Today's celebrity chitchat
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Antonio Banderas discovered new sides of Pedro Almodóvar while filming 'Pain and Glory'.
The 59-year-old actor stars in the 70-year-old director's semi-autobiographical film about a director - Salvador Mallo - confronting his past as he grows older and Antonio admitted that despite being friends with Pedro for over 40 years, he learned new things about the director during filming.
Speaking on 'The Big Ticket' podcast, he said: "We have kept a very beautiful friendship, but with certain limits, because Pedro is a very private person, I always wanted to respect that privacy. There were spaces that I knew that I didn't have access and I never forced that. We created a friendship that has its own universe."
And Antonio believes that viewers will connect with the movie because it deals with regrets, reconciliation and much more.
He explained: "It's not only a movie about the things that Pedro has done. It's about the things that never did that he wanted to do, the things that he never said that he wanted to say. In that aspect it is more Almodóvar than Almodóvar because he completed the circle, closed some wounds, and the movie is pretty much...about reconciliation and then coming to terms with many people and with yourself."
"We all do have that suitcase filled with miseries and grievances, with pain and glory."
The non-linear tale also features Penelope Cruz as Salvador's mother Jacinta and Pedro previously insisted it was a "very natural choice" to cast his frequent collaborator.
He added: "It was a like a continuation of the work we were doing in the past. Almost in every movie she plays a mother, but this one is very different from the others. In 'Volver', for example she is a contemporary Spanish mother, whereas in this case she plays the mother of a poor family in the early Sixties. It was a very dark, post-war time and she carries the burden of humiliation on her shoulders, but with a spirit of survival."
Armie Hammer is bored of playing the "straight guy" in movies.
The 33-year-old actor admits he is swamped by offers of stereotypical roles which would see him play the regular relatable male lead on the big screen but he is now at a stage in his career where he wants to do more character acting.
In an interview with SFX magazine, he said: "I don't get asked very often to play characters. More often than not I get asked to play the straight guy - you're the charming one, that kind of stuff. As an actor you really get to relish playing a character that's so different from yourself; getting to play a role where you get to be a little off-kilter it's a lot of fun."
Armie can currently be seen in new Netflix psychological horror film 'Wounds', in which he portrays bartender Will who has his life turned upside down by a chance incident one night at the bar he works at.
'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' actor stars in the film with Dakota Johnson and he admits he was attracted to the role because Will is an "empty vessel" whom he could fill with his own ideas for the character as well as being excited to work with the director Babak Anvari.
He said: "Babak Anvari is the director of 'Wounds'. He's Iranian but he's London-based. He won a BAFTA for his first film, 'Under The Shadow'. It was an amazing movie set in the Cultural Revolution in Tehran - a really good horror movie. This is his second film.
"I play Will, who is a bartender and is sort of in a dead-end job. He's a vacuous shell of a man who has given up on life. For all intents and purposes, he is an empty vessel. The thing about an empty vessel, allegorically speaking, is that it's very easy to get filled up with things out of your control.
"I would say it's less surreal than 'Sorry To Bother You', which I did last year. That movie was magical surrealism. This was just ... I think the best word for it is eerie."
Karol G "died and came back to life" when Nicki Minaj rapped about her.
The pair have collaborated on Karol's new song 'Tusa' and the Colombian singer/songwriter admitted that the thrill of working with Nicki has not yet worn off.
She told Billboard: "In her [Minaj's] verse she says, 'It's me and Karol G and we let the rats talk'. I died, I came back to life, I died, I came back to life, I died, I came back to life like 18 times before I understood Nicki Minaj had said my name in her verse."
Karol, 28, also spoke about her inspiration for the track, explaining: "'Tusa' is when no matter what you know, what they do to you, how much they step on you, how much it hurts, you're entusado [disheartened], because you can't get over it...oh, it's happened so many times to me! The best technique for getting over a tusa is to work out."
Karol previously revealed she and Nicki, 36,first started talking via Instagram, where they traded songs back and forth until they settled on 'Tusa'.
Karol said: "She called me and said: 'I'm going to make the best rap of my life for your song'. I felt so happy. I sent her the music at 1 p.m. At 1:07 p.m., she downloaded the file, and at 8 p.m., I had the song back.
