
Seija Rankin
Senior Editor at The Hollywood Reporter
books editor @ew. thoughts, which are my own, go mostly on instagram @_seija_
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hollywoodreporter.com | Seija Rankin
When Carrie Coon was in Thailand filming The White Lotus, she had a lot on her mind. Trying not to sweat on camera in the nearly triple-digit temperatures. Preparing to deliver her pivotal monologue that would serve as a thesis for the entire season. Staying in touch with her family across the world in New York. But also: staying completely out of the sun.
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hollywoodreporter.com | Seija Rankin
Celine Song first had the idea for Materialists when she was working at a matchmaking service, but it wasn’t until years later that the idea fully came together. Song was at a charity event in New York, talking to a few donors about her work directing “off-off-Broadway” plays. “Very wealthy people often want to talk to broke artists about what it’s like to try to follow your passion,” she says with a laugh.
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hollywoodreporter.com | Seija Rankin
By Jeff Hiller Hiller broke out in a big way as Bridget Everett’s BFF-next-door in the dramedy series Somebody Somewhere, but before he was on HBO he was a mainstay in the Joe’s Pub-centric New York comedy scene. And before that he was a gay teen in 1980s Texas. In his memoir-in-essays, Hiller recounts his early days in a small-town Lutheran church and his early days in the entertainment business. Using his now-signature pluck and wit, he tells readers about who he was and who he is.
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hollywoodreporter.com | Seija Rankin
The night before her THR interview, Leighton Meester watched Friendship, the Tim Robinson cringe comedy about disastrous social encounters taken to absurd extremes — and she hasn’t stopped ruminating about it. “I really will think to myself, ‘What if I said or did the worst thing right now?’ ” she says. “Like I’m pushing against the instinct to do or say something crazy.” Lately, that anxiety feels a little less hypothetical.
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flipboard.com | Seija Rankin
2 hours agoHeavy Metal Dad Band Embarrasses Kid Getting Off Bus on Last Day of Class With Alice Cooper’s ‘School’s Out’Joan of Dark’s husband Matt recruited the rest of his band to dress up in their heavy metal best and play the classic Alice Cooper song “School’s …16 hours ago10 Great Forgotten Gems of the 1980sWe take a look at ten great hidden gems from the 1980s; how many have you seen…? The 1980s was an eclectic melting pot of cinema. Blockbusters and …
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