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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Casting News: black-ish Star Joins Boston Blue, Carrie TV Series Adds 14 and More
Marcus Scribner has copped a major new role: The black-ish star has joined the cast of Boston Blue, CBS' Donnie Wahlberg-led Blue Bloods offshoot. Per Variety, Scribner will play rookie officer Jonah Silver, the youngest member of a law enforcement family that also includes his mother, District Attorney Mae Silver (Gloria Reuben); his sister, Detective Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green); and his stepsister, Boston Police Department Superintendent Sarah Silver (Maggie Lawson). Ernie Hudson also co-stars as Jonah's grandfather, Reverend Edwin Peters. More from TVLine Boston Blue: Gloria Reuben Joins Blue Bloods Offshoot as Family Matriarch Boston Blue: Everything We Know So Far About the Blue Bloods Offshoot Reacher Season 4: Sydelle Noel, Jay Baruchel and 6 Others Cast in Gone Tomorrow Adaptation Airing Fridays at 10/9c this fall, Boston Blue finds Detective Danny Reagan (Wahlberg) leaving New York City and his family to take a position with BPD. There, he will be partnered with the aforementioned Lena Silver. A premiere date has not yet been announced. Boston Blue: Everything We Know View List In other recent casting news: * Prime Video's Carrie TV series, from executive producer Mike Flanagan, has added the following 14 guest stars, per Deadline: Flanagan vets Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco, Katee Sackhoff, Rahul Kohli, Crystal Balint and Danielle Klaudt, as well as Heather Graham (Chosen Family), Tim Bagley (The Perfect Couple), Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica), Mapuana Makia (Doogie Kamealoha M.D.), newcomer Rowan Danielle, Naika Toussaint (Washington Black), Delainey Hayles (Interview With the Vampire) and Cassandra Naud (Influencer). * Guest judges for Freeform's Project Runway revival (premiering Thursday, July 31) include Sofía Vergara, Tyra Banks, Nikki Glaser, Sara Foster, Real Housewives of New York City's Jenna Lyons, model Joan Smalls, singer Mickey Guyton, and designers Christian Cowan, Zac Posen, Harris Reed and Michael Kors, E! Online reports. * D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place) is the latest addition to Peacock's forthcoming series adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's The Five-Star Weekend, per Variety. She joins previously announced series regulars Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny and Gemma Chan. * Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark) is joining J.K. Simmons and Titus Welliver in MGM+'s The Westies. She will play Birdie Polk, the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Gambino Task Force, Deadline reports. Hit the comments with your thoughts on the castings above! Best of TVLine Stars Who Almost Played Other TV Roles — on Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friends and Other Shows TV Stars Almost Cast in Other Roles Fall TV Preview: Who's In? Who's Out? Your Guide to Every Casting Move!
The Age
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
When he was 16 this musician met Elmer Bernstein. It changed everything
Enthralled by the work of film composers such as James Horner, Alan Silvestri and Danny Elfman ('my north star'), going to the movies became an obsession, although his motives were different to those of his friends. 'They would go, 'Wow, that chick was so hot' or, 'Did you see that scene where the guy exploded?' 'And I would go, 'Did you guys hear what Jerry Goldsmith did with the French horns? I think that was the bad guys' theme, but he turned it upside down. I'm going to see it again tomorrow to find out.' 'They thought I was a weirdo,' he laughs. In high school, McCreary met an elderly gentleman named Joe, who ran the Bellingham Yacht Club and told him legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote McCreary's favourite score of all time in To Kill a Mockingbird, moored his yacht there. Joe offered to give Bernstein a tape of the then 16-year-old's work. Bernstein then took McCreary under his wing as a protege until his death in 2004. 'The reason I wanted to work with her is because of who she is, not just her voice. The rebel that she was. Between that recording and her untimely death we became friends. We were texting all the time. She was so funny.' Bear McCreary on Sinead O'Connor 'I didn't know what a life in film music could be,' McCreary reflects. 'And then I met Elmer, who was the sweetest, most thoughtful man I'd ever met. He had a great relationship with his wife and kids, people respected him immensely, and yet he took no shit. 'Getting to know him gave me something to point to. It wasn't even about the music, it was personal. You could have a life. That's where I want to be when I'm pushing 80.' McCreary's big break was scoring the 2004 TV reboot of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. But just as significant was working with Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who sang the main title for season seven of Outlander, her final ever recording. 'The reason I wanted to work with her is because of who she is, not just her voice,' McCreary says. 'The rebel that she was. Between that recording and her untimely death we became friends. We were texting all the time. She was so funny.' Another life-changing moment came with Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), for which McCreary recorded a hard rock cover of Blue Öyster Cult's Godzilla featuring System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian and legendary heavy metal drummer Gene Hoglan. 'It was one of the best days of my life,' he beams. 'And I got in the car and I was driving home and I was totally buzzed. But by the time I got into my driveway I was really sad.' Over the space of that short car ride, it dawned on McCreary that this was likely a one-off experience. Then he was struck by a revelation. 