKER 10 p.m. on Cooking Channel) Nostalgia. Grandma. Cherish. Wonder. Sugared. Devotion. Enchanting. Tradition. Sweet.

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Season Finale YOU BETTE-R BELIEVE SHE’S BACK! It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Murphy Brown 10–10:30PM | FXX 9:30–10PM | CBS Frank really wants After appearing in the 1998 series finale, Bette Midler reprises Mac to join him and her role as Caprice, Murphy’s last and worst secretary. And boy, the rest of the gang have things changed: As the “Murphy in the Morning” team on their Gay Pride prepares to celebrate Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough) receiving Parade float, which a lifetime achievement award, Murphy learns that Caprice has an would have even unexpected connection to her show. Not surprisingly, the singer- Queer Eye’s Fab actress brought the house down on taping night. “I’ve never Five exclaiming seen anyone who can work an audience like she can,” recalls “Yass, queen!” But executive producer Diane English. “During rehearsal she is this : JOHN there’s something normal, tiny person. But put her out there in front of the crowd holding back Mac— and blam. BLAM. She becomes Bette Midler. It’s awesome to Outlaw King and it rhymes watch. People just eat her up. We had to ask the audience to stop STREAMING | NETFLIX with “schmaddy applauding because the show was stretching too much.” Think of this action-packed epic about the MURPHY BROWN MURPHY schmissues.” 14th-century Scottish rebellion against King Edward I as Braveheart minus the disem- bowelings. Chris Pine brings the same sparkle-eyed swagger he gave Star Trek’s : MANUEL FERNANDEZ-VALDES/NETFLIX (4) Captain Kirk to his Robert the Bruce—the

ELITE fiery revolutionary who’d rather die on his feet than serve on his knees. As you’d expect, Netflix’s Outlaw King is loaded with flaming- : NETFLIX; arrow battles, shaggy redheads in chain

: JAY DROWNS/COOKING CHANNEL (4); CHANNEL DROWNS/COOKING JAY : mail, and peat bogs (plus a blink-and-miss-it glimpse of Pine’s, uh, pine). And Florence

OUTLAW KING Pugh is stunning as the hero’s headstrong wife. This is the kind of pricey, sweeping his- torical saga that, sadly, Hollywood doesn’t seem to care about much anymore. Don’t HOLIDAY COOKIE BUILDS COOKIE HOLIDAY PAUL FILO/CBS; make the same mistake. B+ —Chris Nashawaty

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Elite STREAMING | NETFLIX While you may need to flip on English subtitles for this glossy, extremely addictive, murderous teen drama, the plot needs little translation—spoiled Madrid high schoolers act out when three scholarship kids join their class. Sex, drugs, bullying, and elaborate construction finance scandals (parents, sigh) are all the backdrop to a murder investigation. Postmortem police interviews are intercut, Big Little Lies-style, with over-the-top parties (think The O.C. or Gossip Girl) and surprisingly smart, sweet, star-crossed young love. Don’t freak when you finish eight episodes with so many questions— season 2 is already in the works. —Shana Naomi Krochmal

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BONVOYAGE “The most fulfilling aspect of this finale, really, is that we go out on our terms. We always felt five seasons was the ideal timeline…and that’s what we did. The stakes have been very high from the jump, and season 5 is no exception. We’re grateful we had the opportunity to sail of into the sunset.” —ERIC DANE, star of The Last Ship, which has its series finale Sunday, Nov. 11 (9 p.m. on TNT)

