{blackbabes} Serena says dealing with media scrutiny made her stronger

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Serena Williams says she can identify with anxiety regarding news conference scrutiny, and has experienced it frequently after matches.

"Many of them I've been into where I've been -- very difficult to walk in in those moments," she said. "But you know, it made me stronger."

Williams made her comments in a post-match news conference following her first-round victory Monday at the French Open. She spoke hours after four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka withdrew from the tournament, saying in a statement that she has dealt with long bouts of depression since winning a tumultuous final against Williams in the 2018 U.S. Open.

Last week Osaka said she would not participate in the standard post-match news conferences during Roland Garros, citing her decision as a mental health matter because media questions can create self-doubt.

"I feel for Naomi," Williams said. "Not everyone is the same. I'm thick. Other people are thin. Everyone is different and everyone handles things differently.

"You just have to let her handle it the way she wants to and the best way she thinks she can. That's the only thing I can say: I think she is doing the best she can."

Few athletes have been under the media spotlight like Williams, 39, who is chasing a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title. When the glare becomes too intense, she said, it's important to reach out for support.

"You really have to step forward and make an effort, just as in anything, and say, 'I need help with A, B, C and D,' and talk to someone. I think that's so important to have a sounding board, whether it's someone at the WTA, or someone in your life, or maybe it's someone you talk to on a weekly basis.

"I've been in that position too, and I've definitely had opportunities to talk to people and just get things off my chest that I can't necessarily talk about to anyone in my family or anyone I know."

There were moments of anxiety for Williams even in a first-round victory that will be quickly forgotten. She took a spill on the clay and saved two set points before eliminating Irina-Camelia Begu 7-6 (6), 6-2 under the lights during the first scheduled night session in tournament history.

Williams struggled with her serve but played aggressively, such as when she raced forward facing a set point to hit a risky swinging volley for a winner.

"I did not want to lose that first set," she said.

Williams improved to 77-1 in first-round Slam matches. The loss came in Paris in 2012.

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{blackbabes} Serena offers support to Osaka after French Open withdrawal

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PARIS (Reuters) - Serena Williams offered her support to Naomi Osaka on Monday after the Japanese player's decision to withdraw from the French Open in the wake of her boycott of press conferences.

In a statement on Monday, Osaka said she did not want her stance to become a distraction and said that she had been dealing with mental health issues since 2018.

Williams, 39, was inevitably asked for her reaction to Osaka's decision following her first-round win over Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu.

"Honestly I just found out before I walked into the press conference, so that's the extent of it right now for me," Williams told reporters.

Pushed for her opinion on Osaka's claim last week that post-match media conferences were damaging her mental wellbeing, and Monday's unexpected development, Williams said: "The only thing I feel is that I feel for Naomi.

"I feel like I wish I could give her a hug because I know what it's like. Like I said, I've been in those positions.

"We have different personalities, and people are different.

Not everyone is the same. I'm thick (skinned). Other people are thin. Everyone is different and everyone handles things differently.

"You just have to let her handle it the way she wants to, in

the best way she thinks she can, and that's the only thing

I can say. I think she's doing the best that she can."

Williams said it was important for players to have someone to use as a "sounding board" in tough times.

"You have to be able to make an effort and say, I need

help with A, B, C, and D, and talk to someone," she said.

"Whether it's someone at the WTA or whether it's someone in your life. Maybe it's someone that you just talk to on a weekly

basis. I've been in that position, too.

"I've definitely had opportunities to talk to people, kind of get things off my chest that I can't necessarily talk to anyone in my family or anyone that I know."

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{blackbabes} Serena survives scare in French Open's first night match

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PARIS (Reuters) -American Serena Williams survived a scare in the first ever night session match at the French Open as she edged out Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 7-6(6) 6-2 in the first round on Monday.

Organisers have introduced night matches under the Philippe Chatrier Court lights this year to provide some late drama for the fans but the match was played in an empty stadium because of a COVID-19 curfew in the French capital.

The flat atmosphere hardly helped the 39-year-old Williams who squandered a 5-2 lead in the first set against a tricky opponent who battled back to move into a tiebreaker.

Begu then led 6-4 and Williams got lucky with a return that clipped the tape, before rattling off four points to win the opener with a drive volley she celebrated with a roar that echoed around the empty stands.

Three-time Roland Garros champion Williams, who has been stuck on 23 Grand Slam titles, one behind Margaret Court's all-time record, was far more assured in the second set and managed to claim the victory without further fuss.

Williams has been agonisingly close to matching Court's record since winning the 2017 Australian Open in her last Grand Slam event before becoming a mother.

She has fallen in four Grand Slam finals and earlier this year lost in the semi-finals at the Australian Open.

Following that she underwent oral surgery and has played only three Tour-level matches since, winning one.

Despite her first set wobble against Begu, however, the seventh seed showed enough of her old firepower and fight to suggest that she can make a deep run in Paris.

"Ironically enough night sessions are not my favourite matches, but I do have a good record at it," Williams said of her first taste of action under the Roland Garros lights.

