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Washington Post
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Embeth Davidtz drew on her childhood in Africa to adapt Alexandra Fuller's memoir
In 1974, when it seemed as though everyone was leaving South Africa, Embeth Davidtz's family was going back. Davidtz, a familiar presence in films and television for over 30 years with memorable roles in everything from 'Schindler's List' to 'Matilda,' was born in the United States to white, South African parents. When she was 8, they decided to return during a time of upheaval.
Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Pamela Anderson clarifies relationship with Liam Neeson after he said he was 'in love' with her
Pamela Anderson has talked again about her Naked Gun costar Liam Neeson. Fans have not quite been sure what the status of their relationship is after he said he 'loved' her earlier this year. But now the 58-year-old Canadian pinup has set the record straight as the Baywatch queen posed for Entertainment Weekly for their digital cover published on Tuesday. Unfortunately there is no romance yet. 'I think I have a friend forever in Liam,' said Anderson. 'And we definitely have a connection that is very sincere, very loving, and he's a good guy.' Neeson, 73, stars as Los Angeles Police Squad detective Frank Drebin Jr., son of Nielson's Frank Drebin. Anderson plays a femme fatale character named Beth who asks Frank to solve her brother's murder. Pamela also called Neeson as 'a true artist.' 'He comes from theater and Schindler's List and has done over a hundred films,' she raved about the hunk. 'And I did things inside out and backwards, came from television, and then my personal life kind of overshadowed my professional life,' said the ex-wife of Tommy Lee and Kid Rock. 'It is funny: We all come to this place in different ways, but to be able to share this experience with him is very meaningful and such an honor,' she noted. She also said that he is 'the perfect gentleman' and 'brings out the best in you ... with respect, kindness and depth of experience.' In October Neeson said he was 'madly in love' with the Playboy cover girl. 'She's just terrific to work with,' Neeson told People. 'I can't compliment her enough, I'll be honest with you. No huge ego. She just comes in to do the work. She's funny and so easy to work with. She's going to be terrific in the film.' The first Naked Gun films starred Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley: they were in 1988's The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, 1991's The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, and 1994's Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. The Naked Gun reboot arrives in theaters August 1, is directed by Akiva Schaffer, and also stars Paul Walter Hauser and Danny Huston. The first trailer for Naked Gun debuted in June 2025, and shows Neeson's character after he succeeded his father at the Los Angeles Police Squad. This comes after Anderson said she doesn't enjoy her 'sex symbol' status. The actress cemented her status as a sex symbol by playing 'C.J.' Parker in Baywatch in the 90s, but Pamela didn't actually enjoy the attention that came her way at the time. During an appearance on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, Pamela explained: 'I don't like being a sex symbol. I mean, I think it's not very sexy. I think we all aspire to be sexy in our relationships, but sexy for the world is, I don't know. 'It brought a lot of attention I didn't like, but I hate to say that because I'm not complaining, but I do feel that is a slippery slope where you are presenting yourself to the world like this and you get this attention back that.' Pamela has adopted a makeup-free look on red carpets in recent years, and the actress is now embracing being 'more natural'. She said: 'It can be even scary at times, me not wearing makeup and me being at this age, coming into this part of my career, I felt it was important for me in my personal life, to be more natural. 'I want to challenge myself and become and to be present myself in different ways because women are many things. We're not just the wild animal between the sheets.' Pamela previously admitted to being shocked by the public's reaction to her makeup-free appearance. The Hollywood star actually assumed that no-one would even notice if she decided to stop wearing makeup. She told The Sunday Times newspaper: 'There's these beautiful clothes. I'm wearing Vivienne Westwood. I have this great hat and beautiful coat. Nobody's going to notice if I don't wear any make-up. 'I didn't realize it was going to start all of this, all these people really relating to me.' Pamela feels the public's perception of her has changed over recent times. The actress believes the shift is also beneficial for her two sons. Pamela - who has Brandon, 29, and Dylan, 27, with her ex-husband Tommy Lee - shared: '[My sons] probably don't feel they have to defend their mom any more.'
Digital Trends
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Ralph Fiennes cast as President Snow in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Ralph Fiennes is adding another iconic movie villain to his list of incredible roles. The actor who once played Voldemort in the Harry Potter franchise is now set to take on the role of President Snow in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Fiennes joins a cast that already includes Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy, Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird, Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Maya Hawke as Wiress, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee, Lili Taylor as Mags and Ben Wang as Wyatt. Fiennes will be the third actor to step into the role after Donald Sutherland played an older version of the character in the original films, and Tom Blyth played an even younger version in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Sunrise is set between the events of that film and the original quadrilogy. Recommended Videos 'We wanted to honor Donald Sutherland by having one of this generation's greatest actors play President Snow 24 years before Katniss Everdeen entered the arena,' producer Nina Jacobson said. 'Working with Ralph has been on my bucket list since he traumatized me for life in Schindler's List. It's genuinely a thrill to welcome him to the Hunger Games.' Fiennes is already a legendary actor known for far more than just playing Voldemort. He's also starred in films like The Grand Budapest Hotel, The English Patient, and the aforementioned Schindler's List. He is also set to star in 28 Years Later, which will hit theaters later this year. Sunrise on the Reaping is slated for a Nov. 20, 2026, and will be directed by Francis Lawrence, who has helmed every film in the franchise since Catching Fire.