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Season Premiere Giada’s Holiday Handbook 11:30AM–NOON FOOD NETWORK Giada De Laurentiis Everyone will is dishing out step-by-step tips be talking about for a stress-free it tomorrow brunch. On the menu: bacon Sorority Stalker cranberry scones 8–10PM | LIFETIME with citrus basil When Taryn goes to L.A. to find her imaginary butter, a wafle bar, boyfriend, spa owner Aya takes pity, inviting and apple raspberry Taryn to stay at her home. Taryn repays the sangrias. Not favor by stalking Aya and killing her friends. Series Debut included: “spuh- While not as creepy and credible as Lifetime’s Sally4Ever GHEE-tee,” but there stalker series YOU (below), it surprisingly 10:30–11PM | HB0 is a “frih-TAH-tah.” has just as many murders. C+ —Ruth Kinane British funnywoman Julia Davis writes, directs, and stars on this pitch-black com- Born Tough: Inside Austin City Limits edy about a woman (Catherine Shepherd) the Ford Factory CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS whose mundane, heterosexual life is turned 10–11PM | HISTORY PBS on its head by a burgeoning relationship Ride along with Country star Kacey with the artistic, free-spirited (but maybe

History’s Truck Musgraves showed also deranged?) lesbian Emma (Davis). The LAST SHIP Weekend for this up on a “High Horse,” show itself is unflinchingly sexual—make inside look at Ford’s but country rocker sure all kids are out of the room—and the : ERICA PARISE/TNT; : ERICA Dearborn, Mich., Lukas Nelson (son of humor is equally brazen. You’ll laugh out facility where the Willie) got lost “Just loud at the characters’ misery and awk- best-selling F-Series Outside of Austin.” wardness, and then feel awful for doing pickups are made. Not really. Those are so. Like Davis herself, the show is like noth- We call shotgun! just songs they sing. ing else you’ve seen. A —Dana Schwartz SORORITY STALKER SORORITY

YOU STREAMING | MYLIFETIME.COM Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) really, really loves Beck : LIFETIME; (Elizabeth Lail). But she probably wishes he loved her a little less. And yet, that’s part of what makes YOU so SALLY4EVER compelling—watching Joe stalk and adore Beck in equal measure. But before the story ends, showrunner Sera Gamble recommends catching up on episode 2, : SKY/HBO; which features what she calls a “tour de force” perfor- Devour mance from Lou Taylor Pucci, quickly followed by it all at once episode 3, where viewers meet Blythe (Hari Nef). As for YOU how the season wraps up (Nov. 11, 10 p.m. on Lifetime): NETWORKS : A+E “I’d describe the finale as a sweet and heartwarming tale of the good guy getting the girl,” Gamble says. “Justkidding. If we did our job right, you’ll never look at a romantic comedy the same way again.”

50 EW.COM NOVEMBER 9, 2018 Written and reported by Clark Collis, Gerrad Hall, Samantha Highfill, and Lynette Rice Because we need

