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Lifestyle Gossip Tuesday, March 20, 2018 Spielberg doesn’t feel like a legend

teven Spielberg doesn’t consider himself a movie loved and even about 20 years ago thought, ‘How do we blockbusters, Spielberg said his favorite project was his legend. The 71-year-old four-time Academy Award bring it to America and publish it in America?’ “I’m a big Holocaust documentary for the Shoah Foundation, which Swinning filmmaker - who helmed a number of iconic fan. I was the guest editor in the 20th anniversary and for collected the testimonies of survivors of the World War movies including the ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ them to honor me with this is one of the best honors I Two atrocity. He said: “I think my favorite project, as a franchises - was awarded the Empire Legend of Our have received.” Spielberg is one of the most award-nom- documentary, has been my Shoah Foundation where we Lifetime at the Rakuten TV Empire Awards 2018 on inated and winning filmmakers and won two Academy have collected the testimonies of over 153 thousand Sunday but admitted he just “feels like a movie director”. Awards and two BAFTAs for his 1993 wartime epic Holocaust survivors and we are also collecting the testi- Speaking to BANG Showbiz at the event at Camden ‘Schindler’s List’. Although he has amounted numerous monies from other genocides so that has been the most Roundhouse, in London, Spielberg said: “They call me a gongs over his career, the iconic filmmaker - who has important project I have ever been part of.” legend but I don’t feel like that way but I am happy to recently received praise for his newest movie ‘The Post’ - accept the award in the name of that word. I just feel like revealed he doesn’t keep the awards at his home. He said: a movie director than a legend. “Getting an award from a “I don’t keep anything at home. I keep them all in my magazine I have been reading for 20 years, that I have office at work.” Although best known for his big budget

Karen Gillan teases Nebula’s Iannucci defends Patel casting in David Copperfield big role in Avengers movies rmando Iannucci has defended casting Dev Patel in his ‘David Copperfield’ adaptation. aren Gillan has teased her Marvel Cinematic ALast month, the 27-year-old actor was cast to Universe character Nebula has a big part to play. play the titular character in ‘The Personal History of KThe 30-year-old actress portrays the blue alien David Copperfield’, an upcoming movie based on the assassin in the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ movies and has semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens, but wrapped up reprising her role in the upcoming now Iannucci, 54, has admitted he cast the ‘Skins’ ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Avengers 4’ films, and had actor to “reflect” modern day. When asked if he had no idea Nebula would still be in the MCU. In an inter- got any criticism from Dickensian loyalists at the view with ScreenRant, Gillan said: “I had no idea that Rakuten TV Empire Awards 2018 on Sunday , this was where the character was going. “I genuinely Iannucci said: “Do they have a voice online? “No, I signed on to the role thinking it was eight days of filming mean it was set in 1840 but I wanted it to reflect and then I was going to die in the first Guardians. “Three today and also I don’t know anyone else better suited movies later and there’s three more to come out it’s, like, to playing the role. “At no point in the novel does it crazy. It’s funny because I read the ‘Infinity Gauntlet’, say, ‘David is a white man’. I just couldn’t think of which is what the new ‘Avengers’ films are based on, as another actor who could do that sort of innocence research for my character because it’s her sort of biggest and get stronger and the vulnerability and then the moment within the Marvel comic book world. “And then strength.” Iannucci also defended adapting a period to find out they’re making a double-bill feature based on drama for modern audiences and said he doesn’t want that, I was just so excited actually because Nebula gets his adaptation to have to follow the “rules of costume some really cool stuff.” Recently, the star revealed it is a drama”. He said: “I’m not saying that every period painstakingly long process preparing for the MCU drama should be adapted for modern audiences but movies as she sits in hair and make-up to get blue skin that’s just what I wanted to do. “When FilmNation “stuck” to her face for numerous hours each day. Last [Entertainment], who are funding it, said, ‘Oh you’re year, she said: “I’ve been in there [MCU] for a little while doing David Copperfield, are you going to do any- now, nearly five years playing this blue bald character. thing different? Why are you doing it?’ “And I “It takes four hours in the morning of having a skin stuck explained what I wanted to do with it and they want- on my face.” ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ will see the hero ed me to do it. “I wanted it to feel like we don’t have squad, which includes Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), to follow the rules of costume drama and how you Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), shoot it and how you speak.” His latest comedy, ‘The The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Death of Stalin’ - which won the Best Comedy at the Olsen), Vision (Paul Bettany), Black Widow (Scarlett event at Camden Roundhouse in London - was Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), join forces recently banned in Russia for its satirical portrayal of with the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ troop to save the the Communist leader Joseph Stalin, but Iannucci - Earth. The two teams will have to work together to fight who was joined by his daughter Carmella - said all it intergalactic tyrant Thanos, but they will also receive a has done is give it the film a bigger profile in Eastern helping hand from Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Black Europe. He said: “I feel sad really because, really do Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Dr Strange (Benedict they still ban stuff today? Considering it’s a film on Cumberbatch), as well as Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), digital format. “So all it’s done is give it a high profile which will mark the star’s debut in a Marvel production. in Eastern Europe and it’s doing an astonishing busi- ness in the Ukraine and I hope we will get it into cine- mas because that’s where it’s meant to be seen. “Russians who have seen it loved it.”

