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Dolly De Leon has called her co-star Charlbi Dean “one of the main reasons” that filming Triangle of Sadness “was so great”. Dean, a South African model and actor, died in August at the age of 32 following a sudden illness.In an interview with the Guardian released on Thursday (20 October), De Leon spoke glowingly of Dean, who plays a wealthy yacht guest in the satirical film. De Leon, 53, plays a domestic worker on the same yacht.“The great thing about Charlbi is she sees what’s in people’s hearts. She’s kind to…

Many were definitely surprised when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars a few months ago. Aside from Rock himself, one person who was arguably most surprised by the incident was Will Packer, who produced the awards telecast this year. The Hollywood vet hasn’t shied away from talking about the incident, though, and what was going on off camera when it happened. More recently, Packer shared the thoughtful message that Idris Elba sent him after the slap occurred.Will Packer and Idris Elba have been working…

Raymond Briggs’s handwriting was distinctive: bold, elegant and cursive, in black ink. For a long time he avoided email, preferring faxes or the post. He liked wordplay and gave many of his correspondents nicknames. I have envelopes addressed to Percy Summons or Poxy Summons. The contents could be a grumpy Christmas card, a moan about the time it took pencilling, inking and colouring two pages, or a diatribe about brussels sprouts.Briggs’s grumpiness was legendary, but behind this facade he was only slightly grumpy – as…

Slowly but surely, Disney has begun to introduce LGBTQIA+ representation in its live action and animated films. This has largely been done in small ways, with background characters or with off-hand remarks, but each new movie has been a step forward. We already know that Lightyear, a film with a new take on a classic Toy Story character, will take another step forward in the march of progress. And Chris Evans says he’s proud to be part of that.Pixar has been one of the studios that has included LGBTQIA+ characters in…

The marketing – poster, trailer and the like – for this monochrome low-budget feature is selling The Righteous like it’s a horror film. It’s all dark figures lurking in the murk, ominous, droning synth music and lots of talk of sin, suggesting it issues from the horror subgenre that’s soaked in a Catholic mindset: God v Satan, crime and punishment and, aptly given the cinematography here, black and white morality. But while this feature debut for writer-director-co-star Mark O’Brien is certainly suffused with uncanny…