SPOILERS for last night’s Grey’s Anatomy

Earlier this week, Page Six had an interesting story about Patrick Dempsey and how he hates being on Grey’s Anatomy and how Shonda Rhimes kind of hates him too. Sources accused Dempsey of “diva behavior” and said that even though Dempsey recently signed a new contract with Grey’s, that Shonda was looking for a way to push him out. Well… that Page Six story was timely, wasn’t it? On last night’s Grey’s Anatomy, Dempsey’s Dr. Derek Shepherd died.

Since I don’t watch GA, I found about this news this morning, as every single site is covering it like it’s a real death. I sort of feel sorry for the GA fans who missed the show last night, or just taped it with the idea of watching it later today. Big spoilers, y’all. McDreamy is DEAD. Twitter apparently erupted last night and all the GA fans are now pretty pissed at Shonda Rhimes. I’m not! I like the idea of killing a character off because the actor is a diva. That should happen more often in television.

You can read a recap of the episode here – people are mad that McDreamy died in a car crash after he witnessed a car crash and saved a bunch of people. It does seem… I don’t know, kind of like lazy storytelling? But whatever, I can never get into these shows anyway.

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Last fall, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu was promoting his film, Birdman, which is about a former comic-book-movie-lead and has-been who is trying to revive his career with a stint on Broadway. I personally hated the movie but Birdman went on to win Best Picture and Best Director Oscars this year, along with a slew of other awards. My qualms with the film were with the script and story – Inarritu showed himself to be a particularly brilliant director and more power to him. Anyway, last fall, Inarritu gave a lengthy interview to Deadline in which he spoke about the “cultural genocide” of comic-book films. You can read the full interview here, but here are some highlighted comments:

On the money: “I think there’s nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there’s a disease in not growing up. The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. When you put $100 million and you get $800 million or $1 billion, it is very hard to convince people. You tell them, you will put in $20 million and you will get $80 million. Now, that is a f–king amazing business, but they say, “$80 million? I want $800 million.”

Cultural genocide: “I sometimes enjoy them because they are basic and simple and go well with popcorn. The problem is that sometimes they purport to be profound, based on some Greek mythological kind of thing. And they are honestly very right wing. I always see them as killing people because they do not believe in what you believe, or they are not being who you want them to be. I hate that, and don’t respond to those characters. They have been poison, this cultural genocide, because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions and shit that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human.

The idea of superheroes: “Superheroes…just the word hero bothers me. What the f–k does that mean? It’s a false, misleading conception, the superhero. Then, the way they apply violence to it, it’s absolutely right wing. If you observe the mentality of most of those films, it’s really about people who are rich, who have power, who will do the good, who will kill the bad. Philosophically, I just don’t like them.

[From Deadline]

Agree or disagree with Inarritu, but he has an interesting point of view and he explained his position very well. I tend to agree with him for the most part – I’m often disturbed by the socio-political subtext of both Marvel and DC Comics adaptations, in which the violent plutocrats (Bruce Wayne, Tony Stark) are given the responsibility to save the country/world.

Well, anyway… Robert Downey Jr. was asked about Inarritu’s “cultural genocide” comments during The Age of Ultron tour and this is what he told the Guardian: “I respect the hell out of him. I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like cultural genocide just speaks to how bright he is.” (I’m including the video below.)

JESUS CHRIST, RDJ. Do you know how g—damn insulting that is? Inarritu made a lengthy and eloquent argument for why superhero films are destroying the film industry for other filmmakers AND they have a terrible political message and all RDJ can say is “wow, his English is better than I thought it would be!” Just know, I’ve been on the receiving end of those kinds of comments (because of the way I look, some people expect me to have an accent, I guess) and I always think the speakers are unbelievably ignorant. Like “Oh, wow, you know lots of words!” And why wouldn’t a Spanish speaker “be able to put together” a phrase like “cultural genocide”? Do only white, English-speaking Americans understand cultural genocide (presumably because they’re the ones committing said genocide)?

