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  • Angelina Jolie Attends Kids Choice Awards With Daughter Zahara and Shiloh

    Angelina Jolie made her first post-surgery appearance on Saturday night when she attended the Kids Choice Awards with daughters Shiloh and Zahara.

    Jolie had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed just a short time ago following a cancer scare. It was back in 2013 when the actress had a double mastectomy following genetic testing that showed she was at high risk for developing both breast and ovarian cancer.

    On Saturday, however, Angelina Jolie radiated life and confidence alongside two of her daughters. They were especially thrilled when their famous mom won a Kids Choice Award. She won for Best Villain for her role in Maleficent. She was also nominated for Best Actress, but lost out to Emma Stone for her role in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

    Seeing Angelina Jolie with her daughters–Shiloh is eight and Zahara is 10–further prove a statement she made to People magazine prior to tying the knot with Brad Pitt.

    “We’ve been through so much,” she said at the time. “We’ve gotten a lot closer, which I think naturally happens with raising a family together. You have history. … You have this person who really knows you, and you know them so well. You’re not lovers or boyfriend and girlfriend as much as you are a family.”

    On Saturday, Jolie addressed those at the Kids Choice Awards, as well as viewers at home.

    “Thank you so much to all the kids who voted. I want to say that when I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different and I felt out of place and too loud, too full of fire and never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize. Different is good. So, don’t fit in, don’t sit still, don’t ever try to be less than what you are and when someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up high and be proud,” she said. “And, and as your villain, I would also say, cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.”

    Angelina Jolie even got through the entire Kids Choice Awards event, and walked away without getting slimed.

    Shiloh and Zahara might have enjoyed seeing that happen.

  • Shailene Woodley Confused by ‘Spider-Man 2’ Cut

    Shailene Woodley is making big news for her role in The Fault in Our Stars, but she was terribly saddened and confused when she learned she had been cut from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. When the film went in another direction and her role was eliminated she wondered if she simply wasn’t cut out for acting in an action film.

    “For a few hours it was literally like, ‘Oh, my God, was I awful? Why did they cut me? What are people going to think?’” Woodley’s said in recent Vanity Fair article.

    “I woke up the next morning and I was like, ‘OK, it makes total sense.’ I’m a pretty spiritual person, so I can just sit back and trust that everything happens for a reason, even if my ego doesn’t like it,” she explained.

    Now that Shailene’s career is doing so incredibly well, she is starting to feel a different kind of pressure rather than the pressure of defeat. Some might call it fear of extreme success–something the young actress is very clearly headed for.

    “Somebody came to me and said, ‘I can’t wait to see what you do next.’ I took that as pressure – that I had to live up to somebody else’s expectations. There were a few months where I was like, ‘I don’t want to act anymore.’ And then I got over it and realized it’s none of my business what other people think of me,” she added.

    George Clooney doesn’t think Shailene Woodley will succumb to any kind of pressure, however–because she’s just that good.

    “Shailene can do whatever she wants. If she wants to be a movie star, she has it. If she wants to change the world, she will. Her talent and kindness go hand in hand,” George said to Vanity Fair. “We’ll be talking about Shailene Woodley 40 years from now. I’ve never seen anyone so young that has so much together.”

    Hopefully hearing this from George Clooney–with whom she starred in The Descendants–doesn’t add pressure to Shailene Woodley who seems a bit overwhelmed these days. Once she gains a bit more self-confidence (could that come in the form of an Oscar nomination for The Fault in Our Stars?) she will no doubt come to terms with all the stress that accompanies success. In the meantime she should try to let go and enjoy what will likely soon become a pretty exciting and often incredibly wild ride.

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  • Hailee Steinfeld: ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Star Talks Taylor Swift

    Hailee Steinfeld: ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Star Talks Taylor Swift

    Hailee Steinfeld is on board for the upcoming film Pitch Perfect 2, and she likely shared her excitement about getting the role with friend Taylor Swift. While some believe the two are merely social media friends, they’re actually great pals in real life, too.

    Hailee covers the May issue of Nylon and within its pages shares a few tidbits about their friendship.

    Taylor’s “an amazing friend,” she says.

    “I always get the ‘Tell us something nobody knows [about Taylor] question,” Steinfeld continues. “And it’s like, we both respect each other tremendously, but we choose to keep our friendship out of the public eye. She’s a really great person and an inspiration to me and many others.”

    Hailee describes herself in Nylon as a “normal teenager.”

    “It is about being honest,” she explains. “People live different lifestyles, and I always find an equivalency: If I’m filming or going to and audition it’s [the same as] my friends going school or dance class. I think everyone lives the same way and encounters the same sort of life.”