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encourage the candidates to and hashtag that shed light on achieve their goals, a key part of his battle. “It felt good, but it was his mission in, and beyond, music. overshadowed by the fact that After a series of handshakes I was locked in a cell,” Meek says. and hugs, Meek retreats back- Following his most recent stage, where he checks Insta- release, he has watched his celeb- gram. He is immediately floored rity rise beyond music, thanks by what he sees: young black to his eforts on criminal-justice boys wielding handguns. Meek reform. But with the threat of shakes his head. The kids are jail hanging over him due to con- glamorizing violence and, as he tinued probation, Meek is notice- sees it, are unaware of the pitfalls ably guarded around strangers. Private that await them in the United In his interview with EW, the rap- Annie’s States justice system. per keeps his answers short but Meek knows firsthand: The opens up about the foundation Requiem #FreeMeekMill movement began that he and 76ers’ co-owner Singer Annie Lennox chats with EW due to the now 31-year-old’s Michael G. Rubin are set to launch. about penning her first song in recent prison stint, after two “We’re trying to help on multiple eight years for the new film A Private incidents involving police in 2017, levels,” Meek says. “You have War, which chronicles the life of one of which resulted in an people in prison who are there late war correspondent Marie Colvin. arrest in August 2017 for popping because they don’t have lawyer wheelies on his dirt bike during fees or proper representation.” BY SARAH RODMAN a video shoot in New York City. This is now Meek’s mindset: Despite all charges being Instead of dwelling on the past— dropped, he was still sentenced the now-squashed beef with WHEN DIRECTOR MATTHEW HEINEMAN to two to four years in a state rival Drake (the two made asked Annie Lennox to contribute a song penitentiary for technical amends on stage in September), probation violations. (Meek was his breakup with Minaj, the to A Private War, she was hesitant. “I didn’t arrested on drug and gun arrests and court dates—Meek really feel I could write anymore, and then charges in 2007, at the age of wants to get to the why: Why suddenly I felt, ‘You know, I’d like to give 19, and was sentenced in 2009 is the justice system unfairly it a try,’” she says. to 11.5 to 23 months in prison, stacked against minorities? To followed by 10 years’ probation, be in prison is to “live in hell INEVERREALLY The result is the exquisitely elegiac closing- which has since been extended.) on earth,” he asserts, and these FELTTHE credits song “Requiem for a Private War.” Observers—over 420,000 days, he’s leading a simpler life. The Eurythmics singer-songwriter actually of whom signed a petition— EFFECTOFTHE By all accounts, Meek’s new met Marie Colvin at an event for Lennox’s believed the penalty was too stif full-length LP—his first since LOVE,BUT given the nature of the incident prison and, as of October, set to women’s advocacy organization, the Circle. (an assistant district attorney drop in a matter of weeks—still IGOTAFEW Lennox, who only saw the film after she and Meek’s probation oficer had finds him taking it day by day. SECONDSTO wrote the song, was struck by an eerie coinci- also recommended that he “I’ve fought through the system,” dence. “One of the last things that Marie not serve jail time). Meek later Meek says. “I’m coming from SEETHE addressed the incident on a diferent point of view now. Colvin is saying [in the film] is ‘Why? Why?’ Legends cut “Stay Woke”: “Feel I’m talking about the ghettos BRIGHTSIDE— That’s actually the first word in the beginning like the system tryna kill me, of America, the world I come TOSEETHAT of the song. It’s uncanny,” she says. got arrested and the charge was from. I’ve been in a bad environ- F1 for poppin’ wheelies.” ment more years than I’ve PEOPLEWERE “Normally I’m really, really critical of While inside, Meek saw the been in a good environment. I’m STANDING my performances or my recordings,” adds outpouring of support, but his still traumatized by what I’ve Lennox. “I don’t want to be in any way senti- circumstance prevented him seen and been through. I just BEHINDME.” mental about any of this, but if Marie were

ROBERT SEBREE from fully embracing the love want to inspire people.” —MEEK MILL here, I feel that she would feel that this was worthy of her.” Dasani water. Hammer time. Pajamas. Wakanda. D’USSÉ. Soufflé. Kulture.

NOVEMBER 9, 2018 EW.COM 53 Charles Bradley

TITLE Black Velvet

LABEL Dunham/Daptone | GENRE Soul

REVIEW BY Alex Suskind @alexjsuskind

FEW ARTISTS EMBODIED THEIR nickname as much as the late Charles Bradley, a man whose rumbling baritone could quickly surface a lifetime’s worth of pain and joy. Dubbed the Screaming Eagle of Soul, Bradley—who passed away in 2017 from stomach cancer that had spread to his liver—was considered a soul revivalist. His rags-to-riches, late-in-life story (he grew up poor and was homeless as a teen; he didn’t release his first album until he was 62) was prime proof that, yes, good things can still happen to good people. On the posthumously released Black Velvet (the title comes from Bradley’s days when he was covering James Brown by the same moniker), he once again channels his survivalist spirit. “I’d UPPING THE ANNIE rather be dead than be cool,” he sings over the swampy groove of “Stay Away.” With their fierce—and fiercely tender—third album, Interstate Penultimate track “Fly Little Girl” is, in Gospel, the force of nature known as country supergroup light of Bradley’s death, a powerful listen, Pistol Annies comes roaring back to life. BY SARAH RODMAN with him beltin “Find out who ou are be