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Marvel must be nervous. Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out next Friday, and their beautiful cast went from charming to messy. Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner whipped out their dude-bro personas to “joke” about that “wh0re and slut“ Black Widow, who had the nerve to date someone besides Cap or Hawkeye. Renner’s remarks (and Evans’ eager agreement) played like two guys dissing a woman who won’t hand over her digits. Or guys who slut-shame women after they date them simply because they’re not together anymore.

Renner’s response to the journo’s questions showed his true nature, and Evans’ instant, merry laughter was disappointing. Add that to Evans’ sloshed dance vibe for this whole tour. I wanted to shout, “Joss Whedon, come get your boys.” But Joss is busy coping with backlash to his old-fashioned rape joke in the movie. There was also a Graham Norton appearance where Elizabeth Olsen said Scarlet Witch had “gypsy-like” style. Norton warned her against using that term, and Renner and Mark Ruffalo chanted “gypsy” in response. Dude bros strike again.

Evans and Renner both issued apologies for their Black Widow comments. My initial assumption was that Marvel’s PR wrote these apologies, but I’ve changed my mind. They’re both very different responses, which tells me that they did come from the guys. Renner acts like an #unapologeticbro, and Evans takes the situation more seriously. I’m not excusing Evans at all, but his apology comes across as pretty sincere:

Jeremy Renner: “I am sorry that this tasteless joke about a fictional character offended anyone. It was not meant to be serious in any way. Just poking fun during an exhausting and tedious press tour.”

Chris Evans: “Yesterday we were asked about the rumors that Black Widow wanted to be in a relationship with both Hawkeye and Captain America. We answered in a very juvenile and offensive way that rightfully angered some fans. I regret it and sincerely apologize.”

[From People]

Well I’m glad they issued separate apologies instead of a canned, joint statement. Here’s my interpretation of how these two feel about the backlash.

Renner: “Marvel told me to apologize. I don’t think I said anything wrong. All of this is make-believe anyway, and you people exhaust me. Sorry, not sorry.”

Evans: “Marvel told me to apologize. I’m embarrassed at how my inner douche-bro slipped out. My mom fought for feminism, so I should have known better. Man, you’re not going to forget about this for awhile. Ahhh. I’ll be self-flagellating in the corner. I’m sorry.”

Film still courtesy of Marvel; screencaps courtesy of YouTube; Fame/Flynet & WENN

On set, going to brawl out with Nick Nolte. #TheRidiculousSix #NickNolte #NMfilm #NM #film #SAGfilm #LasVegasNM #movies #NativeActor #Acting #Actor #hollywood #Comedy #NativePride #NativeAmerican

A photo posted by Loren Anthony (@lorenanthony) on Apr 21, 2015 at 7:31am PDT

This picture hails from Loren Anthony’s Instagram page. Loren is a Native American actor who’s building up some credits, which includes appearing as an extra in Adam Sandler’s latest project. Adam’s currently filming a Netflix-acquired parody of The Magnificent Seven called The Ridiculous 6. I don’t know why anyone assumed this film would be a tasteful affair. Adam co-wrote the movie, along with Tim Herlihy, the mastermind pen-wielder behind such classics as Big Daddy, Grown Ups 2, and Happy Gilmore.

Loren didn’t have a good experience on the set of this film, which stars Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo, and Vanilla Ice (as Mark Twain). It’s worth nothing that Warner Bros dumped the film, and Sony and Paramount wanted no part of it before Netflix fell into the pile. The film features Native American characters with names like “Smoking Fox,” “No Bra,” and “Screaming Eagle.” Now several Native actors have left the production because the movie is so freaking racist:

Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler’s newest film production, The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday. The actors, who were primarily from the Navajo nation, left the set after the satirical western’s script repeatedly insulted native women and elders and grossly misrepresented Apache culture.

The examples of disrespect included Native women’s names such as Beaver’s Breath and No Bra, an actress portraying an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee.

Among the actors who walked off the set were Navajo Nation tribal members Loren Anthony, who is also the lead singer of the metal band Bloodline, and film student Allison Young. Anthony says that though he understands the movie is a comedy, the portrayal of the Apache was severely negligent and the insults to women were more than enough reason to walk off the set.

“There were about a dozen of us who walked off the set,” said Anthony, who told ICTMN he had initially refused to do the movie. He then agreed to take the job when producers informed him they had hired a cultural consultant and efforts would be made for tasteful representation of Natives.

