This story about Ari Notartomaso, Nicole Maines, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Devery Jacobs, Cheyenne Jackson, Nicco Annan and Sherry Cola originally appeared in the Drama Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
In a time when anti-lgbtq+ legislation is on a historic rise and discriminatory rhetoric is normalized by politicians and news media figures the world over, onscreen representation matters more than ever. In celebration of Pride month and in the lead-up to Emmys 2023, TheWrap saluted these seven performers who are fighting for LGBTQ+ equality through their work on the small screen.
Ari Notartomaso, “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies“ Ari Notartomaso (Credit: Irvin Rivera for TheWrap)
One of the many delights of Paramount+’s “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” is the breakout performance of Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia, the prequel series’ “little butch” [their words]. Depicting a closeted teen lesbian’s coming-of-age in the 1950s, Notartomaso, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns,...
In a time when anti-lgbtq+ legislation is on a historic rise and discriminatory rhetoric is normalized by politicians and news media figures the world over, onscreen representation matters more than ever. In celebration of Pride month and in the lead-up to Emmys 2023, TheWrap saluted these seven performers who are fighting for LGBTQ+ equality through their work on the small screen.
Ari Notartomaso, “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies“ Ari Notartomaso (Credit: Irvin Rivera for TheWrap)
One of the many delights of Paramount+’s “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” is the breakout performance of Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia, the prequel series’ “little butch” [their words]. Depicting a closeted teen lesbian’s coming-of-age in the 1950s, Notartomaso, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns,...
- 6/21/2023
- by Benjamin Lindsay and Elijah Gil
- The Wrap
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” will be everywhere at the Oscars, including on stage for a live performance. The Academy announced that David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu and Son Lux will perform “This Is a Life,” the Oscar-nominated song from the film, at the awards ceremony on March 12. Nominated for Best Original Song, “This Is a Life” was written by Byrne, Ryan Lott and Mitski, with lyrics by Byrne and Lott.
An Oscar winner himself, Byrne is best known for his work as the lead singer and guitarist of the pioneering post-punk band The Talking Heads.
Son Lux (Jess Nijjer)
Lott is the founder and frontman of the experimental music trio Son Lux, whose other two members are Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia. They received a Best Original Score nomination for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
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An Oscar winner himself, Byrne is best known for his work as the lead singer and guitarist of the pioneering post-punk band The Talking Heads.
Son Lux (Jess Nijjer)
Lott is the founder and frontman of the experimental music trio Son Lux, whose other two members are Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia. They received a Best Original Score nomination for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
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- 2/27/2023
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
A version of this story about Michael Showalter and “The Dropout” first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Back when Michael Showalter was a cast member of MTV’s “The State,” or the co-writer and star of “Wet Hot American Summer,” or the creator of the series “Search Party,” you wouldn’t necessarily have picked him as a candidate to be the first director to guide one actress to an Oscar win and another to an Emmy win in the same year. But Showalter accomplished the first part of that feat in March when Jessica Chastain won the Best Actress Oscar for Showalter’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” — and now he’s in pretty good shape to seal the deal because he directed the first four of the eight episodes of the limited series “The Dropout,” which made Amanda Seyfried an...
Back when Michael Showalter was a cast member of MTV’s “The State,” or the co-writer and star of “Wet Hot American Summer,” or the creator of the series “Search Party,” you wouldn’t necessarily have picked him as a candidate to be the first director to guide one actress to an Oscar win and another to an Emmy win in the same year. But Showalter accomplished the first part of that feat in March when Jessica Chastain won the Best Actress Oscar for Showalter’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” — and now he’s in pretty good shape to seal the deal because he directed the first four of the eight episodes of the limited series “The Dropout,” which made Amanda Seyfried an...
- 8/17/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
This story about Himesh Patel and “Station Eleven” first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
When HBO Max’s sterling limited series “Station Eleven” began filming back in January 2020, lead actor Himesh Patel wasn’t a father, and he certainly wasn’t mired in a global pandemic like the one depicted in the show, which was adapted from Emily St. John Mandel’s novel of the same name. But oh, how things change.
As Jeevan Chaudhary, Patel shines as a character whose first impulse is always to take decisive action and whose second impulse is to immediately second-guess that action. After all, that’s why he ends up looking after young Kirsten (Matilda Lawler) in the aftermath of a tragic accident and why he becomes her reluctant caregiver as the world ends around them. “I’ve felt aimless at times in my life,...
When HBO Max’s sterling limited series “Station Eleven” began filming back in January 2020, lead actor Himesh Patel wasn’t a father, and he certainly wasn’t mired in a global pandemic like the one depicted in the show, which was adapted from Emily St. John Mandel’s novel of the same name. But oh, how things change.
As Jeevan Chaudhary, Patel shines as a character whose first impulse is always to take decisive action and whose second impulse is to immediately second-guess that action. After all, that’s why he ends up looking after young Kirsten (Matilda Lawler) in the aftermath of a tragic accident and why he becomes her reluctant caregiver as the world ends around them. “I’ve felt aimless at times in my life,...
- 8/17/2022
- by Libby Hill
- The Wrap
This story about “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” director Akiva Schaffer first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
“Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers,” the Disney animated series and cornerstone of the Disney Afternoon syndicated programming block, is probably not the kind of property you imagine the company resurrecting as a splashy live-action/animation hybrid. And it’s certainly not the type of movie that’s usually nominated in the Emmys’ Outstanding Television Movie category, which has always recognized nothing but totally live-action and usually serious films. And yet here we are, with the new Disney+ original not only succeeding as an audience favorite but as an esteemed accomplishment worthy of the nomination.