"She also surprised me by recording four full lines in Spanish."
Meanwhile, despite claiming she was planning to retire from music, Nicki recently told fans her new album will be "fierce, fun, and unapologetic".
She said: "It's probably the most excited I've been about an album release in a really long time. I'm happy that we're not making my fans wait for another album, like I've done in the past."
Nicki - whose fourth studio album 'Queen' dropped in 2018, four years after her third record 'The Pinkprint' - told supporters to look forward to a "way bigger sound" on her new album.
She added: "This one incorporates all the things people love about Nicki, but it also just has a way bigger sound, so it goes perfectly with the collection."
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has praised his bandmate Dave Grohl for his skills on the drums.
Grohl started his career as the sticksman for Nirvana before going on to form Foo Fighters as the singer and guitarist but he makes an appearance on the skins for Hawkins' new LP with his band The Coattail Riders, 'Get The Money'.
Hawkins, 47, has always been impressed with Grohl's skills as a drummer but doesn't like to compare himself to the 50-year-old musician because they have different styles.
In an interview with website MusicFeeds, he said: "I would always say that he is the best, but in truth, he's the best at playing drums like Dave Grohl and I'm the best at playing drums like Taylor Hawkins, it's as simple as that. I mean, I can't do Dave as well as Dave can do Dave ... Although I guess I did spend a lot of time trying to capture his essence, maybe I could do better at being him than he could at being me, but who knows. I feel like we both have our own strengths and that our partnership in the end, works out for the best for both of us."
Hawkins started his career as the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette's band on her 'Can't Not' tour between 1995 and 1996 before he joined Foo Fighters.
It has long been rumoured that Hawkins turned down the opportunity to be the drummer for Guns N' Roses to stay in Grohl's band and now he has admitted that he was offered the job.
He said: "It's not exactly true, but it has got a lot of traction recently. So here's what happened. I joined the Foo Fighters in '97 and when I was over there I got a call from my mother, because Guns N' Roses management wanted me to try out for them, but I was busy touring the UK with the Foo Fighters. So I didn't do it. So I didn't really turn them down as much as I just didn't go to the audition.
"I think we're all doing well now. I think Guns N Roses are in a good place now, with Duff and Slash back and my wife and I went to see them last year and they were fantastic."
Sienna Miller dreams of moving back to the UK.
The 37-year-old actress - who was born in New York City but raised in London - admitted while living in the US "makes sense" for work, she would love to retire on "some farm in Dorset" when she's ready to call time on her career.
Asked if she thinks about returning, she told OK! magazine: "All the time. I miss the humor. I miss my family and friends.
"From a work prospective, it make sense for me to be in America. I work more here, so it means less time away from my child. I can imagine moving back, though it wouldn't be to London.
"I'd probably move to some farm in Dorset and grow vegetables, eat and drink wine, and have chickens. But that sounds like retiring and I've got a few things to do before I can disappear."
Despite living away from the UK, the '21 Bridges' star - who has seven-year-old daughter Marlowe with former partner Tom Sturridge - likes to keep some traditions alive, including the idea of a "Sunday roast" every single weekend.
She said: "I'm English, so I do a roast every Sunday - whether it's chicken, beef, roast lamb or roast pork. I make incredible roast potatoes and everything that goes along with a Sunday roast.
"It's such a ritual. I have this open house on Sunday where people will show up and there's always food - and there are children running around.
"It's really special to me and it's something I'm very confident in... Every Sunday, my mother would cook a roast and have tons of friends around. It was a moment for everybody to come together."
Meanwhile, Sienna - who found herself rocketed into the spotlight because of her previous high profile relationship with Jude Law and party girl image - recently insisted she is "terrible" at being famous.
She explained: "I definitely have a hedonistic streak. Thank god I was never a heavy drug user. I was just frivolous in someways. I didn't have a business head. I wasn't being well managed.
"I have always been someone who is professional and on time and not an arsehole on set, but I suppose life in between was chaotic. I just don't think I was ready. I wanted to live. And I did.
"There are English movie stars who have normal lives and longevity. There have been moments when I was incredibly famous and it doesn't suit me. I just can't. I'm terrible at it."