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National Loving Day: The 'Loving' cast on the film couple's perfect and fateful last name
Director Jeff Nichols has never had an easier time titling a movie. The filmmaker’s latest project, Loving, follows the real-life couple (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) whose union led the Supreme Court to strike down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The couple’s last name — which all you law students already know — was, amazingly, Loving.
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‘Fast & Furious 6’ Co-Star Luke Evans on the Future of Owen Shaw and Helen Mirren’s Role
In the upcoming live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, Luke Evans will be playing one of the great Disney bad guys, the arrogant gasbag Gaston. The younger brother of Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw, Owen was last seen in a coma in Furious 7 after falling from an airplane at the end of 2013’s Fast & Furious 6. Evans couldn’t say in a recent chat with Yahoo Movies’ Gwynne Watkins, but he did reveal that the Shaw brothers have a formidable mother on their side: The Fate of the Furious cast mem
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'The Edge of Seventeen' Breakout Star Hayden Szeto Admits He Can't Swim, Shares Dream of Playing Bruce Lee
Normally it wouldn’t be a big deal to hear someone admit they can’t swim. To hear it come from Hayden Szeto, though, is surprising, considering some of the most memorable moments in his breakout film, The Edge of Seventeen, take place in a swimming pool. “They had SCUBA divers underneath to push me up,” Szeto told Yahoo Movies during a speed round of 15 get-to-know-you questions we call, well… 15 Questions.
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Oscar Nominee Lucas Hedges on Nailing His Boston Accent for 'Manchester by the Sea'
At 20, Lucas Hedges is 2017’s youngest Oscar nominee. The Manchester by the Sea breakout brings some much-needed laughs to the devastating drama as Patrick, the confident, hockey- and basketball-playing, boat-working, wannabe rocker with two girlfriends who falls under the care of his disgruntled uncle (Casey Affleck). The actor told Yahoo Movies he auditioned for the role five times before finally getting the green light from writer-director Kenneth Lonergan.
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‘Resident Evil’ Role Recall: Milla Jovovich Gives Us the Zombie Dirt From All 6 Movies
Milla Jovovich has spent the majority of her adult life alternating in and out of Zombieland. The Ukraine-born, Los Angeles-raised actress was only 24 when she began work on 2002’s Resident Evil, headlining the video game adaptation as Alice, the fleet-footed, gun-toting warrior who battles the undead with a ferocity that’s made her one of the action genre’s most beloved heroines. Fifteen years and five movies later, Jovovich, now 41, brings the popular series to a close this weekend with Resi
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Jonathan Lipnicki Revisits 'Jerry Maguire' 20 Years Later, From Swapping F-Bombs With Tom Cruise to Fact-Checking Weight of a Human Head
Jonathan Lipnicki was one confident 5-year-old kid — and this was before he became a movie star. After auditioning for the role of the precocious Ray in Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire, Lipnicki insisted to his mother that the job was his. “And then they cast another kid,” the now-26-year-old Westlake Village, Calif., native told us when he stopped by Yahoo Studios (watch above) to promote the film’s 20th anniversary Blu-ray release.
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Andrew Garfield Felt the Pressure of Working on Martin Scorsese's Passion Project 'Silence'
Martin Scorsese first announced he would adapt Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence — about a Portuguese priest dispatched to 17th century Japan to investigate the reported apostasy of his mentor — in 2007. Scorsese planned to have film be the follow-up to Shutter Island (2010), but it would take nearly a decade for the iconic director’s passion project to hit movie screens. Andrew Garfield, who plays the lead character Father Rodrigues (a role initially intended for Gael García Bernal), admits he fel
