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Take a page from Jack Pearson’s book: Surprise her with a Moon necklace like Rebecca’s beloved $78, alexandani.com MOM pendant.

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Uncommonly Good® NEWS STORY Picking Up the Pieces After The ending of Marvel’s latest box oice behemoth had a massive impact on the Marvel Universe. Here’s what to expect next.

Hulk, Ant-Man, Thanos, the Wasp, and Hawkeye

SCORE ONE FOR THE BAD GUY. AVENGERS INFINITY WAR ANNIHILATED the box office record for biggest opening weekend, topping Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ previous record by nearly $10 million with a $257.7 mil- lion domestic debut. On its way to shattering that record, the epic culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe also left fans in pieces. It didn’t end with a cliff-hanger as much as a plunge into the abyss. HULK, ANT-MAN, THANOS: © MARVEL STUDIOS (3); STUDIOS © MARVEL THANOS: ANT-MAN, HULK,

Now moviegoers have a year before learning what happens next. WASP: BEN ROTHSTEIN/© 2018 MARVEL STUDIOS In the meantime, we’ll get Ant-Man and the Wasp (out July 6) and Captain Marvel (out March 8, 2019), which is set further back in the 1990s. While those stories are self-contained, Infinity War screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely say they will foreshadow events in the Avengers follow-up that will hit theaters May 3, 2019. “There are certain requests we’ve made,” says McFeely. “It has been a weird coordination-slash-dance,” Markus says. S “Sometimes you have to ask what they’re doing and sometimes you have to tell them…”

16 EW.COM MAY 11, 2018 AVENGERS BURNING QUESTIONS Infinity War Ininity War leaves all audiences— including our newsroom—with a lot BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN of questions. BY EW STAFF

1 Why does Steve Rogers’ phone number have an Atlanta area code? victorious. Thanos (played by Josh Brolin) 2 Thanos already got the first stone assembles all six Infinity Stones and uses his from Xandar. So, R.I.P. Xandar? golden gauntlet to exterminate half the life in 3 What’s up with Scarlet the universe—including many late and great Witch’s accent? superheroes. The post-credits scene involves 4 How far down into the ground does Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury signaling to the Wakandan force field actually go? Captain Marvel just before Fury dissolves 5 Where did Pepper Potts get her into oblivion, so count on her coming to the running clothes? rescue in Infinity War part deux. 6 Why didn’t Doctor Strange use A major factor in the sequel will also be the Time Stone to undo Star-Lord’s the absentees from round 1, specifically mega-mess-up? Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye, Paul Rudd’s Ant- 7 If Thanos’ scheme could happen Man, and Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp. Mark with a “snap of the fingers,” why did everyone dissolve so slowly? Ruffalo was mainly Bruce Banner in the cur- rent film, but count on Hulk to be a key 8 Once Thanos set his mind to it, he got all the Infinity Stones in, like, 10 player in the follow-up—as soon as his minutes. Why’d he wait until now? keeper can figure out how to coax him back 9 Why was Hulk Hulked-out in the to the surface. “None of the rules of the past trailer during the Wakanda scene? Hulk and Banner’s relationship apply,” 10 When Thanos kills half the life on Ruffalo says. “They’re in this constant Earth, do animals count? And it’s not struggle for primacy. That struggle is like half the trees in the forest disap- pear. Where’s the line? becoming more and more accentuated.” It’s obvious that some kind of reversal is 11 What if Ant-Man was actually in this movie the whole time, but he was in order since some of the departed heroes just too small to see? have lucrative franchises ahead of them, but 12 When Black Panther says about Cap- the Marvel Studios brain trust promises tain America “get this man a shield,” there will be ramifications that stick. why did they give Cap little plates? “It’s exciting, because you start to even 13 Is Shuri okay? “…what would be helpful,” McFeely adds. think differently about how the characters 14 Should the Guardians of the Galaxy “Or ‘You kinda absolutely have to do are interacting, what characters’ stories are get a new name? Because they this,’ ” Markus says. “A lot of times it worked coming to a close, and what characters’ sto- straight-up did not guard the galaxy. out perfectly.” ries are only just beginning, albeit in 15 If they took a twig off of Thor’s Even though Infinity War and its sequel different ways,” says Marvel Studios presi- new ax, could they regrow Groot? were shot back-to-back last year, directors dent Kevin Feige. There will be a Guardians 16 Does Rocket get Bucky’s arm Joe and Anthony Russo have been warning of the Galaxy Vol. 3, another Spider-Man now that he’s faded away? fans that the first installment would have… stand-alone with Tom Holland, and a return let’s call it finality. “We like to think of them to Black Panther’s kingdom of Wakanda. Captain America, Doctor Strange, and Shuri as two complete narratives. You’re getting “All those stories will continue,” Feige says. two whole films. It’s not like we just “I think they’ll continue in surprisingly dif- chopped them in half,” Joe Russo says. ferent and unexpected ways after these two “Marvel is serialized storytelling, and the Avengers films.” stories continue one movie to the next.” Right now, it’s a matter of letting the The groundbreaking twist of the current dust settle. But from the dust, Earth’s

HAWKEYE: AMERICA, DOCTOR STUDIOS; MARVEL CAPTAIN © STRANGE, SHURI: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© MARVEL STUDIOS 2018 (3) movie is—major spoiler alert—the villain is mightiest heroes will return. X NEWS STORY

Stage  ( Clockwise from left ) Harry Potter Match and the Cursed Broadway has something for everyone Child; this season, but what do this SpongeBob SquarePants:

year’s Tony Awards have in mind for The Musical; CHILD CURSED THE AND HARRY POTTER Broadway? BY MARC SNETIKER Angels in America : MANUEL HARLAN; : MANUEL ANGELS IN AMERICA

The most heated conversation revolves from her 2004 film, has a grool chance to : BRINKHOFF & MÖGENBURG; around hot ticket Harry Potter and the Cursed win Best Book. SpongeBob’s songwriting Child and the acclaimed revival of Angels in team faces tough competition from critical- R America, which lead the pack of plays with 10 darling composer David Yazbek (The Band’s and 11 nods, respectively. Cursed Child’s Visit), but there’s power in numbers: With REMEMBER HARRY POTTER? HE’S UP FOR A Anthony Boyle, who plays beleaguered Scor- a roster of 17 eligible artists from Cyndi SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: THE MUSICAL Tony against Andrew Garfield. SpongeBob pius Malfoy, is a shoo-in for victory as Lauper to John Legend, the spongy score SquarePants might wrench one from Tony Featured Actor; so is costar Noma Dumez- just might be the craziest shared nomina- Shalhoub. Amy Schumer is up against Joan weni, who plays Hermione Granger—unless tion in Tony history—another reason the of Arc, and there’s even some heat between Angels’ Denise Gough cinches the trophy for exceptional unpredictability of this year’s the Rachel McAdams role in Mean Girls and her turn as pill-popping Harper Pitt. Harry race blows past seasons out of the water. the Audrey Hepburn part in My Fair Lady. Potter himself, Jamie Parker, will square off The one sure thing at the 2018 Tonys are This Broadway season, capped off by the against front-runner Andrew Garfield, the show’s hosts—newly minted Broadway

May 1 nominations for the 72nd annual whose role as a New Yorker dying from AIDS veterans Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban, , MEAN GIRLS Tony Awards, is the ultimate manifestation is equally as spellbinding as the grown who will bring their infectious charm (and of a not-so-new rising trend: big merchan- wizard. But then there’s a possible upset by hopefully some music) to the live broadcast : JOAN MARCUS (2); MARCUS : JOAN dise titles like SpongeBob and Frozen sharing The Iceman Cometh’s Denzel Washington, airing June 10 on CBS. X the same theater-district real estate as who could also easily cometh for the prize. intimate dramas like Angels in America and Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants: 

The Band’s Visit (an original tuner, favored The Musical are the year’s most nominated The Band’s Visit’s THE BAND’S VISIT to win Best Musical, starring Shalhoub and musicals (and productions in general) with Katrina Lenk; Mean Girls’ Katrina Lenk). But bulk-budget properties 12 apiece. While the Tonys acknowledged Taylor Louderman did something right beyond bringing in both shows’ anchoring performances— : MATTHEW MURPHY : MATTHEW bank at the box office. The nominations Taylor Louderman as the lead mean girl and include breakout performances not just in surefire Ethan Slater as the lead sponge— prestige pieces but also in shows once pejo- it’s the writing teams that are generating ratively dismissed as “commercial.” major buzz. Tina Fey’s Mean script, adapted

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Ryan Reynolds photo- graphed exclusively for Entertainment Weekly by Finlay Mackay on April 13, 2018, in Los Angeles I FEEL LIKE DEADPOOL CAN’T STAND RYAN REYNOLDS,” jokes, um, Deadpool 2 star Ryan Reynolds of his unfiltered, uncouth superpow- ered antihero. “He can’t defend the decisions he’s made, right down to, like, the shirt-tie combo. I feel like he just doesn’t agree with Ryan Reynolds’ DNA.” And yet Ryan Reynolds is Deadpool. The actor is the face of the film series but also one of its most passionate creative forces, including co-writing Deadpool 2 with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. “Ryan is the keeper of the Deadpool flame,” says When you all were first brainstorming producer Simon Kinberg (2019’s Dark Phoenix). “It’s extraordinary how much the sequel, were there certain things you he fully invests in Deadpool.” It’s not hard to see why: Deadpool premiered in knew you wanted? February 2016 to $132 million, quickly becoming not only the second-highest- Those conversations were happening really grossing R-rated film domestically after The Passion of the Christ (a fact used for early, like on the set of the first Deadpool. comedy in Deadpool 2) but also a new franchise for Reynolds and Twentieth Most of the times we were just pitching Century Fox. “Going in and making a sequel is intimidating. I never planned on utterly absurd scenes, two of which are in doing a sequel,” says director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde), who stepped in after Deadpool 2 now. At the time we were just, Tim Miller helmed the first film. “But to have the opportunity to do Deadpool “What if we did this and that?” It was utter is different in that the world is so fun and irreverent you can kinda go any- nonsense. If someone could have heard us, where.” Deadpool 2, opening May 18, finds the titular red-suited assassin they would have just been like, “Nobody otherwise known as Wade Wilson battling time traveler Cable (Josh Brolin); will make that movie, honey.” But some- protecting a fire-wielding mutant youth named Russell (Hunt for the Wilder- how here we are. people’s Julian Dennison); assembling a motley crew of mutants he calls X-Force, Cable and Domino [Zazie Beetz; see an offshoot of the X-Men; and encountering a smorgasbord of superhero and sidebar, opposite], along with some celebrity cameos. EW talked to Reynolds, 41, about the sequel’s secrets, the surprise characters, are from the comics. franchise’s future, and, naturally, the importance of Barbra Streisand’s Yentl. Is the plot based on a particular story line from the Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza comic series?