"Clearly something about it gets me hyped. I have to say it was pretty cool to be able to play the first night session ever here at Roland Garros. That was something I thoroughly enjoyed."

Williams will face another Romanian in round two in the shape of 174th-ranked Mihaela Buzarnescu.

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{blackbabes} Rumors swirl Beyoncé and Jay-Z commissioned world’s most expensive car

 

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Beyoncé and Jay-Z may have just added the most expensive car in the world to their already luxurious fleet.

This week, Rolls-Royce unveiled its $28 million Boat Tail convertible for a client who clearly enjoys the finer things in life, such as a rear deck that contains a picnic set and a double refrigerator to keep vintage champagne chilled. Rumor has it, a "Crazy in Love" couple were behind the creation of the car.

"It's thought this fantastic car has been commissioned by Beyoncé and Jay-Z with all its detailing matching their favorite things," an industry source told the UK's Telegraph.

Built for the Mediterranean backroads of the French Riviera, where Beyoncé, 39, and Jay-Z, 51, have frequented, the owners of this British luxury vehicle will be able to sip bubbly during outdoor picnics, as a "double refrigerator houses the clients' favorite vintages of Armand de Brignac," which can be "rapidly cooled to precisely six degrees."

It's worth noting that the rapper sold a 50 percent stake in Armand de Brignac to Moët Hennessy in February.

Boasting a blue exterior — perhaps a nod to the Bey and Jay's eldest daughter, 9-year-old Blue Ivy — the luxury ride also features two-sided timepieces, one for a man and one for a woman, from Bovet 1822 that can be worn or used as car clocks.

While the car has a big price tag, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who have been married since 2008, can surely afford it. They have reported net worths of $500 million and $1.4 billion, respectively, according to Celebrity Net Worth and Forbes.

Torsten Müller-Ötvös, the CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, has called the Boat Tail the company's "most ambitious project yet."

In addition to this four-seater, 19-foot Boat Tail, only two other coachbuilt vehicles will be made.

Reps for Beyoncé and Jay-Z did not immediately return our request for comment.

Rolls-Royce, meanwhile, had no comment on the speculation that the "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" collaborators commissioned the vehicle, the Daily Mail reported Friday.

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{blackbabes} ‘The Last Of Us’: Merle Dandridge To Reprise Role From Original Game For HBO Series

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The cast of HBO's The Last Of Us series adaptation continues to grow as Merle Dandridge joins the cast to reprise her role from the original 2014 PlayStation video game.

From Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and The Last Of Us creator Neil Druckmann, The Last of Us the story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.

Dandridge will return to the world of The Last of Us as Marlene, the head of the Fireflies, a resistance movement struggling for freedom against an oppressive military regime. The actress also voiced Marlene in the 2020 PlayStation sequel, The Last of Us Part II.

She will join Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey and Gabriel Luna, who are set to appear as Joel, Ellie and Tommy, respectively.

Kantemir Balagov is directing the pilot episode of The Last Of Us, a co-production with Sony Pictures Television. PlayStation Productions, Word Games, The Mighty Mint, and Naughty Dog produce the TV series, based on the video game developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation platforms.

Jasmila Žbanić and Ali Abbas will also direct the series.

Druckmann and Mazin write and executive produce; Carolyn Strauss also executive produces along with Naughty Dog president Evan Wells, Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan of PlayStation Productions as well as Rose Lam.

Dandridge most recently recurred as Kim Hammond in HBO's The Flight Attendant, starring Kailey Cuoco. She has also appeared in Greenleaf, Murphy Brown, The Night Shift, and Star-Crossed. In addition to The Last Of Us franchise, the actress has appeared in a number of other video game titles including Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Dota 2 and Half-Life 2. In 2016 she received the BAFTA Game best former award for her portrayal as Katherine Collins in Everybody's Gone To the Rapture.

Dandridge is repped by SDB Partners, CornerStone Talent Agency, Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham, and Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin & Associates (KMR Talent).

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{blackbabes} ‘First Kill’: Netflix’s YA Vampire Drama Series Sets Full Cast

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Netflix has set the full cast for First Kill, its upcoming vampire drama series executive produced by Emma Roberts. Joining leads Sarah Catherine Cook and Imani Lewis are Lost alum Elizabeth Mitchell (ex-Dinah, Loving), Aubin Wise (Atlanta), Jason Robert Moore (The Punisher), Gracie Dzienny (Jupiter's Legacy), Will Swenson (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Phillip Mullings Jr. (American Soul), Dominic Goodman (Better Things), and Dylan McNamara (Ambition).

Written by Felicia D. Henderson and best-selling author Victoria "V. E." Schwab, First Kill is based on a short story by Schwab.

In it, when it's time for teenage vampire Juliette (Hook) to make her first kill so she can take her place among a powerful vampire family, she sets her sights on a new girl in town named Calliope (Lewis). But much to Juliette's surprise, Calliope is a vampire hunter, from a family of celebrated slayers. Both find that the other won't be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, way too easy to fall for…
Hook's Julliette Fairmont was born a vampire but determined to not be a monster; and Lewis' Calliope Burns is a fearless, headstrong monster hunter.

