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With each passing year, it gets harder and harder to believe that Party Pieces was ever the source for the Middleton family’s wealth. I don’t doubt that for years, PP was a profitable business, perhaps even a successful enough business to provide a comfortable life for Carole, Michael and the Middleton children. But no, I never believed that PP made Carole and Michael into millionaires several times over, enough to finance the arrested-development adulthoods of Kate, Pippa and James. That money came from other income streams, or perhaps shady Uncle Gary. In any case, the bloom is off the rose, so to speak. For years now, Party Pieces has recorded significant losses. Carole tried to branch out the business to include a sliver of the American market, with an exclusive deal with Shop-Rite. To no avail – more losses, more financial shambles.

Carole Middleton’s company has seen a ‘terrible Christmas’ of business and is now in a dispute with suppliers over their payment agreement, it has emerged. The Princess of Wales’s mother owns party decoration supplier, Party Pieces. It was founded in 1987 when Carole was looking for inspiration for her daughter Kate’s fifth birthday party. But the company faced difficulty over the recent festive period with a dip in customer spending due to the cost of living crisis.

Carole, who famously started the business on her kitchen table, is now reportedly doing her utmost to bolster its prospects and has taken on the challenge herself by dealing directly with suppliers.

A source told the Daily Mail: ‘Carole’s been explaining that it’s been a terrible Christmas — made worse by the postal strikes. She’s emphasised that she’d like to continue doing business with them [the suppliers] but would like terms allowing Party Pieces 90 days [in which to pay for goods] rather than the usual 30 days.’

However, Carole’s appeal to suppliers has so far been unsuccessful. ‘They’re saying, “No” to 90 days’ credit,’

Carole admitted a year ago that the company was operating in a ‘competitive market’, adding: ‘We work hard to stay ahead of the trends and ensure we have original designs and “I wish I’d thought of that” products.’

Last October it was revealed that the firm racked up a loss of £285,506 in 2021, taking its total deficit to £1.35 million. This was reportedly a consequence of ‘continued investment in the company’s growth plans, including the launch of a wholesale division and the opening of new territories in the U.S., Europe and Middle East’.

[From The Daily Mail]

I don’t even necessarily think that this is the result of bad decision making from Carole, honestly. It’s just that the party-supply business is pretty niche and even more overcrowded at the moment, especially with the prevalence of online shopping and discount stores. The cost of living crisis is the icing on the cake of this downturn, but even then, Carole was doing the right thing by trying to expand into the American and Middle Eastern markets. But again, the product is niche, and even if you expand it to say that Party Pieces is more of a lifestyle brand, that’s still a very crowded market, and a market which has seen significant downturns across the board.

What happens now? God knows. I suspect significant withdrawals from the Bank of Gary Goldsmith are in order. Perhaps Carole’s son-in-law will spare some Duchy of Cornwall money for her. Perhaps Terribly Moderately Wealthy James Matthews will also be called in for a cash infusion. I always wondered why Carole didn’t unload PP years ago – just sell it to someone, pocket a tidy profit and claim you’ve retired. I bet she regrets not doing that now. Maybe no one made her a good enough offer.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.





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Harry Styles wore a harlequin-print Egonlab jumpsuit to the 2023 Grammys. It ended up being Harry’s night, much to the dismay of… well, everyone. Harry’s album, Harry’s House, won Album of the Year and he seemed to believe that this is the first time a white dude has ever won over a Black artist. As I said in a previous post, I actually do understand why Harry picked up AOTY – those singles were all over the radio, and the album was well-liked. Now, was the album better than Beyonce’s Renaissance? Eh.

Harry didn’t make it easy for people to root for his success with his off-key performance of “As It Was” either. It was not good.

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Adele wore a big Louis Vuitton gown to the Grammys and she appeared to be having a great time, even though she was shut out from a lot of the big awards too. I think she was somewhat grateful that her ass didn’t win AOTY, you know? She’s been there and done that, and the Beyhive came for her in 2017. This time, they’re coming for Harry Styles! Anyway, she looked fine and her boyfriend Rich Paul was her date.

