Exclusive: Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana is the latest celebrity to call for film festivals to adopt gender-neutral acting awards categories.
Following in the footsteps of Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett and director Kornél Mundruczó, who have voiced their support for the change while at this week’s Venice Film Festival, Khurrana told us: “Gender-neutral awards should become the norm. I wholeheartedly laud the Berlin Film Festival’s decision to award gender-neutral recognitions and I hope all film festivals across the world and India follow suit.”
The Berlin Film Festival announced last month that it will become the first major festival to do away with the distinction between male and female acting categories. Instead, Silver Bears will be awarded for best leading performance and best supporting performance.
The Andhadhun and Vicky Donor star continued: “We are all actors at the end of the day and gender divisions only highlight the long prevalent divisive nature of societies.
Following in the footsteps of Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett and director Kornél Mundruczó, who have voiced their support for the change while at this week’s Venice Film Festival, Khurrana told us: “Gender-neutral awards should become the norm. I wholeheartedly laud the Berlin Film Festival’s decision to award gender-neutral recognitions and I hope all film festivals across the world and India follow suit.”
The Berlin Film Festival announced last month that it will become the first major festival to do away with the distinction between male and female acting categories. Instead, Silver Bears will be awarded for best leading performance and best supporting performance.
The Andhadhun and Vicky Donor star continued: “We are all actors at the end of the day and gender divisions only highlight the long prevalent divisive nature of societies.
- 9/6/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS has ordered its second pilot from comedy kingpin Chuck Lorre this development season.
The network has greenlit B Positive, a multicamera show about a man in search of a kidney donor. Mom and Ugly Betty veteran Marco Pennette is writing the script and will executive produce with Lorre. Warner Bros. TV, Lorre's longtime studio home, is producing.
The potential series joins the Lorre-produced United States of Al on CBS' pilot roster. The latter centers on the friendship between a Marine combat veteran (Parker Young) and his unit's Afghan interpreter (Adhir Khalyan), who has just arrived in the United States.
B Positive follows ...
The network has greenlit B Positive, a multicamera show about a man in search of a kidney donor. Mom and Ugly Betty veteran Marco Pennette is writing the script and will executive produce with Lorre. Warner Bros. TV, Lorre's longtime studio home, is producing.
The potential series joins the Lorre-produced United States of Al on CBS' pilot roster. The latter centers on the friendship between a Marine combat veteran (Parker Young) and his unit's Afghan interpreter (Adhir Khalyan), who has just arrived in the United States.
B Positive follows ...
- 1/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Just a reminder that Esai Morales gets kidnapped in the Lifetime film We Have Your Husband tonight at 8 pm.
If you're in the right region, you can see the trailer on Lifetime's site.
Esai was on Ktla News the other day to talk about the film and some of the issues it raises. You can watch the interview here. It includes a couple of clips from the film.
Here is the synopsis:
The chilling true story of one woman’s fight to get her husband released from the hands of kidnappers in Mexico is brought to life in the Lifetime Original Movie, “We Have Your Husband.”
American-born Jayne Valseca (Teri Polo, Meet the Parents, Man Up), her husband Eduardo (Esai Morales, NYPD Blue), the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But...
If you're in the right region, you can see the trailer on Lifetime's site.
Esai was on Ktla News the other day to talk about the film and some of the issues it raises. You can watch the interview here. It includes a couple of clips from the film.
Here is the synopsis:
The chilling true story of one woman’s fight to get her husband released from the hands of kidnappers in Mexico is brought to life in the Lifetime Original Movie, “We Have Your Husband.”
American-born Jayne Valseca (Teri Polo, Meet the Parents, Man Up), her husband Eduardo (Esai Morales, NYPD Blue), the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But...
- 11/12/2011
- by fanshawe
- CapricaTV
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