The Burns' (Monster Hunters) cast includes Wise as Talia; Moore as Jack; Goodman as Apollo; and Mullings as Theo.

The Fairmont's (Vampires) include Mitchell as Margot; Swenson as Sebastian; Dzienny as Elinor and McNamara as Oliver.

Also cast in the series are MK xyz as Tess, Jonas Dylan Allen as Ben and Roberto Mendez as Noah.

Mitchell just wrapped the role of lead antagonist on Season 2 of Netflix's Outer Banks. Mitchell previously recurred on Season 3 of Syfy's The Expanse and was a series regular on Freeform's Dead of Summer, NBC's Revolution, and ABC's V. She also headlines the recent SXSW feature Witch Hunt.

Henderson, who serves as showrunner, executive produces alongside creator Schwab as well as Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss through Belletrist Productions.

Wise portrayed the roles of Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds in Hamilton on Broadway. On television, Aubin starred in the ABC Studios pilot The Finest and plays Jayde in FX's Atlanta.

Moore previously starred as Curtis Hoyle for two seasons on Marvel's The Punisher.

Goodman can be seen in Netflix's upcoming movie He's All That set for release later this year. He previously co-starred in FX's Better Things and will be appearing on TNT's Animal Kingdom this summer.

Mullings' recent acting credits include BET's American Soul, TBS' Chad, and Tyler Perry's Bruh.

Swenson's Broadway credits include the role of Berger in Hair and Inspector Javert in Les Miserables among others. His TV work includes The Bite for Spectrum Originals, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the upcoming Hit & Run on Netflix.

Dzienny can currently be seen as Ruby Red in the Netflix superhero drama, Jupiter's Legacy. She was previously a series regular in CBS drama Zoo, and appeared opposite Hailee Steinfeld in the Paramount Pictures Transformers prequel, Bumblebee.

McNamara previously starred in the film Ambition directed by Bob Shaye, and recurred on LA's Finest. He'll next be seen in indie feature Survival.

Newcomers Méndez and Allen are making their series acting debuts in First Kill.

MK xyz released singles "Lost" and "Pass It" featuring G-Easy in 2020. This year she released her debut EP and has a featured role in the new Beyoncé x Adidas#ImpossibleIsNothing national campaign spot.

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{blackbabes} La La Anthony Joins Season 2 Of Hulu’s ‘Wu Tang: An American Saga’ As Recurring

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La La Anthony is joining the second season of Hulu drama Wu-Tang: An American Saga in a recurring role.

Wu-Tang: An American Saga, from Wu-Tang Clan frontman The RZA, writer Alex Tse and Imagine Television, tells the story of the band starting in early 1990s. It looks at the group's members, who grew up during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, and tracks the Clan's formation — a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young black men who are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.

Season 2 picks up six months after the close of Season 1, with the Wu-Tang Clan having to overcome even more obstacles, odds and past beefs as they come together to create the iconic album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Along the way, introducing more members of the Wu Clan.

Anthony will play Tracey Waples, a young, vibrant Executive at Def Jam. She's on the pulse of good music and boldly speaks her mind. After seeing Wu-Tang live she's completely invested, but her plan for the group might not align with their own.

The Wu-Tang Clan has released five gold and platinum albums, selling 40 million albums worldwide. The group is often hailed as one of the most influential groups in the history of hip-hop with a unique sound and distinct image.

Season 2 will premiere this fall. A specific date TBD.

Anthony will be seen in a recurring role on Starz's Black Mafia Family. She's also executive producing The Case of Cyntoia Brown, a limited drama series in development at Starz. She most recently starred in Starz's Power and recurred on The Chi. She's repped by UTA and Untitled Entertainment.

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{blackbabes} Regina Hall & Sterling K. Brown To Star In Pinky Promise’s ‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul’

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Regina Hall and Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown are set to star in and produce Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul from production company Pinky Promise.

The film centers on Trinity Childs (Hall), the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist megachurch, who attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs (Brown), rebuild their congregation and reconcile their faith to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen. Shot in a faux-documentary style, the film takes a satirical look at megachurch culture and the often nebulous perspectives that are cultivated from being both entrenched in it, as well as finding yourself on the outside looking in. "Both Regina and Sterling are forces of nature, and the sense of play and sheer creative energy they bring to these roles will be incredible to see." said Pinky Promise co-founder Jessamine Burgum. "We're over the moon to partner with two of the most lovely and hardworking people in town. Honestly, it's a dream come true."

The pic was written and will be directed by Adamma Ebo in her feature writing and directorial debut. The script was selected for the 2019 Sundance Screenwriting Intensive, as well as the 2019 Hit List. Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya will be producing through his 59% banner with Rowan Riley and Amandla Crichlow, alongside Adanne Ebo and Kara Durrett. UTA Independent Film Group, CAA Media Finance and ICM Partners arranged for the film's financing by Pinky Promise, and they are co-representing its domestic distribution rights.