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Luck is indeed a lady in Deadpool 2.Inorderto boost his odds of defeating Cable, Deadpool forms a new team of mutants called X-Force. His best chance (pun intended) is Domino, played by Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz. The laid- back, sarcastic killer is like a walking Final Destination set piece. “The probability is always in her favor,” explains Beetz. “So she can, like, shoot at stuf behind her back with- out looking and she just hits it.” ( From top ) Beetz similarly hits the bull’s- Deadpool eye with her performance and attempts to calm steals every scene she’s in. “I the mutant Russell (Julian just loved her attitude with the Dennison); character,” says Ryan Reynolds. X-Force prepare “There’s something really funny to do something cinematic about putting her in situations where there’s nothing but calamity and chaos, because she sort of just hangs back Kind of. We knew we wanted to introduce Josh Brolin told me part of why he and has almost this, like, Cable and Domino. Introducing other took this movie is that he’s a huge Saturday-evening, Matthew X-Force members was something that fan of The Proposal [see sidebar, McConaughey attitude about everything.” It’s the biggest film happened organically a lot closer to shoot- next page]. role to date for the 26-year-old ing. We knew we wanted to tell this story Yes, he’s mentioned it many times, which actress, and she admits she about this kid [Russell]. The first movie is is weird to me because he’s so tough. took it very seriously. Says Beetz: “I felt very scholarly on a love story masquerading as a comic-book I would just never imagine that. Like, he that set. I kind of sat back and movie, and this one is kind of a family film pretends he’s, like, all sort of New Agey just sort of absorbed every- masquerading as a comic-book film again. sometimes and all this stuff, but deep thing around me.” —TIM STACK Did your own daughters inspire that? down inside I just think his heart is made Additional reporting by Chancellor Agard The genesis of it was “What if Deadpool of some, like, jagged chunk of Yosemite had a child?” Like, what if we started five granite. I don’t buy that underneath all years later and what would that be like? By this textured skin is a sweet little angel page 1.5, it was totally untenable. We were that loves romantic comedies. I don’t buy just like, “Nope. Nope. No, no, no. This is it. Not for a second. never, ever going to work.” We went back He is insanely ripped in this film. Did you

: 2OTH CENTURY (2) FOX to the drawing board and kind of reworked train with him? it in a way about wanting to have a child, I don’t know how he did it. We didn’t train which is something that so many people I together, not even once. We talked a lot DEADPPOOL 2 DEADPPOOL know experience on a daily basis—want- about, like, how they shouldn’t just dis- ing to have a child but can’t. We wanted pense [arthritis drug] Celebrex in pill the emotion, the pain, to take everything bottles: It should come in smoothies and away from this guy, put him in a position sprays—you could have one that’s sort of being the underdog. Then at least the of like a skin toner that you just fire on audience can have the most fun, because your face. this is a guy that had everything and was There’s a running joke in this movie that just Captain America-ing his way around “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” from Yentl the world. He wouldn’t be able to be the sounds just like “Do You Want to Build a Merc With a Mouth—he would have to be Snowman?” from Frozen. Is that because the Merc With a Virtue, and that’s not Brolin’s stepmother is Barbra Streisand?

DENNISON AND REYNOLDS: JOE LEDERER/2OTH CENTURY FOX; CENTURY LEDERER/2OTH JOE REYNOLDS: AND DENNISON what we wanted to do. This is a sore spot for me, because there’s THE a joke that is not in the movie now bombshell that I think we need to exploit CABLE because—I’m probably not even allowed somewhere in this movie.” GUY to say this—Fox made me take it out. There’s been some concern that Dead- It had more to do with Disney, and they pool is a hard-R-rated series, and Disney made me take it out. As I look back at it, might not like that. Have you been given I think maybe that was a wise decision. any afirmations about the future of the Ryan Reynolds may need franchise? to send Sandra Bullock a [Disney acquired 21st Century Fox in gift basket. The pair’s 2009 December 2017.] No, nothing. I really genuinely don’t romantic comedy The Proposal Yes, probably. know a thing about it. I read that [CEO was one of the key elements in landing Josh Brolin as Cable in [The Yentl/Frozen comparison] is some- and chairman] Bob Iger felt that there’s Deadpool 2. “I was a secret fan thing that’s been bugging me for a number plenty of room in that universe to have a of The Proposal, having of years. I have children, so I listen to the rated-R character like Deadpool. This is watched it several times by myself,” says Brolin, 50, cur- songs of these Disney movies. I heard this completely conjecture on my part, but I rently on screen as Thanos in song on this particular Disney movie and I wouldn’t imagine that Disney bought Avengers: Infinity War. “I told thought, “Boy, that sounds familiar.” It so Fox to dismantle it or something like that. Ryan. I was like, ‘I don’t know why this is, and I don’t know happens that the week before I had been I think that Disney bought Fox so it could what this means psychologi- watching Yentl and I thought, “That is a have that in its arsenal. cally, behaviorally, emotionally, but I have kind of a crush on you.’ ” Cable, though, is much less friendly. A time-traveling warrior from the future, Cable arrives in Deadpool 2 to kill a mutant who will eventually wreak havoc years from now. I DON’T KNOW Brolin had only 11 weeks to transform his body to play the THAT THERE ripped badass and admits it was a bit much. “What I should WOULD BE A have done was just f---ing blow myself up with steroids and DEADPOOL 3. then just eat ice cream and watch TV,” jokes Brolin. “That’s kind of what I wish I would I REALLY have done. But I didn’t. I had this great midlife-crisis idea. DON’T.” Buy a Ferrari? No, I’ll get into shape. And it was just a dumb decision. I worked out three hoursaday,andIwasof sugar. I’m very happy with the outcome. I think I want to do something a little diferent in the next movie. I think I wanna get a little bigger and see what that’s like.” Size matters. —TIM STACK DARK PHOENIX THE NEW MUTANTS X-FORCE 143 GAMBIT Feb. 14, 2019 Aug. 2, 2019 Release date TBA Release date TBA Release date TBA Based on the classic Director Josh Boone Drew Goddard (The Comic-book author The Channing Tatum- X-Men story line, Simon (The Fault in Our Stars) Cabin in the Woods)will Brian Michael Bendis starring movie about the Kinberg’s directorial opted for a horror-based write and direct the is writing this secret Cajun mutant with MARKS debut is going back for approach to the comic team film featuring project rumored to be kinetic powers keeps THE additional photography series about young Deadpool. Says pro- about Kitty Pryde, the losing directors, but this summer. “It’s normal mutants. But the film, ducer Kinberg: “Drew, mutant who can walk Kinberg says they’ve SPOT for all these big movies which stars Game of Ryan, and I sat down and through walls, played by made some progress now,” he says. “We’ll go Thrones’ Maisie Williams, talked quite a bit about Ellen Page in XMen: The recently: “We have a After Deadpool 2, back when we can get has been pushed back what X-Force would be, Last Stand and XMen: really great script for all those actors together, multiple times and is but we haven’t settled Days of Future Past.Tim that, and we’ve met with here’s where the and then it will give me reportedly undergoing on who those characters Miller (Deadpool)is a bunch of directors in X-Men franchise enough time to have it heavy reshoots, includ- are yet. But certainly slated to direct. the last couple of ilms (last) stand ready and looking ing possibly adding a we’d want Cable and weeks.” —TIM STACK perfect.” new character. Domino to be part of it.”

We won’t spoil it, but a huge star cameos character, in order for him to function Yes, but hold on a second. I don’t as a member of X-Force. How did this properly within his own universe, you understand why nobody brings this up: happen? need to take everything away from him. I He’s alive and well in my timeline. There is I sort of had met him before, and wrote don’t think that you can keep doing that. I a Logan running around out there with a him a very thoughtful letter as to why I do see him as being a part of X-Force, little bushy chest and his little sharpy, think this would be really fun, and funny, obviously. I would love to see him in a sharpy claws, and he is alive and well and and would require no more than seven team-up sort of thing, like a mano a mano ready to go. I would love that. I think minutes of your time, and we could come or a great female character from the convincing Hugh of that would be a to you, whatever you want. Somehow the X-Men universe. I just think if you’re going near-impossible feat, but there’s no human answer was yes. That was it. He said, “I’d to do another Deadpool solo film, you’ve being I love more than Hugh Jackman in like to be paid in a Starbucks coffee,” and got to really, like, get that budget down to that universe, and equally so as a friend. I said, “You mean the franchise or just, nothing and just swing for the fences, and He’s just the best. I already miss him as like, one individual beverage? Because the break all kinds of weird barriers, and do Logan, so I’m one of those guys that latter I can do.” stuff that no one else can do. whenever I see him I’m like, “Come on, During production, stuntwoman Joi “SJ” This movie introduces time travel. Logan, man. Just one more. Come on. We’ll do Harris died as the result of a motorcycle obviously, ended with Wolverine’s death, it together. It’ll be fun. Come on! On accident. What would you like to say but does that give you hope that you and three. Here we go, together. One, two, about that? Hugh Jackman could finally do the Wol- three, together,” and it’s always just me I don’t know what there is to say other verine/Deadpool movie that fans want? saying it. than it was just a horrible tragedy in the worst possible way. I still don’t have clar- Ryan Reynolds with Deadpool 2 director David Leitch ity or all the details as to what happened, and honestly they’re still investigating the

: CLAIRE FOLGER/20TH CENTURY FOX; KITTY PRYDE: things that happened. It was on our sec- ond unit. I never even got to meet her, and

: © 2009 MARVEL. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED : RIGHTS ALL MARVEL. 2009 © from everything I’ve heard about her since this tragedy, I know now that I would have THE NEW MUTANTS NEW THE loved to have met her. She did amazing things and broke boundaries that nobody else had broken, and she was an incredibly inspiring person to a lot of people. I don’t

XMEN ORIGINS COMIC: GAMBIT know what else I could say about that : 20TH CENTURY (4); FOX other than it was just sad. Nobody ever should lose their life on a film set, ever.

DARK PHOENIX Wade will be part of the X-Force film that Drew Goddard is writing. But have you

, LEITCH, all thought about Deadpool 3 yet? I don’t know that there would be a Dead- DEADPOOL 2 DEADPOOL ALAN MARKFIELD/20TH CENTURY FOX; CENTURY ALAN MARKFIELD/20TH pool 3. I really don’t. I feel like the BEFORE MAKING A BIG-SCREEN BREAKOUT IN BREAKING IN (OUT MAY 11, THE 45-YEAR-OLD ACTRESS BREAKS DOWN THE MOST MEMORABLE ROLES OF HER 25-YEAR CAREER. SO, LET’S BRING IT ON. BY DEREK LAWRENCE @DEREKJLAWRENCE

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10 THINGS I HATE SHE’S ALL THAT BRING IT ON ABOUT YOU After wrapping 10 Things, Union went Union completed a generation’s holy trinity Though she already had five years’ worth straight into shooting another teen classic of high school movies the following year, and of TV gigs on her résumé, Union’s film that turned out to be just as delightful. “That like the previous two projects, she remem- debut was still “mildly intimidating”: The whole summer was no egos, a lot of humil- bers how much she enjoyed the production, then 26-year-old was worried about playing ity, and f---ing fun,” says Union, who starred but also realizes the film’s significance. “At a high school sophomore alongside opposite Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh the time, I was struggling to learn choreogra- costars Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon- Cook, and Paul Walker. “What we forget phy, I wasn’t thinking about the larger mes- Levitt, who were still in their teens. Luckily about as we get older is we’re living the sage,“ she admits. “This was a very subversive these “kid vets,” as Union afectionately dream, like this s--- is fun.” That fun included film about cultural appropriation and white calls them, taught her how to be profes- impromptu bar trips with the late Fast & privilege—provided there is blond hair and sional and talented in the “most eficient Furious actor. “He was so beautiful; you walk blue eyes attached.” The actress notes that way possible.... I always speak of that expe- in and every head turned—men and she found it “interesting” when fans viewed rience as such a magical time, because I women,” she says of Walker. “And he had her captain of the East Compton Clovers as really thought that was how every movie this super disarming, chill surfer smile. We’d the film’s villain. “The leader of a movement experience was going to be for me—and it just sit at the bar for hours, having a beer to make these suburban girls accountable for was not,” she says with a laugh. “But that and cracking up. It’s those little things that the theft of our hard work is called a villain?” : KEN JACQUES/UNIVERSAL/ KEN : first one, it just set the bar so high.” you take for granted.” posits Union. “I think that’s very, very telling.” BRING IT ON

