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Sean Bean used to be known as an action hero – a gritty Hollywood hard man who usually died before the credits rolled. Yet the past decade has seen him become one of our most reliably excellent dramatic actors: a tender, terrific performer with multiple awards to show for it.Now 63, he trained as a welder in his home city of Sheffield before discovering acting, winning a scholarship to Rada in London and becoming a member of the RSC in 1986. He found mainstream fame in the 90s as the swashbuckling hero of ITV’s period…

Rachel Zegler, the actor who rose to fame as the lead in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, has spoken up in support of intimacy coordinators, after criticism of the role by Sean Bean earlier in the week.Speaking to the Times, Bean said such coordinators – largely brought in post #MeToo to help police on-set safety – can “spoil the spontaneity” of shooting a sex scene.“It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things,” Bean said. “Somebody saying: ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his…

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images As the conversation around intimacy coordinators has grown recently, The Dropout star Amanda Seyfried has shared her support for them to be implemented on all sets while sharing a troubling story from the early parts of her career. Speaking to Porter Magazine, Seyfried said that she emerged from the “pre-#MeToo era pretty unscathed” but there were times that she was put in uncomfortable positions while on set.  Going further, she detailed a time that she found herself…

Sean Bean is getting criticised for his comments on intimacy co-ordinators used for sex scenes in films and TV shows.The actor, whose credits include Sharpe, Troy and Game of Thrones, was asked about these specialists, who became a standard figure on sets in the wake of #MeToo for the protection of female actors.“I should imagine it slows down the thrust of it. Ha, not the thrust, that’s the wrong word,” he told The Times on Saturday (7 August).“It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things. Somebody…

After going free-to-play less than a week ago, Fall Guys is getting its first major update to fix several technical and visual issues across all platforms. Developer Mediatonic issued the update early this morning, which corrects some glaring issues — including that players using the PlayStation 5 version were not able to send or receive party invites from friends on other platforms like Xbox, PC, or Nintendo Switch. (Previously, they were told to mitigate the issue by redownloading the PS4 version of Fall Guys.) In…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books 'It is a true vegetal celebration and is particularly good served alongside chicken sate,' says Eleanor Ford Balinese green bean urap from The Nutmeg Trail. Photo by Ola O. Smit Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Our cookbook of the week is The Nutmeg Trail by Eleanor Ford.…

Plastic is infamous for its ability to persist in the environment for many years, and while alternatives made from biomass may well address this issue, they don't always offer the same performance during use. Scientists have created a new form of bioplastic that appears to walk this line, relying on a vanilla bean extract to remain stable throughout its lifetime and self-destruct on command in response to a specific wavelength of light.The organic compound at the center of this breakthrough is vanillin, which is the main…

Adding Census data to H3 Hexagons for Spatial AnalysisPhoto by Donny Jiang on UnsplashAll analysis techniques, opinions, and code are independently developed and my own work.Getting demographic data for a city or zip code is pretty straightforward — several APIs and data downloads exist to do so. But, for many reasons, these geographies have limitations (to name a few, zip codes are a function of USPS deliveries and city boundaries were established up to centuries ago — not exactly designed for data analysis).I’ve tested…

While many people might say that chocolate couldn't possibly be improved, such may not be the case. According to a recent study, a new cocoa bean treatment results in "fruitier, more flowery-tasting" dark chocolate.Ordinarily, once cocoa beans have been harvested for use in chocolate, they're covered in banana leaves and then left to ferment for several days.As they ferment, naturally occurring microbes break down the pulp surrounding the beans, heating and acidifying them in the process. This triggers biochemical changes…