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We have a winner for Survivor 46, and it’s Kenzie Petty! Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott chats with Kenzie and the runner-up's Charlie Davis and Ben Katzman about this wild season filled with twists, turns, and a pretty contentious jury. (And yes, we talked about Taylor Swift with Charlie too, because we had to.)  

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Anne Rice’s novel ‘Interview With the Vampire’ has a rabid fan base, intensely protective of the story and any adaptations of it. Thankfully for Jacob Anderson, who plays Louis de Pointe du Lac in the AMC original series based on Rice’s novel, the fans seem to be on board. “I do get a sense that people feel like we did right by the characters.” Now in its second season, this version, not connected to the 1994 film version starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, looks deeper into the “mess” of Louis. “He’s this jumble of contradictions...Louis is way more responsible for the tragedy of his own life than he would ever admit.” For Anderson, he never once considered finding inspiration from the film. “I think that would have been the first step to ruin it. To try and compare or do anything in response to that, because that film is iconic in its way and what it represents and those two very powerful screen presences at that particular time.” He went on to say, “Rolin [Jones, series creator] used to say this is a third thing. There’s the book, the film and this is the third thing.” 




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Monét X Change is unlike any other drag queen to come out of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ and that’s because her talents go so far beyond just drag. Sure, you may know her as the first queen of color to win RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars or from her crazy popular podcast Sibling Rivalry, which she co-hosts with her drag sister, Bob The Drag Queen. But now you’re about to know her as a R&B superstar with her new album, ‘Grey Rainbow Vol. 1.’ Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott chatted with Monét about the inspiration of the album, how it’s different from drag music, and why she thinks the music industry needs to take drag artists seriously.  




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Michelle Buteau is proof that you can strike it big anytime. At 46, she's out with her new film Babes (May 17), she has a hit Netflix series based on her memoir Survival of the Thickest and is the first woman to film a comedy special at Radio City Music Hall. She says there's this idea you should "have it all figured out by 40, you should be doing your thing. It's like, no, we don't have it all figured out. We're still growing." Babes, directed by Pamela Adlon and co-starring Ilana Glazer, who also co-wrote the script, shows the role of friendships at pivotal times. "I don't think we talk about how hard relationships are." One thing Buteau does talk about is the need to celebrate yourself, which she does on her Netflix series. "Season one, thick girls were the moment and now it's like, nah, now we all the movement. There's zero apologies. It is bigger. It's Blacker. It's b*******. It's all the things 2.0." As for her comedy special, it's for all those voices "who need to be on the stages" but are rarely given the opportunity she has. "How can we be seen like that unless we see someone?" 

 

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Comedian Nikki Glaser never wants to offend. “I never want to say offensive or raunchy [things] or push the envelope, because that speaks to some kind of comedian who wants to rile people up,” Glaser told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Instead, on her new HBO comedy special Someday You’ll Die (May 11), she wants to hit you with “honest and really funny, precise, acute jokes throughout.” Those jokes are about classic topics discussed in ways unique to Glaser: sex, being a woman and struggles “with trying to be my authentic self, but also molding to what other people want of me.” On that, she’s clear about not wanting things women are often expected to, like kids and a home. “Why do people want kids? I think it’s narcissistic, and that’s OK. I don’t want to buy a home, but I wanna want to buy a home.” Also the host of CW’s FBoy Island, she also is dabbling in music, she wrote the single “Someday You’ll Die” which will be released the same day as the comedy special. Glaser ultimately knows she’s able to explore the topics she does in comedy because of luck. “I got really lucky with how things lined up. Even being born a decade later, I would have been probably mystified by YouTube and TikTok. I don’t think I have a brain for that.” 

 

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What do you do when Hollywood wants you to be one thing, but you have a wholly different outlook about yourself? For Chris Pine, breaking the mold of expectations meant creating the new film Poolman (May 10). “Believe it or not, it’s probably the most personal thing I’ve ever made.” And it should be, considering he not only stars in it as Darren Barrenman, a colorful pool man on a mission to protect the city—and the pool—he loves, but Pine also co-wrote and directed the film. The idea for it is rooted in Pine’s own search for joy. “It was COVID and I was going through a lot of personal stuff and feeling a lot, and I said, ‘Why not just lead from the heart instead? Lead from instinct and joy and giggling and catharsis in a kind of positive, joyful way? [That’s] all I really wanted to do.” You can feel that watching the movie, and for Pine, that’s all that matters. “There’s a bunch of yelling in the world and if we can just shut up for just the briefest of seconds and allow the other person their moment, maybe there would be more, I don’t know, joy—who knows?” 

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