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This is a really excellent Pop Culture Fix — let’s just dive in!
+ I can’t believe the internet buried the most important piece of information about this new Halle Berry movie it was going berserk over yesterday! This is why we need independent queer media! So, Halle Berry talked to EW about her directorial debut in her new film, Bruised, a story centering a disgraced MMA fighter (named Jackie Justice!) looking for one last chance. And here, on casting:
and a statuesque British stage actress named Sheila Atim as Bobbi “Buddhakan” Berroa, the reluctant trainer who also becomes her love interest.
Carmen has already called the review, if she makes it through the movie alive!
+ Here’s your first look at HBO Max’s new Pretty Little Liars.
+ Aretha Franklin’s biopic, Respect, opens with a purposely queer moment.
+ Good Trouble star Sherry Cola joins Adele Lim’s R-rated comedy: Cola will play one of the four leads, “As the women at the center of the film travel through the region, their experience becomes one of bonding, friendship, belonging and no-holds-barred wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.”
+ Speaking of! Here’s a sneak peek at tonight’s Good Trouble.
+ Lil Nas X turned down a role on Euphoria.
+ Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is finally coming to theaters.
+ Beanie Feldstein will star in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl. And I just gotta:
God. I will miss you forever, Naya.
truly love that i learned the beanie feldstein funny girl news by seeing several tweets about how le@ miche1e is crying somewhere
I went down a Twitter ole reading and laughing about the LM tweets.
😂 Why won’t y’all say her name! Is it like Candyman???
i’m mildly paranoid that she’ll be combing through google hits and see that we were mocking her and then late one night as i’m listening to show tunes she’ll come through my mirror and say she could do it better
Speaking of MMA: that sport has more than its fair share of queer ladies but coverage of them on this site is pretty thin…
Crying watching Naya sing, god she had such a beautiful voice :(
thinking about Dr. Phillips throwing a figurative elbow for a Halle Berry queer movie review is the smile i needed today. thanks, autostraddle.
Not sure if you ladies mentioned this before, but Brianna Hildebrand is going to try and take over Hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueMwVGBwqRo
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Glee covers on Spotify and Naya’s songs frequently pop up. I really like the cover of Do Wop (That Thing) with Amber. But really anything she sang especially Adele was great.