Dafne Keen says Matrix screenwriter Shia LaBeouf to filming Logan felt like a Zak Penn working play his father in little family on set on fourth movie movie about himself atrix’ screenwriter Zak Penn is determined to get the sci-fi franchise back on the big screen. The 49-year- ‘Mold scribe - who co-wrote the scripts for ‘X2’, ‘X- Men: The Last Stand’ and the story for ‘The Avengers’ - has been busy working on a fourth movie which he’s been “harass- ing” Warner Bros. to take on. He told Screen Rant: “I’ve been working on ‘Matrix’ right now. Which is in...a phase right now. That’s a franchise I desperately want to see brought back and, I can’t go in to too much detail, but I’ve been harassing Warner Bros. for years to try to get it going again so that’s one thing I’m working on and I’ve been working on a bunch of other things too.” The Matrix Trilogy kicked off in 1999, with two sequels, ‘The Matrix Reloaded’ and ‘The Matrix Revolutions’, both out in 2003. Penn believes the multiplayer online simulation game OASIS in Steven Spielberg’s new movie ‘Ready Player One’ is similar to that of the Matrix, a simulated reality that depicts a dystopian future. And Penn says he’d happily throw fisticuffs with anyone who doesn’t like the trilogy. He said: “I will fight people who don’t under...look, I think OASIS (the interconnected virtual space in ‘Ready Player One’) is similar, both the ‘Matrix’ and OASIS are similar in that they are brilliant ideas for univers- es. “And they are not, you know, when it came out about ‘Matrix’, people were like ‘Oh no, they are going to reboot ‘Matrix’ I was like, Why, I’m not insane. I mean, the ‘Matrix’ is still one of my favorite ... they’d re-release ‘The Matrix’ and people would go hia LaBeouf is set to play his father in a movie about himself. The see it.” Last year, lead star Keanu Reeves [Neo, also known as 31-year-old actor has reportedly agreed to portray his “law- ‘The One’ said he was unaware of any plans for another install- breaking, alcohol-abusing” dad in the forthcoming film ‘Honey ment. He said: “Remaking ‘The Matrix’. I don’t know. Maybe it’s S Boy’ - a blockbuster loosely based on his own life - while Lucas afne Keen felt like she was part of musical. She said: “I would love to carry ... I don’t know anything about it.” It’s not know if the original Hedges will play the leading role, according to Variety. ‘Honey Boy’, a “little family” on the set of on acting. I love doing superhero movies cast will return if the fourth film goes ahead. which was LaBeouf’s childhood nickname, follows a popular child star D‘Logan’. The 13-year-old actress because they are really fun to film. “I did a who attempts to mend his relationship with his damaged father over a starred in the R-rated superhero flick comedy in summer, so I have ticked that decade. The film will be directed by Alma Har’el but a release date it alongside Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick off. I still want to do a musical. I can sort yet to be given. LaBeouf was arrested for disorderly conduct and Stewart - who both reprised their roles as of sing but I can dance. “I would like to do public drunkenness at a hotel in Georgia last July after he repeatedly Wolverine and Professor X respectively - everything.” Keen was also wearing a swore at arresting officers. He has since admitted he “messed up” and and Keen had nothing but praise for her Time’s Up pin in wake of the sexual is “mortified” by his behavior. He said: “What went on in Georgia was co-stars. Speaking to BANG Showbiz harassment allegations affecting the film mortifying. White privilege and desperation and disaster... It came after winning the Best Female Newcomer industry, and the actress thinks everyone from a place of self-centered delusion... “It was me trying to absolve at the Rakuten TV Empire Awards 2018 should be supporting the movement. She myself of guilt for getting arrested...I messed up.” And the on Sunday , Keen said: “Hugh is the nicest said: “It’s a big thing because finally we ‘Transformers’ actor - who was ejected from a theatre in 2014 for human being on planet earth and I think in are being accepted with all these big films drunken behavior - admitted his past antics have come back to haunt the whole world and the universe. “And he like ‘Wonder Woman’ and everything and him. He explained: “I’m run out. No one’s giving me a shot right now. is such a great actor and partner and all these women characters. “I think we Spike Lee is making a movie. I was talking to him about it. “He goes to everything. You really engage with him. should support this because we have been the money and pushes to try to get me in the movie, the money says “And Patrick Stewart is really, really, nice doing these horrible things to actresses no, and that’s the end of me hanging out with Spike Lee for this film.” and such a great actor. He was very, very just so they are in our films. “And there He recently claimed to have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress nice. I think, as a threesome, we were like are so many women who are being disorder (PTSD), which stems from hearing his mother being sexually a little family on set.” Keen was only 11 abused and I think it’s finally their time to assaulted when he was younger, and he believes that witnessing the when she landed the role opposite say, ‘Hey. Help me. I’ve been abused’.” violence against his mom triggered a lot of his own erratic behavior Jackman and Stewart and has no desire to and he now sleeps with a gun beside his bed.—Bang Showbiz stop acting and would love to star in a