Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that she was unaware about the existence of the Hawkeye series.
Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the beginning. She made her debut in the franchise in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man in 2008 as Pepper Potts. In total, she appeared in seven films in the MCU, including Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
Jeremy Renner Almost Rejected Hawkeye Role In The First ‘Avengers’ Film
Interestingly enough, despite her role in several entries in the MCU, Gwyneth Paltrow is often unaware which film is which. Also, beyond the films she’s involved with, she seems unaware of the ongoing projects within the franchises. In the case for her Avengers co-star Jeremy Renner’s standalone event series Hawkeye, it’s all news to her.
On her official Instagram story, Gwyneth Paltrow responded to a follower’s question about whether or not she’s catching up with Hawkeye on Disney Plus, to which she replied with the following:
Beyond her work as an actress, whether it’d be in the MCU or other films, Gwyneth Paltrow is a very busy individual. She is a prominent businesswoman that owns Goop, a lifestyle and wellness company. She also has authored numerous cookbooks. It’s not that surprising that she’s not as invested in the ongoing franchise, given her busy schedule on other endeavors. Perhaps she will give Hawkeye a shot sometime in the future.
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Here is the synopsis for Hawkeye:
Former Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a Super Hero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail far more than the festive spirit.
Hawkeye stars Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Tony Dalton, Fra Free, Brian d’Arcy James, Aleks Paunovic, Piotr Adamczyk, Linda Cardellini, Simon Callow, Vera Farmiga and Alaqua Cox. Florence Pugh is expected to return in her Black Widow role.
The first two episodes of Hawkeye are now available to stream on Disney Plus, with new episodes dropping on Wednesdays. Stay tuned for all the latest news surrounding the Jeremy Renner series and the future of Gwyneth Paltrow in the MCU, and be sure to subscribe to Heroic Hollywood’s YouTube channel for more original video content.
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The Graham Norton Show shared a fake poster for Spider-Man: No Way Home featuring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
The press tour for Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home is currently underway. Tom Holland and Zendaya made an appearance on The Graham Norton Show to promote the film, and the official Twitter account for the talk-show shared an interesting poster to promote their appearance.
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In a now-deleted tweet, The Graham Norton Show Twitter account shared an unofficial poster for Spider-Man: No Way Home that features Tom Holland’s titular superhero alongside the suits that both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield wear in their respective films:
Naturally, this tweet caused a bunch of fervor online, leading to its deletion. With the marketing campaign in full swing, Sony Pictures is looking to heavily promote the appearance of its five villains from different universes of Spider-Man. With the release of new villain posters focusing on the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus and Electro, it sure looks like if Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield were in the film at all, they are looking to keep it under lock and key until the film finally premieres.
Early Box Office Forecast Predicts Massive Opening For ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
Here is the synopsis for Spider-Man: No Way Home:
“For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero’s identity is revealed, bringing his Super Hero responsibilities into conflict with his normal life and putting those he cares about most at risk. When he enlists Doctor Strange’s help to restore his secret, the spell tears a hole in their world, releasing the most powerful villains who’ve ever fought a Spider-Man in any universe. Now, Peter will have to overcome his greatest challenge yet, which will not only forever alter his own future but the future of the Multiverse.”
Directed by Jon Watts from a script written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, Spider-Man:No Way Home stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Tony Revolori, Martin Starr, J.B. Smoove, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Benedict Wong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Jamie Foxx, Thomas Haden Church, and Rhys Ifans with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield heavily rumored to appear.
Spider-Man: No Way Home will hit theaters on December 17, 2021. Stay tuned for all the latest news surrounding the film, and be sure to subscribe to Heroic Hollywood’s YouTube channel for more original video content.
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Warning: contains spoilers for all episodes of The Girl Before, available to stream now on BBC iPlayer.
If you had to place a bet on the more likely murderer between a) a wealthy perfectionist who’s creepily obsessed with controlling women who look exactly like his dead wife, or b) some sadsack everyman who got dumped for being too needy, your money would clearly be on the rich weirdo.
