Dakota nails Hollywood's problem
And Cristin rails against WB for deleting her show
Dakota Johnson nailed the problem with Hollywood in two quotes
While eating progressively hotter wings.
Take one look at this year’s mainstream movie slate and one question will come to mind: Where did all the original movies go? Why is it all sequels, reboots, and remakes?
Hot Ones host Sean Evans has definitely noticed this, and so he asked Dakota Johnson, “why is Hollywood so risk averse?” And her answer was spot on:
“I think it’s hard when creative decisions are made by committee and it’s hard when creative decisions are made by people who don’t even really watch movies or know anything about them, and that tends to be what’s occurring a lot”
Shots fired at executives, but even a casual moviegoer can see she isn’t wrong.
Johnson continued, “When something does well, studios want to keep that going, so they remake the same things, but humans don’t want that. They want fresh, they want to feel new things, experience new things, see new things, so I don’t know, I guess it’s all just a bit of a mess right now, isn’t it?”
These quotes come after Johnson addressed Madame Web’s failure in the Los Angeles Times two weeks ago.
Quote, “It wasn’t my fault. There’s this thing that happens now where a lot of creative decisions are made by committee. Or made by people who don’t have a creative bone in their body. And it’s really hard to make art that way. Or to make something entertaining that way.”
Cristin Milioti railed against Warner Bros for deleting her show off HBO Max
From How I Met Your Mother to Palm Springs, to The Penguin, Cristin Millioti has been building an impressive career in recent years. But there’s one great show that she starred in that you cannot watch.
It’s called Made For Love, it’s a sci-fi drama co-starring Ray Romano and Billy Magnussen, that was extremely prescient about AI and tech bro billionaires. But after two seasons, Warner Brothers deleted it off Max for a tax write down.
And Milioti recently spoke out against that on WTF with Marc Maron, saying the situation is quote “so fucked up” and “It's such a bummer because, you know, that was three years of our lives. So many people worked so hard on that. You can't even buy it. It's just sitting in a vault somewhere. I’m also like just put it up. It's such a bummer to think that … people's hard work, years of hard work can just be evaporated.”
Milioti says she’s asked people at Warner Brothers and also Paramount, who produced the series, where the show is and its status, but she says quote “no one really knows … which is also really nuts.”
The actress says she hopes it ends up somewhere where it can be seen, because quote, “we worked really hard on it and I think it has like a lot of interesting stuff to say about tech.”
Emma Watson just turned up on the River Thames
Everyone knows Emma Watson from the Harry Potter movies, but after the franchise wrapped in 2011, Watson continued to show up in big movies like Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beauty and The Beast, and This Is The End.
Now that said, Watson hasn’t been in a film since 2019’s Little Women and that’s because she took a conscious break from acting to pursue her other passions.
Watson is currently enrolled at Oxford University’s Lady Margaret Hall and is getting a masters in creative writing, as well as a DPhil, which is the Oxford equivalent of a PhD.
But she’s not just studying, Watson has joined a women’s rowing team as its coxswain - the person who sits at the front of the boat facing the rowers, who is responsible for steering and coordinating the power and rhythm of the rowers. Watson is specifically the coxswain for the New College women's third team in the Oxford University Summer Eights rowing regatta on the Thames River.
And to me it makes perfect sense that a former actor would fill this role. As TikToker Coach Jackie J explained, “You have to be very confident if you're a coxswain, you have to be very loud if you're a coxswain, you have to be very smart if you're a coxswain. We know Emma Watson is all of those things.”