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: EVERETT: COLLECTION; BREAKING IN BEING MARY JANE BAD BOYS II After more than two decades in the indus- Before bringing Sydney to TV, Union will The role of DEA agent Sydney Burnett in try, Union is finally the face of a major stu- wrap her five-year run as Mary Jane Paul on Michael Bay’s Bad Boys sequel was a job dio film. Still, the opportunity to star as the BET original series, a role she was wor- “everyone and their mother wanted,”

: UNIVERSAL PICTURES; Shaun Russell—a mother trying to rescue ried would never come. “After reading the says Union, noting that stars Will Smith and her children from home intruders—was a pilot for Scandal, I really felt like, ‘Wow, is Martin Lawrence both embraced her like a scary proposition. “That first day on set there really only going to be one dope, little sister. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, my 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU ABOUT HATE I THINGS 10

BREAKING IN BREAKING should have felt exhilarating, and all I felt nuanced, complex role for black women?’ ” career is about to take of—this is it!’ And was an immense amount of pressure, [like] recalls Union. Then Mary Jane creator Mara then I waited and I waited and I waited.” I really can’t f--- this up, because that Brock Akil and her husband and EP, Salim Tired of waiting—and after a night of drink- means a loss of opportunity for the next Akil, came along: “They were like, ‘No, we ing and rifing on what her character might generation,” says the actress. “White actors created another that we hope spawns be up to now—Union brought the idea for a have failed repeatedly and failed into more more.’ ” Sadly, Union and Kerry Washington’s Sydney-focused spin-of to Bad Boys pro- opportunity, but as people of color, we’re characters will sign of for good within a few ducer Jerry Bruckheimer. And while Bad not given the opportunity or the space to months of each other. “To lose Olivia Pope Boys 3 has been stuck in development hell, try and be average or to try and fail…. Suc- and Mary Jane Paul in the same year is dev- a TV series was given a pilot order by NBC. cess breeds more, and if I’m not a success, astating for a lot of people who wanted to If all goes well, L.A.’s Finest, costarring BEACON/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; UNION: NINO MUNOZ/CPI SYNDICATION; MUNOZ/CPI NINO UNION: I pray to God that that doesn’t mean less.” be seen and represented in pop culture.” Jessica Alba, should be out later this year.

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Though it aired for eight EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS; MAKEUP: AGOSTINA/MAC DUFFY ARTISTS COSMETICS/EXCLUSIVE too early, especially after seeing “too many seasons on CBS, the ’80s shows that had overstayed their welcome.” So, sitcom Newhart, which in the spring of 1990, writers began crafting an episode about a Japanese tycoon who buys up was recently honored the whole town to turn it into a golf resort. Other than Dick and Joanna, everyone took buyouts by the Paley Center, will and moved away, including Michael (Peter Sco- forever be remembered lari) and his wife, Stephanie (Julia Duffy), as well T as the hapless Larry (William Sanderson) and his for the side-splitting seemingly mute brothers named Darryl (Tony finale in which a discom- Papenfuss and John Voldstad). bobulated Bob Newhart BOB BENDETSON (producer, 1988–90) We woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette, his TV wife from went broad. We had a Japanese man want- The Bob Newhart Show ing to build a vertical golf course, which his previous series, . Hulu is now made no sense to anybody. Then we jumped streaming the first season of the comedy about a New five years. There was no other reason we wrote the finale that way than to make it York writer named Dick (Newhart who runs an inn ; PROP STYLIST: ANTHONY ALTOMARE easier to come up with jokes. /EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS; NEWHART in rural Vermont with his wife, Joanna (the late Mary SCOLARI That was the first and only time the

Frann . Newhart and his fellow actors and writers look Darryl brothers ever spoke. Their three /BUMBLE AND BUMBLE/ back at the legendary final episode and give credit wives were chattering on, so they finally turn and yell, “Quiet!” That set Bob up to where it’s due. Their recollections are as remarkable say, “Your brothers can speak?” One of as the characters who populated the quirky sitcom. those three actresses was Lisa Kudrow.

30 EW.COM MAY 11, 2018 DUFFY I do remember some group hug in the  ( Clockwise episode. It was an echo of the last Mary from far left ) Sanderson, Tyler Moore Show. I just love that. Newhart, BENDETSON and Duffy; The one who came up with the the cast; idea for the final scene was not any of us. Newhart and wife Ginny; [Writer Dan O’Shannon gave us the idea Newhart and Pleshette during the previous season. in the finale O’SHANNON It looked like it was going to be the reveal final year. Shortly before I popped up with this, there was the ending on St. Elsewhere, where it turned out the entire series was the vision of an autistic kid looking into the snow globe. So it occurred to me, Why not have Bob wake up as Bob from the first series? I went into the writers’ room and told them. They said it was great. The executive produc- ers called up Bob, who apparently loved it. It looked like a go. But then Newhart was picked up for another season, and I went to Cheers. NEWHART JFK once said victory has a thou- sand fathers and defeat is an orphan. This is the true story of how the show ended. It was in the sixth year of the show, and my wife, Ginny, and I were going to a party. I said, “I think this is going to be the last year SCOLARI It was the loudest reaction I had shooting the additional scene with her— of Newhart.” Suzanne Pleshette was at this ever heard from a studio audience. They she realized it would have been a letdown party, so Ginny said, “I think I have the screamed and howled and broke into this from the Pleshette scene. I thought that ending. You should wake up in bed with tumultuous applause that did not stop. was gracious and also realistic of her. Suzanne and explain to her this dream you What you see in the final edit is a cut ver- SCOLARI Bob went so far as to plant a fake had.” So I gave it to the writers. sion because the applause was unnaturally story in the National Enquirer that in the DUFFY The writers came to a few of us when long. It was very exciting. final episode his character is going to die Bob wasn’t present and told us the idea. But O’SHANNON It’s a little-known fact that they and meet God, and God was going to be you can see two people coming up with it. shot an additional scene where Newhart played by either George C. Scott or George O’SHANNON Here’s my thought. I believe, wakes up back at the inn with Mary Frann, Burns. Bob was so pleased with himself for yeah, Ginny probably came up with it years the idea being he dreamed about waking up having scammed the Enquirer. His manager, before I was even on the show and forgot with Suzanne first. They wanted to please Artie Price, planted the story. about it. But it’s not like Bob ever came into the female lead of the show, though they DUFFY I do hope people will talk about the the writers’ room and told us. never intended to run it. I know because I other 183 episodes. There were gems in BENDETSON It’s like, all right, whatever you was there. I was invited to the finale there. If we didn’t have this iconic last epi- guys want to believe. because they still liked me, and I did come sode, these things would get brought up NEWHART The crew didn’t know about it the up with a pretty nice idea . and talked about sometimes. But we always night of the finale. We did a run-through, BENDETSON I’m not 100 percent sure, but I talk about the finale. the crew went to dinner, and when they don’t believe that scene was ever shot. SANDERSON Somebody asked me at the end: came back, we told them we added a After the scene with Suzanne Pleshette that “Do you think this is the pinnacle of your : CBS/EVERETT COLLECTION; BOB, VIRGINIA NEWHART: MPTV IMAGES scene. We just told them to keep filming, received such a huge response from the career?” I kinda laughed. No, I didn’t think

NEWHART whatever happens. audience, Mary told us not to bother that. But it may have been. NEWHART There was a lot of sniffling during that final week. I always introduced them as the best cast on television, but when I said it before the finale, I choked up because I realized it was going to be the last time. It’s a terrible cliché, but we were a family. We just laughed and laughed over eight wonderful years. X

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Twenty years ago, DARREN STAR INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO FOUR UNFORGETTABLE, UNAPOLOGETICALLY same: “You have to do characterization as the “smart one” meant, SINGLE WOMEN. TELEVISION—AND this.” She worried if she in Hollywood code, the “not pretty one,” STANDARDS FOR ACCEPTABLE BRUNCH did TV, she wouldn’t which, in Hollywood, didn’t appeal to every TALK—WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME. IN HER be able to do plays and candidate for the part. NEW BOOK, SEX AND THE CITY AND US, movies—her career had Respected actor Cynthia Nixon, however, FORMER EW WRITER JENNIFER KEISHIN allowed her a variety didn’t harbor such vanity. Nixon, thirty-one ARMSTRONG (SEINFELDIA) UNCOVERS of challenges up until at the time, had her share of conventional THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE HBO SHOW. this point. But everyone beauty—strawberry blonde hair, translu- THIS EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT DETAILS HOW she consulted insisted cent pale skin, gray-blue eyes. But of the Sex and the City was the Miranda role, she said, “I was excited about SARAH JESSICA PARKER, CYNTHIA NIXON, right path. playing somebody who was so angry, bitter, KRISTIN DAVIS, AND KIM CATTRALL Finally, Parker relented. and cynical because, having been a child LANDED THEIR ICONIC ROLES. But she was starring on actor with long blond hair, I was always Broadway as Princess playing sweet, waiflike, hippie characters. It Winnifred in Once Upon a was nice to grow out of that.” Mattress and was about to She’d go on to attend Barnard College. In get married. She and Broderick would need 1984, while a freshman, she appeared in two time to have their wedding, and then she Broadway plays at the same time, Hurly- A New Kind of TV Woman wanted to finish the final two weeks of the burly and The Real Thing, a likely Broadway play before filming began. first. After graduation from Barnard in 1988 Sarah Jessica Parker wasn’t sure she wanted The Sex and the City pilot started shoot- (along with future Gilmore Girls actress to commit to a TV series. But she agreed to ing early in the morning on Tuesday, June 2, Lauren Graham), she returned to Broadway meet with Darren Star in March of 1997 at 1997—two days after the last performance in Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles E.A.T., a restaurant on the Upper East Side of Parker’s play. and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Mil- owned by Eli Zabar. Its bagels, sandwiches, Before then, Star would have to find his lennium Approaches and Angels in America: and matzo ball soup are legendary. As Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha. Perestroika. She scored her first Tony nomi- Parker and Star lunched, he told her that nation as part of the original cast of Jean when he wrote the script, he heard Carrie in Making Miranda Cocteau’s Indiscretions in 1995. A theater Parker’s voice. She didn’t hear it herself, but nerd, she said she wanted her funeral to fea- she was flattered and delighted. She did find Casting the part of Miranda Hobbes, one of ture Judy Garland’s “I Happen to Like New the script compelling—seductive, even. She Carrie’s three friends, proved tricky in York.” In the two decades previous to Sex had never read anything like it. And her other ways. Star swiped the character’s and the City, she appeared in twenty-five EVERETT COLLECTION (2) agent loved it. name from one of the many cynical women plays on and off Broadway. She had conditions, however, for consid- featured in [Candace] Bushnell’s columns, While Nixon had never done sex scenes ering the role. She didn’t want Carrie to but he elaborated from there, making her before, she didn’t mind nudity. Her previ- throw around the word “f---” just because a career-focused lawyer who appears ous roles hadn’t required it, but, as she later the show was on cable. She hoped Carrie to have given up on love. But Miranda’s explained, she breastfed her newborn would be thoughtful about language, given her profession as a writer. No problem, Star told her. She had [another] concern: the sex ( From left ) Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kim Cattrall; creator Darren Star and Parker part of Sex and the City. “I just don’t see that it’s important,” she said of doing nudity. “But we should have that conversation.” Star assured her neither he nor HBO would require her to do anything she didn’t want to. “If you want to wear a bra and roll around in bed with somebody, and that’s what makes you comfortable, then that’s what you shall do,” Parker recalls Star saying. After the lunch with Star, Parker dis- cussed the project with [her then-fiancé Matthew] Broderick, as well as her oldest brother and her agent. They all reacted the