In BBC thriller The Girl Before, architect Edward Monkton played by David Oyelowo is the one who sets off the danger siren. Handsome, moodily intense, wearer of designer suits… with his quasi-contractual sex arrangements and expensive gifts, this modern-day Bluebeard is your classic on-screen danger to women (which is to say, the perfect 1980s romantic film lead). When his tenant/lover Emma dies after falling down the stairs of his chic, minimalist home, of course he was the one who pushed her. Who else would it be? Her mopey ex, Simon?
It was her mopey ex, Simon, played by Ben Hardy. Until the finale, compared to the evident threat posed by Edward in The Girl Before, Simon had set off no alarm signals. He was the dependable one that Emma (played by Jessica Plummer) tossed aside for a sexier and more thrilling option that she’d surely come to regret. Simon would never hurt Emma, he worshipped her. He thought she was perfect.
While Edward’s every move with Emma and her successor Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) in his scarily pristine property screamed ‘NOPE’ – in the JP Delaney-written book, he takes them to a restaurant that serves live seafood. A still-flapping fish and squirming new-born shrimp. I ask you – Simon seemed like the safe option. Emma and Jane’s therapist warned them about the control freak stuck in a cycle of repetition compulsion, but said not a word about the flowers-and-pining guy waiting around for a second chance. All the better for a thriller to surprise an audience with. The Girl Before’s Simon revelation though, is more than just a twist– it’s instructive. It teaches that men who kill women aren’t larger-than-life villains bedecked in red flags. They can be ordinary. They can be nice guys.
In The Girl Before’s finale, Emma and Jane’s timelines play out side by side as Simon is revealed to be Emma’s killer. Abandoned by Edward, traumatised from her sexual assault by Saul and the burglary, and threatened by Ray Nelson and his associates, Emma turned to Simon for support. He’d engineered things to make Emma need him, using a replacement bracelet to enter the house and graffiti it to scare her. He fought off an attack by Ray Nelson in the middle of the night, which he could do because he was the one secretly sleeping in the service cupboard, which he’d dressed to make it look like Emma was hiding from Edward there, scratching the word ‘Help’ into the wall.
As the night of Emma’s death plays out, years later, a pregnant-by-Edward Jane welcomes Simon over for dinner. He brings flowers and talks about how much he loved Emma. He was planning a big flash mob-style proposal. “She would definitely have said yes with all those people watching,” he tells Jane, which rings a that’s-a-weirdly-manipulative-way-to-put-it alarm bell in the viewer’s mind.
That alarm bells prompts viewers to remember Emma telling Simon that she felt trapped in their relationship, that it was suffocating for him to put her on a pedestal. We remember him calling her a supermodel and repeatedly telling her she was perfect. We remember the jokey ‘Best Girlfriend Ever’ mug he unpacked when they moved into One Folgate Street. We remember his response to learning that she’d been raped – insecurity that she hadn’t felt able to tell him rather than concern for her. We remember the fact that he couldn’t perform sexually after he knew about her assault, because the idea of her rapist put him off. And then there were the obsessive phone calls, flowers and refusal to accept her decision on their relationship. And there was Emma telling her therapist that Simon seeing himself as her protective hero started long before the burglary from which he fantasised about rescuing her. And the fact that Simon’s best friend Saul was a rapist. And the ‘test’ Simon set for Emma to prove her loyalty, when he propositioned her by text posing as Edward…
All of those ‘ands’ add up to an insecure character who idealised Emma and didn’t treat her as a person in her own right, only as a perfect prize to boost his ego. When she told him how he felt, he wouldn’t credit it, only telling her she was vulnerable because of her assault. Her mind had been poisoned, said Simon, not entertaining the possibility that she knew what she wanted and it wasn’t him. How different is that really, asks The Girl Before, from Edward Monkton’s obsessive perfectionism and inability to accept that Emma and Jane as people rather than prop-replacements for his dead wife? Simon may not have come with all of Edward’s red flags, but in the end, he was just as dangerous.