The Independent
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
A museum opens at a former factory in the Czech Republic where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews
A dilapidated industrial site in the Czech Republic where German businessman Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews during the World War II is coming back to life. The site, a former textile factory in the town of Brněnec, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Prague, was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owners in 1938 and turned into a concentration camp. This weekend it welcomed the first visitors to the Museum of Survivors dedicated to the Holocaust and the history of Jews in this part of Europe. The opening was timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. It was also in May 1945 that Schindler received a golden ring from grateful Jewish survivors, made with gold taken from their teeth. The ring was inscribed with the Hebrew words from Talmud, saying 'Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Schindler's story was told in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning movie, 'Schindler's List." Daniel Löw-Beer was a driving force behind the project. His predecessors lived in this part of Czech Republic for hundreds of years, acquiring the plant in Brnenec in 1854 and turning it into one of Europe's most important wool factories. 'We had to flee for our lives, lost a bit of our history, so putting a little bit of history back to a place and hopefully bringing out as well the history of Oskar Schindler and the village is what we're doing today,' Löw-Beer told The Associated Press. Today, his family members are scattered around the world. 'I'm pleased to put a little bit, of course emotionally, of my family back in the place because they were survivors. My grandfather lived here, my father lived here, and then the world was shattered one day in 1938," he said. Glass wall separates past and present The museum, housed in part of a renovated spinning mill, displays the history of Schindler, his wife Emilie, the Löw-Beer family and others linked to the area, together with the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. It includes a space for exhibitions, lectures, film screenings and concerts, as well as a café. A transparent glass wall between this part and the bigger, still ruined area behind it separates the present and history. "It's a universal place of survivors,' Löw-Beer said. 'We want those stories to be told and people to make their own opinions.' In 2019 Löw-Beer set up the Arks Foundation to buy the warehouse and turn it into a museum, investing money and renewing a partnership with the local community to revive the neglected site. The regional government contributed funds, while a grant from the European Union brought children from five European countries to Brněnec to come up with ideas that helped shape the museum design. The official opening on the weekend completed the first step but a lot remains to be done. The remaining buildings are still waiting to be fully restored. They include Schindler's office where the town hall plans to create an information center, the barracks of the SS troops, which will provide more exhibition spaces, and the entire building of Schindler's Ark where the Jewish prisoners lived and worked. Currently, the museum is not open on a daily basis and focuses on education activities for schools. Previous projects to restore the site failed due to a lack of funds. In contrast, the Arks Foundation took a step-by-step approach. When skeptical local residents could see something was really happening this time, they offered help. A firm came with a big truck loaded with bricks, dropped them and just went off, Löw-Beer said. 'We wanted to show that you have to do something for something else to happen,' said Milan Šudoma of the foundation. If organizers had waited until they had secured all the necessary funding, nothing would likely be done by now, he said. 'Oskar and Emilie Schindler are proof that one person can make a difference,' the museum quotes Rena Finder, one of the Schindler's Jews, as saying. 'Everybody said there was nothing I could do. And that's a lie because there is always something you can do.' A man of contradictions who saved hundreds of lives Schindler, an unlikely hero, was born in the nearby town of Svitavy (Zwittau in German) in what was then the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, with a German-speaking majority and a substantial Jewish population. A Svitavy museum said Schindler was a mass of contradictions: a troublemaker, a womanizer, a spy for the Germans, a Nazi but also a man who saved people from the Holocaust. After the war broke out in 1939, Schindler moved from Svitavy to Krakow, now Poland, where he ran an enamel and ammunition plant and treated Jewish workers well. With the Red Army approaching in 1944, he created a list of Jewish workers he claimed were needed to resettle the plant in Brněnec. When a transport with 300 women was diverted to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Schindler managed to secure their release. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem, said it's the only known case 'that such a large group of people were allowed to leave alive while the gas chambers were still in operation.' In another bold act, Emilie Schindler led an effort to save more than 100 Jewish male prisoners who arrived at a nearby train station in sealed cattle wagons in January 1945. In 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Emilie and Oskar Schindler as Righteous Among the Nations, the honor awarded to those who rescued Jews from the Holocaust.