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The “Armie Hammer redemption tour” has begun, even though no one wants it. In early 2021, Hammer was outed as a sexual assailant, a wannabe cannibal, a guy who treats women like sh-t and an addict. There were texts about his cannibal and BDSM fantasies, there were ex-girlfriends and ex-lovers coming out of the woodwork to tell their stories of being used, abused and abandoned by Hammer. And there was Effie’s story of being raped and tortured by Hammer, a story which led the LAPD to open up a criminal investigation. It now appears that Effie’s story is much more complicated than many believed, and her lawyer (Gloria Allred) has already stepped away from representing her. It’s likely nothing (in the way of criminal charges or even a civil case) will come out of Effie’s claims, in general, and that was true before Hammer commenced with this redemption tour. Hammer sat down with Air Mail for a self-pitying and self-centered interview. Some highlights:

Hammer claims the “rape” of Effie was a scene they planned together: “If I still had these messages, I would have been able to put this to bed in .5 seconds. This alleged rape was a scene that was her idea. She planned all of the details out, all the way down to what Starbucks I would see her at, how I would follow her home, how her front door would be open and unlocked and I would come in, and we would engage in what is called a ‘consensual non-consent scene,’ CNC.” Hammer says that, while he and Effie had sex multiple times, “we only had one, scheduled CNC event,” and that Effie introduced him to the practice.

He always asked for consent: “Every single thing was discussed beforehand,” he says. “I have never thrust this on someone unexpectedly. Never. That’s a very important part of the B.D.S.M. world. The consent. Because you’re doing things that are pushing envelopes. You’re doing things that are beyond the [realm of] ‘Let’s have missionary sex with the lights off.’ You have to have that trust. You have to have that vulnerability with someone. You have to have that aspect of ‘I am willingly giving my control over to this person,.’ You know, the sub [the submissive partner] is the one who actually has all the power. Always. They’re the ones who can say ‘stop’ at any moment. They’re the ones who set the boundaries.”

He’s glad all of this has happened: “If someone came up to me and gave me a magic lamp and said, ‘There’s a genie in here, but it only gives you one wish. If you rub this lamp, the genie will come out and take you back two years in the past, and you could undo all of this,’ I wouldn’t do it. I’m now grateful for everything that’s happened to me, because, as it says in the ‘Twelve and Twelve’ [Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, the guidebook of Alcoholics Anonymous], pain is the touchstone of spiritual progress. I’m now a healthier, happier, more balanced person. I’m able to be there for my kids in a way I never was. I’m able to be there for my dad as he’s dying in a way that I would have never been able to be. I’m truly grateful for my life and my recovery and everything. I would not go back and undo everything that’s happened to me.”

He was abused at 13: At the age of 13, Hammer says, a youth pastor at the church his family attended sexually abused him for a period lasting nearly a year. “What that did for me was it introduced sexuality into my life in a way that it was completely out of my control,” he recalls. “I was powerless in the situation. I had no agency in the situation. My interests then went to: I want to have control in the situation, sexually.” According to Hammer, the sexual abuse he endured as a young boy “set a dangerous precedent in my life.” As a result of that experience, Hammer says that his “sexual interests became about being in control, because being out of control was very dangerous for me and very uncomfortable.”

He fully admits he was emotionally abusive: “I had a very intense and extreme lifestyle, and I would scoop up these women, bring them into it—into this whirlwind of travel and sex and drugs and big emotions flying around—and then as soon as I was done, I’d just drop them off and move on to the next woman, leaving that woman feeling abandoned or used.” Asked if it’s fair to say that he was emotionally abusive to his accusers, he replies, “One million percent.”

[From Air Mail]

He also claims, at one point in the interview, that he was suicidal. I had stopped reading the piece by then. One of the quotes which made the most sense to me was from one of Hammer’s friends, who was basically like: I’m glad his life fell apart, his behavior was stupid and harmful and he deserved what he got. That’s how I feel too – while the article tries to parse what is “vivid BDSM fantasy” versus what is actually line-crossing abuse, the sheer number of women coming forward with these horrible stories about him leads me to believe that we’ve actually only heard a small fraction of what he’s really done to women for years.

I’m glad I didn’t stick around and read until the end.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.




Prince Harry wrote with candor about his romantic and sexual history in his memoir, Spare. He treated his ex-girlfriends respectfully, from his minor romance with Florence “Flee” Brudenell-Bruce, to his longer, more meaningful relationships with Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas. He also addressed when and how he lost his virginity at 16-17, writing:

“She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me not unlike a young stallion. Quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump and sent me off to graze. Among the many things about it that were wrong: It happened in a grassy field behind a busy pub.”