Hall can be seen reprising her role as Dawn Darcy in the hit Showtime comedy series Black Mondayrecently , opposite Don Cheadle. Hall was seen in Tate Taylor's thriller Breaking News in Yuba County and will star and executive produce the upcoming occult drama Master, with Amazon Studios as well as Hulu's Nine Perfect Strangers opposite Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy slated for August. Hall's recently launched production company, Rh Negative, has signed a first-look deal with Showtime as well as a six-movie slate deal with ViacomCBS' Entertainment & Youth Group.

Two-time Emmy-winning actor and producer SBrown stars in NBC's critically acclaimed drama series This Is Us. For his role as Randall Pearson, Brown has received an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award. Next month he will executive produce and co-host the OWN television special Honoring Our Kings: OWN Honors Black Fatherhood, alongside Oprah Winfrey. In 2016, Brown won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of prosecutor Christopher Darden in FX's highly-rated award-winning television event series American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson. He has received additional Emmy nominations for his work in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. His film credits include Marvel's Black Panther, the A24 family drama Waves and Disney's Frozen 2. He also recently created Indian Meadows Productions under a pact with 20th Television. The company's chief mandate is to champion diversity through the development and production of entertaining, educational and inclusive projects across multiple forms of media, including film, broadcast, cable and streaming.

Hall is represented by ICM Partners and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman. Brown is represented by CAA, JWS Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham. Adamma and Adanne Ebo are represented by UTA, Redefine Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham.

Pinky Promise focuses on empowering up-and-coming storytellers with the support and financing they need to achieve their vision, create wonder, and inspire empathy. Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul will join other Pinky Promise projects in development including the upcoming features, Tankhouse and Cuttlefish and upcoming series, To the Moon!.

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{blackbabes} Rory Cochrane, Danny Burstein, Edwin Hodge Among 7 Cast In HBO’s 1980s L.A. Lakers Series

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Rory Cochrane (White Boy Rick), Danny Burstein (Evil), Austin Aaron (13 Reasons Why), Ta'Nika Gibson (Iron Fist), Edwin Hodge (Mayans MC), Terence Davis (Twenties) and Ja'Quan Cole (Wu Tang: An American Saga) have joined the cast of Adam McKay's Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay's Hyperobject Industries is producing.

Written by Max Borenstein, the fast-break series chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Lakers, one of sports' most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined its era both on and off the court.

Cochrane will play Jerry Tarkanian. The blustery, colorful, infamous coach of the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, Jerry Tarkanian has a reputation for winning at all costs. Even if it means not necessarily playing by the rules.

Burstein is Vic Weiss, the manager and childhood best friend of Jerry Tarkanian.

Aaron will portray Mark Landsberger, a hulking, lovable oaf.

Gibson is Debbie Allen, A bright young star reaching new heights in her career.

Hodge will play Ron Boone, a tough, crafty NBA veteran.

Davis is Adrian Dantley, a stylish NBA All-Star destined for the Hall of Fame.

Cole portrays Ron Carter: A hard-working NBA veteran.

They join previously announced cast Gillian Jacobs as Chris Riley, Wood Harris as Spencer Haywood, Tracy Letts as Jack McKinney, Julianne Nicholas as Cranny McKinney, Jimel Atkins as Jamaal Wilkes, LisaGay Hamilton as Christine Johnson, Andy Hirsch as David Stern, Brett Cullen as Bill Sharman, Lola Kirke as Karen West, Sarah Ramos as Cheryl Pistono, Jason Segel as Paul Westhead, Michael Chiklis as Red Auerbach, Sally Field as Jessie Buss, Adrien Brody as Pat Riley, John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss, Jason Clarke as Jerry West, Quincy Isaiah as Magic Johnson, Solomon Hughes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Gaby Hoffmann as Claire Rothman, Hadley Robinson as Jeanie Buss, DeVaughn Nixon as Norm Nixon, Molly Gordon as Linda Zafrani, Rob Morgan as Earvin Johnson Sr., Spencer Garrett as Chick Hearn, Kirk Bovill as Donald Sterling, Delante Desouza as Michael Cooper, Stephen Adly Guirgis as Frank Mariani, Tamera Tomakili as Earletha "Cookie" Kelly, Joey Brooks as Lon Rosen and Bo Burnham as Larry Bird.

Borenstein executive produces the series with McKay, who directs the pilot, and Kevin Messick for Hyperobject Industries. Jim Hecht is co-writer of story and executive produces along with Jason Shuman, Scott Stephens and Rodney Barnes.

Cochrane is represented by Grandview and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Burstein is represented by BRS/Gage Talent Agency. Aaron is represented by Momentum Talent and Literary Agency and Silver Mass Entertainment. Gibson is represented by Vanguard Management Group and GGSSC. Hodge is represented by Priluck Company, Paradigm Talent Agency and Ziffren Brittenham. Davis is represented by Aqua Talent. Cole is represented by Seven Summits Management and TalentWorks.

