Rebecca Ford

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the season three finale of The White Lotus. Aimee Lou Wood didn’t need White Lotus creator Mike White to tell her that Chelsea was going to die. Wood, who previously starred in Netflix’s Sex Education, was at her callback audition for the role when she was given a scene in which Chelsea finally hears from her boyfriend Rick that he would also like to be together forever. “My intuition kicked in, and I was so upset reading it. I didn’t have the rest of the scripts.

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

It was their laughter that won Catherine O’Hara over. “Seth’s is famous, but Evan’s is quite crazy great too,” the actor tells Vanity Fair of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the creative minds behind Apple TV+’s new comedy The Studio. Rogen and Goldberg, who previously codirected films like This Is the End and The Interview, called up O’Hara in hopes of casting her in their new TV series, which follows a movie studio head and all the behind-the-scenes drama of Hollywood moviemaking.

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Ready to go on another trip with Masha? The first season of Hulu’s hit Nine Perfect Strangers introduced us to Masha Dmitrichenko, a Russian guru who promised to change the lives of the nine people she gathered at her wellness resort. Masha, played by Nicole Kidman, uses unorthodox methods to get those results, including micro-dosing her clients. But by the end of the season, many of the strangers had revealed their deep, dark secrets and left the resort very much changed for the better.

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

In three seasons, The White Lotus has killed off several of its most vivid characters—but off-screen, the show is life-giving when it comes to its cast’s career. From longtime working actors who finally got their showstopping roles to new faces who burst onto the scene playing cocky, complicated, or conniving characters, the series has become one of the strongest launching pads in a long time.

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Rebecca Ford

Here’s a sequel no one saw coming: a follow-up to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. According to reports, David Fincher is set to direct this time around, from a script written by Tarantino, and Brad Pitt will reprise his role as the colorful stunt double Cliff Booth. And, in another twist, the project is being set up at Netflix, where Fincher has a first-look deal.