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New York Times
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Marlee Matlin on Hollywood, Healing and Stories Still Untold
Marlee Matlin is a fighter. At 21, she became the first Deaf performer to win an Oscar for her role as a smart, stubborn custodian in the 1986 film 'Children of a Lesser God.' Though the win thrust her into the spotlight, it did not change the barriers she faced as a Deaf woman, nor did it afford her or other deaf actors the same opportunities as hearing actors. The next Oscar win for a Deaf performer did not occur until 35 years later, when Ms. Matlin's co-star Troy Kotsur won for the 2021 movie 'CODA,' in which they played loving parents to a hearing daughter. The documentary explores the challenges Ms. Matlin has faced throughout her life. The actress said that she battled drug and alcohol addiction and that she was in an abusive relationship with her 'Children of A Lesser God' co-star William Hurt, who died in 2022. After Ms. Matlin wrote about the relationship in her 2009 memoir, Mr. Hurt said in a statement: 'I did and do apologize for any pain I caused.' Throughout her career Ms. Matlin has pushed for more acting roles and has become an advocate on deaf issues such as improving accessibility and representation in mainstream media. When she was asked to participate in a documentary about her life, Ms. Matlin insisted on hiring a Deaf, female director. As a result, the documentary, 'Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore,' is not rooted in sound, and there are no voice-overs — there are only captions — for the American Sign Language conversations. The film's director, Shoshannah Stern, who is also an actress, said the project was an opportunity to show viewers how Ms. Matlin experienced the world. The documentary also calls on Hollywood to be more inclusive of stories like this one. 'I want to make people challenge their assumptions of who should be centered in stories and how we see the world,' Ms. Stern said. 'But that really requires people in positions of power to start saying yes to stories that are being told differently.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Daily Mail
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Henry Winkler praised by Marlee Matlin for his extraordinary move after she finished rehab: 'My second dad'
Marlee Matlin was supported by an A-list star during a time of need in the late 80s. After ending an abusive relationship with her then-boyfriend, William Hurt, and finishing a stint in rehab, the actress turned to Henry Winkler, now 79. Although she initially intended to stay with him for a weekend, she would ultimately ended up living with the Happy Days actor and his family for two years. Matlin, 59, told Page Six that Winkler and wife Stacey welcomed her into their home and treated her no differently than their three children — Jed, Max and Zoe. 'I call Henry my second dad,' Matlin gushed. 'I mean, who gets to say that about Henry Winkler? [He's] probably one of the most famous American icons ever.' 'But honestly, he's very genuine and he's been a huge mentor in my life,' she added. Marlee and Henry met when she was about 12-years-old and performing at the Chicago Center on Deafness. Remembering the excitement of him being there, she told the outlet, 'We invited him and sure enough he showed up, which is amazing. Here he is, the Fonz! And I had been a fan of his for a long time.' She added, 'But we stayed in touch after that, and I didn't anticipate that we would be staying in touch. And we stayed friends.' Matlin would eventually marry husband Kevin Grandalski at Winkler's family home. But before her successful marriage to Grandalski, she began dating Hurt as they filmed Children of a Lesser God. The role earned her an Oscar for Best Actress, making her the youngest person to win in the category at age 21 and the first deaf performer to receive the honor. She alleged in her memoir I'll Scream Later that Hurt was physically and verbally abusive during the two years they dated, and said at the time, she 'wasn't familiar' with 'the language used to describe what I was experiencing.' And the starlet was unaware that 'I could reach out for help, not knowing that there was a name for what I was going through.' Hurt died in 2022, and despite the claims of abuse against him, Marlee managed to say something positive when asked about him at the Critics Choice Awards that year. 'We've lost a really great actor and working with him on set in Children of a Lesser God will always be something I remember very fondly,' Matlin said of Hurt. She added, 'He taught me a great deal as an actor and he was one-of-a-kind.' And the entertainment veteran says in her new documentary Not Alone Anymore that her ex-boyfriend inspired her to enter rehab. 'He went to rehab, and I was able to see what it did for him,' she says in the documentary, per Page Six. 'And I knew that checking in there would do me great.' The Shoshannah Stern-directed movie will be in theaters June 20 in New York, and starting June 27 in Los Angeles before hitting more theaters throughout the states.
The Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Halle Berry, 58, bounces on trampoline in just a cheeky swimsuit as she's sprayed with a hose
HOLLYWOOD icon Halle Berry has shown off her sensational figure and ageless beauty in a joyful new video. Stripping off to a bathing suit for some fun in the sun on a trampoline, Halle, 58, looked amazing. 6 6 The Flintstones actress was seen in the clip as she bounced on a trampoline in just her cheeky swimsuit. As she jumped up and down, she was sprayed with a hose. "Joy is a form of celebration - and today, we chose joy. Happy Juneteenth," Halle penned in the caption of the joy-filled video. "This type of joy is priceless," said one of her fans. "I swear @halleberry is the only Oscar winner who really just lives out loud," penned a second. "Aging backwards!!!," declared a third. "This is Halle stays young yall. love and happiness looks good on you," added a fourth. "This woman is in her 50s!!! If I didn't know better, I would not believe it. Go ahead then Ms. Berry," said a fifth. "Love me some Halle living her best life," penned a sixth. This comes after Halle ditched her underwear last month at the Met Gala. Halle Berry, 57, wears see-through lingerie dress highlighting famous curves at The Union premiere Halle attended The Met Gala 2025 on the first Monday in May as celebrities in their droves gathered at the iconic event hosted by Anna Wintour. With a theme of Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, Halle looked sensational as she listened to the brief and picked a suitable ensemble. She could be seen rocking a black gown on the red-turned-blue carpet, which had sheer panelling adorning it. The extravagant gown hugged Halle's figure and sailed all the way down to the ground. Halle Berry Movies Since her start in Hollywood in 1989, Halle Berry has appeared in several iconic films. Halle's list of films includes: The Flinstones (1994) Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998) Monster's Ball (2001) Die Another Day (2002) Gothika (2003) Catwoman (2004) X-Men (2006, 2014) Perfect Stranger (2007) Movie 43 (2013) The Call (2013) Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) Moonfall (2022) The Mothership (2023) The Union (2024) With a plunging neckline, Halle's ample assets were on full display. The dress also had an ample amount of sheer panelling, which meant her slender figure could easily be seen. The Hollywood star ditched her underwear for the occasion, with her modesty almost uncovered completely. No underwear was visible through the sheer panelling, and fans noticed this. "Pls where the panties?" asked one person on X at the time of the snaps making their way online. Another said: "Should've covered the private part." 6 6 6
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Damson Idris recalls accidentally spitting in 'F1' costar Brad Pitt's face: 'It was just dribbling down'
Damson Idris says he had a "say it, don't spray it" moment on the set of his new film, F1. In an interview Wednesday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Idris — who plays a rookie Formula One driver named Joshua Pearce — recalled an embarrassing moment while shooting opposite his F1 costar Brad Pitt, who plays Pearce's mentor, Sonny Hayes. "He is such a giving actor. We once did a scene where I had to scream in his face, and it was like the biggest scene for me. I was so nervous. And in between a take I spat in Brad Pitt's face," Idris admitted. "It was an accident! It was a rageful scene!" The actor said that Pitt flinched a bit in surprise, but then just kept going with the scene. "In my head, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, I spat in Brad Pitt's face! I'm gonna lose my job now,'" he joked. "I watched the spit the whole take, it was just there dribbling down [his face]." Though Idris had never worked with Pitt before F1, the actor — who broke out in FX's long-running drama Snowfall — said he had a near-miss encounter with the Oscar winner years ago while working as an usher at the Lyceum Theater in London. "One day Brad Pitt comes in to watch the play. And I'm at the back working, and I rush out, like, 'Oh my God, Brad Pitt's here!' And I don't catch him," Idris recalled. "I see blonde hair, blue jeans, and tan boots just walk out the door. And I said, 'Wow, one day, I'm going to work with him.'" And spit on him, apparently. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