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{blackbabes} CONNIE BRITTON, COURTENEY COX, SUSAN KELECHI WATSON AND MANDY MOORE JOIN NBC’S ‘THE WALL’ MAY 27 AT 8 P.M. ET/PT IN SUPPORT OF RED NOSE DAY

 

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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – May 26, 2021 – Hollywood favorites Connie Britton, Courteney Cox, Susan Kelechi Watson and Mandy Moore are joining NBC's special episode of "The Wall" on Thursday, May 27, at 8 p.m. ET/PT in support of Red Nose Day, Comic Relief US's annual campaign to help end child poverty. The fun, fast-paced episode of "The Wall," hosted by longtime Red Nose Day supporter Chris Hardwick, will also feature an appearance by Kristen Bell. 

Britton, Cox, Kelechi Watson and Moore will narrate short videos shown within the episode showing how Red Nose Day funds can help change the lives of children living in poverty. The episode features a deserving and charitable Dallas family playing the riveting high-stakes game to try and earn life-changing cash for themselves, while Hardwick cheers them on and raises money for Red Nose Day by testing his own skills on the wall. Viewers will also have the opportunity to join in to help raise money for the cause.

Red Nose Day has raised more than $240 million in the last six years and positively impacted over 25 million children across the U.S. and around the world. Funds raised for Red Nose Day support programs to ensure that children who are living in poverty are safe, healthy, educated and empowered, with the need for donations greater than ever due to the devastating ripple effects of the pandemic on underserved children.

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{blackbabes} Adrian Holmes, Nicole Ari Parker, Brad James & Jade Eschete Join ‘At That Age’ NBC Drama Pilot

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Adrian Holmes (V-Wars), Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights), Brad James (Outer Banks) and Jade Eschete (Really Love) are set as co-leads alongside Sinqua Walls, Emayatzy Corinealdi and Christian Keyes in At That Age, NBC's ensemble drama pilot from Carla Banks-Waddles, Malcolm D. Lee, Debra Martin Chase and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Created, directed and based on an original idea by Lee and written by Banks-Waddles, At That Age is an exploration of an African-American family's legacy. After the Cooper family's golden child suffers a catastrophic event, seven family members (Holmes, Parker, James, Eschete, Walls, Corinealdi and Keyes) face a foundational shift, make life-altering decisions and deal with deep secrets coming to light.

Holmes will play Ellington Cooper, the oldest of the Cooper children and second in command at Cooper Corporation. He's charming, savvy, confident and has lots of presence and swagger.

Parker is Samantha Cooper, Avery's wife. She's smart but has become content to stay at home and reap the benefits of the Cooper wealth and name.

James is Justin Carmichael. Victoria's husband. He struggles to get the focus and attention of his alpha wife.

Eshete plays Sydney Cooper, Layton's estranged wife. She has a likable innocence about her, attracted to wounded souls.

Additionally, Bailey Bass (Avatar 2) will guest star as Kendall Cooper, the strong-willed teenage daughter of a prominent Harlem family.

Banks-Waddles executive produces with Lee via his Blackmaled Productions, and Chase as part of her deal with Universal TV.

At That Age was ordered to pilot in January 2020, but put on hold due to the coronavirus-related production shutdown.

Holmes recently wrapped a starring role in the Netflix vampire drama series V Wars and will next be seen in a recurring role on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. On the film side he was recently seen in Universal's Skyscraper. Holmes is repped by Play Management and Greene and Associates.

Parker can currently be seen recurring on NBC's Chicago PD. Other recent TV credits include Fox's Empire and Star, TVLand's Younger and Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here. On the big screen, Parker is best known for her breakout role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated Boogie Nights. She's repped by Gersh and Vault Entertainment.

Known for his role on Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse, James can currently be seen on Netflix's hit series Outer Banks, as well as the UMC series A House Divided, which earned him a Daytime Emmy Nomination. On the film side, James was seen in Nicholas Sparks' adaptation of The Choice and the independent feature Comeback Dad. He's repped by J Pervis Talent Agency, Integral Artists,and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.

Eshete most recently starred in Macro's acclaimed film Really Love alongside Kofi Siriboe, Uzo Aduba and Blair Underwood which premiered at SXSW. Past credits include Netflix's It's Bruno and the Max Landis-helmed Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on BBC America. She is also currently recurring on Showtime's Billions. Eschete is repped by Gersh.

Bass is repped by Strategic and Take 3 Talent Agency.

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{blackbabes} ‘Raised By Wolves’: Ridley Scott’s HBO Max Sci-Fi Drama Adds Six For Season 2

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Peter Christoffersen (When the Dust Settles), Selina Jones (Fragments), Morgan Santo (The Watch), James Harkness (The Victim, Anne Boleyn), Kim Engelbrecht (Eye in the Sky, The Flash), Jennifer Saayeng (Cursed, The Capture) have joined the Season 2 cast of HBO Max's Raised by Wolves, Ridley Scott's sci-fi drama.

