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  • Benicio Del Toro Joins Cast of Star Wars: Episode VIII

    Star Wars: Episode VIII is now filming, and the the Walt Disney Company has announced a few new additions to the cast.

    The first is Benicio Del Toro and the second is Laura Dern – both well-respected and established actors. The third is relative newcomer Kelly Marie Tran.

    Of course, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, and Andy Serkis will all return as well.

    According to the team, principal photography began in London today.

    Actor John Boyega, who plays Finn, also tweeted about the exciting day.

    Check out this production teaser:

  • Emily Blunt Talks Nude Scene Cut from ‘Sicario,’ Why, and the Actor Who Agreed

    Emily Blunt dished recently on a nude scene that was cut from her current blockbuster film Sicario–and the reason why.

    “That was in there originally,” Emily Blunt said earlier this week while she was a guest on Howard Stern’s radio show. “But it came out because we didn’t agree with it.”

    Howard Stern asked, “Who’s we?”

    Emily Blunt’s answer likely floored–and pleased–the shock jock.

    “My tits,” Blunt said. “[They said], ‘We’re not doing it.’” She further explained that her costar, Benicio del Toro, backed her up.

    “It was a scene between he and I,” she noted. “He’s like my brother now. Honestly! He is… please, he is.”

    Emily Blunt went on to describe an uncomfortable scene she filmed with Tom Hanks–in her underwear.

    “That was embarrassing. I think it was strange for him,” she said. “He said that friends of his saw that scene and were disturbed by it.”

    Blunt shared that filming sex scenes feels more clinical than exciting.

    “I find it so… clinical. The whole thing and technical that I never got excited,” she said.

    Howard Stern then asked–in typical Stern fashion–if a man she was filming a love scene with ever got aroused.

    “Uh… once,” Blunt replied. “I think the reaction was… we were filming, and we were like, ‘oop!’ … [I felt it] against my leg!”

    Emily Blunt added she would never go home and tell hubby John Krasinski about such an incident–although if he reads or listens to her interviews, he likely knows by now.

    Even though Emily Blunt shared lots about her cut Sicario sex scene, she shared nothing about her former relationship with singer Michael Buble that was surrounded by rumors that he cheated on her.

    “I don’t know, it’s complicated… I never want to talk about it. I can’t do it,” she said.

    Have you seen Emily Blunt in Sicario? Do you think a nude scene would have added to or detracted from the film?

  • Emily Blunt Explains Why She Struggles With Being the Center of Attention

    Emily Blunt Explains Why She Struggles With Being the Center of Attention

    Emily Blunt apparently struggles with being the center of attention and has a very good reason for her affliction — because she is British.

    Emily Blunt, 32, received much adulation while attending the Cannes Film Festival this week, during which she called the high-heel ban “disappointing,” for the premiere of her new movie, Sicario.

    The Denis Villeneuve-directed film was very well received by the audience that showered her with never-ending applause for her portrayal of an FBI agent who joins Josh and Benicio Del Toro’s efforts to disrupt Mexican drug trafficking, However, Emily Blunt said it made her feel very uncomfortable.

    “British people have a really hard time with that,” she told USA Today. “We have a hard time with ongoing enthusiasm and being the center of attention.”

    There was one fan from whom Emily Blunt didn’t mind receiving praise. Two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, who was in attendance at the premiere, offered words of praise for Blunt’s performance, which made for a memorable, “surreal” moment for the mother of baby Hazel.

    “[She] just said how much she loved it. That she was sort of stunned by it,” she smiled. “It was quite lovely.”

    After the premiere, Emily Blunt was able to enjoy a a few parties and a late night pizza before returning to her hotel at 3 a.m. to call her husband John Krasinski back home in the U.S.

    “He was just really proud and happy,” she said of her conversation with Krasinski. “It was all good news.”

    In the end and despite the rough subject of the film, Emily Blunt enjoyed the evening.

    “My tendency is to downplay everything,” said Emily Blunt. “But, hand on my heart, it was quite a magical night.”

  • Benicio del Toro Is Not Dead Either

    Benicio del Toro Is Not Dead Either

    2014 has been the year for death hoaxes. The ever-growing popularity of social media makes it easy to start and disseminate a hoax.

    Recently a hoax claimed that former First Lady Nancy Reagan had died. The whole thing apparently started from a Facebook page that ran with the declaration:

    “At about 11 a.m. ET on Friday (October 24, 2014), our beloved politician Nancy Reagan passed away. Nancy Reagan was born on July 6, 1921 in New York. She will be missed but not forgotten. Please show your sympathy and condolences by commenting on and liking this page.”

    The hoax finally started petering out when Reagan’s reps issued a statement, asking people to “stop believing what you see on the Internet.”

    That hoax was suspiciously identical to another the same day, wherein actress Jennifer Lawrence was declared dead, once again on Facebook, with this statement:

    “At about 11 a.m. ET on Friday (October 24, 2014), our beloved actress Jennifer Lawrence passed away. Jennifer Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990 in Louisville. She will be missed but not forgotten. Please show your sympathy and condolences by commenting on and liking this page.”

    Others who have been prematurely declared dead this year include Betty White, Bob Seger, Dwayne Johnson, and Wayne Knight.

    Now the Latin Times reports that rumors of the death of actor Benicio del Toro are also spreading, and are false. According to their report, some people are claiming to have intimate details of del Toro’s supposed drug overdose death.

    Del Toro’s latest film is Escobar: Paradise Lost, in which he portrays Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, who died in 1993 when he was cornered in a firefight with Colombian Police. Legends say that Escobar was hit in the leg and torso, but committed suicide by shooting himself in the ear.

  • Benicio Del Toro Praises Oliver Stone’s Directorial Abilities

    Benicio Del Toro has worked with a lot of directors over the years. In addition to co-starring in “X-Men” mastermind Bryan Singer’s 1995 crime thriller “The Usual Suspects”, Del Toro has appeared in motion pictures from such notable talent as Abel Ferrara (“The Funeral”), Terry Gilliam (“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”), Alejandro González Iñárritu (“21 Grams”), and Robert Rodriguez (“Sin City”). In short, he’s no stranger to working with cinematic giants, which may explain why he was at ease on the set of Oliver Stone’s “Savage”.

    “The main reason for me doing this was Oliver Stone, as a filmmaker,” Del Toro explained. “Yeah, he allowed improvisation. He wants you to think and he wants you to make sure that you commit to it, so he might present some questions that make you think about your choices. Sometimes you have to be on your toes.”

    In the latest offering from the man responsible for crafting “Natural Born Killers”, “Platoon”, and “Wall Street”, Del Toro stars as Lado, a drug dealer who kidnaps the girlfriend (Blake Lively) of two low-rent pot growers (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch). Although such subjects are always darker when you’re dealing with Oliver Stone, Del Toro is certainly no stranger to playing the heavy. In fact, he’s pretty much built his career on it.

    “I don’t think so. I’ve played drug dealers, all my life. I’ve made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. As a Latino, you think about the portrait of the Latino, but it’s not one-handed, necessarily,” he said. “There are not a lot of issues that get explored, on the other side. There is some sort of balance. It’s not blaming one person. When you blame just one group, it’s a problem. But here, in the way that I look at it, it’s a bigger issue. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. It’s more complex. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.”

    In addition to playing a drug lord in Oliver Stone’s “Savages”, Del Toro will appear in director Adam Hashemi’s “Agent: Century 21”, a film about a real estate agent who gets caught up in a Mexican drug lord’s kidnapping plot. Considering the only other star currently on-deck is Cameron Diaz, I think it’s pretty safe to say which role Del Toro has signed on for.