Ahead of the release of The Batman, @Rishma_Dosani caught up with casting director Lucy Bevan (@CastingLucy) who – along with Cindy Tolan – was responsible for putting the talented cast together 🤩
‘So my role as casting director is to help the director of the film realise their vision for who should be in the film, and cast all of the actors,’ Lucy told us, emphasising how much secrecy was involved in the project from the very beginning.
‘From reading the blank scripts, I help the director decide who would be best in each role, and get the actors to be in it.'
'It was a very confidential project.’
🤫 Low-key auditions 🤫
Cindy was in charge of casting Robert and Zoe in the lead roles, with Lucy – who has also worked on Belfast, Death on the Nile and the upcoming Anatomy of a Scandal – coming onto the project later, and helping pair actors with more than 80 parts.
But if you think that auditioning for a superhero blockbuster is all glitz & glamour, she poured ice cold water over those claims ✨
‘The script was kept in a safe, so sometimes actors would come in and read, we’d get the script out and they would read [it] in the office'.
‘My office is in Acton, in west London, and actors just come here and read and audition' 🎬
‘It’s interesting for an audience, watching a film like that, to think that the bulk of it was cast out of an office in Acton.'
🌃 Huge Batman challenges in UK 🌃
‘The challenge there was because we were filming in the UK, we had to create Gotham City,’ she said.
‘It had to feel authentically American.'
Despite some challenges on set – mainly due to filming kicking off at the beginning of the pandemic – Lucy took a moment to heap praise on all involved for powering through under such difficult circumstances...
‘We were seven weeks into filming when the whole thing came to a grinding halt,’ she said.
‘It was an incredibly impressive job of the producers to get everyone back together' 👏
Are you ready for some pretty disturbing #GoT content?
Apparently most fans didn't read the books... so they're only now finding out that the hotties they were lusting after were literally meant to be 14 years old.
EXCLUSIVE: Icon Munroe Bergdorf has told Metro that now is a ‘precarious moment in time’ for the trans community, as she addressed the constant TV ‘debates’ about trans people 🎙
The model and activist, chatted to Metro as Queerpiphany, her show with Drag Race UK star Tayce, hits YouTube 🏁
During episode one, guest Yasmin Finney references Munroe’s Good Morning Britain interview in 2018, during which she clashed with presenter Piers Morgan 📺
Four years on, daytime TV hosts are still having ‘debates’ about the trans community.
The 30-year-old actor, who plays the role of King Ghezo in #TheWomanKing, has never publicly dated anyone, and while it sounds like he won’t be any time soon, that doesn’t mean he’s not looking for love...
Asked whether he now focuses on love after focusing on work for so long, he said:
‘Both are a priority. That’s changed. I’m 30 now. From 28, I just worked on getting peace and getting myself together. Moving with honesty and transparency.'
Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has been dominating the world, and our Instagram timelines, ever since she stepped foot on Love Island, and that’s not about to change.
The Love Island star sat down with @Rishma_Dosani to reveal whether she'd host the dating show... 👇🏽 trib.al/ppBhegT
After taking the villa by storm @ekinsuofficial has continued to slay, popping up at New York Fashion Week on Tuesday to debut her collection with Oh Polly 💅
Not only that, the 28-year-old also stomped down the runway herself to model the designs, proving that there is nothing she can’t turn her hand to ❤
Kim Kardashian clearly wasn’t content with all the controversy she unleashed by wearing Marilyn Monroe’s iconic dress to the Met Gala – as she has unveiled a second dress she wore belonging to the late star 😳
Taking to Twitter, Kim revealed that she changed into another gown from the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes star’s wardrobe, this time the outfit she wore to the Golden Globes in 1962 ✨
If that wasn’t enough, she also decided to pose with the actual Golden Globe that Monroe took home on the night.
The costume designer for #MoonKnight has opened up about Layla’s epic Scarlet Scarab reveal in the finale, disclosing the Easter Egg nods subtly made to the costume throughout the series 👀
This week, the show drew to a close, with the episode 6 ending featuring the debut of Jake Lockley in the post-credits scene, as well as a fight between Marc Spector, Steven Grant (both played by Oscar Isaac), Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) and Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy).
Having been reluctant to become the avatar for the ancient Egyptian moon god Khonshu, Layla eventually became an avatar for the hippo god Taweret instead, donning a stunning outfit as part of her superhero transformation, complete with sword-embellished wings 😮