'The Last of Us' season 3 adds wholly original character as filming goes on hiatus - Entertainment Weekly

Opposing forces tug against each other in this new drama as Anne-Marie Duff is magnificent amid playwright Helen Edmundson’s implausible plotting. The result is a failed suspension of disbelief yet a convincing central performance. Duff plays Julie, a mother, ex-wife and working woman whose already over-burdened life is turned upside down by an incident at a tube station when an 11-year-old boy randomly and aggressively insults her. She challenges him, reasonably, and in a series of unconvincing plot turns, winds up facing a legal battle and potential prison sentence. As a story of an ordinary middle-aged woman being buffeted by patriarchal forces around her, this play is stuffed full of important issues. We hear stories of casual sexual abuse, laughed off by those around Julie. Now we see her life virtually destroyed by the boy’s allegation. There is mention of CCTV footage and you wonder if an Adolescence-style video reveal is to come. But the plot makes clear that there is no incontrovertible evidence against her, yet she stands to lose everything. Potential brilliance … Ioanna Kimbook (left) and Anne-Marie Duff in Some Woman at the National Theatre, London.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for the Oct. 18 episode of “The Simpsons,” “The Revengening,” which aired Sunday night on Fox. “The Simpsons” has pulled off its own October surprise: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is back. The fan favorite character finally spoke again for the first time in nearly a decade on Sunday night’s episode, “The Revengening.” Variety has exclusively learned who is behind Apu’s new voice: actor and voice-over vet Sunil Malhotra (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Legend of Korra”).

Jumping Jellyfish! Who saw this one coming? 15-years after Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin was released, Peter Jackson has revealed that his next film will be the long-planned sequel. Jackson, who has spent the last few years making critically-acclaimed documentaries They Shall Not Grow Old and Get Back, was receiving the 2026 Honorary Grand Prize at the Sitges Film Festival in Catalonia when he gave fans an update on his producer-duties in Middle-earth, as-well-as revealing that Tintin would be his next film behind the camera. “We have The Shadow of the Past, which is in the scriptwriting stage. The Hunt for Gollum is almost finished filming. I think there are about two weeks of shooting left. And we’ve also already written the script for Tintin 2, the second Tintin film.

Halo, beautifuls! Celebrities flocked to the Sony Pictures Studios on Sunday night to celebrate the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026. Set to take the catwalk are supermodels including Gigi Hadid, Barbara Palvin, Irina Shayk, and more. See all the stars who walked the pink carpet ahead of the event here.