'What if I just started writing some music for the people I want to work with, and it's not for a film?' he says. The result was McCreary's 2024 album The Singularity, a two-LP set that merges the grandeur of his scoring work with the bombast of hard rock and heavy metal. It features guests such as Tankian, Hoglan, Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, Slipknot's Corey Taylor and guitar heroes Joe Satriani and Slash from Guns N' Roses. McCreary will perform songs from The Singularity and his scoring career in Australia in July on his Themes & Variations tour. 'It's a celebration of everything I've written in my life. And it's a chance to hear all these pieces from The Singularity, from The Walking Dead, from Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Godzilla. I'm re-envisioning it all in a format that fits the stage we're on.' Loading For someone experiencing his first taste of touring, adjusting to life on the road has taken some work. Luckily, McCreary has some experienced pals to call on. 'I got fantastic touring laundry advice from [Guns N' Roses bassist] Duff McKagan,' he says. 'I find myself texting a picture of my laundry to Slash and Duff and I'm like, I think I've got this figured out!' Given the contrast between his orchestral film scores and the guitar-fuelled tracks from The Singularity, one wonders what kind of audience he's been attracting on the tour. He reflects on a recent show in Europe.
Sydney Morning Herald
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
When he was 16 this musician met Elmer Bernstein. It changed everything
Enthralled by the work of film composers such as James Horner, Alan Silvestri and Danny Elfman ('my north star'), going to the movies became an obsession, although his motives were different to those of his friends. 'They would go, 'Wow, that chick was so hot' or, 'Did you see that scene where the guy exploded?' 'And I would go, 'Did you guys hear what Jerry Goldsmith did with the French horns? I think that was the bad guys' theme, but he turned it upside down. I'm going to see it again tomorrow to find out.' 'They thought I was a weirdo,' he laughs. In high school, McCreary met an elderly gentleman named Joe, who ran the Bellingham Yacht Club and told him legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote McCreary's favourite score of all time in To Kill a Mockingbird, moored his yacht there. Joe offered to give Bernstein a tape of the then 16-year-old's work. Bernstein then took McCreary under his wing as a protege until his death in 2004. 'The reason I wanted to work with her is because of who she is, not just her voice. The rebel that she was. Between that recording and her untimely death we became friends. We were texting all the time. She was so funny.' Bear McCreary on Sinead O'Connor 'I didn't know what a life in film music could be,' McCreary reflects. 'And then I met Elmer, who was the sweetest, most thoughtful man I'd ever met. He had a great relationship with his wife and kids, people respected him immensely, and yet he took no shit. 'Getting to know him gave me something to point to. It wasn't even about the music, it was personal. You could have a life. That's where I want to be when I'm pushing 80.' McCreary's big break was scoring the 2004 TV reboot of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. But just as significant was working with Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who sang the main title for season seven of Outlander, her final ever recording. 'The reason I wanted to work with her is because of who she is, not just her voice,' McCreary says. 'The rebel that she was. Between that recording and her untimely death we became friends. We were texting all the time. She was so funny.' Another life-changing moment came with Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), for which McCreary recorded a hard rock cover of Blue Öyster Cult's Godzilla featuring System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian and legendary heavy metal drummer Gene Hoglan. 'It was one of the best days of my life,' he beams. 'And I got in the car and I was driving home and I was totally buzzed. But by the time I got into my driveway I was really sad.' Over the space of that short car ride, it dawned on McCreary that this was likely a one-off experience. Then he was struck by a revelation. 'What if I just started writing some music for the people I want to work with, and it's not for a film?' he says. The result was McCreary's 2024 album The Singularity, a two-LP set that merges the grandeur of his scoring work with the bombast of hard rock and heavy metal. It features guests such as Tankian, Hoglan, Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, Slipknot's Corey Taylor and guitar heroes Joe Satriani and Slash from Guns N' Roses. McCreary will perform songs from The Singularity and his scoring career in Australia in July on his Themes & Variations tour. 'It's a celebration of everything I've written in my life. And it's a chance to hear all these pieces from The Singularity, from The Walking Dead, from Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Godzilla. I'm re-envisioning it all in a format that fits the stage we're on.' Loading For someone experiencing his first taste of touring, adjusting to life on the road has taken some work. Luckily, McCreary has some experienced pals to call on. 'I got fantastic touring laundry advice from [Guns N' Roses bassist] Duff McKagan,' he says. 'I find myself texting a picture of my laundry to Slash and Duff and I'm like, I think I've got this figured out!' Given the contrast between his orchestral film scores and the guitar-fuelled tracks from The Singularity, one wonders what kind of audience he's been attracting on the tour. He reflects on a recent show in Europe.
