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Noah Centineo Sheds Light on His Exit From ‘Masters of the Universe’
In another universe, Noah Centineo is He-Man in “Masters of the Universe.” However, in this one, the actor chose to step away from the project – and just gave insight into why.
During his Monday appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the “Street Fighter” star opened up about nearly leading the “Masters of the Universe” movie as the sword-wielding comic book hero.
“For a moment there, I was – I guess we can talk about this – was going to do He-Man,” Centineo told host Josh Horowitz. “There was He-Man before ‘Black Adam.’ And that didn’t [work out].”
Horowitz then asked how Centineo ended up leaving the project, given the actor was attached to the movie for some time. Per Centineo, he got pretty close to making the movie, but found himself departing “Masters of the Universe” altogether amid delays.
“We were we were pretty close, dude,” he shared. “I went through the test process. We screen tested loin cloth and stuff. All of it … I signed the contract.”
He continued: “They’re like showing us, you know, previs. They’re showing us kind of the production design, the world building. At the time it was the Nee Brothers that were going to do it … and we got pretty close. And then, for some reason or another, it just pushed and pushed.”
Centineo remembered that the creative team “wanted to keep tweaking it and tweaking it and the contract ran out.”
“And we moved on,” he said. “And then I think Netflix acquired it for a little bit, and then Amazon acquired it and they found [Nicholas Galitzine].”
Despite losing out on the part, Centineo had nothing but praise for Galitzine’s performance, adding, “It’s so difficult to step into a role like that dude. I mean, that’s not an easy movie to make at all. And like, I watched it and Nick is incredible.”
“Like people don’t understand how hard it is to do camp wholeheartedly,” he noted. “It the movie works [or] the movie doesn’t work, often times, especially in that situation, I don’t blame him for that. I loved what he was doing, what he was trying to do.”
Watch Centineo’s comments above.
While Centineo may’ve been a fan of Galitzine’s performance, the live-action adaptation of “Masters of the Universe” received mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office. It brought in only $114 million on an estimated $170 million budget.
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Jon Ronson’s ‘Things Fell Apart’ Returns For Third Season On BBC
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Ronson‘s audio series Things Fell Apart is returning for a third season next year.
The new season, the show’s first in three years, will follow the British-American gonzo journalist as he explores eight stories of outsiders fighting powerful institutions.
Per the synopsis, it will include “all too human stories about the moment one person decides to stop accepting the world as it is… stories about what happens when someone attempts to spark that hardest thing – a shift in power. Stories that often have unexpected – and sometimes terrible – consequences.”
BBC Studios Audio is producing for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, with Sarah Shebbeare the executive producer. The season is planned for an early 2027 launch, nearly three years after Season 2.
Season 1 of the show, launched in 2021, saw Ronson scour history for the origins on the culture wars, while Season 2 three years later dealt with eight more stories about the new battle lines in the same cultural conflict, which had snowballed during lockdown.
However, Ronson has now identified a new trend – individuals declaring war on powerful organizations, and this will be the basis of Season 3.
“A new season of Things Fell Apart has become an event in itself, thanks to the creative excellence and hard work of Jon and his team,” said Daniel Clarke, BBC Radio 4 Factual Commissioning Editor. “There is simply no one else working in audio who has the same capacity to combine the epic with the intimate and to tell stories that make us think so hard, as well as evoking such spine-tingling feelings.”
“I think we’ve managed to find some extraordinary stories about what happens when an individual takes on a Goliath – a powerful institution or hierarchy or belief system,” added Ronson. “How do these things go right, or wrong? How does a shift in power happen? And how do the institutions snap back? These are nuanced, unfolding human stories, with twists and turns, like mini movies.”
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Entertainment
Jimmy Fallon Stuns ‘Tonight Show’ Audience With Melania Trump Affair Joke
Jimmy Fallon took aim at Donald Trump’s marriage Monday evening, joking that the president’s wife, Melania Trump, was set to run off with one of his political allies amid her notable absence from the spotlight.
“Over the weekend, President Trump made a campaign stop in Long Island and Melania Trump did not travel with him,” Fallon started off during his Monday monologue for “The Tonight Show.” “Yep, people have noticed that she’s been laying low. In fact, she hasn’t been seen in public in 29 days.”
