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| The Guardian - Culture: Film | | | | Is Zola's use of a 'blaccent' parody or appropriation? | | by Steve Rose Aug 2, 2021 | | Riley Keough’s character in the viral dark comedy speaks in a brash imitation of African-American speech, a recurring trope often ignored in Hollywood Riley Keough and Taylour Paige are fearless performers in Zola, a garish fairytale nightmare of strippers in Florida, based on a true(ish) story. But despite spending the movie in various states of undress and vulnerability, what Keough was really worried about was the accent. Her character, Stefani, speaks in what you might call a “blaccent” – a brash, brazen imitation of African-American speech. As Paige put it, “she’s in blackface the whole movie”. The director, Janicza Bravo, encouraged it but, understandably, Keough had misgivings about going so offensively all-out. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... | | | | | Hollywood's Sunset Studio to open new base in Hertfordshire | | by Sarah Butler Aug 2, 2021 | | US production house is latest major studio to find a home in region as demand for TV and film surges Hollywood’s Sunset Studios, which produced La La Land, Zoolander and the first in the X-Men franchise, has become the latest US movie production house to adopt the leafy Hertfordshire countryside as its main base outside the US. Backed by £700m from two major US investment firms, the TV and film studio complex will create more than 4,500 jobson a 37-hectare (91-acre) greenfield site in Broxbourne, close to the arc of rival studio complexes north-west of London known as Britain’s Hollywood. Continue reading... | | | | | Jessie Cave on body image, bereavement and being relentless: 'I don't have any secrets' | | by Emine Saner Aug 2, 2021 | | The actor, comic and writer talks about her bestselling debut novel, the cruelty of costume fittings, how it felt to be in the Harry Potter franchise – and finding hope in small things As a compulsive diary writer – she has kept one since she was eight – Jessie Cave knows that, unless it gets written down, life gets forgotten. She is glad, then, that she wrote her debut novel, Sunset, because the way she felt at the time “would have just gone, and then you’re in a different place and you don’t remember”. This book, says Cave, was “absolutely the only thing I could write during that period”. In March 2019, her younger brother Ben died in an accident aged 27. Her book was written in the aftermath, that manic feeling that sometimes comes with grief pushing her on. It went straight to No 1 on the Sunday Times’ bestseller list after being published in June. “I don’t know if I would have that energy now,” she says. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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