34 EW.COM MAY 11, 2018 daughter on the subway; she didn’t see on- her on Seinfeld as Jerry’s girlfriend who Dream On and loved it. But this series came screen nudity any differently. unknowingly uses a toothbrush that’s been with too many unknowns for her: Like Parker, She was perfect for the part except for dropped in the toilet—so Star knew she she resisted commitment to a series. She one thing: She was blond. As Carrie, Parker could do comedy. She had a sense of humor didn’t know where this character could go. would be blond, or at least blondish. For as well as a sense of propri- She felt self-conscious about another of Carrie’s friends, Samantha, Star ety, and her expressive face playing a sexy role at forty- was hoping to get Kim Cattrall, who was showed even the tiniest tick one. She’d read a little more also blond. Three blondes seemed like…a of outrage. As Star says, than half of Bushnell’s book, lot of blondes. Star thought of the lawyer “There’s just something but couldn’t stomach any who had helped to inspire the Miranda about throwing a pie in the more than that, so over- character; she had bright red hair. face of a beautiful girl.” whelming was its cynical Nixon agreed to dye her hair red. Miranda Because Parker was still mood. And she felt her Hobbes had arrived. indecisive about signing on actor-boyfriend didn’t like at the time, when Davis the idea of her playing liber- Choosing Charlotte received a copy of the Sex tine Samantha Jones either. and the City pilot script, it In short, the role had lit- Kristin Davis, meanwhile, had been await- came with a cover letter tle to recommend itself to ing The One in Los Angeles. She had gotten from Star that asked her to Kim Cattrall. She’d had a her early break on the soap opera General consider reading for the role of Carrie. But long Hollywood career playing sex objects Hospital in 1991, then took her soap skills to Davis shut down when she read Star’s in movies such as Mannequin and Police Star’s nighttime drama Melrose Place, her description of Carrie as having “the body of Academy, and now she was looking for a role first major prime-time job. She’d appeared Heather Locklear and the mind of Dorothy that would catapult her beyond that. She in memorable guest roles on Seinfeld and Parker.” All Davis could think was, I am did not believe this was it. The Larry Sanders Show. But she was still never in a hundred million years going to have When Cattrall declined, Star cast Lou looking for the right role to challenge her the body of Heather Locklear. The character Thornton, a Phoebe Cates-like actress and grant her career some stability. She also smoked and swore a fair amount— who’d appeared on a guest spot on Friends believed that Carrie’s second friend, the before Parker shifted the character a and as a cast member of Jenny McCarthy’s optimistic-in-love art dealer Charlotte bit—which felt outside Davis’s boundaries. MTV sketch show. Star liked Thornton York, could be it. She thought, Carrie’s fantastic, but I’m and thought she was brash and funny. But Star knew Davis from Melrose and per- Charlotte. he couldn’t shake the feeling that she ceived an innocence and “old-fashioned When Davis told her agents she was more wasn’t Samantha. quality” beneath her glossy surface. Before interested in the secondary role, they tried Still, Cattrall didn’t identify with the he had ever conceived of the character of to talk her out of it. But then Parker com- character he was asking her to play. Her sex Charlotte, he thought of Davis as “the Rules mitted to the Carrie part anyway, so Davis life had not, overall, set the world on fire girl.” He could see her as the quintessential went in to read for Charlotte. like Samantha’s; in fact, for most of her life, traditional woman, and he could see the When she returned home, the call finally she later wrote, her sexual experiences had humor in offending her. He’d also watched came: “You got it. But they might want to been “unfulfilling.” She took longer to get make Charlotte a recurring character, not a over an intimate relationship than Saman- regular character.” She thought, Ew, but tha did. But Cattrall also had faith Samantha okay. She figured she would do everything could change and grow, should the series possible to stay on the show, and at least continue long enough. she had gotten a shot. She would go to Man- Star told Cattrall that he couldn’t guaran- hattan to shoot the pilot of Sex and the City tee anything except that she’d have a say in with three other women, and it would, she her character’s trajectory. He told her he believed, change her life. genuinely believed the show could be “something special.” His honesty got to her. Seducing Samantha Later that day she told HBO she was in. And she soon left the boyfriend whom she felt When Kim Cattrall first got the pilot script didn’t like her playing Samantha. X from her agent asking her to read for Saman-

tha, she passed on it. She didn’t mind that the From SEX AND THE CITY AND US: How Four Single Women show was set to air on HBO; she had done an Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Copyright ©2018 by Jennifer Keishin episode of the network’s early-’90s comedy Armstrong. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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motherhood and the sunny nanny who Tully swoops in to save the day—Mary Poppins meets a sarcastic eye-roll emoji. Tully STARRING DIRECTED BY is that…kind of. But it’s also something Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis Jason Reitman weirder and ultimately more interesting. Theron stars as Marlo, a former Brooklyn RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY free spirit who once upon a time got mar- R 1 hr., 36 mins. Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty ried and moved to the suburbs and now finds herself as a put-upon, stressed-out mother of two with a third on the way. Her KIMBERLY FRENCH/FOCUS FEATURESKIMBERLY FRENCH/FOCUS SOMETIMES A PINCH OF THE UNEXPECTED CAN MAKE husband, played (or rather, nicely under- all the difference. Take the new Charlize Theron movie played) by Ron Livingston, means well, but Tully, which was written by Diablo Cody and directed he’s largely absent at work all day while she by Jason Reitman, the creative team behind 2007’s Juno teeters on the knife’s edge of losing it, and 2011’s Young Adult. Based on the trailers currently whether it’s from her son incessantly kick- in rotation on TV, the film looks like an acerbically ing the back of her car seat or the judgy fizzy comedy about the stretched-thin hardships of comments of other moms.

36 EW.COM MAY 11, 2018 REEL Judd’s Law Ashley Judd has NEWS filed suit against Harvey Weinstein in Los Angeles for damaging her career.

Doll Parts The Conjuring universe will expand for a third Annabelle movie on July 3, 2019.

Life of the Party‘s Debby Ryan, Then Marlo’s rich-jerk brother (Mark Gillian Duplass) passes along the phone number of Jacobs, Melissa a recommended night nanny and, as a gift to McCarthy, Jessie her for when she gives birth, insists on pay- Ennis, and ing for the service—a move that, to Marlo, Molly Gordon reeks of condescension. She also interprets it as a dig at her ability to juggle it all. But after too many sleepless nights filled with spilled breast milk and toes stabbed by A Family Portrait LEGO blocks, she gives in. And after dinner one night, salvation arrives in the form of Tully (Halt and Catch Fire’s Mackenzie of Party Girls Davis), a smiling, funky, New Agey twenty- In Life of the Party (out May 11), housewife Deanna (Melissa McCarthy) something panacea in a belly shirt. Marlo heads back to school—at the same time as her daughter, Maddie (Molly Gordon)—to finish her degree, an experience that’s full of fun, gets her first decent night’s sleep in years romance, and sorority sisters like Helen (Gillian Jacobs). Directed by Ben and wakes up to a spotless house. Falcone, McCarthy’s husband, it was a lively family afair. BY MIA MC NIECE As Marlo, Theron reaches deep and sells every scene with desperation, exhaustion, and, yes, humor. In our society, there’s How did you guys bond bedazzled. It was one professional, really something almost transgressive in admit- on and of of the set? where I felt very mom- fun, and really powerful GILLIAN JACOBS Quickly. ish—at the last minute, young women, espe- ting that motherhood doesn’t always feel Weirdly! Melissa’s a great I ordered everyone’s cially having two like a “blessing”; being honest about how hostess—she had all dresses for the scene, daughters. hard and occasionally unrewarding it is of us to her house right and they came and awaywhenwegotdown everyone wanted a dif- What is your advice is the ultimate taboo. Maybe that’s why to Atlanta. We had a pool ferent outfit. It just on staying true to Theron’s performance feels as charged as a party. They just picked worked out. [To Jacobs] yourself as you go downed power line. Meanwhile, Cody, who such nice people for us You were the most glam- through the business? all to work with. It was orous country & western MCCARTHY You have to until now has been more comfortable traf- so easy to bond. singer I’ve ever seen. listen to yourself and ficking in hipster quips and prickly archness, MELISSA MCCARTHY It stay in integrity. Watch has written a story with real characters that doesn’t always happen, Since the film is about whose career and life but everyone clicked going back to school you want to emulate. doesn’t feel like a pose or placed in air immediately. Then it’s and learning new And realize you some- quotes. Cody has matured and become less just silly that it’s a job. things, what’s some- timeshavetosayno. superficial without giving up any of her gift But don’t tell anyone. thing you learned MOLLY GORDON I’m so We should have said from the shoot? new to all this, and it for finding humor in the absurd. She’s also it’s hard and grueling! MCCARTHY Being was the most incredible become bolder. Without revealing too much around that many young experience because of about the finale of the film, Tully takes some What part of the shoot women, it gave me great these two women, and felt most like a party? hope. You always get they’re who I want to be. seriously unexpected detours. It may not MCCARTHY There’s an [a bad] rap when some- Melissa and Ben are end up being the quirky slice of misanthropy ’80s-themed party one says something like incredible leaders—they the trailers are hawking. But that’s okay, scene. There was hair for “That’s an awfully young made me comfortable B+ days. Everybody was so cast,” and you think it’ll and loved. because Tully’s better than that movie. be exhausting. It gave me hope for the future. DID YOU LOVE TULLY? You might also like Martin I felt really lucky to be

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MARVEL STARS films: the lesbian sex culture needs to change,” UP THE ANTE dramedy Duck Butter— said Sybrina Fulton, Tray- shot with costar Alia von’s mother. “The hatred In her best work to date, Shawkat over a period of that goes on in this coun- Creed and Thor: Ragnarok 24 hours—and Maine, star Tessa Thompson gives try needs to change. a gorgeously composed a masterfully nuanced per- We want to make sure that character study about a formance in Little Woods we’re a part of that pair of hikers traversing the as a former drug pusher change [with this show].” Appalachian Trail. Costa’s struggling to make ends quick wit, improvisational THE RACHEL meet against the backdrop DIVIDE TRANSCENDS prowess, and charming of a fracking-ravaged town CONTROVERSY intensity are the makings in North Dakota. of a future superstar. And in one of the most One of the best films of assured feature-length TRAYVON MARTIN’S the year comes in the most directorial debuts in recent PARENTS CRITICIZE unexpected package. memory, Karen Gillan solid- “GUN CULTURE” Laura Brownson uses con- AT ROUSING REST troversial “transracial” ified herself as a filmmaker IN POWER WORLD to watch with The Party’s PREMIERE pariah Rachel Dolezal as Just Beginning. Describing a springboard from which this haunting tale of suicide, The powerful Jay-Z- to mount a deeply moving the Guardians of the Galaxy produced docuseries dive into social issues actress says the film is her brought Tribeca audiences of white privilege, color-

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AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Zoe Saldana W There is something thrilling about watching just how much : SHUDDER/NEON : fun the Russos and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are having messing with the fans here. B REVENGE RBG  Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West Starring Ruth Bader Ginsburg L RBG is a smart, spiky valentine to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—celebrating the scrunchie-wearing octogenarian not just as a folk hero and millennial meme but as a wife, a warrior, and a true iconoclast. A

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OVERBOARD  Directed by Bob Fisher and Rob Greenberg Starring Anna Faris, Eugenio Derbez, Eva Longoria W The Mom star on the comedy remake: “My character is a single mother with a lot of struggles.... We’re taking a movie that’s beloved and updating the themes and messages.”

