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  • Jan 7, 2025 | latimes.com | Margy Rochlin

    “The Fire Inside,” about the survival skills of two-time middleweight Olympic gold medal winner Claressa “T-Rex” Shields inside and outside the ring, was a project with its challenges: a worldwide pandemic, studios merging, last-minute recasting of a main role (the great Brian Tyree Henry stepping in for Ice Cube).

  • Jan 1, 2025 | latimes.com | Margy Rochlin

    Back home, Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn is known as an acclaimed stage and film actor, albeit one with a reputation for oversharing. “I was raised by radical hippies, so nobody teaches me boundaries,” she says unapologetically. “I’m just open about everything. That scares people in the Netherlands.

  • Dec 17, 2024 | latimes.com | Margy Rochlin

    When director Walter Salles asked Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres to read the script for “I’m Still Here,” she assumed her old friend just wanted a second opinion. Back in 1999, Torres’ mother, the legendary star Fernanda Montenegro, had scored an Oscar nomination for Salles’ acclaimed “Central Station,” and although Torres had previously appeared in the director’s 1995 film, “Foreign Land,” she has more recently been known for being a gifted sitcom star.

  • Dec 2, 2024 | latimes.com | Margy Rochlin

    When Shiori Ito alleged at a 2017 news conference that Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a prominent TV journalist and friend of Japan’s then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, had two years earlier drugged and raped her in a Tokyo Sheraton hotel, she hoped the revelation would spark media interest in her case. But instead, the young journalist was subjected to online trolling and so many threats that she vacated her apartment, eventually retreating to London.

  • Nov 12, 2024 | latimes.com | Margy Rochlin

    It makes sense that the script for writer-director Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” ended up in June Squibb’s hands not through her agent but via her “The Humans” co-star Beanie Feldstein, who thought Squibb would be perfect for the role of a sweet-natured nonagenarian who, swindled out of $10,000 by a phone scammer, decides to get her money back.

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