Harry didn’t identify the woman beyond the fact that she was older than him and “she liked horses.” I suspect that describes a lot of women in the UK. But now, almost a month after Spare was released, one of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers paid a 40-year-old named Sasha Walpole to claim that she was Harry’s first. They also got her to whine about how upset she is that Harry told everyone about her, even though she’s literally outing herself.

A former Highgrove groom has revealed she is the older woman who took Prince Harry’s virginity in a field behind a busy pub. Sasha Walpole, 40, told The Sun on Sunday they had a passionate five-minute romp while the royal’s security searched for him in a blue Ford Fiesta.

Sasha said: “I am the woman who took Harry’s virginity. It was ­literally wham-bam between two friends. The sex was passionate and sparky because we shouldn’t have been doing it. One thing just quickly led to another. We ended up on the floor.”

The one-off encounter took place in a meadow behind the car park of the historic Vine Tree Inn in Norton, Wiltshire, in July 2001. At the time Harry was just 16 — a year younger than his autobiography claims. Harry and Sasha, who now works as a digger driver, knew each other from when she worked as a stable girl at Highgrove, the country retreat of King Charles, and previously enjoyed trips to polo matches together. The pair had sex after leaving a party held at the pub to mark Sasha’s 19th birthday.

Sasha, now a married mum of two, said: “We went outside and both climbed a three-bar fence to the field. We were quite drunk at this point. I gave Harry a cigarette. I lit mine and then his. We finished our cigarettes — Marlboro Lights — and it just happened. He started to kiss me. He was wearing boxers. There was no chatting, no words. It was exciting that it was happening. It was exciting that it was happening like the way it was. We were away for 15 minutes but the sex was about five ­minutes.”

In Spare Harry writes about his “tender penis” following a 200-mile North Pole expedition, adding: “I’d been horrified to discover that my nether regions were frostnipped as well, and while the ears and cheeks were already healing, the todger wasn’t.” Sasha said: “In that case Harry must have had an above average problem with that, from what I can recollect. We didn’t set out to do it and it wasn’t pre-meditated. He was young. We had been purely friends and it was a little bit naughty, in the sense that it shouldn’t have been happening.

“It wasn’t Prince Harry to me. It was Harry, my friend — and something that got a little bit out of control. It just so happened that he was a prince. Afterwards I did grab his bum and gave him a slap. It was with one hand. He had a lovely peachy bum — but he was young.”

Sasha agreed to speak to The Sun on Sunday after being left shocked by Harry’s disclosures in his book Spare, which has so far sold 3.2million copies worldwide. Sasha said: “No one warned me about the night being included in the book – and Harry, or his people, could have found me to tell me if they had wanted to do so. I lead a peaceful life — I didn’t invite this.”

[From The Sun]

“No one warned me about the night being included in the book – and Harry, or his people, could have found me to tell me if they had wanted to do so. I lead a peaceful life — I didn’t invite this.” He literally didn’t name her or describe her in any way. She is truly being paid for this interview, paid to describe in intimate detail what happened between them the summer before he turned 17. This is so f–king tacky. And to see royal rota dumbf–ks try to claim that Harry forced Sasha’s disclosure is insane. AND she also sold an exclusive to the Mail as well!

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, cover courtesy of The Sun.





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We’ll be off next week and will probably be back February 18th. I’ve been watching The Bear. Chandra and I both watched The Menu and I liked it more than she did. Chandra saw Everything Everywhere All at Once on Showtime and she liked the acting but not the premise. You can listen below!

Royals: Minutes 6:00 to 22:30
It looks like there’s a leaking war between Charles and William. It started with a story that Charles was going to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury to talk to Harry on his behalf. Then we heard that William doesn’t trust the Archbishop and thinks he’s too close to the Sussexes. After that the Daily Mail ran an op-ed saying that Charles needs to exclude Harry from the Coronation. At no time did they state that Charles has called Harry directly despite Harry saying that’s what he wants.

There was a report in Vanity Fair that Charles hasn’t officially given Lilibet and Archie their Prince and Princess titles yet and that “The feeling is that the titles need to be earned.” We’ve been hearing this for months and Charles needs to make up his mind. It sounds like they’re telling on themselves again because Harry has more dirt on them. Chandra’s tweet about this went viral.

We mentioned in our last episode that the Waleses brought a camera crew to a foodbank with them last week. They were criticized for that and for showing up empty handed. People were still talking about that throughout the weekend.

