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Chloë Grace Moretz had her first acting role at 8. She says she’s been “infantilised” her entire career.


We met Chloë Grace Moretz for the first time almost 20 years ago.
Her cutesy role in the popular series The Guardian helped to prepare her for a level of stardom that not even Moretz herself could have anticipated. But it wouldn’t be until the release of 2010 film Kick-Ass that Moretz was catapulted into the spotlight.

At the time, she was 12 years old.
Despite being just a pre-teen, Moretz didn’t actually know just how famous she was until she turned 18. She said that it was only then that the reality hit her like “a ton of bricks”.

“I was 18 and doing a red carpet. I walked off of it and I felt so much self-loathing and was really confused about the experience that just went down,” she told Hunger Magazine in September. “I was really unwell after that. There was this complete jarring shift in my consciousness, I questioned who I was.”
The self-doubt also crept in. Moretz admitted she would constantly ponder who she was as an actor.

“I had to work through that. For a long time, I was able to be the Chloë that people see and the Chloë that I am in private,” she explained. “Then those two worlds collided, and I felt really raw and vulnerable and open.”
In a new interview on the Reign With Josh Smith podcast, the 25-year-old actor shared her ideas were often “shut down” growing up.

“At that point, I had already worked for so many years, almost 10 years at that point, and as I continued through having more important roles on set as I grew up, it was always very interesting to see the pushback that I would get from a lot of people,” she explained.
Moretz added it was also peculiar “to see who would be really unhappy with a young woman” having opinions on movie sets.
“The majority of it was older men, for sure, who would infantilise me. If I had real things to bring to the table, a lot of the time it would get shot down,” she said.
Her experience behind the scenes and in the spotlight were often complicated and hard to manage, she admitted.
And while “there were a lot of moments” she felt she was treated fairly, Moretz said she often encountered a “really wild power struggle and power dynamic of a young girl who had worked for already [over a decade] and was the lead of the movies but was still a kid in every sense of the word.”
During this challenging time of her career is when Moretz’s mental health took a nosedive.
In 2016, a paparazzi photo was captured of the actor carrying a leftover pizza. In the photo, she was wearing a black shirt, shorts and high heels.
Internet trolls photoshopped the image, so it looked like Moretz had a shorter torso. The meme affected her severely.
“I’ve actually never really talked about this, but there was one meme that really affected me, of me walking into a hotel with a pizza box in my hand,” she explained. “And this photo got manipulated into a character from Family Guy with the long legs and the short torso, and it was one of the most widespread memes at the time.”
“Everyone was making fun of my body, and I brought it up with someone, and they were like, ‘Oh, shut the f**k up, it’s funny.’ And I just remember sitting there and thinking, my body is being used as a joke, and it’s something that I can’t change about who I am, and it is being posted all over Instagram,” she told Hunter Magazine.
“It was something so benign as walking into a hotel with leftovers,” she added. “And to this day, when I see that meme, it’s something very hard for me to overcome.”
Nowadays, Moretz has a thicker skin – but it doesn’t mean the memes and jokes are easy for her to ignore.
“After that, I was kind of sad. It took a layer of something that I used to enjoy, which was getting dressed up and going to a carpet and taking a photo, and made me super self-conscious,” she said.
Moretz added, “I think that body dysmorphia – which we all deal with in this world – is extrapolated by the issues of social media. It’s a headf**k.”
The experience of being trolled and made a mockery off made her retreat from the public eye, in an effort to avoid the paparazzi.
“I basically became a recluse,” she said. “But at the same time, it made me severely anxious when I was photographed. My heart rate would rise and I would hyperventilate.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Moretz was able to take a break from work. And to avoid another meme-photo being taken without her consent, she only went out in public wearing a disguise during that time.
“For the first time, I didn’t have to think about what I was doing next month or what I was going to do in a week,” the actor shared. “I know that’s obviously a very privileged thing to say, and I’m very aware of that. But for me, it was a time of introspection.”
Moretz added: “To say that these past two years have been transformative is an understatement, to say the least. I’m a very different girl than I was. I feel like a woman now.”

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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