You know how Sandra Bullock goes by Sandy to her co-stars, does Richard Gere go by something shorter than his full name like Dick? Jimmy Kimmel investigated and the answer is no. Does he have a story like Matthew McConaughey? Nope. One day, when he was 18, he says, “I went to the refrigerator, pulled a beer out and said I am Richard.” That makes sense to him, but no one else.
Now you know if you ever see him walking the streets and you want to meet, call him Richard and only Richard.
Sofia Vergara is filming a movie in Rome and she learned the hard way that singing in the rain has its consequences. She is down for the count with a 102 degree fever.
Instead of being all negative about being sick, she saw the positive in the situation. She wants CoverGirl to come up with a shade of pink blush to match her flushed cheeks. Although, she might not be their best face at the moment because she looks better without their product all over her than when she has it on. In other words, she looks absolutely gorgeous without makeup on.
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Before Kaley Cuoco was Penny, Penny, Penny on The Big Bang Theory, she was Marcia, Marcia, Marcia in Growing Up Brady. How groovy was the 14 year old in that 2000 Biopic?
On Thursday, Scandal will celebrate its 100th episode, but would it have gotten there if someone other than Kerry Washington was playing the lead? The show’s creator Shonda Rhimes opened up to The Hollywood Reporter and revealed the network was fixated on someone else for the role of Olivia Pope.
Rhimes wanted an Africa-American in the role, like the real life person it is based on, but ABC wanted someone White. Well, particularly one actress. Rhimes told the trade, “Nothing felt more important than the sense of outsiderness. I didn’t know that there hadn’t been a drama series with a leading black woman for 37 years. When the show got picked up [to pilot], I got a phone call from somebody who said, ‘This would be the perfect show for Connie Britton.’ I said, ‘It would be, except Olivia Pope is Black.'”
Then Casting Director Linda Lowry chimed in and added, “The network was reading us their top choices, and it was Connie and all White women. I panicked. Somebody finally piped up, ‘We’re going to have to redo this list.'” That list got redone and Kerry Washington, Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose all read for the part. Lowry said that as soon as Rhimes met Washington, she had her Pope and the rest is TV history.
Even though, I no longer watch Scandal, I know the show would not still not be on the air if Britton had been given the role. She doesn’t have that fighter, tough-as-nails spirit that Washington has that makes the show what it is.
What do you think the network’s decision wanting to cast Britton in the role?