SEPARATELY, MIRANDA LAMBERT, Wrangled. “The more honest and t Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena real we are, the more impressed Presley are formidable charac- the other two are. It’s like a ters. But when they band contest of who can be the most together as Pistol Annies, they nitty-gritty sometimes.” become a dream country-music The winners, however, are the Transformer of scorched-earth fans, who should find something pathos, wicked wit, and to love with Interstate Gospel, heavenly harmony. Although on which the trio take turns sing- the women share similarities ing lead on songs they wrote as songwriters, there is an together. From the girls’-night- alchemy at work when Monroe’s out sass of “Stop Drop and soulfulness, Lambert’s feisti- Roll One” to the lacerating “When BRADLEY: ISAAC STERLING; PISTOL ANNIES: MILLER MOBLEY MILLER ANNIES: PISTOL STERLING; ISAAC BRADLEY: ness, and Presley’s plainspoken I Was His Wife,” the 14 tracks poetics coalesce. cover a wide swath of emo- “When we’re with each other, tional—and musical—territory. we make each other stronger Because each artist is pursu- and we’re more courageous, ing a solo career, they feel little and it’s because we can be vul- pressure to adhere to industry nerable,” says Monroe, who norms when it comes to the released her fourth album, Spar- album/tour cycle—the group’s row, in April. “We like to show last record, Annie Up, dropped both sides of that.” in 2013, and since forming in Charles Bradley, who “Plus, we really want to impress 2010 they have had two wed- passed away in each other,” continues Presley, dings, a divorce, a baby, and 2017, was a dynamic presence on and who received critical acclaim for a baby on the way—or the quest off stage her 2017 sophomore LP, for hit singles. Music From Bublé With Love Following a brief break, Michael Bublé is back with a new album and outlook on life. The 43-year-old crooner shares how his family and fans shaped his latest efort. BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER

ON RETURNING TO MUSIC short stories—this really complicated, complex emotion that we When Bublé’s son Noah was all feel…. It was my romance with diagnosed with cancer in 2016, the music, with life, with my family, the singer withdrew from public with the public, with entertaining. life and seriously considered We tried to come up with one leaving singing behind forever. word that would describe it all.” “I never fell out of love with music—not for one second,” he ON THE SONG “FOREVER NOW” says. “It was more about wanting to heal.” But after a living-room Bublé penned the tune in tribute jam session with friends, Bublé to his children, but hopes it knew it was time for a come- rings true for any relationship back. “When I was gone, there of unconditional love, be it might have been a small part with a pet or best friend. “That of my identity I was losing,” he song was inspired by how explains. “Making the music much I love being a dad: It’s too Miranda I love has become more joy much joy, it’s too much fun, “That’s the beauty of Pistol Lambert, than I ever hoped it could be.” I laugh all the time, it’s the best Angaleena Annies,” says Lambert, who is Presley, thing that ever happened,” ON CALLING IT LOVE vying for her eighth Female and Ashley he explains. “I’ve never written Vocalist of the Year trophy at this Monroe The 11-track album (the title is a more succinct song talking month’s CMA Awards, thanks styled as a heart emoji) is Bublé’s about what many of us feel we’re to her stellar 2016 double LP, love letter to music and fans. brought to this earth to do. The Weight of These Wings.“We “For the first time, I hadn’t thought It was about time and sentimen- started the band out of absolute of [a record] as a song-by-song tality. The most beautiful thing inspiration and passion, and thing. I allowed the songs to about music is people interpret- we have not strayed from that. choose me,” he says. “[The album ing it. That connection is one of We’ve made it a mission to keep is] my theory of love built within the things I missed most.” this organic and just go with our heart and gut on everything.” There are no current tour plans, given the approaching due date of Presley’s second child, but they’re not ruling out tearing it up live at some point. “We would love to have some dates,” says Lam- bert. “We’re all three doing shows, so we’re going to try as much as we can to perform with Annies. If nothing else, it’s just more fun.”

