It’s official: Lesley Manville has joined The Crown to portray Princess Margaret in the show’s fifth and final season. Following British newspaper reports overnight, the Netflix period drama confirmed the casting on Twitter today (July 2). Manville will play Margaret, Queen Elizabeth…
Just last month we checked in with David Tennant and all the things he’s up to of late. Now we can add another item: the second season of his family drama There She Goes premieres next week (July 7). If you’re not…
Dame Olivia de Havilland, who’s just turned 104 years old this week, is one of the last surviving stars from Hollywood’s golden age. Though she’s probably best known for her role in Gone with the Wind, the epic 1939 movie which has…
Welcome to the latest Pop Culture Pulse, Anglophenia’s roundup of the top pop culture happenings of the month. Many of us will still be social distancing as much as possible in July, even as summer gets into full swing, so here are…
Pierce Brosnan has insisted he’s holding onto “no regret” over the way he left the Bond franchise. Brosnan starred as 007 in four movies between 1995 and 2002 – GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day…
Olivia Colman and Colin Firth are set to star in a movie together? You know we love a two-for-one deal. Colman and Firth are set to play a married couple in the forthcoming movie Mothering Sunday, reports Deadline. Based on Graham Swift‘s…
Kate Beckinsale has marked Pride Month in a super-fun way, by recreating Queen’s classic “I Want to Break Free” video on Instagram. Released in 1984, the original video saw the four members of Queen – Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and…
Who’s “her” in the above headline? Oh, Matt Smith is talking about his Crown co-star Claire Foy. The two decided to team up to star in the stage production of Duncan Macmillan‘s comedy Lungs, which revolves around a couple concerned about climate change. …
Idris Elba has urged the U.K.’s film industry not to lose momentum when it comes to improving diversity on and off screen. In a moving opinion piece for The Sunday Times, the Luther actor warned that “without the right support from the…
Margot Robbie is such a versatile actress. She surprised viewers by transforming into the infamous 1990s figure skater Tonya Harding for 2017’s I, Tonya. And, of course, made waves when ditching the Joker and spearheading an entire film dedicated to her character…
With The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a fantastical comedy-drama movie available to watch now on AMC, Ben Stiller reminds us he’s a very capable director as well as an enormously successful actor, writer, and comedian. He’s far from the only big…
We know Sir Patrick Stewart for his iconic roles in sci-fi series like the Star Trek and X-Men franchises. This time around, he’s going a more softer route, portraying a musician who has lost a bit of his bite. He’s set to…
Today brings yet another reason to admire Sir Ian McKellen: the British actor is returning to the stage in a role he last played nearly 50 years ago. McKellen, 81, is to star in a new “age-blind” production of William Shakespeare‘s Hamlet…
If you’ve really gotten into cooking during these challenging coronavirus times, you’ve probably been looking to celebrity chefs for recipe advice and culinary inspiration. Here’s a celebration of some of our favorites, complete with videos in which they demonstrate their seriously impressive…
