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In Brief
She’s Crazy Talented
Netflix’s ‘Orange’ Lea Michele to Appear on brought diversity to ‘Anarchy’ Next Season TV and an Emmy nod Lea Michele will play to its star, Uzo Aduba CASTING
THROWBACKS
Paul McCartney Will Reissue Wings Albums Paul McCartney plans to reissue two recordings from his rock band Wings this fall, Rolling Stone reports. The 1975 LP “Venus and Mars” and 1976’s “Wings at the Speed of Sound” will be available on Sept. 23 as two-disc sets that will include the original albums and a collection of demos and unreleased tracks. (EXPRESS)
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“I also get to put men in headlocks, which is something I aspired to, frankly.” — K A REN GILL A N, TELLING VULTURE ABOUT HER ROLE AS THE DANGEROUS ASSASSIN NEBULA IN “GUARDIANS OF THE GALA XY,” OUT FRIDAY
Television
“If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”
“Orange Is the New Black” actress Uzo Aduba is flooded with marriage proposals these days. “People on the street, people on Twitter ask, ‘Can I be your prison wife?’ I’m like you know, ‘Name the day and the time,’ ” Aduba joked. The Nigerian-American actress plays Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on the Netflix original series about a women’s prison. She’s nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series along with her co-stars Laverne Cox and Natasha Lyonne.
And I don’t know if it’s a chicken or an egg thing or what, but I think it’s an idea that is put out there maybe to divide and conquer. … It’s something that I just have to write off as being a lie. If you bring good people together, regardless of their gender … they’re going to collaborate and support each other and that’s going to happen. And that’s what I feel like I’m a part of on “Orange.”
Is the discussion about the lack of diversity in Hollywood overblown?
What was it like to receive an Emmy nomination?
I don’t think it’s overblown. … I think the attraction is the freshness of it. I think that’s what the thirst is for, something else and different and new with regards to diversity, with regards to gender, with regards to orientation representation, with regards to the number of each of those things on a singular show. I think all of those things brought together is what is exciting and thrilling for people to see.
The word is bananas or crazy (pause) eyes. … I just love to act. I like to make good work. And I like to tell good stories, and I’m just thankful, humbled and grateful that people are enjoying it as much as we enjoyed making it, you know?
There’s a stereotype about women in Hollywood not getting along. Has that been your experience?
How would you like to feel on Emmy night?
There is a myth out in the world that women can’t work together.
— UZO A DUBA , TELLING THE IMPROPER BOSTONIAN HOW HER MOTHER CONVINCED HER NOT TO CHANGE HER NAME
Have you picked an Emmy dress?
I have no idea yet. I dream in color and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel. CHRIS PIZZELLO (AP)
a truck stop waitress and single mother in an episode of “Sons of Anarchy,” the actress tweeted on Monday. Michele Michele joins Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson, who have been confirmed for guest appearances on the show’s seventh and final season. (EXPRESS)
Uzo Aduba says “Orange Is the New Black” responds to viewers’ desire to see diversity in television.
Beautiful and full. Those two t h i n gs: b e aut i f u l a nd f u l l . NICOLE E VAT T (AP)
More … Monkeybell? Deadline reports that Disney’s live-action/animated version of “The Jungle Book” has added two new cast members: Giancarlo Esposito, far left, of “Breaking Bad” as Akela the wolf and Christopher Walken, left, as Louie the orangutan. The film, to be directed by Jon Favreau and released in October 2015, also includes Scarlett Johansson, Lupita Nyong’o, Idris Elba and Ben Kingsley. (AP)