”We’re obviously friends outside of work, but sometimes we know it’s time for business,” says Lambert of the trio EVAAN KHERAJ EVAAN Books

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AWOL. Though that description hardly allows for all the other categories that apply: improbable love story; postelection primal scream; metaphysical meditation on space and time and the Golden State. Call it, maybe, Tetherless Los Angeles. That’s where our narrator, Phoebe Siegler, lands as the novel opens—unemployed, adrift, and “demented with despair.” A born Manhattanite raised on the liberal-elite dream (Harvard, NPR, a solid op-ed job at The New York Times), she’s abruptly aban- doned everything in the wake of November 2016 and the coronation of the man she dubs “the Beast-Elect.” Already lost, she agrees to go in search of an older friend’s missing The Feral teenage daughter, a quiet girl named Arabella Detective who’s disappeared from her dorm room— possibly in pursuit of her recently deceased BY PAGES GENRE REVIEW BY hero, sonorous singer-songwriter Leonard Leahbats Jonathan Lethem 336 Fiction Leah Greenblatt @ Cohen. A vision quest once led Cohen to a monastery on Mount Baldy; could Arabella have tried to follow in his spiritual footsteps? HAS ONE OF AMERICA’S LEADING LITERARY NOVELISTS To find out, Phoebe enlists a man named, taken a sudden flying-squirrel leap into genre fiction? perfectly and improbably, Charles Heist. That The jacket copy of Jonathan Lethem’s latest calls it his would be the Feral Detective of the title, first detective novel since 1999’s Motherless Brooklyn— though he is, to some degree, domesticated: AMY MALOOF which may technically be true, in the sense that it offers There’s an office and an Airstream, albeit on up several dead bodies, a taciturn PI, and a girl gone the dingier outskirts of the city, and in his desk

13-WORD SYNOPSIS > Past Tense by Lee Child Jack Reacher is back! Short, manly sentences. Night vision. Quad bikes. The end. BETWEEN Bird Is the Word America’s favorite novel? Harper Lee’s Beyoncé 101 THE To Kill a Mockingbird, according to PBS’ Great American LINES Read survey (more than 4 million people participated). The professor who made it Late Great Acclaimed poet and playwright Ntozake possible to earn college credit for Shange (For Colored Girls) died on Oct. 27 at age 70. watching Bey videos has a new book, Beyoncé in Formation. BY AJA HOGGATT