“I was asked a long time ago to do some work on this and I wasn’t down for it. Then they told me it was going to be a comedy, but it would not be racist. So I agreed to it but on Monday things started getting weird on the set,” he said.

Anthony says he was first insulted that the movie costumes that were supposed to portray Apache were significantly incorrect and that the jokes seemed to get progressively worse.

“We were supposed to be Apache, but it was really stereotypical and we did not look Apache at all. We looked more like Comanche,” he said. “One thing that really offended a lot of people was that there was a female character called Beaver’s breath. One character says ‘Hey, Beaver’s Breath.’ And the Native woman says, ‘How did you know my name?’”

“They just treated us as if we should just be on the side. When we did speak with the main director, he was trying to say the disrespect was not intentional and this was a comedy.”.

[From Indian Country]

This publication also spoke to Allison Young, Navajo, who was disturbed by the rampant stereotyping once production began. Producers told her, “If you guys are so sensitive, you should leave.’ Nothing has changed. We are still just Hollywood Indians.” Another member named David Hill, Choctaw, said Sandler and his crew were “disrespectful” and “bringing up those same old arguments that Dan Snyder uses in defending the Redskins.” Hill laments that several of the extras will stay on the movie because they need the work.

This film sounds like yet another example of “casual racism“ that arrives with a Sandler film like Blended or countless other examples. Does anyone remember Don’t Mess with the Zohan? Ugh. Sandler likes to see himself as an equal-opportunity offender, but he’s just an insensitive d-bag who tries to elicit laughs with dumb voices and wee-wee jokes. The good news is that audiences are tired of his shtick, which is why this movie landed at Netlix. The bad news is that these Native American actors were treated so disrespectfully.

TMZ spoke to Netflix, who says the movie is supposed to be ridiculous. Their rep insists that the cast, including the extras, are “not only part of — but in on — the joke.” Sounds like this isn’t a very funny joke at all.

Photos courtesy of WENN

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I had the chance to watch the Finding Your Roots episode that featured Ben Affleck and which we now know he requested be edited to remove references to his slave-owning great-great-great grandfather. That episode also included dancer/actress Khandi Alexander, a woman of color, and Benjamin Todd Jealous, who was president of the NAACP from 2008-2013. It was largely focused on activism and issues of race.

In Ben’s first segment, they spent a significant amount of time talking about his mother’s activism during the Civil Rights movement, particularly the Freedom Summer of 1964. They went on to discuss one of his third great grandfathers, who was a spiritualist in the post Civil War period. Then the show cut to Alexander, who learned that her maternal grandfather was born in Savannah, GA in 1910 at the height of Jim Crow segregation. Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. showed photos of Alexander’s great great paternal grandparents, who were born into slavery. He went further back to Alexander’s third great grandfather and revealed that he was a white man who owned slaves. Alexander’s third great grandmother was a slave owned by her grandfather.

Alexander’s introductory segment was much more compelling than Affleck’s, but it was meant to be preceded by Affleck’s realization that, like Alexander, his third great grandfather also owned slaves, also in Savannah, where Alexander similarly had roots.

Gawker obtained a copy of the script for this episode prior to Affleck’s request that his segment be edited. As Gawker explains, the whole issue of slave owning ancestors was central to the show. Here is part of the script that was cut, with more at the source. (Note that the all-caps text is narration.)

GATES: This is the slave schedule of the 1850 Census. In 1850, they would list the owner of slaves in a separate Census.

AFFLECK: There’s Benjamin Cole, owned 25 slaves.

GATES: Your third great-grandfather owned 25 slaves. He was a slave owner.

THESE HOLDINGS PUT BENJAMIN COLE AMONG THE SOUTHERN ELITE.

ONLY ABOUT 10% OF ALL SLAVE HOLDERS OWNED 20 SLAVES OR MORE.

AFFLECK: God. It gives me kind of a sagging feeling to see, uh, a biological relationship to that. But, you know, there it is, part of our history.

GATES: But consider the irony, uh, in your family line. Your mom went back fighting for the rights of black people in Mississippi, 100 years later. That’s amazing.

AFFLECK: That’s pretty cool.

