SNL alum Tina Fey covers the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter and opens up about raising her two daughters – Alice, 11, and Penelope, 5 – with husband Jeff Richmond.

On her biggest mom worry: “The thing I worry about [more] than actual human interaction is the internet. Because that’s just despicable: people just being able to be awful to each other without having to be in the same room…It’s so easy for people to abuse each other and to abandon all civility.”

On if her daughters are faced with “jerky guys” in the future: “I worry, [but] I have confidence that they are both strong enough to fight back, and I think they will feel empowered to call attention to any wrongdoing in their lives.

On daily life with her daughters: “[They are] 11 and 5. One’s in fifth grade, one’s still in preschool. And so everybody’s up by 6:30, out the door to the bus. I take the dog out and run to the bus, come back, take the other one to school.”

On if children bring nothing but joy: “No, they augment your life and your perspective. And they wear you out. There’s a Stephen Sondheim song, “Being Alive.” It’s about how people you love just wear you out and irritate you and sit in your chair and make you lose sleep. But it’s what life is.”

On if her oldest is a good student: “So far. She’s a kid who just does her homework right away.”

On her best friends: “I have a group of women that I worked with at SNL — Maya Rudolph, Emily Spivey, Paula Pell, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Rachel Dratch — and we talk as a group through the computer every single day. Dozens of times a day. And it’s very nice. It’s something we’ve come to in our 40s. It was easy when we worked at SNL: You’re on top of each other 60 hours a week. So it’s nice that we are maintaining this friendship.”

Fore more from Tina, go to THR…

Katie Holmes is promoting the film she directed, All We Had. The premiere was last night. She looks good in this dress, presumably it’s Zac Posen, but I’m still not feeling those bangs. While doing interviews in support of the film, Katie was asked about a Dawson’s Creek reunion. Michelle William…

Katie Holmes is promoting the film she directed, All We Had. The premiere was last night. She looks good in this dress, presumably it’s Zac Posen, but I’m still not feeling those bangs. While doing interviews in support of the film, Katie was asked about a Dawson’s Creek reunion. Michelle William…

La La Land Hollywood premiere last night. La La Land, as you know, is a frontrunner for Best Picture, in a tight race right now with Moonlight and, maybe, Manchester By The Sea although I feel like Manchester’s big hope might be Casey Affleck, the alleged sexual harasser. I feel like there’s a La…

La La Land Hollywood premiere last night. La La Land, as you know, is a frontrunner for Best Picture, in a tight race right now with Moonlight and, maybe, Manchester By The Sea although I feel like Manchester’s big hope might be Casey Affleck, the alleged sexual harasser. I feel like there’s a La…

Marion Cotillard’s style for the Assassin’s Creed promotional tour has been so bad, you guys. This Dries Van Noten look was possibly the worst. [Go Fug Yourself]
Fiona Apple hates Donald Trump too, yay. [Dlisted]
Stanford needs to do better about sexual predators. [Jezebel]
Solange Knowles got nominated for a Grammy too! [LaineyGossip]
Chip & Joanna Gaines are expanding their empire. [Starcasm]
More photos from the British Fashion Awards. [Moe Jackson]
Bethenny Frankel’s bikini is so odd. [Celebslam]
Jaden Smith is really into Westworld. [The Blemish]
Amanda Seyfried is already very pregnant. [Popoholic]
God, I love Whale Rider. It’s a fantastic movie. [Pajiba]
Kyle Richards & Caroline Stanbury are friends, I guess. [Reality Tea]

Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonet. Those are the only two names I could come up with when I was trying to think of another Hollywood mother/daughter duo that could pull off wearing matching outfits and look as effortlessly stylish and as straight-up badass as Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow.

Last nigh…

Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonet. Those are the only two names I could come up with when I was trying to think of another Hollywood mother/daughter duo that could pull off wearing matching outfits and look as effortlessly stylish and as straight-up badass as Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow.

Last nigh…

I like Jessica Chastain a lot, and I love watching her in movies. But covering her interviews often leaves me bored out of my mind. She’s intelligent, thoughtful and respectful, but she doesn’t gossip or offer up many juicy details about herself or her costars. That being said, I enjoyed her interview with The Edit from the very beginning, because the start of the piece is real estate and interior-design p0rn. She invited The Edit into her newly remodeled New York apartment, and it sounds rather fabulous. Jessica Chastain is the kind of woman who will buy a slipper chair at an auction because it once belonged to Lauren Bacall. She is the kind of woman who will purchase Leonard Bernstein’s classic four-bedroom apartment and remodel it with historical and architectural accuracy. See? Those are the kinds of details that make me like her even more. Anyway, you can read the full Edit piece here. Some highlights:

What she says before the election: “If [Hillary] wins by a landslide, that tells the world that we are a country that doesn’t support racism, sexism or any other -ism, and we’re actually taking a huge stand against it. It would be incredible for girls everywhere to see that. But also I think [Trump] being so popular is really an example of why feminism is so important. Unbeknownst to him, he is bringing it all to the forefront, and I am very grateful to him for doing that. You have to look at the world in a positive way otherwise you just want to cry.”

She turns down endorsements & roles because she wants to be a role model for girls: She turned down a megabucks blockbuster – she won’t say which – because the character was too passive. She was offered a lucrative lingerie campaign, which was tempting, but did not fit with her sense of responsibility as a role model to young women. “If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I’m going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that. When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don’t want to say no to that. If something comes to me before it has financing and I can help get it made, I feel a responsibility in that. I just want to contribute.”