THE SEAGULL  Directed by Michael Mayer Starring Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Corey Stoll L For this film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play, Annette Bening says that a camera “can sneak into moments that the stage just can’t.” She plays selfish actress mother Irina. : METRO GOLDWYN MAYER PICTURES/PANTELION FILMS; PICTURES/PANTELION MAYER GOLDWYN METRO :

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ANON  Directed by Andrew Niccol Starring Clive Owen, Amanda Seyfried N Anon is “Cambridge Analytica on crack,” says writer- director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, The Host). “I always wanted

: MAGNOLIA PICTURES; to do a movie about privacy and the fact that there was never a war for privacy, because we already lost.” RBG

BEAST  Directed by Michael Pearce Starring Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn L “This is a love story wrapped in a rebellion against conservatism,” says Jessie Buckley. “We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.”

:© MARVEL STUDIOS 2018; STUDIOS MARVEL :© REVENGE  Directed by Coralie Fargeat Starring Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe L A rich playboy’s mistress (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) goes from hunted to hunter in Coralie Fargeat’s stylish, bloody, and excruciatingly tense payback thriller. B+ AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

KEY L > LIMITED RELEASE W > WIDE RELEASE N > NETFLIX Summer Box Office Roller Coaster Which movie is coming out in the next few months where you’re like, “Take my money”? Chances are some other filmgoers think the same way. Here’s how ticket buying has gone for the past few years. BY KATIE HASTY

YOU DON’T NEED A CRYSTAL BALL OR AN INFINITY STONE TO KNOW non-franchise titles to lead week after week in sales, even when the how summer movies might pan out at the box office (even if the numbers aren’t all that Jurassic. Spikes and troughs in domestic box films get panned). office grosses have been fairly consistent in recent years, so we etched In middle months, when school’s out, families visit—and revisit— out what that’s looked like for the past three. How do you think dark, cool movie theaters for kid-friendly titles. In the past 10 years, Deadpool  (May), Ocean’s 8 (June), The First Purge (July), or Crazy Marvel has been nearly synonymous with May. August is the time for Rich Asians (August) will fare this year? ENTERTAINMENT AND (2); UNIVERSAL PICTURES STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON OUTTA STRAIGHT

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FINALE PREVIEW FAIRY TALE ENDING The cast and team behind Once Upon a Time reflect on the past seven seasons as their drama reaches its happily ever after (May 18 at 8 p.m. on ABC). BY NATALIE ABRAMS

“OH MAN I’M FIRED. GUYS I THINK THIS might be my last day!” Once Upon a Time is in its final days of production, and Ginnifer Goodwin is feeling punchy after flubbing a Despite being the brainchild of Lost writ- to fail. Instead, Once went on to be one of line during a pivotal scene. Her Snow White ers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, ABC’s top performers, lasting seven seasons. stands before our beloved heroes at a mas- Once’s premise—Snow White and Prince “It’s about fairy-tale characters, but the writ- sive war-room table, giving a rousing Charming’s (Josh Dallas) daughter Emma ers have written the show in such a way that speech about hope as a great evil threatens Swan (Morrison) returns after 28 years to really goes to the heart of everybody,” says to steal their happy endings once and for rescue a sandbox variety of legendary liter- Colin O’Donoghue, who joined the show in all. If that sounds like a moment from the ary characters from the Evil Queen’s (Lana season 2 as Captain Hook. “That’s hopefully pilot, there’s a reason for that. As actress Parrilla) dark curse—seemed a lot to swal- where it will endure.” Jennifer Morrison puts it, “The heartbeat of low when the series launched in 2011, and Part of the show’s fortitude was due to the show has always been hope.” many critics expected the fairy-tale mash-up its ability to reinvent itself from season to

MORE FINALE DATES  Timeless (May 13, NBC) Silicon Valley (May 13, HBO) Barry (May 13, HBO) Riverdale (May 16, The CW)

42 EW.COM MAY 11, 2018 LOGLINES Happy Beginnings Actor Adam Pally will reunite with Happy Endings creator David Caspe for an upcoming YouTube Red comedy about a rapper and his crew. In the Game Peter Dinklage does audio commentary on the Rick and Morty season 3 Blu-ray (May 15).

season, the biggest reboot coming last year when—after the exits of six major cast members—Parrilla, O’Donoghue, and Rob- ert Carlyle (as Rumplestiltskin) were left to take center stage alongside Andrew J. West as an older version of Henry (Jared Gilmore), Dania Ramirez as a new iteration of Cinderella, and Rose Reynolds as Wish Realm Hook’s daughter Alice. But audi- ences waned without the original cast, seemingly losing hope at the worst possible time. “It makes me sad that something so positive on television is being taken off the  ( Clockwise from above ) Parrilla; West and air when we need it most,” says Parrilla. “It Gilmore; Goodwin and Dallas; the Once cast breaks my heart.” And even the characters of Once may confront the demons within and emerge on come to lose hope as the series hits its final the other side a better person.” Parrilla episodes. Despite developments in Hype- remains coy about Regina’s happily ever rion Heights that could signal a brighter after, only teasing that it takes place “in the tomorrow, an unleashed villain aims to same location” as the opening of the pilot, enact a dangerous plan, its painful effects to while O’Donoghue offers that Hook’s fate is be felt by our cherished characters for eter- intrinsically tied to Rumple’s. nity. “The last episode is epic,” teases In that way, the ending speaks to the O’Donoghue. “It’s like taking the best of all show’s central message that no matter who seasons and jamming it into one—literally.” you are as a person, good or evil, everyone Though the Once bosses depicted their deserves a happy ending. “It’s so important originally planned ending in the season 6 to send that message,” says Dallas, “partic- finale, they have cooked up a particularly ularly in this day and age, when we have so magical final chapter that brings the show much negative in the world—to know that back to the beginning in a number of you do have a second chance, that you can ways—keep your eyes peeled, as there are have redemption, is super powerful.” Easter eggs galore. “The pitch for the whole But the question remains whether Once show was ‘What would a world look like in will get a second chance in the future, which the Evil Queen got her happy end- someday joining the pantheon of shows ing?’ I feel that we’ve finally figured out getting the reboot or revival treatment. what that would look like,” says Goodwin, “Look, you never say never, but for now just one of the season 6 departures who this is our ending and the end of this show returns for the finale. “We saved Regina’s for us,” says Horowitz. “But if in the future happy ending for the end,” says Kitsis. “Her something else happens with the show, journey has really been watching somebody we’ll be excited to see what that is.”

Gotham (May 17, Fox) The Simpsons (May 20, Fox) American Idol (May 21, ABC) Dancing With the Stars: Athletes (May 21, ABC) 

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no doubt, but everyone against both the über- kind of dreads the scenes quirky label and Deschanel where everyone’s in the herself. Now the actress room. They take forever just laughs. “It wouldn’t to shoot.” Especially be my first choice of a WHO’S THAT GUY? without real booze. word to describe myself, but I can separate myself Deschanel recalls T.J. from the characters I play,” Miller auditioning for the she says. “It created role of Schmidt (Max both negative and positive Greenfield) and putting attention for the show, his own spin on the and I think that’s exactly douchebag-jar contribu- THE DAILY DEVOTEE what it was meant to do.” tor’s shirtless scene from SEE YA the pilot. “He walked It’s no secret New Girl scored famous fans, out with his shirt of, Deschanel promises including Prince, who completely covered in the series finale will be memorably guest-starred an entire bottle of baby “unexpected,” but reveals

as himself in season 3, IMAGES; TTY oil,” says the actress, 38. she had an alternate That and author Judy Blume, “ was memorable.” conclusion in mind. who penned a tribute to “I always thought the TIRED AMERICANS Deschanel in EW in 2011. show should have a really ROSEANNE The actress reveals sad ending,” she says. The series’ epic drinking one more celebrity sup- “It could have been a cool game, True American, porter: “Jon Stewart : ROBERT TRACHTENBERG/ABC choice to go really dark.” may seem fun on was binge-watching it!” screen, but playing it Darker than learning that AN ADORABLE DORK took its toll in real life. Furguson has died? “Not that “We’d always be like, dark,” she clarifies. The adjective adorkable, bittersweet ‘Oh, noooo,’ ” Deschanel “It would be which Fox popularized admits. “I mean, it’s fun, dark.” Well, if Winston in their promotional mate- goes big on a prank... rial, prompted a backlash

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WHAT DO YOU GET A propels the duo into detec- on dating for a bit,” says competitive cop couple tive mode. “That was just Goor, “but that’s put to for their wedding? Oh, the cherry on top of a day the test when their driver is just a bomb threat. And already filled with trouble,” the unbelievably beautiful a determined ex-lover. notes Brooklyn co-creator Gina Rodriguez.” In other Perhaps a canine ring Dan Goor, who reveals news, “Holt says some- bearer. Definitely a Naka- that Amy’s veil gets ruined, thing to Amy and Jake that tomi Plaza-shaped cake. setting Rosa (Stephanie they’ve been waiting five Season 5 of Brooklyn Beatriz) and Terry (Terry years for him to say,” hints Nine-Nine will end with Crews) on a mission to Fumero. “It’s a quick the nuptials of juvenile fix it; and after the ring moment, but it’s definitely Jake (Andy Samberg) and bearer falls ill, Holt (Andre something Jake and Amy assiduous Amy (Melissa Braugher) and Gina (Chel- talk about when they get Fumero)—two detectives sea Peretti) train Cheddar home that night. Like, for who forged their bond by the dog to do the honors. a long time.” betting on who could solve Another complication: And that Die Hard- more crimes, strengthened Amy’s ex Teddy (Kyle Born- themed wedding cake? it when Jake threw out heimer) runs the bomb “When it comes to the his gross mattress, and squad, and he still hasn’t movie-reference part of cemented it with his sur- snufed out his Amy torch. Jake’s personality, there is prise proposal on the holiest “Teddy showing up is actu- no diference between he of holidays: Halloween. ally a little worse than the and I,” quips Samberg. Not to say there weren’t bomb threat,” says Fumero. “It was a thrill and a privi- a few wedding jitters, as Rosa is rattled by some- lege to see it.” Here’s hop- Samberg & Co. aimed one unexpected too. “She ing that fans feel the same to ensure that their police tells Terry she’s given up way on finale night. comedy didn’t sacrifice laughs for love. “Anytime we attempt anything out-  Gina Rodriguez, Terry Crews, and Stephanie Beatriz side of pure straight-down- the-middle silliness, I’m always concerned it’ll feel like another show,” says Samberg. “But it’s been really exciting to thread the needle of a new tone

: JOHN P FLEENOR/FOX (2) while keeping the core of comedy that launched us.” The core of Jake and Amy’s wedding day is jeopardized after a myste-

