TCA 2015: “It’s not really about the slap,” actor Zachary Quinto says of the NBC series.
The cast of NBC’s “The Slap” answered questions Friday about the upcoming series’ defining moment — for one, “Exactly how many times did Harry (Zachary Quinto) slap misbehaving young child Hugo (Dylan Schombing)?” During the Television Critics Association panel in Pasadena, California, reporters also wanted to know how showrunners explained the abusive moment to young actors on set.
“When we got on the set, they had read the scenes. They had their parents there, so they were kind of gamed. They pretty much slid right in,...
The cast of NBC’s “The Slap” answered questions Friday about the upcoming series’ defining moment — for one, “Exactly how many times did Harry (Zachary Quinto) slap misbehaving young child Hugo (Dylan Schombing)?” During the Television Critics Association panel in Pasadena, California, reporters also wanted to know how showrunners explained the abusive moment to young actors on set.
“When we got on the set, they had read the scenes. They had their parents there, so they were kind of gamed. They pretty much slid right in,...
- 1/17/2015
- by Alicia Banks
- The Wrap
Nik Wallenda’s Chicago skyscraper tightrope walk airs live Sunday with a 10-second delay Discovery Channel has contingency plans in place, and if anything goes wrong, “nothing that is insensitive or inappropriate” will appear on their TV or online networks,” Discovery execs tell the NY Times. The newspaper notes that “the high-wire act illustrates the extreme risks some television networks are taking to attract lucrative, live audiences in the age of fragmented, on-demand viewing. Beyond sports and major pop culture events, luring mass live viewership is a challenge. Discovery is finding that extreme stunts — some so daring that there is a chance a person could die — are the exception." NBC gets Uma Thurman to romance “Gossip Girl’s” Penn Badgley on “The Slap” Thurman replaces Mary-Louise Parker on the NBC miniseries. Parker had to bow out as she recovers from pneumonia. Billy Crystal dresses as “Breaking Bad’s” Walter...
- 11/1/2014
- by Norman Weiss
- Hitfix
In a last-minute switch, Uma Thurman has replaced Mary-Louise Parker in NBC’s upcoming all-star miniseries The Slap, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Parker was forced to step aside due to health reasons (the actress is recovering from a bout of pneumonia).
An eight-hour take on the 2011 Australian series, The Slap is about how one man’s punishment of another couple’s child explodes into a complex family drama.
The Oscar-nominated Thurman takes over the role of Anouk, a TV writer who is dating her show’s young leading man (Gossip Girl‘s Penn Badgley).
The cast also includes Peter Sarsgaard,...
Parker was forced to step aside due to health reasons (the actress is recovering from a bout of pneumonia).
An eight-hour take on the 2011 Australian series, The Slap is about how one man’s punishment of another couple’s child explodes into a complex family drama.
The Oscar-nominated Thurman takes over the role of Anouk, a TV writer who is dating her show’s young leading man (Gossip Girl‘s Penn Badgley).
The cast also includes Peter Sarsgaard,...
- 10/31/2014
- TVLine.com
Penn Badgley, who played young Brooklyn writer Dan Humphrey (and the guy who should have ended up with Blair—I’m just saying) on The CW’s Gossip Girl, will soon be making his return to television in a role that the gossip site and all its followers would approve of. The actor has joined the NBC miniseries The Slap in a recurring role as Jamie, the 25-year-old boyfriend of Mary-Louise Parker’s character, Anouk. This will be Badgley’s first major TV role since Gossip Girl ended its six-season run back in 2012. In addition to Badgley, Lucas Hedges, who can be seen in the Jeremy Renner film Kill the Messenger, which is in theaters right now, has also joined the cast of The Slap. Hedges will play Ritchie, a good friend of Connie’s (Makenzie Leigh) “who accompanies her to Hector’s birthday party. He is given the...
- 10/21/2014
- by Chris King
- TVovermind.com
The Finest Hours
Kyle Gallner ("Veronica Mars") and Holliday Grainger ("The Borgias") have joined the cast of Craig Gillespie's true-disaster feature "The Finest Hours" for Disney Pictures. The story chronicles the massive rescue mission that’s launched when two oil tankers collided off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952.
Gallner plays the rescue-boat's engineman, a man who feels he has a lot to prove. Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Josh Stewart and Graham McTavish also star in the film which begins production this month in Massachusetts. [Source: Deadline]
Untitled Game Brain Project
Albert Brooks and Gugu Mbatha-Raw are in talks to join Peter Landesman's upcoming feature about football concussions at Sony Pictures. Will Smith and Alec Baldwin lead the cast for the Ridley Scott-produced film based on the GQ article "Game Brain".
Brooks will play Cyril Wecht, the chief forensic pathologist who mentors forensic neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (Smith) and...
Kyle Gallner ("Veronica Mars") and Holliday Grainger ("The Borgias") have joined the cast of Craig Gillespie's true-disaster feature "The Finest Hours" for Disney Pictures. The story chronicles the massive rescue mission that’s launched when two oil tankers collided off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952.
Gallner plays the rescue-boat's engineman, a man who feels he has a lot to prove. Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Josh Stewart and Graham McTavish also star in the film which begins production this month in Massachusetts. [Source: Deadline]
Untitled Game Brain Project
Albert Brooks and Gugu Mbatha-Raw are in talks to join Peter Landesman's upcoming feature about football concussions at Sony Pictures. Will Smith and Alec Baldwin lead the cast for the Ridley Scott-produced film based on the GQ article "Game Brain".
Brooks will play Cyril Wecht, the chief forensic pathologist who mentors forensic neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (Smith) and...
- 9/9/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Like Twiggy, Gisele, and Naomi, Kendall Jenner is now joining the ranks of supermodels who are known by just their first name. The 18-year-old has dropped her last name professionally, now simply going by "Kendall" for all her modeling gigs, a source confirms to E! News. Racked.com first noticed that her agency, The Society Management, lists all their models—and while most have first and last names (Adriana Lima, Louise Parker, Lindsey Wixson etc.), underneath Kendall's headshot simply reads "Kendall." And although the change on the website has made headlines this week, the star herself told E! News last night: "Everyone's making that such a big deal and I've actually been going...
- 8/29/2014
- E! Online
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