Pop Culture Fix: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Team Protest Polanski’s César Award Win With a Walkout

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+ Portrait of a Lady on Fire actor and writer/director Adèle Haenel and Céline Sciamma walked out of the French César awards this weekend when Roman Polanski won Best Director. “Bravo, pedophelia!” Haenel called out.

Adèle Haenel and Céline Sciamma walking out after it being announced Polanski won for Best Director, with other people in the audience following too #Cesar2020 pic.twitter.com/pocf4Zd27P

— rna (@4re4nna) February 28, 2020

+ Speaking of Portrait, over at IndieWire: Portrait of a Lady on Fire Cinematography: The Perfect 18th Century Digital Painting

+ Also, at Vanity Fair: The real life love story of the scorching film.

+ Alex Newell chatted with GLAAD about Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

+ Related: That Laura Dern song somehow got gayer.

+ All Rise‘s Simone Missick talked to Variety about rarely seeing “messy, fragile Black women on-screen.”

+ Stephanie Beatriz also chatted with Variety; she spoke about In The Heights and bi erasure (not related).

+ Bi erasure, you say? Li Shang won’t be in the Mulan live-action film.

+ Gemma Whelan — known to you as both Yara Greyjoy and Marian Lister — loves being typecast as a lesbian.

+ Clifford the Big Red Dog got some lesbian moms!

+ Beanie Feldstein has joined Grey’s Anatomy? As an intern?  🕵️‍♀️

+ Janet Mock and Ryan Murphy are tag-teaming again; this time on a Netflix biopic about journalist Janet Cooke.

+ Well. Vida season three sure is shaping up.

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+ Ryan Murphy’s bringing back the regulars for American Horror Story season ten: Kathy Bates, Billie Lourd, Angelica Ross, Sarah Paulson … Macaulay Culkin?

+ Lorraine Toussaint has joined Queen Latifah’s Equalizer reboot.

+ Wynonna Earp is getting ready for season four with a favorites marathon coming to Syfy in March.

+ Marla Gibbs will be in the Halloween episode of One Day at a Time this season!!!

+ Hillary Duff thinks Disney+ is too tame for the Lizzie McGuire reboot and would prefer it to be in Hulu thank you very much.