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Season 14 closes “It’s an Inception- out with emotional inspired episode,” farewellstoApril EP Todd Helbing says Kepner (Sarah Drew) of the season 4 finale. and Arizona Robbins Expect a showdown (Jessica Capshaw)— between Team Flash and Alex (Justin and the Thinker (Neil Chambers) and Jo’s Sandilands), the (Camilla Luddington) reveal of the Mystery wedding! “But, in Girl’s (Jessica Parker true Jolex form, Kennedy) identity, there’slotsoftwists and a new threat! and turns,” says BLACKISH Luddington. MAY 15, ABC SUPERNATURAL MAY 17, THE CW With Bow (Tracee Ellis A NEWAWAKENING Ross) and Dre (Anthony Last year’s season 12 Anderson) separated, Musical-theater fans, rejoice! Rise’s season 1 finale finale featured two the kids are initially excited about their (May 15 at 9 p.m. on NBC) will feature a brand-new Spring deaths. This year “the body count is dad’s new pad. But BY SAMANTHA HIGHFILL Awakening song. lower, but the stakes that excitement are higher” as things devolves into “anxiety build to a battle with about whether Dad archangel Michael canhackitonhis STEVEN SATER AND DUNCAN new song could ofer. “He wanted (Christian Keyes), own,” creator Kenya Sheik worked for eight years to a song that had tempo to it,” Sater says co-showrunner Barris teases of the create Spring Awakening, the rock says of Katims. “And as he talked Andrew Dabb. season 4 finale. musical about angsty teens deal- about the love story line [on Rise] “Michael is stronger THE BIG BANG THEORY ing with the “bitch of living” in mirroring the Wendla-Melchior than anyone else, MAY 1, CBS 19th-century Germany. In 2007, the story line, I imagined a beat in the and he’ll do anything show won a total of eight Tony show where Melchior and Wendla to win.” Sheldon (Jim Parsons) awards—including Best Musical— are apart and are communicating THE BLACKLIST and Amy (Mayim which is one of many reasons that by journal—they feel all these Bialik) are getting MAY 16, NBC Rise showrunner Jason Katims things for each other that they married! “But there selected Spring Awakening as the can’t say to each other.” The result Will Red’s (James are some unexpected production Rise’s high school is a song titled “All You Desire,” Spader) secrets roadblocks,” EP Steve director Lou Mazzuchelli (Josh which Sater describes as a “wedding finally spill out? Holland says of the Radnor) chooses to stage through- hymn,” though no one’s getting “Fans are going to season 11 finale. Enjoy out season 1 of the NBC drama. married in the moment. “It’s actually see the truth snap Laurie Metcalf as Sheldon’s mom, Kathy Only, Lou’s bringing a slightly a little bit more on the electronic into focus,” EP Jon Bates and magician altered version of the show to his side,” adds Sheik. The message Bokenkamp says of Teller as Amy’s par- small town—and that’s all thanks of it is simple: “I will be your every- the mysterious bag of bones. “And the ents, and Mark Hamill

to Katims, who reached out to thing. Project all your longing onto RISE twist will change in a top secret role.

Sater and Sheik to see if they’d be me and I can contain it. I can contain SHERWOOD/NBC; : VIRGINIA everything we do willing to write a new tune for the you as well as me,” Sater says. Additional reporting by moving forward.” Chancellor Agard series’ production. “Jason called Once Sater finished the lyrics, me and asked if Duncan and Sheik wrote the music. Altogether  I would consider writing a new the process took a few weeks, at Kathy Bates, song,” Sater recalls. “I said, ‘Do you which point they emailed the song Mayim mean a new song for Rise or a new to Katims. “I was blown away that, Bialik, Jim Parsons, Spring Awakening song?’ And he after this one brief conversation and Teller THEORY BANG BIG said, ‘Both.’ I was intrigued, but with Steven, this beautiful song I had to think about it for a while.” became a reality,” Katims says. After all, Sater and Sheik hadn’t Now “All You Desire” will debut worked on Spring Awakening since in Rise’s season 1 finale, featuring : YARISH/CBS MICHAEL what Sater estimates was 2007. Yet vocals by cast members Auli’i Cra- the more they talked to Katims, the valho, Damon J. Gillespie, Amy more they could envision what the Forsyth, and Ted Sutherland.

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46 EW.COM MAY 11, 2018 TV Benedict Cumberbatch Is in aMelrose Place The actor and his costar Allison Williams take EW behind the scenes of Showtime’s new limited series Patrick Melrose (May 12 at 9 p.m.). BY DAVID CANFIELD

years” of therapy. (Also: “Being on Quaaludes is quite hard.”) In keeping with Patrick’s unpredictability, Melrose can veer dramatically in tone from scene to scene; between devastating explorations of Patrick’s trauma are bitingly bleak streaks of humor. Intrinsic to Cumberbatch’s portrayal is a dark wit and a palpable empathy. “You see Bene- dict, and then in a snap of your fingers there’s Patrick,” gushes Allison Williams, who plays the aforementioned flirty friend, Marianne. “And there is a vacancy there—it’s really remarkable to watch. My mental image of Pat- rick will never not be Benedict.” Through the series’ five hours, Patrick goes on a journey of self- discovery, searching for his iden- tity as he struggles to heal from immense psychological damage. For now, Cumberbatch is left to play another wrenching, draining scene—well aware that “there’s still a lot to come.” Patrick’s dinner with Marianne goes sour; she leaves, angry, and he chases after her. But she’s gone. The scene TALK ABOUT A MOMENT BEFORE. empathize with a man doing Patrick in order “to do him jus- ends on Patrick, alone in an alley- It’s a cold December day in some pretty awful things tice.” But the Academy Award way, vomiting, the drugs and London, and Benedict Cumber- because you want him to do nominee admits playing such a booze catching up to him—and batch is about to shoot a dinner better,” the actor explains back broken, self-destructive charac- his father’s ashes still in hand. scene with his Patrick Melrose in his trailer, comparing Patrick’s ter takes a toll. “Containing the Cumberbatch sums up the costar Allison Williams. But by “good man goes wrong” journey core of what drives this charac- scene appropriately—and grimly: the time Cumberbatch’s titular to Breaking Bad.“It’savery ter—it’s hard to go there,” he “It was never going to end well.” character is ready to sit down for subtle but profound shift, from says, adding that playing Patrick a flirty dinner with his girlfriend’s self-annihilation and narcissism could very well require “a few Reporting by Simon Perry best friend (yep!), he’s already to a world where he is sincere, taken a few doses of heroin, loving, and open.”  Allison Williams with Cumberbatch carried his father’s ashes around Cumberbatch is a huge fan in a plastic bag, and drunkenly of St. Aubyn’s books and spent collapsed in a bathroom. He’s more than four years developing a complete mess—exactly what this adaptation with producer Cumberbatch signed up for. Michael Jackson. (Cumberbatch Based on Edward St. Aubyn’s is credited as an executive pro- series of eponymous novels, ducer.) The actor says the team this five-part Showtime series behind Melrose is dedicated to traces the downward spiral of honoring the original material’s an upper-class Englishman who brutal takes on family and class— is reeling from the sexual abuse a sort of reverse Downton Abbey, he experienced as a child. It’s a an “upturning of expectations”— role Cumberbatch, 41, chased and Cumberbatch wants to

CUMBERBATCH: OLLIE UPTON/SHOWTIME; WILLIAMS & CUMBERBATCH: JUSTIN DOWNING/SHOWTIME JUSTIN CUMBERBATCH: & WILLIAMS UPTON/SHOWTIME; OLLIE CUMBERBATCH: with ferocity. “You’re asked to plumb the same depths as What to MONDAY MAY 7 Dear Mama: Season Premiere A Love Letter Love It or List It to Moms 9–10PM | HGTV 9–10PM | VH1 Hilary and David Celebs such as Diddy help a couple living Watch and Gabrielle Union in the home of the pay tribute to their woman’s late grand- moms. If you think mother. Hopefully you might forget to Hilary comes with A day-to-day guide to notable programs* get yours a present sage advice—as in, on Sunday, sit her how to stage a sage By | DAN SNIERSON DANSNIERSON down on the sofa, flip ceremony to get rid on this special, and of Granny’s spirit. say, “Sometimes the best Mother’s Day gifts are free!”

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8–9PM | CBS 8:30–9PM | ABC Season Finale In Pauley Perrette’s Seeking the perfect Atlanta last episode, the Mother’s Day gift, evidence points to Sue and Brick enter a hitman target- a trivia contest to THURSDAY, MAY 10 10 10:30PM FX | | ATLANTA ing a member of win a trip to London the NCIS team for so Frankie can gawk There’s one rule to watching Donald Glover’s eccentric comedy: revenge. The hitman at the royal wed- BAKER/FX; : CURTIS is not played by Bill ding. And when that Expect the unexpected. That’s especially true of the season 2 Hader—but only doesn’t work out, finale, which will follow the example set by season 1’s digressive because he’s got his they can all watch hands full elsewhere Dear Mama: A Love closer. “It’s very similar to the way we ended season 1, which was (see page 50). Letter to Moms. IRON CHEF: GAUNTLET a little bit less plot-driven and more meandering and a little more somber,” says director Hiro Murai. “It’s going to feel very satisfy- The Last O.G. ing, even though the cadence is a little bit different than what 10:30–11PM | TBS

Tracy Morgan’s ex- : FOOD NETWORK; you’re used to seeing in a finale.” All season long, rapper Alfred con Tray attempts “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree Henry) has been having doubts to connect with his about letting his cousin Earn (Glover) manage his rap career, and son in a new way by teaching him how that comes to a head in the finale. “The conflict comes from Alfred to stand up to MOM deciding he’s going to take his rap career a little more seriously,” a school bully, which : DARREN MICHAELS/CBS involves some efec- says Murai. Although many season 2 installments have focused on tive hand-to-hand just one character, “Crabs in a Barrel” will indeed feature the combat moves— but also just living entire cast: “It dovetails into more of an ensemble structure by the every week like it’s end.” Here’s to the end of Robbin’ Season. —Chancellor Agard Shark Week.

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THOSE CRAZY CRITTERS Season Finale Grey’s Anatomy Mom 8–9PM | ABC Nature 9–10PM | CBS A hospital stafer 8–9PM | PBS Is it finally time for Christy (Anna Faris) to is gravely injured. Animals use a variety forge a life on her own? In the two-part finale, Lemme check my of “underhanded she reaches a breaking point with mom- Grey’s Trauma Bingo tactics” to find a cum-roomie Bonnie (Allison Janney) and card.... Okay, I’ve partner with whom explores other living arrangements at the got: Bokhee, Felled to mate and raise a urging of her gal pals. She also celebrates an by a Disgruntled family. So, you see, AA milestone and receives some good news Patient With a Bomb not disclosing about her future. “It’s so exciting because in His Chest Who Season Finale nightly use of a Christy gets to feel smart and successful,” Escapes but Is Iron Chef Gauntlet mouthguard or wear- explains Faris. “That was unimaginable for Dragged Under- 9–10PM | FOOD NETWORK ing Spanx doesn’t her in season 1. Now she is on her way to neath a Bus, Then really make us liars— achieving her life goals.” Escapes Again, Only Iron Chef America —Lynette Rice could soon it makes us part of to Drown in a Ferry- have a new member in its elite the animal kingdom. boat Crash. ranks—if chef David LeFevre, Gauntlet who bested six Series Premiere Jersey Shore competitors, prevails in this Wood Work rapid-fire finale against Iron 8–9PM | MTV 10–10:30PM | DIY Chefs Guarnaschelli, Symon, Vinny jeopardizes and Izard. “There wasn’t a whole This cheery Fixer his relationship lot of smiling,” host Alton Brown Upper spin-of stars when he tries to hints of the episode’s pregame furniture gurus “pick up” a stripper. mood. But working in LeFevre’s Clint and Kelly Harp. “Pick up” as in, hit favor is his ability to “consis- How about a cross- on her? Lift her? tently produce under pressure” over with Nick Both of these? Possi- and “observe nuance” in his Oferman’s Making bly a third definition LeFlavors. —Gerrad Hall It? It…would work. that I’m not getting?

