Florence Pugh on How Zoe Kazan ‘East of Eden’ Collaboration Helped Boost Her Confidence
Florence Pugh on How Zoe Kazan ‘East of Eden’ Collaboration Helped Boost Her Confidence. The actress who plays the central character of Cathy and serves as an executive producer on the well-reviewed Netflix adaptation was Kazan's first and only choice for the role: "I didn't have a backup.".
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Jeremy Strong Says He Cares What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks About ‘The Social Reckoning’
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Paul Rudd Says He Stopped Bringing His Phone to Film Sets Because He’s ‘Addicted Like Everybody Else’: ‘They’re Facilitating Our Own Destruction’
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Jeremy Strong Defends Method Acting, Says He Doesn’t Feel the Need to ‘Apologize’ to Co-Stars Who May Think ‘I’m Taking It Too Seriously’
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‘Digger’ Star Tom Cruise Says He’s “So Proud Of What We Created” Despite Poor Open At Theaters
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Annabelle Wallis on the Defining Question of ‘Unabomber,’ a Potential James Wan Reunion and ‘Peaky Blinders’ What-Ifs. Plus: how an old The Hollywood Reporter interview with Wallis sparked a false viral story about the real-life Annabelle doll escaping the Warren Museum in Connecticut.