Straight Up Jennifer Lawrence, Charli XCX on pop stardom and The Beast In Me
The Beast in Me is the buzzy new Netflix thriller everyone’s talking about, so this week we’re sharing our (spoiler-free!) review and the standout moments from its star Claire Danes’ latest interviews. First, though, we dive into Jennifer Lawrence’s career-defining performance in Die My Love, also starring Robert Pattinson, and her personal reflections on postpartum life, as well as Charli XCX’s fab Substack on the realities of being a pop star and the celeb newsletter boom more generally. Plus: the brilliant new sci-fi about a romantasy writer, Pluribus; the Guardian’s viral investigation into ‘free birth’ influencers; and Ambika Mod’s latest role as a porn-addicted academic. Enjoy hunnies!
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Recs/reviews:
- Pluribus, AppleTV
- The Lost Bus, AppleTV
- Die My Love, in cinemas now
- ‘Die My Love’ and the savage truth about the postpartum experience, Gillian Orr, Substack
- Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world, Guardian
- The realities of being a pop star, Charli XCX’s substack
- Why is Everybody Losing Weight and What do we do Sincerely? A person who's lost weight, Lizzo’s Substack
- Lizzo Starts Over The pop star’s success once felt radical. Can she capture the Zeitgeist again?, Vulture
- The Beast In Me, Netflix
- ‘I’d barely kissed a boy, but was making out with Adonis’: Claire Danes on sex, spy camp and teen stardom, Guardian
- Porn Play, Royal Court
- The 31-Year-Old Creator Of Porn Play Wanted To “Do Something Provocative”, Vogue
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