Created by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners), Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet.

In season two, Android partners Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), along with their brood of six human children, join a newly formed atheistic colony in Kepler 22 b's mysterious tropical zone. But navigating this strange new society is only the start of their troubles as Mother's "natural child" threatens to drive what little remains of the human race to extinction.

Christoffersen will play "Cleaver," a devoted atheist soldier, veteran of the war on Earth, whose only friend is the super computer he has been sworn to protect.

Jones will play "Grandmother," a god-like android, built thousands of years ago by members of the lost civilization that existed on Kepler 22b.

Santo will play "Vrille," a fully humanoid android custom built to look and behave just as the real Vrille Pell did the year she committed suicide. Vrille is rebellious, impulsive, dark – and has an affection for rabbits and other small animals, which she likes to pet and hold when she is overtaxed. Though fairly stable, certain triggers cause Vrille to enter states of confusion, obsession and mania.

Harkness will play "Tamerlane," an atheist army grunt soldier with a defiant personality. His early life was a horror – until he found his calling with the atheist army, fighting the Mithraic on Earth. But now that he's a member of the burgeoning atheist colony on Kepler 22b he is expected to forget the hate he feels towards his enemy and accept a number of Mithraic as neighbors – an expectation which he violently rebels against.

Engelbrecht will play "Decima." Highly educated, Decima was a prominent scientist/weapons developer on Earth who did a lot of immoral things in order to achieve success/domination in her field. She is notoriously ruthless – but still carries guilt – though she erased much of her guilty feelings with futuristic therapies she personally helped develop. Saayeng will play "Nerva," a tough atheist woman who runs an underground network of goods and services. Nerva is a civilian who was brought aboard a hijacked ark along with many others, simply due to geography and the fact they identified as atheists. Nerva lost a child to disease during the trip to Kepler – and often secretly looks out for children living in the colony.

Raised By Wolves is produced by Scott's Scott Free Productions, with Scott, Guzikowski, David W. Zucker (The Man in the High Castle), Jordan Sheehan (The Terror), Adam Kolbrenner (Prisoners) and Mark Huffam (The Martian) serving as executive producers.

Christoffersen is repped by Anne Lindberg, Lindberg Management. Jones is repped by John Hyslop and Sarah Roberts, United Agents. Santo is repped by i Artist Management. Harkness is repped by Sam Turnbull and Oriana Elia, Curtis Brown (UK). Engelbrecht is repped by Roddy Quinn, Real Management (SA). Saayeng is repped by Alastair Lindsey-Renton and Helen Clarkson at The Curtis Brown Group.

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{blackbabes} ‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan’: Betty Gabriel Joins Amazon Series In Recasting; Four Others Added For Season 3

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Betty Gabriel (Get Out) has been tapped for a major new series regular role in the upcoming third season of Prime Video's Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski.

Gabriel, who will play Elizabeth Wright, the Chief of Station, replaces Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who was originally tapped for the part last fall. Jean-Baptiste has exited the series over creative differences. Jack Ryan is currently in production on Season 3, and the few scenes Jean-Baptiste had filmed will be reshot with Gabriel.

Also cast as series regulars in Season 3 are James Cosmo (His Dark Materials), Peter Guinness (Cursed), Nina Hoss (Little Sister) and Alexej Manvelov (Before We Die) in the series, a co-production of Amazon Studios, Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Television.

Season 3 of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan finds Jack Ryan (Krasinski) on the run and in a race against time. Jack is wrongly implicated in a larger conspiracy and suddenly finds himself a fugitive out in the cold. Now, wanted by both the CIA and an international rogue faction that he has uncovered, Jack is forced underground, crisscrossing Europe, trying to stay alive and prevent a massive global conflict. In addition to Krasinski, returning for the third season of the dramatic series are Wendell Pierce as James Greer and Michael Kelly as Mike November.

Cosmo will play Luca, Guinness will portray Petr, Hoss will play Alena and Alexev will portray Alexei.

Jack Ryan is executive produced by Andrew Form, Krasinski, Allyson Seeger, Vaun Wilmott, Brad Fuller and Michael Bay alongside Clancy, Skydance's David Ellison and Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, Mace Neufeld and Carlton Cuse.

Gabriel, best known for her role as Georgina in Jordan Peele's Oscar-nominated Get Out, co-stars in the Apple limited series Defending Jacob. She can next be seen in Peele's The Twilight Zone series on Paramount+, and recently wrapped shooting the Netflix limited series Clickbait, in which she stars opposite Zoe Kazan. She's repped by Untitled Entertainment, ICM Partners, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

BAFTA Scotland award winner Cosmo's recent credits include BBC/HBO's His Dark Materials, David MacKenzie's Outlaw King, The Name of the Rose and A24's The Hole in the Ground. Film roles include Braveheart, Trainspotting, The Chronicles of Narnia, among others. He's repped by United Agents.