The Star
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
'Andor' has brought untold stories of trauma and humanity to Star Wars
The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest. Game Of Thrones made a meal of it. Battlestar Galactica tried to consider the effect on survivors of losing a planet of people. But it hasn't fit in the swashbuckling world of Star Wars. How could the mission to destroy the Death Star have quickly concluded if Princess Leia needed to mourn the loss of nearly all her loved ones on Alderaan? Andor changed all that. Coping with inner pain has been a theme throughout its two-season run, which has now come to a close with Disney+ releasing a series-finale trilogy of episodes. It starts with its title character, who is left rootless by the deaths and destruction around him. 'Everything has been taken away from him since day one,' said Diego Luna, who plays Cassian Andor. 'And he has to understand that home is inside. That he can be home. That home can be there. And therefore there's a reason to fight.' The three final episodes take Andor and the rest of the characters up to the events of Rogue One , the 2016 film that spawned the streaming prequel series. Tony Gilroy, who wrote Rogue One and is the show runner for Andor , has loved playing in the Star Wars galaxy, but he's made it clear his real mission is to tell universal stories of the effects of war, revolution and colonisation on human (and occasionally non-human) souls. Nearly every character he's created is ravaged in one way or another, and even the light- hearted moments of the series are fraught with emotional pain. Senator Mon Mothma (O'Reilly, left) has to suppress a lot of emotions in order to complete her duty as a secret rebel. (Spoilers ahead for episodes 1-9 of Season 2.) When Andor goes undercover as a moussed-and-mulleted fashion designer named Varian Skye and makes small talk with a hotel staffer, he learns the man's family was killed in a notorious massacre by Grand Moff Tarkin, the imperial leader who would later order the destruction of Leia's world. And in a widely-memed moment of drunken techno dancing by senator and secret rebel Mon Mothma at her daughter's wedding, she is, as Genevieve O'Reilly who played her said, 'dancing to stop herself from screaming' after tacitly agreeing to have an old friend murdered for the cause. No one on Andor undergoes more trauma than Bix Caleen, played by Adria Arjona. While still dealing with the fallout of being tortured by an imperial doctor in the first season, she is nearly raped early in the second and has been surrounded by death. Arjona said seeing the script was daunting. 'She has to go from PTSD to sort of being addicted to droppers, which help her sleep and get over the nightmares, to then her last final decision,' said Arjona. 'It's a lot. And reading it was incredibly scary.' No one on Andor undergoes more trauma than Bix Caleen, played by Arjona. — Photos: Handout An utterly new for Star Wars set of scenes between Cassian and Bix explore both the explicit and subtle difficulties of intimate relationships amid trauma. Cassian must comfort Bix, but she doesn't want her pain to define her. The two try to take a trip to the neighbourhood bodega, but even that is subsumed by his fear for her. Cassian and Bix also must deal with the difficulty of the lives they take for the cause. Han Solo never mourned the stormtroopers he blasted, but the Andor duo killed a young imperial soldier during a mission and it haunts the home life they're trying to build. 'I can't stop seeing his face,' Bix says. 'It fades,' Cassian replies. 'I want to tell you it goes away forever, but I'd be lying.' 'We're in a war,' he says. 'I wonder if he knew,' she says. 'He knows now,' Cassian says. Bix is among the major characters who won't go on to Rogue One or other existing Star Wars stories. Andor lets her complete her emotional arc with a tear-jerking but well-earned set of scenes. 'The last speech, I still haven't been able to watch it,' she said. 'I was a mess! It took me takes and takes of me absolutely just bawling through that scene until finally it gets to what I believe they used.' The show's revolutionary leaders, just as those in history have done, try to take their followers' trauma, and their own, and use it to drive the movement. Saw Gerrera, the radical rebel played by Forest Whittaker who has a key role (and one less leg) in Rogue One , gave a call-to-arms in a recent episode that is already being celebrated among fans as the 'revolution is not for the sane' speech. The theme: pain as power. He tells a young prospective follower about his youthful enslavement in a brutal imperial work camp, and the toxic leak there of a fuel called rhydo. 'They worked us naked. Two, three hundred men. Boys really. Back and forth until the only thing you could remember was back and forth. Then one day, everyone started to itch. Everyone, all at once. Even the guards. You could feel your skin coming alive,' Saw says, his raspy voice rising. 'It was the rhydo. They had a leak.' He tells the young man, 'We're the rhydo, kid. We're the fuel. We're the thing that explodes when there's too much friction in the air. Let it in, boy! That's freedom calling! Let it in! Let it run! Let it run wild!' – AP Andor is available on Disney+ Hotstar.