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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard leave Adam Scott 'deeply flattering,' 'deeply insulting' voicemails about 'Severance'
Severance-heads, please welcome Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard into the fold. Adam Scott recently discussed his mind-bending Apple TV+ show with the Nobody Wants This actress, and Bell revealed that she and her husband are among the sci-fi series' most obsessed —and vocal — fans. "Now seems like a good place for you to maybe officially apologize for the voicemails that you and Dax leave me," Scott said during their new conversation for Variety's Actors on Actors series. "I would try, but I'm not that good of an actor," Bell responded. "The endings to every episode of Severance are so biologically frustrating that I don't know how you guys expect anyone to sleep after an episode with that level of a cliffhanger." Bell then confirmed that she and her husband blow up Scott's voicemail after episodes finish. "What Dax and I tend to do is, when we see someone whose work we love or whose work frustrates us — as in your case — we leave you a nice, long, detailed, unedited voice memo," she said. "And you got a lot of those." Scott, who worked with Bell on Party Down and Parks and Recreation, confessed that he's saved the furious messages. "I've kept all of them," he said. "They're hilarious and deeply flattering, but also deeply insulting." Bell recalled her favorite of her husband's impassioned voice notes. "[He] pretty much screamed into the voice memo, 'Hey, Adam! Kristen just fell out of a two-story window,'" she said. "'I bet you'd like to know how she's doing. I'll tell you next week!'" Scott also revealed that Bell and Shepard pestered him about Severance's shooting schedule, as the show took three years to return after its first season wrapped. "You guys called while we were in the midst of shooting season 2 and just said, 'Hey, just curious, are you guys shooting this one minute per week?'" he remembered the couple asking. "'Why is it taking so f---ing long?'" The actor joked that season 3 will be delayed even more solely to spite Bell and Shepard. "Just because you guys left that message, it's now going to take seven years for the next season," Scott fact, shortly after the series was renewed, Severance creator Dan Erickson told Entertainment Weekly that he's striving to deliver the third season more swiftly than the previous one. "Having done it twice now, there is more of a sense of understanding procedurally what works and how to streamline it," he said. "So our goal is never to draw out people's pain for three years. And I hope that we don't have to do that again." Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Sent Adam Scott Voice Memos to Complain About ‘Severance'
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are 'Severance' fans just like everybody else. They, however, have one advantage: Adam Scott's cell phone number. In Bell's Actors on Actors interview with Scott, the 'Nobody Wants This' star made public exactly what she and her 'Parenthood' husband leave in the text chain. 'The endings to every episode of 'Severance' are so biologically frustrating that I don't know how you guys expect anyone to sleep after an episode with that level of a cliffhanger,' Bell started. 'So what Dax and I tend to do is, when we see someone whose work we love or whose work frustrates us — as in your case — we leave you a nice, long, detailed, unedited voice memo. And you got a lot of those.' More from IndieWire 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Review: Season 3 Brings the Fun - and Zombies - but Misses Chances to Go Deeper Hot Wings and Rabbit Holes: Exploring Late Night's Dance with Digital Scott professed to have saved every one of the messages, calling them both 'deeply flattering' and 'deeply insulting.' While deep in production on the second season, one message from Bell and Shepard said, 'Hey, just curious, are you guys shooting this one minute per week? Why is it taking so fucking long?' Scott teased, 'Just because you guys left that message, it's now going to take seven years for the next season.' Bell's favorite memo came when Shepard screamed out the message, 'Hey, Adam. Kristen just fell out of a two-story window. I bet you'd like to know how she's doing. I'll tell you next week!' Bell and Shepard are typical of the committed 'Severance' fanbase, as Scott related to The Los Angeles Times in March. 'I was a huge 'Lost' fan and huge 'Twilight Zone' person, so I totally get it,' he said. 'I don't really dive into all the theories and stuff on this, but I have seen some on Instagram, which is usually video of a podcast where they're really diving into one theory or the other. Also, all of the artwork that people are making, it's overwhelming and incredible. Whenever I see one on Instagram, I save every single one.' Bell, Shepard, and the rest of the 'Severance' heads will have to wait a while for the third season. While its production has been confirmed by executive producer Ben Stiller and Apple TV+, a date has yet to be announced. Watch the full Actors on Actors conversation from Variety between Bell and Scott below: Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie Nicolas Winding Refn's Favorite Films: 37 Movies the Director Wants You to See
CNN
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Nick Kroll ‘produced' John Mulaney's intervention because he ‘was so deeply scared that he was gonna die'
Being the subject of an intervention is never easy, but Nick Kroll is letting it be known that organizing one is no walk in the park either. During a recent episode of the 'Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard' podcast, Shepard, who is a recovering addict, brought up to Kroll how much he loved John Mulaney's Netflix standup special in which the comedian talks about his 2020 stint in rehab. Shepard wondered if Kroll was at the intervention that led to Mulaney's stay. 'I produced that intervention,' Kroll said. The 'Big Mouth' creator and star said it was 'so scary and brutal' to go through given that it was the height of the pandemic, he was living in Los Angeles and Mulaney was in New York at the time. Kroll's wife was also pregnant and he was in the midst of filming the movie 'Don't Worry Darling.' 'John was running around New York City like a true madman,' Kroll recalled. 'And I was so deeply scared that he was gonna die.' There were complicated feelings and many details to attend to, Kroll said, including who the intervention expert would be and where Mulaney would go for treatment. 'You're all of a sudden going back, being like, 'Oh, oh, oh — that's why I've had an inconsistent friend for the last X amount of time. Oh, this explains that,'' Kroll said. 'And so, it gives you both empathy for them and also a tremendous amount of anger because they've been lying to you.' Mulaney has since gotten sober and married actress Olivia Munn with whom he shares two young children. CNN has reached out to representatives for Mulaney for comment.
