Charlize Theron was not trying to make anyone like Megyn Kelly. When she was first sent the script for Bombshell, which recounts what happened after Kelly and Gretchen Carlson lodged sexual harassment complaints against then Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, Theron was excited to produce, but far more hesitant about playing Kelly. In Theron’s words, actually, she was “shit scared.” But as she revealed at the Los Angeles special screening of Bombshell on Sunday night, Theron’s goal was not “to make her sympathetic, or to try and persuade people to like [Kelly], to make people think that she was a hero or a good person. We just told the truth of what her story was.” Transformed with the help of prosthetic makeup from Kazuhiro Tsuji, Theron’s performance as Kelly was one thing the assembled media couldn’t stop talking about, as Katie Walsh reported from Sunday night’s event.
Elsewhere in HWD, Yohana Desta reports on Parasite’s colossal opening weekend in the United States, and also checks in on Edward Norton at the New York Film Festival premiere of Motherless Brooklyn, where he was surrounded by a “lotta colleagues, lotta old friends, theater friends.” And if you’re still reeling from the Succession finale, Joanna Robinson looked back at the entire season for clues about the twist ending we might have missed, and Sonia Saraiya wonders what can possibly be next for Logan’s number one boy, Kendall.
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