IN 2015, OMISE’EKE moment...a black drawer, a docile opossum named Jean. (Jean’s Tinsley launched the woman was popularizing urinary tract has seen better days; it’s hard THE TRUMP course “Beyoncé Femi- feminism, and then all out there for a marsupial.) Despite his long NOVELS nism, Rihanna Womanism” these other white popular silences and analog methods, Heist actually Several major at the University of Texas musicians, like Katy Perry, authors are tackling at Austin—and the class followed suit. So it’s this seems to know what he’s doing; soon enough Trump’s America. quickly filled to capacity. unique cultural opening, BY DAVID CANFIELD he has a lead, and Phoebe has a crush. The In 2016, Beyoncé released where the face of facts of the former are somehow both more her visual album Lemon- feminism is not only outrageous and more believable: There are ade and explored black undeniably popular, but feminism in the histori- unapologetically black.” fringe groups squatting in the Mojave—sur- cally fraught landscape vivalists, bikers, burned-out hippies—whose of the South. Both sparked On Lemonade the idea for Tinsley’s book “Here I was, living for porous, possibly murderous borders may UNSHELTERED have swallowed Arabella whole. BARBARA Beyoncé in Formation. the first time in the U.S. KINGSOLVER Says the author, “It was South and craving images Lethem is in his element writing about really clear to me from the of what it means to be a this far-out West—ruthless, sunbaked bad- The author resists classes I’ve taught that black woman who loves “political novelist” lands culled from the strange brain confetti labeling, but her students were really hun- women in the U.S. South, of Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Pynchon, latest confronts gry for more conversation and Lemonade opened that Trumpism directly, about black feminism and space…. I think for those of and Don DeLillo. (Heist, with his deadpan dubbing the presi- women-of-color feminism.” us who are queer, we saw dent “The Bullhorn.” koans and shaggy sideburns, also seems like Here is the ClifsNotes queerness in it. I don’t think he could have materialized from the loony version of our interview. that everybody did, but there was enough space... periphery of a Paul Thomas Anderson On the cultural signifi- for a variety of people to movie.) And the vivid California here is not cance of Formation see our lives and the possi- a lotus-eater’s land of swaying palm trees “When Beyoncé stood up bilities for our lives there.” and smoothie bars but “shabby pocket malls in front of a brightly lit LAKE SUCCESS sign that read “Feminist,” On Beyoncé’s influence GARY SHTEYNGART ﬁlled by outlets featuring massage and tat- it was a unique on other artists too, vape and reptiles, as if the only way to Shteyngart sets his “I feel like 2017 and 2018 make yourself right for this place was to be recent novel during have been really rich with the 2016 election, as black woman artists, like wreathed in lizards, smoke, and body ink.” an out-of-touch elite Janelle Monáe and Cardi B.… More problematic to the story is travels the U.S. and comes to better [And now we can] imagine Phoebe—both as a woman written not learn Trump’s appeal. black women being at the always successfully by a man, and as a pro- forefront of feminist tagonist you want to spend time with. Set cultural production that just didn’t seem possible against Heist’s cowboy cool, she’s a sort of even 10 years ago. So often chatty, maddening mosquito, buzzing with students hear about how unﬁltered thoughts and bad ideas; too often, terrible it is to be a black their mutual attraction feels less like true THE FEMALE woman in the South, but PERSUASION I also want them to know romance than willful plot contrivance. But MEG WOLITZER that there’s this toolbox that artists are referencing Feral’s desert politics and dystopian wit still Most of this feminist cast a sort of spell: a wild-goose mystery not story is set in the about how to survive and distant past; Wolitzer thrive and be happy as a so much about why or where people died, ends it, however, in black woman.” the wake of Trump’s LARRY BUSACCA/PW/WIREIMAGE LARRY but how. Somehow, we keep on living. B victory, asking what it means for women. Beyoncé during her Formation World Tour in 2016

NOVEMBERE 9, 2018 EW.COM 57 SCREEN TIME Attention, Hollywood! We’re scouting out the books ripe for adaptation so you don’t have to. BY DAVID CANFIELD First-time novelist Kathy Wang grew up in the Bay Area, where she sets Family Trust Family Trust