Kate hyped her new Early Years campaign for weeks and we thought this might be different, but we were wrong. It’s called “Shaping Us” and they launched it with a weird monochromatic claymation video. Kate also released a little video about her project that was incredibly basic. We wonder how this is Kate’s life’s work, that the early years are important. She had the five question survey in 2020 and Big Change Starts Small in 2021. Here’s a link to the video for Big Change Starts Small that seems like an SNL parody. This seems to be about shaming low income and single parent families and does not include raising funds or bringing awareness to existing programs for children, which are struggling for resources and shutting down.

Omid Scobie had a thoughtful column about this and he pointed out that Kate has been saying she’s learning about this for over 10 years. Scobie argued that Kate is limited by her role and can’t get involved with politics, but we think she could come up with so many ways to actually help.

Kate went to an indoor vendor’s market in Leeds to premiere her Shaping Us billboard and ask the vendors what their childhoods were like without actually buying anything. Here’s a link to the tweet Chandra mentioned comparing the logos and billboards for Archetypes and Shaping Us.

Comments of the Week: Minutes 22:30 to end
My comments of the week are from SarahFrancisco and Sarah on Hecate’s post about the 45-year-old entrepreneur who has hired a team of doctors and spent $2 million on anti-aging treatments.

Chandra’s comment of the week is from JT on the post with Kate’s basic video. They pointed out how similar the type face and branding is between Shaping Us and Archetypes.

Here’s a link to the coat that Kate wore before Christmas copying one of Meghan’s coats.

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The photos of Kate in the sequin dress, purple dress and polka dot shirt are from 2020 and 2021. Photos credit: WENN, Avalon.red and via Instagram

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The Grammys are always so… all over the place. The most chaotic and shambolic awards show, especially for fashion. I remember a time when artists would turn up the Grammys in their leather rocker gear or what amounted to their concert-performance gear. Now people wear couture and it’s just another red carpet. Now, I still enjoy it when someone makes the effort. Cardi B is such a Fashion Girl – she loves couture, she loves to experiment, she loves trying out different designers. At this year’s Grammys, she went for this sculptural Gaurav Gupta gown. It looked amazing on her.

Doja Cat in Versace. I had no idea her waist was that snatched. She looks amazing in this vinyl creation.

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Olivia Rodrigo in Miu Miu. Such a ‘90s Girl look, I can’t believe this is back in style, I love it so much.

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Machine Gun Kelly in Dolce & Gabbana (he looks like Jiffy Pop) and Megan Fox in Zuhair Murad. Surprised that these two are still happening, honestly. And I was shocked by his hillbilly accent on the red carpet.

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The Maneskin peeps looked amazing. Damiano David is so hot.

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Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Getty.

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Viola Davis became the 18th EGOT winner in history when she was awarded a Grammy yesterday for her Finding Me biography audiobook. I’ve embedded her speech below. She won during the non-televised Grammy ceremony and was a presenter for the main ceremony. Viola said she wrote the book for her six-year-old self and added “I just EGOT.” That was so cute! I’m so happy for her, and I didn’t realize that she was close to becoming an EGOT. Viola, 57(!), is a four-time Oscar nominee with one Oscar, one Emmy, two Tony Awards and now a Grammy. Here’s more from NPR:

Viola Davis has achieved EGOT status, after picking up her first Grammy.

The 57-year-old actor won the award for the best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording for her memoir, Finding Me, at the 2023 Grammy Awards premiere ceremony on Sunday, ahead of the main awards show.

The honor follows her Emmy win for How to Get Away With Murder (2015), an Oscar for Fences (2017), and a Tony for both King Hedley II (2001) and Fences (2010).

She’s only the third Black woman to claim EGOT status, and the 18th person to receive the honor overall.

“I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola — to honor her life, her joy, her trauma, her everything,” Davis said in her acceptance speech. “And it has been such a journey. I just EGOT!”

[From NPR]

Now I know the book I’m going to listen to on Audible after I finish Prince Harry’s Spare. (Honestly I have the hard cover of Finding Me but I only got through the first few chapters. She had such a traumatic childhood that it was hard to read.) Congratulations to Viola! It couldn’t happen to a better actress and person. Did you see Viola and her husband Julius Tennon’s Architectural Digest video? I’ve talked about it before but I absolutely love their interior design and overall vibe, it’s probably my favorite celebrity home I’ve seen.