    The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s own Emma Stone is the one who introduced Hailee Steinfeld to Steinfeld said about Swift. “We just love to kick back, listen to music, watch TV, bake, watch movies and all of that kind of stuff.”

    The two girls were spotted just last weekend in New York having dinner. They also had a blast during awards season, dancing at a Golden Globes after party. They will likely enjoy some sort of celebration for Hailee getting her Pitch Perfect 2 role.

    Give today’s celebrity presence, Hailee Steinfeld could certainly have chosen far worse people to hang out with than Taylor Swift. At least the We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together singer serves as a decent, wholesome role model for the 17-year-old.

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  • Dane Dehaan on Green Goblin, Garfield, & Hamburgers

    American actor Dane Dehaan loves Andrew Garfield … and hamburgers.

    The 28-year old never thought he’d get the chance to test for the role of Harry Osborne, aka the Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

    “I couldn’t even get an audition for this movie, for like, a really long time,” he said. “They had a different idea for who they wanted for Harry. I just kept banging down the door, ‘Give me a chance!’ Then finally, I got my shot but it was three months of not hearing anything and I thought it was over.”

    Dehaan can partly thank Andrew Garfield for that.

    Film director Marc Webb spoke about how Garfield was a huge advocate for Dehaan. “We brought him in at the last minute. It’s really about dynamics and Andrew and Dane had this brotherly relationship that emerged when they were screen testing.”

    30-year old Garfield, who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man, said that he had seen Dehann in Aliens, a play in New York, but also did a play reading with him in which they were playing Leopold and Loeb.

    “There are actors that make you come alive and Dane is one of them. That was it for me,” Garfield said. “Then for screen test it was like we really loved each other and got each other.”

    Finally, after waiting by the phone for a week after the test, Dehaan got the call. “It was just a huge battle,” he said.

    Dehaan is previously known for playing Jesse on the HBO series In Treatment. He has also appeared in Chronicle, Kill Your Darlings, and Lincoln (as a union soldier).

    When asked by Mania what was the most challenging scene in the new Spider-Man film, Dehaan said, “The final battle between me and Spider-Man was pretty challenging. That set was 100 degrees at least, and I had a 50-pound suit. They were pouring ice water down my suit and it was turning to steam.” In fact, Dehaan lost 7 pounds in two days due to those conditions.

    Before filming, Dehaan spent eight months rigorously training and eating piles of vegetables and protein to transform himself into the well-muscled villain.

    “People are always like, it must have been so hard,” DeHaan told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. “I was like, c’mon people, I’m the Green Goblin! Who cares if you have to eat a lot to be the Green Goblin? It’s the coolest thing ever!”

    However, Dehaan did suffer slight emotional side effects due to the diet and fitness regimen, prompting his trainer to recommend that Dehaan occasionally give himself permission to indulge in an “unapproved” meal.

    “So my wife and I went to brunch, and I ordered a burger, and it was my first burger in four months,” Dehaan said. “And I took a bite of it, and I literally started crying in the restaurant. She was like, ‘What’s wrong?!’, and I was like, ‘It’s just so delicious!’ And she said,‘You need to stop crying.‘”

    Dehaan, as well as Garfield, Emma Stone, and Jamie Foxx, can be seen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which opens today nationwide.


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  • Emma Stone Rocks Sexy Cutouts at ‘Spider-Man 2’ Premiere

    Emma Stone rocked a sexy dress replete with cutouts at the New York premiere of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Thursday evening. The slip dress, designed by Prada, was nude in color but lent itself perfectly to her red hair and porcelain skin. Onyx and silver paillettes accented the straps and bodice. Just enough bare skin to stay classy while looking incredibly hot met many an eye between Stone’s armpit and waist.

    Makeup artist Rachel Goodwin played up Emma Stone’s lips prior to the big event, blending a dark colored lip stain to offset her light skin. She added a skin illuminator and just a hint of blush to complement both the gown and the actress.

    “Overall we wanted to create a look that was very glamorous and modern but with a 1970’s twist,” Goodwin said in a press release. “I definitely focused on luminous glowy skin and bold berry lips.”

    Mara Roszak, the hairstylist who has styled Stone’s impeccable looks during the promotional tour, created textured loose waves for the film’s premiere. Emma debuted bangs on Thursday–a style that further enhances her natural good looks.

    Emma Stone plays the role of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, starring opposite her real life boyfriend Andrew Garfield. Garfield recently had some amazing things to say about his leading lady–both on and off screen.

    Is The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on your list of must-see films? It is likely to top the box office in earnings by the end of the weekend. Fans have long awaited the second part of the 2012 film. In addition to Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield, the film also stars Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti, And Sally Field. It will play in both 2D and 3D, and beginning in May can be seen in IMAX 3D as well.

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