GATES: That’s pretty cool.

AFFLECK: Yeah, it is. One of the things that’s interesting about it is like we tend to separate ourselves from these things by going like, you know, oh, well, it’s just dry history, and it’s all over now, and this shows us that there’s still a living aspect to history, like a personal connection.

By the same token, I think it’s important to recognize that, um, in looking at these histories, how much work has been done by people in this country, of all kinds, to make it a better place.

GATES: People like your mother.

AFFLECK: Indeed, people like my mother and many others who have made a much better America than the one that they were handed.

[From Gawker]

Affleck came across well in this transcript, he handled the realization as you would expect, so it’s strange that he asked that this be removed. Gates even repeatedly brought it back around to Affleck’s mom’s activism.

Gawker also notes that the introductory narration initially included the detail that every guest in the episode had descended from slave owners.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE PIECE TOGETHER THE LOST FAMILY HISTORIES OF ACTOR BEN AFFLECK, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST BEN JEALOUS, AND ACTOR KHANDI ALEXANDER.

THEIR ROOTS HIGHLIGHT A UNIQUELY AMERICAN PARADOX: EACH DESCENDS FROM A PATRIOT WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR NATION’S INDEPENDENCE—BUT EACH ALSO DESCENDS FROM AN ANCESTOR WHO OWNED SLAVES.

[From Gawker]

The updated version of the narration tied the guests together by their ancestor’s involvement in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

This script disproves Affleck’s second statement, made on Facebook, that these edits were not a big deal. He wrote, in part, “when I told Skip I was uneasy about the slave owner, he told me he had not included it in his preliminary cut because there wasn’t much detail – a name and no details, so he wasn’t going with it to begin with. ”

As I mentioned yesterday, this second statement isn’t consistent with Affleck’s first statement, in which he framed the request for edits as a collaborative creative process after he felt vulnerable and embarrassed. We now know that it’s not true that this segment was already cut. It’s still possibly true that Gates told this to Affleck in order to downplay his concern. However this played out, Affleck’s slave-owning ancestor was key to this episode, and Gates was so worried about removing that part that he sought advice from the CEO of Sony pictures.

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A bunch of the lower-tier tabloids have stories about George and Amal Clooney this week. As you can see, OK! Magazine even put Phantom Baby Clooney on this week’s cover. For what it’s worth, I don’t think Amal is pregnant, nor will she get pregnant any time soon. That’s why the unnamed source went to People Magazine last week – Amal wants us to stop Bump Watching her. We’re only supposed to be looking at her clothes and her fabulous, brilliant life.

There are some other interesting Alamooney stories out there, like this one that combines legitimate Sony Hack information with an eye-rolling piece of gossip about George and Amal’s marriage.

George Clooney has his very own bat signal! The star of 1997?s Batman & Robin — whose batmansenior@mac.com email address surfaced April 16 in WikiLeaks’ Sony hack database — “often uses the names of his roles as pseudonyms,” a source close to the Ocean’s Eleven actor reveals to Us Weekly. “He signs emails to friends with a simple ‘Danny Ocean’ and he loves leaving voicemails saying, ‘This is Batman.’”

After all, he’s Batman forever. “George gets a kick out of the fact that he played Batman,” says the insider. “He’s so proud of all his movies.”

Wary of hackers, the 53-year-old refused to create an email account until the early 2000s — his first address was a tribute to his O Brother, Where Art Thou? character, Everett McGill! — adds the insider. “He never trusted it. He has always worried about people finding a way to access his information.”

Now, he’s especially reluctant to hit send, even when corresponding with wife of seven months, Amal, 37. “George prefers to communicate with her by phone,” adds the source. “He loves hearing her voice!”

[From Us Weekly]

I can understand the (prescient) concerns about hacked emails, but does George realize that the same government agencies reading his emails are the same ones with FISA wiretaps on his phone lines? I am enjoying the idea of George calling up Amal and saying, “This is Batman, what time is dinner?” To which she says, “I don’t cook, a—hole. We’re going out tonight.” And Batman is all, “Girl, why aren’t you capable of heating up a g—damn bowl of soup?! BATMAN OUT.”

