Regrets

Amanda Seyfried has opened up about being put in uncomfortable situations as a teenage actor.The Dropout star got her break in Mean Girls in 2004 when she was 19, and appeared in Veronica Mars the same year.In a new interview with Porter magazine, Seyfried said she came out of the pre-#MeToo era “pretty unscathed” but added that there were some scenes she now regrets doing.“Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?” she said.“Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I…

Hey, boss. None of this stuff you bought actually works. Getty ImagesI once bought a pair of jeans online.They didn't fit.It annoyed me because they were the right (supposed) size, yet they weren't even close to fitting. Worse, I couldn't send them back because I'd bought them on sale.I'm reminded of my deeply pained feelings on hearing of corporate buying woes. Many companies, it seems, spend far more on IT than I spent on those jeans and feel, if anything, even more unhappy.I judge this from a torrid survey…

Adele is addressing the backlash over her last-minute decision to postpone her Las Vegas residency earlier this year. The 34-year-old British singer opened up to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs about the guilt she felt after abruptly halting the January through April run at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, but says she has no regrets about the difficult choice she made. “I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated, and I was frightened about letting them down,” Adele said. “I thought I…

Martin Sheen has revealed that he regrets changing his name at the start of his acting career.The 81-year-old actor, whose real name is Ramon Estévez, said he acted under a different name on the advice of others.“That’s one of my regrets. I never changed my name officially,” he told Closer Weekly. “It’s still Ramon Estévez on my birth certificate.“I never changed my name officially. It’s on my marriage license, my passport, driver’s license.”Speaking of why he changed his name, Martin said: “Sometimes you get persuaded…

Image: Morsa Images/GettyMillions of workers have quit or switched jobs in recent years, whether as a consequence of the pandemic and the workplace truths it revealed, or simply as a natural part of their career progression.However, what's also clear is that the pandemic – and pandemic-era working – has prompted more employees across all levels of seniority to think about what parts of their job they want to change, or what they would do differently if they had an opportunity to start again.According to a survey of…

Martin Scorsese has opened up about his regret over never working with Ray Liotta again after Goodfellas.Liotta, who played Henry Hill in the 1990 crime classic, died last month at the age of 67.He never featured in any of Scorsese’s subsequent films. Scorsese did try and cast him in the 2006 Oscar-winner The Departed, but a scheduling conflict meant Liotta had to turn down the role.In an essay for The Guardian, Scorsese paid tribute to Liotta, and expressed his remorse at never finding the right project to work with his…

It was only about a week and a half ago that we lost Emmy Award-winning actor Ray Liotta, leaving many to mourn the talent who gave us such performances as American mobster Henry Hill in Goodfellas and lawyer Jay Marotta in Marriage Story. Among his mourners was lauded filmmaker Martin Scorsese, the director of the aforementioned Goodfellas. In a piece written by the director for The Guardian, Scorsese reminisced about first getting involved with Liotta after the actor’s landmark performance in Jonathan Demme’s…