The Guardian
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Mark Peploe, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of The Last Emperor, dies aged 82
Mark Peploe, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who collaborated with some of the greatest names in European film-making including Michelangelo Antonioni and Bernardo Bertolucci, has died aged 82. Peploe's family told the Guardian he died in Florence, Italy, after a long illness. Peploe's prominence centred on the screenplays he wrote for some of the great European directors of the era, notably Italian new wave auteurs Antonioni and Bertolucci. Despite its chequered release history, the 1975 film The Passenger, directed by Antonioni and starring Jack Nicholson, has since been acclaimed as one the decade's cinematic masterpieces, and Peploe went on to forge a regular partnership with Bertolucci, winning an Oscar in 1988 for best adapted screenplay for The Last Emperor. Jeremy Thomas, producer of The Last Emperor, told the Guardian: 'Mark was a Renaissance man, a brilliant writer of screenplays, and also an artist – he had a particular gift of a cultivation of the past which informed him as a writer. He was a very impressive person.' Peploe was born in 1943 in Nairobi into an artistic family. His grandfather on his father's side was celebrated Scottish colourist SJ Peploe, while on his mother's he was the great-grandson of German sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand. (His mother, Clotilde, was also a painter of note and his father, Willy, was an art dealer.) After a brief period living in a villa the family owned in Florence, Peploe studied at Oxford university, and was subsequently hired by London-based Canadian producer Allan King, working on documentaries about a wide range of creative figures including writer Norman Mailer, op-art pioneer Victor Vasarely and Never on Sunday star Melina Mercouri. Peploe said he turned to writing after becoming 'frustrated' with documentary-making: 'I thought that if you wrote the script, you would be able to control the movie more than I did. It was an illusion, but I thought so at the time!' Peploe worked on the script for Jacques Demy's 1972 musical The Pied Piper (starring Donovan and Diana Dors), and then had his story The Passenger – originally titled Fatal Exit – picked up by Antonioni as the third in the Italian director's trilogy of English-language films, following Blow-Up and Zabriskie Point. After co-writing the script with film theorist Peter Wollen, Peploe had intended to direct the film himself, but producer Carlo Ponti offered it to Antonioni after the latter's earlier project, entitled Technically Sweet, was shut down over budgetary concerns. Starring Nicholson as a TV reporter who swaps identities with a dead man, The Passenger also features Maria Schneider and Jenny Runacre and became renowned for a seven-minute tracking shot during its final scene. Due to a dispute with producers MGM, Nicholson acquired the rights to the film, and it re-emerged in the mid-2000s to considerable acclaim. Peploe's sister Clare was also a film-maker, and the pair collaborated on the script for High Season, her directorial debut in 1987. The same year also saw the release of The Last Emperor, on which Peploe had worked with Bertolucci (who had married Clare in 1979). Produced by Thomas, the film won nine Oscars in 1988 for its lavish treatment of the story of Chinese emperor Puyi, who was deposed in 1912 but allowed to live in Beijing's Forbidden City until 1924. Peploe subsequently worked on two more of Bertolucci's films: the Paul Bowles adaptation The Sheltering Sky, released in 1990, and Little Buddha, starring Keanu Reeves as Prince Siddhartha, in 1994. Peploe achieved his ambition of moving into directing with the 1991 psychological horror Afraid of the Dark, starring James Fox and Fanny Ardant, which has become something of a cult film, and an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's story Victory, released in 1996 and starring Willem Dafoe and Irène Jacob. Peploe is survived by his partner, art historian Alina Payne; he was previously married to costume designer Louise Stjernsward, with whom he had a daughter Lola, and was subsequently in a longterm relationship with Gina Marcou.