Oh, and this week’s National Enquirer has a story which I sounds like it came from these pages. The Enquirer’s sources say that Amal is so happy now that they’re in New York, away from Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford. Apparently, Amal thinks Rande is a “frat boy” and she hasn’t “clicked” with Cindy at all. Amal wants George to spend his free time with her and her alone, but George wants to live up, singles-style with his bro Rande and Rande’s cool wife (Cindy gets it, man). The Enquirer interestingly notes all of the times that George has spent time with Rande and Cindy over the past several months while Amal is presumably at home, fuming. I really believe that George is so used to having girlfriends who just go along with whatever he wants, girls who are happy to spend every vacation with George’s circle of friends, and George doesn’t know what to do with a woman who isn’t impressed by “Cabo with Rande and Cindy yet again.” On this, I’ll give it to Amal. I hope she puts her foot down and weans Clooney off his frat-bro buddies.

Photos courtesy of PCN and WENN.

This is the first official still (from EW.com) of Johnny Depp as Bostonian gangster Whitey Bulger. The film’s first trailer dropped yesterday. It actually previewed Tuesday night for a bunch of critics to create “buzz” on Twitter. And maybe so we would stop focusing on how Johnny caused some bumps with a late return to Pirates. The tactic may have worked.

Critics were impressed at Johnny’s “cold and powerful” portrayal of Bulger. I saw it differently because this felt like Johnny slathering himself in makeup again. Bad teeth, crazy contacts (Kaiser called them “zombie contacts.”) I didn’t see “ice cold.” I saw “eccentric and wacky with effectively foreboding background music.” Kaiser and I both agree that Scarfy’s ripping off Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. It’s so obvious and sad. Plus, Scorsese’s film contained humorous and satiric elements, so Depp nipping Pesci’s vibe to play a super-scary guy is distracting. If you haven’t seen the trailer, let’s do this. Benedict Cumberbatch (who plays Whitey’s brother, Bill) makes a quickie appearance at the end. Johnny overreacts (and overacts) over a steak recipe, but it’s supposed to be intimidating.

Kaiser is worried about how this film will affect Bendy’s career, and I can see why she’s concerned. Bendy will be fine, Depp notsomuch. This truly feels like Johnny’s make-or-break effort at legitimate acting. Especially after Transcendence and Mortdecai, he needs a non-Disney hit (although he pretends to not give a f***). This film’s box-office performance will determine whether studios will want anything to do with the Scarfmonster again.

Warner Bros chose a September release date, which means they’re semi-confident. They know audiences see Johnny as a gimmicky joke. His personal life has eclipsed his professional one, and he’s a messy cliché now. The studio didn’t want this film to compete with summer blockbusters, but they felt good enough to not dump it in January or February. I’d love for Johnny to make a real comeback. We’ll see what happens.

Movie still courtesy of EW.com/Warner Bros, photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

Promised myself I would not let exercise be the first thing to go by the wayside when I got busy with Girls Season 5 and here is why: it has helped with my anxiety in ways I never dreamed possible. To those struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression: I know it’s mad annoying when people tell you to exercise, and it took me about 16 medicated years to listen. I’m glad I did. It ain’t about the ass, it’s about the brain. Thank you @tracyandersonmethod for showing me the light (and @bandierfit is where I bought my Florida mom inspired workout look.) #notsponsored #stillmedicated

A photo posted by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) on Apr 11, 2015 at 4:47pm PDT

Lena Dunham and Taylor Swift have been “BFFs” for more than a year now. Basically, Taylor Swift moved to New York and developed a super-close group of girlfriends, and Lena is “geeky smart girl” in a group that consists mainly of models, dancers and pop stars. How to put this delicately? Lena doesn’t look like the rest of Swifty’s friends. I doubt Lena really cares that much about it in general. Except she has started to care more about her appearance lately, and she’s been posting Instagrams (like the one above) about her workouts, and she’s been talking about how she’s trying to change her body. This is where Star Magazine developed a theory – what if Taylor Swift was the one nudging Lena to make that kind of change in her life?

Every woman has that one friend who loves to complain about her life – but won’t do anything about it. And for Taylor Swift, that ranting bestie is Lena Dunham, who has become self-conscious of her full-figure.