Guinness' recent film and TV credits include Cursed, Official Secrets with Kiera Knightley, Chernobyl, Catch 22 and Pennyworth. He will be seen playing Lief in the next season of The Girlfriend Experience for Starz. He's repped by Roxane Vacca Management and James Adams at Schreck Rose Dapello.

Hoss most recently starred in Switzerland's Oscar entry Little Sister, and she recently won the Best Actress Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival for The Audience. She also recently wrapped production on the BRON Studios period drama series Shadowplay as well as Violence of Action opposite Chris Pine. She's repped by Anonymous Content, The Artists Partnership and Players Agentur Management.

Manvelov's credits include the Swedish crime drama Before We Die, as well as roles in Chernobyl, Stockholm Requiem, the Belgian Netflix drama Undercover, Top Dog, The Dying Detective, among others.

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{blackbabes} ‘Game Of Thrones’ Alum Nathalie Emmanuel And Garret Hedlund to Star in Screen Gems’ Horror Pic ‘The Bride’

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Nathalie Emmanuel and Garret Hedlund are set to star in The Bride, a Screen Gems' horror thriller to be directed by Jessica M. Thompson.

Blair Butler wrote the original script, based on her pitch, with revisions by Thompson. Emile Gladstone is producing the project.

Inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula, the pic is a contemporary horror thriller that tells the story of a young woman who is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot. Given the popularity of the Dracula IP, execs are excited about the possibility of this project,
seeing it as a potential franchise, with the studio fast-tracking the movie for an end-of-summer start.

Emmanuel next will be seen in the ninth installment of Fast & Furious and in Army of Thieves, the prequel to Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead. She previously starred as Missandei in HBO's hit series Game of Thrones; Hulu's miniseries Four Weddings & a Funeral; and Quibi's Die Hart, in which she starred opposite Kevin Hart and John Travolta.

Hedlund most recently appeared in Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday. His other credits include Triple Frontier opposite Ben Affleck, the Oscar-nominated Mudbound and TRON: Legacy. Up next, he will star in The Ploughman opposite Robert Duvall and directed by Ed Harris.

Thompson is best known for The Light of the Moon, her 2017 SXSW Audience Award winner for Best Narrative Feature. Butler's credits include Polaroid and Marvel's Helstrom.

Emmanuel is repped by ICM Partners, AJ Management in UK, Untitled Entertainment and Goodman Genow. Hedlund is represented by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane Offer. Blair is repped by ICM, Industry Entertainment and Lichter-Grossman. Thompson is repped by CAA, Independent Talent Group, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

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{blackbabes} Serena Williams captures first victory in more than three months

 

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PARMA, Italy -- Serena Williams earned her first victory in more than three months by beating 17-year-old qualifier Lisa Pigato 6-3, 6-2 Monday in the first round of the Emilia-Romagna Open.

Williams, who accepted a wild-card invitation for the Parma tournament after losing her opening match at the Italian Open last week, dominated after dropping her serve in the opening game.

``I'm just starting to feel more comfortable. I've always felt super comfortable on the clay and this year has been a little more difficult than normal,'' said Williams, who served six aces. ``I think it was because of the long hiatus I've had (from) the clay.''

Williams hadn't won since beating Simona Halep in the Australian Open quarterfinals in February. She was eliminated from the year's first Grand Slam tournament by Naomi Osaka in the semifinals.

After some time off, Williams then lost in straight sets in Rome to Nadia Podoroska, a French Open semifinalist last year.

Williams is preparing for Roland Garros, which starts in two weeks. Her previous win on clay came in the first round of last year's tournament in Paris.

It was the first WTA tour match for Pigato and the 1,001st for Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam champion.

Pigato asked Williams to pose for a photo with her on court immediately after the match ended.

``It was really cool and gutsy,'' Williams said. ``She's going to look back (in) years and be like, `Well, this was my first match.' I wish I had done that with my first match, it would have been really cool.''

Ranked No. 572, Pigato won the girls' doubles title at last year's French Open with Eleonora Alvisi.

Williams will next face 68th-ranked Katerina Siniakova, who eliminated Danish teenager Clara Tauson 6-1, 6-3.

Also, former U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens beat Catherine McNally 7-6 (4), 6-4 and Anna Karolina Schmiedlova rallied past Venus Williams 5-7, 6-2, 6-2.

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{blackbabes} 'History maker' Williams crashes out of Italian Open in 1000th career match

 

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Serena Williams, playing the 1000th WTA match of her career, crashed out of the Italian Open on Wednesday with a second round defeat to Argentina's Nadia Podoroska, weeks before her bid to make history at Roland Garros.

Williams, 39, lost 7-6 (8/6), 7-5 on her return after nearly three months away to a player 15 years her junior who was a surprise semi-finalist at last year's Roland Garros.

"You know, it's tough to have a first match on clay," said Williams, who has won 73 WTA titles over the past two decades.

"It was definitely kind of good to go the distance and to try to be out there, but clearly I can do legions better.

"Maybe I do need a few more matches, so I'm going to try to figure that out with my coach and my team and see what we would like to do."