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Series Premiere Kevin Smith: Silent but Deadly TRAINED WRECK The Adventures of 9–10PM | SHOWTIME Rocky and Bullwinkle Patrick Melrose In a new stand-up special that’s STREAMING | AMAZON 9–10PM | SHOWTIME not unlike Smith’s podcast and Hokey smoke! More recent TV projects, the ’90s The man who plays animated reboots! indie-film impresario discusses Sherlock (PBS, not personal interests like comics, CBS) is on the trail Series Premiere weed, and food. Those who of self-destruction Evil Genius share Smith’s passions will enjoy as a self-consumed SBD, but it likely won’t result in socialite who STREAMING | NETFLIX any new admirers. After all, even self-describes as DuckTales This docuseries, Smith’s wife isn’t a fan of his a ”narcissistic, subtitled “The True work, as he explains in one schizoid, suicidal 8–8:30PM | DISNEY CHANNEL Story of America’s extended joke. Eschewing a final alcoholic.” Fans were told to wait for it (wait for it), but Most Diabolical Bank joke for a heartfelt speech about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s debut as superhero Heist,” is probably how the audience is just as tal- Gizmoduck (a.k.a. Fenton Crackshell- not about the time ented as him, Smith encourages Cabrera) on the animated reboot is finally I opened three viewers to make the most of here. Exec producer Matt Youngberg and diferent accounts their interests. He certainly has. co-producer Francisco Angones revisited at Chase to get two B —Christian Holub the original character for inspiration. “He alarm clocks and talks a mile a minute, he’s got 100 plans at one Heat-a-Seat. once, he’s impossibly earnest, and he wants to do what’s right,” says Angones. “We said, Season Premiere ‘Oh, that’s Lin-Manuel Miranda! But we’re BattleBots never going to get [him] because that’s 8–9PM | DISCOVERY insane.’ ” Still, they sent the Hamilton virtu- oso a letter selling Gizmoduck as a Latino Man versus deciding

superhero. Luckily, adds Youngberg, “he’s a to watch machine DUCKTALES: superfan, just like we are.” —Maureen Lee Lenker versus machine. DISNEY CHANNEL; SMITH: COMEDY DYNAMICS/SHOWTIME; WONG: KEN WORONER/NETFLIX; SUNDAY MAY 13

Miniseries Premiere Harry & Meghan: Little Women A Royal Romance 8–9PM | PBS 8–10:22PM | LIFETIME The willful and winsome March Hmm, there seems sisters return in this two-part to be an awful lot adaptation of Louisa May Suits Alcott’s classic tale of a family of interest in a getting by while their father actress marrying fights in the Civil War. Emily some guy with no Watson, Angela Lansbury (pic- acting credits. Season Finale tured), Michael Gambon, Dylan Barry Season Finale Baker, and Kathryn Newton 10:30–11PM | HBO star—with Newton as arguably The Royals the least popular March. “Amy’s 10–11PM | E! Hitman-trying-to-turn-actor Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife just searching for who she is,” Barry (Bill Hader) is desperate to she says of her favorite sister. Or: See above. lead a more noble life, but his STREAMING | NETFLIX “That’s why this story’s still rel- history continues to put a hit on Ali Wong doesn’t particularly care for the evant; they’re all questioning Brooklyn Nine-Nine his present. Especially in the LITTLE WOMEN LITTLE other moms in her new-mom group, but that how best to pursue their 8:30–9PM | FOX finale. “There is definitely doesn’t matter. “When you’re a new mom on dreams. Now is a good time for death,” hints co-creator Alec maternity leave, it’s like The Walking Dead. girls to see that.” —Ruth Kinane Just before she gets Berg. “Everything that the seven You just gotta hook up with a crew to sur- married, Amy joins prior episodes has set up is paid : PBS; vive!” Also like The Walking Dead, new forces with Rosa to of.” Might this killer ever find motherhood gets gross: Hard Knock Wife, hunt down a killer anything resembling redemp- BARRY the follow-up to Baby Cobra, touches on who has eluded cap- tion? “If the question is ‘Can he : JORDIN ALTHAUS/HBO : JORDIN blood, breast milk, and a few liquids not ture for seven years. move past his past and enter suitable to name in print. Wong’s comedy is Sorry, this one isn’t into an innocent life without any the antithesis to the pastel-and-powdered- played by Bill Hader consequence?’ we answer that diapers commercial brand of motherhood: either, but if you’ll question,” says Berg. “It may not She’s filthy, fearless, and—needless to say— now turn your atten- be the answer that people are very, very funny. B+ —Dana Schwartz tion to the right... expecting. Hopefully it’s not.”

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TYLER, THE CREATOR KACEY MUSGRAVES ROB GRABOWSKI/INVISION/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK THE PUTH PLAYLIST “OKRA” “Oh, What a World” Tyler’s always pushing hip-hop. Her new album [Golden Hour] is Three years after the runaway hit “See You Again,” It’s, like, ironic hip-hop. Like, he fantastic. It’s country music plus Charlie Puth is back with his sophomore record, purposefully will drag hi-hats R&B. The whole album is just the R&B-inflected Voicenotes (out May 11). Here, the too far to the right to make them a roller coaster of sonic pleasure, 26-year-old singer shares a few of the songs of time, but it still sounds like a especially this song. [She uses] he’s been bumping on repeat. BY WILL MENDELSON vibe. In this song, the sounds are the chords B major, F sharp all over the place, but it still feels minor,Emajor.Ilovethefact really special. He pitched his that she went to F sharp minor voice—or at least I think he did— at that second chord on that so you can’t really tell it’s him. chorus. That was really special.

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NOTEWORTHY A Call to Action The Time’s Up movement has joined a boycott of R. Kelly in light of the many allegations of abuse against the singer. Rainy Day Whiskey Bob Dylan launched Heaven’s Door, a liquor line featuring a straight rye, a straight bourbon, and a double-barreled whiskey.

3 7 RICH THE KID MNEK “Plug Walk” “Tongue”

I love the mix on this damn song. It’s a really, really bold and difer- The 808 [drum machine] is not ent-sounding record. He is an so in your face like it is in every incredible producer-songwriter Beach House hip-hop record. The way he overall. It sounds a little bit famil-

cued it is really cool. It’s, like, iar when you hear it for the first TITLE 7 tucked, and the hi-hats are really time, but the chorus is just him in the center of it—like a t-t-t, talking. And I don’t think there’s LABEL Sub Pop | GENRE Rock ch-ch, ch-ch-ch. It’s very simple. a chorus on any song right now REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats where it’s just the artist mum- 4 bling really close to the mic. JAMIROQUAI 8 IT’S ALMOST TOO TERRESTRIAL “Virtual Insanity” MADONNA to say that a Beach House record My thing on Voicenotes was to “Into the Groove” drops; it wafts, carried in on a make an album that has rich chord changes on every song, [Sings] “Get into the groove, psychedelic breeze of reverb and ambient and prove you can put little boy, you’ve got to prove…” feelings. Almost a dozen years in, the coed elements of jazz into a pop song I believe if you took this song Baltimore duo have become unlikely and it can still be an approach- and made it in 2018 with modern able pop song, just like “Virtual sounds, it would still be a hit. heroes of the festival and college-radio Insanity” was when it came out. I miss records you press play circuit, opening for bands like Vampire It’s still one of their best. on and you’re just right in it. Weekend and Grizzly Bear, performing There’s no sustained intro, just late-night sets on Colbert and Fallon, and mas- 5 bam. It just starts—and that’s BLOCBOY JB what I hope I did on Voicenotes: tering the art of making surreal music videos “Rover” Bam, here’s the beat. That sense starring time-lapse houseplants or beloved of urgency is in this record. secondary characters from Twin Peaks. It’s actually a lot more intricate than people take it for. It’s fun With its chemtrail vocals and dense and you can turn up to it, but layers of guitar haze, 7 is in no danger of

R/GETTY IMAGES I love how the mix is purposefully  derailing the band’s reputation as the reign- not perfect. I think it adds a lot Madonna; Tyler, the ing slow lorises of indie rock. After opening to the record. It reminds me not Creator to make the mix so unbeliev- with an improbably propulsive drumroll, the ably perfect at all times because album settles into its dream-pop signature: people still want to relate to the “Lemon Glow” is a monument to submarine song at the end of the day. synths and shimmering percussion; “Pay No 6 Mind” sounds like the Smashing Pumpkins’ H.E.R. “Today” at 38 rpm; “Black Car” blooms into “Focus” the ozone. While multi-instrumentalist The reason I love this song is, Alex Scally paints his pillowy soundscapes, as downtempo and vibey as it keyboardist-vocalist Victoria Legrand floats is, it has a lot of special chord above it all, musing on “the color of your changes that I’m trying to imple- mind” and “skinny angels making eyes.” ment in my music, too—great 7 jazz chords in a pop song. It’s a ’s artful wooziness is hardly new, but for

MADONNA: VENTURELLI/GETTY IMAGES: TYLER THE CREATOR: ZACHARY MAZU very smooth track. Beach House, it feels like home. B+

MAY 11, 2018 EW.COM 53 Music 3 GOOD  Nick O’Malley, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders, and Alex Turner THINGS ABOUT GOOD THING Leon Bridges’ 2015 debut, Coming Home, was a thick slice of retro ‘60s cool. For his follow-up (out May 4), he decided to spread his wings. BY ALEX SUSKIND

IT’S GOT FUNK

“There was a photo of me at my birthday party looking at a jacket that said ‘Live From the Funk,’ ” says Bridges of “If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be),” which channels early Kool & the Gang vibes. “And that’s how that song starts. It inspired it.” IT’S GOT JAZZ Arctic Monkeys Thaw Out Album closer “Georgia to Texas” has a sax Frontman Alex Turner explains how a birthday gift led the British rock solo, dark chords, and a rumbling bass rif. group to return with the keyboard-heavy Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, “It started of with that electric bass,” says their first album in almost five years. BY CLARK COLLIS Bridges. “Putting an upright on it, I was like, ‘Are you sure about that?’ But it ended up sounding great.” The new album sounds real juice. But it occurred Did you see the NME very diferent from the to me when I did loop recently ranked the song IT’S GOT TRANTER Arctic Monkeys’ last one back around that a line titles on this album in (2013’s AM). What was like that was kind of right order of “most bats---”? Justin Tranter, that is. The hit songwriter the writing process like? where it needed to be. I’ve yet to discover that. (Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, Imagine Drag- Igotapianoformy30th I think it has to do with ons) co-wrote “Mrs.,” “ Forgive You,” and the birthday. To pinpoint the that passage of time and “The Ultracheese” was single “Beyond.” “I had never been open to origin of this project, I will that sense of, Where has one. I would have gone that kind of thing,” says Bridges about writ- conclude that it was the that time gone? I think I’m for “The World’s First Ever ing with others. “But it’s definitely one of my arrival of the piano in my having a word with myself, Monster Truck Front Flip.” favorite collaborations of the session.” home studio. Being sat really, and saying, “Look That was verbatim a news at a piano helped me to at what you’ve got us into.” story I was unable to invent a diferent angle resist clicking on about to take on writing, not And what have you got a year ago, and I was only music but the lyrics— yourself into? unable to resist naming if that makes any sense! I dunno. That’s what I’m a song after it. It was laid wondering! out for me. We’re just “Star Treatment” refer- living in a world where

ences the Strokes in its What exactly does the they’re flipping monster BRIDGES: JACK MCKAIN; ARCTIC MONKEYS: ZACHERY MICHAEL opening lyrics (“I just title-track phrase mean? trucks forward. wanted to be one of the Tranquility Base, in reality, Strokes/Now look at is the site of the first lunar If someone gives you the mess you made me landing. But whether we’re a xylophone for your next make”). What was going actually talking about a birthday, should we through your mind sort of hotel-casino com- expect it on the next Arc- when you wrote that? plex on the moon or not is tic Monkeys record? It was something that debatable. I like the idea Well, it’s the saxophone I expected to change later that the record be named we’ve probably got on. I sat down at the piano after a place. It isn’t some- to worry about, isn’t it? and began to write, but thing that I’ve done before, the plan was that it would but I do consider many I can see you with a sax. just get me of the mark, of my favorite records I don’t know. We might get me to the next place, almost being like places have to draw the line and then I’d get into the that you can visit. somewhere.