Viola was in a cute cap sleeve sequin colorblock Naeem Khan gown as she accepted her Grammy and became an EGOT. I just wish she was nominated for an Oscar this year too.

Watch this and try not to cry.

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Rupert Everett used to give interviews with some regularity. It was a lot like interviewing Morrissey – journalists know that they’re going to get some crazy quotes or soundbytes, so they basically just bait Rupert or Morrissey to talk their sh-t. Rupert sees himself as a charming older man who knows everyone and talks sh-t about everyone. More than a decade ago, Rupert’s mouth kept getting him into trouble, which is probably why he hasn’t made headlines for years now. Well, he has some new projects, so he sat down with the Telegraph to talk about straight actors playing gay characters, how he’s decided to leave the hair dye behind, and most significantly, he chats about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. He’s not a fan.

He gave up vampire facials, fillers & hair dye: ‘Because there’s a point where either you go for the full…’ he mimes the slice of the surgeon’s knife across his neck, ‘and I’m terrified of a five-hour anaesthetic – or you own it. Anyway, the parts I’d like to be playing now are 80- and 90-year-olds: King Lear-ish parts. I’m really enjoying pretending to be more decrepit than I am.’

He wants all the awards & honors: ‘Oh, I’d adore to win an Oscar.I care about all that stuff. I’d like to be a lord, a sir, have the Oscar: all of it.’

The reckoning of MeToo was long overdue: ‘For years men have been very entitled in the way they think of and behave towards women, and I think it’s great that it has been addressed. Of course, now every man is just terrified of women, so that has dealt with that… Still, some women have been terrified of men forever, so…’

On the Sussexes: ‘I have to say, Meghan’s a better actress than I thought she was,’ he says. But as for the book, ‘It’s made me change my view. I was angry before, and now I just feel very sad – sad for Harry. I felt so sympathetic towards him for years and I still do now. Honestly! As someone who has put his foot in it quite a bit, I feel particularly bad for him about the Taliban thing. That changed everything and loses him the one group that still loved him. I think he’s deranged. Although, of course, nobody is giving him good advice.’ As for what will happen to the Sussexes now, all Everett will say is: ‘Really, it’s been the most disastrous bumping of privates since Cleopatra and Caesar.’

On Harry’s story, in ‘Spare’, about losing his virginity in a field as a teenager: ‘By the way, I know who the woman he lost his virginity to is. And it wasn’t behind a pub. And it wasn’t in this country.’ So Harry deliberately set the whole scene elsewhere? Everett gives me a Cheshire-cat smile. Who is she? ‘I’m just putting it out there that I know.’ Because he knows the woman? ‘Yeah.’

[From The Telegraph]

Rupert’s thing about Harry’s first time has gotten the most headlines, but really, the comments before that should be the headline. I trust Harry to know who was his first and where, although in Spare, he didn’t really treat that moment in his life like it was particularly significant (and yes, I’ve seen the current other story, I’ll cover that separately tomorrow and please don’t threadjack). I would guess that Rupert probably knows someone who slept with Harry, but she wasn’t his first. As for the other comments… Rupert is such a nasty old bitch, my god. “I think he’s deranged. Although, of course, nobody is giving him good advice” – what advice should he be taking, according to Rupert? “Go back to the abusive cycle of your cold and distant family, abandon your loving wife and two children?” Probably. This feels threatening too: “Really, it’s been the most disastrous bumping of privates since Cleopatra and Caesar.” Caesar was assassinated. Marc Anthony had to step in and move Cleopatra and her son out of Rome so they would not be assassinated as well. It’s an extremely disturbing reference.

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Seth Rogen is currently promoting his collaboration with Airbnb, plus he’s part of the now Oscar-nominated Spielberg film The Fabelmans. He’s also promoting The Boys, which he executive produces. You get the idea – while Rogen might sound, act, look and smell like a dude who smokes weed all day, he’s actually got a lot going on, and that’s why he’s been giving so many interviews recently. Rogen made news for talking about Marvel movies and how he thinks Superbad (which he co-wrote) was the last great high school movie. People have some thoughts about all of that. Some highlights from multiple interviews:

He wouldn’t do a Freaks and Geeks revival: “I don’t think anyone would do it. It’s so rare that you do something in your career that is actually just viewed as good. I know enough now not to f— with that, to just let it be good and not try to go revisit it. And just let it exist.”

