LIFESTYLE THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2014 Gossip36 Brosnan wants Expendables 4 role ierce Brosnan wants to appear in ‘The Expendables 4’. The actor Heigl ‘stopped challenging’ herself has confirmed he approached producer Avi Lerner about a Ppotential role in the next installment of Lionsgate’s star-studded action franchise alongside Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and co. He told ComingSoon.net: “I said, ‘If it works out and you have a atherine Heigl ‘stopped good script, Avi, you know where to find me if you still want me.’ It’s as challenging’ herself in mov- simple as that really.” The 61-year-old star added: “Sylvester Stallone is Kies. The 35-year-old actress the one that’s given us these wonderful platforms for actors who have - known for her roles in comedies and had careers to go play and have fun and to entertain. To bring a such as ‘Knocked Up’ and ‘27 bunch of guys together who saved the world, fought the bad guys, Dresses’ - has admitted she began and put them all on the same stage, that’s crazy good.” The British star to feel worn down by parts in rom- would fit in with the rest of the cast perfectly after cutting his teeth coms after failing to push herself to playing secret agent 007 in four ‘James Bond’ films, and he claims he take on a variety of roles. She told misses the thrill of no-nonsense action blockbusters. He added: “It’s the August issue of Marie Claire: “I just about entertainment. Avi is somebody I’ve heard about and his had an amazing time [doing rom- movies always have big brash entertainment value to them. You can coms]. I love romantic comedies. really change the world and that’s great, but ‘The Expendables’? Yeah, But maybe I hit it a little too hard. I I’d love to do ‘The Expendables.’ It’s just a kick in the pants.” ‘The Ex- couldn’t say no. ”I stopped chal- lenging myself. It became a bit by pendables’ was initially released in 2010 and the third installment will Katherine Heigl be released in August this year, starring Stallone, Jason Statham and rote and, as a creative person, that Jet Li, who reprise their roles as leaders of the titular group of merce- can wear you down.” The 35-year-old actress - who is set to return to television in naries Barney Ross, second-in-command Lee Christmas and martial November this year in the NBC drama ‘State Of Affairs’ - also opened up about her arts specialist Yin Yang, respectively. decision to take time off from the industry She explained: “That was part of why I took that time off, to ask myself, ‘What do I want? What am I looking for?’ and shut Pierce Brosnan down all the noise. ”I had a moment where, I don’t know, I was thinking, ‘Maybe open a knitting store, get my money out of retirement accounts and live off that, live off the land. ”I had my moment where it all seemed so complicated and all I wanted to do was simplify.” Melissa McCarthy: Susan Sarandon’s gorgeous ankles elissa McCarthy says Susan Sarandon’s ankles were “too good looking” for her character in ‘Tammy’. The ‘Bridesmaids’ actress Mhas revealed that as the 67-year-old Academy Award winner plays her alcoholic grandmother in the comedy, they had to put a lot of effort into making her look older and less attractive than she naturally is. She explained: “Listen, the amount of work that went into taking the glow off of her. ”We’ve got fake ankles on her, I mean whose ankles are gorgeous? We literally had to make prosthetic ankles and I was like, ‘Oh John Cena for God’s sake, your ankles are too good looking?’ ”And then I looked at her ankles and I was like, ‘Oh my god you’ve got gorgeous ankles’. The 43-year-old comedienne - who is married to the film’s director Melissa McCarthy Ben Falcone - also joked that it was hard not to take offence when the production team claimed Sarandon was too attractive on camera. Speaking on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ McCarthy added: “Anyway she wears this crazy wig and we put dumpy clothes on her and then every once James Buckley: in a while, this happened two times, when there was a lot of talking and looking around from Ben I was like, ‘Can we help? There seems to Filming in Australia be a hold up?’ And they said, ‘Susan looks too good’. ”And I was like, ‘Oh, is it pretty lighting, do we both look too good?’ ... ‘No, just Susan!’” The John Cena for role movie follows McCarthy’s character Tammy, who, after losing her job, was lad’s holiday husband and car in one day, decides to escape from her small town existence, but with no form of transport she’s forced to take her party- ames Buckley says filming ‘The Inbetweeners 2’ in The Nest animal grandmother Pearl (Sarandon) with her. in Australia was like going on a lad’s holiday. The ohn Cena has joined the cast of ‘The Nest’. The WWE wrestling superstar has J26-year-old actor and star of ‘The Inbetweeners’ signed on to appear in the Universal comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, TV series and films has confessed it was a dream come Junder the direction of ‘Pitch Perfect’ helmer Jason Moore, according to Deadline. true to be able to film the second movie Down Under. Although details of his character are being kept under wraps, it’s been reported that He said: “We were very lucky to spend a bit of time in the film could mark his first villain role after spending years as the all-American hero the Outback, which was an adventure. It’s an amazing of the wrestling world. ’The Nest’ tells the story of two sisters - played by Fey and country and we loved being there. ”We were really Poehler - who, when they find out their parents are planning to sell their childhood shocked that so many people were happy to have us home, return to throw one last wild party to mark their final weekend together in the there. We had no idea that ‘The Inbetweeners’ was so house. Moore is directing from a screenplay by ‘Saturday Night Live’ writer Paula Pell, popular over there. It made for a really pleasurable with Fey producing for her Little Stranger banner alongside Jay Roach for Everyman trip.” Buckley admitted that while travelling to Austra- Pictures and John Lyons. Fey’s ‘Baby Mama’ co-star Poehler will also be executive lia with co-stars Simon Bird, Blake Harrison and Joe producing with Jeff Richmond and Brian Bell, while James Brolin, Ike Barinholtz, Maya Thomas was like going on a lad’s holiday, he thinks Rudolph and John Leguizamo complete the cast. Cena’s previous acting roles include they’ve matured a lot since the series first began in ‘The Marine’, ‘12 Rounds’ and ‘Legendary’ and he is currently filming for Judd Apatow’s 2008. Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he ex- upcoming comedy ‘Trainwreck’ starring Daniel Radcliffe and Tilda Swinton. ’The Nest’ plained: “We’re not really lads though! On one of the is slated for release on December 18 2015. down days, I was working unfortunately so I missed out, but the other lads went on a wine-tasting trip up in the mountains. ”That’s the sort of sophisticated lads we are [these days].” He also claims it was easy to slip back into his character Jay Cartwright’s sleazy ways, adding: “We really got back to that good old disgusting, immature mentality straight away. It was really nice to be back.” James recently hosted an epic pub crawl event in Shoreditch, east London to help celebrate Bing’s fifth birthday. Dolly Parton Woody Harrelson olly Parton wants to start her own festival. The ‘Jolene’ singer enjoyed her first experience at Glastonbury at Dthe weekend and thinks there was a lot she could learn Harrelson from it in order to stage her own music event at her Dollywood Theme Park in Tennessee. She said: “I have a lotta land up near east Tennessee, and we do a lot of festivals through my Dol- and lywood company. I’ve often thought I might start my own festi- val in Tennessee, or maybe I’ll get some good pointers from Hemsworth for this one.” And the 68-year-old star planned to ask Glastonbury James Buckley founder Michael Eavis for some advice on setting up a musical extravaganza. Speaking during a press conference at Worthy westernthriller Farm, she said: “I think I’m going to do that - Michael can give me some tips. Why wouldn’t I want something like this?” Dolly was delighted to be asked to perform at the festival and said oody Harrelson and Liam Hemsworth are to star in it made her feel like a rock star. She said: “I’m so excited to be ‘By Way of Helena’. ’The Hunger Games’ co-stars have part of this whole thing. I’m just a country girl, and now I feel signed up to star in the upcoming revenge western- Parton wants her own festival like a rock star.” And the ‘9 to 5’ hitmaker deliberately chose her W all-white outfit so she would complement the muddy condi- thriller, which will be directed by Australian filmmaker Kieran Darcy-Smith from a script by Matt Cook, Deadline reports. tions. She explained before her performance: “I’m going to Hemsworth will play the role of David, an 1880s Texas Ranger wear white on stage, because I figured from all the way out sent to an isolated frontier town to investigate a series of myste- there I want to be seen, and I think it goes well with mud.