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Be?). Her new book, Motherhood, isn’t quite a novel—it’s an interior monologue, stufed with hun- dreds of binary questions about whether or not to have a child. The narrator (also named Sheila) is nearing middle age, with her peers reaching milestones that remain, for her, very far away. What does this woman want? In urgent, first-person prose, Heti contrasts societal expectation with personal desire. Motherhood considers its titular topic terrifyingly undefinable, an array of singular experiences. For Sheila, it’s about being a writer: whether to create life at the expense of creating art. She is an incisive speaker, almost all- seeing—a conflicted, humane THEMOTHER LODE voice for women in similar pre- dicaments. Heti takes an indul- Two searingly honest new novels grapple with the complexities of motherhood—and explore gently unusual approach to how women try to hold on to their lives while creating a new one. BY DAVID CANFIELD telling her story, especially as she veers of track: a starkly intimate recital of waiting and questioning RUMAAN ALAM’S THAT KIND OF tension, to explore within it. her privilege and thrive as a while the world indiferently Mother begins in childbirth. This second novel from Alam parent sends her marriage on passes by. “What to do about this Nearly 10 pages are dedicated centers on Rebecca, a poet a downward spiral. Mother isn’t tremulous feeling inside?” Sheila to the big moment, in all its who’s just given birth to her first big on plot or surprise. It thrills asks midway through. Over beauty and agony, laced with child. When her nanny Priscilla, in its attention to nuance, its Motherhood’s 250-plus pages, humor and remarkably rich in a black woman with whom construction of a full, flawed, she’ll ask the same thing again, detail. The scene is as immersive she’s bonded, dies in childbirth, loving heroine. Alam’s generous in dozens of variations. It’s and transporting as a Tolkien Rebecca decides to adopt the rendering rings authentic. He’s redundant—but that’s where fantasy: Alam (Rich and Pretty) newborn and welcome Priscilla’s wry but never cruel—confident the book’s sneaky power lies, in guides you into the hospital adult daughter, Cheryl, into her enough to pinpoint life’s ugliness a profound question that lacks an room—every scream heard, family. Rebecca’s eyes are soon while keeping hope alive. answer: How should a mother be? every push felt—and creates a opened to the realities of race in The same can be said of THAT KIND OF MOTHER A whole world, filled with life and America; her quest to overcome Sheila Heti (How Should a Person MOTHERHOOD B

56 EW.COM MAY 11, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY HANNA BARCZYK BETWEEN There Will Be Avocados Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski THE has inked a deal for his first cookbook, out in spring 2019. LINES A Light in the Dark Authorities have arrested a suspect in the Golden State Killer case, the subject of Michelle McNamara’s best-seller, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. Mommy Fearest: The Perfect Thriller MEAGHAN A Brooklyn mom took a chance on a high-wire mystery about a missing baby. Now it’s set to become one of the summer’s hottest reads—and a major movie, too. BY LEAH GREENBLATT O’CONNELL A memoir about her unplanned TWO NEW YEARS AGO AIMEE MOLLOY—A “and my own struggles and anxieties.” pregnancy explores the successful ghostwriter and the mother of For now, she’s giving herself a (very brief) less Pinterest-y side of new two young daughters—made a resolution. break: a weekend in New York’s wine coun- motherhood. BY CLARISSA CRUZ “It was January 1, 2016, and I said to my try. Then she’ll return to work on her next husband, ‘I’m going to write a novel, and I’m book, which, she says, “turns the lens from What compelled you to write going to give myself 12 months to do it. I’m motherhood to marriage.” And balance that, And Now We Have Everything? not going to take any other ghostwriting she adds with a laugh, with “the need to just I want women to feel less bad about feeling bad, basically. jobs, and I’m going to hire a babysitter. And sit in my living room and feel delirious that And to normalize that [having a if in one year I haven’t written a novel or it my first novel was finally published.” child] is sort of an identity crisis, sucks or I haven’t finished, then I’ll just a family crisis. It’s a big upheaval, have to deal and I’ll go back to work.’ ” and you don’t have to feel like a failure if that’s how it is for you. Spoiler: She did finish, and it didn’t suck. By that December, manuscripts of The You’re very honest about how Perfect Mother were in the mail, and within the parenthood afects work. week she had a publishing deal. Now her I was worried when I was pregnant that I wouldn’t care, whip-smart thriller about the disappearance that I wouldn’t have ambition of a baby boy in the midst of a mommy-group anymore. But I wanted to write meetup at a Brooklyn bar is poised to become more because it was something I knew how to do. I’m not

NINA SUBIN; O’CONNOLL: KELLY SEARLE KELLY O’CONNOLL: SUBIN; NINA one of the season’s most anticipated beach good at not knowing what reads—and a feature film, optioned by actress I’m doing, [and] babies are Kerry Washington and legendary producer so opaque and unpredictable. Amy Pascal. (In a comment to EW, Washing- You’re pregnant with your ton said, “We are excited about bringing second child. Are you more this book to life and taking audiences on this  prepared this time around? terrifying and suspenseful journey.”) ( Above ) I went back to my therapist to Aimee make a plan for postpartum. Mother’s central mystery is very much in Molloy; She said, “You can get on SSRIs, The Girl on ( right ) the mold of recent best-sellers like Kerry but the first line of defense is the Train and The Woman in the Window, but Washing- to get some sleep.” So me and ton it’s also a sharply drawn take on the cult of [my husband] will make sure modern parenting, and the particular pressure I get at least four to five hours a night. And if that means we women face—from within and without—to have to give the baby formula, pull it all off, flawlessly. “The characters are that’s fine. We are going to be less

WASHINGTON: DAVID CROTTY/PATRICK MCMULLAN/GETTY MOLLOY: IMAGES; CROTTY/PATRICK DAVID WASHINGTON: probably all elements of me,” Molloy admits, aspirational and more realistic. The Mars Room

BY Rachel Kushner

PAGES 336 | GENRE Novel

REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

IF RACHEL KUSHNER NEVER WROTE again we would still have 2013’s The Flamethrowers, a novel so restless and electric and startlingly true it almost seemed to charge the atoms in the air around it. (Either way she would have written another National Book Award finalist, 2008’s clever, more diffuse Telex From Cuba.) But now a five-year wait has produced The Mars Room—a novel that may be even better, though its subject matter is infinitely grim- mer, miles away from the subversive glamour His Way or of the 1970s New York art world or Italy’s youth in revolt. Romy Hall is a native of San DU MARK ARGIROPOULOS; MATIE & LEONI: DUCKOVNY PALEN; TIM DUCHOVNY: Francisco—not the postcard dream of theSubways Despite its surreal premise, the third

steep hills and cable cars but a scrappier, IMAGES; JAY DUPLASS: DESIREE NAVARRO/GETTY IMAGES; HARDEN: MICHAEL TULLBERG/GE almost feral nether land of teenage delin- novel by XFiles star David Duchovny is a cleverly romantic love story. quency, seedy flophouses, and $20-a-song BY CLARISSA CRUZ strip clubs. She’s a dancer at a club like that, a single mother, and, by 2003, a convicted murderer serving two life sentences. Miss Subways is about a The inner monologues of the present-day couple who get protagonist Emer are very Like Raymond Carver or Edward Hopper involved in a wager with believable. How did you chan- or Nan Goldin (whose photograph “Amanda mythological figures. What nel this female point of view? in the Mirror” graces the cover), Kushner is inspired you to write this story? I don’t know. To me that’s what a sort of genius of loneliness; her stories slink It all started around 1985. art is about. I’m less about trying I was a graduate student at to figure out who deserves to in the margins, but they have the feel of some- Yale and somebody dragged write someone’s experience thing iconic. Mars brims with characters and me to see a Yeats play called and more about trying to get

digressions—the diaries of Ted Kaczynski, The Only Jealousy of Emer. into each other’s shoes. Trying RODRIGUEZ/GETTY E. ALBERTO PLASS: bygone country & western singers, inmates The basis of the story is the to grow empathy, really. idea that to save the person named Conan and Teardrop and the Norse— you love, you’re going to have There are lots of statements on and returns to favored themes: the tricky to deny that love. It seemed current pop culture in the book. wobble of young womanhood, the open-road to be a very kind of dramatic Are these your actual opinions? and romantic setup. It always [Laughs] The ones that are going freedom of motors and speed. Romy might IMAGES TTY stuck with me. And I guess to make me enemies are [Emer’s] not be going anywhere fast, but she’s alive on it took about 30 years to get opinions; the ones that are going every page, raw and beautiful. A it out on paper. [Laughs] to make me friends are mine. In

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What is your writing process? Iliketowakeupveryearly, ACCLAIMED DEBUTS like 4 or 4:30, to write because usually by noon I’m pretty A LUCKY MAN BY JAMEL BRINKLEY SHORT STORIES E much done with my imaginative energy. I’m not a really good Brinkley’s collection manages to be simultaneously pro- plotter or structural guy, so I’ll vocative and immersive, in a series of tenderly insightful get impatient. I just wrote the studies of masculinity, race, and the scars of history. first chapter and it told me a lot THE PISCES BY MELISSA BRODER NOVEL EA about what the story was going to be. When I start writing I’ll We know: another girl-meets-merman love story? But start to hear the voices and then give Broder’s explosive, erotic, scathingly funny first novel a chance. Its interspecies romantic intrigue buttresses a they’ll tell me where I need to go. profound take on connection and longing that digs deep.

You recorded the audiobook with your kids and former wife. CELEBRITY READS How was that? It was fun! There’s so much spoken by a woman in this and LIKE BROTHERS BY MARK AND JAY DUPLASS MEMOIR ECA I said, “Well, I’ll ask Téa [Leoni] Just how close are indie stalwarts Mark and Jay Duplass? and see if she’ll do it,” and she The pair describe how their tight bond has sabotaged said she’d love to. My daughter romances, defined their daily lives, and much more. is acting now and I thought, FAILURE IS AN OPTION BY H. JON BENJAMIN MEMOIR EA “She’s SAG, I should give her a job.” And then Téa said, “Well, The acclaimed Bob’s Burgers and Archer voice actor tells his life story through the prism of failure: how each career if West is gonna do it, you gotta disappointment was key to the success he’s enjoying now. have [son] Miller, too.” THE SEASONS OF MY MOTHER BY MARCIA GAY HARDEN MEMOIR ECA Do you consider yourself aromantic? The Oscar-winning actress showcases lyrical writing Yeah, I think so. If you read skills in this heartbreaking memoir. Harden explores her this book and you read Bucky relationship with her mother, who lives with Alzheimer’s, in pained essays that trace their life together. As Harden [F*cking] Dent, they have happy explains what motivated her to write the book: “I can’t endings because life doesn’t surrender to the power of this disease to define a person.” generally have happy endings. I‘m a softy that way, so there you have it. So sue me. BESTSELLING AUTHORS

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