Simon’s misogyny erupts in the finale after Jane realises what he is, and runs to hide in the service cupboard. “You’re a good liar, aren’t you? Just like every woman I’ve ever fucking met,” he shouts. “Really, you’re the ones with all the fucking power.” That comment prompts Jane to remember she’s in the room with the server, which Simon had pre-emptively used to turn off the house’s cameras, just as he did on the night he killed Emma. Jane uses the controls against Simon, turning off the lights and blasting Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ (nothing’s too on-the-nose for this high-contrast thriller) to distract him while she tries to escape. As he prepares to burn down the house, she runs out, they fight, she hits him with her pearl necklace and he fallsdown the stairs just like Emma, dying instantly on the ground floor. Poetic justice.
After Simon dies, Jane calls Edward but refuses his suggestion of covering it all up and pretending that Simon killed himself. She wants there to be no more secrets and plans to tell all to the police. Later, Edward takes Jane to a termination clinic, promising that they’ll try for another baby at a better time. She opts out of the procedure and leaves Edward a note and her house security bracelet along with the number of the therapist who knows their whole story so he can get help breaking out of his repetition compulsion. Some time later, Jane’s had their son Toby, and is living happily alone away from Folgate Street, with a new job working for a still-birth charity. Did Edward break his cycle? Judging from the letting agent spiel that ends the series as it began, he did not.
In the end, Jane kept Emma’s quartz stone – the only of Emma’s possessions to remain in the house and a kind of talisman for both women – resting on the framed footprint of her still-born daughter Isabel, the girl before. Thanks to Jane, Emma’s rapist Saul was arrested, and her true killer was revealed – not the obvious lights-flashing, sirens-whirling villain but the supposedly nice guy who worshipped the ground she walked on, and wouldn’t let her belong to anybody else, least not herself.
The Girl Before is available to stream now on BBC iPlayer.
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Last night’s Game Awards saw the premiere of dozens of trailers for titles on the way. So, following the ones highlighted earlier, the remainder has been split up into two sections.
This section deals with games previously announced months, sometimes years, ago and offered new trailers last night. Among the highlights are a first look at gameplay from the highly anticipated “Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga,” to new gameplay from the “Saints Row” reboot, “Homeward 3” and “Forspoken”.
There’s also new trailers for some of next year’s biggest titles in its first half includiung “Elden Ring,” “Horizon: Forbidden West” and “Dying Light 2” along with a VR version of popular mobile game “Among Us”. Finally the PC version of “Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade” has been moved up and will now be hitting the Epic Games store next Thursday.
Elden Ring
Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga
Dying Light 2
Homeworld 3
Saints Row
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Horizon: Forbidden West
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
Forspoken
Evil West
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
Planet of Lana: An Off-Earth Odyssey
Babylon’s Fall
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt
Among Us VR
Tunic
Metal Hellsinger – Gods of Metal
Steelrising
CrossfireX
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade: PC Edition
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Last night’s Game Awards saw the premiere of dozens of trailers for titles on the way. So, following the ones highlighted earlier, the remainder has been split up into two sections.
This section deals with newly announced titles. Those include “Sonic Frontiers” which promises ‘high velocity open-zone freedom’ and seems to put the blue hedgehog in a ‘Breath of the Wild’ style arena. There’s also “Nightingale,” the new title from much of the ex-BioWare team.
“Silent Hill” creator Keiichiro Toyama’s new studio Bokeh Game Studio released that studio’s first look at horror title “Slitterhead,” while “Somerville” shows what the co-creator of “Limbo” and “Inside” has been up to.
Sonic Frontiers
Nightingale
Slitterhead
Warhammer: Space Marine 2
Arc Raiders
Lost Ark
Somerville
Tchia
Rumbleverse
Thirsty Suitors
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