Whether it’s better for actresses right now: “There are incredible movies with female protagonists, but I’m cautious to say everything’s better now because I see studios patting themselves on the back: ‘Look, I’ve got this film with diversity. I’ve got women in this.’ I think when you congratulate yourselves for diversity, that means nothing’s really changed.”

She’s been a vegan for 10 years: “So much comes down to the food you eat and I eat a very clean diet. Being vegan has made a huge difference in my life.”

Being a freckly ginger kid: “I didn’t like looking different. Being a redhead, you can’t fit into the group. I wanted to be blond so bad. I had really bad self-esteem and I asked my mom if I could dye my hair but she wouldn’t let me…I called my company Freckle Films because it was something I used to hate about myself. But I want to make movies about our differences as a society so that’s why I called it that. Now, I celebrate it.”

Whether she would ever consider plastic surgery: “Who knows? When I’m 50 or 60, I might. Some people think I’ve had a nose job. I’ve never had anything like that done, but I have no judgement of anyone that does.”

She turns 40 next year, does she worry about the roles drying up? “When I read interviews about male actors, they aren’t asked these questions. I feel – and please don’t take offence – but I feel that the media has a responsibility to not continue to ask them.”

[From The Edit]

All of these interviews with celebrities done before the election are making me sad, even though Chastain does have a point. It would have been nice if Hillary had won by a landslide… in the electoral college. She did win by millions of votes in the popular vote, so at least that’s something. But Chastain’s silver lining is basically that Donald Trump is a such an unhinged misogynist, such a blatant and vile predator, that it’s now easier to point to him and say, “This is what I’ve been talking about when I say ‘rape culture’ and ‘trigger’ and ‘misogyny’.” That’s been the case all along – Trump never dog-whistled anything. Everyone knew what he thought about women. And now we’re going to get four years of it. Enjoy.

Photos courtesy of WENN, The Edit.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens nationwide on December 16th, just nine days from today. As a result, the cast is out making the promotional rounds and the movie’s lead, Felicity Jones, is rightfully handling the bulk of it. Since the movie is shrouded in so much secrecy, Felicity is limited in her talking points on the film. Almost every interview is peppered with hollow questions to which Felicity gives generic answers about the plot. However, Felicity has worked this to her advantage by pressing home the points that she can talk about, like her character Jyn Erso’s strength and how incredible it is to be a part of the new crop of superhero women infiltrating the traditionally male-dominated science fiction arena. Felicity has already made her views on being a feminist known. Recently she told USA Today that she doesn’t have to think about her stance on feminism, it’s simply second nature to her.

Even though Jyn’s in a galaxy far, far away and trying to steal the plans for the Death Star, it was “very important” to Jones that she be a modern woman who can take care of herself in a fight (if you’re a Stormtrooper, she will baton you in the face) but wasn’t hypersexualized.

“We wanted the audience to relate to Jyn as a person, to invest in her character, to care about her, and it’s been very true to her backstory,” Jones says. “She is someone who’s a real survivor. She spent a lot of time on her own so she can defend herself, and she has a real core strength so we wanted to show all of that.”

She’s moved from the likes of indie fare such as Like Crazy and Oscar-bait dramas like The Theory of Everything (which earned her a best actress nod) to more big-budget franchise fare this year, including Inferno and Rogue One. And that’s meant becoming a savvy businesswoman off screen and embracing the discussion of equal pay as a rising female star in Hollywood.

“Definitely, you explore other parts of yourself and I’ve rather enjoyed that,” Jones says. “Like my acting, it does come from a gut place, an instinctive place, where I feel that it’s very important that we all are recognized equally for what we’re doing. It’s not necessarily a cerebral thing – it just seems obvious to me.”

[From USA Today]

There is an assortment of other interviews out there but honestly, we don’t learn much. When she was at Good Morning America we learned that if she was to form her own rebel army using any three characters from any three films, she would choose Chewbacca, Han Solo and Rey. Because Rey fronted The Force Awakens, many people want to compare Rey and Jyn, something Felicity continually dances away from. However, in Rogue One, Leia and Jyn are contemporaries and here, Felicity is more open to addressing this comparison:

Jyn and Princess Leia are contemporaries, they are alive at the same time in this story. How are they alike and how are they different from each other?:
FJ: I think there are a lot more similarities than differences actually. They both stand their ground, they both keep their own counsel probably. With Rogue One, Jyn is very much a team player and a collaborator in the same way that Princess Leia is.

They both have issues with their father:
FJ: Yes, true to Star Wars, there are a lot of parent child relationships. And ultimately, Jyn is on a quest to actually redeem her father and what kind of captivated us about Empire Strikes Back was, I mean, that relationship with Luke Skywalker it’s that authenticity. When people are thinking about their parents, there’s no emotional distance, it goes straight to the core of someone.

[From ComingSoon.Net]

So, what we do know is that Rogue One feeds us into A New Hope (IV). We know the movie’s name tells us nothing. And now Felicity is distancing Jyn from Rey in interviews. Not Daisy Ridley, but Rey. Instead she is comparing Jyn to Leia and only passingly mentions Luke. My theory: all the rumors about Jyn being Rey’s mom are correct and they’re still just trying to throw us off the scent.

The one bit of information that has come across loud and clear is that Jyn and Felicity are bada–. To further that point, here is Felicity beating the hell out of a scared Jimmy Fallon followed by a clip of Jyn doing the same moves on film. Nine days, folks. Just nine more days.

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