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Action Hero Gina Rodriguez Talks Dangerous 'Deepwater Horizon' Stunts and Boxing Her Director Peter Berg
Because she’s best known for the CW soap opera satire Jane the Virgin, you might not realize that Gina Rodriguez is a bona fide badass. Rodriguez did all of her own stunts in the movie except for one: the climactic nine-story leap Williams and Fleytas would make to safety. “Insurance wouldn’t clear me,” a disappointed Rodriguez lamented to Yahoo Movies at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Deepwater premiered.
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Mark Wahlberg and David O. Russell Planning Fourth Collaboration
During a Facebook Live chat, actor reveals he and frequent collaborator David O. Russell want to reteam to tell story of Father Stu, a Montana athlete-turned-priest
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From 'La La Land' to 'Katwe': Best of the Toronto International Film Festival
The Damien Chazelle-directed movie musical took home TIFF’s coveted Audience Award, and appeared on many critics’ “Best of the Fest” lists. La La Land was one of our festival favorites as well, but, believe it or not, there are other films coming out this fall that are worthy of your time, attention, and dollars.
- NewsKevin Polowy
Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson Remember the Movie Sets They Shared Before Costarring in 'Deepwater Horizon'
Deepwater Horizon marks the first acting collaboration between Kurt Russell and stepdaughter Kate Hudson. Russell told Yahoo Movies Tuesday at the Toronto International Festival that he actually wanted Kate, whom he raised with wife Goldie Hawn, to take a role in 1996’s Escape From L.A., his eye-patched action hero Snake Plissken’s follow-up to the the 1981 classic Escape From New York.
- NewsKevin Polowy
Peter Berg Defends Portrayal of Oil Workers as Heroes in 'Deepwater Horizon'
Peter Berg is about to get worked up. Berg feels there is an unfair public perception of the workers onboard the titular oil rig — particularly the 11 men who died in the 2010 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico — which he sites as a primary reason he wanted to make the film. “It’s such ignorance,” Berg (Lone Survivor, Friday Night Lights) told Yahoo Movies Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival, shortly before Deepwater premiered to anti-oil pipeline protestors outside the screening a
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Toronto Film Review: Mark Wahlberg's 'Deepwater Horizon' Turns Disaster Into Thrilling Entertainment
Peter Berg recreates the horrific tragedy with surprising success; could be one of the fall's biggest hits.