Emily Blunt’s trust in a costume designer enabled her to wear corsets that sucked the life out of her in The Young Victoria.
Blunt, the 27-year-old British star of The Devil Wears Prada, said she put her faith in Sandy Powell, her costumier, saying: “When you’re playing a character like Queen Victoria it helps to have a visionary like Sandy Powell.”
Digital Spy reports the young actress said: “She corseted me within an inch of my life.”
Blunt, who described getting into the corsets as “hell”, said: “[Powell] said, ‘The shape needs to be right’. I said, ‘Well I can’t breathe, Sandy’. And she said, ‘I don’t care’. But it worked. It transported me to a whole other place so I have to be grateful, I think.”
The Young Victoria chronicles the dramatic early years of Queen Victoria’s rule.
Gabourey Sidibe’s Precious audition tape has been shown on US TV.
The 26-year-old actress sobs on camera as she reads the part of the sexually abused teenager.
Wearing a pink hoodie, blue T-shirt and white headband, Sidibe looked very different to the groomed Hollywood star who has been pictured gracing the red carpets recently.
But director Lee Daniels said he immediately knew she was the right person for the role.
He said: “I always look for the truth, so I’d been to 7/11s and bus stops. Then Gabby came in and she just started talking like this white girl.
“After the audition, I said, ‘This is the truth’ and – unlike the girls I was going to cast – Gabby can articulate this role.”
Sidibe, who beat more than 400 girls to the role of Precious, is nominated in the Best Actress category at this year’s Academy Awards.
The film has five other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Mo’Nique and Best Director for Daniels.
But Daniels confessed he was shocked by the film’s success.
He said: “I thought it was going to go straight to DVD.”
A last-ditch attempt by the mother of Ashley Cole to thaw Cheryl Cole’s resolve has failed, the UK Mirror reports.
Cheryl, who has officially separated from the star footballer, would not be moved by the overtures of her mother-in-law Sue.
A source close to Cheryl said: “Sue has been trying to act as intermediary between Cheryl and Ashley, and doing her best to help them patch up their differences. She loves Cheryl and obviously hates seeing her son hurt.”
Ashley was reported last week making desperate phone calls to his wife, who had dumped him in a text message after revelations of his alleged sex-texting surfaced. Initially, Cheryl was unable to take calls – even from her mother-in-law – and was reported starving herself on a diet of peppermint tea.
The source continued: “But they finally spoke and Cheryl made clear there is no going back. The marriage is over and she can’t take him back. They spoke calmly and fondly to one another and there was certainly no screaming or shouting.”
Oprah Winfrey’s company told their personal trainers to keep their mouths shut about all things Oprah, according to new court documents.
Unicus Performance Training, which is suing Harpo Inc. and the chatshow queen, claims that it was made to sign a confidentiality agreement, prohibiting it from using “Harpo’s name, Oprah.com’s name or Ms. Winfrey’s name” for advertising or promotional purposes.
The trainers say they were fired for violating the terms of the agreement, after they sent out a mass e-mail promoting an upcoming appearance on Oprah’s radio show.
They have now filed a lawsuit, claiming they were never paid for a workout programme they were developing for the talkshow host’s company.
The confidentiality agreement told UPT not to say anything about Oprah and Harpo without “express, written permission”.
They are some of Hollywood’s cutest and best-known kids – and here’s how a forensic artist predicts these celebrity offspring will look in 10 years’ time.
The forensic artist used sophisticated age-progression computer technology to see how tots including Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, her adopted sister Zahara and Tom Cruise’s daughter Suri could look as they grow up.
Singer Gwen Stefani’s son Kingston Rossdale and the latest addition to the Kardashian clan, Kourtney’s baby son Mason Dash Disick, were also age-progressed to give a glimpse into the future.
The signature features of the children’s famous parents were also taken into account in creating the images.
Shiloh, who will be 13, is set to inherit her mum Angelina Jolie’s full lips and high cheekbones.
Adopted Zaraha will be blossoming into a young woman at 15, while blue-eyed Suri will be turning 13.
Blonde-haired Kingston, whose dad is Brit rocker Gavin Rossdale, will also be entering his teens.
Baby Mason is set to be a real mummy’s boy at the age of 10, with the same olive skin and deep brown eyes as mum Kourtney and aunt Kim Kardashian.
It seems the drummer from Blink182 didn’t have himself too neat a Sunday as he got in a confrontation with some paparazzi who he claims threatened him and his children. This is part of what Travis Barker related on his twitter about the whole mess: “When I’m out at breakfast at 8am in the morning the last thing i appreciate is some photographer threatening me 2 a fight while he’s 3 deep When i defend myself/my kids that don’t make me a tough guy .I was outnumbered and threatened so i did what any man would. Paparazzi cried like young girls when it was no longer 3 of them against me and my kids. Didn’t they remember threatening me an hr ago??” The damned things do have a tendency to become violent when in herds, but Travis Barker discovered for himself that they can be scattered very easily if you show them what you’re made of. Hopefully he will insist that this information be included in the police report since it will prove invaluable in the trial that is to come.
The march of a toddler was the inspiration for the Red Queen, a part played by Helena Bonham Carter in Alice Wonderland.
Bonham Carter, 43, said she modelled the character on her two-year-old, Nell. “I thought, well, she’s a toddler, because she’s got the big head, she’s a tyrant – a toddler tyrant, toddlers are tyrants. The no sympathy for any other living creature – that’s our toddler, in fact. No empathy, just commands. She just bosses us around – dictatorship. No please, no thank you. ‘Mummy come here’, ‘Mummy go’, ‘Mummy! Watch telly.”
Bonham Carter, who is married to the film’s director Tim Burton, added:”And another toddler quality – it’s all about me, it’s all about her, never considers us, ask, ask, ask. So the toddler thing was a big inspiration.”
In Burton’s interpretation of the Lewis Carroll tale, a 19-year-old Alice returns to Wonderland to find it is under the rule of the Red Queen. The flick was set to premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday night.
George Clooney put the kibosh on reports he is selling his Lake Como villa in Italy.
The Up in the Air star has come crashing down on the rumour that buzzing paparazzi were forcing him to sell. The word was that Clooney had already moved to a new home on Lake Iseo’s Loreto Island.
But the actor, 48, issued a statement saying: “To complete the news cycle: I am not buying an island and am not selling my house in Italy. The story was made up, then picked up and now denied. End of another riveting day of false news.”
Clooney is dating Elisabetta Canalis, an MTV News presenter in Italy.
American actress Lisa Rinna has revealed her nanny is looking after Charlie Sheen’s baby sons.
Sheen, 44, and his wife Brooke, 32, are both currently in rehab and Rinna, 46, revealed that their 11-month-old twin sons Bob and Max are being cared for by her former nanny.
She said on Twitter: “Good news is the sheen babies r being well taken care of by our beloved nanny that was with us for 6 yrs she is a god send.”
Rinna and hubby Harry Hamlin are parents to two daughters – Delilah, 11, and Amelia, eight.
A rep recently told UsMagazine.com that Sheen has ‘entered a rehabilitation facility’ as a ‘preventative measure’.
Brooke was reportedly recently moved from rehab The Canyon in Malibu to an ‘undisclosed facility’.
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