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Andor' is ending. It brought untold stories of trauma and humanity to 'Star Wars'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest. 'Game of Thrones' made a meal of it. 'Battlestar Galactica' tried to consider the effect on survivors of losing a planet of people. But it hasn't fit in the swashbuckling world of 'Star Wars.' How could the mission to destroy the Death Star have quickly concluded if Princess Leia needed to mourn the loss of nearly all her loved ones on Alderaan? 'Andor' changed all that. Coping with inner pain has been a theme throughout its two-season run, which comes to a close Tuesday when Disney+ releases a series-finale trilogy of episodes. It starts with its title character, who is left rootless by the deaths and destruction around him. 'Everything has been taken away from him since day one,' Diego Luna, who plays Cassian Andor, said in an interview with The Associated Press. 'And he has to understand that home is inside. That he can be home. That home can be there. And therefore there's a reason to fight." Trauma runs through everything on 'Andor,' even dancing The three final episodes take Andor and the rest of the characters up to the events of 'Rogue One,' the 2016 film that spawned the streaming prequel series. Tony Gilroy, who wrote 'Rogue One' and is the show runner for 'Andor,' has loved playing in the Star Wars galaxy, but he's made it clear his real mission is to tell universal stories of the effects of war, revolution and colonization on human (and occasionally non-human) souls. Nearly every character he's created is ravaged in one way or another, and even the lighthearted moments of the series are fraught with emotional pain. (Spoilers ahead for episodes 1-9 of Season 2.) When Andor goes undercover as a moussed-and-mulleted fashion designer named Varian Skye and makes small talk with a hotel staffer, he learns the man's family was killed in a notorious massacre by Grand Moff Tarkin, the imperial leader who would later order the destruction of Leia's world. And in a widely-memed moment of drunken techno dancing by senator and secret rebel Mon Mothma at her daughter's wedding, she is, as Genevieve O'Reilly who played her said, "dancing to stop herself from screaming" after tacitly agreeing to have an old friend murdered for the cause. Bix Caleen's struggles — and her the end of her arc No one on 'Andor' undergoes more trauma than Bix Caleen, played by Adria Arjona. While still dealing with the fallout of being tortured by an imperial doctor in the first season, she is nearly raped early in the second and has been surrounded by death. Arjona said seeing the script was daunting. 'She has to go from PTSD to sort of being addicted to droppers, which help her sleep and get over the nightmares, to then her last final decision,' Arjona told the AP. 'It's a lot. And reading it was incredibly scary.' An utterly new for 'Star Wars' set of scenes between Cassian and Bix explore both the explicit and subtle difficulties of intimate relationships amid trauma. Cassian must comfort Bix, but she doesn't want her pain to define her. The two try to take a trip to the neighborhood bodega, but even that is subsumed by his fear for her. Cassian and Bix also must deal with the difficulty of the lives they take for the cause. Han Solo never mourned the stormtroopers he blasted, but the 'Andor' duo killed a young imperial soldier during a mission and it haunts the home life they're trying to build. 'I can't stop seeing his face,' Bix says. 'It fades,' Cassian replies. 'I want to tell you it goes away forever, but I'd be lying.' 'We're in a war,' he says. 'I wonder if he knew,' she says. 'He knows now,' Cassian says. Bix is among the major characters who won't go on to 'Rogue One' or other existing 'Star Wars' stories. 'Andor' lets her complete her emotional arc with a tear-jerking but well-earned set of scenes. 'The last speech, I still haven't been able to watch it,' she told the AP. 'I was a mess! It took me takes and takes of me absolutely just bawling through that scene until finally it gets to what I believe they used.' Turning trauma into fuel The show's revolutionary leaders, just as those in history have done, try to take their followers' trauma, and their own, and use it to drive the movement. Saw Gerrera, the radical rebel played by Forest Whittaker who has a key role (and one less leg) in 'Rogue One,' gave a call-to-arms in a recent episode that is already being celebrated among fans as the 'revolution is not for the sane' speech. The theme: pain as power. He tells a young prospective follower about his youthful enslavement in a brutal imperial work camp, and the toxic leak there of a fuel called rhydo. 'They worked us naked. Two, three hundred men. Boys really. Back and forth until the only thing you could remember was back and forth. Then one day, everyone started to itch. Everyone, all at once. Even the guards. You could feel your skin coming alive," Saw says, his raspy voice rising. 'It was the rhydo. They had a leak.' He tells the young man, "We're the rhydo, kid. We're the fuel. We're the thing that explodes when there's too much friction in the air. Let it in, boy! That's freedom calling! Let it in! Let it run! Let it run wild!' Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press