BY Kathy Wang | PAGES 385

GENRE Fiction

REVIEW BY David Canfield @davidcanfield97 EDUCATED by Tara Westover

AMERICAN LITERATURE KNOWS money, but also a young new wife.) Their The book | Westover’s family about as well as anything pursuits of aggressive wealth and domestic memoir traces her remarkable life. She grew up with survival- else—spouses wading through tranquility, respectively, reflect warped val- ist parents in life-threatening tedium, resentful children carrying on lega- ues of American life. Wang writes from a conditions but escaped, later cies, squabbles escalating at the dinner witty, sarcastic distance; she’ll zoom out receiving a Cambridge Ph.D. The twist? She didn’t enter a table. By now the clichés write themselves. when the family gathers for a meal, reveling classroom until she was 17. Yet debut author Kathy Wang confidently in their dysfunction, before tightening Why it should be a movie WINKELMEYER MATT FANNING: SUBIN; NINA WANG: leans into them, spicing up old stories—the around a pivotal character moment, the This is one of 2018’s biggest tense reunions and fatal betrayals and prose suddenly awash with warmth. books, selling more than dying fathers—with fresh faces. But Family Trust gets only so much out of 750,000 copies in less than Catalyzed by the cancer diagnosis of the minutiae; it occasionally plods, unlike a year. (Built-in audience alert!) An inspiring tale of resilience patriarch Stanley Huang, Family Trust navi- more streamlined novels of its type. At and strength, it marries the best gates a Silicon Valley ravaged by greed, least Wang has her setting: She depicts Sili- of Wild and The Glass Castle. gentrification, and cultural transformation. con Valley with seductive specificity, telling The dream team | Director Wang, a Harvard Business School graduate, tales of instant billionaires and offering Jean-Marc Vallée (Big Little knows the milieu well—its rhythms, its glimpses of irritable geniuses changing the Lies) knows how to depict competition. She brings it alive in chapters world. Then there’s Linda, Family Trust’s trauma sensitively. Elle IMAGES ORD/GETTY CINDY SHANNON: INSTYLE; FOR IMAGES /GETTY Fanning brings vulnerability that alternate between the Huangs: daugh- cranky heart, whose chapters read like mel- and intelligence. Westover’s ter Kate, supporting a family of four as her ancholy short stories. Linda ascends her father is the trickiest, but husband works on his start-up; son Fred, a Tigerlily dating app’s price ladder, hope- MMichaelichael Shannon can playy monstrous, damaged people Harvard MBA still stuck in a six-figure sal- lessly hunting for a romantic match. She withnuance. ary range (the humiliation!); and mom bumps into her ex-husband with riotous Linda, starting to date in her senior years, disdain and pity. She may be judgmental, having divorced Stanley long ago. impatient, and a little bitter, pondering With barbed affection, Wang digs into ideas like, “Some things in life were worth the headspaces of Kate and Fred, first- being rude for.” But she’s too irresistible to generation siblings aspiring to perfection deny, with enough life and pain and bite to and grandeur, eagerly awaiting details of fill out a novel of her own—and too much their impending inheritance. (Stanley’s got for this Family to contain. B

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DAUGHTERS OF THE LAKE BY WENDY WEBB EA The latest ghost story from Webb (The Vanishing) opens on a newly divorced woman moving back into her parents’ home—only to discover a dead body holding a dead infant. Even creepier: She recognizes the corpse from her dreams. The Novel RIVER BODIES BY KAREN KATCHUR ECA A pair of grisly murders haunt a small Pennsylvania town, just as former resident Becca Kingsley resurfaces to care of #MeToo for her dying father. Is she a predator or a protector? Idra Novey’s book THE BEST BAD THINGS BY KATRINA CARRASCO EC Those Who Knew, This literary mystery takes the action back to the 19th about a powerful senator, century. Detective-turned-smuggler Alma Rosales disguises speaks to the new impact herself as a man in order to recover valuable stolen opium. of sharp political fiction. BY DAVID CANFIELD SHORT STORIES

EVENING IN PARADISE BY LUCIA BERLIN ECA THERE’S TIMELY, testimony against A posthumously published collection, Paradise afirms and then there’s Kavanaugh, Novey Berlin as one of the more underrated writers of her time. timely. Idra Novey’s felt stunned, even The stories take place all over the world and have the same, novel Those Who nauseated, by how yes, grit as her acclaimed A Manual for Cleaning Women. Knew centers on a Ford’s story (and the USEFUL PHRASES FOR IMMIGRANTS BY MAY-LEE CHAI senator who’s got- way it was attacked ten away with seri- and ultimately dis- The author of 10 books, Chai’s latest is a slim volume ous crimes for years. missed) reflected featuring a diverse assortment of tales that explore immi- It speaks so the story she wrote. grant identity in unique ways. Together they tenderly depict an increasingly globalized world. intensely to our “It was excruciating ongoing reckoning to watch,” she says. with cultural misog- Novey conceived TRUE STORIES yny and abuses of Those Who Knew powerthatitcan before the Trump feel either cathartic era and the #MeToo HINDSIGHT BY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE A or overwhelming— movement: “It [was] The cofee-table book for J.T. fans. The music superstar

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