He added: “Trump heard and was like, ‘Big deal. I haven’t seen her in private for two years.”
This joke garnered a big response from the “Tonight Show” studio audience, who burst out laughing and cheered at the jab about the Trumps’ relationship. Fallon didn’t stop there, however.
“I understand Melania’s taken a step back, with everything going on, she’s worried at any moment she could be trapped with Trump inside a catering truck,” Fallon said, referencing the time the president hid in an airport catering truck to switch planes under the radar while facing an assassination threat from Iran.
Fallon concluded his commentary about the Trumps’ marriage with one last joke, telling the crowd: “Yep, no one has seen Melania. All I know is that it’s going to be crazy when we find out she ran off with Mitch McConnell.”
This remark appeared to take Fallon’s audience by surprise, as the crowd audibly responded within seconds. While some could be heard hooting and cheering in response, others appeared to let out a low groan of sorts.
Watch the moment below. A representative for the White House did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Of course, Fallon’s remark was merely a joke, calling back to Sen. McConnell (R-Ky.)’s own lengthy absence this summer. As we previously reported, questions arose regarding McConnell’s well-being after the senator was hospitalized in mid-June and his office gave few updates.
He later released a photo and statement in mid-July, sharing he was hospitalized after becoming “briefly unconscious” following “a fall.”
“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages,” he shared at the time. “But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital.”
He added: “And on the advice of my doctors, I won’t be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet. But rest assured that, in the meantime, I’m not taking a break from the Senate business that matters to you. I’ve been working closely with my legislative staff on current issues, and with my Kentucky team who help me provide timely constituent services across our Commonwealth.”
Though McConnell has since been discharged from a rehabilitation center, he’s yet to return to Washington, D.C.
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC.
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Rosie O’Donnell Taunts Trump During First Monologue as JKL Host
Rosie O’Donnell stepped in as host for Jimmy Kimmel Monday evening and made herself right at home by taking aim at President Donald Trump during her opening monologue.
“They said you can’t come home again, but here I am,” O’Donnell, who received a standing ovation at the start of the show, said at the beginning of her monologue. “And if you thought the president hated ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ when it was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, buckle up, people, buckle up.”
Later on in her monologue, O’Donnell reflected on her decision to leave the United States for Ireland in 2025, which came about after longtime nemesis Trump started his second term as president.
“I’ve been living in Ireland for the past two years, because of Mango Mussolini, I read that Project 2025 and said, ‘Got to get myself out of here,’” she recalled. “And I decided to go to Ireland, a place where people are driven to drink, regardless of who’s running their country.”
O’Donnell then recalled how her child responded to learning of their move, telling her studio audience, “They went to school and proceeded to tell their entire class, ‘I’m very sorry. I won’t be able to graduate sixth grade with you. I’m being forced to move to another country because the president of the United States hates my mother. But in all fairness, I believe my mother hates him more.’”
The comedian then took a moment to call out President Trump directly, noting into the camera, “Hi, I know you’re watching.”
She poked fun at Trump one last time before signing off her monologue, telling the audience, “And you know, right now he’s in the White House crying ’cause I haven’t mentioned him.”
O’Donnell notably did not say Trump’s name once during her monologue.
Watch her full monologue below.
O’Donnell’s appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” came two months after the eponymous host confirmed that she would be one of his guest hosts during his summer break.
“Well, I hope you’re paying attention this summer because I will be taking the next two months off,” Kimmel told his right-hand Guillermo Rodriguez in June. “This time voluntarily.”
He continued: “But we have assembled a potent group of hosts to fill in for me, beginning with Tiffany Haddish, Colman Domingo, Ike Barinholtz, Anthony Anderson, Jelly Roll and, as a special treat for our commander-in-chief, I asked one of his all-time favorites, Rosie O’Donnell, to be here to keep the hits coming.”
O’Donnell was a notable choice at the time, given her nearly two-decade feud with Trump – which has seen the actress and the president exchange a number of jabs at one another over the years
In response to Kimmel’s invitation, O’Donnell took to Instagram and wrote, “And I can’t wait!!!”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.
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