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By Christopher Rudolph Look over there, it’s a winner! On the Season 12 premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race Jaida Essence Hall stomped into the workroom, making her presence known with her line: “Hey bitches, she’s here!” While in the competition Jaida was not only the “essence of beauty” on and off the runway, she was also a regularly strong queen — eventually taking her..
Read MoreBy Crystal Bell Laura Harrier never dreamed of becoming an actor; it was more of an abstract fascination. Growing up, she put on plays and skits for her neighbors, eventually funneling that flair for exhibitionism into a successful teen modeling career. Any time right after high school she moved from the Chicago suburbs to New York City — she was accepted to New York University ne..
Read MoreBy Tre'vell Anderson Ever since Daveed Diggs shot to international acclaim in 2015 as an original cast member of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, for which he won both a Grammy and Tony, Hollywood’s been the actor-rapper-everything man’s oyster. Unlike others who might mention “yes” to every project that comes their way, although, the Oakland-born polymath is judicious with..
Read MoreYour preference motley crew of superhero siblings — The White Violin, Spaceboy, The Rumor, The Kraken, and The Boy — are returning for a second season. Netflix reported on Monday (May 18) that The Umbrella Academy Season 2 will premiere Friday, July 31. The announcement arrived by means of the a socially distant montage video of the cast dancing around their bedrooms and living..
Read MoreBy Christopher Rudolph because the Persian princess of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12, Jackie Cox took viewers on a magic carpet ride. The New York-based, Canadian queen was a steady competitor while in the season, holding her own against her seasoned New York sisters, including Brita Filter and Jan Sport. As soon as she never won a maxi challenge, Jackie was routinely among the top..
Read MoreLegacies run through The Eddy, Netflix's new Parisian jazz drama. Its protagonist, Elliot (Moonlight and High Flying Bird star André Holland), has left New York to run a club in the City of Lights — an act already loaded with generational meaning — as well as is navigating the complex relationship he has with his estranged daughter, Julie, played by Amandla Stenberg. These twin d..
Read MoreBy Crystal Bell Director Crystal Moselle acts on instinct. She doesn't hesitate, not with her camera and especially not any time action approaches in real life. She first discovered the Angulo Brothers if she was walking down First Avenue in New York City; six young males in black suit jackets and ties ran past her, and, on a whim, she ran immediately after them. They became the sub..
Read MoreSince the release of its first episode in 2017, Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has changed the landscape for teen dramas. Tackling hard topics spanning bullying, mental health, suicide, and sexual assault, it has stirred important conversations among young people and adults alike, and also controversy; in its beginning week alone, it spawned 3.4 million tweets. And this year, the ser..
Read MoreBy Christopher Rudolph Heidi N. Closet turned RuPaul’s Drag Race viewers into a bunch of “closet cases.” That’s what she calls her fans, by the way. The North Carolina queen from the tiny town of Ramseur might have seemed like the least-polished girl once she sashayed into the workroom on the Season 12 premiere. Although Heidi proved to be a queen to keep an eye on, gaining ..
Read MoreBy Crystal Bell Jake Picking's acting career began in a unusual place: goofing off in a high school math class. "My teacher notified me, 'I don't know if anyone can tell if you're being serious or not, and also you've got to try acting,'" the 29-year-old actor tells MTV News over the phone from his dad's residence in Thousand Oaks, California. Like several others, he abandoned his ap..
Read MoreBy Alissa Schulman “You'll have found that neither Lenny nor I are millennial women,” Ed Guiney, showrunner of Hulu’s Normal People says of himself and director Lenny Abrahamson on a recent Zoom call with MTV News. “But we do have millennial females working with us.” This is the sort of statement that can feel questionable, as if tokenism is a blanket excuse for privilege ..
Read MoreJust any time we all thought we’d reached the point of quarantine where we’ve consumed every bit of content across the world wide web, Netflix comes in with the save. Immediately after much hype, the streamer released Never Have I Ever on Monday (April 27), and the young adult series, created by Mindy Kaling and loosely inspired by her upbringing, is sure to lift viewers up from t..
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