Williams, a four-time Rome winner and 23-time Grand Slam champion, had not played since her semi-final defeat to Japan's Naomi Osaka in the Australian Open this year.

And the eighth seed found it tough going, losing in just under two hours to the 44th-ranked Argentine.

"Overall, it was good for me to play such a clay court player on clay today, but it's a little frustrating," she conceded.

"Yeah, just filling out the game, finding the rhythm. Even sliding and confidence with that, with movement, and just not wanting to break my ankle when I moved.

"That's always like a little struggle in the first two matches, and then I'm raring to go."

The early exit is a blow three weeks before the French Open in Paris on May 30 where the American continues her bid to equal Australia's Margaret Court's record of 24 Grand Slam trophies.

Despite a battling performance Williams could not wear down the 24-year-old who broke twice in the first set.

Podoroska forced a tie-break with an ace and squandered three set points before sealing the set.

In the second, Williams was trailing 5-2 but held and broke the Argentine to love while she served for the match to level at 5-5.

- 'Special win' for Podoroska -

Podoroska held her nerve to earn three match points to secure just her third career win over a top-10 player, all in the last eight months.

"It's a special win, she's a great athlete, she's done so many things for our sport," said Podoroska who next meets Croatia's Petra Martic.

"It's history most of all."

For Williams it was her 149th defeat, with 851 wins over the course of a WTA career spanning 1000 matches.

But she will not get to celebrate with the Rome public, with spectators only allowed from Thursday's third round at the Foro Italico while limited to a 25 percent capacity.

World number one Ashleigh Barty advanced to the third round with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova.

But second seed Osaka of Japan slumped to a 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 loss to American Jessica Pegula.

Days after her shock defeat in the Madrid Open final, Barty overcame an early break of serve to see off Shvedova, a three-time Grand Slam quarter-finalist making her way back after giving birth to twins.

Playing with her left thigh strapped, the Australian dropped her opening service game but rallied to level at 4-4 as she won 11 of the final 13 games.

Barty will next meet 28th-ranked Russian Veronika Kudermetova as she bids for a first Rome quarter-final on her third appearance.

Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam winner, had received a first-round bye, but was unable to find her way back into the match after losing the first-set tie-break to her 31st-ranked opponent.

Osaka was playing just her third tournament since winning the Australian Open in February and also exited in the second round in Madrid earlier this month.

Osaka, the reigning US Open champion, has seven career hard-court titles, but has never managed to lift a clay-court trophy.

Former Rome champion Karolina Pliskova, seeded ninth, also advanced along with fifth seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine.

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{blackbabes} ‘Chicago Med’: Yaya DaCosta & Torrey DeVitto Exit NBC Drama, Remaining Original Cast Members To Return

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As NBC's Chicago Med is heading into its seventh season, the medical drama is bidding farewell to two original cast members, Yaya DaCosta (ex-Cassandra, AMC) and Torrey DeVitto. DaCosta already has lined up a new series starring role on Fox's Our Kind Of People. Meanwhile, DeVitto has joined the cast of indie feature Skelly.

The departures come as the initial contracts of Chicago Med's original cast are coming up at the end of Season 6. I hear DeCosta opted to leave at the end of her contract and quickly received an offer for the lead in Our Kind Of People.

The other Chicago Med original cast members, led by S. Epatha Merkerson and Oliver Platt, are expected to return for Season 7, sources said. Merkerson is believed to have closed a new deal, with the remaining actors, including Platt, Nick Gehlfuss, Brian Tee and Marlyne Barrett, in various stages of negotiations to continue on the show, I hear.

For the past six seasons, DaCosta starred as ER nurse April Sexton, while DeVitto played Dr. Natalie Manning, an emergency pediatrics specialist, on Chicago Med as well as in crossover episodes on Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.

Like the other Chicago series, Chicago Med is one year into a three-season pickup. In Live+Same Day total viewers, it is the most watched NBC series this season. The medical drama has been anchoring NBC's formidable One Chicago Wednesday lineup at 8 PM. All three Chicago dramas are produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television.

DeVitto joins John Palladino, Brian Cox and Judah Abner Paul in the cast of Skelly, written/directed by Matthew Greene-DeLange and produced by Rob Goodrich and Jason Armstrong of Walk Like A Duck Entertainment and Ellyn Vander Wyden.

Skelly centers on 11-year-old Jonah whose grandfather dies plunging his dad into a state of grief that Jonah can't comprehend. It triggers an obsession with mortality for Jonah as he and his friends put together the annual haunted house. DeVitto will play the boy's mom.

"Skelly is heartwarming film that takes children and parents alike back to the curiosity and creativity of Halloween and family bonding. Torrey embodies the warmth and encouragement of a Mom supporting her son and his friends and brings a world class talent to what we expect to be a inviting and fun film for Halloween this year," the film's production company, Walk Like A Duck Entertainment, said in a statement.

Filming on Skelly is slated to begin May 20 in Berkshires, Massachusetts.

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