![]() Please wrap up.”Ģ+1 = 4? That’s definitely some “Black Mirror” math.Īdding to the sense that Variety may have entered what Michael Cera, at the end of “Joan is Awful,” reveals to be Fictive Level One, just a few hours before the virtual junket we bumped into the creator of “Black Mirror” himself, Charlie Brooker, standing quietly in London’s Leicester Square in the shadow of a statue of William Shakespeare. If you’re a Variety journalist, four minutes is the exact time it takes to lob five questions at Kate Mara and Josh Hartnett before being cut off by a Streamberry - sorry, Netflix - publicist who, around the two minute mark, typed into the virtual chat box: “1 minute left. You can save the world, if you happen to be Madonna and Justin Timberlake. You can get halfway to orbit in a space shuttle. What can be achieved in four minutes? You can repeatedly ask a six-year-old to put on their shoes (without success). Variety was allocated precisely four minutes to interview Salma Hayek Pinault and Annie Murphy (the stars of “Joan is Awful”), four minutes for Kate Mara and Josh Hartnett (who appear in Episode 3, “Beyond the Sea”) and a whopping five minutes for Zazie Beetz, Danny Ramirez and Clara Rugaard (Episode 4, “Mazey Day”).įour minutes - or 240 seconds - is the kind of random fragment of time that makes you ponder the meaning of the universe itself. A series of journalists from across the globe were summoned online into a maze-like series of virtual waiting rooms before being given mere minutes to bark out a few questions at the actors and then booted off. “I always tell Carrie-Anne that she was perfect for that one,” Pinkett Smith said.Giving viewers a glimpse into an entirely conceivable dystopian future in which, to butcher a Nora Ephron aphorism, “everything is content,” “Joan is Awful’s” fictionalized portrayal of Netflix - right down to the “tudum” sound that accompanies Streamberry’s logo - offers up the delicious sense that the streamer is finally getting a taste of its own medicine.Īs befitting “Black Mirror’s” knack for fusing fact, fiction, present and future (see: the final mind-melting twist in “Joan is Awful,” which makes Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” look like an episode of “Peppa Pig”) the press junket for Season 6 was not unlike a press junket you could envision Streamberry organizing. You’ve got to be like Jada!’ “īy the end of the discussion, Pinkett Smith - who is slated to appear in The Matrix 4 - and Hayek both agreed the role in the 1999 sci-fi hit went to the right person. “Every time I’m going to do action, I say, ‘No, I better start getting some stamina and practice the routines. Hayek went on to share that her fellow actress’ audition performance was so good, she took it to heart going into future auditions for action roles. And I just looked at this woman, and I thought to myself, ‘That’s who I want to be when I grow up.'”Īlthough Pinkett Smith lost out on the leading part to Carrie-Anne Moss, she ultimately appeared as Niobe, a rebel from Zion and Morpheus’ former partner, a role Lilly and Lana Wachowski created for her. “She was so fit, she was so focused, she was so disciplined. ![]() “Oh my God! She was so good! It was so embarrassing!” Hayek said of Pinkett Smith’s physical audition. While Hayek admitted she failed to meet the physical requirements to play Trinity, she praised Pinkett Smith’s audition. “They never called me again after that day.” “I never really went to the gym, they said, ‘You have to run!’ I go, ‘To where?’ I couldn’t even go around the room once,” she elaborated. Ultimately, the actress says it was her inability to pass that physical test that lost her the part. ![]() Balenciaga Back in Red Carpet Spotlight With Michelle Yeoh, Isabelle Huppert and Salma Hayek ![]()
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