As a new Harry Potter cast takes on Hogwarts, one franchise alum has faced recent controversy about her career choice since graduating. Jessie Cave, who played Lavender Brown in the final three movies of the OG film series, revealed she was recently barred from participating in a fan convention over her non-sexual OnlyFans profile. “I found out that I didn’t get …
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Jessie Cave, who played Lavender Brown across three “Harry Potter” films, shared on her self-titled Substack that her presence on OnlyFans recently got her barred from a “Harry Potter” fan convention. “I found out that I didn’t get booked for a ‘Harry Potter’ convention recently, as I’m now doing OnlyFans,” she wrote (via Collider). “They explained it was because it’s …
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Maggie O’Farrell’s lauded 2020 novel Hamnet is a dense and lyrical imagining of the lives of William Shakespeare’s family, full of interior thought and lush descriptions of the physical world. It would seem, upon reading, near impossible to adapt into a film. Or, at least, a film worthy of O’Farrell’s so finely woven sensory spell. Film-maker Chloé Zhao has attempted …
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The 52nd Telluride Film Festival is barely more than a day old and already there is a strong theme running through the new films here: art as a life altering experience. In Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, depression causes the superstar musician to go deep into his writing and recording a new album in order to find his true self. …
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The first time we see Agnes (Jessie Buckley), she’s curled up asleep at the mossy base of a giant tree. Dressed in red and purple, she looks like a flower, or perhaps an organ — a heart out in the open, ready to be plucked up and held close. Next to her lies a void, a hollow beneath the roots …
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In a quaint theater in the Colorado mountains, where we lay our scene, a clear Oscar contender emerges. Before Chloé Zhao’s anticipated drama “Hamnet” held its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday, the director took the stage with her two stars, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, to lead the audience in a meditation before they took in …
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Bang Bang hitmaker Jessie J has encountered another setback in her devastating battle with breast cancer, returning to the hospital just weeks after she underwent a mastectomy. “How I spent the last 24 hours,” the 37-year-old singer posted to Instagram Sunday alongside a photo of her arm connected to an IV drip. “Six weeks post-surgery, and I was back in …
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