Zoe Saldana, 33, opens up about her mental breakdown after the success of the blockbuster movie Avatar in the September issure of Latina.
“The year after Avatar was just emotionally overwhelming. I was traveling all over the world, waking up in different time zones,” the actress says. “Your body gets exhausted, and by the end of the year I just collapsed.”
The actress’ nonstop work schedule continued to take its toll when she began training for Colombiana in Paris. “I was sitting in my hotel room, and I couldn’t stop crying. I couldn’t stay awake. I must have slept for an entire month,” Saldana says.
“It took me the rest of the year, even as I was working and shooting Colombiana, to pick myself up. Thank God my family was there.”
These days, Saldana — currently engaged to Keith Britton — says she lives a much more relaxed lifestyle.
“I just stay at home and do absolutely nothing. When I was younger, that would have made me feel like such a failure. Now that I’m older, I know what it means to shut down,” she says. “I don’t shower if I don’t want to. I don’t answer e-mails. It’s a healthy way of being selfish. You know you’re old when gardening, the Food Network and voice notes from your nieces and nephews blow your mind.”
Elle Fanning is the star of Francis Ford Coppola’s new horror movie – which reportedly will be ineractive. Huh?
Elle Fanning and Val Kilmer star in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt,” in what’s being billed as the first “interactive movie.” The supernatural thriller may never end the same way twice.
Coppola premiered “Twixt” at Comic-Con earlier this month and said it would not be released to theaters like a regular movie.
Instead, he’ll take it on a 30-city tour, almost like a concert. And he will play maestro, editing, cutting and adding sections to the picture depending on the audience. No two viewers may see the same film twice.
“If the audience is the mood to go off on a little bit of a tangent, then you’d be able to go off on a tangent,” he explained.
But if the audience seems to want to cut to the chase, you could cut to the chase,” he said at the event.
Kilmer plays Hall Baltimore, a journeyman writer who is hawking his novel about witchcraft, one of several he’s written because, as he says, of the “incessant financial burdens that hound” him.
He sets up his author’s table in a small town and is approached by the local sheriff, eerily played by Bruce Dern, who invites him to help investigate a possible serial murder involving a young girl.
Reluctant at first, Baltimore takes up the challenge to gather material for another book.
Elle Fanning plays a ghostly apparition named “V” who comes to Baltimore in his dreams and leads him to the fateful discovery about the murders.
The movie also stars Joanne Whalley, Ben Chaplin, Don Novello, David Paymer, Alden Ehrenreich and Lisa Biales.
I find it interesting that Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley are starring in the movie together. The two were married before, and Joanne recently dubbed Val a “dead beat dad” to their children.
Ashton Kutcher has begun working on the set of “Two and a Half Men”! Here we get our first glimpse of Ashton on the set with his costars.
After months of buildup, press tours and cryptic insults from network suits, Ashton Kutcher has finally begun the actual work of filming “Two and a Half Men.”
The former “That 70s Show” star, the heralded replacement for an off-the-rails Charlie Sheen who was fired after epic rants against the show’s creator last season, plays Walden Schmidt, a broken hearted internet billionaire. Kutcher has received nothing but praise from the show’s producers, who, in addition to plotting out the new character, have been hammering out a vengeful funeral for Sheen’s Charlie Harper character that will take place in the first episode.
According to TMZ, Harper will have suffered a brutal death by falling off a Paris subway platform and getting hit by a train in the time between last season’s early end and this season’s premiere, allowing the producers to hold a star-studded funeral for the womanizer who helped the show reach number one in the ratings. For details on that funeral, including guests and set photos, click over to TMZ.
Are you going to watch the show now that Charlie’s gone?
Apparently Kanye West hasn’t had a taste of controversy in quite some time, so he’s making a bunch of stupid statements to get himself some publicity.
As you may recall, last time Kanye had an album coming out – he decided to promote it by rushing Taylor Swift on stage during her acceptance speech and claiming Beyonce should have won the award instead. Oh, then he made some crazy George W. Bush statements. Oh well, anyways – this time he’s comparing himself to Hitler. Which makes SO much sense!
Call him Air Fuhrer … because this weekend, Kanye West compared himself to both Michael Jordan and Adolf Hitler during a performance in England.
West was performing at the Big Chill music festival Saturday night … when he went on one of his signature rants … this time focusing on the hardships of being so painfully misunderstood.
“I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I’m f**king insane … like I’m Hitler.”
He continued, “One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.”
Moments later, Kanye suggested that he needed to be the MJ of music, “Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much f**king going on in music right now and somebody has to make a f**king difference.”
Michael Jordan and Hitler folks … Michael Jordan. And Hitler.
Kanye just needs to shut his pie hole. Hitler!? Really? He’s obviously making these comments to create controversy – where there shouldn’t be any. He’s so annoying. I just can’t stand the guy.
These photos are from this weekend’s music festival where he made the asinine comments.
Pictured here: Bethanny Hamilton and AnnaSophia Robb, Avril Lavigne, Zoe Saldana, Ashley Greene, Cat Deely, Rachel Bilson, Justin Bieber, Zooey Deschanel, Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Banks, Sean Kingston, Tyra Banks, Mark Wahlberg, Darren Criss, Cory Monteith, Kellan Lutz, Chris Hemsworth and Ian Somerholder.