News.com.au
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Michelle Williams makes rare comment about ex Heath Ledger: ‘Special'
Michelle Williams reminisced on her 'special' ex Heath Ledger in an emotional podcast moment. Armchair Expert co-host Dax Shepard 'felt obligated to' bring up the late Oscar winner during Monday's interview with the actor. 'I knew him a little bit when he was getting sober, and I don't know that I've ever fallen in love with somebody so quickly,' Shepard, 50, recalled. He went on to call Ledger, who died in 2008 of an overdose at age 28, 'one of the most special boys' he has ever met. Shepard noted, 'I [could] feel the weight of the world on him in a very special way that kind of broke my heart. I was very, very sad, and I thought he was just so special.' Williams, 44, replied in a whisper, repeatedly calling Ledger 'so special.' She subsequently referenced their 19-year-old daughter, gushing, 'Thank God there's Matilda.' When Shepard added that Ledger had a 'heart that [was] just leaking out everywhere,' Williams agreed that the Dark Knight star was filled with an 'incredible sensitivity.' She recalled welcoming Matilda with Ledger in October 2005, one year after they met on the Brokeback Mountain set and began dating. 'I suppose maybe a good thing about being young is that you don't have so much life experience that you can contextualise things,' Williams said of the experience. The duo ended their romance in 2007. When Ledger died the following year from an accidental drug overdose, Succession star Jeremy Strong moved into Williams' home to support her and Matilda. 'Jeremy was serious enough to hold the weight of a child's broken heart and sensitive enough to understand how to approach her through play and games and silliness,' she revealed to Variety in 2022. The Golden Globe winner did not discuss this time period in Monday's interview, but did share a rare insight into raising the now-teen. 'When I make mistakes in front of my daughter and own up to them and apologise, it teaches her to apologise and say, 'Oops, Mummy, I'm sorry,' and it's not a big deal,' Williams told listeners. 'It's a part of life, and we move on,' the Emmy winner continued. 'No shame, no blame. You made a mistake? Beautiful. I made five already today.' Williams is also the mother of three children with husband Thomas Kail — son Hart, born in 2020, and two more, one born in 2022 and another via surrogate earlier this year, whose names have not been divulged. The couple got married in 2020, less than one year after the Dying for Sex star divorced her first husband, musician Phil Elverum.
Business Insider
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
Michelle Williams says you 'can't be equally good' at parenting and work
Michelle Williams knows balancing her acting career with being a mom is tough. During a Monday appearance on the " Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard" podcast, Williams, 44, shared how she juggles life as a mother of four while keeping her acting career on track. "Kids are such great life checkers. They force you to put your best self in front of them," she told podcast host Dax Shepard. "You can't abdicate your life and your work and your own desires, but you do have to put them in check and figure out which master you're going to serve." The " Brokeback Mountain" star welcomed her first child, Matilda, in 2005 with her then-boyfriend, the late actor Heath Ledger. In 2020, she married director Thomas Kail, with whom she shares three children. For her, being a working mom is about striking a careful balance — never letting her kids or her career go "unattended for too long." "Because the truth is, if work is going well, somebody else is taking care of the kids. And if you're in a high point with your kids, the work is shoved to the side," Williams said. "You can't be equally good at them at the exact same time, and you have to allow for that give and take, but then also replenish the other things. If you have a big period of being at home, you need to go back to what you've left unattended and put some light over there," she continued. Williams says she also wants her kids to grow up seeing their mom work, which makes it hard to step away from her career for too long. However, the pull of being a mother is hard to resist. "My best day with my children is better than my best day at work. I am more thrilled with that high than I am with a work high," she said. This isn't Williams's first time speaking about being a working mom. "So you have to figure it out because we have to stay in the workforce, even though it often feels like it's untenable. My heart obviously belongs to my children; they tug at it the most. But I really want to be able to have both," she told Entertainment Weekly in a January 2023 interview. Other female Hollywood stars have also spoken up about balancing their personal and professional lives. Naomi Watts, 56, said she tried freezing her eggs when she was in her early 30s to focus on her career. "Because I came into it late — at least with my launching — I was told to work, work, work because it'll all be dried up at 40," Watts told Katie Couric in a January interview. Cameron Diaz, who took a decadelong hiatus from Hollywood, said she spent those 10 years " trying to stay alive just like every other mother." During Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit 2024, she elaborated on her decision to stop acting. "It really comes to: What are you passionate about? For me, it was to build my family," Diaz said.