“Lena has really confided in Taylor about her insecurities,” says an unnamed pal. “And Taylor was sympathetic at first but finally got tired of Lena’s constant pity party and told her that if she was so unhappy with her weight, she needed to get a trainer and do something to make a change!”

Sure enough, Taylor’s straight talk worked, and Lena has admitted recently to being on “a physical fitness kick.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

I think this is the kind of thing that could be true. I like that Swifty isn’t positioned as some kind of Gwyneth Paltrow-esque figure, telling peasants that they’re “fat” as soon as she sees them. I imagine if any of us had to listen to Lena Dunham complain about her life/body/career/whatever for hours on end, we would snap and tell Lena to get off her ass and do something about it. Incidentally, I don’t think Lena is “selling out” by getting a trainer or suddenly wanting to change her body/appearance after years of pushing a body-positive, love-who-you-are message. Then again, I don’t think much of Lena’s ethics – I think she will do, say or write anything for attention, so there’s nothing really to “sell out.”

Oh, and Lena has a feature in May issue of Seventeen – go here to read. I was going to write this up separately, but quite honestly… Lena just grates on my last nerve these days. I used to be able to take her in small doses, but I can’t anymore. The piece is all about how it’s cool to be “weird” and you should never feel the need to “fit in” or “dress like the cool kids” or whatever. Which is an okay message for teenagers, I suppose, except that Lena is a rich, privileged woman who went to private schools and now hangs out with Taylor Swift and Lorde and she works out at Tracy Anderson’s studio. Some of the kids she’s trying to talk to have real problems, you know? Problems that go beyond “wanting to wear ugly clothes and still wanting to be accepted by the cool kids.”

Photos courtesy of Instagram, Fame/Flynet.

Here are some photos of Christina Aguilera from one week ago, as she was hostessing the two-year anniversary celebrations of Hakkasan Nightclub at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Vegas. I glanced through the photos last weekend and I didn’t notice anything particularly noteworthy, other than the fact that Christina seemed more pulled-together since her last major red carpet, at the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Back then – it was late February – Christina still seemed to be carrying some post-baby weight (which is absolutely normal) and she seemed to have a bit more “junk in the trunk” than I remembered. Well, guess what? Sources claim Christina might have had Khloe Kardashian-esque butt implants!!

There’s something different about Christina Aguilera and it’s not her coaching style on The Voice. Aguilera sported a much curvier figure while celebrating the second anniversary of the Hakkasan Nightclub in Las Vegas. It’s unknown how Xtina’s backside got so much bigger, but fans speculated online that her extra junk in the trunk came from butt implants.

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

PopDust spoke to a plastic surgeon who theorized that Christina got the Brazilian Butt Lift, the surgery where they suck the fat out of other body parts and inject them into your butt. Christina’s booty does look suspiciously round, so I’m going with “butt implants.” I have to give her some begrudging praise too, because she got them in an appropriate size, as opposed to the Khloe Kardashian-esque freakshow butt implants, which are comically oversized.

So, what do you think? Butt implants or nah?

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Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon stepped out with daughter Ava, 15, in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Thursday (April 23). The pretty pair were seen shopping together.

The mom-of-three, 39, has recently returned from a press tour with Sofia Vergara, while promoting their upcoming film Hot Pursuit.

First, the lovely ladies traveled to Texas for the AMC Awards.

“Uno más!! @sofiavergara and I at the #ACMs yesterday getting our sparkle on… (P.S. How’s my Spanish ??!! ) #ACMAwards50,” Reese Instagrammed a red carpet shot Monday.

Next, the dynamic duo hit Miami.

“Today, @sofiavergara introduced me to a little, teeny weeny secret weapon called Cuban coffee!!!!! Apparently it makes you put exclamations on everything!!!!!!! #CoffeeTalk #Miami #HotPursuit,” Reese captioned the cute pic Monday.

Then the gorgeous costars hit Sin City.

“Vegas Baby!! #Outtakes #CinemaCon #HotPursuit @sofiavergara,” Reese posted Wednesday.

Watch for Hot Pursuit to hit theaters on May 8.

Vegas Baby!! ?? #Outtakes #CinemaCon #HotPursuit @sofiavergara

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