Director Akiva Schaffer, one-third of the influential comedy troupe The Lonely Island, is just as shocked by the acclaim, which came on a morning when he didn’t even know the nominations were being announced.
“Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers,” the Disney animated series and cornerstone of the Disney Afternoon syndicated programming block, is probably not the kind of property you imagine the company resurrecting as a splashy live-action/animation hybrid. And it’s certainly not the type of movie that’s usually nominated in the Emmys’ Outstanding Television Movie category, which has always recognized nothing but totally live-action and usually serious films. And yet here we are, with the new Disney+ original not only succeeding as an audience favorite but as an esteemed accomplishment worthy of the nomination.
Director Akiva Schaffer, one-third of the influential comedy troupe The Lonely Island, is just as shocked by the acclaim, which came on a morning when he didn’t even know the nominations were being announced.
- 8/17/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
A version of this story about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Barack Obama first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar knows all about tough competition, but the basketball legend may be facing a fiercer foe than even Wilt Chamberlain or Julius Erving in this year’s Emmy race. And for that, he can thank the Outstanding Narrator category, which in its nine-year history has found an array of formidable voices going head-to-head: Sterling K. Brown over Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep over Laurence Fishburne and Ewan McGregor, Jeremy Irons over Daniel Craig and Whoopi Goldberg, David Attenborough over Chiwetel Ejiofor one year and over Morgan Freeman and Carl Reiner the next …
This year, Abdul-Jabbar is nominated for the second time for the History series “Black Patriots,” the first coming two years ago when he lost to Attenborough. His nomination this year comes during...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar knows all about tough competition, but the basketball legend may be facing a fiercer foe than even Wilt Chamberlain or Julius Erving in this year’s Emmy race. And for that, he can thank the Outstanding Narrator category, which in its nine-year history has found an array of formidable voices going head-to-head: Sterling K. Brown over Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep over Laurence Fishburne and Ewan McGregor, Jeremy Irons over Daniel Craig and Whoopi Goldberg, David Attenborough over Chiwetel Ejiofor one year and over Morgan Freeman and Carl Reiner the next …
This year, Abdul-Jabbar is nominated for the second time for the History series “Black Patriots,” the first coming two years ago when he lost to Attenborough. His nomination this year comes during...
- 8/17/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
This story about Christina Ricci and “Yellowjackets” first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Christina Ricci has made her share of comedies over the course of a career that began when she was a child, but her heart has always seemed to be in darker material like “The Ice Storm,” “Buffalo ’66,” “Prozac Nation” and “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.” So it makes sense that she’d join the cast of the Showtime limited series “Yellowjackets,” playing one of the survivors of a plane crash that happens to a group of high-school girls in a remote wilderness.
The show, which jumps back and forth between the crash and the grown-up characters more than two decades later, is a dark mystery with lots of disquieting elements — but Ricci’s character, Misty, is an awkward and unsociable woman who often brings a comic touch to the show.
Christina Ricci has made her share of comedies over the course of a career that began when she was a child, but her heart has always seemed to be in darker material like “The Ice Storm,” “Buffalo ’66,” “Prozac Nation” and “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.” So it makes sense that she’d join the cast of the Showtime limited series “Yellowjackets,” playing one of the survivors of a plane crash that happens to a group of high-school girls in a remote wilderness.
The show, which jumps back and forth between the crash and the grown-up characters more than two decades later, is a dark mystery with lots of disquieting elements — but Ricci’s character, Misty, is an awkward and unsociable woman who often brings a comic touch to the show.
- 8/16/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
This story about Chris Mundy and his series “Ozark” first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
After four seasons of weaving and bobbing their way through money laundering, evading the watchful eye of the FBI and keeping a scary Mexican drug cartel’s deadlier impulses at bay — all while maintaining a dinner-on-the-table nuclear family unit — the Byrde family (led by Emmy nominees Jason Bateman and Laura Linney) finally seemed ready fly the coop in style in the final season of “Ozark.” Or did they? In a recent interview, showrunner Chris Mundy (who is also nominated for best drama and writing) explained. (Spoilers within!)
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- 8/16/2022
- by Jason Clark
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Ellen Page, who just premiered her feature film directorial debut “There’s Something in the Water” at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, said she would be “thrilled” to only play queer roles from now on, explaining that she’s been asked several times whether she might be typecast since coming out as gay five years ago.
“The (one) thing I get a lot is, ‘Are you worried about being typecast about playing queer?’ Because that’s what I play mostly,” she said at TheWrap’s Power Women Toronto panel Monday night at the Thompson Hotel with fellow directors Kasi Lemmons (“Harriet”) and Halina Reijn (“Instinct”). “You would never ask a heterosexual actress that, as being typecast as straight. Why would I not want to play those roles? Quite frankly, I would be thrilled if it’s every role I ever played again!”
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“The (one) thing I get a lot is, ‘Are you worried about being typecast about playing queer?’ Because that’s what I play mostly,” she said at TheWrap’s Power Women Toronto panel Monday night at the Thompson Hotel with fellow directors Kasi Lemmons (“Harriet”) and Halina Reijn (“Instinct”). “You would never ask a heterosexual actress that, as being typecast as straight. Why would I not want to play those roles? Quite frankly, I would be thrilled if it’s every role I ever played again!”
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- 9/10/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
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‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Star Chance Perdomo Exclusive StudioWrap Portraits (Photos)
Netflix series star drops in for a photo session and on-camera chat
Chance Perdomo, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”
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Netflix series star drops in for a photo session and on-camera chat
Chance Perdomo, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”
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- 3/29/2019
- by Photographed by Irvin Rivera for TheWrap
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