His ‘Fabelmans’ costar Gabriel LaBelle loves Superbad. “What’s crazy is that Gabe LaBelle is like, 19 years old and his and his friends’ favorite movie is Superbad… So it never changed for some reason. No one’s made a good high school movie since then.”

On Marvel movies: In a new interview with Total Film magazine, Rogen admitted that “The Boys” would “not exist or be interesting” without the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but that doesn’t mean he watches Marvel movies.

Marvel movies are too geared towards kids: “I think that Kevin Feige is a brilliant guy, and I think a lot of the filmmakers he’s hired to make these movies are great filmmakers. But as someone who doesn’t have children… It is [all] kind of geared toward kids, you know? There are times where I will forget. I’ll watch one of these things, as an adult with no kids, and be like, ‘Oh, this is just not for me.’”

He still believes ‘The Boys’ owes a debt of gratitude to Marvel: “Truthfully, without Marvel, ‘The Boys’ wouldn’t exist or be interesting. I’m aware of that. I think if it was only Marvel [in the marketplace], it would be bad. But I think it isn’t – clearly. An example I’m always quoting is, there’s a point in history where a bunch of filmmakers would have been sitting around, being like, ‘Do you think we’ll ever make a movie that’s not a Western again? Everything’s a Western! Westerns dominate the f–king movies. If it doesn’t have a hat and a gun and a carriage, people aren’t going to go see it anymore.’ The situation, sadly, is that we now have two separate fields: There’s worldwide audiovisual entertainment, and there’s cinema. They still overlap from time to time, but that’s becoming increasingly rare. And I fear that the financial dominance of one is being used to marginalize and even belittle the existence of the other.”

[From People & Variety]

The Superbad thing – Rogen apparently said it with a laugh, like he was joking, so I don’t believe he thinks Superbad was really the last great high school movie. Especially not when Lady Bird exists. And Booksmart. The kids are also saying Project X, but I’ve never seen that. As for what he says about Marvel… I’m sure his nuanced take will be accepted and mulled over respectfully, right? Or will the Marvel youths scream that he’s an old has-been who needs to be put in a wood chipper with Martin Scorsese??

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Jennifer Lawrence is one of W Magazine’s many cover subjects for their Best Performances issue. J-Law was in Causeway, and she also produced it. She played a veteran struggling with a traumatic brain injury – the reviews were mild and I’m not sure many people believe this is one of her most notable performances. But J-Law will always say “yes” to appearing on a magazine so here we are. Her interview is fine – these W pieces are not in-depth at all, but some of them are interesting.

How she got involved with Causeway: “Causeway came into my life via my producing partner. I read it, and loved it, and we proceeded to make it as quickly as possible in the next two months. But then it ended up being the longest process of three and a half years.

She spent time at a VA hospital: “We did. We met with many service members. I spoke to a lot of ex-service members who suffered from TBIs and physician assistants, physical therapists, and occupational therapists to learn how to move and to make sure we were telling the story as accurately as possible. The whole process came with a lot of gratitude and humbling. So much of acting is almost an exploitation of your own empathy.

What films make her cry: “Father of the Bride always makes me cry. Not when they get married, but when he sees her as a little girl and she’s like, “Mommy, Daddy, I met a man in Rome and we’re getting married.” But I’m so sensitive now that I can barely watch anything with children or animals.

Whether she’s ever been star-struck: “To me, the biggest celebrities in the world are, like, Pete Davidson. Or when Ariana Grande was in my last film, Don’t Look Up, I was photographed with her and I fully look like a radio contest winner. I would be starstruck if I saw Jessica Simpson. That would knock me over.

Secret skills? “I don’t think I have any skills whatsoever. But I can parallel park.

Her zodiac sign: “I’m obviously a Leo. Leos are cocky, but generous. We love attention. We’re not shy.

[From W Magazine]

Yes, she’s a Leo. Peak Leo – the sign of actors and politicians. If there’s a stage, a Leo is on it. If there’s a gregarious interview to be given, a Leo will give it. As for being starstruck… I would be starstruck by someone like Angelina Jolie, probably. But Pete Davidson looks and acts like tons of dudes in every college everywhere. Jessica Simpson is probably one of the most normal and relatable celebrities out there too – I wouldn’t be starstruck, I would just feel at ease with J-Simpson and we would probably talk about food and clothes. Also: I can’t parallel park.

Photos courtesy of W Magazine.

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